Participants: Julie Sanders Keymer (Host), Linda & Charles Shultz
Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000635A
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00:13 WELCOME TO "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" AT GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:16 I'M JULIE SANDERS-KEYMER AND HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT NEPAL? 00:19 MAYBE YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT NEPAL IN THE NEWS LAST YEAR IN APRIL AND MAY OF 00:22 2015. 00:24 NEPAL HAD A REALLY, REALLY BIG EARTHQUAKE AND WE SAW THOSE IMAGES AND AS NEWS 00:29 HAPPENS WE GO ON TO HEAR ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE BUT WE ARE WANTING TO SHARE 00:33 WITH YOU ABOUT WHAT IS CURRENTLY HAPPENING IN NEPAL AND HERE AT GOSPEL 00:37 OUTREACH WE HAVE REGIONAL DIRECTORS LINDA AND CHARLES SHULTZ WHO ARE THE 00:40 REGIONAL DIRECTORS FOR NEPAL AND WE ARE SO GLAD THAT ARE HERE. 00:44 BECAUSE LIKE I SAID WE HEAR ABOUT THESE THINGS THAT HAPPEN AND THEN ALL 00:47 OF OUR INTERESTS MOVE TO OTHER THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING IN OUR WORLD BUT 00:50 NEPAL IS STILL FUNCTIONING-IS STILL GOING AND WE HAVE GOSPEL 00:53 OUTREACH WORKERS THERE, SO WELCOME. 00:55 THANK YOU, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 00:56 WE ARE VERY HAPPY TO BE HERE. 00:58 SO GIVE US A LITTLE BACKGROUND LINDA, ON NEPAL AND SHARE SOME INFORMATION 01:03 WITH US. 01:05 UM, WELL I ALWAYS THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE IS NEPAL BEFORE WE REALLY 01:08 START TALKING ABOUT NEPAL AND WE HAVE A MAP HERE TO SHOW YOU NEPAL. 01:12 IT IS IN THE 10/40 WINDOW. 01:14 IT IS IN ASIA AND IT'S TUCKED INBETWEEN CHINA TO THE NORTH AND INDIA TO THE 01:18 SOUTH. 01:20 IT IS A VERY HILLY COUNTRY BECAUSE UP ALONG THE NORTH PART OF NEPAL ARE THE 01:25 HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS, YES, MT. 01:27 EVEREST. 01:27 THE TALLEST MOUNTAINS IN THE WORLD. 01:30 YES. 01:32 IT'S A VERY, VERY DENSELY POPULATED COUNTRY ABOUT THIRTY MILLION PEOPLE LIVE 01:36 IN NEPAL. 01:37 THE PREDOMINANT RELIGION THERE IS HINDU. 01:40 THERE IS-MOST OF THE PEOPLE ESPECIALLY THE OLDER PEOPLE THERE IS A 01:44 LOT OF UNEDUCATED PEOPLE. 01:46 THERE IS A LOT OF POVERTY. 01:48 THEIR, YOU KNOW, THEIR CHILDREN ARE BEING EDUCATED BUT IT'S SLOW. 01:52 IT'S DEFINITELY ONE OF THOSE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. 01:56 BLESS THEIR HEARTS AND IT'S ALWAYS INTERESTING TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THAT AND 01:59 THAT'S WHAT WE ARE HEAR TO DO HERE TODAY ON "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS". 02:02 YES. 02:03 WE HAVE HOW MANY GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS IN NEPAL RIGHT NOW? 02:06 FIFTY-THREE. 02:07 FIFTY-THREE. 02:08 SO AGAIN FOR MANY, MANY PEOPLE. 02:10 YES. 02:11 WELL AND THE WHOLE- YOU BROUGHT UP THE RELIGION I HEAR TO HAVE PEOPLE WHO IT 02:15 IS INGRAINED IN THEM HINDUISM IS PART OF THEIR CULTURE AND IN EVERYTHING, 02:18 RIGHT. 02:19 AND TO HEAR ABOUT A LIVING GOD, CHARLES. 02:21 YES, RIGHT, IT IS SOMETHING NEW RIGHT? 02:23 RIGHT AND YOU KNOW THE HINDUS HAVE 330 MILLION GODS-ONE FOR EVERY TINY 02:29 LITTLE ASPECT OF LIFE AND WE HAVE ONE AND HE TAKES CARE OF EVERYTHING. 02:33 YES, AND IT IS GREAT. 02:34 AND HE MADE EVERYTHING. 02:35 SO LINDA YOU RECENTLY VISITED NEPAL, I DID, AND WHY DON'T YOU SHARE A 02:39 LITTLE OF YOUR TRIP WITH US? 02:41 YES, I WENT THERE IN JANUARY OF THIS YEAR 2016 AND I GOT TO VISIT TWO OF 02:47 THE VILLAGES THAT WERE VERY CLOSE TO THE EPICENTER OF THE 02:50 EARTHQUAKE AND IT WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT WE HAD BEEN ABLE TO GET TO NEPAL 02:56 SINCE THE EARTHQUAKE. 02:57 WE WERE NOT ABLE TO GO LAST YEAR BECAUSE OF THE EARTHQUAKE AND THEN THEY 03:01 HAD A BORDER PROBLEM AND FUEL SHORTAGE. 03:04 SO THIS IS ONE OF THE VILLAGES I VISITED - THIS IS SIRUBARI AND ALMOST 03:11 THIS WHOLE ENTIRE VILLAGE WAS DESTROYED. 03:13 IT WAS VERY CLOSE TO THE EPICENTER BUT WE WERE THERE ON A NICE SUNNY DAY, 03:17 THANKFULLY, IN JANUARY BECAUSE IT GETS VERY, VERY COLD AT NIGHT. 03:21 YOU WERE HAPPY FOR THE SUN. 03:23 WELL AND WITH THE EARTHQUAKE IN APRIL/MAY OF 2015 HOMES WERE DESTROYED. 03:28 ABOUT HOW MANY PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY DIED? 03:31 THERE WAS PROBABLY ALMOST 9000 PEOPLE-9000 DEATHS BECAUSE OF THE 03:36 EARTHQUAKES. 03:38 TRAGIC AND THANKFULLY NONE OF THE CHURCH MEMBERS OF OUR CHURCH WERE KILLED. 03:44 THEY WERE ALL SAFE. 03:45 BECAUSE THEY WERE ALL IN CHURCH WHEN THE EARTHQUAKE HAPPENED ABOUT TWO MINUTES 03:48 BEFORE TWELVE NOON ON SABBATH. 03:50 ON SABBATH, YES. 03:52 PRAISE THE LORD HE DID PROTECT OUR CHURCH MEMBERS THERE. 03:54 WE HAD FIVE OF OUR CHURCHES WERE DESTROYED AND VILLAGES PEOPLE -17 OF 04:01 OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS LOST THEIR HOMES IN THE EARTHQUAKE BUT 04:05 PRAISE THE LORD WE DID NOT HAVE ANY DEATHS. 04:08 YES. 04:09 AND PRAYERS ARE FOR THE PEOPLE THOUGH, RIGHT, WHO DID LOSE THEIR FAMILIES 04:12 WHO DID LOSE THEIR LIVES. 04:14 OK, SO TELL US MORE LINDA. 04:17 WELL, I WANTED JUST TO SHOW YOU ONE OF THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS THERE 04:20 THAT REBUILT. 04:21 THIS IS THE ONLY REBUILDING REALLY THAT I SAW. 04:24 HE LOST HIS HOME. 04:26 THIS IS OUR SHANKAR OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER IN SIRUBARI AND THIS HOME WAS 04:31 ACTUALLY REBUILT BY U.S. 04:33 AID BUT IT WAS THE ONLY HOME THAT I SAW THAT---VERY, VERY FEW 04:40 POCKETS OF REBUILDING. 04:41 REBUILDING HAS BEEN EXTREMELY, EXTREMELY SLOW THERE. 04:44 THIS PICTURE IS THE FORMER HOME OF ONE OF OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS IN KAPING 04:53 WHICH WAS ANOTHER VILLAGE VERY, VERY CLOSE TO THE EPICENTER OF THE 04:57 EARTHQUAKE. 04:58 ALMOST EVERYONE THERE LOST THEIR HOME AND OBVIOUSLY THIS FAMILY. 05:02 THE NEXT PICTURE I HAVE HERE IS HIS FAMILY. 05:04 THIS IS IN THE CENTER THERE WITH THE CAP IS OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER. 05:08 THIS IS VISHNU ROKA AND HIS WIFE AND NEXT TO HIM ON THE OTHER SIDE IS HIS 05:14 DAUGHTER WHO IS VERY, VERY ACTIVE IN YOUTH MINISTRY. 05:16 WONDERFUL. 05:18 IN THE AREA AND THEN THEIR OTHER DAUGHTER AND THEN THE LITTLE GIRL AT THE 05:21 BOTTOM I THINK SHE IS ONE OF THE ORPHANS FROM THE EARTHQUAKE THAT THEY'VE 05:25 TAKEN IN AND THEY ARE TAKING CARE OF HER. 05:27 BLESS HER HEART. 05:29 AND YOU KNOW WE AGAIN, WE SEE THESE PICTURES IN THE NEWS AND WE SEE THESE YOU 05:32 KNOW THESE BIG GROUPS OF PEOPLE AND YOU DON'T KNOW NAMES OR FACES AND YOU 05:36 KNOW, OF COURSE, RIGHT, WE ARE SAD FOR THEM BUT TO ACTUALLY SEE PICTURES OF 05:40 PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY HAVE LOST SOMETHING A FAMILY MEMBER THAT BRINGS IT HOME 05:44 DOESN'T IT? 05:45 IT REALLY DOES. 05:46 YES. 05:47 WELL I'M GLAD THAT YOU WERE ABLE TO GO AND BE ENCOURAGING SO TELL US 05:50 MORE. 05:52 I WANTED TO SHOW YOU ONE OF THE TEMORARY HOUSES. 05:54 I'D MENTIONED THAT SEVENTEEN OF OUR CHURCH MEMBERS HAD LOST THEIR 05:57 HOMES-OR SEVENTEEN OF OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS, EXCUSE ME, HAD LOST THEIR 06:02 HOMES AND WE WERE VERY, VERY CONCERNED THAT THEY HAVE SOME SHELTER DURING 06:05 THE SUMMER SO THAT THEY COULD CONTINUE THEIR WORK. 06:08 IT RAINS. 06:09 AND SO THANKS TO OUR DONORS WE SET UP AN EARTHQUAKE RELIEF FUND 06:16 AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE AND WE WERE ABLE TO PROVIDE ABOUT $300 TO EACH WORKER 06:20 SO THAT AT LEAST THEY COULD HAVE A TEMPORARY SHELTER. 06:22 THIS IS THE TEMPORARY SHELTER NOW OF THE ROKA FAMILY. 06:26 WOW. 06:27 AND YOU KNOW FROM OUR WESTERN PERSPECTIVE ON SO MANY THINGS WE THINK, WELL 06:30 YOU LIVE IN -DO YOU HAVE INSURANCE AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 06:33 THESE PEOPLE DON'T HAVE INSURANCE. 06:35 THEY DON'T HAVE INSURANCE AND THEY DON'T HAVE ANY HEAT. 06:37 SEE. 06:38 IN THE HOUSE. 06:39 AND THIS IS UP IN THE MOUNTAINS. 06:40 WOW. 06:42 THIS AND THIS IS IN JANUARY SO IT WAS VERY, VERY COLD THERE AT NIGHT. 06:45 IT IS NICE WHEN YOU CAN GET OUTSIDE IN THE SUN DURING THE DAY AND WARM UP 06:50 BUT YOU KNOW, THERE IS VERY, VERY COLD, PRIMITIVE AND COLD YES. 06:55 OH WOW. 06:58 ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT WE WERE ABLE TO DO THERE-THIS IS THE KAPING 07:01 CHURCH AND MEMBERS AND THEIR CHURCH WAS DESTROYED. 07:02 ONE OF THE FIVE CHURCHES THAT WAS DESTROYED OVER THERE. 07:04 THIS VILLAGE TEN YEARS AGO HAD NO CHRISTIANS AND OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER WHO 07:08 IS THERE IN THE CENTER WITH THE CAP HE WENT TO OUR ADVENTIST HOSPITAL IN 07:10 NEPAL AND THAT'S WHERE HE FIRST ENCOUNTERED CHRISTIANS AND HE LEARNED 07:12 ABOUT THE GOSPEL MESSAGE, HE ACCEPTED JESUS AS HIS PERSONAL SAVIOR. 07:14 HE CAME BACK TO HIS VILLAGE AND THE GOSPEL HAS BEEN GROWING, GROWING, 07:16 GROWING IN THIS- THIS IS A VERY, VERY, VERY REMOTE VILLAGE HIGH UP IN THE 07:25 MOUNTAINS. 07:26 IT WAS THE SCARIEST ROADS I'D EVERY TRAVELED ON TO GET THERE. 07:34 BUT THEY ARE VERY, VERY THANKFUL BECAUSE GOSPEL OUTREACH IS ALSO HELPING 07:43 THEM TO REBUILD THEIR CHURCH. 07:46 SO RIGHT AFTER I WAS THERE WE ACTUALLY WERE ABLE TO LAY THE FOUNDATION STONE 07:54 FOR THE CHURCH REBUILDING WHILE I WAS THERE. 07:57 AND LATER, HOW EXCITING, LATER THIS MONTH WHICH IS APRIL THAT CHURCH WILL BE 08:03 COMPLETED AND DEDICATED AND THOSE PEOPLE-THEY'VE GOT ABOUT 100 OVER A 08:08 HUNDRED CHURCH MEMBERS NOW AND A LOT, LOT OF CHILDREN UP THERE. 08:12 YOUTH. 08:13 SO THEY'LL HAVE A NEW CHURCH THAT WILL HOLD 150 PEOPLE SO THAT CHURCH CAN 08:17 CONTINUE TO GROW. 08:19 BUT ISN'T IT AMAZING AGAIN IT IS ONE PERSON WHOSE LIFE HAS CHANGED BY AN 08:23 ENCOUNTER AND I JUST PRAY THAT NO MATTER WHERE WE ARE THAT AS I CALL IT WHEN 08:29 GOD GIVE US THE HOLY SPIRIT GIVES US THE HOOK THAT WE TAKE ON, THAT'S 08:32 RIGHT, BECAUSE LOOK AT WHAT THE LORD HAS DONE. 08:33 AMEN. 08:35 SADLY, THIS MAN WAS SICK - WENT TO THE HOSPITAL BUT GOT CARE THERE AND HEALING 08:38 FROM THE LORD AND DOCTORS AND NURSES WHO HELPED HIM AND LOOK WHAT HE HAS DONE. 08:42 RIGHT. 08:42 FOR THE LORD. 08:43 OH HOW AWESOME. 08:45 OK LINDA SO TELL US WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? 08:50 THE NEXT PICTURE WE HAVE IS OF THE QUEUE LINES. 08:53 I WAS REALLY STARTLED WHEN I SAW THESE WHEN I WAS OVER THERE, THERE WERE 08:59 JUST LINES AND LINES AND LINES OF TRUCKS AND BUSSES. 09:02 ONE OF THE REASONS WHY THE BUILDING HAS BEEN SO SLOW OVER THERE IS BECAUSE 09:07 THEY'VE HAD A SIX MONTH BORDER CRISIS AND FUEL COULDN'T GET INTO THE 09:10 COUNTRY. 09:11 OH NO. 09:12 SO THERE WERE JUST TRUCKS AND BUSSES LINED UP ALL OVER ON THE SIDE OF THE 09:17 ROAD. 09:18 THIS IS A QUEUE LINE FOR FUEL. 09:20 FOR FUEL. 09:22 AND THESE GO ON FOR YOU KNOW, AQUARTER MILE, HALF MILE, A MILE AND PEOPLE 09:26 MAY HAVE TO WAIT FOR DAYS, DAYS TO GET FUEL SO THE TRUCKS-VERY FEW TRUCKS 09:31 WERE RUNNING. 09:32 MAYBE TWENTY PERCENT OF THE BUSSES WERE RUNNING. 09:35 THAT STOPS EVERYTHING I MEANTHE WHOLE INFRASTRUCTURE OF MOVING 09:38 PEOPLE AND SUPPLIES AND ALL OF THAT. 09:40 SO HAS IT BEEN RESOLVED, LINDA? 09:42 AS OF MARCH THE BORDER WAS FINALLY- PROBLEMS STARTED TO BE RESOLVED AND MY 09:49 UNDERSTANDING NOW WAS THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO GET FUEL BACK IN THE COUNTRY. 09:52 IT'S BEEN A VERY, VERY DIFFICULT WINTER. 09:54 WELL SURE, ABSOLUTELY. 09:56 I MEAN REBUILDING JUST TAKES TIME IN GENERAL WHEN THINGS ARE -AND TO MAKE IT 10:00 WORSE YOU KNOW, WE WERE TRYING TO GIVE SOME WINTER RELIEF. 10:04 IMAGINE YOUR HOUSE HAS BEEN CRUMBLED DOWN AND YOU NEED BLANKETS. 10:12 YOU NEED TO STAY WARM. 10:13 IT IS COLD AND SO BASICALLY THE NEPAL SECTION -OUR ADVENTIST 10:19 WORK THERE, BASICALLY WENT AND SUPPLIED BLANKETS TO TWENTY DIFFERENT 10:26 COMMUNITIES AND GAVE OUT 3000 BLANKETS. 10:29 3000. 10:30 AND YOU PROBABLY COULD HAVE USED MORE IF YOU HAD HAD THEM. 10:32 OH YES, OH YES. 10:34 AND HERE WE ARE YOU KNOW, BLANKETS AND SWEATERS. 10:38 NOW SWEATER DISTRIBUTION REALLY WENT INTO HIGH GEAR. 10:44 WE WENT TO A DIFFERENT SCHOOLS AND THE PROGRAM IN NEPAL-EDUCATION IS NOT 10:47 FREE AND YOU DON'T GET TO GO TO SCHOOL UNLESS YOU HAVE A CLEAN SWEATER, YOU 10:49 HAVE A PENCIL AND A NOTEBOOK. 10:50 WOW. 10:51 SO THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS CAME IN AND WE GAVE THEM A CLEAN NEW 10:53 SWEATER. 10:55 WE GAVE THEM A PENCIL AND WE GAVE THEM A NOTEBOOK AND THEY COULD GO TO 10:56 SCHOOL IF THEIR MOM AND DAD HAD, YOU KNOW, AND THE COST OF EDUCATION IS LIKE 10:58 WHAT $70 A YEAR OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 11:03 IT IS- BUT IT IS STILL SOMETHING. 11:08 WE LOOK AT THAT AS WOW, THAT'S INEXPENSIVE BUT FOR THEM THAT'S PROHIBITIVE. 11:17 YES. 11:19 AND THEN THE OTHER THING IS PEOPLE HAVE LEARNED, YOU KNOW, THAT IF YOU HAVE 11:29 CEMENT ROOF OR ANY KIND OF A TILE ROOF IT COULD FALL DOWN AND KILL YOU SO, YES, 11:35 TIN ROOFS, TIN ROOFS ARE THE WAY TO GO AND WE BESIDES GIVING OUT 11:43 SWEATERS AND BLANKETS WE WERE ABLE TO DISTRIBUTE SIXTEEN SHEETS OF TIN, 11:52 REALLY, PER PERSON AND THEN THEY JUST ROLL THESE UP AND THEN THEY CARRY 11:58 THEM BACK HOME. 11:59 WOW. 12:00 AND IT IS INCREDIBLE. 12:02 YES, AND YOU KNOW WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THESE THINGS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE MIGHT 12:06 THINK WHAT A SWEATER OR PENCIL WHATEVER WE'LL JUST GO TO WALMART. 12:09 WELL, ITS NOT SO EASY FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING IN PRIMITIVE PLACES LIKE THAT 12:14 AND TO HAVE THOSE GIVEN TO THEM, WHAT A GIFT. 12:16 WELL AND YOU KNOW THEY ARE TRYING TO GET ENOUGH FOOD TO KEEP ALIVE. 12:19 RIGHT, RIGHT. 12:20 SO. 12:21 OH NEAT. 12:22 ALRIGHT. 12:23 WELL THANK YOU FOR SHARING ALL OF THAT. 12:24 SO LINDA, THERE IS STILL MORE I KNOW. 12:26 WELL, I THINK MEETING THE BASIC NEEDS OF PEOPLE IS JUST SO IMPORTANT TO BE 12:31 ABLE TO SHARE JESUS LOVE IN THESE COMMUNITIES AND IT AWAKENS PEOPLE'S 12:37 INTEREST AND WE THE ADVENTIST CHURCH IS GOING TO AREAS THAT ARE AREAS OF 12:45 VERY, VERY LOW CASTE PEOPLE. 12:47 PEOPLE WHO ARE CONSIDERED TO BE UNTOUCHABLES AND SO MEETING THESE BASIC NEEDS 12:51 IS REALLY BRINGING A LOT OF THESE PEOPLE TO HAVING AN INTEREST IN 12:57 CHRISTIANITY. 12:58 WELL THE FACT THAT PEOPLE CARE. 13:00 YES, YES THAT YOU KNOW OTHER PEOPLE DON'T CARE BUT I WANTED TO SHARE WITH 13:04 YOU A COUPLE OF OTHER EXPERIENCES THAT I HAD WHEN I WAS IN NEPAL- SOME 13:08 OTHER WAYS THAT THE GOSPEL MESSAGE IS GETTING OUT BECAUSE WE TALKED ABOUT WE 13:12 HAVE FIVE PASTORS, FIFTY-THREE WORKERS AND 30 MILLION PEOPLE. 13:16 HOW IS THE MESSAGE GOING TO GET OUT TO THESE PEOPLE? 13:18 ONE OF THE LADIES THAT I MET THERE HER NAME IS DONAMAYA AND SHE WAS A 13:25 FORMER ADVENTIST WORLD RADIO LISTENER AND SHE HAD CALLED THE NEPAL SECTION 13:30 AND HAD PRAYER. 13:31 ANYWAY, SHE IS NOW ONE OF OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS. 13:36 PRAISE THE LORD. 13:37 I ALSO HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO MEET THIS GENTLEMAN WHO IS ALSO AN ADVENTIST WORLD 13:44 RADIO LISTENER AND HE CAME TO ONE OF THE CHURCHES WHERE I WAS AND HE WAS 13:49 JUST INTERESTED. 13:51 HE'D BEEN LISTENING TO THE GOSPEL MESSAGE ON THE RADIO AND HE HAD AN 13:55 INTEREST IN OUR CHURCH-WANTED TO FIND OUT MORE. 13:57 THERE WAS A CROWD OVER THERE. 13:58 WHAT WAS GOING ON? 13:59 AND SO WHEN I HAD TALKED TO HIM AND LEARNED WHAT HE WAS DOING I HAD SOME OF 14:03 OUR SOLAR POWERED MEGAVOICE. 14:05 AND THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE HOLDING IN THE PICTURE. 14:07 YES, THAT'S WHAT I WAS HOLDING IN THE PICTURE AND SO I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO 14:11 SHARE THIS WITH HIM. 14:13 WE BROUGHT ABOUT SIXTY OF THESE SOLAR POWERED MEGAVOICE OVER TO NEPAL 14:20 WHEN WE WENT AND THIS HAS IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGE, IN NEPALI, HAS THE STORY OF 14:25 JESUS AND IT HAS THE NEPALI NEW TESTAMENT. 14:29 AND SO THIS IS WONDERFUL WORK BECAUSE YOU THINK ABOUT EVEN SOME OF OUR 14:32 BIBLE WORKERS. 14:33 FANTASTIC. 14:34 WE HAVE BIBLE WORKERS WHO ARE BARELY LITERATE AND SO THESE THINGS ARE EVEN 14:42 GREAT FOR THEM TO HELP THEM TO GET DEEPER INTO THE WORD. 14:48 BUT I SHARED THIS MEGAVOICE WITH THIS INTEREST IN THAT AREA AND 14:53 I JUST ENCOURAGED HIM TO LISTEN -TO CONTINUE TO LISTEN AND TO LET THE HOLY 14:56 SPIRIT GUIDE HIM AND GUIDE HIM INTO ALL OF TRUTH. 14:59 ISN'T THAT FANTASTIC? 15:01 WELL THESE MEGAVOICE PLAYERS AND YES, WE ARE USING THEM HERE AT GOSPEL 15:04 OUTREACH AND THEY ARE FANTASTIC. 15:06 THEY CAN BE DOWNLOADED AND IT CAN HOLD HOURS AND HOURS AND HOURS OF BIBLE 15:11 STORIES, BIBLE LIVING SOUND IS ON HERE AND PEOPLE READING THE BIBLE, 15:15 HYMNS -THINGS LIKE THAT AND AS YOU MENTIONED THEY ARE FANTASTIC BECAUSE IF 15:19 SOMEONE IS WANTING TO LEAD OUT AND THEY CAN JUST SET IT DOWN AND IT BE ON 15:23 SPEAKER AND THEY'VE GOT IT RIGHT HERE. 15:25 AND SHARE IT WITH OTHERS. 15:26 ABSOLUTELY, ABSOLUTELY. 15:28 SO THANK YOU LINDA FOR SHARING WITH THAT AND WE HAVE SOME INFORMATION TO 15:31 SHARE WITH YOU ABOUT GOSPEL OUTREACH AND MEGAVOICE. 15:38 I'M JULIE SANDERS-KEYMER AND I'M IN EXHIBIT HALL A HERE AT GENERAL CONFERENCE 15:39 IN SAN ANTONIO AND I AM HERE WITH DARREL. 15:42 HELLO DARREL. 15:43 HELLO GOOD TO BE WITH YOU AGAIN. 15:44 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR CHATTING WITH US. 15:46 SO DARREL TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE MEGAVOICE PLAYER. 15:49 WHAT IS IT? 15:51 WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE? 15:52 THIS IS OUR MAIN PLAYER. 15:53 IT'S THE ENVOY S DUAL AND THIS IS THE ONE THAT GOSPEL OUTREACH IS USING A 15:57 LOT. 15:58 THEY ARE SOLAR POWERED. 15:59 THEY ARE SHOCK RESISTANT, HEAT RESISTANT TO 150 DEGREES AND WATER 16:04 RESISTANT. 16:05 WOW. 16:06 THEY ARE VIRTUALLY INDESTRUCTIBLE. 16:07 YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW, THE POWER BUTTON YOU PUSH AND HOLD. 16:10 AND THIS ONE IS BILINGUAL SO YOU CAN ACTUALLY TOGGLE BETWEEN TWO LANGUAGES. 16:14 OH, THANK YOU! 16:16 SO THIS, SO THAT'S ESPECIALLY IN PLACES WHERE YOU HAVE A TRADE LANGUAGE 16:21 AND THEN THE HARD LANGUAGE. 16:23 YOU CAN JUMP BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THE TWO LANGUAGES AND THEN YOU 16:26 HAVE BOOK, CHAPTER, VERSE FORWARD; BOOK, CHAPTER, VERSE BACKWARD; AND THE 16:30 PAUSE BUTTON IS YOUR BOOKMARK. 16:33 SO THEY ARE REALLY MADE FOR THE 10/40 WINDOW FOR MISSION OUTREACH. 16:37 AT GOSPEL OUTREACH GARY FULLER RECORDS THESE AND THEN THEY GO WITH THE 16:42 REGIONAL DIRECTORS INTO THE 10/40 WINDOW AND THEY COME WITH EARBUDS AND THEN 16:45 THERE'S ALSO A SPEAKER, RIGHT? 16:48 YES, THERE IS A LITTLE SPEAKER ON BOARD SO IT'S LOUD ENOUGH FOR ABOUT 16:52 15-20 PEOPLE IN A QUIET ROOM. 16:55 AND THEN OF COURSE, THE EARBUDS FOR PERSONAL LISTENING AND IN THE 10/40 17:00 WINDOW AND ESPECIALLY THOSE CLOSED COUNTRIES IT IS SAFE YOU KNOW, BECAUSE 17:05 EVERYONE NOW HAS EARPHONES AND SO THEY CAN BE LISTENING TO SCRIPTURE, 17:09 BIBLE STORIES, TEACHING, TRAINING AND NOT BE, YOU KNOW, BROADCASTING TO 17:13 EVERYONE. 17:17 THEY CAN BE LISTENING ON THEIR OWN AND SO MANY-WE GET TESTIMONIES ON ALMOST 17:22 A WEEKLY BASIS IN THE MUSLIM WORLD WHERE THEY ARE COMING TO FAITH 17:26 BECAUSE OF HEARING GOD'S WORD. 17:29 ONLY ABOUT THREE PERCENT OF THE ARABIC SPEAKING WORLD HAVE LITERACY ENOUGH 17:34 TO BE ABLE TO READ AND UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE. 17:37 THAT'S WHY AUDIO IS SO POWERFUL. 17:38 ABSOLUTELY. 17:39 THEY'RE A STORY CULTURE. 17:40 REALLY I'VE SEEN HOW EFFECTIVE THEY ARE IN FIELD. 17:43 WELL THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU DO AT MEGAVOICE FOR GOSPEL OUTREACH. 17:44 THANK YOU. 17:45 AND MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU. 18:04 THESE ARE A THING OF THE LORD. 18:07 THEY ARE FANTASTIC AND GOSPEL OUTREACH WITH GARY FULLER HERE, ONE OF OUR 18:13 VOLUNTEERS, GARY HAS DOWNLOADED BIBLES, BIBLE IN LIVING SOUND IN 18:16 CHINESE, IN THAI. 18:19 AUDIO BIBLES, SONGS- IT IS UNBELIEVABLE AND THE LORD IS USING THESE MEGAVOICES 18:24 ALL AROUND OUR GLOBE AND THEY ARE BEING USED BY GOSPEL OUTREACH IN THE 18:30 10/40 WINDOW AND YOU HEARD FROM LINDA SHULTZ HERE AND FROM CHARLES HOW THEY ARE 18:33 BEING USED IN NEPAL. 18:34 AND IT IS FANTASTIC. 18:35 THEY ARE INEXPENSIVE. 18:37 THEY ARE VERY HARD TO DESTROY AND THEY DON'T NEED ELECTRICITY. 18:39 AND YOU DON'T NEED ELECTRICITY AND FOR SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T READ, 18:41 I MEAN YOU HAND THEM A BIBLE AND SOMEONE'S LIKE WELL I DON'T READ THAT, 18:42 YES, BUT THEY CAN LISTEN TO THIS AND THERE IS A PHOTO OF A LADY IN INDIA 18:49 AND BLESS HER HEART SHE IS IN THE LEPER COLONY AND SHE IS HOLDING ONE OF 18:58 THESE AND I TELL THE JOY ON HER FACE, RIGHT, IT IS JUST UNBELIEVABLE HOW GOD 19:03 USES ALL SORTS OF MEDIA AND MEGAVOICE IS JUST A FANTASTIC, FANTASTIC 19:04 PRODUCT. 19:05 SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING ABOUT NEPAL AND WE'RE GOING TO MOVE NOW TO 19:11 EASTERN NEPAL, RIGHT. 19:12 SO SHARE SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THAT. 19:14 WELL, EASTERN NEPAL HAS MANY ADVENTISTS THERE AND ADVENTIST COMMUNITIES. 19:17 RECENTLY, MARCH BASICALLY, WE HAD A TEAM THAT WENT TO THE VARIOUS COMMUNITIES 19:28 AND HELD REVIVAL MEETINGS. 19:31 UH HUH. 19:33 AND THIS WAS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN STUDYING WITH 19:36 GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS TO ACTUALLY GET TOGETHER AND THEN BE ASKED IF THEY 19:45 WANTED TO JOIN THE CHURCH AND THEY DID. 19:47 WELL PRAISE THE LORD. 19:50 THIS IS ONE GROUP IN EASTERN NEPAL-THIS IS 59 PEOPLE THAT WERE BAPTIZED. 19:56 WOW. 19:57 AND AGAIN GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DOING THIS. 20:00 THAT WAS A HUGE JUMP. 20:02 WE'VE GOT NINE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS OVER THERE ABOUT 500 CHURCH 20:07 MEMBERS AND SO WITH 59 BAPTISMS THAT INCREASED THE CHURCH BY TEN PER CENT 20:12 JUST IN THAT ONE. 20:13 WELL, MORE PEOPLE BELIEVING IN JESUS. 20:15 AND YOU KNOW THE WAY IT WORKED YOU WOULD HAVE A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER 20:18 WITH THE PEOPLE THAT HE HAS BEEN STUDYING WITH -HE WOULD THEN BRING THEM TO 20:24 THE REVIVAL MEETING, UH HUH. 20:26 THIS IS DERENDRA AWRAI AND HE-THIS IS HIS GROUP AND NOT ALL OF THEM WILL BE 20:34 BAPTIZED BUT BASICALLY THEY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR THE MESSAGE. 20:38 HERE IS PASTOR UMESH AND ELDER JHITZE BAPTIZING HERE. 20:44 IT IS A THRILLING THING FOR PEOPLE TO SEE A BAPTISM. 20:48 YES. 20:49 NOW HERE YOU HAVE DONELAL AND HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR ORGANIZING THE REVIVAL 20:57 MEETINGS IN EASTERN NEPAL AND A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER VERY, VERY TALENTED 21:03 HAS A LOT OF THINGS THAT HE WANTS TO DO FOR THE LORD AND THIS IS ANOTHER 21:07 OPPORTUNITY FOR GOSPEL OUTREACH TO FUND THESE REVIVAL MEETINGS. 21:13 AND YOU SAY, WELL WHAT YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE AN OUTSIDE EVANGELIST? 21:18 NO, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE OUR OWN PEOPLE BUT TO GET PEOPLE THERE AND ALSO WHEN 21:26 YOU HAVE A BAPTISM YOU HAVE TO HAVE FOOD. 21:28 YES. 21:29 YOU GOT TO HAVE FOOD. 21:30 YES, THIS IS TRUE. 21:32 THEN YOU USUALLY YOU HAVE TO GIVE THEM A BIBLE AND TRANSPORTATION. 21:36 AND TRANSPORTATION SO ALL OF THESE THINGS -IT'S WONDERFUL WHEN WE HAVE 21:40 SOME MONEY FOR EVANGELISM IN NEPAL AND THIS IS WHAT THESE REVIVAL MEETINGS 21:46 WOULD BE DOING. 21:47 WE HAVE A -THIS IS DEEP BAHADUR AND HIS GROUP. 21:51 THIS IS FROM RUMAJTAR - A LITTLE CHURCH THERE IN CENTRAL NEPAL AND YOU 21:57 NOTICE EVERYBODY IS ALL BUNDLED UP, STILL. 22:01 IT'S COLD AS LINDA WAS SHARING. 22:02 AND TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF JOY WHEN THESE PEOPLE DO ACCEPT THE LORD. 22:10 HERE YOU HAVE PASTOR UMESH AND PASTOR RABIN DOING BAPTISM, BAPTIZING AND YOU 22:18 KNOW THE WATER IS COLD, THE AIR IS COLD. 22:22 NOW THIS WAS DOWN IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF EASTERN NEPAL. 22:25 I THINK THEY HAVE HAD 37 MORE BAPTISMS IN THIS REGION. 22:31 YES. 22:32 WOW. 22:34 THESE TWO GENTLEMEN THE ONE ON THE RIGHT IS KARTIK AND THEN THE GENTLEMAN ON 22:39 THE LEFT IS SUDENLAL. 22:40 THEY ARE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS AND THEY ARE DOING A FANTASTIC JOB AND 22:47 FORTUNATELY WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO BUILD A CHURCH THROUGH THE GENEROSITY OF 22:53 GOSPEL OUTREACH IN JALBARI AND IT'S YOU KNOW, NOW YOU HAVE A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE 23:00 CAN COME AND THEY CAN WORSHIP AND THAT CHURCH WILL BE FILLED EVERY 23:04 SABBATH WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE VERY, VERY INTENT ON LEARNING MORE AND THEN 23:11 EVEN JUST GETTING TOGETHER AND SINGING NEPALI HYMNS. 23:16 OH I BET THAT IS BEAUTIFUL. 23:17 OH YES AND THEY REALLY GET INTO IT. 23:19 MANY OF THE NEPALI HYMNS HAVE KIND OF A FOLK TUNE CONNECTED TO THEM AND IT 23:24 IS EXCITING TO HEAR THEM SINGING AWAY. 23:28 THAT IS FANTASTIC. 23:30 WELL AND I KNOW THAT NEPAL IS VERY DEAR TO BOTH OF YOU AND AS YOU GET 23:33 CONNECTED WITH THE PEOPLE AND YOU MEET MORE EACH TIME YOU GO IT MAKES IT 23:38 EVEN MORE SPECIAL, RIGHT LINDA? 23:39 IT DOES AND THE CHILDREN JUST REALLY TUG AT MY HEART. 23:43 I LOVE THE CHILDREN OVER THERE AND THEY ARE SO DRAWN TO OUR PROGRAMS AND 23:48 TO OUR SINGING AND WE ARE ABLE TO DO SOME LITERACY PROGRAMS OVER THERE FOR 23:52 THE CHILDREN AND THAT ALSO REALLY HELPS TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL BECAUSE THROUGH THE 23:56 LITERACY PROGRAMS WE CAN BE TEACHING THEM ABOUT JESUS. 23:59 THROUGH MUSIC WE TEACH THEM ABOUT JESUS. 24:02 I THINK WE HAVE ONE LAST PICTURE OF THE AREA WHERE OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH 24:05 WORKERS KARTIK AND SUDENLAL -THEY WERE THE FIRST CHRISTIANS IN THAT 24:11 AREA ABOUT FOUR YEARS AGO AND NOW WE HAVE A GROWING COMMUNITY BUT AGAIN YOU 24:16 CAN SEE THE HOUSES IN THE BACKGROUND. 24:18 VERY, VERY, VERY POOR PEOPLE. 24:20 VERY, VERY POOR CONDITIONS. 24:22 BASICALLY THEY ARE SHARECROPPERS. 24:24 THEY DON'T OWN THE LAND BUT THEY WORK IT. 24:26 THEY WORK IT. 24:28 WE WERE VERY THANKFUL TO BE ABLE TO FINALLY GET BACK OVER THERE THIS YEAR 24:34 AND THIS IS-WE WERE ABLE TO GET TOGETHER ABOUT THIRTY OF OUR -ABOUT HALF 24:39 OF OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS WHEN I WAS THERE. 24:42 THIS WAS THAT GROUP AND THEY ARE REALLY DOING AN AMAZING WORK OVER THERE 24:48 JUST VERY, VERY DEDICATED PEOPLE AND WORKING TIRELESSLY TO SPREAD THE 24:54 GOSPEL MESSAGE THROUGHOUT NEPAL. 24:56 AND I WANT TO URGE OUR VIEWERS IF WE CAN GO BACK TO THAT LAST PHOTO AS WE 25:00 THINK AND AS WE PRAY FOR OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS- VIEWERS, I'D LIKE 25:06 YOU TO LOOK AT THE PHOTO AND PLEASE PICK OUT SOMEONE THERE -THE LADY IN 25:09 THE RED OR THE LADY IN THE PINK OR THE MAN IN THE COBALT BLUE. 25:14 THINK ABOUT THAT PERSON AND I WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO PRAY FOR THAT 25:16 PERSON. 25:18 WE DON'T KNOW THEIR NAMES LINDA, BUT OUR VIEWERS CAN LOOK AT THAT PERSON AND 25:22 HAVE THEIR PICTURE IN THEIR MINDS AND SAY, YOU KOW WHAT I'M GOING TO PRAY 25:25 FOR THAT PERSON AND MAY THE LORD BLESS THEM. 25:28 BECAUSE THAT MAKES IT A LITTLE BIT MORE PERSONAL TOO. 25:32 YES. 25:32 THANK YOU FOR SHARING. 25:33 SO YOUR NEEDS? 25:34 YOU KNOW ARE GREAT I KNOW THAT SO WHAT ARE SOME THINGS THAT YOU ARE 25:39 WORKING ON IN THE COMING YEAR? 25:41 I LOVE THE, I LOVE THE REVIVAL MEETINGS. 25:43 THEY JUST SEEM TO BE WHAT WAS RIGHT. 25:46 IN OTHER WORDS, YOU HAVE TO HAVE A TIME WHEN YOU CAN KIND OF -ALRIGHT NOW 25:51 FOLKS, WE'VE BEEN STUDYING. 25:53 WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO? 25:54 YOU NEED TO CALL FOR A DECISION, YES, AND TO HAVE SOME FUNDS FOR REVIVAL 25:59 MEETINGS IN THESE VARIOUS AREAS WHERE THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS HAVE BEEN 26:03 WORKING THAT'S IS JUST A HUGE THING. 26:06 THAT'S HUGE AND TO HAVE FOOD. 26:08 THAT'S A BIG DEAL AND TRAINING FOR OUR WORKERS TOO. 26:12 YES, THAT'S GOOD. 26:13 SO LINDA AND CHARLES THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE WITH US AND BLESSINGS TO 26:16 YOU AS YOU CONTINUE TO WORK IN NEPAL AND I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR BEING A 26:19 PART OF "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" AND MEGAVOICE. 26:23 IT IS FANTASTIC! 26:24 IT IS M -E-G-A-V-O-I-C-E AND YOU CAN GO TO OUR WEBSITE: GOAIM.ORG FOR 26:30 MORE INFORMATION AND IF YOU WANT TO HELP FUND MEGAVOICE THROUGH GOSPEL 26:34 OUTREACH SO MORE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS CAN HAVE THESE TO USE THEM TO GIVE 26:38 AWAY I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO THAT. 26:40 PLEASE FIND US ON FACEBOOK AND IF YOU'D ALSO LIKE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER 26:44 WE ARE HAPPY TO SEND THAT TO YOU AND AGAIN GO TO OUR WEBSITE. 26:47 ON BEHALF OF "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" FOR GOSPEL OUTREACH I'M JULIE 26:50 SANDERS-KEYMER AND MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU TODAY. |
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