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00:34 WELCOME TO ADVENTURERS IN MISSIONS.
00:35 I'M LYNELLE ELLIS AND I'M SO GLAD THAT YOU HAVE 00:37 TUNED IN TODAY. 00:38 WE'RE GOING TO BE HEARING AN EXCITING REPORT FROM 00:41 DEL AND BONNIE ORSER ABOUT WORK IN INDIA. 00:44 AND THEY WILL GIVE US SOME MORE SPECIFICS ABOUT WHAT 00:47 REGION THEY WORK WITH FOR GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:51 SO WELCOME. 00:52 GLAD YOU'RE HERE TODAY. 00:53 THANK YOU. 00:54 AND DO TELL US WHAT IS THE REGION THAT YOU WORK IN 00:56 BECAUSE INDIA IS A VERY BIG PLACE. 00:58 RIGHT. 00:59 WE ARE IN REGION 11 WHICH COVERS TWO UNITS OR 01:04 CONFERENCES, AS WE CALL THEM, IN THE STATE OF 01:07 ANDHRA PRADESH AND THE ENTIRE STATE OF ORISSA. 01:11 AND FOR MY BENEFIT WHAT PART OF INDIA IS THAT? 01:14 IT'S THE SOUTHEAST PART. 01:15 ORISSA IS THE OLD NAME. 01:16 IT'S ODISHA NOW. 01:17 THEY KEEP CHANGING NAMES SO WE NEED TO KEEP UP WITH 01:18 THAT. 01:19 SO YOU'VE BROUGHT ALONG SOME PICTURES, SOME 01:20 STORIES OF WHAT'S HAPPENING THERE SO LET'S 01:21 JUST GET INTO AN UPDATE ABOUT IT. 01:33 OKAY. 01:35 WELL FIRST OF ALL I WANT TO SAY WHAT A BLESSING IT 01:38 IS TO BE A PART OF GOSPEL OUTREACH, PEOPLE WHO TAKE 01:42 SERIOUSLY THE GREAT GOSPEL COMMISSION TO REACH THE 01:46 UNREACHED, SPREADING THE GOSPEL AND ACTUALLY HAVING 01:49 A PART IN HASTENING THE LORD'S RETURN. 01:51 THAT'S EXCITING TO ME. 01:52 WE HAVE BEEN GOING TO INDIA FOR MANY YEARS AND 01:59 IT'S EXCITING TO GO BACK AND WE'VE MADE SO MANY 02:02 FRIENDS THERE. 02:03 WE REALIZE THAT WE CAN HAVE AN INFLUENCE IN THEIR 02:08 LIVES TO USE THEIR LIVES, THEIR TIME AND ASSETS AND 02:11 TALENTS FOR SPREADING THE GOSPEL. 02:15 GETTING INTO OUR PICTURES, WE HAD A KIND OF A 02:19 CHALLENGE IN ONE OF OUR SECTIONS AND WE BEGAN TO 02:24 REALIZE IT WAS VERY SERIOUS AND BEGAN TO 02:27 WONDER HOW IN THE WORLD CAN THE LORD RESOLVE THIS 02:31 PROBLEM AND CHALLENGE AND WE BEGAN TO PRAY ABOUT IT. 02:34 AND WE DIDN'T KNOW HOW THE LORD WAS GOING TO ANSWER 02:39 OUR PRAYERS BUT SUDDENLY A MAN SHOWED UP ON OUR 02:42 DOORSTEP IN OUR HOME NEAR COEUR 'D' ALENE, IDAHO WHO 02:46 WAS AN ANSWER TO OUR PRAYERS BECAUSE HE HAD A 02:49 DESIRE TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL. 02:52 HE HAD GONE TO WILDWOOD IN GEORGIA AND HE IS A PART 02:58 OF THE LIGHT TEAM AND LIGHT STANDS FOR LAY 03:01 INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH TRAINING. 03:06 AND WE REALIZED THAT THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WE 03:09 DESPERATELY NEEDED. 03:10 AND AS WE ALLOWED HIM TO BRING IN HIS STUDENTS THAT 03:15 ARE ON HIS TEAM, WE REALIZED THAT THE FIRST 03:18 THING WE NEED TO DO IN REACHING THE POOR AND THE 03:22 NEEDY THAT TRANSFORMS THE HEART OF THOSE THAT ARE 03:25 INVOLVED. 03:27 SO FIRST OF ALL MEETING THE HEALTH NEEDS THAT THEY 03:30 ARE FACING RIGHT NOW. 03:31 THAT'S RIGHT. 03:32 AND YOU KNOW JESUS, THE LAST THREE PARABLES OR 03:37 STORIES THAT JESUS TOLD ARE VERY IMPORTANT FOR US 03:41 TO UNDERSTAND. 03:42 THE TEN VIRGIN PARABLE, THE TALENTS AND THE LAST 03:49 ONE OF COURSE IS THE DOING UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD 03:54 HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU. 03:55 THE SHEEP AND THE GOATS AND REALIZING THAT AS WE 03:57 REACH OUT TO THE POOR, THE NEEDY, THOSE WHO NEED 04:04 WATER, THE STRANGER AND ALL, THAT WE DO MORE FOR 04:07 OURSELVES AND OUR OWN CHARACTER. 04:10 SO THAT'S WHAT GOD HAD IN MIND FOR OUR SECTION OF 04:14 LEADERSHIP THERE WAS TO REACH OUT TO THOSE. 04:18 SO WE HAD WHAT WE CALL A HEALTH FAIR AND WE HAD THE 04:22 TRAINING. 04:23 THEY CAME AND EIGHT OF THE YOUNG STUDENTS THROUGHOUT 04:28 THE WORLD CAME THROUGH LIGHT MINISTRY AND DID A 04:32 TRAINING FOR OUR BIBLE WORKERS AND THEN THEY IN 04:35 TURN HAD THIS HEALTH FAIR, HEALTH EXPO AT THE END 04:40 WHERE THE VILLAGE CAME. 04:44 SO YOUR WORKERS WHO WERE ALREADY IN INDIA THEN WERE 04:48 HOLDING THE HEALTH FAIR AFTER THEY HAD BEEN 04:51 TRAINED BY THE OTHER PEOPLE FROM THE LIGHT? 04:52 THAT'S RIGHT. 04:53 OKAY. 04:54 AND WE DO HAVE SOME PICTURES ABOUT THAT. 04:57 THIS PARTICULAR PICTURE IS OF THE LEADERSHIP AND WE 05:01 HAD, THIS WASN'T REALLY THE SECTION WHERE WE HAD 05:03 THE CHALLENGE BUT WE ARE HOPING TO HAVE LIGHT 05:07 MINISTRY COME TO EACH ONE OF OUR CONFERENCES OR 05:10 UNITS, AND WE ARE IN OUR THIRD YEAR FOR USING THE 05:14 LIGHT TEAM. 05:16 AND SO THIS IS THE MEETING WITH OUR LEADERSHIP. 05:19 IN NORTH ROYALASEEMA. 05:20 OKAY. 05:21 AND THIS IS THEM TEACHING OUR BIBLE WORKERS, THIS 05:25 PICTURE IS. 05:27 IT WAS WONDERFUL, SO WELL RECEIVED. 05:29 NOW HOW MANY BIBLE WORKERS DO YOU HAVE IN THAT AREA? 05:32 WE HAVE 147 AT THE PRESENT TIME. 05:35 OKAY. 05:36 SO THEY WERE AT LEAST MOSTLY GATHERED THERE OR 05:38 MAYBE ALL OF THEM? 05:39 YES, YES. 05:40 THEY WERE ALL THERE. 05:41 ONLY FOR A SECTION. 05:41 IT WAS ONLY A SECTION. 05:43 OKAY SO JUST FOR THIS SECTION. 05:44 THAT'S CORRECT. 05:45 SO ABOUT HOW MANY? 05:46 AROUND 50. 05:46 ABOUT 50 AT THIS TRAINING. 05:48 OKAY. 05:50 THIS WAS THE LEADER. 05:52 SOME OF THE LEADERS OF THE LIGHT TEAM. 05:55 WHAT A BLESSING THEY WERE. 05:59 THIS ACTUALLY WAS A SHOT THAT WAS TAKEN OUT FROM 06:01 THE VIDEO SO I DIDN'T GET ALL THE HEADS RIGHT BUT. 06:06 THAT'S OKAY. 06:09 YOU DON'T HAVE TO GET THE HEAD ROOM PERFECT ON EVERY 06:10 PICTURE. 06:12 THEY ARE SINGING A SONG IN THE MORNING WORSHIP. 06:14 IT WAS VERY VERY NICE. 06:15 VERY VERY DEDICATED YOUNG PEOPLE WHO WANT TO USE 06:19 THEIR LIVES TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 06:21 HERE IS SOME OF THE TRAINING THAT THEY DID. 06:24 THEY ARE GIVING A FEVER TREATMENT HERE, HOT AND 06:27 COLD FOMENTATIONS. 06:28 YES. 06:29 AND HERE IT IS CONTINUING. 06:31 THE BIBLE WORKERS REALLY ENJOYED IT. 06:35 NOW IN THE AFTERNOONS THEY WOULD GO TO THE COMMUNITY. 06:41 ALL OF OUR BIBLE WORKERS WOULD GO TO THE COMMUNITY 06:43 AND FIND OUT IF THERE WERE NEEDS IN THE COMMUNITY AND 06:47 THEN THEY WOULD INVITE THEM TO THE HEALTH FAIR 06:51 THAT THEY HAD ON FRIDAY. 06:52 OH OKAY. 06:53 RIGHT WHILE THE TRAINERS WERE STILL THERE OR AFTER 06:56 THEY LEFT? 06:57 YES, WHILE THE TRAINERS WERE STILL THERE. 06:58 YES, SO THEY COULD BE CRITIQUED. 07:01 THEIR PRACTICING. 07:02 YES THEY ARE. 07:05 AND THESE PICTURES ARE OF THE PEOPLE FROM THE 07:08 COMMUNITY COMING. 07:09 AND THEY DID COME. 07:10 THAT'S A GOOD TURNOUT. 07:11 YES LOTS OF PEOPLE CAME SO THAT WAS REALLY NICE. 07:15 OF COURSE THEY COVERED THE EIGHT NATURAL LAWS OF 07:17 HEALTH AND WE ALL KNOW WHAT THOSE ARE. 07:20 DON'T MAKE ME RECITE THEM RIGHT NOW. 07:24 IT WAS GREAT. 07:25 YOU CAN SEE THE TURNOUT HERE. 07:26 AND THEN AT THE END OF COURSE THEY PRAYED WITH 07:30 EACH PERSON THAT CAME, AND IT WAS A VERY MEANINGFUL 07:35 EXPERIENCE. 07:36 TRUST IN DIVINE POWER IS THE LAST ONE OF COURSE. 07:41 AND I HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO PRAY FOR MANY OF THE 07:43 PEOPLE THAT CAME THROUGH. 07:46 THEY WENT THROUGH, FIRST OF ALL WE ZEROED IN ON WHY 07:49 THEY WERE THERE TO FIND OUT SOME OF THE PROBLEMS 07:53 AND CHALLENGES. 07:54 AND WE HAD A DOCTOR FROM THE COMMUNITY THAT CAME 07:59 AND ANALYZED WHICH WAS REALLY A BENEFIT. 08:03 AND THERE WAS GREAT SUPPORT FROM THE 08:05 COMMUNITY. 08:06 THE BUSINESSES IN TOWN IN THE CITY OF MENDEL CAME 08:09 AND THERE WAS SUPPORT FINANCIALLY AS WELL. 08:14 AND THERE WERE MEDICAL DOCTORS WHO CAME ALSO FROM 08:20 THE COMMUNITY AND SO IT GAVE THE PRESENCE OF THE 08:24 INDIAN PEOPLE, THEIR PEOPLE. 08:26 AND THEY TOOK BLOOD PRESSURE AND THEY DREW 08:31 BLOOD AND THEY, YOU KNOW, TALKED TO PEOPLE ABOUT 08:34 THEIR HEALTH ISSUES. 08:35 IT WAS VERY REWARDING. 08:37 THIS LAST PICTURE HERE IS OF THE DOCTORS THAT WERE 08:42 MEETING WITH THE PEOPLE FROM THE COMMUNITY. 08:45 SO WE HAD A REALLY GOOD RESPONSE FROM THAT. 08:50 WE'RE KIND OF CHANGING NOW. 08:53 THIS IS ACTUALLY ONE OF OUR BIBLE WORKER'S HOMES 08:58 THAT WE REALIZED NEEDED A HOME. 09:02 HE HAD FOUR CHILDREN I BELIEVE AND HE ALSO WAS A 09:08 CRIPPLE. 09:09 SO WE WERE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO HAVE FUNDS 09:12 ENOUGH TO BUILD HIM A HOME WHICH WAS REALLY EXCITING. 09:15 HE HAD POLIO AND A VERY EFFECTIVE BIBLE WORKER. 09:19 AND AS YOU SEE HIS HOME WAS VERY VERY HUMBLE. 09:25 THERE'S ANOTHER PICTURE THAT SHOWS THE WAY THEY 09:29 WERE EATING THEIR MEALS OUT THERE, THE OPEN 09:32 KETTLES. 09:34 SO WE WERE REALLY BLESSED THAT WE WERE ABLE TO BUILD 09:38 HIM A HOME. 09:39 THEY ALREADY OWNED THE PROPERTY FOR THE HOME SO 09:42 WE DIDN'T HAVE TO PURCHASE PROPERTY FOR THEM WHICH WE 09:45 WOULD NOT DO. 09:46 BUT WITH THEM NEEDING A HOME ON THEIR OWN PROPERTY 09:49 IT WAS REALLY A BLESSING. 09:51 AND IT SPOKE TO THE VILLAGE BECAUSE YOU CAME 09:54 AND HELPED, BECAUSE THEY WERE LIVING IN SUCH A POOR 09:58 POOR SITUATION. 10:00 OH MY. 10:01 IT WAS, I MEAN YOU JUST CAN HARDLY BELIEVE THAT 10:03 EVEN ANIMALS COULD LIVE LIKE THAT. 10:06 BUT HE WAS LIVING LIKE THAT AND WHAT A WONDERFUL 10:08 BIBLE WORKER. 10:09 WE LIKE TO APPEAL TO THE HEARTS OF OUR VIEWERS SO 10:12 JUST IMAGINE WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE TO LIVE IN 10:16 CONDITIONS LIKE THIS. 10:17 GENERALLY YOU HAVE TO GO OUT AND FIND YOUR WOOD AND 10:21 HEAT YOUR POT OF RICE IN THE MORNING. 10:23 AND ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU HAVE CHILDREN TO TAKE CARE 10:26 OF AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF JUST MAINTAINING THAT 10:30 HOUSEHOLD. 10:31 SO IT WAS JUST A GREAT JOY TO BUILD THEM A HOME. 10:33 THIS IS ACTUALLY A PICTURE OF THE HOME THAT WAS 10:34 BUILT. 10:35 THE FRONT. 10:36 THERE HAD TO BE SOME MODIFICATIONS BECAUSE THE 10:37 STAIRS DIDN'T ALLOW FOR TIMOTHY TO BE ABLE TO GET 10:38 UP WITH HIS CRUTCHES. 10:39 YOU'LL SEE A PICTURE OF ALL OF US TOGETHER AT THE 10:40 DEDICATION OF THE HOME. 10:41 SO THERE WERE STILL SOME THINGS THAT NEEDED TO BE 10:42 FINISHED BUT THEY WERE VERY EXCITED TO BE ABLE TO 10:44 GET INTO THEIR NEW HOME. 10:44 YES. 10:45 IT'S A TWO-ROOM HOME AND WE WERE ABLE TO DEDICATE 10:46 IT WHILE WE WERE THERE AND IT WAS JUST A VERY 10:48 EXCITING TIME. 10:49 IT LOOKS NICE AND SUCH A CHANGE FOR THEM, HUGE 10:50 CHANGE FOR THEM. 10:51 NOW THIS IS A PICTURE OF ALL OF US TOGETHER AND 10:52 TIMOTHY. 10:53 YOU'LL SEE HIM WITH HIS HOME MADE CRUTCHES THERE. 10:54 IT'S JUST AMAZING HOW THEY GET BY WITH WHAT THEY HAVE 10:55 TO WORK WITH. 10:57 IT'S JUST AN AMAZING THING. 10:59 BUT IT WAS SO TOUCHING BECAUSE WHILE WE WERE 11:05 THERE AND WE WERE DEDICATING THE HOME HE HAD 11:08 TEARS RUNNING DOWN HIS EYES AND OF COURSE THEY 11:15 HAD A BIG FEAST AND A BIG HOOPLA WE WOULD CALL IT. 11:27 BUT THEY HAD TO PUT OUR NAMES ON THE FRONT OF THE 11:32 HOUSE WHICH WE DIDN'T WANT THAT AT ALL. 11:37 BUT ANYWAY THAT'S HOW THEY DO IT IN INDIA. 11:43 YES IT IS. 11:45 I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING BECAUSE MANY YEARS 11:50 AGO MY HUSBAND AND I GAVE A VERY MEAGER SUM REALLY. 11:57 I MEAN WE DIDN'T HAVE A LOT. 11:59 WE WERE JUST NEWLY MARRIED BUT WE GAVE A LITTLE BIT 12:02 TO START A SCHOOL IN NORTHERN INDIA AND WE WERE 12:05 NEVER EXPECTING IT BUT THAT SCHOOL HAD OUR NAME 12:06 ACROSS THE FRONT OF IT. 12:08 YOU KNOW IN BIG LETTERS FOR MANY YEARS UNTIL THEY 12:08 HAD TO CLOSE IT DUE TO SOME POLITICAL UNREST. 12:10 SO I UNDERSTAND THE TRADITION WHETHER YOU WANT 12:11 IT OR NOT. 12:12 IT'S ALWAYS WONDERFUL TO HELP THOSE PEOPLE. 12:13 IT IS JUST A VERY VERY REWARDING EXPERIENCE FOR 12:29 US. 12:33 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DO, ANOTHER THING IS THAT 12:36 WE INTERVIEW ALL OF OUR BIBLE WORKERS AND GET TO 12:39 KNOW THEM PERSONALLY. 12:41 WHILE YOU'RE THERE VISITING? 12:41 RIGHT. 12:43 AND ONE OF THE THINGS MANY OF THEM NEED ARE BICYCLES 12:46 AND MODES OF TRANSPORTATION. 12:48 SO THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DID WHILE 12:50 WE WERE THERE WAS TO PURCHASE BICYCLES FOR MANY 12:51 OF THE WORKERS WHO ARE NOT EVEN AVAILABLE TO PUBLIC 12:52 TRANSPORTATION. 12:53 AND MANY ARE WALKING SO THAT WAS A REAL JOY AND SO 12:54 THAT'S WHAT THIS PICTURE IS SHOWING HERE. 12:56 WE DID 24 BICYCLES AND DEL AND I GOT TO GO TO THE 12:57 LOCAL BICYCLE SHOP AND IT WAS, THEY COULD HARDLY 12:58 BELIEVE WE WERE BUYING 24 BICYCLES. 13:00 IT WAS SO MUCH FUN. 13:01 THEN THEY HAD A MAN WHO SAID I'LL WORK HARD TO GET 13:02 THESE BICYCLES ALL READY AND THEY DID. 13:03 THEY DELIVERED THEM ON TIME AND IT WAS A REALLY, 13:14 IT WAS A REALLY FUN EXPERIENCE. 13:16 BUT OUR BIBLE WORKERS WERE SO THRILLED AND 13:20 APPRECIATIVE OF THOSE WONDERFUL, THOSE WONDERFUL 13:40 BICYCLES. 13:42 AND THEY ARE BASIC BICYCLES REALLY, BASIC 13:44 BICYCLES BUT THEY WERE VERY HAPPY. 13:46 AND OF COURSE IN MY AMERICAN MIND I SAID I 13:49 WONDER, THEY'VE COME, I WONDER, BECAUSE SOME OF 13:52 THEM COME FROM A LONG WAYS, I WONDERED HOW THEY 13:54 WOULD GET THEIR BICYCLES HOME. 13:56 AND WE WERE TOLD OH THEY'LL WORK IT OUT. 13:59 THEY'LL GET THAT BICYCLE HOME SOME HOW. 14:02 RIDING IT A LONG LONG WAY. 14:04 NO, THEY FIGURED IT OUT. 14:07 THERE WAS A TRUCK THAT CAME THAT CARRIED THEM. 14:10 OH THAT'S GOOD, THAT'S GOOD . 14:12 A GREAT GIFT FOR THEM TO HAVE THE BICYCLE S. 14:14 WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A SHORT BREAK RIGHT NOW AND 14:16 THEN WE'LL BE BACK TO HEAR MORE ABOUT YOUR AREA OF 14:19 INDIA. 14:20 WONDERFUL. 14:21 STAY TUNED, WE HAVE MORE GOOD STORIES COMING UP IN 14:22 JUST A BIT. 14:24 WHY HASN'T JESUS COME? 14:26 JT'S BECAUSE WE HAVE A JOB TO DO, ONE THAT HIS RETURN 14:32 DEPENDS ON. 14:33 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT CHRIST WILL COME AFTER THE 14:36 GOSPEL HAS BEEN PREACHED IN ALL THE WORLD. 14:39 THE WORLD'S POPULATION EXCEEDS 7 BILLION, BUT 3 14:45 BILLION PEOPLE STILL NEED TO HEAR ABOUT JESUS' LOVE. 14:49 NINETY-SEVEN PERCENT OF THE UNREACHED PEOPLE LIVE 14:52 IN THE AREA FROM 10 TO 40 DEGREES NORTH OF THE 14:54 EQUATOR- FROM WEST AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST, INDIA, 15:00 CHINA, TO JAPAN. 15:02 GOSPEL OUTREACH HAS A UNIQUE APPROACH. 15:05 WITH THE SUPPORT OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU, WE SPONSOR LOCAL 15:09 GOSPEL WORKERS IN MORE THAN FIFTY COUNTRIES. 15:13 BECAUSE THEY KNOW THE LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND 15:16 RELIGIONS OF THEIR NEIGHBORS, THEY FACE FEWER 15:18 CHALLENGES THAN FOREIGN MISSIONARIES WOULD. 15:20 TOGETHER WITH YOU, WE FUND MORE THAN TWO THOUSAND 15:26 BIBLE WORKERS, BUT MORE ARE NEEDED. 15:29 LET'S REACH THE UNREACHED WITH THE SAVING POWER OF 15:33 GOD'S LOVE! 15:34 JOIN US! 15:36 SPONSOR A BIBLE WORKER. 15:38 DONATE. 15:39 PRAY. 15:44 WELCOME BACK TO ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS. 15:46 GLAD THAT YOU STAYED TUNED . 15:47 WE ARE HERE WITH DEL AND BONNIE ORSER WHO ARE 15:50 TALKING WITH US ABOUT THE WORK THAT GOSPEL OUTREACH 15:53 IS DOING IN INDIA AND THEIR REGION. 15:55 AND THEY'LL SHARE MORE ABOUT THAT IN JUST A 15:58 MOMENT. 15:59 BUT BEFORE THEY DO THAT I WANTED TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO 16:01 LOOK AT THE INFORMATION ON YOUR SCREEN AS A WAY TO 16:03 CONTACT US BECAUSE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE NEEDS IN 16:06 INDIA. 16:07 VERY SPECIFIC NEEDS THAT WE HAVE THERE. 16:09 WE'VE JUST BEEN TALKING ABOUT BICYCLES AND A HOME 16:11 FOR A WORKER PLUS OF COURSE THE REGULAR SUPPORT 16:13 FOR THESE WORKERS. 16:15 AND SO GOSPEL OUTREACH NEEDS YOUR HELP AND YOUR 16:18 SUPPORT AND YOU CAN BE A PART OF SOMETHING THAT IS 16:20 SO EXCITING THAT'S HAPPENING IN INDIA. 16:23 SO IN ORDER TO DO THAT PLEASE SEND A DONATION, 16:25 CONTACT US AND BE SURE THAT YOU'RE ON THE MAILING 16:28 LIST TO RECEIVE OUR NEWSLETTER SO THAT YOU'RE 16:30 GETTING REGULAR UPDATES IN YOUR HOME ABOUT WHAT'S 16:32 GOING ON AT GOSPEL OUTREACH. 16:34 WE GET THIS AT OUR HOUSE AND WE REALLY ENJOY 16:37 READING IT EACH MONTH WHEN IT COMES. 16:39 ESPECIALLY IT SEEMS OUR FAMILY LIKES TO READ THE 16:41 COVER STORY TOGETHER. 16:42 THE KIDS LOVE IT TOO AND WE ENJOY HEARING ABOUT 16:45 WHAT'S GOING ON AROUND THE WORLD. 16:48 SO LET'S TALK MORE ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON WITH YOUR 16:51 WORKERS IN YOUR REGION. 16:53 LET'S SEE, REMIND ME IT'S 147, 147 WORKERS. 16:58 YOU'VE BEEN TRYING SOME NEW THINGS WITH THEM, SOME 17:02 NEW TRAINING. 17:03 WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THAT? 17:04 WE HAVE. 17:06 WELL GOSPEL OUTREACH HAS GIVEN US A DIRECTIVE AND A 17:11 PARADIGM SHIFT FOR OUR BIBLE WORKERS. 17:14 MANY YEARS AGO THEY BUILT ALL THESE CHURCHES AND 17:18 THEY PLACED OUR BIBLE WORKERS IN AS PASTORS, SO 17:22 TO SPEAK. 17:23 AND NOW WE HAVE FOUND THAT THEY HAVE JUST SETTLED IN 17:28 TO BE A PASTOR INSTEAD OF DOING MISSION. 17:31 THEIR HEART HAS NOT BEEN IN TUNE WITH REACHING OUT 17:35 TO THE UNREACHED FOR JESUS. 17:37 SO OUR TRAINING THIS LAST TIME AND WILL BE THIS TIME 17:40 WHEN WE GO, TRAINING OUR BIBLE WORKERS THROUGH 17:44 THEIR PERSONAL TESTIMONY, AND OF COURSE WE ALL NEED 17:47 TO HAVE A PERSONAL TESTIMONY RIGHT. 17:49 WE DO. 17:50 IF WE DON'T HAVE ONE THERE IS SOMETHING MISSING. 17:51 AND THAT PERSONAL TESTIMONY COVERS, WHAT 17:53 WERE YOU LIKE BEFORE JESUS, WHY DID YOU COME TO 17:57 JESUS, AND WHAT ARE YOU LIKE NOW. 18:00 WHAT HAS JESUS DONE IN YOUR LIFE. 18:02 YES. 18:04 AND I PERSONALLY, MY OWN PERSONAL TESTIMONY OF THIS 18:07 TRAINING CHANGED MY OWN LIFE BECAUSE I WEPT WHEN I 18:09 REALIZED WHAT I HAD COME FROM AND WHAT JESUS HAD 18:10 DONE FOR ME. 18:11 IT'S A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE. 18:12 AND FOR VIEWERS IF THEY HAVE NOT EVALUATED THEIR 18:13 PERSONAL WALK WITH JESUS WHAT WERE THEY LIKE BEFORE 18:16 JESUS. 18:17 AND NOW WHAT IS JESUS DOING IN THEIR LIFE. 18:19 YES. 18:32 AND DEL AND I HAVE FOUND THAT WALKING WITH JESUS IS 18:34 THE MOST EXCITING THING IN THE WORLD. 18:36 AMEN. 18:37 AND WE HAVE HAD LOTS OF PRIVILEGES TO TRAVEL 18:40 DIFFERENT PLACES AND SHARE JESUS AND IT'S BEEN VERY 18:43 VERY EXCITING. 18:45 SO I LIKE THIS HOW YOU'RE SHARING THAT THE TRAINING 18:47 THAT YOU'RE DOING FOR YOUR GOSPEL WORKERS IS 18:49 IMPACTING YOUR OWN LIFE AND I'M SURE THAT IT'S 18:51 IMPACTING THEIRS AS WELL AS THEY THINK THROUGH WHAT 18:54 GOD HAS DONE FOR THEM AND THEIR LIFE STORY AND GET 18:58 READY TO SHARE IT WITH OTHER PEOPLE. 18:59 VERY EXCITING THEIR TESTIMONIES, THEIR 19:02 PERSONAL TESTIMONIES. 19:03 YES. 19:04 ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS WE DO IS ASK DO YOU HAVE A 19:07 TESTIMONY AND THAT'S THE TITLE OF OUR FIRST MESSAGE 19:10 TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY REALIZE THAT THEY ARE 19:13 GOSPEL WORKERS FOR THIS MESSAGE TO HAVE A 19:15 TESTIMONY TO GIVE. 19:17 AND WE COVER TEN BASIC POINTS TO KNOW THAT YOU 19:22 HAVE A TESTIMONY. 19:23 THEN WE ASK THEM TO DEVELOP THEIR OWN 19:25 TESTIMONY, WRITE IT OUT AND SHARE IT WITH EACH 19:28 OTHER AND THEN WE ASK THAT THEY GET UP AND SHARE AND 19:31 WE CRITIQUE IT AND IT'S A REAL BLESSING TO HEAR SO 19:35 MANY OF THESE STORIES AND HOW GOD HAS CHANGED THEIR 19:38 LIVES. 19:38 SO THE IDEA NOW WITH THE PARADIGM SHIFT IS THAT 19:41 THEY WILL SHARE THEIR STORY WITH PEOPLE IN THEIR 19:45 COMMUNITY AS MANY AS THEY CAN? 19:48 THEN WHAT DO THEY DO AFTER THEY SHARE THEIR STORY? 19:50 HOW DO THEY FOLLOW UP WITH THE PERSON WHO HAS HEARD 19:53 IT? 19:54 LET ME BACK UP A LITTLE BIT AND LET YOU KNOW THAT 19:57 BECAUSE THEY HAVE BECOME PASTORS OVER THE YEARS AND 20:01 OPENING AND CLOSING THE DOOR OF THE CHURCH, WE'RE 20:03 ENCOURAGING THEM TO SHARE THEIR TESTIMONY AND GIVE 20:06 THE RESPONSIBILITIES THAT THEY HAVE HAD TO THEIR 20:10 ELDERS IN CHARGE OF THE CHURCH. 20:12 AND THEN THAT RELIEVES THEM OF THE 20:14 RESPONSIBILITIES AND FREES THEIR TIME SO THAT THEY 20:17 ARE ABLE TO GO TO NEARBY VILLAGES AND COMMUNITIES 20:20 AND IN THEIR OWN VILLAGE REALLY TOO AND GIVE THEIR 20:24 TESTIMONY. 20:25 YES. 20:26 AND SO TO FOLLOW THAT UP THERE ARE MANY STORIES IN 20:31 SCRIPTURE OF COURSE THAT THEY CAN USE TO FOLLOW UP 20:34 THEIR OWN TESTIMONY. 20:35 AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE ENCOURAGING THEM TO DO TO 20:37 TAKE PARABLES AND EXPERIENCES THAT ARE IN 20:39 THE BIBLE AND USE THEM FOR THE BASIS OF SPREADING THE 20:42 GOSPEL AND ACTUALLY EVENTUALLY GIVING THE 20:45 DOCTRINES WITH THEIR STORIES AS WELL. 20:47 YES. 20:48 WHEN THEY LEARN TO DO THEIR OWN PERSONAL 20:50 TESTIMONY WE ENCOURAGE THEM TO START WITH THEIR 20:52 FAMILY, AND THEN THE CHURCH FAMILY, THEN THEIR 20:57 COMMUNITY AND THEN THE UNREACHED AND GO INTO 20:59 UNREACHED VILLAGES. 21:01 AND THAT IS WHAT GOSPEL OUTREACH IS ALL ABOUT IS 21:03 REACHING THE UNREACHED FOR JESUS AND NOT JUST 21:06 CONTINUING TO MAINTAIN A CHURCH AND MAINTAIN WITH 21:10 OUR CHRISTIAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS. 21:12 WE ALL SHOULD BECOME DISCIPLES FOR JESUS. 21:16 FINDING SOMEBODY WHO DOESN'T KNOW THIS STORY OR 21:18 AT LEAST DOESN'T KNOW IT VERY WELL. 21:20 RIGHT. 21:21 WE HAVE ASKED THEM OR WE HAVE ENCOURAGED THEM TO 21:27 NOT BAPTIZE UNTIL THE PERSON IS TRAINED TO BE A 21:30 DISCIPLE FOR JESUS. 21:32 OH MY, THINGS CHANGE SLOWLY AND THE CONCEPT OF 21:37 THIS NEW PARADIGM SHIFT HAS BEEN QUITE A CHALLENGE 21:40 FOR THAT CULTURE. 21:42 SO THEN AFTER WE GET THAT PART UNDERSTOOD AND 21:46 PRACTICED THEN WE MOVE INTO BIBLE STORY TELLING . 21:52 AND HOW EXCITING THAT IS. 21:54 WE WANT THE STORIES OF THE BIBLE TO COME SO ALIVE 21:58 THAT YOU FEEL LIKE YOU ARE THERE, YOU CAN SMELL IT, 22:01 YOU CAN TASTE IT, YOU CAN TOUCH IT. 22:04 OH MY, IT IS JUST, AND YOU KEEP THINKING ABOUT NEW 22:08 THINGS. 22:09 WHAT DOES THIS TELL US ABOUT JESUS? 22:11 WHAT DOES THIS TELL US ABOUT ZACCHAEUS? 22:14 WHAT DOES THIS TELL US ABOUT THE CULTURE OF THE 22:17 TIME? 22:18 AND ALL THOSE QUESTIONS YOU ASK ABOUT THESE 22:22 STORIES SO THAT THEY BECOME ALIVE AND IT'S VERY 22:25 INTERACTIVE, VERY INTERACTIVE. 22:27 SO THEY ARE ASKING QUESTIONS OF THE PEOPLE 22:29 THAT THEY ARE TELLING THE STORIES TO AS WELL? 22:30 WE ARE ASKING THE QUESTIONS TO THEM AND SAY 22:33 WE READ AND THEN WE READ IT AGAIN, THEN WE READ IT 22:36 AGAIN, THEN WE ASK QUESTIONS AND WE BREAK UP 22:39 INTO SMALL GROUPS AND DISCUSS IT AND THEN WE 22:42 FROM THE FRONT, WE DISCUSS. 22:44 WE ASK THEM QUESTIONS TO, I MEAN THEY HAVE TO, THEY 22:48 AREN'T REALLY FROM A CULTURE THAT THINK FOR 22:51 THEMSELVES IN REGARDS TO THIS TYPE OF THING ANYWAY. 22:56 THEY ARE TAUGHT . 22:58 THEY ARE USED TO BEING TAUGHT. 23:01 AND FOR THEM TO INTERACT AND DISCOVER RATHER THAN 23:05 BEING TAUGHT. 23:06 REALLY THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. 23:07 LETTING THE HOLY SPIRT GO WITH YOU INTO DISCOVERY. 23:11 VERY EXCITING. 23:12 YES, IT'S ONE THING TO TALK ABOUT THE LORD AND 23:14 RELIGION BUT WE NEED TO INTERNALIZE IT. 23:18 IN FACT THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS IN REVELATION 12:11. 23:21 AND THEY OVERCAME HIM BECAUSE OF THE BLOOD OF 23:24 THE LAMB AND BECAUSE OF THE WORD OF THEIR 23:26 TESTIMONY. 23:27 WE NEED TO REALIZE THAT WE ALL NEED A TESTIMONY OF 23:30 WHAT JESUS CHRIST HAS DONE FOR US PERSONALLY. 23:34 SO THAT'S WHAT WE ENCOURAGE, NOW I WANT TO 23:37 SHARE. 23:38 I DON'T THINK THAT WE JUST HAVE TO DO THIS IN INDIA. 23:40 I WAS GOING TO ASK YOU ABOUT THAT. 23:41 THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DO IN OUR OWN CHURCH, 23:43 IN OUR YOUTH DEPARTMENTS . 23:44 I MEAN THIS IS A VERY VERY EXCITING WAY TO REALLY 23:45 EXPERIENCE THE BIBLE AND WHAT GOD IS TRYING TO 23:52 TEACH US. 23:55 SO IT'S BEEN A REAL BLESSING FOR US. 23:57 I GET SO EXCITED. 23:59 IN FACT THERE YOU HAVE TO WORK THROUGH A TRANSLATOR 24:03 YOU KNOW. 24:03 YOU HAVE TO WORK THROUGH THE TRANSLATOR. 24:05 AND I GET TO GOING, COME ON, CATCH UP. 24:09 --------, YOU GOT TO CATCH UP. 24:12 DID YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I SAID BECAUSE TRANSLATING, 24:15 TRANSLATING IS VERY VERY IMPORTANT THAT IT'S THE 24:18 RIGHT, THE RIGHT WORDS. 24:21 I CAN CERTAINLY SEE HOW THESE PRINCIPLES THAT 24:23 YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THAT YOU'RE TRAINING YOUR 24:25 GOSPEL WORKERS TO DO ARE REALLY THE SAME PRINCIPLE 24:28 OF WHAT WE WANT TO BE DOING IN OUR LIVES HERE, 24:32 NOW, ALL THE TIME. 24:34 THAT'S RIGHT, THAT'S RIGHT. 24:37 SO WE HAVE JUST A COUPLE OF MINUTES LEFT SO I WANT 24:39 TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARTICULATE FOR OUR VIEWERS 24:42 WHAT THE GREATEST NEEDS ARE IN YOUR REGION IN 24:45 INDIA SO THEY KNOW HOW THEY CAN BE HELPFUL. 24:47 WELL I THINK THAT ONE OF THE GREATEST NEEDS IS THAT 24:51 WE FEEL A REAL NEED THAT THE BIBLE WORKER'S WIVES 24:55 ARE LITERATE. 24:56 AND WE HAVE BEEN PUTTING FORTH A PROGRAM FOR 24:58 LITERACY FOR OUR BIBLE WORKER WIVES. 25:03 WE ALSO HAVE BEEN PUTTING INTO A PROGRAM OF HAVING 25:09 OUR BIBLE WORKERS HAVE A BASIC HEALTH KNOWLEDGE IN 25:13 REGARDS NOT FOR THEM, I MEAN EVEN FOR THEM 25:15 PERSONALLY, BUT TO BE ABLE TO HELP OTHERS. 25:18 AND SO THAT'S WHY WE HAVE BROUGHT LIGHT MINISTRIES 25:21 BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT THEY DO . 25:23 THEY TEACH THESE PEOPLE, OUR BIBLE WORKERS, TO BE 25:27 ABLE TO BE A BLESSING TO SOMEONE WHO IS SICK. 25:29 AND WE ALL KNOW THAT'S WHAT JESUS DID. 25:31 THAT WAS HIS ENTERING WEDGE WAS THE HEALTH 25:34 MESSAGE OR HELPING THEM. 25:35 HELPING PEOPLE SURE. 25:36 AND NO MATTER WHAT THEIR RELIGION IS THEY ARE VERY 25:37 APPRECIATIVE OF BEING HELPED HEALTH WISE AND 25:39 PRAYER . 25:46 THOSE ARE VERY VERY IMPORTANT TO THEM. 25:49 ANYTHING YOU WANT TO ADD TO THAT? 25:51 WELL I WOULD JUST SAY WE ALL NEED TO REALIZE THE 25:54 LAST WORDS OF JESUS WERE THAT AFTER HIS DEPARTURE 25:59 HE SAYS YOU SHALL RECEIVE POWER AND BE MY WITNESSES 26:02 BOTH IN JUDEA AND SAMARIA AND JERUSALEM AND THE 26:08 UTTER MOST PARTS OF THE EARTH. 26:10 SO THAT'S ARE GREAT COMMISSION TO RECEIVE THAT 26:13 POWER THAT CAN BE AVAILABLE TO US TO SPREAD 26:15 THE GOSPEL AS A WITNESS OF WHAT JESUS HAS DONE FOR US 26:18 PERSONALLY. 26:19 VERY GOOD. 26:21 WELL I WANT TO THANK BOTH OF YOU FOR BEING HERE, FOR 26:24 SHARING WITH US WHAT'S GOING ON IN INDIA AND THE 26:27 EXCITING NEW TRAINING BOTH WITH HEALTH AND WITH THE 26:30 WAY TO SHARE YOUR TESTIMONY THAT YOU'RE 26:33 DOING WITH YOUR WORKERS THERE. 26:34 YOU'LL BE TRAVELING THERE AGAIN SOON AND WE WILL BE 26:37 LOOKING FORWARD TO HEARING HOW THINGS ARE GOING NOW 26:41 THAT THE WORKERS HAVE SOME NEW TRAINING AND HOW IT'S 26:44 GOING FOR THEM TRYING THOSE NEW SKILLS. 26:46 AND WE WILL BE ALSO ANXIOUS TO SEE, ALTHOUGH 26:49 WE DO COMMUNICATE ALL THE TIME THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. 26:51 YES, SO YOU DO KNOW BUT IT WILL BE EVEN BETTER TO BE 26:53 THERE IN PERSON. 26:54 YES. 26:55 WE HAVE SO MANY FRIENDS WE'VE MADE OVER THE YEARS 26:56 IT'S JUST WONDERFUL AND WE PRAY FOR THEM DAILY. 26:59 WE ENCOURAGE OUR LISTENERS TO PRAY FOR INDIA. 27:05 SO YES, PLEASE PRAY FOR THE WORK THAT IS GOING ON 27:10 IN INDIA. 27:11 PRAY FOR THE PEOPLE THERE, FOR THE GOSPEL OUTREACH 27:13 WORKERS AND ALSO WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO GIVE YOUR 27:15 SUPPORT, YOUR FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO HELP THESE 27:18 WORKERS WITH THE NEEDS THAT THE ORSERS HAVE JUST 27:20 BEEN EXPRESSING TO US HERE. 27:22 AND THANK YOU FOR TUNING IN AND LISTENING AND 27:25 LEARNING AND BEING A PART OF GOSPEL OUTREACH. 28:08 THANK YOU. |
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