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Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000773A
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00:01 ONE MISSION. 00:03 THE GREAT COMMISSION. 00:06 TO REACH EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD IN THE 10/40 00:16 WINDOW WITH GOOD NEWS. 00:21 JESUS CHRIST LOVES YOU. 00:25 GOSPEL OUTREACH PRESENTS "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS". 00:32 PARLEZ- VOUS FRANCAIS WELCOME TO "ADVENTURES IN 00:35 MISSIONS" HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:36 I'M JULIE SANDERS-KEYMER AND DO YOU SPEAK FRENCH? 00:39 WELL, MAYBE YOU DO AND WE ARE GLAD THAT YOU HAVE 00:41 JOINED US HERE TODAY BECAUSE I AM SITTING 00:43 BESIDE TWO FRENCH SPEAKERS AND YOU ARE GOING TO LEARN 00:47 MORE ABOUT THEM AND WHY THEY DO SPEAK FRENCH. 00:49 SO, WELCOME, WELCOME, WELCOME. 00:51 RUBY AND JOHN STAFFORD WELCOME TO "ADVENTURES IN 00:55 MISSIONS" MERCI BEAU COUP. 00:57 SOME PEOPLE MIGHT KNOW THAT AND FOR HOW MANY 01:00 YEARS RUBY AND JOHN HAVE YOU SPOKEN FRENCH? 01:04 WELL, THE THING IS I STARTED FRENCH IN ACADEMY 01:08 AND THEN I WENT TO COLLEGE AND I GOT MY MASTERS 01:10 DEGREE AT ANDREWS UNIVERSITY THROUGH 01:13 COLOGNE- A SCHOOL IN FRANCE- A SCHOOL IN 01:17 FRANCE, YOU KNOW AND SO. 01:19 AND THIS IS HOW MANY YEARS AGO? 01:21 AH, OVER FIFTY YEARS AGO. 01:23 THE FIRST WORDS THAT HE TAUGHT ME WERE JE T'AIME 01:26 WHICH MEANS I LOVE YOU. 01:28 GOOD JOB. 01:30 SEE MY BROTHER KNEW THAT I WAS TAKING FRENCH IN 01:32 SCHOOL AND THE GC WAS NEEDING SOMEBODY TO SPEAK 01:36 AND TEACH FRENCH IN RAWANDA. 01:38 THE GENERAL CONFERENCE UH HUH, AND SO THE GENERAL 01:41 CONFERENCE GOT A HOLD OF ME AND BY THAT TIME I WAS 01:44 ENGAGED WITH RUBY AND THEY ASKED IF WE'D BE 01:46 INTERESTED IN GOING TO AFRICA AND WE SAID YES. 01:49 YOU SAID, OUI. 01:50 OUI, OUI. 01:52 BUT RUBY YOU-SO THIS WHOLE FRENCH SPEAKING WAS NEW TO 01:55 YOU. 01:57 I HAD TO LEARN IN FRANCE. 01:59 I WENT TO SCHOOL THE YEAR AFTER WE WERE MARRIED, WE 02:02 WENT TO SCHOOL IN FRANCE FOR HIM TO GET HIS MASTERS 02:04 AND SO I LEARNED SOME FRENCH BUT I REALLY 02:07 LEARNED TO SPEAK IT WHEN WE GOT TO RAWANDA AND 02:09 BURUNDI ESPECIALLY WHEN WE HAD TWO FRENCH GIRLS WHO 02:12 DID NOT SPEAK ENGLISH. 02:14 YES. 02:15 I HAD TO LEARN FRENCH. 02:16 AND YOU HAVE TO AND THAT'S WHY IT IS SO GREAT TO LIVE 02:20 IN - FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN I WAS A STUDENT MISSIONARY I 02:22 HAD HAD MANDARIN CHINESE, MY TEACHER SPOKE MANDARIN 02:24 CHINESE AFTER HE WAS A STUDENT MISSIONARY SO WHEN 02:27 I WAS TEN I LEARNED TO SPEAK SOME MANDARIN 02:29 CHINESE BUT IT WASN'T UNTIL YOU ARE ACTUALLY IN 02:33 THE COUNTRY, YES, YOU HAVE TO BARTER, YOU HAVE TO GET 02:36 YOUR FOOD, THAT'S RIGHT, AND CONVERSATION AND 02:42 THINGS LIKE THAT. 02:44 YOU ARE FORCED. 02:46 YES. 02:47 YOU ARE FORCED TO COMMUNICATE. 02:49 YES, WHICH IS A GOOD WAY TO BE FORCED. 02:51 AND SANGUINE PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND RUBY HAVE TO TALK. 02:52 WE HAVE TO TALK TO PEOPLE, RIGHT RUBY? 02:54 THAT'S RIGHT. 02:55 WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT AS WOMEN THOUGH IT IS AMAZING 02:57 HOW WE CAN COMMUNICATE WITH ANOTHER WOMAN AND WE 02:59 DON'T NEED ANY-YES, YOUR BODY LANGUAGE IS VERY 03:01 --EXACTLY. 03:02 WELL, THE LORD BLESSED BOTH OF YOU WITH 03:03 LINGUISTIC ABILITIES AND WE ARE SO GRATEFUL FOR 03:04 THAT HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH BECAUSE YOU HAVE 03:06 BEEN INVOLVED IN WHAT PART OF THE 10/40 WINDOW? 03:08 WE WERE IN WEST AFRICA, FRENCH SPEAKING WEST 03:11 AFRICA ONLY FOUR COUNTRIES THERE. 03:14 THERE WERE SEVERAL MORE THAN FOUR BUT WE WERE 03:17 ESPECIALLY IN GABON, BENIN, TOGO AND CHAD. 03:21 SO, HOW DOES AFRICAN FRENCH DIFFER FROM, IF IT 03:25 DOES, FROM THE FRENCH THAT YOU LEARNED FOR EXAMPLE, 03:29 IN FRANCE? 03:30 WELL, THEIR FRENCH IS A LITTLE BIT MORE DIFFICULT 03:33 TO UNDERSTAND. 03:34 THE AFRICAN FRENCH? 03:35 THE AFRICAN FRENCH. 03:36 OK. 03:37 BECAUSE WE ALL COME WITH OUR OWN LANGUAGE. 03:39 THEY SAY AFTER THE AGE OF 25 YOU CANNOT LEARN IT 03:41 WITHOUT AN ACCENT. 03:42 INTERESTING. 03:44 SO, AND SO WE WERE THERE BEFORE WE WERE 25. 03:46 WE WERE IN FRANCE AND OUR USING IT FULLTIME IN 03:49 BURUNDI. 03:51 SO, DO YOU HAVE AN ACCENT? 03:53 DO PEOPLE HEAR AN ACCENT? 03:55 I STILL DO SOME. 03:56 OF COURSE. 03:57 OK. 03:58 BUT NOT- THEY CAN NEVER FIGURE OUT WHERE HE IS 04:00 FROM. 04:01 OH REALLY? 04:02 JOHN, THEY THINK HE IS FROM GERMANY OR SOMEPLACE. 04:04 THEY KNOW I'M NOT FRENCH FRENCH BUT MY FRENCH IS 04:05 NOT PERFECT. 04:07 HE COULDN'T BE AN AMERICAN BECAUSE AMERICANS CAN'T 04:09 GET IT RIGHT, YES. 04:11 YOU KNOW, AFTER YOU IF DON'T USE IT YOU LOSE IT 04:13 YOU KNOW, SO IT TOOK AWHILE TO BUILD UP THE 04:18 CORRECT PRONUNCIATION, THE USE OF THE LIPS AND THE 04:21 TONGUE IS QUITE DIFFERENT THAN ANY OTHER LANUAGE. 04:24 WELL, WE ARE THRILLED TO HAVE BOTH OF YOU HERE AND 04:26 WE ARE THRILLED THAT YOU BOTH SPEAK FRENCH AND 04:28 REPRESENTING GOSPEL OUTREACH, CANADA BECAUSE 04:32 GOSPEL OUTREACH, CANADA FOCUSES ON THE CONTINENT 04:35 OF AFRICA AND SO- AND WE ARE JUST TO GLAD TO HAVE 04:38 BOTH OF YOU HERE. 04:39 RUBY, YOU ARE WEARING A VERY DETAILED OUTFIT. 04:42 TELL US ABOUT THAT. 04:44 YES, IT IS ONE OF THE AFRICAN OUTFITS THAT COMES 04:45 ACTUALLY FROM THE COUNTRY OF BENIN BUT, VERY 04:47 BEAUTIFUL, THEY GAVE US OUTFITS TO WEAR ALL THE 04:51 TIME. 04:52 AND THEY ARE OVERSIZED AND SO SHE HAD TO TAILOR HERS. 04:56 WELL, THEY LOOK VERY, VERY COMFORTABLE. 04:59 THEY ARE. 05:00 SO, YOU KNOW ALL OF THIS ASIDE, I FIRMLY BELIEVE 05:04 THAT GOD PREPARES US FOR THESE SITUATIONS AND THE 05:08 FACT THAT YOU BOTH LEARNED TO SPEAK FRENCH AS 05:12 TEENAGERS, EARLY TWENTIES, UM AND THEN ALL THESE 05:15 YEARS LATER HERE GOD IS USINGYOU HERE AT GOSPEL 05:19 OUTREACH. 05:20 UM, AND YOU'VE BEEN ABLE TO GO VISIT AND WE ARE 05:23 GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT A PARTICULAR COUNTRY HERE 05:25 BUT WE JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO BOTH OF YOU 05:27 FOR HAVING THE LORD USE BOTH OF YOU. 05:29 WELL, THANK YOU. 05:30 SO, TAKE US AWAY TO THE COUNTRY THAT WE ARE GOING 05:35 TO BE TALKING ABOUT DURING THIS TIME. 05:38 OK, WE'D LIKE TO HAVE YOU COME WITH US TO TOGO. 05:42 BON VOYAGE. 05:43 WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO TO TOGO? 05:45 OUI, OUI MONSIEUR. 05:46 OK. 05:47 WELL, TOGO IS RIGHT NEXT DOOR-IT IS BENIN'S 05:53 NEIGHBOR AND THOSE TWO LITTLE COUNTRIES, YES, AND 05:59 THEY I REMEMBER YOU SAYING BENIN IS ABOUT THE SIZE OF 06:02 EASTERN WASHINGTON YES,AND SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE MAP 06:05 THERE IT IS JUST THIS TINY BIT SMALLER THAN BENIN BUT 06:09 RIGHT NEXT DOOR AND BECAUSE WE WERE IN BENIN 06:11 WE TRAVELED BY CAR AND WENT BACK TO LOME, TOGO 06:14 WHERE WE HAD FLOWN IN. 06:16 TOGO IS SUCH A COOL NAME. 06:18 IT IS KIND OF FUN TO SAY TOGO. 06:20 AND RUBY, WHO ARE THESE MEN HERE? 06:22 THESE ARE THE MISSION OFFICERS WHO WELCOMED US 06:25 TO THEIR COUNTRY AND WHO PLANNED TO TAKE US 06:33 DIFFERENT PLACES TO VISIT OUR DIFFERENT GOSPEL 06:35 OUTREACH WORKERS AND THEY BROUGHT OUR GOSPEL 06:38 OUTREACH WORKERS IN SO WE COULD DO SOME TRAINING 06:40 WITH THEM WHICH YOU SEE HERE. 06:43 THIS IS THE GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT WE WERE 06:45 TRAINING. 06:46 SO, WE TALK ABOUT THIS A LOT AT GOSPEL OUTREACH AND 06:48 I CONTINUE TO WANT TO UNDERSCORE IT HERE ON 06:51 "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" BECAUSE MAYBE SOMEONE IS 06:53 WATCHING AND SAYING, WOW, YOU FOLKS SEEM TO BE DOING 06:57 TRAINING ALL THE TIME AND THE REASON FOR THAT IS 07:00 WHY? 07:02 THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE GROWN UP-MANY OF 07:06 THE CONVERTS ARE ANIMISTS COMING FROM AN ANIMIST -IN 07:11 THEIR COUNTRY THEY CALL IT VOO DOO WHICH WE WOULD IT 07:15 A FORM OF WITCHCRAFT AND SO MANY OF THE PEOPLE HAVE 07:19 GROWN UP IN THAT -WITH THAT KIND OF BACKGROUND 07:22 AND SO WHEN THEY COME TO BE CHRISTIANS BECAUSE 07:24 THEY'VE SEEN THE POWER OF JESUS THEY NEED TO KNOW 07:28 MORE. 07:29 THEY NEED TO KNOW THE POWER OF GOD'S WORD. 07:31 THEY NEED TO BE INTO GOD'S WORD. 07:32 THEY NEED TO STUDY GOD'S WORD AND THEY NEED TO KNOW 07:35 MORE ABOUT JESUS. 07:37 AND THE POWER THAT HE HAS. 07:38 YES. 07:39 BECAUSE THEY ARE ON FIRE WITH IT BUT THEN, WHERE DO 07:42 I GO AND HAVE -WELL, MANY OF US GO WHERE DO I START 07:46 TO HAVE A BIBLE STUDY WITH SOMEBODY. 07:48 AND SO, WE'LL BE SHARING SOME OF THE STORIES HOW 07:52 THE PEOPLE- THE GOSPEL WORKERS GO FROM DOOR TO 07:55 DOOR AND TELL PEOPLE THERE OF THE LORD. 08:00 WELL, THE COMRADERIE TOO, IS IMPORTANT. 08:02 SO, JOHN, TELL US ABOUT THIS. 08:04 WELL, AFTER WE TRAINED THE GUYS, WE FEED THEM AND 08:08 RUBY TELL US A LITTLE BIT MORE. 08:10 OH, THEY FED US SOME WONDERFUL RICE AND AH, 08:15 THEY HAD A SPECIAL DISH-WE WERE SURPRISED WE DIDN'T 08:19 GET MORE BEANS BUT I THINK THE BEANS JUST WEREN'T AS 08:23 PLENTIFUL, BUT THEY ALSO HAD FISH AND THEY MAKE 08:29 SOMETHING WITH CORNMEAL. 08:31 0-0H INTERESTING. 08:34 THEY MAKE A LITTLE ROUND BALL, OK, AND OF COURSE, 08:35 THEY EAT THAT WITH THE FISH. 08:37 BUT THEY HAD SALADS FOR US TOO, WHICH WE WEREN'T 08:40 ALWAYS TOO SURE, YES, SOMETIMES YOU DO AN EXTRA 08:43 PRAYER OVER THAT, WELL THE COOK LOOKS LIKE A LOVELY 08:45 WOMAN, LOVELY WOMAN. 08:47 AND SO, YOU HAD ABOUT HOW MANY PEOPLE CAME TO THIS 08:50 TRAINING. 08:51 ABOUT 18. 08:53 EIGHTEEN? 08:54 OK. 08:55 AND THEN THEY TOOK US FOR A FIELD TRIP AND THOSE ARE 08:59 SPECIAL THAT WE WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO. 09:01 WE WENT TO VISIT PASTOR KHOFI AND HIS WIFE LYDIA 09:06 AND THEY HAD A BEAUTIFUL CHURCH FAMILY THERE, A 09:12 VERY HAPPY FAMILY. 09:14 THEY GREETED US WITH SONG AND THAT DAY I DECIDED TO 09:22 SPEAK TO THE CHURCH ABOUT THE SAMARITAN WOMAN. 09:24 OH. 09:25 AND BY TELLING STORIES, THAT'S ANOTHER WAY OF 09:29 TELLING THE GOSPEL IS TELLING STORIES. 09:31 YES. 09:32 AND SO, AFTER I TOLD THE STORY I ASKED ONE OF THE 09:39 LADIES IF THERE WAS ANYONE WHO HAD NEVER GONE TO 09:42 SCHOOL BEFORE BUT HEARD THE STORY, UH HUH, TO 09:46 STAND UP AND TELL THE STORY IN HER OWN LANGUAGE. 09:49 OH, INTERESTING. 09:50 AND SO, HERE SHE IS TELLING THE STORY ABOUT 09:54 THE SAMARITAN WOMAN AND SHE WAS GETTING RIGHT INTO 09:58 THE STORY. 09:59 IT WAS JUST NEAT TO SEE HOW THE GOSPEL CAN BE 10:03 TRANSFERRABLE FROM FRENCH INTO A LOCAL DIALECT AND 10:07 THEN THAT PERSON IS NOW TELLING THE STORY TO HER 10:10 OWN PEOPLE. 10:11 OK, SO SHE -NOT ALL OF THESE PEOPLE SPEAK FRENCH? 10:15 NO, AND SO YOU WERE PREACHING IN FRENCH, JOHN, 10:17 YES, AND THEN SHE STOOD UP AND THEN GAVE THE WHOLE 10:21 SERMON AGAIN IN THEIR DIALECT. 10:23 YES. 10:24 THE STORY OF THE SAMARITAN WOMAN. 10:26 AND SO, THIS IS A GREAT METHOD OF, YES, SPREADING 10:29 THE GOSPEL THROUGH STORYTELLING. 10:31 YES. 10:32 AND PEOPLE ALWAYS LISTEN TO STORIES NO MATTER WHAT 10:36 RELIGIOUS BACKGROUND THEY ARE FROM. 10:38 THEY LOVE STORIES. 10:39 NO MATTER WHAT AGE WE ARE, NO MATTER WHERE WE ARE 10:41 FROM, THAT'S RIGHT, WE ALL LOVE A GOOD STORY AND THE 10:45 BIBLE IS FULL OF JESUS' STORIES. 10:47 BEAUTIFUL! 10:50 THAT IS THE FIRST CHOIR WE EVER VISITED OUT IN THE 11:12 BUSH THAT SANG IN FOUR PART HARMONY. 11:17 AND WE VISITED ON A FRIDAY WHICH WAS A VERY DIFFICULT 11:20 DAY TO VISIT, SO MOST OF THE PEOPLE WERE NOT IN THE 11:23 CHURCH BUT THE CHOIR CAME TOGETHER ESPECIALLY JUST 11:26 TO SING FOR US. 11:27 HOW NICE! 11:28 AND PASTOR GAMENTI IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE MISSION 11:33 AND THIS WAS BROTHER WHO IS THE GOSPEL OUTREACH 11:34 WORKER. 11:35 WHAT'S THE SITUATION HERE? 11:36 HIS BROTHER'S NIECE, HIS BROTHER'S DAUGHTER, THIS 11:37 IS PASTOR GAMENTI'S NIECE SHE HAS SICKLE CELL ANEMIA 11:49 AND SO THAT AFTERNOON THEY ASKED US TO GO AND PRAY 11:51 FOR HER AND YOU CAN HEAR HOW, HOW PASTOR GAMENTI 11:57 REALLY GOT INTO PRAYING FOR HIM, PRAYING FOR HER 12:01 AND PRAYER RIGHT THERE OVER SOMEONE WHO NEEDS 12:31 HEALING. 12:31 YES. 12:32 DO WE KNOW HOW THAT YOUNG WOMAN IS? 12:34 WE DON'T. 12:35 NO, BUT SHE IS ONLY FIFTEEN YEARS OLD. 12:36 WE ARE JUST LOOKING FORWARD TO HEARING ABOUT A 12:39 MIRACLE. 12:40 WE ARE PRAYING FOR A MIRACLE FOR HER. 12:41 YES, LET'S CONTINUE TO DO THAT. 12:43 JUST REMEMBER BEAUTY, THAT'S HER NAME BEAUTY. 12:46 BEAUTY. 12:47 SHE IS A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE GIRL, FIFTEEN YEARS OLD. 12:49 BEAUTY. 12:50 AT THE BEGINNING OF THAT PRAYER SESSION- SESSION OF 12:51 PRAYER SHE WAS THE FIRST ONE WHO OFFERED THE 12:53 PRAYER. 12:54 OH, SHE PRAYED FIRST. 12:55 SHE PRAYED SUCH A PRECIOUS PRAYER AND THANKED GOD FOR 12:59 US COMING TO SEE HER. 13:01 AND SHE PRAYED IN FRENCH. 13:02 AS SICK AS SHE WAS. 13:04 WELL, YOU KNOW RUBY, THAT GOES INTO THE SCRIPTURE 1 13:06 THESSALONIANS 5:16 "REJOICE ALWAYS. 13:11 PRAY CONTINUALLY. 13:12 GIVE THANKS IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES FOR THIS IS 13:16 GOD'S WILL FOR YOU IN CHRIST JESUS". 13:18 AND HERE YOU ARE SHARING WITH US ABOUT BEAUTY, 13:21 PRAYING TO THE LORD AND HERE SHE IS ILL. 13:22 WELL, IF YOU HAVE BEEN BLESSED BY WHAT YOU HAVE 13:26 SEEN HERE AND HEARD FROM RUBY AND JOHN AS THEY ARE 13:29 REPRESENTING THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS AND 13:31 SHARING THE STORIES FROM TOGO, WE WANT TO SAY THANK 13:34 YOU FOR BEING A PART OF THE MISSION AND THE 13:38 OUTREACH OF GOSPEL OUTREACH AS PEOPLE IN THE 13:40 10/40 WINDOW LEARN MORE ABOUT JESUS AND WE HAVE 13:43 SOME INFORMATION TO SHARE WITH YOU. 13:46 WHY HASN'T JESUS COME? 13:50 IT'S BECAUSE WE HAVE A JOB TO DO. 13:52 ONE THAT HIS RETURN DEPENDS ON. 13:55 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT CHRIST WILL COME AFTER THE 13:58 GOSPEL HAS BEEN PREACHED IN ALL THE WORLD. 14:02 THE WORLD'S POPULATION EXCEEDS SEVEN BILLION BUT 14:06 THREE BILLION PEOPLE STILL NEED TO HEAR ABOUTJESUS' 14:09 LOVE. 14:11 NINETY-SEVEN PER CENT OF THE UNREACHED PEOPLE LIVE 14:13 IN THE AREA FROM 10 TO 40 DEGREES NORTH OF THE 14:16 EQUATOR FROM WEST AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST, INDIA, 14:21 CHINA TO JAPAN. 14:24 GOSPEL OUTREACH HAS A UNIQUE APPROACH. 14:26 WITH THE SUPPORT OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU, WE SPONSOR LOCAL 14:31 GOSPEL WORKERS IN MORE THAN FIFTY COUNTRIES. 14:35 BECAUSE THEY KNOW THE LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND 14:37 RELIGIONS OF THEIR NEIGHBORS THEY FACE FEWER 14:40 CHALLENGES THAN FOREIGN MISSIONARIES WOULD. 14:42 TOGETHER WITH YOU, WE FUND MORE THAN 2000 BIBLE 14:48 WORKERS BUT MORE ARE NEEDED. 14:51 LET'S REACH THE UNREACHED WITH THE SAVING POWER OF 14:55 GOD'S LOVE. 14:56 JOIN US. 14:58 SPONSOR A BIBLE WORKER. 15:00 DONATE. 15:01 PRAY. 15:06 THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF GOSPEL OUTREACH AND 15:09 MAYBE YOU HAVE A FRIEND THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO 15:11 INVITE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS", 15:14 GOSPEL OUTREACH, HOW YOU CAN ADOPT-A-WORKER AND WE 15:17 WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO GO TO OUR WEBSITE GOAIM.ORG 15:21 FOR MORE INFORMATION AND MAYBE YOU'D LIKE TO 15:24 SPONSOR A BIBLE WORKER FOR YOUR BIBLE STUDY CLASS. 15:28 WE WOULD BE THRILLED IF YOU WOULD DO THAT BECAUSE 15:31 AS YOU HAVE HEARD AND YOU WILL CONTINUE TO HEAR WE 15:34 WANT EVERYBODY IN THE 10/40 WINDOW TO HAVE HEARD 15:37 ABOUT JESUS SO THAT THEY CAN MAKE THE CHOICE TO 15:40 CHOOSE THE LIVING JESUS WHO IS COMING BACK. 15:43 AND TODAY, WE ARE FOCUSING ON THE COUNTRY OF TOGO, 15:46 JOHN AND RUBY STAFFORD WELCOME TO BOTH OF YOU. 15:51 YOU'VE ALREADY SHARED SOME FANTASTIC STORIES OF HOW 15:54 THE LORD IS WORKING WITH THESE BIBLE OUTREACH 15:56 WORKERS AND WE HAVE ABOUT HOW MANY AGAIN IN TOGO? 15:59 ABOUT 18. 16:00 EIGHTEEN BUT WE HAVE ROOM FOR EIGHTEEN MORE AND 16:03 EIGHTEEN MORE. 16:04 YES, MORE AND MORE IF WE COULD GET MORE THE BETTER. 16:08 YES. 16:09 THIS HAS REALLY HELPED THE MISSION TO GROW HAVING 16:11 THESE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS. 16:13 AND THAT'S WHAT WE DO, WE PARTNER WITH THE MISSION 16:15 AND THEN THESE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS THEY ARE 16:17 MEETING THE PEOPLE IN THEIR DAILY LIVES AT THE 16:19 MARKET, AT THEIR -WHEREVER THEY ARE AND SHARING 16:22 JESUS. 16:23 AND MANY OF THEM HAVE BEEN, HAVE JUST BECOME 16:27 CHRISTIANS. 16:28 THEY HAVE LEARNED ABOUT JESUS SO YOU KNOW HOW WHEN 16:30 A PERSON IS NEWLY CONVERTED YOU HAVE THAT 16:34 FIRE, YOU WANT TO TELL OTHERS ABOUT JESUS. 16:37 ABSOLUTELY. 16:39 SO, YOU'VE ALREADY SHARED SOME FANTASTIC STORIES. 16:41 YES, WITH US SHARE SOME MORE PLEASE. 16:43 I WANT TO TELL YOU ABOUT AYAO. 16:45 HE IS A PRODIGAL SON THAT HAS BECOME A GOSPEL 16:50 OUTREACH WORKER AND HE HAD JOINED THE CHURCH WITH HIS 16:55 FATHER AND WITH HIS PARENTS BUT THEN HE LEFT 16:59 THE CHURCH AND WENT OUT INTO THE WORLD AND HE WAS 17:03 SMOKING MARIJUANA BUT WHILE HE WAS PROBABLY 17:07 SMOKING MARIJUANA IN THE FOREST NOT FAR FROM WHERE 17:11 ANOTHER GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER WAS HAVING 17:15 EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS, THEY WERE PROJECTING WITH 17:19 LOUDSPEAKERS THE MESSAGES AND IT WAS A WINDY NIGHT 17:24 AND THE WIND CARRIED THE MESSAGE TO AYAO WHO WAS 17:29 HIDING IN THE FOREST. 17:30 HE HEARD ACTUALLY HEARD THE CALL AND HEARD THE 17:35 SONG ABOUT MARANATHA, JESUS IS COMING AGAIN AND 17:39 HE CAME TO THE CHURCH THAT NIGHT AND HE RETURNED HIS 17:42 HEART TO THE LORD AND NOW HE IS A GOSPEL OUTREACH 17:46 WORKER. 17:47 BUT HE FELT, HE FELT THAT THE WIND THAT IT WAS -HE 17:50 SAID IT WAS ABOUT THREE MILES AWAY SO HE DOESN'T 17:52 BELIEVE IT WAS THE LOUDSPEAKERS. 17:54 HE BELIEVES IT WAS THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT ACTUALLY 17:57 MADE HIM HEAR THESE WORDS. 17:59 SO THAT HE COULD COME BACK TO THE LORD BECAUSE HE HAD 18:00 WANDERED AWAY FROM GOD AND SO HE CAME BACK. 18:01 AND GOD IS IN THE WIND AND HERE GOD MADE SURE THAT 18:04 THE SOUND WAS BEING PROJECTED INSTEAD OF THE 18:09 MARIJUANA SMELL GOING THE OTHER DIRECTION. 18:13 THE HOLY SPIRIT IS LIKE THE WIND ISN'T IT? 18:18 THAT'S WHAT JESUS SAID. 18:20 ABSOLUTELY. 18:21 IT WAS THE WIND. 18:24 WHAT A STORY. 18:25 I'VE GOT ANOTHER INTERESTING STORY TO TELL 18:30 YOU. 18:30 SURE. 18:31 THIS IS SAMUEL TITA OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER 18:36 HERE IS SITTING NEXT TO A LADY THAT NEXT TO RACHEL 18:42 AND PASTOR GAMENTI IS GOING TO TELL RACHEL'S 18:46 STORY. 18:48 GO AHEAD PASTOR. 18:49 OK, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 18:51 AS WE CAN SEE, RACHEL WAS TEN-YEAR-OLD WHEN SHE WAS 18:59 INTRODUCED TO THE ANIMIST SYSTEM, OK, LIKE HER 19:05 DAUGHTER HERE, AND THEN SHE GREW UP AND GOT 19:10 MARRIED. 19:11 NOW, WHEN SHE WAS MARRIED THE HUSBAND HAD TO DO 19:15 ANIMIST THINGS AND NOW FOR SOME YEARS THE FIRST-BORN 19:21 CHILD AND THAT BOY BECAME VERY STUBBORN. 19:26 THEY SENT HIM TO SCHOOL. 19:27 HE COULD NOT SUCCEED. 19:30 THEY SENT HIM FOR TO LEARN AH, TO LEARN 19:34 APPRENTICESHIP, YES APPRENTICESHIP BUT THAT'S 19:41 ONE OF THE WORDS, BUT HE COULD NOT SUCCEED TOO. 19:44 AND THE WORST OF ALL IS THAT HE WAS STEALING THE 19:49 HANDSETS OF THE PEOPLE. 19:50 OH. 19:51 HE WAS -PHONES, PHONES. 19:56 AN IPHONE THAT WAS-OK, SO HE BECAME AN IPHONE THEIF 20:02 AND ANYTIME PEOPLE UM, LOST THEIR IPHONE THEY 20:09 FIND IT WITH HIM. 20:12 YES, SO HE WAS RECOGNIZED AS THE BIGTHIEF IN THE 20:21 VILLAGE. 20:22 NOW, THE FATHER USED TO BEAT HIM FOR THE SPIRIT TO 20:26 LEAVE HIM BUT HE COULD NOT. 20:27 UH HUH. 20:28 AND THEY STARTED GOING TO VOO DOO TO FIND OUT WHAT 20:32 WAS HAPPENING. 20:33 YES. 20:34 THE SPIRIT THAT WAS IN HIM AND THEY WERE TOLD TO DO 20:38 SOME SACRIFICES, OH, AND THEY DID ALL THOSE THINGS 20:44 BUT THEY COULDN'T WORK. 20:46 NO, UNTIL THE GOSPEL OUTREACH EVANGELIST 20:50 PREACHED CONDUCTED A PUBLIC EFFORT-EVANGELISM. 20:53 OK. 20:54 AND THEN THE MONDA COME INTO EACH EVENING THE HEAD 20:58 THAT CHRIST HAS A POWER OVER ALL OTHER POWERS. 21:03 AMEN. 21:04 FOR THAT REASON, SHE CAME TO ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST. 21:07 AMEN. 21:08 AND SHE IS A BAPTIZED MEMBER AND FROM THEN ON, 21:11 THEY PRAY OVER THE YOUNG SON. 21:15 HE STEALS NO MORE. 21:18 AMEN. 21:19 HE IS DOING VERY WELL AND THEY ARE ABLE TO PREPARE 21:21 HIM ALSO FOR THE NEXT BAPTISMAL CEREMONY. 21:25 COULD HE STAND UP? 21:26 WE'D LIKE TO SEE HIS PICTURE. 21:27 YES, HE'S THE ONE. 21:28 YES, THERE HE IS. 21:32 THERES OTHER CHILDREN AND PEOPLE IN THE VILLAGE. 21:36 THE MOTHER HAS EIGHT CHILDREN. 21:37 THE IPHONE THIEF IS NOW CONVERTED AND GOING TO BE 21:41 BAPTIZED. 21:41 RIGHT. 21:42 WITH HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS. 21:45 THESE ARE THE ONES THAT ARE GOING TO JOIN THE 21:53 CHURCH AND THE LADIES ON THE FRONT ROW ARE THEY 21:57 MEMBERS? 21:58 YES, THEY ARE ALL CHURCH MEMBERS. 22:07 AMEN. 22:09 OK AND THE GIRL, IS SHE GOING TO BE BAPTIZED? 22:17 THIS ONE IS YET TO BE BAPTIZED. 22:20 OK, SHE WILL BE BAPTIZED. 22:22 CAN YOU SMILE? 22:23 OK. 22:31 THANK YOU VERY MUCH, PASTOR GAMENTI. 22:33 OK. 22:34 MAY GOD BLESS YOU. 22:37 AMEN, AMEN. 22:40 WOW, A WOMAN WITH EIGHT CHILDREN, YES, AND THAT 22:43 WAS THE MISSION PRESIDENT TALKING AND THEN THE MAN 22:46 IN THE MIDDLE WAS THE CHURCH PASTOR. 22:48 HIS NAME WAS SAMUEL. 22:49 HE IS OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER AND HE HAS BEEN 22:52 WORKING FOR 22 YEARS FOR GOSPEL OUTREACH. 22:56 HE HAS BEEN IN THIS AREA ONLY FOUR MONTHS. 23:00 WOW. 23:01 BUT HE HAS QUITE A GROUP OF PEOPLE NOW AND THAT ARE 23:06 COMING TO HIS VILLAGE AND HE GOES FROM DOOR TO DOOR 23:10 AH, VISITING WITH PEOPLE. 23:13 AND HE'S -THE LORD HAS REALLY USED THIS YOUNG 23:17 MAN. 23:18 YOU CAN SEE HE IS USUALLY FULL OF SMILES, YES, WELL 23:21 I THINK ONCE YOU-ONCE SOMETIMES YOU GET THE 23:24 CAMERA OUT THEN A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE VERY SHY AS A 23:27 YOUNG WOMAN, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG GIRL. 23:29 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPENED DURING THE TIMES 23:32 THAT WE WOULD GO THERE IS THE PEOPLE WOULD SAY, 23:35 MARANATHA, MARANATHA. 23:36 OH- JESUS IS COMING SOON. 23:42 I UNDERSTOOD THAT. 23:46 AND SO, THIS WAS ALMOST EVERY CHURCH THAT WE WENT 23:50 TO THIS IS WHAT THEY WOULD SAY. 23:53 SO, FOR THESE PEOPLE TO HAVE HAD THESE -THE 23:56 STRESSES AND THE ANXIETY AND THIS YOUNG BOY 23:59 STEALING PHONES AND ALL OF THIS TO MAKE THE CHANGE, 24:04 LOOK HOW, WHAT GOD DID FOR THE LIFE OF PAUL AND WHAT 24:08 HE IS DOING IN ALL OF OUR LIVES. 24:09 ONE OF THE STORIES THAT CAME OUT OF THIS CHURCH 24:12 BUILDINGTOO, NEXT DOOR TO THAT CHURCH THERE WAS 24:13 AH-THIS IS THE CHURCH RIGHT THERE AND NEXT DOOR 24:15 TO IT THERE WAS A MAN WHO IS A SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST 24:23 WHO NOW IS A BUILDING CONTRACTOR IN GABON BUT 24:32 HIS PARENTS WHO ARE STILL ANIMISTS AND LIVE IN THIS 24:35 VILLAGE, HE WANTS THEM TO BE CONVERTED AND SO HE 24:39 ACTUALLY IS BUILDING A PARSONAGE BESIDE THIS 24:43 CHURCH SO THAT, SO THAT THE GOSPEL OUTREACHWORKER 24:48 WILL HAVE A PLACE TO LIVE AND THAT THERE WILL BE A 24:50 PASTOR LIVING RIGHT NEXT TO HIS FOLKS, HIS PARENTS. 24:54 WELL, THAT IS FANTASTIC BECAUSE WE HAVE HEARD 24:56 ABOUT OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS AND PASTORS HAVING 24:59 TO DRIVE 86 KILOMETERS ON A MOTORCYCLE ONE 25:02 WAY-YOU'VE SHARED WITH US ABOUT THAT AND SO TO HAVE 25:06 A PARSONAGE RIGHT THERE THAT'S FANTASTIC. 25:07 THIS IS AN EXCEPTION, REALLY, AN EXCEPTIONAL 25:09 THING TO HAVE A LOCAL PERSON WHO IS WELL OFF 25:15 ENOUGH, HAS ENOUGH MONEY TO BUILD A CHURCH, BUILD A 25:18 PARSONAGE AND TO SUPPORT THAT WORK. 25:19 WELL PRAISE THE LORD FOR THAT PERSON. 25:21 SO, IF PEOPLE-WE DON'T KNOW THE NAMES OF HIS 25:24 PARENTS, BUT THESE PARENTS NEED TO BECOME CHRISTIANS. 25:28 THEY'VE NOT MET THE POWER OF JESUS YET. 25:30 HE IS ALSO INVOLVED WITH RADIO MINISTRY TOO. 25:34 OH YES, HE MET ONE, SAMUEL IS SPEAKING ON THE RADIO, 25:37 GOING FROM DOOR TO DOOR HE MET A FELLOW WHEN HE WAS 25:40 TEACHING HIM, STUDYING THE BIBLE WITH HIM AND THE MAN 25:43 SAID TO HIM, YOU NEED TO DO THIS ON THE RADIO AND 25:47 SO HE SAID, WELL, SO NOW- HE HAS A RADIO SHOW. 25:51 YES. 25:52 FOUR TIMES A WEEK HE SPEAKS ON THE RADIO. 25:54 WELL, SEE MAYBE SOMEONE CAN GO AND JUST TURN THE 25:57 DIAL IN THE PARENTS HOUSE. 25:58 THAT'S RIGHT. 25:59 WHO KNOWS? 26:00 GOD HAS A THOUSAND WAYS. 26:02 OR MAYBE THEY NEED A MEGAVOICE WITH BIBLE IN 26:04 LIVING SOUND IN AFRICAN FRENCH, YES ABSOLUTELY. 26:06 SO, THESE STORIES THAT YOU COME BACK AND SHARE AND WE 26:11 KNOW THAT THERE ARE EVEN MORE STORIES THAT THE LORD 26:13 IS DOING AND WE WON'T HEAR THEM ALL HERE BUT WE THANK 26:16 YOU FOR DOING THAT. 26:17 SO, ANY OTHER PICTURES JOHN, THAT YOU HAVE TO 26:20 SHARE WITH US? 26:21 THERE IS ONE PICTURE BUT WE DON'T' HAVE THAT 26:24 PICTURE RIGHT NOW BUT I'D JUST LIKE TO BRIEFLY TELL 26:26 YOU ABOUT ANYES IS AN ELDERLY LADY WHO THE 26:28 GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER CAME TO VISIT HER AND SHE 26:30 ACTUALLY INVITED HIM AND HIS FAMILY TO STAY WITH 26:31 HER, YES, AND SO THEY MOVED IN WITH HER AND SHE 26:33 WAS SO IMPRESSED WITH THEIR STYLE -LIFESTYLE, 26:34 THAT SHE WAS IMPRESSED TO BECOME A SEVENTH DAY 26:35 ADVENTIST. 26:36 SEE, WE BRING PEOPLE INTO OUR HOMES AND WE ARE HOST 26:47 TO THEM. 26:52 WOW. 26:55 WELL, MERCI BEAU COUP TO BOTH OF YOU. 26:57 AND MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU AND THANK YOU FOR SHARING 26:59 WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THESE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS. 27:00 AND WE WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR WATCHING 27:01 "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS", FOR PRAYING AND SUPPORTING 27:03 GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS. 27:04 ON BEHALF OF ALL OF THAT, I'M JULIE SANDERS-KEYMER 27:05 AND MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU TODAY. 27:11 [CLOSING MUSIC]. |
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