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Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000754A
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00:01 ONE MISSION. 00:03 THE GREAT COMMISSION: TO REACH EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND 00:12 CHILD IN THE 10/40 WINDOW WITH GOOD NEWS. 00:21 JESUS CHRIST LOVES YOU. 00:25 GOSPEL OUTREACH PRESENTS "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS". 00:32 WELCOME TO "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" HERE AT GOSPEL 00:34 OUTREACH. 00:35 I'M JULIE SANDERS-KEYMER AND IN THE BIBLE JESUS 00:38 CAME FOR ALL. 00:39 HE CAME FOR ALL OF US AND THAT'S WHERE WE ARE 00:42 WORKING IN THE 10/40 WINDOW TO MAKE SURE THAT 00:44 ALL PEOPLE HAVE HEARD ABOUT JESUS AND HAVE HAD 00:47 THE OPPORTUNITY TO ACCEPT HIM AND WE'RE JUST GLAD 00:49 THAT YOU ARE HERE WATCHING TODAY AND WE ARE GOING TO 00:52 GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON ONE OF OUR MINISTRIES HERE AT 00:55 "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" AND GOSPEL OUTREACH AND IT 00:57 IS WITH JOHN BLAKE. 00:58 HI, JOHN HOW ARE YOU? 00:59 GOOD THANK YOU. 01:01 I'M GLAD TO BE HERE. 01:02 IT IS NICE TO SEE YOU. 01:03 SO, GOSPEL OUTREACH- WE ARE TRYING TO REACH ALL 01:07 PEOPLE, JOHN AND THERE IS AN AREA THAT IS VERY NEAR 01:10 AND DEAR TO YOUR HEART AND YOU ARE THE DIRECTOR HERE 01:13 AT GOSPEL OUTREACH AND WHAT PART OF THE MINISTRY 01:15 IS THAT? 01:16 IT IS FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE DEAF AROUND THE WORLD AND 01:19 I HAVE AN ASSISTANT FOR INDIA AND THEN ALSO FRED 01:27 WEBB WORKS WITH THE DEAF IN THE PHILIPPINES. 01:32 I LOOK AFTER THE WHOLE DEPARTMENT, KIND OF. 01:35 BECAUSE WE HAVE MANY PEOPLE SADLY, WHO CAN'T 01:39 HEAR AND THEY ARE NOT INCLUDED IN MANY THINGS 01:43 SIMPLY FOR THAT FACT. 01:44 AND THAT'S WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO HERE AT 01:47 GOSPEL OUTREACH IS MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE HEARING 01:49 THE GOOD NEWS OF JESUS. 01:51 WELL, UNLESS THE DEAF GET TO HEAR THE GOSPEL STORY- 01:57 IF IT HAS TO GO TO ALL THE WORLD, JESUS WILL NOT COME 02:01 UNTIL THEY HEAR IT TOO. 02:03 AND THEY ARE PART OF IT. 02:04 YES. 02:05 SO, SHARE WITH OUR VIEWERS WHERE THE DEAF MINISTRY IS 02:08 INVOLVED AROUND OUR WORLD AND UPDATE IF YOU WOULD. 02:12 WELL, AS I MENTIONED WE ARE IN INDIA. 02:14 WE HAVE ABOUT 12-15 WORKERS THERE UNDER UM, MY 02:21 ASSISTANT FOR INDIA AND THEN WE HAVE ABOUT SEVEN 02:28 WORKERS IN THE PHILIPPINES, UH HUH. 02:30 WE HAVE A WORKER IN KAZAKHSTAN; ONE IN 02:32 KYRGYZSTAN OR I GUESS ACTUALLY WE ARE REPLACING 02:35 THE ONE IN BISHKEK SO THERE WILL BE ANOTHER ONE 02:38 COMING THERE. 02:40 AND THEN WE HAVE ELEVEN COUNTRIES IN AFRICA AND 02:47 ABOUT 25-28 WORKERS IN AFRICA. 02:50 AND I THINK WE HAVE A MAP TO SHOW ABOUT A LOT OF 02:53 THESE COUNTRIES. 02:54 A LOT OF THESE COUNTRIES MAYBE SOME OF OUR VIEWERS 02:56 HAVEN'T EVEN HEARD OF AND MAYBE THEY DON'T KNOW SO 02:59 MUCH ABOUT BUT THAT'S OUR GOAL HERE AT GOSPEL 03:03 OUTREACH IS TO BE IN THESE AREAS. 03:06 AND THE WONDERFUL PART OF IT IS THAT GOD KEEPS 03:09 OPENING MORE DOORS. 03:11 YES. 03:12 AND WE ARE SO THANKFUL FOR THAT BECAUSE FOR INSTANCE, 03:15 IN AFRICA TWELVE YEARS AGO WHEN I STARTED WITH GOSPEL 03:19 OUTREACH UM, WE WERE BASICALLY JUST IN INDIA 03:24 WITH DEAF WORK. 03:25 UH, NOW WE HAVE STARTED IN AFRICA AND BEEN THERE 03:31 ABOUT TEN YEARS, ELEVEN YEARS IN THERE AND THE 03:34 WORK IS MOVING AHEAD IN AFRICA AND THE LORD IS 03:36 JUST OPENING DOOR AFTER DOOR AND WE ARE SEEING 03:39 HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF DEAF PEOPLE 03:44 COMING TO THE LORD IN AFRICA. 03:48 FANTASTIC. 03:49 FANTASTIC. 03:50 JOHN, THIS IS A LITTLE BIT OF A CHALLENGE AS YOU LOOK 03:53 AT THAT MAP AS WE LOOK AT THAT TOGETHER, THERE ARE A 03:57 LOT OF COUNTRIES AND HERE YOU ARE WITH A COUPLE OF 04:00 ASSISTANTS AND THIS IS A LITTLE OVERWHELMING IN A 04:03 LOT OF WAYS BUT THE LORD IS GIVING YOU STRENGTH. 04:05 YES, YES. 04:07 WHAT ACTUALLY WE HAVE DONE IS SINCE THERE ARE TWELVE, 04:13 WELL ELEVEN COUNTRIES WE THOUGHT WE HAD A WORKER 04:16 FOR ETHIOPIA AND SOMEHOW, SHE HAS GONE WORKING FOR 04:19 THE GOVERNMENT OR SOMETHING SO WE ARE HAVING 04:22 TO GET ANOTHER WORKER FOR ETHIOPIA. 04:24 BUT IN THE OTHER COUNTRIES FOR ME - I'M 77 FOR ME TO 04:28 GET TO ALL ELEVEN COUNTRIES IS MORE THAN I 04:32 AM ABLE TO DO. 04:34 SO, WE GOT THE IDEA OF BRINGING ALL THE WORKERS 04:37 TOGETHER. 04:38 I ASKED PAT GUSTIN IF SHE'D BE WILLING TO TEACH 04:41 THE STORY METHOD OF BIBLE STUDY TO OUR WORKERS AND 04:46 SHE SAID YES. 04:47 SO, THEN I CONTACTED ELDER MOWASA WHO IS THE SPECIAL 04:51 NEEDS DIRECTOR FOR THE EAST CENTRAL AFRICA 04:54 DIVISION. 04:55 WE ARE ACTUALLY IN THREE DIVISIONS. 04:57 AND HE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE TO BRING THEM ALL 05:01 TOGETHER. 05:02 GOOD. 05:03 AND THEN I WORK ALSO WITH LARRY EVANS THE SPECIAL 05:07 NEEDS DIRECTOR FOR OUR ADVENTIST GENERAL 05:09 CONFERENCE. 05:10 AND HE DECIDED OUT OF HIS DEPARTMENTAL EXPENSE TO 05:15 PUT IN $8000 AND GOSPEL OUTREACH WHEN WE ASKED CAN 05:20 PAT GO? 05:21 AND CAN WE GET EVERYBODY TOGETHER? 05:23 THEY VOTED $4000 AND SO WE HAD A BUDGET OF $12000 TO 05:27 GET THE WORKERS -BETWEEN TWENTY-FIVE AND THIRTY 05:31 WORKERS ALL TO NAKARU IN AFRICA. 05:35 FANTASTIC! 05:36 AND WE HAD A WONDERFUL TRAINING SESSION ALONG 05:39 WITH THEY HAD A CAMPMEETING FOR THE DEAF 05:42 AND OTHER SPECIAL NEEDS GROUPS. 05:44 AND THAT COMRADERIE OF HAVING PEOPLE ALL COME 05:46 TOGETHER IT IS REALLY, REALLY FANTASTIC AND 05:49 ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU THEN CAN RELATE TO SOMEBODY 05:52 ELSE AND YOU CAN THEN SHARE TOGETHER. 05:55 RIGHT. 05:56 THAT IS FANTASTIC. 05:57 YOU MENTIONI THE STORYTELLING, AH, CAN YOU 05:59 SHARE A LITTLE MORE WITH THAT WITH OUR VIEWERS? 06:02 OK, UM JESUS USED PARABLES AND YOU CAN TEACH MANY 06:09 BIBLICAL TRUTHS WHICH WE WOULD CALL DOCTRINES 06:14 THROUGH A CAREFUL STUDY OF STORIES AND THE HUMAN MIND 06:20 LIKES STORIES AND PARTICULARLY THOSE WHO 06:24 COME FROM A BACKGROUND WHERE THEIR CONCEPT OF GOD 06:28 IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT THAN OURS IN VARIOUS OF THESE 06:32 COUNTRIES IN ASIA AND SO ON AND AFRICA. 06:36 UH, AND SO IF YOU CAN BUILD THE CONCEPT OF GOD 06:40 CORRECTLY THROUGH MULTIPLE STORIES AND ASKING THE 06:44 RIGHT QUESTIONS TO GO WITH THE STORIES UH, GRADUALLY 06:49 PEOPLE BEGIN TO GET A CORRECT CONCEPT OF GOD AND 06:54 CREATION AND THE WORLD AND. 06:57 AND THAT'S FOR ALL OF US JOHN, BECAUSE IT IS A 06:59 WHOLE BOOK OF STORIES ANDYOU ARE SO RIGHT OF HOW 07:03 JESUS TAUGHT BUT THIS IMPACTING THOUGH OF THIS 07:07 WHOLE STORYTELLING IS READING THE STORY AND THEN 07:10 YOU THEN, TELL THE STORY TO SOMEBODY ELSE AND SHARE 07:14 WHAT THE LORD HAS DONE FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT. 07:16 THAT IS THE FINAL STEP THAT IS RECOMMENDED. 07:19 YES, YES. 07:20 SO, LET'S GO BACK TO THIS CAMPMEETING THOUGH. 07:21 ALL THESE PEOPLE WHO CAME AND YOU SAID THERE WERE 07:23 ABOUT 25 PEOPLE WHO CAME. 07:25 SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 25 AND 30. 07:26 SO, ARE ALL OF THESE PEOPLE WHO CAME ARE 07:27 THEY-WERE THEY ALL DEAF? 07:29 AH, THESE ARE OUR WORKERS, OK, AND WE ALSO HAD NOT 07:32 ONLY GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS BUT WE HAD GLOBAL 07:40 MISSION PIONEER WORKERS AS WELL. 07:44 AND TELL US ABOUT THAT. 07:45 OK, THE GLOBAL MISSION PIONEER WORKERS WORK UNDER 07:48 THE GENERAL CONFERENCE AND THE ADVENTIST MISSION 07:51 DEPARTMENT AND THEY ARE ORGANIZED IN A VERY 07:54 SIMILAR WAY. 07:55 THEY RECEIVE A STIPEND NOT IDENTICAL BUT SOMEWHAT THE 07:59 SAME AS A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER AND FOR THE FIRST 08:05 TEN YEARS THAT I HAD BEEN WORKING WITH GOSPEL 08:09 OUTREACH, AS FAR AS I KNEW WE HAD BASICALLY NO GLOBAL 08:13 MISSION PIONEER WORKERS FOR THE DEAF. 08:16 AND I KEPT AGITATING -DON'T LEAVE IT ALL TO 08:20 GOSPEL OUTREACH - WE NEED TO WORK TOGETHER. 08:23 AND NOW WE HAVE SIX GLOBAL MISSION PIONEER WORKERS 08:25 FOR THE DEAF IN AFRICA. 08:28 PRAISE THE LORD! 08:29 ABSOLUTELY! 08:30 ABSOLUTELY! 08:31 SO, WHEN YOU GO TO THESE EVENTS AND THERE ARE 08:33 PEOPLE THERE WHO ARE ALL DEAF WHAT IS IT LIKE FOR 08:36 YOU TO OBSERVE THEM COMING TOGETHER? 08:39 IS IT EXCITING TIME FOR THEM? 08:40 UH, LET'S LOOK AT SOME OF THE PICTURES. 08:44 FIRST OF ALL, WE HAVE ABOUT A 2 ½ MINUTE MOVIE 08:47 AND THEN WE'LL TRANSFER OVER AND LOOK AT SOME 08:49 PICTURES AND I'LL EXPLAIN SOME OF THESE TYPES OF 08:52 THINGS. 08:53 SOUNDS GREAT. 08:54 THIS IS AH, SOME OF THE CHILDREN THAT WERE AT THE 09:00 CAMPMEETING FOR THE DEAF AND SPECIAL NEEDS AND WE 09:04 ARE NOT HEARING THE SOUND BUT THE OTHERS WILL BE 09:07 HEARING IT. 09:12 THERE PAT GUSTIN IS DOING STORYTELLING. 09:14 YES, SHE IS DOING THE STORYTELLING THERE AND I 09:17 HAVE TWO PEOPLE THERE WHO ARE INTERPRETTING. 09:20 THE ONE ON THE LEFT IS ACTUALLY PUTTING IT INTO 09:24 AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE. 09:25 THE ONE IN THE MIDDLE I THINK IS I'M NOT SURE IF 09:28 IT IS SWAHILI OR HE IS DOING THE SIGNING. 09:30 ALL OF THE PEOPLE HERE ARE DEAF. 09:37 NO, ROUGHLY 40-50 PER CENT ARE DEAF. 09:38 NOW, HERE IS AT THE CAMPMEETING FOR THE DEAF 09:40 THESE LADIES ARE SIGNING ALONG WITH MUSIC. 09:45 IT'S THE JOY OF COMING TOGETHER WITH OTHER PEOPLE 09:47 WHO ARE IN THE SAME BOAT AS YOU. 09:50 YES. 09:51 THAT'S WHERE THE JOY IS. 09:52 AND HERE THEY ARE TAKING THE BAPTISMAL VOWS AND 09:54 THERE WERE ABOUT 17 BAPTIZED THAT WERE DEAF. 10:01 UH HUH. 10:03 AND HERE IS THE BAPTISM AND A BIG POOL THERE ON 10:06 THE SIDE OF THIS. 10:07 WE WERE ACTUALLY AT A SCHOOL. 10:13 THERE WERE MULTIHANDICAPPED THERE AS 10:18 WELL AS DEAF. 10:24 THIS IS A VERY BEAUTIFUL SECTION. 10:34 I WON'T TALK BECAUSE I WANT THE PEOPLE TO HEAR. 10:52 THESE ARE BLIND PEOPLE SINGING HERE. 11:03 BEAUTIFUL HARMONY. 11:07 YOU CAN SEE THE LADIES SINGING IN THE BACK AS 11:25 WELL AS THE AUDIENCE. 11:32 JOHN, THAT IS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC TO SEE ALL OF 11:35 THESE PEOPLE AND TO HEAR THE HARMONY AND TO SEE THE 11:38 BLIND AND THE DEAF. 11:40 GOD BLESS THEM ALL. 11:41 AND FOR THEM TO COME TOGETHER. 11:42 IT WAS INTERESTING WHEN DR. EVANS WAS -HE WAS 11:46 THERE WITH US- AND MY WORK IS NOT REALLY WITH THE 11:51 BLIND IT IS WITH CONCENTRATING WITH THE 11:53 DEAF. 11:54 WELL, SURE. 11:55 BUT SPECIAL NEEDS INCLUDES THE BLIND, RIGHT, AND OF 11:56 COURSE AND HE GOT THE BLIND TOGETHER AND THEY 12:00 WERE -THEY HAVE BEEN BECAUSE OF SOMETHINGS, 12:02 FEELING A LITTLE BIT LEFT OUT AND HERE OBVIOUSLY 12:05 THEY WERE BEING INCLUDED. 12:07 ABSOLUTELY. 12:07 THE HARMONY OF THAT SINGING IS BEAUTIFUL. 12:10 AH. 12:11 STUNNING. 12:12 SO, FOR ME THIS IS EXTRA SPECIAL AND I SHARED THIS 12:14 WITH YOU SO, TO HAVE THESE PEOPLE COME TOGETHER WHO 12:16 SOMETHING IN COMMON -I WAS ABLE TO BE WITH A WHOLE 12:19 GROUP OF PEOPLE WITH THE LUCKY FIN PROJECT AND IT 12:23 IS FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE SPECIAL HANDS AND THERE 12:25 WERE ABOUT 500 OF US TOGETHER LITTLE KIDS, 12:28 PEOPLE MY AGE, ALL AGE RANGES AND TO BE TOGETHER 12:32 WITH OTHER PEOPLE WHO ALSO HAVE SPECIAL HANDS WE 12:35 DIDN'T HAVE TO SAY TO EACH OTHER, SO WHAT HAPPENED? 12:38 WE ALL KNEW THAT THIS IS HOW WE WERE BORN AND SO TO 12:41 HAVE THAT COMRADERY TO SEE THESE PEOPLE WHO HAVE COME 12:44 TOGETHER AND WHO HAVE THAT IN COMMON AND THEY CAN 12:47 SHARE TOGETHER THERE IS-THAT IS THE NEAT THING 12:50 OF STANDING SHOULDER TO SHOULDER IN THE LORD AND 12:53 TO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE WILL BE HEALING THAT TAKES 12:56 PLACE. 12:57 THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT THE MAN WITH THE SHRIVELED 12:58 HAND AND HE ALSO TALKS ABOUT HOW JESUS HEALS A 13:01 DEAF AND A MUTE MAN. 13:02 THEN SOME AND THIS IS IN MARK, THERE WERE SOME 13:05 PEOPLE BROUGHT TO HIM A MAN WHO WAS DEAF AND COULD 13:08 HARDLY TALK AND THEY BEGGED JESUS TO PLACE HIS 13:10 HAND ON HIM AND JESUS UM, HE PUT HIS FINGERS IN THE 13:15 MAN'S EARS THEN HE SPIT AND TOUCHED THE MAN'S 13:18 TONGUE AND THEN HE SAYS THEN THE MAN'S EARS WERE 13:21 OPENED AND HIS TONGUE WAS LOOSENED AND HE BEGAN TO 13:23 SPEAK PLAINLY. 13:25 AND FOR THE MIRACLE OF THIS IN THE BIBLE AND WHAT 13:29 IT IS GOING TO BE FOR THESE PEOPLE AND FOR ALL 13:30 OF US IT IS EXCITING. 13:31 YES. 13:34 AND AS A FATHER OF TWO DEAF CHILDREN UM, IT'S 13:38 WONDERFUL TO KNOW THAT IN HEAVEN, IF THEY ARE THERE, 13:44 THEY WILL HEAR. 13:45 YES. 13:46 RIGHT AT THIS POINT, OUR SON IS NOT FOLLOWING THE 13:49 LORD. 13:50 OUR DAUGHTER IS TRYING TO FOLLOW THE LORD. 13:52 WE HOPE OUR SON WILL. 13:53 WE ARE PRAYING FOR HIM. 13:53 ABSOLUTELY. 13:54 ABSOLUTELY AND A BETTER DAY IS COMING FOR ALL OF 13:56 US. 13:57 AND WE WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF 14:01 GOSPEL OUTREACH AND IF YOU ARE EXCITED ABOUT WHAT'S 14:04 HAPPENING HERE WITH THE DEAF MINISTRY AND SEEING 14:07 THESE DEAR, DEAR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND SINGING TO 14:09 THE LORD WE WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO BE A PART 14:12 OF GOSPEL OUTREACH THROUGH YOUR PRAYERS YOUR 14:14 FINANCIAL SUPPORT AND JUST BEING AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO 14:16 THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS AS THEY ARE 14:18 SHARING JESUS THROUGH SIGN LANGUAGE AND ALL SORTS OF 14:21 DIFFERENT ASPECTS IN THE 10/40 WINDOW. 14:23 WE'D LIKE TO SHARE SOME MORE INFORMATION WITH YOU. 14:26 WHY HASN'T JESUS COME? 14:30 IT'S BECAUSE WE HAVE A JOB TO DO ONE THAT HIS RETURN 14:34 DEPENDS ON. 14:36 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT CHRIST WILL COME AFTER THE 14:38 GOSPEL HAS BEEN PREACHED IN ALL THE WORLD. 14:41 THE WORLD'S POPULATION EXCEEDS SEVEN BILLION BUT 14:46 THREE BILLION STILL NEED TO HEAR ABOUT JESUS' LOVE. 14:51 NINETY-SEVEN PERCENT OF THE UNREACHED PEOPLE LIVE 14:53 IN THE AREA FROM 10 TO 40 DEGREES NORTH OF THE 14:56 EQUATOR FROM WEST AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST, INDIA, 15:01 CHINA TO JAPAN. 15:04 GOSPEL OUTREACH HAS A UNIQUE APPROACH WITH THE 15:08 SUPPORT OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU WE SPONSOR LOCAL GOSPEL 15:12 WORKERS IN MORE THAN FIFTY COUNTRIES. 15:15 BECAUSE THEY KNOW THE LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND 15:18 RELIGIONS OF THEIR NEIGHBORS THEY FACE FEWER 15:20 CHALLENGES THAN FOREIGN MISSIONARIES WOULD. 15:22 TOGETHER WITH YOU WE FUND MORE THAN 2000 BIBLE 15:28 WORKERS BUT MORE ARE NEEDED. 15:31 LET'S REACH THE UNREACHED WITH THE SAVING POWER OF 15:35 GOD'S LOVE. 15:36 JOIN US. 15:38 SPONSOR A BIBLE WORKER. 15:40 DONATE. 15:41 PRAY. 15:46 AND WE WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO YOU FOR BEING PART 15:48 OF GOSPEL OUTREACH. 15:49 THAT'S THANK YOU IN SIGN LANGUAGE. 15:51 CORRECT JOHN? 15:52 YES, AND WE ARE HERE TALKING WITH JOHN BLAKE 15:54 ABOUT THE DEAF MINISTRY WORK AT GOSPEL OUTREACH 15:57 AND JOHN, YOU ARE LEADING A TEAM IN THESE COUNTRIES 16:00 -ELEVEN COUNTRIES AROUND OUR WORLD AND WE THANK YOU 16:03 FOR DOING ALL THAT. 16:05 YOU'VE SHARED A VIDEO WITH US NOW YOU HAVE SOME 16:07 SLIDES. 16:07 NOW WE HAVE SOME SLIDES, YES. 16:09 UH HUH. 16:10 AND WE'LL COMMENT ON THEM AS WE SEE THEM ON THE 16:12 SCREEN HERE. 16:14 THE FIRST ONE IS A MAN WHO IS DEAF HIMSELF, UH HUH, 16:19 WHO IS SIGNING THERE. 16:21 HE'S AT A CHILD IMPACT DEAF SCHOOL IN SOUTH INDIA 16:25 AND MY ASSISTANT IS THERE OVER ON THE LEFT. 16:29 IT LOOKS LIKE HE IS ACTUALLY USING HIS 16:32 CELLPHONE TO RECORD SOMETHING. 16:33 GOOD. 16:34 AND CHUCK MCGEHEY IS THE MAN WHO IS DOING A WEEK OF 16:40 PRAYER AT THE DEAF SCHOOL. 16:41 AND HE IS DOING THAT ALL IN-SIGN LANGUAGE. 16:43 YES, YES AND OF COURSE, HE IS DEAF. 16:46 HE LIVES ACTUALLY NEAR PORTLAND IN VANCOUVER, 16:49 WASHINGTON. 16:50 IN THE NEXT PICTURE, THESE ARE THE FIRST SIX STUDENTS 16:56 WHO HAVE GONE FROM THE DEAF SCHOOL IN INDIA AND 16:59 THEY WENT TO LAWRY COLLEGE AND THEY, SIX OF THEM, 17:02 HAVE GRADUATED WITH A DEGREE AND THEY ARE ALL 17:06 DEAF. 17:07 YES. 17:07 AND THEY ARE ALL DEAF. 17:08 I'VE BEEN AT THAT SCHOOL UH, I SPENT ABOUT THREE OR 17:10 FOUR DAYS THERE AND OH, I JUST LOVED THOSE KIDS. 17:15 IT WAS SO PRECIOUS BEING THERE. 17:17 NOW THIS IS A DEAF SCHOOL THAT WE ARE QUITE INVOLVED 17:21 WITH-NOT JUST COMING IN AND DOING SOMETHING WE 17:25 ACTUALLY ARE SUPPORTING SEVERAL TEACHERS THERE. 17:28 UH HUH. 17:29 AND THIS IS IN MINDANAO IN THE SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES. 17:33 UH HUH. 17:34 IT IS TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE THERE ARE ONLY 17:36 THREE ADVENTIST SCHOOLS FOR THE DEAF IN THE WORLD. 17:39 AND THIS IS ONE OF THEM. 17:40 THE ONE THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT THIS ONE, AND 17:44 THEN THIS PARTICULAR PICTURE IS FROM GHANA AND 17:51 WE'VE BEEN IN GHANA FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND THIS WAS 17:54 THEIR CAMPMEETING WITHIN A CAMPMEETING. 17:57 I THINK THAT THEY WERE MEETING DURING THEIR 18:00 REGULAR CAMPMEETING AND THIS WAS THE DEAF GROUP 18:03 THIS SUMMER IN GHANA. 18:04 DR. LOY IN THE VERY CENTER, PRETTY WELL IN THE 18:08 CENTER THERE HAS DONE SO MUCH TO FOSTER THE WORK 18:13 THERE IN GHANA. 18:14 WONDERFUL. 18:15 AND IN THE NEXT PICTURE, IS A DIFFERENT LOCATION IN 18:19 GHANA AND THEY HAD A HUGE - I DON'T' THINK THEY 18:24 TAUGHT THEM ALL AT EXACTLY THE SAME TIME BUT THEY HAD 18:27 A SIGNING CLASS AND THEY HAD ABOUT 113 GRADUATES AT 18:31 THE SAME TIME FROM THE SIGNING CLASS. 18:32 AND WE HAD JEFF JORDAN WENT THERE. 18:33 HE IS NOT WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH BUTHE GOES LIKE 18:35 WAS IN AFRICA AND THEY GRADUATED ON DIFFERENT 18:36 LEVELS. 18:37 SO, ALL OF THESE STUDENTS ARE ALL DEAF AND THEY'VE 18:38 ALL GRADUATED -NO THESE ARE HEARING. 18:39 THESE ARE HEARING STUDENTS WHO HAVE GRADUATED FROM 18:41 SIGN - FROM SOME LEVEL OF SIGN LANGUGE. 18:42 WONDERFUL! 18:43 TO BRING NOT ALL OF THEM ARE GOING TO BECOME 18:44 COMPETENT OR TRANSLATORS BUT IT IS A START. 18:46 SURE. 18:47 IN THE NEXT PICTURE, UH, WE SEE JEFF JORDAN ON THE 18:48 LEFT AND HIS INTERPRETER THOMPSON KAY ON THE RIGHT 18:49 AND IT LOOKS LIKE THEY ARE DOING A DRAMA AND THAT WAS 18:50 ON THE SAME TRIP WHEN THEY WENT TO VISIT AND ATTEND 18:52 THE GRADUATION IN GHANA. 18:52 FANTASTIC! 18:53 AND THIS WAS THIS SUMMER AND WITHIN RWANDA AND THEY 19:31 HAD A SPECIAL CAMPMEETINIG THERE FOR SPECIAL NEEDS 19:34 AND YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE WHEELCHAIRS AND SO ON 19:37 THERE. 19:38 AND THERE WERE AS MANY AS 450 PEOPLE THERE IN 19:39 RWANDA. 19:40 THE WORKMUST HAVE BEEN GOING ON AHEAD OF OUR 19:41 WORKER BECAUSE WE'VE ONLY HAD A WORKER THERE FOR 19:42 MAYBE SIX MONTHS OR A YEAR BUT OBVIOUSLY SOMEBODY 19:43 ELSE HAS BEEN DOING SOMETHING TO HELP THE DEAF 19:45 WORK TOO. 19:45 SURE. 19:46 YOU CAN SEE HERE, BLESS THEIR HEARTS, SOME OF 19:47 THOSE GOING TO BE BAPTIZED. 19:48 THEY HAVE THEIR BAPTISMAL ROBES ON. 19:49 IN WHEELCHAIRS HERE THEY'VE COME. 19:51 YES, AND HERE ARE SOME VERY SPECIAL PEOPLE. 19:52 YES. 19:53 AND I WASN'T AT THIS CAMPMEETING BUT THIS WAS 19:54 IN RWANDA. 19:55 DR. EVANS WAS THERE. 19:55 I WANT TO GO TO THIS CAMPMEETING. 19:57 AND THEY WERE OBVIOUSLY SINGING THERE. 19:58 I DON'T HAVE A RECORDING OF THEIR SINGING BUT I'M 19:59 TRYING TO BEGIN TO EMPHASIZE NOT JUST DEAF 20:28 BUT SPECIAL NEEDS EVEN THOUGH WE HAVEN'T AS AN 20:33 ORGANIZATION SAID A LOT ABOUT IT YET. 20:35 I HAVE SOME MORE HERE. 20:37 JANVER ON THE LEFT IS A RELATIVELY NEW WORKER AND 20:43 HE HAS HAD OVER 100 BAPTISMS ALREADY AND HERE 20:46 IS AN INTERPRETER ON THE RIGHT IN THE BLUE WAS A 20:51 MEMBER OF ANOTHER CHURCH AND HE INTERPRETED HIMSELF 20:56 TO SOME EXTENT INTO OUR CHURCH. 20:58 OK. 21:00 AH, THEN IN THE NEXT PICTURE IS DR. LARRY 21:02 EVANS. 21:04 THIS IS THE CAMPMEETING THAT I WAS AT WHERE WE DID 21:06 THE SPECIAL TRAINING OF OUR WORKERS AND THIS WAS 21:08 THE GENERAL PART AND DR. EVANS SPOKE THERE 21:11 EVERYDAY AND THE TRANSLATORS HAD TO 21:13 BE-THERE IS SUCH A LARGE GROUP THERE THAT THEY HAD 21:17 TO PUT THEMSELVES OUT AROUND SO THEY COULD BE 21:20 SEEN BECAUSE YOU CAN ONLY READ FINGER SPELLINGFROM A 21:23 CERTAIN DISTANCE. 21:24 YOU HAVE TO SEE. 21:24 YES. 21:26 AND IN THE NEXT PICTURE HERE IS THE ONE WE SAW IN 21:29 THE MOVIE. 21:30 HERE IS PAT AND YOU CAN JUST SEE THEM - PAT GUSTIN 21:33 SHARING THE STORYTELLING. 21:34 RIGHT. 21:35 AND THIS IS THE BAPTISM THAT WE SAW ON THE VIDEO 21:40 AND THERE WERE PROBABLY TEN OR FIFTEEN 21:44 MULTIHANDICAPPED AND ABOUT 70 DEAF THAT WERE 21:47 BAPTIZED. 21:47 PRAISE THE LORD. 21:48 ON THAT OCCASION. 21:49 PRAISE THE LORD. 21:50 THAT WAS AT NAKARU AND MOST OF THESE. 21:53 NAKARU AND WHERE IS THAT PLEASE? 21:55 IN KENYA, IN KENYA NORTH OF NAIROBI. 21:57 MOST OF THESE PEOPLE WERE DEAF FROM KENYA. 22:04 OUR WORKERS CAME IN FROM ELEVEN OF OUR TWELVE 22:07 COUNTRIES THERE. 22:07 WOW. 22:09 AND THIS MAN IS -I ORIGINALLY ABOUT TEN, 22:16 ELEVEN, TWELVE YEARS AGO I GOT A LETTER FROM HIM AND 22:19 HE WANTED ME TO HELP HIM START OR WORK WITH DEAF 22:24 PEOPLE IN MAMBASA IN KENYA. 22:27 GOD LED THROUGH SOME DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES SO 22:30 HE GOT WORKING FOR A BREAKAWAY GROUP BUT HE NOW 22:36 IS OUR COORDINATOR FOR ALL OF KENYA. 22:39 WOW AND THAT IS HIS DEAF WIFE. 22:41 FAMILY. 22:42 UH HUH. 22:43 SHE HAS LEARNED SIGN LANGUAGE. 22:44 OF COURSE, SHE IS MARRIED TO A DEAF MAN. 22:46 SHE IS HEARING. 22:47 SHE INTERPRETS A LOT FOR DEAF PEOPLE THAT HE MAY BE 22:51 WORKING WITH AND THAT NEED HELP. 22:53 THEY DON'T HAVE ANY MONEY AND THEY HAVE TO GO TO A 22:56 DOCTOR OR GO SOMEWHERE AND SO SHE HAS BEEN DONATING A 22:59 LOT OF HER TIME TO HELPING DEAF PEOPLE. 23:02 AND DO YOU KNOW IF THEIR CHILDREN SIGN? 23:05 I'M GUESSING THEY DO. 23:06 I'M SURE THEY DO. 23:07 I DID NOT SEE ENOUGH OF THEM TO REALLY KNOW. 23:10 AND THE LITTLE BOY, THEY CALL HIM BLAKE. 23:14 OH, THEY DID AFTER YOU. 23:15 JOHN, HOW NICE IS THAT. 23:17 SO, THEY NAMED HIM AFTER YOUR FAMILY NAME, MY 23:21 FAMILY. 23:21 WELL, ISN'T THAT SOMETHING. 23:23 SO, THIS IS A RECORD- BREAKING TIME IN THE DEAF 23:27 MINISTRY WORK HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH IS THAT 23:29 TRUE? 23:29 IN A WAY. 23:30 UM, WE NOW HAVE ABOUT 49 WORKERS AND I THINK WE'RE 23:40 AT FIFTEEN COUNTRIES AND WE ARE WORKING TO GET 23:44 STARTED IN ETHIOPIA. 23:45 AND I -THE ONE I HAVE A PARTICULAR BURDEN FOR AT 23:50 THE MOMENT IS ZAMBIA BECAUSE WE ARE NOT THERE 23:52 YET BUT I KNOW THERE ARE DEAF THERE. 23:55 UH, WE HAVE CALLS FOR TWO WORKERS FOR ANOTHER AREA 24:00 OF NIGERIA. 24:03 ANDTHERE IS A MAN WHO WAS JUST BAPTIZED WHO IS A 24:07 PASTOR OF ANOTHER DENOMINATION AND HE CAME 24:10 TO THE CAMPMEETING WHERE I JUST WAS IN AUGUST-THE ONE 24:13 WE JUST SAW. 24:14 AND I'D LIKE TO SEE HIM AS A WORKER. 24:15 SO, BUT WE NEED MONEY. 24:16 MONEY AND PEOPLE AND RESOURCES ALL OF THAT. 24:17 WE MAY HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO BE ABLE TO START ONE 24:18 NEW WORKER BECAUSE I KNOW WE HAVE SOME MONEY IN 24:20 CANADA, SURE, THAT -BUT IF WE ARE GOING TO REACH THE 24:21 WORLD WE'VE ONLY SCRATCHED THE SURFACE. 24:22 WELL, AND WE NEED TO BE ENCOURAGED. 24:24 THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT TO ENCOURAGE ONE ANOTHER SO 24:25 WE WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU, JOHN AND THANK YOU. 24:29 LOOK WHAT THE LORD HAS DONE AND ALSO THEOTHER 24:39 PEOPLE WHO DO HAVE SPECIAL NEEDS THAT MIGHT HAVE 24:48 GOTTEN THROUGH THE CRACKS IN SOME AREAS. 24:51 WE ARE ALSO WANTING TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE 24:54 INCLUDED AND THAT'S SO HEARTWARMING TO ME TO SEE 24:57 THE PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND, WHO ARE ALSO COMING AND 24:59 BEING INVOLVED. 25:00 YES. 25:01 SOME PEOPLE MAY WONDER CAN DEAF PEOPLE AND BLIND 25:05 PEOPLE AND MULTIHANDICAPPED ALL WORK 25:07 TOGETHER? 25:08 IN SOME AREAS OF THE WORLD, IT WORKS. 25:10 IN SOME AREAS IT IS PROBABLY BETTER TO HAVE 25:13 THE DEAF IN ONE GROUP AND THE MULTIHANDICAPPED 25:17 BLENDED IN WITH THE HEARING BECAUSE THEY'RE 25:21 -THE DEAF FACE VERY UNIQUE PROBLEMS, YES, AND TO 25:27 PENETRATE LIKE IN NORTH AMERICA INTO THE DEAF 25:30 WORLD IF YOU ARE HEARING CAN BE A CHALLENGE BECAUSE 25:35 THE DEAF HAVE THEIR OWN CULTURE AND UNFORTUNATELY 25:39 THEY'VE BEEN MISTREATED SO MANY TIMES THEY TEND TO 25:41 HAVE A BIT OF A SHELL THAT YOU HAVE TO GET THROUGH IF 25:45 YOU ARE HEARING. 25:46 WELL, AND I'VE EVEN NOTICED PEOPLE WHO THEY 25:49 ARE HEARING AS A HEARING PERSON AND IT HAS 25:51 DIMINISHED WITH AGE BEING AROUND EQUIPMENT OR 25:54 WHATEVER IF SOMEONE DOESN'T HEAR SOMEBODY 25:58 ELSE, THE PERSON WHO IS SPEAKING OFTEN TIMES CAN 26:00 GET A LITTLE OFFENDED. 26:02 WELL, IT'S NOT THE PERSON WHO CAN'T HEAR FAULT. 26:05 THEY CAN'T HEAR AND SO IT HAS -THE ISOLATION I CAN 26:10 SEE WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT AND - IN SOME PARTS 26:13 OF THE WORLD I WAS JUST TALKING TO MANZOOR AND HE 26:15 WAS TELLING ME THAT- HE IS ONE OF OUR REGIONAL 26:17 DIRECTORS, YES, IN INDIA. 26:19 SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT THE GOD OR GODS HAVE 26:23 CURSED, RIGHT, THE DEAF OR MAYBE MULTIHANDICAPPED. 26:30 BUT WE KNOW FROM THE GOOD BOOK FROM THE MAN WHO 26:32 HEALS ALL OF US BECAUSE REALLY, JOHN WE ALL HAVE 26:35 SPECIAL NEEDS. 26:36 SOME OF US HAVE SPECIAL NEEDS ON THEINSIDE, SOME 26:38 OF US HAVE SPECIAL NEEDS ON THE OUTSIDE AND SOME OF 26:40 US HAVE BOTH. 26:41 YES. 26:42 AND SO THAT'S WHERE THE LORD COMES IN. 26:45 WELL JOHN, I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR 26:47 SHARING JESUS IN THE 10/40 WINDOW. 26:49 YOU ARE WELCOME. 26:50 AND MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU AND GIVE YOU THE STRENGTH 26:53 AND WE WANT TO ENCOURGE YOU AS YOU GO AND PLEASE 26:56 AGAIN SHARE WITH THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS 26:58 OUR THANKS AND MAY THE LORD ENCOURAGE THEM AS 27:00 WELL. 27:01 SO, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 27:02 AND WE WANT TO SAY THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING A 27:04 PART OF GOSPEL OUTREACH. 27:05 YOU'VE HEARD GREAT THINGS ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN 27:08 THE 10/40 WINDOW AND THESE PLACES IN OUR WORLD WHERE 27:11 PEOPLE WHO STILL NEED TO HEAR JESUS THEY DO NEED TO 27:14 HEAR AND THAT'S UPTO US TO HELP SHARE THAT. 27:17 SO, WE WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR BEING INVOLVED 27:18 HERE AT "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" FOR GOSPEL 27:20 OUTREACH. 27:21 I'M JULIE SANDERS-KEYMER AND MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU 27:23 TODAY. 27:45 [CLOSING MUSIC]. |
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