Adventures in Missions

Malto Mountain

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00:01 [OPENING MUSIC].
00:01 ONE MISSION.
00:03 THE GREAT COMMISSION.
00:06 TO REACH EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD IN THE 10/40
00:17 WINDOW WITH GOOD NEWS.
00:21 JESUS CHRIST LOVES YOU.
00:26 GOSPEL OUTREACH PRESENTS "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS".
00:33 GREETINGS FROM "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" HERE AT
00:34 GOSPEL OUTREACH.
00:35 I'M JULIE SANDERS-KEYMER AND IN THE BIBLE PAUL HAD
00:38 GREETINGS FOR THE PEOPLE AS HE WROTE LETTERS TO
00:41 THEM.
00:42 IN AUSTRIA, YOU GREET PEOPLE IN GERMAN
00:44 -GREETINGS IN GOD AND IN INDIA AMONG THE CHRISTIANS
00:50 WE ARE GOING TO FIND OUT HOW THEY GREET EACH OTHER.
00:57 SO, BEV THOMPSON AND SHIRLEY PANASUK WELCOME.
00:59 THANK YOU.
01:00 AND SAY ANOTHER GREETING- JOY JE SU.
01:01 AND SAY ANOTHER GREETING JOY IS JE SU.
01:03 SO, JOY IN JESUSAHI.
01:06 SO, SEE WE ARE LEARNING ALL SORTS OF NEW THINGS
01:08 HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH.
01:09 WE LOVE LANGUAGES AND WE LOVE LEARNING ABOUT
01:12 DFFERENT CULTURES DON'T WE HERE AT GOSPEL OUTRACH AND
01:15 IT'S A JOY TO HAVE BOTH OF YOU HERE AND AS ALWAYS YOU
01:18 LADIES LOOK LOVELY.
01:19 SO, WHAT ARE YOU SHARING WITH US TODAY WITH YOUR
01:21 OUTFITS?
01:22 YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER WHEN I FIRST WENT TO INDIA WE
01:26 WENT TO A SCHOOL AND AFTER WE FINISHED GIVING A
01:29 HEALTH TALK WE ASKED," DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS?"
01:33 AND THE TEACHER HIS HAND UP AND SAID," YES, WHAT
01:36 DID YOU LIKE BEST ABOUT INDIA?"
01:39 I WAS NEW IN INDIA AND I THOUGHT OH DEAR, THIS IS A
01:42 TERRIBLE QUESTION FOR ME TO ANSWER.
01:44 I SAID A QUICK PRAYER, GOD HELP ME AND I SAID, "THE
01:49 WAY THE LADIES DRESS" AND YOU COULD JUST SEE THE MEN
01:52 AND THEY ALL SAT UP STRAIGHTER.
01:54 YES.
01:55 THEY KNEW THAT THEIR LADIES DRESSED BEAUTIFULLY
01:56 AND REALLY THE LADIES DO DRESS BEAUTIFULLY.
02:00 YES, THEY DO LOOK COLORFUL AND THESE ARE VERY MODEST
02:04 AND THE EMBROIDERY WORK AND THE SHAWLS AND THE
02:08 SARIS- OH, WE SAW SOME GORGEOUS SARIS THIS TIME.
02:12 OH.
02:13 I LOVE THE BLUES AND YOUR PINK IS LOVELY.
02:16 SO WELL, THANK YOU FOR BOTH BEING HERE AND AS I
02:19 AFFECTIONATELY REFER TO YOU SINCE I DID REFER TO
02:21 PAUL IN THE BIBLE AS THE PAULINE AND THE BARBIE-
02:24 PAUL AND BARNABAS GOING TO INDIA.
02:27 I THINK IT IS WONDERFUL THAT THE TWO OF YOU WERE
02:29 ABLE TO TRAVEL TOGETHER.
02:30 BEV, YOU ARE THE DIRECTOR HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH.
02:32 YES, BUT AM VERY BLEST WHEN I HAVE SHIRLEY WITH
02:35 ME.
02:35 YES.
02:36 AND I ENJOY IT, I LOVE IT.
02:38 WELL, I KNOW THAT BOTH OF YOU ARE DOING A GREAT WORK
02:41 FOR THE LORD AND YOU HAVE A SPECIAL PLACE TO SHARE
02:44 WITH US TODAY.
02:46 SO, WE DO HAVE SOME INFORMATION ON INDIA AND
02:49 WE'LL SHARE A MAP WITH YOU IF YOU ARE NOT FAMILIAR
02:52 WITH INDIA-POPULATION OF 1.3 BILLION AND DID YOU
02:56 HEAR THE" B" IN BILLION?
02:58 CHRISTIAN 1.2 PER CENT BEV, YES, 1.2 PER CENT.
03:03 IN MY REGION, NORTHEAST INDIA IT IS EVEN LESS THAN
03:07 THAT.
03:07 WHY IS THAT?
03:08 BECAUSE HEAVILY HINDU?
03:10 THERE IS A LOT OF HINDUS, THERE IS A LOT OF MUSLIMS
03:13 AND CHRISTIANITY HAS NOT MADE IT UP TO THE NORTH AS
03:17 MUCH AS IT HAS IN THE SOUTH.
03:19 INTERESTING, SO HENCE THE NEED FOR MORE GOSPEL
03:21 OUTREACH WORKERS RIGHT?
03:22 THAT'S RIGHT.
03:24 SO, AS ALWAYS YOU HAVE SOME GREAT PHOTOS TO SHARE
03:26 WITH US.
03:27 YES, WE ARE GOING TO GO TO THE MALTO MOUNTAINS.
03:32 MALTO AS IN MALTO.
03:33 OK AND GREAT AND WE WERE ON THE PLANE AND WE WERE
03:37 TOLD THAT WE WERE GOING TO THE MALTO MOUTAINS.
03:41 I HAD BEEN THERE TWO OR THREE TIMES BEFORE AND THE
03:47 FIRST TIME I WENT WE HAD TO WALK UP THE MOUNTAIN
03:49 FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF TO TWO HOURS.
03:52 THE NEXT TIME WE WENT UP WE WENT UP PART WAY IN A
03:54 VEHICLE AND THEN HAD TO WALK THE LAST, PROBABLY
03:57 HALF HOUR TO AN HOUR.
04:00 BECAUSE IT IS SO-THE ROADS ARE INADEQUATE AND NO
04:03 ROADS.
04:04 NO ROAD GOING UP THERE.
04:05 OK.
04:06 THERE IS A PATHWAY AND IT WAS A PATHWAY FOR YOU TO
04:08 BE ABLE TO WALK ON.
04:09 THIS WAS THE LOWLANDS AND THE FARMING WORK IN THE
04:15 LOWLAND THERE AND AS WE WENT CLOSER TO THE
04:18 MOUNTAINS, AH YOU CAN SEE THERE WAS FARM MACHINERY
04:22 ON THE DIRT ROAD THERE AND THEN AS WE WENT UP ON TO
04:28 THE MAIN ROAD THERE IS A PAVED ROAD.
04:32 THIS IS A VERY STEEP HILL THAT WE ARE ON HERE.
04:35 IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT WITH THE PICTURE BUT THAT
04:38 MAN IS CARRYING A LOAD OF YOU MIGHT SAY WOOD CHIPS.
04:41 OK.
04:43 A LITTLE BIT OF LIGHT GARBAGE BUT IT IS WHAT
04:46 THEY CAN BURN WHEN THEY DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ELSE.
04:49 THAT'S A BIG LOAD, YES.THAT'S A BIG LOAD.
04:50 IT'S A BALANCING ACT THERE - HERE IS ANOTHER
04:53 BALANCING ACT.
04:54 LOOK AT THAT LOAD, THAT IS COAL AND THEY HAVE
04:57 ACTUALLY THESE ARE COAL THIEVES, THEY CALL THEM,
05:00 BECAUSE WHEN THEY COME FROM THE MINES THE BIG
05:03 TRUCKS COME FROM THE MINES THEY ARE OVERLOADED AND SO
05:06 WHEN THEY STOP IMMEDIATELY AFTER THEY GET OUT AND
05:09 THESE THIEVES CRAWL UP IN THE TRUCKS AND THROW OVER
05:12 BUNDLES OF COAL FOR THEM TO PUT INTO THEIR SACKS
05:16 AND THEN THEY CARRY THEM ON THEIR BICYCLES AND THEY
05:19 EARN THEIR 150 RUPEES.
05:22 SO, THEY WILL IN TURN SELL THOSE IN THE VILLAGE
05:24 SHIRLEY?
05:25 YES, THEY ACTUALLY WE STAYED AT A SCHOOL AND I
05:28 SAW THESE BIG CHUNKS OF COAL AND I SAID, "WHERE
05:32 DID YOU GET THESE?"
05:33 THINKING YEA, MAYBE THEY GOT IT FROM ONE OF THESE
05:36 BAGS?
05:37 YES, AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHERE THEY BUY IT FROM,
05:40 WOW, AND YOU CAN SEE HERE THEY ARE REALLY LOADED.
05:42 THEY ARE UP TO 1000 POUNDS OF COAL ON THOSE BIKES.
05:46 THAT'S -AND THEY ARE PUSHING THEM UP THE HILL.
05:49 OH, MY AND HOLDING THEM AS THEY GO DOWN THE HILL.
05:53 OH.
05:54 THIS TRUCK WAS PARKED WHEN WE SAW IT BUT I THOUGHT IT
05:58 WAS VERY INTERESTING AH, WHAT THEY HAVE FOR THEIR
06:01 BUMPER ON THE BACK.
06:02 YOU CAN READ THAT?
06:03 OR JUST FIGURE IT OUT.
06:05 YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT THE TIRES - WOW BEV, I AM
06:08 IMPRESSED WITH YOU.
06:09 NOT QUITE.
06:11 NO, THOSE TIRES ARE GOOD BUMPERS.
06:13 THEY DON'T SCRATCH ANYONE'S CAR.
06:15 YOU KNOW WHAT, MAYBE HERE IN AMERICA WE NEED TO GET
06:18 SOME OF THOSE.
06:19 HERE IS GRANDPA WITH SON AND GRANDAUGHTER ON THE
06:22 FAMILY CAR?
06:23 RIGHT.
06:24 AND THE TRUCKS, THE TRACTORS, THEY REALLY
06:30 CARRY HEAVY LOADS.
06:31 THIS IS ONE FILLED WITH GRAVEL.
06:34 THEY WILL HAVE SAND OR GRAVEL OR STONE UH, THEY
06:38 CARRY LOTS OF HEAVY GOODS.
06:40 AND YET THERE IS AN OX CART.
06:42 THERE IS THE OXEN IN INDIA.
06:44 IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE TRACTOR, YOU USE THE OXEN
06:48 OR THE BIKE.
06:49 UH HUH.
06:50 OR THE MOTORCYCLE OR THE WHATEVER.
06:52 WHATEVER YOU HAVE.
06:53 OR THEN YOU DO THIS LADIES, YES, THESE LADIES
06:57 ARE CARRYING HEAVY, HEAVY LOADS ON THEIR HEADS WITH
06:59 JUST A CLOTHBOUND DONUT TO SUPPORT THEM AND THEY GET
07:04 UP EARLY IN THE MORNING AND THEY CUT THESE
07:06 BRANCHES DOWN AND THEN BUNDLE THEM UP SO THEY CAN
07:08 CARRY THEM THIS WAY.
07:10 SO, ARE THEY SELLING-ARE THEY TAKING THEM TO TOWN
07:12 TO SELL?
07:12 OR?
07:13 YES.
07:14 OK.
07:15 NOW THE LADIES HERE HAVE STOPPED AND RESTED THEIR
07:17 HEADS FOR A LOAD AND THEN THEY WILL WALK THE REST OF
07:20 THE WAY.
07:21 I WONDER HOW MUCH THOSE WEIGH?
07:22 CAN YOU IMAGINE THE WEIGHT ON THEIR NECK?
07:25 AND THEIR VERTEBRAE AND ALL THIS AND DOWN THE
07:27 ROAD, OH DEAR.
07:28 THIS WHERE THEY DELIVER THEM IN TOWN AND THERE
07:31 WILL BE A WHOLESALE MARKET FOR THEM TO BE ABLE TO
07:33 SELL THE WOOD THEY HAVE COLLECTED.
07:35 SO, THIS IS THE WOOD THAT PROBABLY WOULD USE IN
07:37 THEIR HOUSE FOR THEIR COOKING, RIGHT, THEIR DAL
07:39 AND THEIR CURRIES.
07:41 RIGHT.
07:42 OK.
07:42 SO, LET'S THINK ABOUT THAT.
07:43 THE NEXT -AND I KEEP SAYING THIS EVERY TIME I
07:45 SIT IN THIS SEAT, AS WE GO AND TURN OUR ELECTRIC, GAS
07:48 STOVES ON I MEAN REALLY, THAT JUST THINK WHAT THEY
07:49 HAVE TO GO THROUGH TO BOIL WATER OR START A BOWL OF
07:56 CURRY OR EVEN TO GET SOMETHING TO MAKE A FIRE
08:00 WITH.
08:00 YES.
08:01 OH SURE.
08:02 I WANTED YOU TO NOTICE THE OTHER USES OF THE PAVED
08:07 ROAD.
08:08 THE COWS WILL MOVE-IT IS JUST AS MUCH THEIR ROAD AS
08:12 IT IS OURS.
08:13 ABSOLUTELY, MOVE OVER.
08:14 AND THEY ARE TRANSFERRING THEM FROM ONE PASTURE TO
08:16 ANOTHER HERE SO THE ROAD IS A VERY CONVENIENT
08:19 PLACE.
08:20 AND THEN THERE IS ALWAYS PEOPLE WHO ARE
08:22 WALKING-PEDESTRIANS.
08:25 THE ROAD IS MEANT FOR EVERYONE.
08:28 I THOUGHT IT WAS INTERESTING TO SEE THIS
08:31 TOMATO, POTATO, GREEN BEAN LOCAL COMMODITIES AND HIS
08:37 SCALE THERE.
08:38 I DON'T KNOW IF HE IS HOLDING IT IN THE MIDDLE
08:40 OR NOT BUT HE'S HOLDING IT.
08:44 THE CAULIFLOWER AT THIS TIME OF YEAR WERE
08:46 ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS.
08:48 OH YUM.
08:49 YES, AND I'VE HAD CURRY MADE FROM CAULIFLOWER.
08:52 THAT'S GOOD.
08:53 THESE LADIES ALL HAVE THEIR WARES IN SACKS AND I
08:57 THOUGHT THEY REALLY DON'T LOOK VERY HAPPY.
09:00 THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT.
09:02 THEY LOOK STRESSED.
09:03 YES.
09:04 AND THEN THIS IS THE MEAT MARKET AND YOU CAN SEE THE
09:08 SKULL ON THE MAT THERE AND THERE IS A GOAT WAITING
09:11 FOR HIS TURN IN THE BACKGROUND.
09:15 SO, THE LOCAL GROCERY STORE RIGHT THERE.
09:17 AND THERE IS WHERE WE BOUGHT SOME PEANUTS FROM
09:20 THEM.
09:20 OH GREAT.
09:22 AH, HE GAVE US SOME TO TASTE UH HUH, AND THEY
09:25 TASTED REALLY GOOD AND I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW WHAT?
09:27 I THINK I'D LIKE TO TAKE SOME OF THOSE HOME AND OR
09:32 ROAST THEM AND SO WE DID AND THE DEAR PASTOR'S WIFE
09:36 WHO WE WERE WITH WHAT DID SHE SAY?
09:38 SHE ROASTED THEM FOR US.
09:39 OH GOOD.
09:40 IN A FRYING PAN.
09:40 OH GOOD.
09:41 I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO SAY THAT SHE DIDN'T
09:43 THINK YOU SHOULD EAT THEM AND OH, BUT THEY ARE SO
09:45 GOOD.
09:46 NO, NO, NO THEY WERE DELICIOUS.
09:47 THEY REALLY WERE.
09:48 YES.
09:48 I LOVE TO TRY NEW FOODS.
09:51 I DON'T IMAGINE THAT YOU CAN GUESS WHAT THIS IS.
09:55 NO.
09:56 IT's A BEER PARLOR.
09:58 OH, IT IS RIGHT THERE.
09:59 AND THIS IS AT NINE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING.
10:02 UH OH.
10:03 THE LADIES MAKE THEIR BREW AND THEY BRING IT OUT AND
10:07 TRY TO GET THE MEN TO PURCHASE THEIR WARES.
10:10 AND THEY DRINK ALL DAY LONG AND THEN BRAWL ALL
10:15 NIGHT LONG.
10:16 I MEAN SOMETIMES IT IS SO NOISY AT NIGHT YOU JUST
10:19 WONDER WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE THEY DOING?
10:22 SO, HERE UNFORTUNATELY THEY ARE DRINKING INSTEAD
10:24 OF GOING TO WORK AND SO THEN THAT AFFECTS THE
10:26 POVERTY LEVEL.
10:27 EXACTLY.
10:29 THE WAY THEY -WHAT THEY MAKE THEIR BEER OUT OF IN
10:32 THIS AREA, DATE PALM SAP.
10:35 DATE PALM SAP.
10:37 THEY CUT A WEDGE IN THE TRUNK AND PUT A BUCKET
10:40 BELOW IT TO CATCH THE DRIPS AND IT RUNS AT
10:44 NIGHT.
10:45 IT DOESN'T GO DURING THE DAY AND SO THEY COME IN
10:48 THE MORNING AND TAKE THE TAP DOWN.
10:51 OH INTERESTING.
10:52 AND THEN THE WOMEN BOIL THIS STUFF DOWN, MAKE IT
10:55 INTO BEER AND TAKE IN THESE BIG POTS, WOW, ALONG
11:00 THE ROAD AND THE MEN COME ALONG AND BUY IT.
11:04 AND THEN ALL DAY LONG -WOW.
11:05 WELL, I KNOW BEV, THAT YOU HAVE HAD HEALTH TALKS AND
11:08 THINGS LIKE THAT WITH YOUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS
11:10 AND THIS IS ONE OF THEM.
11:11 THE BIGGEST CURSE OF THE WORLD IS ALCOHOL.
11:13 THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF OUR ROAD GOING UP TO MALTO
11:17 MOUNTAIN.
11:18 NOW, THE ROAD WAS SO ROUGH THAT I COULDN'T TAKE
11:21 ANOTHER PICTURE.
11:22 THIS WAS IT.
11:23 BECAUSE YOU WERE BUMPING SO MUCH YOU COULDN'T HOLD
11:26 THE CAMERA STRAIGHT.
11:28 I THINK THE DRIVER ALSO WAS SORT OF ANXIOUS FOR US
11:31 TO GET THERE.
11:32 HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT THE CLOCK.
11:35 I DON'T KNOW, BUT HE WANTED TO SHOW HOW GOOD HE
11:37 COULD GET US THERE.
11:37 OK.
11:38 HOW QUICKLY AND EFFICIENTLY.
11:39 OK.
11:40 THERE WAS A PILE OF GRAVEL IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS
11:41 PATH, I CALL IT.
11:42 SHE CALLS IT A ROAD, I CALLED IT A PATH AND SO
11:50 WHAT'S HE GOING TO DO WITH THIS PILE OF GRAVEL?
11:55 HE TRIES TO DRIVE RIGHT OVER IT.
11:57 WELL, IT WAS TOO MUCH SO HE HAD TO BACK UP AND
12:02 DRIVE AROUND THE SIDE BUT HE STILL HAD ONE TIRE TO
12:07 GO OVER THE TOP.
12:08 OK AND I HOPE YOU LADIES DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING
12:10 BECAUSE THAT WAS PROBABLY HIS BIG HIGHWAY.
12:12 NO, I FELT LIKE SAYING I COULD HAVE TOLD YOU SO BUT
12:16 WHEN WE ARRIVED AT THE VILLAGE THE CHILDREN ARE
12:18 THE FIRST TO GREET US.
12:19 OH, LOOK AT THEM.
12:19 YES.
12:20 AND YOU CAN TELL THEY ARE ALL DRESSED UP IN THEIR
12:21 VERY BEST AND THEY LOOK SO GORGEOUS.
12:24 THIS WAS THE FIRST VILLAGE.
12:25 YES.
12:26 PASTOR KISKU ON THE RIGHT THERE HE GOT OUT AND
12:28 GREETED THIS COUPLE- ONE OF THE FIRST ADVENTISTS
12:38 THERE.
12:40 OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS ARE HERE AND THEY
12:44 ARE PREPARING TO WELCOME US IN THEIR TRADITIONAL
12:47 WAY.
12:48 YOU SEE, THEY HAVE DISHES OF MARIGOLD PETALS AND
12:52 THEY ARE THROWING AT US AND FOLLOW US AS WE GO,
12:56 HOW NICE, AND THE WOMEN ARE DANCING IT IS
13:00 BEAUTIFUL.
13:01 NOT IN DANCES WE KNOW, YOU KNOW THEY JUST PUT THEIR
13:03 ARMS IN AROUND EACH OTHER AND SWAY BACK AND FORTH.
13:07 THAT'S BEAUTIFUL WITH THE SARIS-ALLTHE COLOR.
13:09 WELL, TWO STEPS FORWARD ONE STEP BACK, TWO STEPS
13:13 FORWARD ONE STEP BACK.
13:14 OH INTERESTING.
13:15 AND THEY DO A CERTAIN BOUNCE WITH IT AND YOU CAN
13:20 SEE THEIR ARMS ARE LINKED TOGETHER.
13:22 SO, THIS IS THE WHOLE VILLAGE WELCOMING YOU.
13:24 YES, YES.SO, THEY GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS ARE THESE
13:27 ALL CHRISTIANS IN THIS VILLAGE OR ARE THEY KNEW
13:30 THAT FOREIGNERS WERE COMING?
13:32 THEY KNEW THAT WE WERE COMING AND THEY WERE ALSO
13:35 HAVING A BAPTISM SO I LIKE TO SAY IT WAS FOR THE
13:38 BAPTISM.
13:40 ABSOLUTELY BUT IT WAS FOREIGNERS COMING TO THEM
13:43 ALSO, RIGHT, AND THEY HAD JUST GONE ALL OUT IN THEIR
13:47 PREPARATIONS FOR US COMING.
13:49 WOW.
13:50 THEY WORE THEIR BEST.
13:51 THEY GAVE US THEIR BEST.
13:52 THEY TOO, WASHED OUR FEET.
13:56 THEY GAVE US GARLANDS.
13:59 THEY DIDN'T GIVE US A GIFT THERE FORTUNATELY.
14:02 YOU CAN SEE HERE THE MARIGOLDS ON THE
14:04 CHILDREN'S HEADS.
14:05 YES.
14:06 THE PARENTS LIKE TO MAKE THEIR CHILDREN HAPPY TOO
14:10 AND SO GIRLS ARE COATED WITH MARIGOLD PETALS.
14:14 WELL, BEAUTIFUL.
14:15 ABSOLUTELY STUNNING WITH THE GIRLS.
14:19 IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW OLD THEY ARE, THEY ALL STILL
14:21 LIKE TO HAVE SOME MARIGOLDS THROWN ON THEM.
14:24 ABSOLUTELY.
14:24 HOW SPECIAL.
14:25 HOW SPECIAL AND WE WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR BEING A
14:27 PART OF "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" HERE AT GOSPEL
14:29 OUTREACH AND IF YOU ARE ENJOYING WHAT YOU ARE
14:31 HEARING AS WE GET IN NOW TO TALK ABOUT THE GOSPEL
14:34 OUTREACH WORKERS HERE IN MALTO MOUNTAIN, WE WANT TO
14:37 SHARE WITH YOU HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED AND SUPPORT
14:39 THIS WORK IN INDIA.
14:41 LET'S GO INTO ALL THE WORLD AND SHARE THE GOSPEL
15:06 TO ALL PEOPLE.
15:13 THERE ARE ABOUT THREE BILLION PEOPLE IN THE
15:25 10/40 WINDOW WHO STILL NEED TO HEAR AND KNOW
15:30 JESUS LOVES THEM.
15:32 TOGETHER WITH THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS LET'S
15:36 FULFILL CHRISTS COMMISSION.
15:37 YOU CAN PRAY, VOLUNTEER OR SUPPORT A BIBLE WORKER TO
15:43 SHARE JESUS WITH OUR NEIGHBORS SO THAT ALL WILL
15:49 KNOW JESUS LOVES THEM, HE DIED FOR THEM AND HE IS
15:55 COMING SOON.
15:56 JESUS DOES LOVE YOU.
15:58 JESUS LOVES ALL OF US AROUND THE WORLD AND HERE
16:01 AT GOSPEL OUTREACH WE TAKE THAT VERY, VERY SERIOUSLY
16:04 BECAUSE IT SAYS, GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD.
16:07 IT DOESN'T SAY THAT GOD LOVED THE WORLD, IT SAYS
16:09 GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE USJESUS AND
16:13 WE WANT TO SHARE JESUS IN THE 10/40 WINDOW FROM WEST
16:16 AFRICA ALL THE WAY THROUGH AFRICA, THROUGH INDIA
16:18 WHERE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT TODAY, PAKISTAN, THAILAND,
16:22 CAMBODIA, THE PHILIPPINES AND ITJUST GOES ONE AND
16:26 MILLIONS, BILLIONS OF PEOPLE AND WE DO WANT TO
16:29 SAY THANK YOU FOR BEING INVOLVED AND WE WOULD LIKE
16:31 TO COMMUNICATE WITH YOU.
16:33 IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE OUR NEWSLETTER, WE'D BE
16:35 HAPPY TO SEND THAT TO YOU AND WE ALSO HAVE A
16:37 FACEBOOK PAGE AND WE WANT TO BE FRIENDS SO "LIKE" US
16:40 ON THE GOSPEL OUTREACH FACEBOOK PAGE AND MAYBE
16:43 YOU ARE ON INSTAGRAM AND WE ARE THERE AS WELL.
16:45 SO, WE WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU DO TO
16:48 CONTINUE TO SUPPORT GOSPEL OUTREACH.
16:50 SO, SHIRLEY PANASUK AND BEV THOMPSON WELCOME BACK
16:53 TO "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS".
16:55 THANK YOU, IT IS GOOD TO BE HERE.
16:56 IT IS ALWAYS GREAT TO HAVE YOU.
16:57 SO, WE ARE TRAVELING TO AN AREA OF INDIA WHERE YOU
17:00 ARE THE DIRECTOR, BEV, CALLED MALTO MOUNTAIN.
17:04 MALTO MOUNTAIN AND THEY GATHER TOGETHER IN THIS
17:08 PATHWAY AND YOU CAN SEE THIS PATHWAY IS CROWDED
17:12 WITH PEOPLE.
17:13 WE WERE LED BY SOMEDRUMMERS AND THEN THE
17:15 DANCERS AND SOME CHILDREN AND WE WALKED SLOWLY,
17:19 SLOWLY THROUGH THE WHOLE VILLAGE AND YOU CAN SEE
17:22 THEY HAVE BANANA PALMS LINING BOTH SIDES OF THE
17:27 PATHWAY.
17:28 YES.
17:29 I COUNTED THEM LATER AND ICOUNTED OVER 40 PLANTS
17:33 THAT WERE STUCK IN THERE JUST FOR DECORATION.
17:36 OH INTERESTING.
17:38 SO BEAUTIFUL.
17:39 I FELT VERY HONORED AND AT THE END WE'D GO UP LITTLE
17:45 BIT OF A HILL WHERE THE CHURCH IS AND YOU CAN SEE
17:48 THEY HAVE AN ARCHWAY THEY'VE MADE SPECIAL FOR
17:51 US TO GO THROUGH AND THEN WE COME TO THE CHURCH AND
17:59 JUST BEFORE WE GO TO THE CHURCH, WE GET OUR FEET
18:02 WASHED AND OUR LEGS WASHED TO OUR ANKLES.
18:07 WE GET GARLANDS PLACED AROUND US AND THEN WE GO
18:12 INTO THE CHURCH.
18:14 WE GOT THREE OR FOUR GARLANDS A PIECE AND THEY
18:18 WERE BEAUTIFUL.
18:19 ACTUALLY, THE FIRST GARLAND WAS SO BEAUTIFUL
18:21 AND THEN THEY PUT MORE ON TOP OF THOSE.
18:23 THEY ARE STACKED UP ON YOUR NECK WITH.
18:26 THEY ARE HEAVY.
18:27 OH, I BET.
18:28 THESE ARE LIVE FLOWERS.
18:29 BEAUTIFUL.
18:30 AND THEN THEY SANG A GROUP OF THEM A WELCOME SONG
18:34 THAT THEY HAD MADE UP THEMSELVES AND JUST BEFORE
18:37 GOING INTO THE CHURCH.
18:38 IT WAS BEAUTIFUL.
18:39 THIS WHOLE WELCOME SONG, WE REALLY DON'T DO THAT
18:41 HERE IN OUR CULTURE BUT IN ASIA THEY DO THESE WELCOME
18:45 SONGS.
18:46 YES.
18:46 AND I JUST THINK THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL.
18:48 EVERYBODY KNOWS THEM.
18:48 YES.
18:49 HERE'S YOUR SAYING A CUSTOM ONE.
18:51 WELL, THEY MAKE THE WORDS UP SPECIAL FOR YOU AND THE
18:55 CHILDREN WERE OBVIOUSLY ALREADY IN THE CHURCH WHEN
18:58 WE WERE TRYING TO GO IN.
18:59 ALL THE FLIPFLOPS.
19:01 YES.
19:02 AND INSIDE THE CHURCH IS HIGHLY DECORATED.
19:04 THIS WAS JANUARY AND SO SOME OF THE DECORATIONS
19:07 ARE PUT UP FOR CHRISTMAS.
19:08 OK.
19:09 SO, LEFT OVER.
19:10 I LIKE THAT.
19:11 OH, THERE ARE THE GARLANDS, SHIRLEY THAT YOU
19:12 WERE TALKING ABOUT.
19:14 SO, WHO ON THE OTHER SIDE OF BOTH OF YOU, OK PASTOR
19:17 KISKU IS ON OUR LEFT AND ON THE RIGHT IS HIS WIFE
19:21 MARTHA?
19:22 THEY ARE OUTSTANDING TRULY, TRULY, WONDERFUL,
19:28 WONDERFUL EVANGELISTS FOR JESUS CHRIST AND THEY
19:31 SUPERVISE OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS.
19:34 NOW INSIDE THIS CHURCH WHEN EVERYONE GETS INSIDE,
19:37 YOU CAN SEE HOW CROWDED IT IS.
19:39 EVERYONE IS CROWDED INTO THIS CHURCH.
19:42 AND THERE ARE HOW MANY GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS
19:44 BEV, IN THIS AREA?
19:44 TWO.
19:45 TWO.
19:46 AND HERE ARE THE LITTLE ONES.
19:47 THEY ARE THE CUTE ONES AND THEY ARE THE ONES THAT SIT
19:50 RIGHT ON THE FRONT ROW AND JUST STARE AT EVERYTHING
19:53 YOU DO.
19:53 YES.
19:54 PRECIOUS LITTLE ONES.
19:55 AND THIS IS A GROUP OF SEVENTEEN YOUNG PEOPLE WHO
20:01 ARE BEING BAPTIZED TODAY.
20:03 OK.
20:04 SO THAT WAS THE REASON FOR YOUR VISIT TO SEE THE
20:05 GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS AND TO SEE THE BAPTISM.
20:08 THIS IS A BIG THING IS TO SEE THE BAPTISM.
20:10 FOR ME, IT WAS TO SEE THE BAPTISM, FOR THE VILLAGERS
20:13 IT WAS BOTH THE BAPTISM AND SEEING THE FOREIGNERS.
20:16 OH YES.
20:17 BUT YOU KNOW, WHAT A GREAT WITNESS FOR THEM TO SEE
20:20 ALL OF THE CELEBRATION OF A PIVOTAL POINT OF WHEN
20:23 YOU ACCEPT JESUS.
20:24 AND FOR THESE PEOPLE AGAIN, WE NEED TO
20:26 EMPHASIZE THAT THESE PEOPLE ARE COMING FROM A
20:30 WHOLE DIFFERENT WALK OF LIFE THAN WE ARE.
20:32 THAT'S RIGHT.
20:33 AND HERE THEY ARE TAKING THEIR BAPTISMAL VOWS AND
20:35 WITH EVERY VOW THEY RAISE THEIR HAND.
20:37 IT IS BEAUTIFUL THE PREPARATION THAT IS DONE.
20:41 NOW, WE GO FOR A WALK DOWN TO THE WATERHOLE.
20:44 DOWN TO THE RIVER.
20:45 BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN GOING UP, UP, UP NOW WE HAVE TO
20:49 GO DOWN AND IT WAS- BAMBOO LOOKS LIKE, UHHUH, YES, IT
20:53 WAS QUITE A PRECARIOUS PATHWAY.
20:56 IT WAS.
20:57 IT WAS SLIPPERY WITH THE LEAVES AND IT WAS ROCKY SO
21:01 YOU DIDN'T KNOW IF YOU MIGHT BE STANDING OR
21:04 SITTING IN -BUT AFTER WE GOT DOWN A CERTAIN
21:09 DISTANCE THEN WE COULD SEE THE WATERHOLE.
21:11 AND BEV, IS THIS A PLACE, SHIRLEY THAT BOTH OF YOU
21:13 HAVE BEEN BEFORE?
21:14 I HAVE.
21:15 YOU HAVE, OK.
21:16 SHIRLEY THIS IS NEW FOR YOU.
21:17 THIS WAS NEW TO ME AND I BELIEVE THIS WAS THE
21:19 SECOND TIME THAT THEY HAD EVER SEEN A FOREIGNER IN
21:22 THIS VILLAGE, OH, AND NOT ONLY THAT ANYWAY, THEY
21:27 WERE ALL EXCITED THAT WE WERE COMING.
21:29 THEY ALL WORE THEIR BEST CLOTHES BUT I THINK THE
21:33 REASON THEY WORE THEIR BEST CLOTHES WAS THAT IT
21:35 WAS THE BAPTISM, YES SURE, IN ADDITION TO THE
21:38 FOREIGNERS.
21:39 YES, THE WHOLE RESPECT AND ALL OF THAT.
21:40 YES.
21:41 OK.
21:42 IT WAS BEAUTIFUL AND GOING DOWN TO THE WATERHOLE AH,
21:44 EVERYONE WENT DOWN AND I'M SURE THE VILLAGE WAS EMPTY
21:49 BECAUSE EVERYBODY WAS THERE.
21:51 EVERYBODY.
21:53 AND AS WE WENT DOWN THE COWS JOINED US AND WHEN WE
21:57 GOT A LITTLE FURTHER DOWN, WE FOUND OUT THAT THERE
21:59 WERE SOME PEOPLE THAT WERE ALREADY DOWN THERE AND UH,
22:04 THERE WAS A LITTLE LADY IN AN ORANGE SARI THERE, YES,
22:07 YES, AH THERE SHE IS UP CLOSE.
22:11 SHE WAS WASHING CLOTHES AND HAVING A BATH.
22:14 AND HERE EVERYBODYSHOWS UP.
22:16 SHE QUICKLY GOT ROBED NICELY.
22:19 YES.
22:20 AND THEN UP ON THE HILLSIDE THERE YOU SEE THE
22:23 ONLOOKERS, THE CHILDREN.
22:25 WATCHING AND WONDERING WHAT IS GOING ON.
22:28 AND THEN AS WE GOT DOWN THERE, THIS IS TWO
22:31 PICTURES BECAUSE A MAN WAS SENT OUT TO SOUND THE
22:34 DEPTH OF THE WATER AND FIND A PLACE FOR THE
22:37 BAPTISM.
22:38 YOU CAN SEE IT WAS TOO SHALLOW ON THE LEFT AND ON
22:41 THE RIGHT, HE GOT DOWN TO HIS SHOULDERS AND SO THEY
22:44 FOUND THE PERFECT SPOT FOR THE BAPTISM.
22:48 TO ME, IT WAS THRILLING TO HEAR THEM SING BETWEEN
22:52 EACH CANDIDATE.
22:52 YES.
22:54 IT JUST MADE THE HILLS SOUND AND RESOUND AND HERE
23:00 ALL THE CHILDREN ARE INCLUDED IN THE ONLOOKING.
23:05 I CAN'T HELP BUT THINK OF WHAT IT MUST HAVE BEEN
23:07 LIKE WHEN JESUS WAS BAPTIZED BY JOHN.
23:10 IMAGINE.
23:11 JUST IMAGINE WHAT THAT WAS LIKE AND I WONDER IF THERE
23:13 WERE PEOPLE THERE OR IF IT WAS JUST THE TWO OF THEM
23:16 AND THE DOVE-YOU KNOW, I JUST AM CURIOUS ABOUT THAT
23:19 BECAUSE THAT WHOLE SCENE CAME TO MY MIND, YES,
23:21 SEEING THIS.
23:22 I ENVISION THAT THERE WERE PEOPLE THERE.
23:25 I DON'T KNOW WHY, I JUST THINK THAT OFF TO THE SIDE
23:28 THERE WERE PEOPLE THERE.
23:28 YES, JUST LIKE HERE.
23:30 THESE ARE THE CANDIDATES THAT ARE LINED UP WAITING
23:32 FOR THEIR TURN.
23:33 AND THIS IS THE PASTOR?
23:35 THE MISSION PASTOR?
23:36 OR IS THIS THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER?
23:37 IT IS THE MISSION PASTOR.
23:38 THE MISSION PASTOR.
23:39 I'LL GO THROUGH THESE RAPIDLY.
23:43 THESE ARE THE MEN THAT ARE LINED UP NOW.
23:45 THEY LET THE LADIES GO FIRST AND THEN THE MEN.
23:48 WOW, WHAT A SPECIAL MOMENT.
23:50 SO, THIS AREA AGAIN WE ARE TALKING MUSLIM, HINDUS.
23:54 THESE ARE MORE ANIMIST.
23:56 MORE ANIMIST, DESCRIBE WHAT THAT MEANS.
23:58 IT MEANS NATURE WORSHIPERS.
23:59 SO, THEY WORSHIP THE TREES AND THE ROCKS, RIGHT, AND
24:03 THE SPIRITS ARE IN THERE, RIGHT.
24:04 AND THEY HAD NOT BEEN EDUCATING THEIR CHILDREN
24:08 UP UNTIL MORE RECENTLY IN THIS PARTICULAR AREA.
24:12 OK.
24:13 THEY ARE ILLITERATE.
24:14 THEY ARE MOSTLY ILLITERATE.
24:16 I MEAN THEY ARE JUST LIVING ON THE LAND.
24:20 RIGHT.
24:20 RIGHT.
24:21 WE ARE GOING BACK UP THE HILL.
24:24 I WAS ABLE TO SNAP A PICTURE OF THE UPHILL
24:27 GRIND.
24:28 YOU CAN SEE HOW THE PATHWAY WAS A LITTLE BIT
24:31 PRECARIOUS.
24:32 A LITTLE ROCKY THERE.
24:34 EVERYONE YOUNG AND OLD GOING UP AND IT WAS SO
24:38 BEAUTIFUL AND THEN THE CHILDREN WERE JUST HAVING
24:43 FUN JUST LIKE CHILDREN.
24:44 GOOD.
24:45 YES.
24:46 AND GIGGLING I'M SURE, YES OF COURSE.
24:49 AND LOOKING AT EVERYBODY, YES, AND GIGGLING.
24:52 WELL, IT IS A BIG DAY.
24:53 IT IS.
24:54 AND THEY ARE TRYING TO UNDERSTAND FOR THOSE WHO
24:57 MIGHT NOT HAVE -OH, SHE IS A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN.
24:59 YES.
25:00 THESE WERE THE PEOPLE THAT MET US AS WE GOT TO THE
25:03 TOP BUT JUST LOOK AT HOW BEAUTIFULLY THE CHILDREN
25:06 ARE DRESSED.
25:07 VERY NICE.
25:08 AND THEY ALL WANTED TO HAVE THEIR PICTURE TAKEN
25:11 SO I HAVE TO SHOW YOU SOME OF THE PICTURES, OH YES.
25:14 ABSOLUTELY AND THE GIRL IN THE FRONT ROW.
25:16 BUT I WANT TO INTRODUCE YOU TO JOEL MALTO HERE.
25:20 HE IS THE NUMBER ONE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER FOR
25:23 THIS AREA.
25:24 OK.
25:25 SO, HIS LAST NAME IS MALTO AND THE MOUNTAIN IS MALTO?
25:27 THAT'S RIGHT AND MOST OF THEIR LAST NAMES ARE
25:29 MALTO.
25:30 SO, THEY ARE ALL RELATED.
25:32 THEY ARE ALL TRIBAL AND THIS MAN ACCOMPANIED ME
25:35 BACK TO CALCUTTA ON THE TRAIN WITH TWO OF HIS
25:38 BUDDIES.
25:39 BUT I DIDN'T KNOW HIS TWO BUDDIES WERE COMING.
25:42 THEY CAME IN ANOTHER CAR.
25:44 YES.
25:45 THESE ARE THE CANDIDATES THAT ARE LINING UP TO BE
25:47 CONGRATULATED AND GO THROUGH LINE AND UH, THE
25:52 LADIES ARE LINING UP TO BE PART OF THE GROUP THAT ARE
25:55 GREETING THEM ALSO.
25:56 BEV, YOU WERE SHARING WITH US AND SHIRLEY ABOUT A
25:59 GREETING THEY DO IN THE MALTO MOUNTAINS.
26:01 YES, THE LADIES GO LIKE THIS TO ANOTHER LADY OR TO
26:06 A MAN AND THEN THE LADIES WILL BOW BELOW YOUR HAND
26:12 BUT IF IT IS A MAN, HE WILL GO LIKE THIS.
26:16 LIKE THIS, OK SO THE LEFT AND DOES HE ALSO BOW?
26:18 A LITTLE BIT.
26:19 YES, A LITTLE BIT.
26:20 OK.
26:21 ALRIGHT SO THELADIES WOULD GO LIKE THIS AND THEN THE
26:25 MEN WOULD GO LIKE THIS.
26:27 OK ALRIGHT.
26:28 SEE YOU LEARN NEW THINGS DON'T YOU?
26:30 EVERYDAY.
26:32 AND THERE WAS A SCRIPTURE BEV, THAT YOU MENTIONED
26:37 ACTS 4:4 "BUT MANY WHO HEARD THE MESSAGE BELIEVED
26:40 SO THE NUMBER OF MEN WHO BELIEVED GREW TO ABOUT
26:43 FIVE THOUSAND."
26:45 I CAN IMAGINE OUR TWENTY GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS IN
26:48 THAT GENERAL REGION-CAN YOU IMAGINE THEM BRINGING
26:51 5000 IN ONE DAY TO JESUS CHRIST?
26:53 OH WOW.
26:54 I CAN BECAUSE I HAVE SEEN WHAT HAS HAPPENED UP THERE
26:57 IN THE MOUNTAINS AND IN THE LOWLANDS ALSO.
27:00 WELL, THANK YOU TO BOTH OF YOU AND I'LL DO THE
27:02 GREETING TO BOTH OF YOU AND MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU
27:04 BOTH AND THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
27:05 AND THANK YOU.
27:06 IF YOU'VE BEEN EXCITED ABOUT WHAT YOU'VE HEARD
27:08 ABOUT MALTO MOUNTAIN IN INDIA, WE WOULD LOVE FOR
27:11 YOU TO GET INVOLVED HERE AT GOSPEL OTUREACH.
27:13 PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE GOAIM.ORG TO FIND OUT
27:35 MORE.
27:42 MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU?
28:15 [CLOSING MUSIC].


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