Participants: Julie Sanders Keymer (Host), David Crook
Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000647A
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00:00 [OPENING MUSIC].
00:14 WELCOME TO ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS AT GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:16 I'M JULIE SANDERS KEYMER AND GLAD THAT YOU'VE JOINED US TODAY. 00:19 SO I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU. 00:20 WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU TRAVELED TO AFRICA? 00:23 WELL, TODAY YOU ARE GOING TO BE GOING THERE AND WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY OF 00:28 TRAVELLING THERE WITH OUR REGIONAL DIRECTOR DAVE CROOK. 00:30 HELLO, HOW ARE YOU? 00:32 VERY WELL THANK YOU, A PRIVILEGE TO BE HERE. 00:34 WELL GREAT HAVING YOU HERE AND WE HAVE HERE ON OUR MAP THIS IS THE WESTERN 00:39 PORTION OF THE 10/40 WINDOW SO IT STARTS HERE IN WEST AFRICA AND IT GOES 00:44 ALL THE WAY, WE PICK UP PAKISTAN, INDIA, CHINA AND IT ENDS OVER IN JAPAN. 00:49 THAT'S RIGHT. 00:50 AND YOUR PARTICULAR AREA OF INTEREST IS WHERE? 00:52 IT'S RIGHT HERE IN SOUTH SUDAN TODAY. 00:55 AND I ALSO HAVE ETHIOPIA BUT WE'RE JUST GOING TO TALK ABOUT SOUTH SUDAN AND 01:02 SOME STORIES FROM THERE. 01:03 OKAY. 01:04 GREAT. 01:05 WELL LET'S GO AND YOU'VE GOT SOME INTERESTING THINGS TO SHARE. 01:08 ABOUT HOW MANY GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS DAVE DO YOU HAVE THERE. 01:10 WE HAVE ABOUT 18 THERE RIGHT NOW BUT WE ARE GOING TO INCREASE IT HOPEFULLY. 01:15 OKAY. 01:16 AND THIS PARTICULAR AREA OF THE WORLD WE HEAR QUITE A BIT ABOUT, WE HEAR OF 01:20 FAMINS, WE HEAR ABOUT ALL SORTS OF NEEDS AND I'M SURE THAT YOU SEE THIS 01:24 WHEN YOU VISIT. 01:25 KIND OF GIVE US AN IDEA OF WHAT THE SOUTH SUDAN AREA IS LIKE. 01:29 WELL IT'S A VERY FERTILE AREA. 01:30 THE NORTH IS ARID BUT THE SOUTH IS FERTILE. 01:31 IT HAS OIL, IT HAS MINERALS, TREMENDOUS POTENTIAL BUT THE SAD 01:35 THING IS IT'S GONE THROUGH ABOUT 70 YEARS OF WAR. 01:44 THERE HAVE BEEN BREAKS IN THERE, BUT THE LAST WAR BEETWEEN THE NORTH AND THE 01:49 SOUTH WENT ON FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND PEOPLE HAD TO FLEE. 01:54 WE HAVE A PICTURE HERE. 01:55 I JUST WANTED TO POINT TO ONE OF THE PLACES. 01:57 YOU SEE JUBA? 01:59 YES. 02:00 JUBA IS THE CAPITAL. 02:02 AND THEN JUST NORTH OF JUBA IS BOR--------AND THAT'S WHERE A LOT OF THIS 02:07 FIGHTING IS GOING ON. 02:08 YOU KNOW IT WAS A WONDERFUL THING THAT FINALLY THEY WERE ABLE TO 02:13 HAVE PEACE BETWEEN THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH. 02:16 AND THEN FINALLY THEY WERE ABLE TO BECOME THEIR OWN NATION. 02:19 IN JLY OF 2011 THEY BECAME THE NEWEST NATION IN THE WORLD. 02:24 AND EVERYONE WAS HAPPY, THE WORK WAS MOVING AHEAD. 02:27 THE COUNTRY AS A WHOLE WAS MOVING AHEAD WITH IT'S INFRASTRUCTURE BECAUSE IT 02:33 WAS A TERRIBLE SITUATION UP TO THAT POINT. 02:35 THEY DIDN'T HAVE POSTAL SERVICE, THEY DIDN'T HAVE BANKING, THEY DIDN'T HAVE 02:37 PROPER ROADS AND ALL THIS KIND OF THING. 02:39 WELL WITH THE WAR GOING ON WHAT COULD HAPPEN. 02:41 EXACTLY. 02:43 SO ANYWAY WHEN THEY BECAME A NATION THEY WERE GETTING CONSIDERABLE HELP AND 02:47 THINGS WERE MOVING AHEAD VERY WELL. 02:51 AND THEN UNFORTUNATELY IN DECEMBER OF 213 THE VICE-PRESIDENT WAS 02:57 DISMISSED AND SO IMMEDIATELY HIS TRIBE, THE SECOND LARGEST TRIBE AND 03:03 THE PRESIDENT'S TRIBE, THE LARGEST TRIBE BEGAN WARING. 03:07 AND SO THIS CIVIL WAR STARTED. 03:11 IT WAS A TERRIBLE TERRIBLE SITUATION BECAUSE PEOPLE HAD TO FLEE. 03:15 IF I COULD JUST HAVE THAT MAP BACK AGAIN I JUST WANT TO POINT SOMETHING ELSE 03:20 OUT THERE ON THE MAP. 03:22 TOWARD THE NORTH THE CHURCH IS DIVIDED INTO THREE DIFFERENT FIELDS 03:26 THERE. 03:27 AND THE NORTH IS CALLED THE UPPER NILE FIELD. 03:29 AND THERE WAS DREADFUL FIGHTING THERE. 03:31 AND THE SAD THING IS THAT OUR MISSION OFFICE THERE WAS TOTALLY LOOTED. 03:36 OH DEAR. 03:38 THE GENERATORS WERE GONE, THE AIR CONDITIONING WAS GONE. 03:45 WAS ANYBODY KILLED? 03:46 NO ONE WAS KILLED, THANKFULLY, BUT THE WINDOWS WERE TAKEN AND THE 03:51 DOORS WERE TAKEN. 03:52 I MEAN IT WAS JUST TOTALLY LOOTED. 03:54 AND SO NOW FOR THEM TO GO BACK OF COURSE IT'S GOING TO TAKE MONTHS, IT'S GOING 03:59 TO TAKE MONTHS TO PUT THAT BACK INTO CONDITION. 04:01 WAS THERE ANY PARTICULAR REASON WHY THE MISSION HEADQUARTERS WAS LOOTED OR 04:04 IT WAS JUST PART OF THIS WHOLE UNREST? 04:06 NO, IT WAS PART OF THE WHOLE UNREST. 04:07 THERE WAS A LOT OF FIGHTING BETWEEN THE TRIBES THERE. 04:09 THEN OVER TO THE EAST OF SOUTH SUDAN IS A FIELD CALLED GREATER BAHR EL 04:20 GHAZAL. 04:21 AND THE PRESIDENT, THAT WAS THE PRESIDENT'S HOME IN THAT AREA SO IT WAS 04:27 INTERESTING. 04:28 THAT WAS VERY WELL PROTECTED SO OUR WORK WAS ABLE TO CARRY ON THERE 04:31 WHEREAS THE UPPER NILE PEOPLE HAD TO COME DOWN TO THE GREATER EQUITORIAL 04:37 FIELD WHICH IS THE SOUTHERN PART OF SUDAN AND HAD TO OPERATE FROM THERE. 04:41 LOTS GOING ON POLITICAL THINGS AND FOR THE CHURCH AND WOW. 04:48 SO YOU KNOW ALL THESE PEOPLE FLEEING LIKE THIS. 04:52 HERE THEY WERE JUST GETTING BACK AND GETTING SETTLED AND NOW HERE THEY 04:55 HAVE TO FLEE AGAIN. 04:57 AND OF COURSE THAT HAS A TREMENDOUS TERRIBLE EFFECT ON THE COUNTRY BECAUSE 05:02 INDUSTRY AND EVERYTHING. 05:03 FOR INSTANCE THEY HAVE OIL BUT THEY WOULD HAVE TO SHIP THEIR, THEY ARE LAND 05:09 BOUND, SO THEY HAVE TO SHIP THEIR OIL UP THROUGH THE NORTH AND THERE'S 05:12 PROBLEMS THERE. 05:14 BUT WHAT WAS HAPPENING WAS THAT THE CHINESE WERE BUILDING A REFINERY THERE 05:19 SO THEY COULD REFINE THEIR OWN OIL BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO IMPORT ALL THEIR OIL, 05:24 DISEL AND GASOLINE FROM UGANDA. 05:27 THEY ALSO HAVE TO, THE CHINESE ARE IMPORTING FROM UGANDA. 05:33 NO, NO, THE SUDANESE. 05:35 OKAY. 05:36 THE CHINESE ARE DOING QUITE A BIT OF DEVELOPMENT IN THESE COUNTRIES AND 05:40 THEY WERE BUILDING THIS REFINERY. 05:43 AND THEN OF COURSE THE OTHER THING IS THAT THEY HAVE TO IMPORT PRACTICALLY 05:47 ALL THEIR VEGETABLES AND FRUIT AND ALL THAT KIND OF THING FROM UGANDA AND I 05:51 SAID WELL WHY CAN'T YOU GROW IT HERE? 05:52 HE SAID WELL THE TROUBLE IS THAT HERE A FARMER HAS A NICE CROP AND THE REBELS 05:57 COME ALONG, HE HAS TO FLEE AND LEAVE IT ALL AND THEN THE REBELS TAKE IT ALL, 06:01 ANIMALS OR CROP OR WHATEVER IT IS AND WHAT'S HAPPENING IS WITH ALL THIS 06:05 WAR GOING ON THE YOUNGER GENERATION HAVE COME TO THE PLACE WHERE THEY 06:08 HARDLY EVEN KNOW HOW TO GROW ANYTHING. 06:10 SO THERE'S A LOT TO BE DONE IN THAT WAY AND THEN WITH THE FLEEING OF 06:15 COURSE, THIS AFFECTS THE CHURCH IN MANY WAYS FINANCIALLY BECAUSE PEOPLE 06:19 DON'T HAVE OFFERINGS AND TITHE AND ALL THIS KIND OF THING. 06:23 WELL DAVE, I CAN JUST SAY TO YOU YOU'VE GOT YOUR WORK CUT OUT FOR YOU. 06:26 WELL IT'S A, IT'S A VERY SAD SAD SITUATION. 06:29 AND HERE, HOW IT'S AFFECTED THE ECONOMY, HERE ARE THREE SUDANEESE 06:39 POUNDS. 06:39 SUDANEESE POUNDS OKAY. 06:41 GOING TO HOLD ONE UP HERE FOR THE CAMERA. 06:43 BACK IN DECEMBER OF 215, THIS LAST DECEMBER, THESE THREE POUNDS WOULD BUY ONE 06:51 U.S. 06:52 DOLLAR. 06:53 OKAY. 06:53 TODAY IT TAKES 45. 06:55 THAT'S A 15 HUNDRED PERCENT INCREASE IN INFLATION. 07:00 WOW. 07:01 SO YOU CAN SEE THE DESPERATE THING. 07:03 I JUST DON'T KNOW FOR SURE HOW THE PEOPLE ARE DOING. 07:06 HOWEVER, THERE IS A BRIGHT SIDE COMING AND THAT IS THAT SEVERAL COUNTRIES, I 07:12 THINK IT WAS GREAT BRITIAN, NORWAY AND THE U.S. 07:16 AND I BELIEVE SOME OTHER COUNTRY SAT DOWN WITH THE GOVERNMENT AND SAID THIS 07:22 WHOLE THING HAS TO STOP. 07:23 AND SO THEY PUT SEVERAL REGULATIONS THERE THAT THEY HAD TO ABIDE BY THIS 07:30 TIME. 07:31 AND THEY'RE BRINGING THE VICE PRESIDENT BACK. 07:33 NOW I HAVE A QUESTION BEFORE YOU GET INTO YOUR STORY. 07:34 WHO IS THIS MAN WHO IS ON THE POUND? 07:36 IS THAT FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OR DO YOU KNOW? 07:39 YOU KNOW I'M NOT SURE. 07:40 I SORT OF THINK IT'S THE PRESIDENT. 07:41 OKAY. 07:42 I'M NOT SURE ABOUT THAT SORRY. 07:43 NO, THAT'S OKAY. 07:45 ANYWAY, BUT THIS TIME THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TWO VICE PRESIDENTS. 07:48 OH THEY ARE. 07:50 SO WE JUST HOPE NOW THAT THIS IS GOING TO SETTLE THINGS DOWN AND IT'S GOING 07:54 TO BE A DIFFERENT STORY THERE. 07:55 HOPE SO AND I JUST HAVE TO SMILE. 07:57 LEAVE IT TO THE NORWEGIANS BEING THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE. 08:00 GOD BLESS THE NORWEGIANS FOR COMING IN WITH OTHER COUNTRIES AND HELPING TO 08:03 SOLVE THIS. 08:04 APPARENTLY THEY'VE BEEN A GREAT BLESSING THERE ACTUALLY. 08:06 SO ANYWAY, WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE WORKERS THERE. 08:09 THE VOLUNTEERSMEN WHO ARE OUT THERE AND THIS MAN IS A MAN BY THE NAME OF REMO 08:14 AMOS JULIUS. 08:15 NOW THOSE THREE NAMES ARE SIGNIFICANT. 08:17 THE FIRST NAME REMO WAS GIVEN TO HIM BY HIS PARENTS. 08:20 THE SECOND NAME IS THE NAME OF HIS FATHER. 08:23 THE THIRD NAME IS THE NAME OF HIS GRANDFATHER AND THAT'S HOW IT GOES FOR 08:26 BOYS AND GIRLS. 08:28 SO THIS IS REMO. 08:29 AND HE WAS A FARMER. 08:32 HE WAS NOT ABLE TO REALLY COMPLETE HIS EDUCATION. 08:36 BUT AN INTERESTING THING HAPPENED BACK IN 2009 IN FEBRUARY. 08:40 THERE WERE A GROUP OF ADVENTISTS WHO WERE TRYING TO STUDY BIBLE STUDY 08:45 GUIDES. 08:46 THESE WERE IN ENGLISH AND THEY COULDN'T READ ENGLISH. 08:48 NOW WHAT'S THE LANGUAGE? 08:49 WHAT DO THEY SPEAK IN SUDAN? 08:51 THEY SPEAK MAINLY ARABIC. 08:53 OH THEY DO? 08:54 YES, RIGHT. 08:55 SO ANYWAY THEY KNEW THAT HE COULD READ IN ENGLISH AND SO THEY ASKED IF HE 09:00 WOULD COME AND READ THE LESSONS TO THEM. 09:03 BUT HE WASN'T A BELIEVER? 09:04 HE WASN'T A BELIEVER NO. 09:05 HE BELONGED TO ANOTHER ORGANIZATION. 09:08 SO ANYWAY HE CAME AND THEN OF COURSE THERE WOULD HAVE TO BE SOME EXPLANATION 09:13 WHAT THE WORDS REALLY MEANT AND ALL OF THOSE KIND OF THINGS. 09:15 SO IT WAS QUITE A THOROUGH THING HE HAD TO DO. 09:18 ANYWAY HE WENT AHEAD AND HE DID THIS READING AND HE WAS LEARNING ALL THESE 09:22 THINGS ABOUT GOD AND THESE BIBLE TRUTHS. 09:23 AND THEN HE WAS SO IMPRESSED HOW NICE THE PEOPLE WERE TO HIM. 09:26 HE COULDN'T GET OVER THAT SO HE BEGAN TO INVESTIGATE MORE ABOUT THEIR FAITH. 09:32 WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE? 09:34 YES. 09:36 AND THEN HE STARTED WORSHIPPING WITH THEM ON THE SABBATH ON SATURDAY. 09:42 AND IN JUNE OF 2009 HE WAS BAPTIZED. 09:46 SO THEN BEFORE VERY LONG HE WAS HOLDING OFFICES IN THE CHURCH AND THEN HE WAS 09:50 INVITED TO BE A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER. 09:52 FANTASTIC. 09:53 AND SO ANYWAY, HE BELONGED TO THE K A LIKO-----------TRIBE. 10:00 WE HAD NO WORK AMONG THAT TRIBE AT ALL. 10:07 AT ANOTHER TIME HERE I DID SHOW A PICTURE OF A LITTLE CHURCH THERE THAT HE GOT 10:12 STARTED BUT WHEN HE FIRST WENT THERE HIS PEOPLE DIDN'T SEEM TO SHOW MUCH 10:16 INTEREST. 10:18 HE STRUGGLED ALONG BUT HE DIDN'T GIVE UP AND AFTER A WHILE HE WAS ABLE TO GET 10:21 SOME BIBLE STUDIES STARTED AND HE WAS ABLE TO FINALLY BAPTIZE SOME PEOPLE AND 10:26 BUILT THIS LOVELY LITTLE, CUTE LITTLE CHURCH THAT I VISITED THERE. 10:29 THE FIRST SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH AMONG THAT TRIBE. 10:32 ANOTHER THING ABOUT THAT TRIBE IS THAT THEY ARE QUITE ANXIOUS TO STAY WITH 10:37 THEIR DIALECT AND FORTUNATELY HE IS ABLE TO READ AND WRITE IN THAT 10:40 DIALECT. 10:41 WOW. 10:42 AND THAT'S THE WONDERFUL THING ABOUT GOSPEL OUTREACH BECAUSE WE HAVE 10:45 THESE PEOPLE WHO CAN GO TO THEIR OWN PEOPLE AND THEY KNOW THE CULTURE, THEY 10:49 KNOW THE LANGUAGE AND IT'S WONDERFUL. 10:51 IT'S NOT LIKE YOU COMING FROM CANADA, ME COMING FROM THE STATES AND TRYING 10:54 TO LEARN ALL THIS TUFF. 10:55 THAT'S RIGHT. 10:57 SO ANYWAY NOW AFTER BEING THERE THE LAST FIVE YEARS HE HAS BAPTIZED 65 PEOPLE. 11:04 REALLY. 11:05 AND HE IS AN OUTSTANDING PERSON. 11:07 HE'S A GO-GETTER FOR THE LORD. 11:08 HE IS A REAL GO- GETTER. 11:09 MATTER OF FACT THERE'S AN FM RADIO THAT COVERS THAT AREA AND HE'S ON THERE FOR 11:10 AN HOUR EVERY SUNDAY. 11:12 THEN HE HAS TWO OTHER SITES THAT HE IS PREPARING TO START WORK. 11:13 BUT A MARVELOUS THING HAPPENED BECAUSE THERE IS AN INDIVIDUAL, A MAN WHO 11:14 OPERATES A SCHOOL. 11:16 IT'S NOT CONNECTED WITH THE CHURCH BUT THERE IS A SUBJECT ON RELIGION AND SO 11:18 TWO OF OUR SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST GIRLS WERE GOING THERE AS STUDENTS AND WHEN 11:20 THEY HAD THE EXAM FOR THIS SUBJECT THEY SCORED VERY VERY HIGH. 11:45 AND SO THEIR FELLOW STUDENTS AND THE TEACHRES WERE SAYING HOW CAN YOU 11:49 GIRLS SCORE SO HIGH LIKE THIS? 11:51 HOW DO YOU KNOW ALL THIS? 11:52 THEY SAID WELL WE LEARNED IT AT OUR CHURCH. 11:54 OUR PASTOR TAUGHT US. 11:56 SO THEY SAID WELL COULD YOUR PASTOR COME AND TEACH US? 11:59 SO THEY HAD HIM COME AND THEY WERE SO DELIGHTED WITH HIM THEY SAID WELL 12:03 CAN YOU COME BACK AGAIN? 12:04 WHAT'S HAPPENED NOW IS THAT EVERY WEEK HE GOES THERE FOR 90 MINUTES 12:11 GIVING BIBLE STUDIES AND HE HAS 168 STUDENTS AND TEACHERS IN THAT GROUP 12:18 THAT HE IS TEACHING EVERY WEEK. 12:20 SO THIS MAN IS A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER, HE'S AN EVANGELIST, HE HAS A RADIO 12:24 SHOW, HE NOW TEACHES AT THE SCHOOL. 12:26 WHAT ELSE DOES HE DO? 12:28 WELL HE'S LIKE I SAY HE HAS TWO OTHER SITES THAT HE IS PREPARING. 12:32 MATTER OF FACT I THINK IT WAS APRIL 5 HE BEGAN A SERIES OF MEETINGS IN ONE 12:37 OF THOSE SITES WHERE HE HAS SEVERAL PEOPLE HE HAD BEEN STUDYING WITH. 12:41 SO GIVE US AN IDEA DAVE ABOUT WHAT'S THE RELIGION. 12:45 WE HAVE NORTH SUDAN, SOUTH SUDAN. 12:46 SOUTH SUDAN IS IT MOSTLY WHAT, WHAT RELIGION? 12:49 WELL IT'S A MIXTURE ACTUALLY. 12:52 THE WAY THEY LOOK AT IT IS THE NORTH IS MUSLIM, THE SOUTH IS CHRISTIAN. 12:57 SO YOU HAVE A MIXTURE OF ALL DENOMINATIONS YES. 12:59 OKAY. 13:00 A LOT OF DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS. 13:01 ANYWAY IT'S BEEN AN AMAZING THING HOW THIS MAN WHAT HE HAS BEEN ABLE TO 13:10 ACTUALLY DO. 13:11 ABSOLUTELY. 13:13 WELL WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A BREAK HERE DAVE AND WE'RE GOING TO INVITE OUR GOSPEL 13:15 OUTREACH VIEWERS TO GET INVOLVED AND WE'RE GOING TO GIVE YOU SOME OPTIONS 13:19 AND OPPORTUNITIES TO DO THAT. 13:20 I NEED TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL HERE AT HOME. 13:26 WHERE IS THE 10/40 WINDOW ANYWAY? 13:30 THOSE PEOPLE LIVE TOO FAR AWAY. 13:32 SOMEONE ELSE CAN TELL THEM ABOUT JESUS. 13:35 MAYBE THEY COULD JUST WATCH TV. 13:38 NEARLY THREE BILLION PEOPLE TO REACH. 13:41 MY HEAD HURTS. 13:43 THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO. 13:45 I GIVE UP. 13:47 WHAT'S THE POINT OF TRYING? 13:50 I CAN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 13:52 ACTUALLY YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 13:56 AND JESUS ASKED YOU TO GO TO ALL THE WORLD. 14:01 WHERE? 14:02 ALL THE WORLD. 14:03 HOW CAN I GO, I HAVE COMMITMENTS. 14:07 YOU CAN PRAY. 14:08 YOU CAN VOLUNTEER YOUR TALENTS. 14:11 YOU CAN TELL OTHERS. 14:14 YOU CAN GIVE MONEY TO SPONSOR BIBLE WORKERS. 14:17 MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE SEARCHING FOR HOPE AND MEANING. 14:19 BUT THEY WON'T FIND IT WITHOUT YOU. 14:22 BE THE SPARK. 14:23 LIGHT THE FIRE. 14:25 FINISH THE WORK. 14:26 FINISH THE WORK. 14:27 BE THE SPARK. 14:29 AND WE ARE TALKING HERE ABOUT SUDAN AND I JUST LOVE THE LITTLE PROMO OF 14:36 THE KIDS AND BE THE SPARK. 14:39 WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER WHO IS INDEED A SPARK IN SOUTH 14:46 SUDAN. 14:47 THIS MAN IS ON THE RADIO, HE'S TEACHING A BIBLE CLASS AT THE SCHOOL AND 14:51 HE'S DOING ALL SORTS OF THINGS AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE LEARNING HERE WITH 14:54 DAVE CROOK. 14:55 HI DAVE. 14:55 HI. 14:56 GLAD TO HAVE YOU HERE. 14:57 JUST ANOTHER LITTLE STORY ABOUT THIS MAN. 14:59 THERE WAS A MAN CALLED CHARLES BANGAL AND HE WAS A DRUNKARD AND A TOBACCO 15:04 USER. 15:05 HE WAS MARRIED TO FIVE WIVES WHO ALL LEFT HIM. 15:06 FIVE? 15:07 BUT THE INTERESTING THING HE WAS A SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER. 15:08 YES. 15:09 AND ANYWAY HE MOVED IN WITH HIS PARENTS, HIS ELDERLY PARENTS WITH HIS 15:23 THREE DAUGHTERS AND WHAT HAPPENED WAS THE PARENTS DIED, OH OH, AND SO HOW 15:29 WAS HE GOING TO SUPPORT THESE DAUGHTERS BECAUSE HE'S SPENDING ALL HIS 15:31 MONEY ON TOBACCO AND ALCOHOL. 15:35 SO WHAT DID HE DO? 15:36 ANYWAY HE CAME TO, WELL WHAT HAPPENED WAS THAT JUST BEFORE THE FATHER'S 15:42 FUNERAL HE GOT DRUNK, WENT AND GOT DRUNK AND WHEN HE CAME HOME HIS ELDER 15:48 BROTHER REALLY GOT AFTER HIM. 15:50 SO HE GOT MADE, WENT IN THE HOUSE, GOT THE GUN AND WAS GOING TO SHOOT HIS 15:53 BROTHER. 15:54 OH MY. 15:56 WELL PEOPLE GRABBED HIM AND TIED HIM UP WITH A ROPE AND THEY BEAT HIM. 15:58 OH MY. 15:59 AND SO THERE HE IS ON THE GROUND TIED UP LIKE THIS AND IT SO HAPPENED THAT 16:03 REMO CAME ALONG. 16:05 THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER SHOWED UP? 16:06 YES. 16:08 HE SAW THE MAN THERE AND MANY PROBABLY WOULD HAVE WALKED ON BY BUT NO HE 16:11 WENT OVER THERE AND TALKED TO HIM AND FOUND OUT WHAT HAPPENED AND HE SAID NOW 16:15 LOOK, YOU CAN'T EVER DO THAT AGAIN. 16:17 THAT'S NOT RIGHT. 16:18 THAT'S TERRIBLE. 16:19 THAT'S CALLED PROVIDENTIAL TIMING. 16:21 SO ANYWAY HE HAD PRAYER WITH THE MAN THEN HE WENT ON HIS WAY. 16:24 WELL EIGHT MONTHS LATER ABOUT TWO O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING HERE THIS CHARLES 16:29 COMES TO HIS PLACE. 16:30 TWO O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING AND HE IS CALLING OUT TO RIMO. 16:33 WAS HE DRUNK? 16:34 DON'T KNOW? 16:35 NO, HE WASN'T ACTUALLY DRUNK AT THAT TIME. 16:37 NO, HE WASN'T DRUNK. 16:38 IT'S TWO A.M. 16:38 AND HE SHOWS UP. 16:40 SO ANYWAY, ANYWAY REMO SAYS WELL WHAT'S HE DOING HERE SO HE SAID TO HIM 16:43 WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? 16:45 HE SAYS WELL I'VE COME AS NICODEMOUS. 16:47 OH INTERESTING. 16:49 AND WHEN HE SAID THAT, REMEMBER HE'S A SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER SO HE KNOW 16:52 A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE BIBLE. 16:55 SO ANYWAY REMO DECIDED HE'D COME OUT THAT IT WAS SAVE. 16:58 SO HE CAME OUT AND THEY SAT DOWN OUTSIDE AND THEY TALKED UNTIL MORNING. 17:02 REALLY. 17:04 AND ANYWAY HE SAID TO REMO, HE SAID HOW CAN I GIVE UP ALCOHOL AND 17:05 TOBACCO. 17:06 HE SAID I NEED MONEY FOR MY THREE DAUGHTERS BECAUSE THEY'RE IN SCHOOL. 17:08 AND SO ANYWAY REMO TALKED TO HIM ABOUT JESUS AND FULLY ACCEPTING JESUS AND 17:09 DEPENDING ON HIM TO GIVE HIM THE VICTORY OVER THE ALCOHOL. 17:11 YES. 17:12 SO ANYWAY, AND HE ENCOURAGED HIM TO COME TO CHURCH ON SABBATH. 17:13 SO ANYWAY HE DID THAT. 17:14 THE NEXT SABBATH HE WAS IN CHURCH, HE WAS THERE EARLY MATTER OF FACT, CAME TO 17:16 SABBATH SCHOOL AND THE LESSON WAS ON OUR BODY TEMPLE. 17:17 SO ANYWAY HE LISTENED TO THE DISCUSSION AND HE WAS QUITE THRILLED WITH ALL OF 17:20 IT ACTUALLY, REALLY ENJOYED THAT EVEN THOUGH IT WAS REALLY TELLING HIM 17:22 THAT HE NEEDED TO DO SOMETHING. 17:48 ANYWAY HE KEPT COMING TO CHURCH, TOOK BIBLE STUDIES AND THEN THERE WAS AN 17:57 EVANGELISTIC SERIES OF MEETINGS AND HE ACCEPTED CHRIST AND WAS BAPTIZED. 18:02 AND MATTER OF FACT, HE BROUGHT TWO OTHER PEOPLE ALONG WITH HIM AND THEY 18:05 WERE BAPTIZED TOO. 18:06 SO HERE HE WAS A MISSIONARY BEFORE HE WAS EVEN BAPTIZED. 18:09 SEE AND AGAIN IT'S THE RIPPLE EFFECT AND ONE PERSON, ONE PERSON AND ONE 18:13 PERSON. 18:15 SO ONE DAUGHTER WAS BAPTIZED AND SO AFTER HE WAS BAPTIZED OF COURSE HE 18:19 KEPT COMING AND NOW HE IS THE COMPANY LEADER. 18:22 HE IS LEADING THAT LITTLE GROUP THERE WHERE HE AS AND THE TWO OTHER 18:26 DAUGHTERS ARE PREPARING FOR BAPTISM. 18:28 WELL PRAISE THE LORD. 18:29 SO IT'S JUST INTERESTING HOW THESE THING TURN OUT. 18:32 YES. 18:33 SO DO YOU HAVE SOME MORE PICTURES FOR US DAVE? 18:34 YES I DO. 18:35 I HAVE ANOTHER MAN HERE AND HIS NAME IS KNOF KUEK. 18:39 I'LL LET YOU PRONOUNCE THAT. 18:42 AH, I'LL LET YOU TAKE A STAB AT IT. 18:46 GOD BLESS HIM. 18:48 WOW, WHAT A HANDSOME TALL MAN. 18:51 ANYWAY HE'S A GOSPEL OUTREACH EVANGELIST IN A VILLAGE IN SOUTH SUDAN AND 18:57 IT WAS HIS SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST UNCLE THAT TALKED TO HIM ABOUT THE 19:01 SABBATH AND SO ON. 19:02 HE WAS BAPTIZED AND AFTER SOME TIME HE BECAME A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER. 19:08 MATTER OF FACT IT WAS ONLY A YEAR AGO SINCE HE BECAME A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER 19:12 AND HE'S ALREADY BAPTIZED THREE PEOPLE. 19:13 NOW THAT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE SO MANY BUT WE MUST REMEMBER THAT USUALLY WHAT 19:17 HAPPENS IS A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER GOES INTO AN AREA. 19:20 THE FIRST YEAR HE MAKES FRIENDS. 19:21 THE SECOND YEAR HE IS HAVING SOME BIBLE STUDIES. 19:24 BY THE THIRD YEAR HE HAS PROBABLY BAPTIZED SEVERAL. 19:26 BUT HE'S BEEN THERE A YEAR AND HE HAS ALREADY BAPTIZED THREE PEOPLE AND 19:29 HE HAS OTHERS THAT ARE STUDYING. 19:30 WELL AND I DON'T WANT TO INTERRUPT YOU BUT I THINK THAT AS FAR AS WHEN IT 19:34 COMES TO THINKING ABOUT IT'S UP TO THE LORD TO KNOW THE PEOPLES' HEARTS 19:38 AND WHEN IT COMES TO NUMBERS AND THINGS LIKE THAT WE JUST KNOW THAT 19:41 THESE WORKERS ARE WORKING FOR THE LORD AND IT'S UP TO GOD THEN TO MAKE THE 19:46 IMPACT ON THEIR HEART. 19:47 AND THEY DON'T HAVE AN EASY TIME. 19:48 NO THEY DON'T, THEY DON'T. 19:50 THIS MAN, HIS UNCLE TOLD HIM, LISTEN IF YOU GET BAPTIZED I'M PUTTING A 19:56 CURSE ON YOU AND YOUR GOING TO DIE IN THE RIVER. 19:59 OH MY. 20:00 NOW YOU KNOW THE AFRICAN PEOPLE THEY RESPECT THEIR ELDERS. 20:03 THEY DO. 20:05 AND OF COURSE YOU KNOW THEY BELIEVE IN EVIL SPIRITS AND CURSES AND ALL 20:06 THIS KIND OF THING AND THIS MAN MAYBE EVEN WAS SINCERE IN BELIEVING THAT 20:08 THIS WOULD REALLY HAPPEN. 20:09 BUT OF COURSE IT DIDN'T HAPPEN. 20:15 AND THE WONDERFUL THING WAS WITH ALL THIS THREAT THE BOY NEVER GAVE UP ON 20:19 HIS BIBLE STUDIES, NEVER GAVE UP AS FAR AS BEING BAPTIZED. 20:22 THEN THE UNCLE WHEN HE SAW IT DIDN'T HAPPEN THE HOLY SPIRIT TOUCHED HIS HEART 20:29 AND HE ACCEPTED JESUS AND HE IS STUDYING NOW TO BE BAPTIZED ALSO. 20:34 SEE AGAIN THE LORD BLESSES. 20:35 NOW THIS NEXT MAN IS DAVID PANDAK. 20:36 AND HE'S ALSO A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER? 20:38 HE'S A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER. 20:39 A SON OF HIS COUSIN CAME TO HIM AND STARTED TALKING TO HIM ABOUT THE SABBATH 20:41 AND ABOUT BAPTISM AND ALL THIS KIND OF THING AND HE GOT VERY ANGRY BECAUSE HE 20:42 HADN'T HEARD THESE THINGS AND IT DIDN'T AGREE WITH WHAT HE BELIEVED. 20:44 AND SO HE WAS ARGUING AND MATTER OF FACT HE GOT SO ANGRY THAT HE WOULDN'T 20:46 EVEN GIVE HIS COUSIN'S SON ANYTHING TO EAT OR DRINK. 20:48 NOW THAT IS NOT LIKE AFRICAN HOSPITALITY. 20:49 THIS IS THE EXTREME. 20:50 THAT'S HOW ANGRY HE WAS. 20:51 HOWEVER, YOU KNOW THE HOLY SPIRIT WORKS ON THE HEARTS OF PEOPLE AND AFTER TWO 20:53 WEEKS HE CHANGED HIS MIND ABOUT THIS WHOLE THING AND HE TOOK BIBLE STUDIES, 20:54 FINALLY WAS BAPTIZED AND THEN HE BECAME AN ELDER IN HIS CHURCH AND THEN AFTER 21:02 SOME TIME HE BECAME A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER. 21:20 HE WENT TO A PLACE TO WORK AND AS HE WORKED THERE HE BAPTIZED 30 PEOPLE AND 21:38 EVERYTHING WAS JUST GOING NICE WHEN THE CIVIL WAR BROKE OUT AND ALL THE 21:43 PEOPLE HAD TO FLEE BUT THE INTERESTING THING IS, THIS IS TRUE OF HIM AND SEVERAL 21:48 OTHERS WHO ARE IN REFUGEE CAMPS OF OUT GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS, THAT 21:51 DIDN'T STOP HIM FROM WORKING. 21:52 AND IN TWO YEARS THEY HAVE BUILT FIVE CHURCHES. 21:55 WOW. 21:56 I SAID WELL WHERE DO YOU GET THE MATERIALS? 22:01 WHO PAID FOR IT? 22:02 YES, WHO PAID FOR IT? 22:03 HE SAID WELL YOU KNOW IN THIS PARTICULAR REFUGEE CAMP THEY HAVE GARDENS AND 22:08 HE SAID WE WERE ABLE TO GROW ENOUGH EXTRA THINGS TO SELL. 22:09 THE MAIN THING OF COURSE THAT THEY HAD TO BUY WAS THE METAL FOR THE ROOF 22:12 BECAUSE IF THEY USE THATCH THE TERMITES HAVE THAT GONE IN THREE YEARS. 22:20 SO THEY HAVE BUILT THOSE FIVE CHURCHES. 22:24 THEY BAPTIZED 60 PEOPLE AND RIGHT NOW HE IS STUDYING WITH 160 PEOPLE. 22:29 HE SAID THE PEOPLE THERE IN THE REFUGEE CAMP ARE THIRSTY FOR GOD'S WORD. 22:32 ISN'T THAT AMAZING DAVE. 22:34 I MEAN HERE YOU HAVE THESE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN IN SO MUCH TURMOIL AND WHAT DO 22:37 THEY DO, THEY GET BUSY. 22:39 THEY GROW A GARDEN, THEY BUILD CHURCHES AND THEY'RE SHARING JESUS. 22:41 SO INSTEAD OF SITTING THERE BEING ALL UPSET AND EVERYTHING THEY'RE GOING 22:45 TO TOWN FOR THE LORD. 22:46 I LOVE IT. 22:47 THAT'S THE WONDERFUL THINK ABOUT THE WHOLE THING IS THAT'S THEIR ATTITUDE 22:51 ABOUT THINGS. 22:52 THIS MAN'S NAME IS JOHN. 22:56 JOHN DOTCHOY. 22:58 HE WAS TALKING TO A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST LADY AND SHE TOLD HIM ABOUT THE 23:01 SABBATH AND HE HAD NEVER HEARD OF THAT BEFORE BUT SHE INVITED HIM TO A 23:05 SERIES OF MEETINGS AND HE WAS BAPTIZED. 23:08 THEN IN FEBRUARY OF 215, REMEMBER THIS IS A LITTLE OVER A YEAR AGO, JOHN 23:12 BECAME A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER. 23:13 HE IS WORKING IN FOUR REFUGEE CAMPS. 23:16 THEY ARE FAIRLY CLOSS TOGETHER SO HE GOES FROM ONE TO THE OTHER. 23:19 HE HAS STARTED THREE CHURCHES AND HE HAS BAPTIZED 69 PEOPLE. 23:24 SO YOU KNOW, WITH ALL THESE CHALLENGES IT'S JUST WONDERFUL HOW THESE PEOPLE 23:29 CAN GO AHEAD AND DO THIS WORK. 23:32 WELL AND I LOVE HOW YOU REFER TO THEM AS GOSPEL OUTREACH EVANGELISTS 23:36 BECAUSE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS WE USE THAT TERM BUT I'M REALLY LIKING YOUR 23:39 EVANGELIST TERM. 23:41 AND YOU KNOW WHAT, THAT NEEDS TO BE ALL OF US NOT JUST THE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN 23:44 SOUTH SUDAN. 23:44 IT NEEDS TO BE EVERY ONE OF US. 23:45 THAT'S RIGHT. 23:46 ALRIGHT, DO YOU HAVE MORE TO SHARE HERE? 23:48 WELL I JUST HAVE THIS MAN HERE. 23:50 THERE'S A GURILLA GROUP THAT'S CALLED THE LORD'S RESISTANT ARMY. 23:54 THE LRA AND THEY DO TERRIBLE THINGS. 23:56 THEY GO INTO A VILLAGE AND THEY WILL MUTILATE WOMEN. 24:01 OH DEAR. 24:03 CUT OFF THEIR FACE, CUT OF THEIR EAR, CUT OFF THEIR WRIST, CUT OFF THEIR 24:05 BREASTS. 24:07 AND THE MEN AND BOYS THEY TAKE CAPTIVE TO MAKE SOLDIERS OUT OF THEM. 24:12 WELL THIS MAN WAS CAPTURED ALONG WITH 17 OTHERS. 24:19 THEY TOOK THEM INTO THE DEEP JUNGLE. 24:21 THEY MADE THEM MARCH ALL NIGHT LONG AND THEY WERE CARRYING BAGS OF MAIZE, 24:25 110 POUNDS. 24:27 OF CORN. 24:28 YES, WELL MAIZE. 24:31 ANYWAY, THEY MARCHED ALL NIGHT AND HE WAS PRAYING ALL THE TIME THAT SOMEHOW 24:37 THE LORD WOULD DELIVER THEM BUT OF COURSE EVERYTHING WAS A SCARY 24:39 THING. 24:40 WELL YES. 24:41 THESE PEOPLE ARE DANGEROUS PEOPLE. 24:43 ANYWAY FINALLY IN ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT THEY DID GET A LITTLE BIT 24:48 OF A REST FOR HALF AN HOUR THEN THEY HAD TO MARCH ON AND THEY MARCHED ON UNTIL 24:52 ONE O'CLOCK THE NEXT DAY IN THE AFTERNOON. 24:54 I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY EVER DID IT. 24:56 HOW PHYSICALLY COULD THEY DO THAT. 24:57 ANYWAY THEN THE SOLDIERS CAME AND THEY STARTED SEARCHING THEM AND JOHN 25:02 HAD HIS BIBLE IN HIS POCKET. 25:04 THE SOLDIER PULLED IT OUT OF HIS POCKET AND SAID WELL THAT'S GOOD TO READ 25:08 AND GAVE IT BACK TO HIM AND HE PUT IT BACK IN HIS POCKET. 25:11 THEN THE COMMANDER STOOD UP BEFORE THEM ALL AND SAYS WHO OF YOU WILL JOIN 25:15 US? 25:16 AND JOHN SAID WE CAN'T JOIN YOU WE'RE REFUGEES. 25:18 ANYWAY HE SAID OKAY YOU CAN LEAVE. 25:23 REALLY, JUST LIKE THAT. 25:24 THAT WAS AN ABSOLUTE MIRACLE HOW THEY WERE EVER ABLE TO LEAVE LIKE THAT. 25:28 WOW, WHAT A STORY, WHAT A STORY. 25:30 ANYWAY HERE'S ANOTHER ONE OF OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS, A VERY FAITHFUL, 25:35 FAITHFUL WORKER WHO HAS BEEN ABLE TO DO SOME WONDERFUL THINGS FOR THE 25:38 LORD. 25:41 WHAT'S WITH THE FLOWERS. 25:42 WELL WE DID TRAINING AND THIS MAN CLEMENT IS THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE 25:49 GREATER EQUITORIAL FIELD AND NOW HE'S THE PRESIDENT OF THE ATTACHED UNION BUT 25:53 HE WAS ONE OF THE LECTURERS. 25:55 HE'S WORKING ON HIS PHD AND SO HE GAVE SOME VERY FINE INFORMATION. 25:59 WAS THIS A TRAINING? 26:00 TRAINING ABOUT BEING ORGANIZED AND SO ON. 26:02 WELL GOOD. 26:03 AND THEN, NEXT PICTURE THERE I WAS JUST GOING TO SHOW, YES. 26:09 THIS WAS INTERESTING. 26:10 THIS WAS A GROUP AT A PLACE CALLED MOLI AND WE WENT AND VISITED THERE. 26:13 OUR WORKER HAD RAISED UP A CHURCH THERE AND HALF OF THEM HAD TO FLEE. 26:21 THIS IS THE HALF THAT'S LEFT. 26:22 OH BLESS THEIR HEARTS. 26:23 ANYWAY WE HAD A WONDERFUL SABBATH VISITING WITH THEM. 26:25 WELL BLESS THEIR HEARTS. 26:27 WELL DAVE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE AND YOU HAVE SHARED AN AREA 26:30 THAT I HAVE LEARNED MORE ABOUT TODAY AND HOPEFULLY OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH 26:36 VIEWERS HAVE AS WELL. 26:37 OUR PRAYERS ARE WITH THEM AND PLEASE DO LET THEM KNOW THAT WOULD YOU? 26:42 WE WILL AND THEY NEED OUR PRAYERS THAT PEACE WILL COME AND THAT THINGS CAN 27:01 GO BACK TO NORMAL. 27:10 YES. 27:13 WELL WE WILL PRAY AND THANK THE LORD FOR HIS WORK THERE. 27:40 SO THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AND THANK YOU FOR WATCHING ADVENTURES IN 28:11 MISSION HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH AND MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU TODAY. |
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