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Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000703A
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00:14 WELCOME TO "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS". 00:17 THIS IS GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:18 I'M OLE OLESON AND TODAY WE HAVE TWO SPECIAL GUESTS 00:23 WITH US. 00:24 WELCOME DEL ORSER; WELCOME BONNIE ORSER. 00:27 IT'S FUN TO HAVE YOU HERE. 00:28 IT IS NICE TO BE HERE. 00:29 YOU'RE HERE TO TELL STORIES FROM A SPECIAL 00:31 REGION OF THE WORLD. 00:32 WHERE IS IT? 00:33 OUR REGION IS REGION 11 AND IT ENCOMPASSES 00:37 ACTUALLY TWO STATES IN INDIA. 00:41 THE NORTHERN STATE IS ORISSA OR ODISHA AS IT IS 00:44 NOW CALLED AND THERE ARE TWO CONFERENCES THERE THAT 00:47 WE DEAL WITH AND THEN THERE IS TWO CONFERENCES 00:49 IN ANDHRA PRADESH WHICH IS SOUTH OF IT. 00:52 AND HOW MANY PEOPLE DO YOU GET TO ENCOURAGE WHEN YOU 00:55 GO OVER THERE? 00:56 WE HAVE 147 BIBLE WORKERS. 00:58 147? 00:59 AND IT'S ABOUT-THERE IS ABOUT 1000 CHURCHES AND 01:03 ALSMOST 200,000 MEMBERS OF THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST 01:06 CHURCH IN THESE CHURCHES. 01:08 200,000 PEOPLE, RIGHT, AMONG HOW MANY MILLION? 01:11 MANY MILLION. 01:12 MANY MILLION. 01:13 RIGHT AND WE WISH THEY WERE ALL GOING TO CHURCH 01:16 ON A REGULAR BASIS BUT OUR CHURCHES ARE STRUGGLING 01:19 AND THAT'S WHY WE GO TO ENCOURAGE THEM. 01:21 SO, IT'S A MIXTURE OF OFFICIAL "CHURCH WORK" AND 01:25 PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR GOSPEL OUTREACH AND PROBABLY SOME 01:27 OTHER ORGANIZATIONS TOO? 01:28 THAT'S RIGHT. 01:29 TO PROVIDE LEADERSHIP THERE. 01:31 RIGHT. 01:31 OK. 01:32 WELL THIS AREA WITH ITS DIFFERENT LANGUAGES AND 01:37 PROBABLY HINDI IS AN OVERARCHING UNIFIER FOR 01:41 SOME WHO- YOU HAVE THESE 140 SOME? 01:46 147 BIBLE WORKERS. 01:48 147 BIBLE WORKERS-VOLUNTEERS. 01:50 THEY ARE VOLUNTEERS BUT THEY GET A STIPEND, I 01:52 HOPE. 01:53 THEY DO. 01:54 THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WE ARE DOING THIS SHOW IS 01:56 TO ASK PEOPLE TO THINK IS THIS PART OF WHAT I WANT 01:59 TO INVEST IN? 02:00 ARE THERE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO'VE COULD USE A LITTLE 02:02 BIT OF OUR FAMILY BUDGET SO LOOK ON YOUR SCREEN, 02:06 NOTICE THE DIFFERENT ADDRESSES THAT ARE THERE, 02:08 THE TELEPHONE NUMBERS IN CANADA, IN THE UNITED 02:11 STATES OF AMERICA. 02:12 GIVE IT A SHOT BUT LET'S HEAR SOME STORIES FROM 02:15 OVER IN ORISSA, ORISSA IS THE OLD NAME-ODISHA, 02:19 ODISHA YES THERE WE GO OK AND ANDHRA PRADESH. 02:23 YOU HAVE A STORY FOR US? 02:24 OH, WE HAVE LOTS OF STORIES HOWEVER, WE WOULD 02:27 LIKE TO LET THE PEOPLE KNOW THAT THERE IS A NEW 02:30 PARADIGM SHIFT THAT IS TAKING PLACE IN GOSPEL 02:33 OUTREACH RIGHT NOW. 02:34 IT'S VERY EXCITING, ACTUALLY AND THAT'S WHAT 02:37 WE'D LIKE TO SHARE JUST BRIEFLY WITH THE PEOPLE, 02:40 IF WE MAY. 02:42 YOU CERTAINLY CAN SO THIS GOSPEL OUTREACH HAS BEEN 02:45 AROUND FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS NOW. 02:46 RIGHT. 02:47 AND SUDDENLY WE HAVE A NEW WAY TO DO THE SAME THING? 02:52 THAT'S RIGHT. 02:52 REACHING THE UNREACHED FOR JESUS. 02:54 REACHING THE UNREACHED. 02:55 TELL US ABOUT IT. 02:56 BONNIE, YOU GO AHEAD AND SHARE A LITTLE BIT. 02:59 WELL, THE MOTTO IS "WITNESSING TO THE LOST 03:02 AND TRAINING THE SAVED". 03:04 OK. 03:05 WITNESSING TO THE LOST AND TRAINING THE SAVED. 03:08 THROUGH YOUR PERSONAL TESTIMONY AND WE ALL HAVE 03:12 THE OPPORTUNITY TO THINK ABOUT WHAT GOD HAS BROUGHT 03:16 US FROM. 03:17 YOUR PERSONAL TESTIMONY HAS THREE PARTS: ONE IS 03:21 WHAT YOU WERE LIKE BEFORE JESUS; WHAT CAUSED YOU TO 03:25 COME TO JESUS-WHAT WERE THE CIRCUMSTANCES? 03:28 AND WHAT HAS HE DONE WITH YOUR LIFE SINCE YOU HAVE 03:32 INVITED HIM INTO YOUR HEART AND IT IS VERY 03:36 EXCITING. 03:36 THAT'S A STORY FOR EACH PERSON ISN'T IT? 03:38 THAT IS RIGHT. 03:39 NOW IF YOU ARE NOT TELLING THAT STORY WHAT ARE YOU 03:44 TELLING? 03:45 WHAT-THIS IS A PARADIGM SHIFT, THAT'S RIGHT, WHAT 03:47 WEREWE SHARING BEFORE WE INCLUDED THAT PERSONAL 03:51 STORY? 03:53 RATHER UNFORTUNATELY, OUR BIBLE WORKERS HAVE BECOME 03:56 PASTORS OF CHURCHES OVER THE YEARS. 03:58 OK. 03:59 AS MOST OF US ARE AWARE THERE WAS A GREAT THRUST 04:01 IN EVANGELISM, YES, AND MANY CHURCHES WERE BUILT 04:04 BUT OVER THE YEARS THEY'VE JUST BEEN THERE TO UNLOCK 04:07 THE DOOR, TO HOLD CLASSES, WEDDINGS, FUNERALS AND OK, 04:12 GIVING THEIR SERMON BUT WE REALIZED THAT WE HAVE 04:17 ACTUALLY BEEN UNFAITHFUL TO THE MISSION STATEMENT 04:19 OF GOSPEL OUTREACH. 04:20 OUR MISSION STATEMENT HAS BEEN TO REACH THE 04:23 UNREACHED FOR JESUS AND OUR CHURCHES THERE HASN'T 04:27 BEEN THE GROWTH THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE IN INDIA. 04:29 SO, THERE WAS THE INITIAL GROWTH BUT PEOPLE DIDN'T 04:33 CATCH A VISION OF HOW TO SPREAD IT FARTHER THAN 04:35 THAT. 04:36 THAT'S RIGHT. 04:37 OK. 04:38 AND SO, INSTEAD OF BEING PASTORS WE ARE TEACHING 04:41 THEM THAT THEY CAN BE TEACHER-TRAINERS. 04:42 THAT'S WHAT JESUS WAS. 04:44 OK. 04:44 AND SHARE THE GOSPEL THROUGH THEIR TESTIMONY 04:47 AND THROUGH STORIES. 04:49 WE TEACH THEM THEN HOW TO GIVE STORIES. 04:51 STORIES FROM THE BIBLE AND WITHIN THESE STORIES ARE 04:54 PRINCIPLES AND DOCTRINES ACTUALLY, THAT THEY CAN 04:56 LEARN AND BE EXCITED ABOUT WHAT JESUS CAN DO AND HAS 05:00 DONE IN LIVES. 05:01 SO RATHER THAN REINFORCE WHAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN 05:04 EXPOSED TO PREVIOUSLY, RIGHT, NOW THEY ARE GOING 05:06 TO TRY TO FIND PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOT HEARD THESE 05:09 STORIES BEFORE. 05:10 THAT'S RIGHT. 05:11 GIVING THE GOSPEL. 05:12 STORIES WITHIN THE GOSPEL. 05:13 RIGHT. 05:13 OK. 05:14 IN OUR FOUR SECTIONS, WE DID THIS TRAINING AND IT 05:15 WAS SO EXCITING TO SEE HOW THE BIBLE WORKERS WANTED 05:17 TO BECOME TEACHER/TRAINERS AND TO SHARE THEIR 05:18 PERSONAL TESTIMONY. 05:19 CAN I TELL YOU ONE STORY? 05:19 THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE HERE FOR. 05:20 THE STORY IS ABOUT A MAN AND AS A YOUNG MAN HE WAS 05:30 VERY TALENTED PLAYING THE DRUMS AND YOU KNOW DRUMS 05:41 IS THE MAIN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT IN INDIA. 05:44 IT IS THE FOUNDATION. 05:46 AND AS A YOUNG BOY, HE PLAYED THE DRUMS. 05:48 OK. 05:49 AND HE WAS RAISED CHRISTIAN BUT HE WAS 05:53 REALLY GOOD ON THE DRUMS AND THERE ARE GOOD 05:55 DRUMMERS AND THERE ARE SOME THAT AREN'T SO GOOD. 05:57 I'M SURE. 05:58 BUT THISYOUNG BOY HE WAS A REALLY GOOD DRUMMER AND HE 06:01 WAS INVITED TO PLAY WITH OTHER MUSICIANS AND HE WAS 06:05 INVITED EVEN AS A SMALL YOUNG MAN, OK, HERE YOUNG 06:08 BOY HE WAS ABLE -WAS GOING TO PLAY AT THIS AH, WITH 06:12 THIS BAND AND SO HE WENT AND WHILE HE WAS THERE 06:18 WAITING TO PLAY, HIS HAND STARTED GOING AND HE 06:23 COULDN'T GET IT TO STOP AND IT JUST KEPT BEATING 06:26 THE DRUM- IMAGINARY DRUM AND HE COULDN'T GET IT TO 06:30 STOP AND HE TRIED TO HOLD IT AND IT JUST KEPT GOING. 06:33 YES. 06:34 AND HE RAN OUT OF THERE AND HE RAN HOME AND HE 06:38 SAYS, "LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENING TO ME." 06:40 AND HIS MOM STARTED TO PRAY FOR HIM AND IT WAS 06:43 DEMONS. 06:45 IT WAS DEMONS. 06:46 HE COULD NOT STOP BEATING THE DRUM. 06:49 THIS WAS HIS TESTIMONY. 06:51 AND HIS MOTHER CONTINUED TO PRAY FOR HIM AND PRAY 06:54 FOR HIM AND SLOWLY HIS HAND RELAXED AND HE KNEW 07:00 THEN HIS MOTHER HAD BEEN PRAYING FOR HIM BUT HE 07:04 KNEW THAT HE MUST USE HIS MUSICAL GIFT THAT GOD HAD 07:07 GIVEN HIM FOR THE LORD. 07:09 FOR THE LORD, RIGHT, THAT'S RIGHT. 07:11 OK. 07:12 ISN'T THAT AN EXCITING STORY? 07:13 SO THAT'S WHEN HE- ITS KIND OF LIKE THAT'S WHEN 07:16 HE MET THE POWER OF GOD IN HIS LIFE. 07:18 THAT'S RIGHT. 07:18 THAT'S RIGHT. 07:19 HIS NEED OF GOD'S POWER, ANSWER TO PRAYER NOW THAT 07:23 BECAME PART OF HIS STORY AND HIS COMMITMENT. 07:26 THAT'S RIGHT. 07:26 THAT'S RIGHT. 07:27 IT'S INTERESTING IN INDIA THEY HAVE A PERSONAL 07:30 TESTIMONY BUT SOMETIMES THEY ARE ASHAMED OF WHAT 07:33 THEY WERE LIKE. 07:35 OK. 07:36 AND THEY ARE NOT WANTING PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT THIS 07:37 PART OF THEIR LIFE. 07:38 THERE'S A-I HAVE FOUND OUT THAT TO BE A LITTLE TRUE 07:41 IN AMERICA TOO. 07:42 WE DON'T REALLY WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHAT WE 07:44 WERE LIKE BEFORE WE MET JESUS BECAUSE OFTEN TIMES 07:49 IT IS MORE BEHAVIORAL THAN IT IS AN ATTITUDE. 07:52 FOR ME, WHEN I THINK ABOUT MY OWN PERSONAL TESTIMONY 07:56 IT WAS MY-IT WAS MY HEART, MY ATTITUDE AND HOW JESUS 08:02 SET ME FREE FROM THAT BONDAGE. 08:04 IT IS JUST WONDERFUL. 08:05 DO YOU FIND PEOPLE IN AMERICA ARE UNWILLING OR 08:08 NERVOUS ABOUT HEARING SOMEBODY'S TESTIMONY? 08:11 NO, I HAVEN'T FOUND THAT BUT I FOUND THAT THERE 08:14 WERE IN INDIA WHEN WE WOULD ASK SOMEONE TO STAND 08:17 UP AND TELL IT AFTER THEY HAD WRITTEN IT-THEY WOULD 08:20 TELL IT AMONG THEMSELVES BUT TO STAND UP IN FRONT 08:23 AND TELL ABOUT THEIR PERSONAL TESTIMONY -SOME 08:26 OF THEM WERE JUST A LITTLE HESITANT TO DO THAT 08:28 BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT THEY 08:31 HAD BEEN THAT BAD. 08:34 YOU KNOW, THAT IS A POWERFUL THING. 08:37 IT IS. 08:38 TO ADMIT THAT THERE WAS A DARK TIME, A DARK SPACE IN 08:41 ONE'S LIFE. 08:42 THAT'S RIGHT. 08:42 AND THAT THE LIGHT CAME IN. 08:44 THAT'S NOT ALWAYS EASY. 08:46 THAT'S RIGHT. 08:47 WE I THINK MANY OF US HAVE REHEARSED MANY A TIMES HOW 08:50 TO LOOK BETTER THAN WE ACTUALLY FEEL. 08:52 THAT'S CORRECT. 08:53 THAT'S CORRECT. 08:54 WELL, WHEN WE HAD THIS CURRICULUM GIVEN TO US WE 08:59 HAVE A SMALL LITTLE CHURCH THAT WE GO TO AND SO WE 09:03 ASKED PERMISSION FROM OUR PASTOR IF WE COULD 09:05 PRACTICE ON OUR CHURCH FAMILY. 09:07 YOUR TALKING LOCALLY HERE IN AMERICA. 09:09 YES, HERE IN AMERICA SO WE PRACTISED BEFORE WE WENT 09:13 TO INDIA SO WE WERE YOU KNOW SOMEWHAT PREPARED TO 09:15 GO AND IT WAS VERY WONDERFUL. 09:18 HOW LONG AGO AS WE ARE TAPING THIS, HOW LONG AGO 09:21 WERE YOU INTRODUCED TO THIS NEW PARADIGM? 09:25 WAS THAT FIVE MONTHS AGO? 09:26 A YEAR AGO? 09:27 DECEMBER. 09:28 DECEMBER? 09:28 SO JUST BEFORE WE LEFT. 09:30 WE SPENT JANUARY AND FEBRUARY OF THIS YEAR IN 09:33 INDIA. 09:34 OK. 09:35 AND IT WAS JUST TWO OR THREE WEEKS BEFORE WE 09:36 LEFT, OK, THAT BEV THOMPSON CAME AND SHARED 09:39 WITH US HER-SHE HAD JUST COME FROM INDIA, OK, AND 09:42 SHE SHARED WITH US SOME OF THESE NEW THOUGHTS AND 09:45 IDEAS AND AT FIRST I WAS A LITTLE RELUCTANT TO ACCEPT 09:47 THEM BUT AS WE GOT INTO IT AND AS WE SHARED THEM, THE 09:51 BIBLE WORKERS WERE EXCITED AND ONE OF THE FIRST 09:54 THINGS WE DID WAS THE MESSAGE IS: DO YOU HAVE A 09:58 TESTIMONY? 09:59 AND THAT'S IMPORTANT. 10:01 YOU KNOW, WE REALIZE THAT IT'S MORE THAN JUST HAVING 10:06 HEAD KNOWLEDGE, RIGHT, IT'S A HEART ISSUE. 10:08 RIGHT. 10:09 AND WE COVERED THE TEN POINTS ACTUALLY IN STEPS 10:12 TO CHRIST ON THE TEST OF FELLOWSHIP. 10:15 OK. 10:16 IT'S NOT A MATTER OF HAVING AN UNDERSTANDING OF 10:18 ALL OF OUR DOCTRINES, IT'S A MATTER OF SUBMISSION TO 10:21 THE LORD IN YOUR LIFE AND HAVING AN EXPERIENCE THAT 10:24 YOU CAN SHARE. 10:25 THAT'S YOUR TESTIMONY. 10:27 YOU KNOW WE ARE COMING DOWN-YOU HAVE A VIDEO THAT 10:30 YOU ARE GOING TO SHARE WITH US IN A FEW MINUTES, 10:32 YES, AND THAT'S ALMOST GOING TO END OUR TME 10:35 TOGETHER BUT WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO ADD TO THAT 10:38 BEFORE WE TURN TO THAT VIDEO STORY? 10:43 BONNIE, YOU SHARE, INTRODUCE-WELL, WE WERE 10:46 REALLY BLESSED BECAUSE WE HAD A YOUNG MAN WHO CALLED 10:49 AND SAID HE WANTED TO GO TO INDIA WITH US -LONGTIME 10:51 FRIENDS. 10:52 OK. 10:53 AND SO, HE IS A VIDEOGRAPHER AND HIS NAME 10:56 AARON RITTENHOUR AND HE WENT WITH US. 10:59 NOW I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT AARON, IT WAS-SATAN 11:03 WAS REALLY AFTER HIM. 11:05 OH. 11:06 HE HAD SOME REAL CHALLENGES WITH HEALTH 11:08 ISSUES. 11:09 OK. 11:10 AND HE ALSO HAD A CHALLENGE GETTING OUT OF 11:11 THE COUNTRY BUT GOD WAS MORE POWERFUL AND AARON 11:16 WAS ANNOINTED. 11:17 HE HAD TO BE ANNOINTED THERE -IT WAS A TERRIBLE 11:21 EXPERIENCE. 11:23 SO, ANYWAY THE VIDEO IS A TOUCH OR AARON RITTENHOUR. 11:26 OK. 11:27 YOU'LL BE BLESSED OF HIS EXPERIENCE. 11:29 OK OF GOING WITH US. 11:30 SO, GETTING OUT OF THE COUNTRY SOMETIMES IS A 11:32 MATTER OF PAPERWORK, IS THAT WHAT YOU ARE 11:34 DESCRIBING? 11:34 THAT'S CORRECT. 11:36 YES, IN THIS DAY AND AGE TRAVEL HAS BECOME WHAT'S 11:40 THE WORD? 11:40 FRAUGHT? 11:42 THERE IS ALL KINDS OF UNKNOWNS FOR WHAT CAN 11:45 HAPPEN. 11:46 WELL, I'M GRATEFUL THAT WAS OVERCOME. 11:48 YOU WERE ABLE TO GO TOGETHER. 11:50 HIS FIRST TIME OVERSEAS? 11:51 YES, YES AND YOU WERE THE GUIDES AND INTRODUCERS TO 11:55 ALL THIS. 11:56 RIGHT. 11:57 WE HAD A BLESSED TIME. 11:58 IT WAS EXCITING HAVING AARON WITH US. 11:59 HE HAD YOUNG BLOOD AND WE HAD A LOT OF FUN TOGETHER. 12:04 SO, WHEN YOU LEAVE AMERICA YOU TRAVEL BY PLANE, 12:09 OBVIOUSLY. 12:10 RIGHT. 12:11 NO SLOWBOAT TO CHINA ANYMORE, SO YOU FLY OFF DO 12:14 YOU GO ACROSS THE PACIFIC? 12:16 DO YOU GO ACROSS AMERICA AND THROUGH EUROPE? 12:18 WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE WAY TO GET TO INDIA? 12:20 GOING EAST. 12:22 WE'VE GONE BOTH WAYS OVER THE 17 YEARS BUT WE FOUND 12:25 GOING EAST AND WE USUALLY GO UP TO DUBAI AND THEN 12:28 DOWN FROM DUBAI, OK. 12:30 TO HYDERABAD. 12:32 DUBAI IS A MAJOR PORT I UNDERSTAND. 12:34 EMIRATES. 12:35 YES. 12:36 OK. 12:37 WELL HERE WE ARE COMING UP AND AGAIN I WANT TO APPEAL 12:39 TO YOU TO THINK ABOUT YOUR INVOLVEMENT. 12:42 WE'RE GOING TO START THIS VIDEO HERE IN JUST A FEW 12:45 SECONDS. 12:46 IT WILL TAKEYOU TO ORISSA AND ANDHRA PRADESH INDIA. 12:51 LET'S SEE WHAT WE CAN FIND THERE. 12:53 LET'S SEE IF WE CAN ROLL IT NOW. 13:25 IT'S CHEAPER TO BUY IT HERE THAN OTHER PLACES. 14:00 DRINKING COCONUT HERE IN INDIA, DEL. 14:23 THIS IS LIKE COSTCO IN AMERICA. 14:47 OH YES. 14:55 THAT GUY RIGHT THERE THAT'S ME. 15:20 I WAS RECENTLY GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO TO INDIA 15:24 FOR TWO MONTHS. 15:25 NOW FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DIDN'T PAY ATTENTION IN 15:27 SCHOOL, THAT'S THE UNITED STATES AND THAT'S INDIA. 15:33 UNITED STATES AND THERE IS INDIA. 15:37 THIS IS DEL AND BONNIE ORSER. 15:39 NOW I'VE KNOWN DEL AND BONNIE MUCH LONGER THAN 15:42 I'VE KNOWN MOST PEOPLE. 15:43 THIS IS A PICTURE OF MY PARENTS THE DAY THEY GOT 15:47 MARRIED AND THAT, THAT'S DEL AND BONNIE'S BACK 15:49 YARD. 15:50 IF YOU SPEND TIME IN GOD'S WORD AND IN PRAYER, YOU 15:54 WILL HAVE A STORY TO TELL ABOUT WHAT JESUS HAS DONE 15:58 FOR YOU. 15:59 NOW DEL AND BONNIE ARE NO STRANGERS TO INDIA. 16:01 THEY'VE BEEN DOING THE LORD'S WORK IN INDIA FOR 16:05 THE PAST SEVENTEEN YEARS. 16:07 THEY HAVE HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF BEING 16:10 INVOLVED WITH THE PLANTING OF MANY CHURCHES IN INDIA 16:15 AND THEY'VE BEEN SUCH AN INSPIRATION TO THE 16:18 CHRISTIAN BELIEVERS. 16:19 NOW FOR THE LAST FOUR YEARS, DEL AND BONNIE HAVE 16:24 BEEN WORKING WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH AS REGIONAL 16:27 DIRECTORS FOR REGION 11 IN INDIA. 16:30 NOW IF YOU WERE TO LOOK AT A MAP OF INDIA, THESE ARE 16:33 THE PLACES THAT THEY ARE MOSTLY WORKING. 16:36 ODISHA AND PARTS OF ANDHRA PRADESH. 16:39 GOOD AFTERNOON, WE ARE DEL AND BONNIE ORSER 16:41 REPRESENTING GOSPEL OUTREACH IN REGION 11 16:44 WHICH COVERS THREE SECTIONS AND ONE REGION IN 16:49 ANDHRA PRADESH AND ORISSA NOW CALLED ODISHA. 16:53 AND WE ARE HALF WAY AROUND THE WORLD IN OUR -ONE OF 16:56 OUR FAVORITE COUNTRIES -INDIA. 16:58 WE'VE BEEN COMING FOR SEVENTEEN YEARS. 17:01 WE'VE JUST BEEN GOSPEL OUTREACH DIRECTORS FOR 17:03 FOUR YEARS. 17:04 GOSPEL OUTREACH HAS A NEW PARADIGM SHIFT. 17:08 THEY ARE WANTING THEIR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS TO 17:11 NO LONGER BE PASTORS BUT TO BE REACHING THE 17:16 UNREACHED FOR JESUS. 17:17 WE'RE GOING TO CALL THEM TRAINOR TEACHERS AND THEY 17:20 ARE ALL GOING TO SHARE THEIR TESTIMONY AS AN 17:23 ENTERING WEDGE TO SHARE JESUS THROUGHOUT THE 17:26 COUNTRY OF INDIA. 17:27 THIS IS THE VILLAGE OF TODA AND THEY HAVE 180 17:43 MEMBERS HERE. 17:53 WE WILL BE INCORPORATING SOME NEW CURRICULUM AND 17:56 TRAINING THEM TO BE GIVING THEIR OWN TESTIMONY AND 18:01 ADVANCING GOD'S CAUSE IN INDIA. 18:05 MY NAME IS DARNAKA. 18:09 I HAVE BEEN WORKING AS A GOSPEL MISSIONARY FOR 18:11 FOURTEEN YEARS. 18:13 THIS IS MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY. 18:16 WHEN I DIDN'T KNOW JESUS, I WAS A HINDU. 18:19 I WAS A VERY BAD MAN HAVING MANY BAD HABITS. 18:23 I WAS A SMOKER AND A DRINKER. 18:25 ONE DAY I STARTED VOMITING BLOOD. 18:27 I'M AN ELDERLY MAN AND MY FAMILY EXPECTED ME TO DIE 18:31 LONG AGO. 18:32 WHEN I WAS VOMITING, IT SEEMED I HAD VOMITED TWO 18:35 LITERS OF BLOOD. 18:36 MY WIFE AND CHILDREN WERE CRYING FROM CONCERN THEN 18:40 MY UNCLE CAME TO PRAY FOR ME. 18:42 I SCOLDED HIM. 18:44 I SAID, "I DO NOT LIKE JESUS OR THE BIBLE OR 18:46 PRAYER." 18:47 WHEN I WAS ALMOST UNCONSCIOUS AND UNABLE TO 18:51 THINK WELL, I REMEMBERED MY UNCLE. 18:53 THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE CAME TO MY MIND. 18:56 I THOUGHT IF MY UNCLE PRAYS FOR ME I WILL GET 19:00 WELL. 19:01 DISEASE WILL BE GONE FROM ME. 19:02 I WOULD COME OUT OF MY WEAKNESS AND BAD THINGS. 19:07 AT THAT TIME, I REMEMBERED SAYING, "LORD, SEND ME 19:10 SOMEBODY TO PRAY FOR ME." 19:13 "IF I RECEIVE MY HEALTH BACK I WILL SERVE HIM TILL 19:16 THE LAST BREATH OF MY LIFE." 19:18 WHILE I WAS PRAYING, MY UNCLE CAME IN AND WANTED 19:21 TO PRAY FOR ME. 19:22 AFTER HE PRAYED, I WAS HEALED. 19:25 WHILE HE WAS PRAYING, A LIGHT CAME TO ME. 19:28 I RECEIVED EYES AND I COULD SEE AND RECEIVED 19:31 PEACE. 19:32 IMMEDIATELY WHATEVER HINDU GOD I HAD IN MY HOUSE I 19:36 THREW INTO THE TRASH CAN. 19:39 I ACCEPTED JESUS AND HE IS MY WONDERFUL GOD. 19:42 THEN A PASTOR CAME TO CONDUCT MEETINGS AND 19:45 THROUGH HIS MESSAGE I GAVE MY LIFE TO JESUS AND I WAS 19:49 BAPTIZED. 19:50 FROM THAT TIME FORWARD I AM WORKING FOR THE LORD. 19:53 THIS IS MY TESTIMONY. 19:58 YOU KNOW, GOD HAS GIVEN US INSTRUCTION THAT WE WILL 20:00 RECEIVE POWER WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES UPON US 20:03 TO GIVE OUR TESTIMONY. 20:04 THE LAST WORDS OF JESUS IN FACT. 20:07 WE HAVE A WONDERFUL BIBLE WORKER HERE. 20:10 GOSPEL OUTREACH BIBLE WORKER AND THIS IS HIS 20:13 CONGREGATION AND HIS CHURCH AND WE HAVE BEEN SO 20:16 BLESSED TO BE HERE AND THEIR WARM WELCOME IN 20:19 DANCE AND SONG. 20:56 OH MY, HERE COME THE FLOWERS AND THE WATER. 21:37 MY NAME IS NUASTRIA I HAVE BEEN WORKING HERE FOR THE 21:40 LAST TWELVE YEARS. 21:41 I WORK AS A GO VOLUNTEER. 21:43 I HAVE TWO CHURCHES UNDER MY CARE. 21:46 GOD HAS BEEN VERY KIND TO ME IN TAKING CARE OF ME. 21:49 BEFORE I CAME TO THE ADVENTIST FAITH, MY FAMILY 21:52 HAD A PLOT OF LAND. 21:54 IT WAS THE SEASON OF TRANSPLANTING RICE 21:56 PADDIES. 21:57 MY FATHER AND I HAD PLANTED PADDY IN THIS PLOT 22:00 THEN SUDDENLY ONE MORNING WHEN WE WENT OUT TO SEE 22:03 THE FIELD, THE CROP WHICH WAS ABOUT TO BLOOM HAD 22:06 TURNED PALE YELLOW AND APPEARED COMPLETELY DRY. 22:09 IF WE HAD THROWN ONE MATCHSTICK, THE WHOLE CROP 22:12 WOULD HAVE BURNED UP IN MINUTES. 22:14 MY FATHER AND I WANTED TO TRY OUR NEW-FOUND 22:16 ADVENTIST FAITH. 22:18 WE WENT TO THE FIELD AND FASTED AND PRAYED FOR 22:21 THREE DAYS. 22:22 SURELY THE LORD HEARD OUR PRAYER AND THE WHOLE FIELD 22:25 ONCE AGAIN TURNED GREEN. 22:27 IN FACT, THAT YEAR WE GOT DOUBLE THE AMOUNT OF CROP. 22:31 GOD BLESSED US. 22:35 THE TODA CHURCH STARTED IN 1978 IN THE REMOTE VILLAGE 22:39 OF TODA WHICH IS SURROUNDED BY MOUNTAINS 22:42 AND MINES. 22:43 THE COMMUNICATION HERE IS VERY BAD AND THE AREA IS 22:46 FULL OF DUST AND UNEVEN ROADS. 22:49 I HAVE BEEN WORKING HERE FOR THE LAST SEVENTEEN 22:51 YEARS. 22:52 EVERY SABBATH AFTER THE DIVINE SERVICE, I VISIT 22:55 EVERY HOME IN THE WHOLE AREA AND THROUGH THE NEXT 22:57 FIVE DAYS I VISIT THE HOMES OF THE BELIEVERS AND 23:01 NONBELIEVERS. 23:02 I VISIT HOMES AND TALK TO THEM ABOUT THEIR FAMILY 23:04 AND CHILDREN. 23:06 I ALSO ASK THEM IF I CAN PRAY WITH THEM. 23:09 ONCE THEY ARE OPEN TO MY PRAYERS I READ A FEW 23:11 PORTIONS OF SCRIPTURE AND GO TO THE NEXT VILLAGES. 23:14 I CONTINUE VISITING THESE WILLING FAMILIES UNTIL 23:17 THEY TAKE THE LORD AS THEIR SAVIOR. 23:20 DURING ONE OF MY ROUTINE VISITS I CAME ACROSS A 23:22 FAMILY WHO DID NOT HAVE FOOD TO EAT. 23:25 THEY LIVED ON TOP OF A MOUNTAIN. 23:27 MY FRIEND AND I VISITED THIS FAMILY. 23:30 THEY WERE GROWING NARCOTICS. 23:32 AS I EXPLAINED TO THEM ABOUT GOD, TEARS RAN DOWN 23:35 FROM THEIR EYES AND THEY FELT THE NEED OF A SAVIOR. 23:39 NOW, THERE IS ONE NEW ADVENTIST FAMILY IN THIS 23:41 MOUNTAIN VILLAGE OF LOKI. 23:43 I HAVE COMPLETELY DEDICATED MYSELF TO THE 23:45 TASK. 23:47 I LEAVE MY WIFE WHEN I GO FOR LONG DISTANCE JOURNEYS 23:50 MOSTLY BY WALK TO VARIOUS VILLAGES IN THE MOUNTAINS 23:53 AND VALLEYS. 23:54 WE DO HAVE SOME BUSES MOVING ONCE IN A WHILE. 23:57 MOST OF THE TIME THERE IS NO MONEY EVEN FOR FARE BUT 24:00 WHEN THE LORD TELLS ME TO GO TO A PARTICULAR PLACE, 24:04 I MOVE WITH FAITH AND JUST ENOUGH MONEY COMES FOR 24:07 TRAVEL. 24:08 TODAY, I AM A HAPPY MAN BECAUSE THE LORD HAS BEEN 24:10 GRACIOUS TO ME AND HAS GIVEN ME THE PRIVILEGE OF 24:13 WORKING FOR HIM. 24:15 I WILL WORK FOR GOD UNTIL I TAKE MY LAST BREATH. 24:17 I DO NOT HAVE ANYTHING THE WORLD CAN OFFER BUT I HAVE 24:20 THE LORD. 24:24 WHAT A JOY TO BE A PART OF GOD'S EVERLASTING CHURCH, 24:27 MEET WITH THOSE BROTHERS AND SISTERS. 24:30 WE TELL THESE PEOPLE THAT IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT 24:33 COLOR YOUR SKIN IS, HOW RICH OR HOW POOR, WHAT 24:37 CASTE YOU ARE IN WE ARE ALL BROTHERS AND SISTERS 24:41 IN JESUS. 24:42 WHAT A JOY TO BE A PART OF GOD'S EVERLASTING CHURCH 24:47 IN THIS END TIME. 24:49 THE TWO MONTHS THAT I GOT TO SPEND IN INDIA-IT WAS 24:51 SUCH A LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE. 24:52 IT WAS SO INSPIRING TO SEE ALL THE WORK THAT IS 24:57 TAKING PLACE IN INDIA RIGHTNOW. 25:00 YOU KNOW JESUS SAID IN MATTHEW 9:37 THAT THE 25:04 HARVEST IS TRULY PLENTIFUL BUT THE LABORERS ARE FEW. 25:08 JESUS ALSO SAID IN MARK 16:15 GO YE INTO ALL THE 25:13 WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE. 25:17 WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO FURTHER THE COMING OF 25:21 CHRIST TODAY? 25:22 WILL YOU ANSWER GOD'S CALL? 25:25 WILL YOU GO? 25:26 OUR TIME WITH DEL AND BONNIE IS COMING TO AN 25:30 END. 25:31 WASN'T THAT INSPIRING TO SEE ALL THEY WERE DOING 25:33 OVER THERE? 25:35 I THINK THAT IT WAS AN EXCELLENT PIECE OF 25:37 VIDEOGRAPHY. 25:38 ONE THING THAT VIDEO CAN DO IS IT CAN LET YOU HEAR 25:41 ALL THE SOUNDS BUT IT CAN'T LETYOU SMELL ALL THE 25:43 SMELLS. 25:45 BUT WHEN YOU ENCOUNTER THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST AND 25:49 YOU REALIZE JESUS IS TOTALLY UNAFRAID OF THIS 25:53 PLACE AND HE PULLS US TOGETHER. 25:56 HE MAKES US ONE FAMILY, ONE FELLOWSHIP. 25:59 AMEN. 25:59 WOW, WHAT A GIFT THAT IS. 26:02 TEARS ARE SHED WHEN YOU REALIZE THAT THIS PERSON 26:05 MAYBE YOU HAVE NEVER MET BEFORE IS YOUR BROTHER IN 26:09 CHRIST, YOUR SISTER IN CHRIST. 26:11 OH, MY FRIENDS, SOME OF YOU WHO ARE WATCHING THIS 26:14 WILL FIND YOUR WAY TO GO. 26:17 SOME OF YOU WILL BE SPONSORS AND YOU WILL LOOK 26:21 FORWARD TO THAT GREAT DAY OF REUNION WHEN THAT 26:23 HAPPENS. 26:25 EVERYBODY WHO PRAYS TO JESUS CHRIST AND CALLS ON 26:28 HIM CAN HAVE A TESTIMONY-A WITNESS OF WHAT GOD HAS 26:33 DONE IN YOUR LIFE. 26:35 DON'T GIVE UP THAT OPPORTUNITY. 26:37 DON'T THROW IT AWAY. 26:38 COME, FIND A WAY TO GROW. 26:41 REACH OUT HOWEVER YOU CAN. 26:43 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WILL REMIND ALL OF US IS 26:46 THAT JESUS CAN TAKE FISH AND LOAVES AND MULTIPLY 26:50 THEM FAR BEYOND THEIR ORIGINAL VALUE. 27:14 AMEN. 27:37 RIGHT? 27:59 [CLOSING MUSIC]. |
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