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00:32 WELCOME TO "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" AT GOSPEL
00:39 OUTREACH. 00:40 YOU ARE IN FOR A TREAT TODAY. 00:43 YOU HAVE COME, YOU ARE WATCHING AND YOU ARE 00:45 THINKING WHAT IS GOSPEL OUTREACH DO? 00:48 WHAT ARE WE ABOUT? 00:49 I'M GOING TO TAKE YOU TO ANOTHER OF THOSE FAR AWAY 00:53 PLACES. 00:54 FIRST, I WANT TO INTRODUCE CHARLES, GOOD TO SEE YOU. 00:58 IT IS A -THE SHULTZ FAMILY HAS A HISTORY IN SOUTHERN 01:04 ASIA DOES IT NOT? 01:05 THAT'S RIGHT. 01:06 THAT'S RIGHT. 01:07 HOW OLD WERE YOU WHEN YOU FIRST SAW ANY PART OF 01:09 SOUTHERN ASIA? 01:10 FIFTEEN YEARS OF AGE. 01:11 FIFTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND SINCE THEN YOU'VE LEARNED 01:14 THE LANGUAGES TOO. 01:15 WELL, YOU KNOW I KNOW ENOUGH IN NEPALI TO GET 01:19 INTO TROUBLE. 01:20 SPEAKING OF NEPAL, LET'S PUT A MAP ON THE SCREEN 01:24 AND LET YOU SEE EXACTLY WHERE HE IS. 01:28 THERE WE GO. 01:33 THAT'S IT. 01:34 WHAT IS THAT LITTLE JAGGED THING THERE AND THE RED 01:36 THING IN THE CENTER OF IT? 01:38 THAT'S THE FLAG OF NEPAL. 01:40 ONE OF THE RARE FLAGS THAT IS NOT A RECTANGLE. 01:42 NOT A RECTANGLE AND IT'S HAS THE SUN AND THE MOON 01:46 ON IT AND THOSE ARE THE MAJOR DEITIES YOU MIGHT 01:51 SAY, IN NEPAL. 01:53 MAJOR DEITIES? 01:54 YES. 01:55 AND WHAT IS THE MAJOR RELIGION YOU SEE. 01:57 HINDUISM. 01:58 HINDUISM. 01:59 YES, AND THEY PRIDE THEMSELVES ON BEING THE 02:01 ONLY HINDU COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. 02:04 OH MY. 02:05 AND HOW LONG HAVE YOU KNOWN ANYTHING ABOUT 02:08 NEPAL? 02:09 I WENT THERE FIRST IN 1969 AND I AS A PASTOR, BUT 02:14 THEY DIDN'T WANT PASTORS THERE SO UM, I WENT AS A 02:19 HEALTH EDUCATION SPECIALIST AND DEALING 02:23 WITH PUPPETS. 02:25 OH REALLY. 02:26 AND TEACHING HEALTH EDUCATION PRINCIPLES AND 02:29 THAT WAS THE OPENING WEDGE. 02:32 AND LIKE IN ALL CULTURES, EVERYBODY IS ALWAYS 02:35 LEARNING ABOUT HOW TO TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES I BET. 02:37 THAT'S RIGHT, THAT'S FOR SURE. 02:39 WELL, THAT'S AMAZING BUT NOW YOU ARE DONE WITH 02:43 BEING FIFTEEN OR TWENTY YEARS OLD OR WHATEVER. 02:47 YOU ARE RETIRED NOW? 02:48 I'M RETIRED AND THAT MEANS I CAN PUT ALL MY ENERGY 02:52 INTO BEING A DIRECTOR FOR 55 GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS 02:57 IN NEPAL AND THEY ARE DOING WORK THAT I CAN'T DO 03:01 BECAUSE WHEN I GO THERE I'M LIMITED BY MY WHITE 03:03 FACE,YOU KNOW AND I STAND OUT THERE EVERYBODY SAYING 03:08 YOU KNOW AND AS I GET GRAY HAIR I HAVE TO BE CAREFUL 03:14 THAT I DON'T WALK AROUND AT DUSK BECAUSE THE SMALL 03:18 CHILDREN SAY, OH THERE'S A BOOT-THERE'S A GHOST AND 03:21 OH, INTERESTING, AND SOMETIMES THEY REFER TO ME 03:24 AS A ROTTEN MAN OR A DEAD MAN. 03:26 SO, ITS-YOU ARE TOO WHITE. 03:26 I'M TOO WHITE, TOO GHOSTY. 03:27 AND SO, IT IS SO MUCH BETTER TO HAVE NEPALES AS 03:28 GOSPEL OUTREACH AND THEY ARE DOING - THOSE 55 -55 03:29 AND I TELL THEM I SAID, YOU KNOW I WISH I COULD BE 03:31 HERE BUT YOU ARE DOING A MUCH BETTER JOB THAN I 03:34 COULD SO THANK YOU FOR BEING A GOSPEL OUTREACH 03:37 WORKER. 03:38 HOW LONG HAVE WE HAD 55 THERE? 03:39 IT COULDN'T HAVE STARTED THAT BIG. 03:40 NO, YOU KNOW WHEN I LEFT NEPAL IN 1977 WE HAD 15 03:44 SEVENTH -DAY ADVENTISTS. 03:46 WHEN I CAME IN '69 THERE WERE ZERO. 04:09 ZERO. 04:10 THEN THERE WAS 15 AND I CAME BACK IN 2008 THERE 04:15 WAS LIKE 4000 SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS NEPALI PEOPLE. 04:18 GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS ARE PART OF THAT STORY 04:21 AREN'T THEY? 04:22 THEY ARE THE MAIN SEGMENT OF THAT STORY AND WHAT I 04:25 WOULD LIKE TO TALK ABOUT TODAY IS MINGLING WITH 04:28 PEOPLE. 04:29 YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHAT JESUS DID AND THE THINGS 04:32 THAT WE'VE LEARNED FROM THE GOSPEL OUTREACH 04:35 WORKERS ARE THINGS THAT WE CAN DO. 04:38 NOW, HERE IS A COUPLE -SHE IS THE OWNER OF THIS 04:43 LITTLE STORE THAT SELLS CHILDRENS CLOTHES. 04:46 OK. 04:47 AND HER HUSBAND IS A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER AND 04:50 SO, THIS GIVES HIM AN OPPORTUNITY TO FOLLOW UP 04:53 WITH INTERESTS THAT SHE FINDS AS SHE MINGLES WITH 04:56 PEOPLE. 04:57 THEY COME IN AND THEY BUY WARM JACKETS FOR THEIR 04:59 CHILDREN AND THEY HAVE LITERATURE, LITERATURE TO 05:02 GIVE TO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE UM, YOU KNOW, INTERESTED 05:07 AND WE ARE LOOKING FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE SEARCHING, 05:09 WHO ARE HUNGRY FOR TRUTH. 05:11 AH, THESE ARE PUBLICATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN PRINTED IN 05:13 NEPAL AND ON -WHAT IS A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST? 05:17 AND ABOUT THE SEVENTH DAY SABBATH, UH HUH, AND OF 05:19 COURSE, THERE IS THREE. 05:21 THERE IS ONLY THREE COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD 05:22 THAT HONOR SABBATH. 05:24 ISRAEL, ISRAEL FOR SURE, PITCAIRN ISLANDS, OK, AND 05:29 NEPAL. 05:30 NEPAL? 05:31 WHY NEPAL? 05:31 UM, THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. 05:35 YOU KNOW, MAYBE IT'S JEALOUSY WITH INDIA 05:39 BECAUSE THERE IS THIS LITTLE THING YOU KNOW WITH 05:41 INDIA, SURE, INDIA HAS SUNDAY AS IT'S HOLIDAY AND 05:44 SO NEPAL SAYS, WELL, YOU KNOW WE ARE GOING TO PICK 05:47 SATURDAY. 05:48 WELL, NOW THAT'S INTRIGUING. 05:49 SO, FOR TOTALLY NONRELIGIOUS REASONS- YES, 05:52 YES. 05:53 THAT'S A DAY OFF AND KIND OF LIKE THEIR WEEKEND? 05:55 AND IF YOU WANT TO GO TO BANK ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 05:59 YOU BETTER GET THERE BEFORE 2 O'CLOCK IN THE 06:02 AFTERNOON. 06:02 INTERESTING. 06:03 BECAUSE THEY SHUT DOWN. 06:04 EVERYTHING SHUTS DOWN, SCHOOLS ARE SHUT DOWN, 06:06 GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS ARE SHUT DOWN. 06:07 IN THE EARLY DAYS, 1969 NO FLIGHTS IN OR OUT OF THE 06:11 COUNTRY ON SABBATH. 06:13 NOW, THEY GOT MORE LIBERAL. 06:16 OK. 06:17 BUT YOU KNOW, IT IS NOT A PROPITIOUS DAY TO DO 06:19 THINGS. 06:20 I SEE. 06:21 BUT FOR MINGLING WITH PEOPLE IS THERE-IS THAT A 06:26 GOOD DAY FOR THAT? 06:27 UM, THEY LIKE TO MINGLE, YES. 06:30 I MEAN IT IS A DAY OFF AND YOU KNOW THERE IS AN 06:35 OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO BE WITH THEIR FAMILY. 06:38 THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH 06:40 WORKERS TO MINGLE WITH PEOPLE AND TO UM, SHARE 06:47 JESUS. 06:48 UM, HERE IS AN INTERESTING STORY. 06:51 UM, THE MAN IN THE CENTER OF THE PICTURE-HE'S A 06:57 NEPALI AND MANY YEARS AGO HE WAS OUT OF WORK. 07:01 HE HEARD THAT HE COULD GET A JOB IN INDIA. 07:04 SO, HE WENT TO THE NORTHEAST PART OF INDIA TO 07:07 THE STATE MIZORAM AND THERE HE GOT SICK AND HE 07:23 WAS TOLD THAT IF HE WENT TO A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST 07:24 CHURCH AND HAD PRAYER HE WOULD GET BETTER. 07:26 THOSE ARE WONDERFUL RUMORS. 07:26 YES. 07:28 AND SO, HE WENT THERE AND HE MET RAMPINGI AND HE 07:29 LATER-SHE STUDIED WITH HIM AND SHE HAD HER PICTURE 07:30 ROLL AND HE BECAME A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST. 07:31 HE MARRIED HER AND THEN HE TOLD HER OF THE GREAT 07:33 NEED, YOU KNOW, NEPAL NEEDS MISSIONARIES. 07:35 YES. 07:36 AND SO, SHE LEAVES HER COUNTRY, INDIA, NORTHEAST 07:44 PART OF INDIA, NORTHEAST STATES OF INDIA AND SHE 07:46 COMES TO NEPAL AND THEY BOTH ARE GOSPEL OUTREACH 07:50 WORKERS. 07:51 BOTH. 07:52 AND SO, NOW WHAT THEY ARE HOLDING THERE IS A CHART 07:55 OF THE MIZORAM SECTION OF SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS AND 08:00 NOW THIS IS A SECTION. 08:02 A SECTION, NOT A MISSION, I'M SORRY IT IS A 08:05 CONFERENCE NOT A SECTION. 08:06 A CONFERENCE. 08:07 A SECTION IS NOT SELF SUPPORTING A CONFERENCE IS 08:10 LIKE IN OUR STATES, RIGHT. 08:12 A CONFERENCE IS SELF SUPPORTING. 08:14 SO, THEY HAVE SOMEHOW UNDERSTOOD ABOUT 08:16 SYSTEMATIC BENEVOLENCE AND RAMPINGI -SHE IS A REAL GO 08:20 GETTER. 08:21 A LUSHAI LADY, YOU KNOW, AND SHE KNOWS HOW TO ASK 08:24 AND SO SHE GOES BACK NOW. 08:26 SHE IS A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER. 08:28 SHE HAS A HANDFUL OF PEOPLE MEETING IN HER 08:31 HOUSE AND THAT'S WHAT YOU SEE THERE. 08:33 IT ISN'T MUCH. 08:35 OK. 08:36 AND SHE APPROACHES THE BRETHREN OF THE MIZORAM 08:38 CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS AND SHE SAID, 08:41 HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BUILD A CHURCH FOR US HERE 08:43 IN NEPAL? 08:45 SO, THEY ARE ALSO BEING LIKE MISSIONARIES FROM 08:48 MIZORAM. 08:49 YES, YES AND OF COURSE, THE CONFERENCE PRESIDENT 08:51 SAYS, WELL, YOU KNOW, WE'LL GET IN TOUCH WITH 08:53 THE LEADER OF THE WORK IN NEPAL. 08:55 BUT, YOU KNOW RAMPINGI AND HER HUSBAND THEY MINGLE 08:59 WITH PEOPLE AND THEY HAVE THIS LITTLE THING-THEY ARE 09:03 ABLE TO MAKE THESE STOOLS. 09:05 NOW MY WIFE AND I EVERYTIME WE LEAVE NEPAL 09:08 WE ALWAYS BRING BACK A COUPLE OF THESE THINGS, 09:10 OK, AND BUT THIS IS THEIR WAY OF JUST MEETING PEOPLE 09:15 AND ASKING HOW THEY ARE DOING AND YOU KNOW THAT IS 09:18 WHAT THE SABBATH IS ABOUT. 09:19 IT IS ABOUT MINGLING WITH PEOPLE AND THEY DO SUCH A 09:22 NICE JOB, A NICE WAY OF GETTING TO KNOW THEIR 09:26 PEOPLE AROUND THEM AND THEN THEY HAVE TO HAVE 09:30 LITERATURE. 09:31 AND SO, WE SUPPLY THEM WITH NEPALI LITERATURE AND 09:32 SO WHEN YOU MINGLE WITH THEM, WHEN YOU FIND 09:34 SOMEONE WHO REALLY IS INTERESTED IN OUR MESSAGE, 09:35 YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO PUT IN THEIR HANDS. 09:36 YES, WELL THAT'S AN AMAZING SEQUENCE OF EVENTS 09:38 THAT GOD WORKED ON AND IT SOUNDS LIKE THEY HAVE A 09:39 CHURCH WHERE PEOPLE CAN COME NOW. 09:40 THEIR HOME. 09:43 BECAUSE OF MIZORAM- OH, THEIR HOME OK. 09:53 AND YOU KNOW, THIS WHOLE OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE WHO 10:03 ARE VIEWING THIS TO BECOME INVESTORS JUST LIKE THAT 10:08 CONFERENCE DID. 10:09 YOU CAN BECOME PART OF THE CHAIN OF EVENTS THAT 10:13 BRINGS PEOPLE INTO THE JOY OF THE LORD. 10:16 LET'S WATCH THIS PROMOTIONAL RIGHT NOW. 10:19 IT IS SUCH AN INTERESTING ONE. 10:20 YES, JESUS LOVES ME THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO. 10:35 LET'S GO INTO ALL THE WORLD AND SHARE THE GOSPEL 10:52 TO ALL PEOPLE. 10:57 THERE ARE BOUT 3 BILLION PEOPLE IN THE 10/40 WINDOW 11:05 WHO STILL NEED TO HEAR AND KNOW JESUS LOVES THEM. 11:11 TOGETHER WITH THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS LET'S 11:15 FULFILL CHRIST'S COMMISSION. 11:17 YOU CAN PRAY, VOLUNTEER, OR SUPPORT A BIBLE WORKER 11:22 TO SHARE JESUS WITH THEIR NEIGHBORS. 11:26 SO THAT ALL WILL KNOW JESUS LOVES THEM. 11:31 HE DIED FOR THEM AND HE IS COMING SOON. 11:36 ARE YOU ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHOSE HEART HAS 11:39 BEEN TOUCHED BY GOD IN A WAY THAT YOU CAN IMAGINE 11:43 ALL THESE PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOT YET HEARD ABOUT JESUS. 11:47 CAN YOU PUT INTO YOUR THINKING THEIR NEED, THE 11:51 JOY THEY WOULD HAVE TO KNOW THE GOD THAT YOU 11:54 LOVE? 11:56 WE INVITE YOU TO BE A PART OF THAT. 11:58 WE IN VITE YOU TO INVEST IN THAT. 12:01 SOME OF YOU HAVE GOT A CALL TO HELP OUT NOT ONLY 12:05 HERE AT HOME BUT OVER THERE. 12:07 I DON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE BUT LISTEN TO GOD'S VOICE 12:09 ON THAT WILL YOU? 12:11 MAKE GOSPEL OUTREACH PART OF HIS PLAN. 12:14 WELL, CHUCK IT'S -THERE'S MORE STORIES ABOUT 12:18 MINGLING WITH PEOPLE AREN'T THERE? 12:20 MINGLING WITH PEOPLE, YES, AND YOU KNOW I APPRECIATE 12:23 THE SUPPORT THAT OUR VIEWERS ARE GIVING TO 12:26 GOSPEL OUTREACH BECAUSE THIS IS BASICALLY THE MAIN 12:31 WORK-OUR MAIN THRUST IN NEPAL IS OUR GOSPEL 12:35 OUTREACH WORKERS AND THEY HAVE INTERESTING WAYS OF 12:38 WORKING AND FINDING THESE PEOPLE. 12:41 NOW, HERE IS SANTOS AND HE'S COME NOW IS A GOSPEL 12:43 OUTREACH WORKER AND HIS BACKGROUND IS PHARMACY. 12:45 AND HE USES THIS SKILL UH HUH, UM AND IS ABLE TO 12:46 MINGLE WITH PEOPLE, FIND OUT ABOUT THEIR PROBLEMS 12:47 AND THEN PRAY FOR THEM. 12:48 UM, ONE OF THE MAJOR REASONS WHY PEOPLE LEAVE 12:49 HINDUISM AND BECOME CHRISTIANS IS BECAUSE THEY 12:51 HAVE BEEN HEALED THROUGH PRAYER. 13:15 NOT PHARMACIES BUT PRAYER. 13:17 AND YOU KNOW, HE SANTOS, COMBINES BOTH. 13:20 I'M SURE HE DOES AND YOU KNOW RATHER THAN HAVE ANY 13:23 OF THE SHAMAN SMEAR A LITTLE COW DUNG ON YOUR 13:26 NAVEL YOU KNOW, HE HAS SOMETHING MORE PRODUCTIVE 13:31 AND BUT MOSTOF ALL THROUGH PRAYER AND AFTER EVERY 13:34 CHURCH SERVICE THERE IS ALWAYS OR BEFORE THE 13:38 SERMON THERE IS A TESTIMONY PERIOD. 13:40 AH. 13:41 PEOPLE TELL WHAT JESUS HAS DONE AND THEN AFTER THE 13:43 CHURCH SERVICE PRAYER FOR HEALING AND 15-20 PEOPLE 13:47 WILL COME UP AND IT IS IMPORTANT TO PRAY FOR 13:50 THESE PEOPLE AND THEY ARE HEALED AND AFTER THEY ARE 13:52 HEALED AND THEY FEEL THE POWER OF JESUS IN THEIR 13:55 LIVES THEY BECOME CHRISTIANS. 13:57 DID YOU EVER HEAR AN INDIVIDUAL STORY ABOUT A 14:01 HEALING THAT TOOK PLACE THERE? 14:02 ABSOLUTELY. 14:03 ABSOLUTELY. 14:03 DO WE HAVE TIME TO SHARE? 14:05 LET ME GO ON WITH MY REST OF MY STORY ABOUT 14:08 MINGLING. 14:08 YES. 14:09 NOW, YOU KNOW ALL OF US HAVE HAD TO SIT IN 14:12 AIRPORTS. 14:13 OH YES. 14:14 AND I WAS SITTING IN AN AIRPORT WITH THIS FATHER 14:20 AND DAUGHTER AND I NOTICED THAT THE DAUGHTER HAD SOME 14:25 DISABILITY AND SHE WAS-HAD SOME - A LIMP AND SO I 14:30 TALKED TO HER AND SHE COULD UNDERSTAND ENGLISH 14:33 AND SPEAK ENGLISH AND SO BETWEEN HER ENGLISH AND MY 14:36 NEPALI WE GOT ALONG GREAT. 14:39 AND I JUST LISTENED TO HER AND ENCOURAGED HER AND SHE 14:45 BEGAN TO SHARE WITH ME, SHE WAS SCARED TO DEATH 14:50 ABOUT FLYING. 14:51 OH YES. 14:52 AND SHE HAD BEEN ON AN AIRPLANE WHEN SHE WAS A 14:56 LITTLE KID TWO OR THREE YEARS OF AGE AND NOW YOU 15:00 KNOW, SHE WAS OLDER AND SHE HAD HEARD ABOUT AIR 15:02 CRASHES AND ALL THIS SORT OF THING. 15:04 UH HUH. 15:16 AND SO, SHE WAS SCARED TO DEATH. 15:17 SO, I LISTENED TO HER AND THEN SHE VOLUNTEERED AND 15:22 SHE SAID, YOU KNOW SOMEONE GAVE ME A BIBLE. 15:25 REALLY? 15:26 AND I SAID, DO YOU READ IT? 15:27 AND SHE SAID, OH YES, YES. 15:28 DO YOU LIKE READING THE BIBLE? 15:29 OH YES, YES. 15:30 AND THEN YOU CAN SEE WE GAVE THEM SOME LITERATURE. 15:32 SOME NEPALI LITERATURE AND SHE WAS THRILLED TO 15:33 RECEIVE THAT. 15:35 I WAS READING A BOOK ON JOSEPH BATES AND SHE 15:37 LOOKED LIKE THAT WAS INTERESTING BOOK BUT I 15:39 THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, IT WOULD BE BETTER IF SHE HAD 15:42 SOMETHING IN NEPALI. 15:43 UH HUH. 15:44 AND SO, ANYWAY SHE GRATEFULLY RECEIVED THIS 15:46 BOOK AND THEN I FELT IMPRESSED TO PRAY FOR HER 15:49 THAT SHE WOULDN'T GET SCARED, RIGHT, WHEN SHE 15:54 TOOK OFF. 15:55 AND SO, I PRAYED AND YOU COULD JUST SEE THAT SHE 16:00 JUST SETTLED RIGHT DOWN AND THERE IS HER DAD, YOU 16:02 KNOW, AND HE IS KIND OF YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THIS 16:05 CHRISTIAN GUY, YOU KNOW. 16:07 WHAT IS HE GOING TO DO? 16:08 AND BUT SHE THEN SHARED WITH ME SHE SAID, OK NOW 16:12 WHEN I TAKE OFF IN THIS PLANE I'M GOING TO BE 16:15 READING THIS BOOK. 16:17 OK. 16:17 AND SHE -SHE HAD SOMETHING TO HOLD ON TO. 16:20 I KNOW I'M NOT GOING TO BE AFRAID. 16:22 OH. 16:23 AND YOU KNOW I THINK MINGLING THAT'S WHAT OUR 16:25 GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS NEED TO UNDERSTAND AND YOU 16:30 KNOW, WHEN YOU FIND SOMEONE THE HOLY SPIRIT 16:33 HAS ALREADY BEEN THERE AND MADE A CONTACT AND THEN WE 16:37 PRAY THAT OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WILL JUST FOLLOW 16:40 UP WITH THE WORK THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS BEGUN IN 16:42 THEIR LIVES. 16:43 YES. 16:44 THE LISTENING YOU DESCRIBE THERE IN THAT AIRPORT, 16:46 YES, THAT'S A SKILL THAT MANY OF US LACK. 16:51 DO YOU, DO YOU TRY TO TEACH THAT TO YOUR GOSPEL 16:56 WORKER VOLUNTEERS? 16:58 ABSOLUTELY. 16:59 ABSOLUTELY AND THEY GO INTO VILLAGES AND MANY 17:05 TIMES PEOPLE WILL COME TO THEM AND THEY WILL SAY, 17:08 YOU KNOW I HAVE THIS PROBLEM - I HAVE THAT 17:10 PROBLEM. 17:11 WE HAVE A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER WHO IS FAMOUS FOR 17:15 HEALING PEOPLE AND SO AFTER BEING ABLE TO HEAL 17:20 PEOPLE UM, PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY WOULD COME AND 17:24 ASK HIM TO PRAY OVER THEIR SICK BUFFALOES OR SICK 17:28 COWS. 17:28 OH, INTERESTING. 17:29 AND SO, HE WOULD PUT HIS HAND ON THEM AND HE WOULD 17:31 PRAY FOR THE BUFFALO OR THE COW AND THEY WOULD BE 17:33 HEALED. 17:35 AND THEN -WHAT A MINISTRY- IT WENT TO ANOTHER STEP 17:38 BEYOND THAT. 17:39 AH, THEY HAVE WHAT WE CALL PUMMELOS, YOU KNOW, YES, 17:44 THESE BIG CITRUS FRUITS. 17:47 WELL, THEIR TREES WERE DROPPING THEIR FRUIT 17:50 BEFORE THEY WERE RIPE AND SO, HERE IS A SICK TREE 17:54 AND SO THEY CALLED ON THIS MAN TO COME AND PRAY FOR 17:58 THEIR TREE AND AFTER THE PRAYER THE NEXT SEASON, 18:02 THEY DIDN'T DROP THEIR FRUIT BEFOREHAND. 18:04 SO, HE HAD A GIFT FROM THE SPIRIT IT SOUNDS LIKE. 18:09 ABSOLUTELY, ABSOLUTELY AND HE WAS WILLING TO LISTEN 18:12 TO THEM AND LET GOD DIRECT HIM WHERE TO USE THIS. 18:15 AND YOU KNOW, WHAT IS YOUR NEED? 18:17 WELL, I HAVE A SICK BUFFALO, I HAVE A SICK 18:18 TREE NOTHING IS TOO SMALL FOR MY GOD. 18:21 WOW. 18:23 THAT- WHAT A SPIRIT OF CONFIDENCE THERE IS THERE. 18:26 THE IDEA THAT WE COULD BRING ALL OF THESE THINGS 18:30 TO THIS GOD. 18:31 IT'S A WONDERFUL THING. 18:34 CHARLES, YOU ARE DOING THIS NOW AND IF YOU HAVE 18:40 55 INSTEAD OF 15 MEMBERS, RIGHT, THESE ARE MEMBERS 18:45 ARE THEY NOT? 18:45 ABSOLUTELY. 18:46 AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THEY GATHER A GROUP? 18:51 DO THEY SEND THEM OUT TO MINGLE WITH OTHERS TOO? 18:54 WELL, UM OFTEN TIMES OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS 18:58 WILL ALSO BE SERVING AS PASTORS. 19:01 THEY'LL BE LEADING OUT IN THE CHURCH SERVICE. 19:03 OK. 19:04 AND THEY'LL BE LOOKING FOR YOUTH TO LEAD OUT WITH 19:09 SABBATH SCHOOL AND AH, OFTEN TIMES YOU GO INTO A 19:13 NEPALI CHURCH SERVICE UM, THERE AREN'T ANY GRAY 19:18 HAIRS. 19:19 THEY ARE ALL YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEY HAVE A STORY TO 19:23 TELL. 19:24 THEY HAVE A TESTIMONY OF WHAT JESUS HAS DONE FOR 19:26 THEM AND THEY ARE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING BETTER AND 19:28 THEY HAVE FOUND IT IN THE ADVENTIST MESSAGE. 19:31 AND YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO SPEAK FREELY IN 19:36 NEPAL ABOUT WHAT JESUS HAS DONE FOR US. 19:40 I WAS WITH SOME GOSPEL OUTREACH LEADERS IN THIS, 19:43 WE WERE EATING LUNCH AND THIS IS KIND OF A FANCY 19:47 RESORT AND AS WE WERE TALKING ABOUT JESUS THIS 19:52 GENTLEMAN CAME UP AND INTRODUCED HIMSELF AND 19:56 ASKED IF HE COULD SPEAK WITH US AND WE SAID, SURE. 19:59 AND HE SAYS, YOU KNOW I'M SORRY I OVERHEARD YOUR 20:02 CONVERSATION. 20:04 YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT JESUS CHRIST AND WE SAID, 20:07 YES. 20:08 HE SAID, HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE DISCOVERY? 20:13 THE ARCHEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY IN ONE OF THE 20:16 MAIN HINDU TEMPLES IN KATHMANDU? 20:20 AND THEY HAD FOUND ANCIENT NUWARI MANUSCRIPTS. 20:25 NOW, AH THERE IS LIKE 32 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. 20:29 THE MAIN LANGUAGE IS NEPALI BUT NEWARI IS ONE 20:33 TRIBE -IT'S ONE LANGUAGE.OK. 20:35 THEY ARE THE MOST RIGID CONSERVATIVE HARD HEADED 20:39 PEOPLE, AND YOU KNOW, I WORKED IN NEPAL WITH MY 20:43 HEALTH EDUCATION, YES, FOR SIX YEARS AND THEY JUST 20:47 DON'T BUDGE. 20:49 WELL, THIS GENTLEMAN COMES UP AND HE IS A NEWARI AND 20:52 HE SAYS, THEY'VE FOUND ANCIENT NEWARI AH, 20:57 MANUSCRIPTS 4-500 YEARS OLD AND IN THESE 21:01 MANUSCRIPTS, THEY MENTION JESUS CHRIST. 21:05 THAT IS ASTONISHING, ISN'T IT? 21:07 YES, AND YOU KNOW THERE IS ALL KINDS OF RAMIFICATIONS 21:11 BUT WE NEVER WOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT UNLESS WE HAD 21:14 BEEN TALKING ABOUT JESUS. 21:16 MINGLING WITH PEOPLE YOU KNOW, OPEN TO MINGLING, 21:18 AND JUST SHARING WHAT AND EVEN AMONG CHRISTIANS YOU 21:22 KNOW, A LOT OF TIMES WE AS CHRISTIANS WE GET TOGETHER 21:24 AND WE TALK ABOUT THE BALLGAME AND THE LATEST 21:28 CAR AND ALL THIS SORT OF THING. 21:30 I THINK THERE IS VALUE IN TALKING ABOUT JESUS. 21:33 LETTING OTHERS OVERHEAR AND LET THE HOLY SPIRIT DO 21:37 WITH IT AS HE WILL. 21:38 RIGHT. 21:39 YES. 21:40 AND THESE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS AH, MANY TIMES 21:44 PEOPLE WILL COME TO THEM. 21:45 THEY WILL SENSE THAT THEY HAVE A JOY; THEY HAVE A 21:48 POWER IN THEIR PRAYER THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO TAP 21:52 INTO AND SO THEY COME TO THE CHURCH AND THEY ARE 21:55 PRAYED FOR AND WHEN THEY ARE HEALED, UM, THEY ARE 21:59 ATTRACTED. 22:00 THEY ARE PULLED RIGHT IN. 22:01 UH HUH. 22:02 IT IS REALLY THRILLING TO SEE THE OPENNESS. 22:06 NOW THIS IS IN THE VILLAGES. 22:07 OK. 22:08 WHERE THERE ISN'T A LOT OF DISTRACTIONS AND OFTEN 22:11 TIMES OUR WORK WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS GOES A 22:14 LOT EASIER IN THE VILLAGES. 22:16 AND WHAT PERCENTAGE OF NEPAL IS URBANIZED IF YOU 22:23 WILL? 22:24 WELL, --WHAT PERCENTAGE IS COUNTRY? 22:26 YES, I WOULD SAY YOU KNOW, IN THE LAST 20 YEARS IT 22:28 HAS MANY MORE PEOPLE ARE FLOODING INTO THE CITIES. 22:30 THAT IS A WORLDWIDE ISSUE ISN'T IT? 22:31 YES, BUT STILL THERE IS ENOUGH PEOPLE WHO ARE 22:32 GROWING THE FOOD. 22:33 UH HUH. 22:34 YOU KNOW, AND STILLYOU COULD LOOK OUT AND YOU CAN 22:35 SEE THE BEAUTIFUL TERRACED RICE FIELDS AND THE 22:36 HILLSIDES- THEY GROW CORN AND SOYBEANS AND MAIZE AND 22:38 BARLEY AND THIS TYPE OF THING. 22:39 OTHER TYPES OF GRAINS BUT AH, I BELIEVE THAT THAT IS 22:53 WHERE OUR WORK GOES. 23:05 AND TO GET TO THESE PLACES THESE REMOTE HILL PLACES, 23:08 UH HUH, JUST RECENTLY WE FINISHED BUILDING A CHURCH 23:12 IN A PLACE CALLED NEPALTAR AND THIS IS IN THE HILLS. 23:18 IT WAS A BONE JARRING RIDE TO GET TO THIS PLACE, YES, 23:23 YES. 23:24 BUT THEN TO OUR AMAZEMENT AND ASTONISHMENT THIS IS A 23:27 CENTRAL AREA NOW FOR ALL OF OUR WORKERS IN THAT 23:30 AREA OF NORTHEASTERN NEPAL AND WE HAD A WORKERS 23:36 MEETING THERE. 23:36 OH. 23:37 AND YOUKNOW, DIVINE APPOINTMENTS- GOD PROVIDES 23:40 THE MONEY, HE PROVIDES THE PEOPLE THAT WE CAN COME IN 23:46 CONTACT WITH, HE PROVIDES THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEND 23:50 THESE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS AND IT ONLY COMES 23:53 BECAUSE OF THE DONORS CONTRIBUTING TO GOSPEL 23:55 OUTREACH. 23:56 THOSE DONORS THOSE ARE THE ONES WE ARE HOPING THAT 24:00 YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE WATCHING AND THAT YOU FEEL 24:02 GOD'S CALL TO BE A DONOR. 24:06 WE ARE RELYING ON GOD NOT ON YOU BECAUSE IF WE 24:10 STARTED RELYING ON YOU, ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN. 24:13 GOD IS THE ONE THAT KEEPS MOVING ON HEARTS. 24:16 GOD IS THE ONE WHO CAN MAKE THIS HAPPEN. 24:19 UH, CHARLES THIS IS AMAZING. 24:24 YOU HAVE WITNESSED MIRACLES; YOU HAVE 24:26 WITNESSED THE FLOODING OF NOT FLOODING PROBABLY BUT 24:34 ENOUGH RESOURCES TO KEEP 55 IN THE FIELD. 24:39 YES. 24:40 AND WILL THAT GROW? 24:41 ARE THERE AREAS OF NEPAL WHERE YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN 24:44 YET? 24:45 YES, YES ABSOLUTELY AND THERE IS AREAS OF NEPAL 24:47 WHERE YOU TAKE A BUS RIDE FOR TWO DAYS AND THEN YOU 24:50 WALK FOR SIX DAYS AND VERY, VERY REMOTE. 24:54 NOW THE GOVERNMENT IS BUILDING ROADS BUT STILL 24:57 THERE IS A LOT OF WALKING BECAUSE MOST OF THE 25:00 POPULATION IN NEPAL ARE IN THESE FOOTHILLS AND THAT'S 25:04 WHERE OUR CHURCHES ARE, THAT'S WHERE OUR GOSPEL 25:06 OUTREACH WORKERS WILL GO AND SO ANYWAY, WE WERE 25:10 ABLE TO TALK TO THIS GENTLEMAN AND WE EXPLAINED 25:14 TO HIM ABOUT THE WORK OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST 25:17 CHURCH. 25:18 HE WAS VERY, VERY INTERESTED AND WE WERE 25:21 ABLE TO GIVE HIM SOME LITERATURE AND HE PROMISED 25:24 THAT HE WOULD READ IT. 25:26 AH, THE GOSPEL OUTREACH- OUR ADVENTIST IS THERE ON 25:30 THE LEFT AND HE IS THE ONE WHO IS TRANSLATING FOR 25:35 THESE- SO, HE IS BILINGUAL. 25:37 YES, AND SO THERE WAS A NATURAL - HE IS NEWARI AND 25:41 THE GENTLEMAN MR. KIAS THAT WE ARE TALKING TO HE 25:44 WAS NEWARI AND IT IS THRILLING TO ME BECAUSE 25:47 WHEN I WAS THERE IN 1969 I DIDN'T SEE ANY OF THESE 25:51 PEOPLE EVER BECOMING ADVENTISTS. 25:54 YES. 25:55 BECOMING CHRISTIANS AND YOU KNOW JUST LIKE GOD 25:58 SAID TO ELIJAH, THERE IS THOUSANDS THAT HAVEN'T 26:02 BOWED THEIR KNEE TO BAAL. 26:04 THAT IS AN AMAZING REALIZATION ISN'T IT? 26:07 THAT YOU ARE NOT WORKING APART FROM GOD, YOU ARE 26:11 COMING INTO WITNESS WHAT GOD HAS ALREADY BEEN 26:14 DOING. 26:15 RIGHT, RIGHT AND HE IS ACCOMPLISHING FEATS THAT 26:18 WE COULD NEVER DO LIKE YOU SAY, BACK IN THE '60'S AND 26:22 70'S ALMOST NOBODY BUT HE HAS TRANSFORMED THAT AND 26:27 NOW THERE ARE POPULATIONS-PEOPLE WHO 26:28 GATHER AND WORSHIP EVERY SABBATH. 26:30 YES. 26:31 AND THESE GO OUT AND DO THIS KIND OF WORK- THIS IS 26:32 AN AMAZING STORY. 26:33 I'M THRILLED JUST BECAUSE I LEARNED ABOUT NEPAL 26:34 EARLY ON, YES, AND IT'S THE THOUGHT OF THOSE FIRST 26:35 PEOPLE WHO CAME. 26:36 WHAT WOULD THEY THINK NOW IF THEY COULD COME AND SEE 26:51 WHAT GOD HAS DONE? 26:52 THAT'S RIGHT. 26:52 IT'S AN AMAZING ONE. 26:54 OH WELL. 26:55 WE ARE WRAPPING THIS UP AND AGAIN I JUST WANT TO 26:59 INVITE YOU TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE SCREEN 27:03 SHOT OF A TELEPHONE NUMBER. 27:04 CALL -BE A PART, GO ON LINE. 27:08 GOD MAY BE CALLING YOU AND MAY YOU FIND THE KIND OF 27:11 PEACE IN YOUR LIFE THAT THIS NEPALESE ARE FINDING 27:15 THROUGH GOSPEL OUTREACH. |
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