WELCOME TO "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS". 00:00:00.86\00:00:01.76 I'M JULIE SANDERS-KEYMER AND IT IS A TOUR OF 00:00:01.80\00:00:03.63 COUNTRIES HERE AS WE GIVE REPORTS IN THE 10/40 00:00:03.67\00:00:07.47 WINDOW, THAT LARGE EXPANSE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE 00:00:07.50\00:00:12.07 GLO BE FROM WHERE WE ARE RECORDING HERE TODAY. 00:00:12.11\00:00:16.21 IT'S FROM WEST AFRICA AND ALL THE WAY THROUGH SO 00:00:16.24\00:00:20.82 MANY COUNTRIES AND WE'RE GOING TO BE HIGHLIGHTING A 00:00:20.85\00:00:24.99 COUPLE OF COUNTRIES ON THE EASTERN PART OF THIS 10/40 00:00:25.02\00:00:29.59 WINDOW AND I WANT TO WELCOME GARY WAGNER TO 00:00:29.62\00:00:33.50 "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS". 00:00:33.53\00:00:34.50 WELCOME, GARY. 00:00:34.56\00:00:35.03 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 00:00:35.06\00:00:36.23 NICE TO BE HERE. 00:00:36.26\00:00:39.87 IT IS GREAT TO HAVE YOU AND GARY, WE'RE EXCITED 00:00:39.90\00:00:44.97 THAT YOU ARE PARTNERING HERE WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH 00:00:54.75\00:00:59.82 AND THAT YOU ARE A NEW REGIONAL DIRECTOR AND 00:01:06.96\00:01:09.36 SHARE WITH OUR VIEWERS THE TERRITORY THAT YOU ARE 00:01:09.40\00:01:12.10 WORKING IN. 00:01:12.13\00:01:12.97 I'M SERVING IN CAMBODIA AND VIETNAM. 00:01:13.00\00:01:16.67 WONDERFUL, AND KEITH HEINRICH HAS HAD THAT 00:01:16.71\00:01:19.71 TERRITORY PREVIOUSLY AND YOU ARE TAKING THE REINS 00:01:19.74\00:01:22.68 NOW AND IT IS A SPECIAL PLACE IN YOUR HEART AS 00:01:22.71\00:01:25.78 WELL AND WHY IS THAT? 00:01:25.81\00:01:27.45 I SERVED IN CAMBODIA IN 1973 AND 74 AND IN OUR 00:01:27.48\00:01:33.69 ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCHOOL THERE AND DURING THAT 00:01:33.72\00:01:36.93 PERIOD OF TIME I WAS EVACUATED TO SAIGON TO 00:01:36.96\00:01:40.20 WORK A LITTLE BIT IN THE AH, THE HOSPITAL IN 00:01:40.23\00:01:43.93 SAIGON. 00:01:43.97\00:01:45.10 WOW! 00:01:45.13\00:01:46.07 WHAT AN INTERESTING TIME FOR YOU TO BE THERE. 00:01:46.10\00:01:47.30 WERE YOU SERVING AS A STUDENT MISSIONARY? 00:01:47.34\00:01:49.50 YES, I WAS A STUDENT MISSIONARY AND IT WAS 00:01:49.54\00:01:51.64 DURING THE TIME OF THE BUILDUP OF POL POT AND THE 00:01:51.67\00:01:54.84 KHMER ROUGE. 00:01:54.88\00:01:55.94 WOW, WHAT AN INTERESTING TIME. 00:01:55.98\00:01:58.51 SO, NOW ALL THESE YEARS LATER YOU ARE NOW WORKING 00:01:58.55\00:02:01.62 WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH AND GIVE US A LITTLE OF YOUR 00:02:01.65\00:02:04.25 BACKGROUND, GARY. 00:02:04.29\00:02:05.75 I'M A RETIRED PASTOR. 00:02:05.79\00:02:08.36 I'VE SERVED IN THE MISSION FIELD-EIGHT DIFFERENT 00:02:08.39\00:02:11.76 COUNTRIES AND IN QUITE A FEW PLACES HERE IN NORTH 00:02:11.79\00:02:16.20 AMERICA AS WELL. 00:02:16.23\00:02:17.70 AND I'MJUST HAPPY TO BE ABLE TO SERVE WITH GOSPEL 00:02:17.73\00:02:22.64 OUTREACH. 00:02:22.67\00:02:23.77 IT GIVES ME AN OPPORTUNITY TO STAY IN THE WORK AND TO 00:02:23.81\00:02:27.08 ENJOY WATCHING GOD WORKING. 00:02:27.11\00:02:28.71 WELL, FANTASTIC. 00:02:28.74\00:02:29.68 SO, WHAT OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE YOU SERVED IN? 00:02:29.71\00:02:31.78 I SERVED IN KOREA, THAILAND, IN THE MARSHALL 00:02:31.81\00:02:35.38 ISLANDS, THE TRUK ISLANDS AND CONGO. 00:02:35.42\00:02:38.05 OH WOW! 00:02:38.09\00:02:39.39 YOU'VE BEEN KIND OF ALL OVER THE PLACE. 00:02:39.42\00:02:41.22 WELL, PRAISE THE LORD. 00:02:41.26\00:02:42.92 WELL, GIVE US A LITTLE BIT OF THE HISTORY HERE TODAY. 00:02:42.96\00:02:45.46 YOU ARE GOING TO SHARE WITH US A LITTLE BIT OF 00:02:45.49\00:02:47.20 THE WORK IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD AND GIVE US SOME 00:02:47.23\00:02:50.70 DATES AND SOME INFORMATION. 00:02:50.73\00:02:52.03 I WAS FASCINATED WHEN I WAS THERE TO LEARN HOW GOD 00:02:52.07\00:02:56.44 HAD BEEN LEADING TO TRY TO GET THE WORK ESTABLISHED 00:02:56.47\00:03:00.78 IN THE COUNTRY OF CAMBODIA BECAUSE WHEN I ARRIVED 00:03:00.81\00:03:04.08 THERE WAS ONE BAPTIZED MEMBER IN THE COUNTRY AND 00:03:04.11\00:03:07.05 HE HAD BEEN BAPTIZED THE MONTH BEFORE. 00:03:07.08\00:03:09.05 THAT'S IN THE 70'S? 00:03:09.08\00:03:10.65 THAT'S IN '73 AND SO IT SEEMED AS THOUGH NOT MUCH 00:03:10.69\00:03:15.06 HAD BEEN HAPPENING BUT IN REALITY, THERE IS A LOT 00:03:15.09\00:03:17.49 THAT HAD BEEN GOING ON AND IT STARTED BACK IN 1921 00:03:17.53\00:03:23.00 WHEN PASTOR TAN KUE UW WAS SENT INTO PHNOM PENH THE 00:03:23.03\00:03:28.07 CAPITOL OF CAMBODIA TO BE THE FIRST LITERATURE 00:03:28.10\00:03:31.21 EVANGELIST AND THINGS WERE VERY DIFFICULT. 00:03:31.24\00:03:35.01 HE FOUND A LOT OF OPPOSITION AND HE WASN'T 00:03:35.04\00:03:40.32 ABLE TO STAY VERY LONG. 00:03:40.35\00:03:42.38 IN 1921? 00:03:42.42\00:03:43.62 YES. 00:03:43.65\00:03:44.29 1921, WOW. 00:03:44.32\00:03:45.39 SO, THE CHURCH REALLY IN A WAY DISAPPEARED AFTER HIS 00:03:45.42\00:03:50.43 DEPARTURE AND IT WASN'T UNTIL THEN IN 1938 THAT 00:03:50.46\00:03:55.93 ANOTHER ATTEMPT WAS MADE. 00:03:55.96\00:03:58.20 FRED PICKETT AND RANKIN WENTLAND APPLIED TO BE 00:03:58.23\00:04:02.17 ABLE TO GO TO CAMBODIA TO SERVE AND THEY WERE NOT 00:04:02.20\00:04:08.81 GREETED WARMLY BUT WERE ABLE TO START WORKING 00:04:08.84\00:04:13.08 ALONG THE BORDER. 00:04:13.11\00:04:14.05 BASICALLY, THEY WERE INSIDE VIETNAM TRYING TO 00:04:14.08\00:04:15.02 WORK IN CAMBODIA AND THAT UH, WAS ALSO VERY 00:04:15.05\00:04:16.99 DIFFICULT BECAUSE PASTOR PICKETT IN THE YEAR THAT 00:04:17.02\00:04:22.09 HE ARRIVED THERE BECAME ILL AND DIED. 00:04:28.06\00:04:30.37 OH DEAR. 00:04:30.40\00:04:31.37 AND THEN PASTOR WENTLAND WAS FORCED OUT OF THE 00:04:31.40\00:04:37.41 COUNTRY IN 1940 AND HE WENT TO VIETNAM TO SERVE 00:04:37.44\00:04:41.04 THERE. 00:04:41.08\00:04:41.81 SO, FORCED OUT BECAUSE OF WHY? 00:04:41.84\00:04:42.78 WAS BECAUSE OF POLITICAL SITUATION OR BEING A 00:04:42.81\00:04:43.71 BUDDHIST COUNTRY? 00:04:43.75\00:04:44.38 DO YOU KNOW, GARY? 00:04:44.41\00:04:45.45 PROBABLY PART OF BOTH, BUT THE SECOND WORLD WAR WAS 00:04:45.48\00:04:46.41 BREWING. 00:04:46.45\00:04:47.45 THAT WAS MY NEXT-THAT WAS MY THIRD QUESTION AND SO 00:04:47.48\00:04:48.52 HE ACTUALLY WORKED FOR TEN YEARS IN VIETNAM WITHOUT 00:04:48.55\00:04:49.75 ANY CONTACT WITH THE CHURCH BECAUSE THEY 00:04:49.78\00:04:51.09 COULDN'T GET A HOLD OF HIM AND HE JUST CONTINUED 00:04:51.12\00:04:56.19 WORKING THERE. 00:05:06.30\00:05:09.84 WELL, AND THIS IS INTERESING BECAUSE YOU ARE 00:05:09.87\00:05:13.14 TALKING ABOUT THESE DATES AND I'M THINKING ABOUT 00:05:13.17\00:05:15.04 ABRAM LARUE WHO WENT TO HONG KONG AND SO THINGS 00:05:15.08\00:05:19.31 PROGRESSED THERE AND THEN IT IS INTERESTING TO HEAR 00:05:19.35\00:05:22.45 THESE GAPS OF WHAT'S HAPPENED IN THE WORK IN 00:05:22.48\00:05:25.05 CAMBODIA AND VIETNAM. 00:05:25.09\00:05:26.49 YES. 00:05:26.52\00:05:27.56 UH, THEN IN 1938 AGAIN ANOTHER PASTOR ROBERT BENZ 00:05:27.59\00:05:32.36 AND HIS WIFE MARTHA WERE SENT IN AND THEY HAD 00:05:35.50\00:05:40.10 DIFFICULTIES AS WELL BUT MARTHA, HIS WIFE, ALSO GOT 00:05:40.14\00:05:45.71 ILL IN THE FIRST YEAR SHE WAS THERE AND SHE PASSED 00:05:45.74\00:05:48.51 AWAY. 00:05:48.54\00:05:49.18 OH DEAR! 00:05:49.21\00:05:50.25 AND THEY HAD A DAUGHTER, UH HUH, AND HER LAST WORDS 00:05:50.28\00:05:53.68 WERE "I'M HAPPY TO GIVE MY LIFE FOR THE LORD JESUS 00:05:53.72\00:05:58.75 BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SERVE WITH MY FAMILY WHO ARE IN 00:05:58.79\00:06:02.59 THIS COUNTRY". 00:06:02.62\00:06:03.63 SO, UH THE WORK HAS BEEN-IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT 00:06:03.66\00:06:09.56 TO GET A FOOTHOLD IN CAMBODIA UH, AFTER THAT, 00:06:09.60\00:06:14.40 THINGS DIED DOWN AGAIN AND THE CHURCH DISAPPEARED 00:06:14.44\00:06:19.84 AGAIN. 00:06:19.87\00:06:21.08 IT WASN'T THEN UNTIL 1955 THAT A COLPORTEUR TRAN 00:06:21.11\00:06:27.08 TRAN BEGAN GIVING BIBLE STUDIES. 00:06:27.12\00:06:29.82 TRAN TRAN, I LIKE THAT. 00:06:29.85\00:06:31.99 THAT'S A NAME I SHOULD BE ABLE TO REMEMBER. 00:06:32.02\00:06:34.26 THAT'S A GOOD NAME - TRAN TRAN. 00:06:34.29\00:06:35.69 AT LEAST THE SECOND NAME IF I CAN GET THE FIRST 00:06:35.72\00:06:38.66 NAME. 00:06:38.69\00:06:39.33 EXACTLY. 00:06:39.36\00:06:40.33 UM, AND HE WENT IN AND STARTED UH, GIVING BIBLE 00:06:40.36\00:06:44.67 STUDIES AND HE BAPTIZED -WE ARE NOT SURE THE 00:06:44.70\00:06:48.04 NUMBER BUT MAYBE AS MANY AS NINE, NINE PEOPLE. 00:06:48.07\00:06:50.51 NINE PEOPLE. 00:06:50.54\00:06:51.54 AND I WANT TO PAUSE THERE BECAUSE IT OUR WESTERN 00:06:51.57\00:06:55.04 CULTURE WE THINK OH, JUST NINE PEOPLE? 00:06:55.08\00:06:57.68 BUT HAVING LIVED IN A BUDDHIST COUNTRY, BUDDHISM 00:06:57.71\00:07:00.88 IS YOUR FAMILY, IT IS YOUR RELIGION, IT IS YOUR 00:07:00.92\00:07:04.22 CULTURE, IT IS YOUR LIFE, IT IS YOUR EVERYTHING AND 00:07:04.25\00:07:08.52 FOR THESE PEOPLE TO MAKE A SWITCH, GARY-IT TAKES A 00:07:08.56\00:07:12.89 LONGTIME FOR MANY OF THESE PEOPLE. 00:07:12.93\00:07:15.46 IT DOES TAKE A LONG TIME. 00:07:15.50\00:07:16.70 YES, AND OBVIOUSLY THE LORD CAN WORK AND THINGS 00:07:16.73\00:07:19.87 CAN BE SHORTER THROUGH THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT 00:07:19.90\00:07:23.44 BUT FOR SOME PEOPLE THIS IS A MAJOR SWITCH, YOU 00:07:23.47\00:07:26.21 KNOW. 00:07:26.24\00:07:26.88 YES, IT IS. 00:07:26.91\00:07:27.88 AND ALSO, TO THINK OF THESE DEAR PEOPLE, YOU 00:07:27.91\00:07:29.68 KNOW, WE THINK ABOUT GETTING ON AN AIRPLANE AND 00:07:29.71\00:07:32.25 YOU KNOW IN A MATTER OF 24 HOURS, I ALWAYS SAY THIS, 00:07:32.28\00:07:34.48 IN A MATTER OF 24 HOURS IT IS AMAZING WHERE YOU CAN 00:07:34.52\00:07:36.75 FIND YOURSELF IN THE WORLD. 00:07:36.79\00:07:38.42 YES. 00:07:38.45\00:07:39.55 BUT THESE PEOPLE GOING OUT IN 1921, 1938 I MEAN THESE 00:07:39.59\00:07:42.92 PEOPLE WERE ON SHIPS. 00:07:42.96\00:07:44.23 YES, THEY WERE. 00:07:44.26\00:07:45.29 TO GET TO THESE PLACES AND SO THIS WAS A MAJOR LIFE 00:07:45.33\00:07:47.23 COMMITMENT TO THE LORD OF GOING OVER SEAS. 00:07:47.30\00:07:50.97 YES. 00:07:51.00\00:07:52.07 WELL, IT WAS THEN IN 1957 THAT PASTOR RALPH NEAL AND 00:07:52.10\00:07:57.61 HIS WIFE BEATRICE WERE ABLE TO GET INTO THE 00:07:57.64\00:08:01.61 COUNTRY AND THEY BEGAN WORKING. 00:08:01.64\00:08:04.88 THEY UH, THEY BUILT A CHURCH AND THEY BEGAN 00:08:04.91\00:08:10.75 WRITING BOOKS AND TRANSLATING THE BOOKS. 00:08:10.79\00:08:13.76 UH, PASTOR NEAL IS STILL LIVING TODAY. 00:08:13.79\00:08:16.93 OH, HE IS? 00:08:16.96\00:08:18.26 HE LIVES IN CHATTANOOGA. 00:08:18.29\00:08:20.10 OK, IN TENNESSEE. 00:08:20.13\00:08:21.50 YES, AND SO I'VE BEEN ABLE TO VISIT WITH HIM SOME 00:08:21.53\00:08:24.13 ABOUT THE WORK THAT HE DID. 00:08:24.17\00:08:26.30 THAT'S FANTASTIC AND I WAS ABLE TO TAKE OVER COPIES 00:08:26.33\00:08:31.44 OF A COUPLE OF BOOKS THAT HE AND HIS WIFE WROTE, UH 00:08:31.47\00:08:33.98 HUH, TO SEE IF WE COULD GET THEM REPUBLISHED BUT 00:08:34.01\00:08:36.91 WE WERE ABLE TO FIND COPIES THERE. 00:08:36.95\00:08:39.31 SO, THEIR WORK CONTINUES IN CAMBODIA. 00:08:39.35\00:08:42.58 AND THAT FIRST PICTURE YOU SHOWED OF THAT BUILDING, 00:08:42.62\00:08:44.35 WHAT WAS THAT? 00:08:44.39\00:08:45.19 THAT WAS ANGKOR WAT. 00:08:45.22\00:08:47.02 THAT'S WHAT I WAS GOING TO ASK YOU IF THAT'S WHAT 00:08:47.06\00:08:48.89 THAT WAS. 00:08:48.92\00:08:49.56 YES. 00:08:49.59\00:08:50.59 UH, I WASN'T ABLE TO GET THERE TO VISIT WHEN I WAS 00:08:50.63\00:08:53.93 THERE IN THE '70'S BECAUSE THE KMER ROUGE HELD THAT 00:08:53.96\00:08:59.87 AT THE TIME. 00:08:59.90\00:09:01.24 OK. 00:09:01.27\00:09:02.24 MAYBE SOMEONE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT ANGKOR WAT IS? 00:09:02.27\00:09:04.31 COULD YOU SHARE? 00:09:04.34\00:09:05.41 ANGKOR WAT IS THE LARGEST RELIGIOUS STRUCTURE IN THE 00:09:05.44\00:09:09.21 WORLD AND IT WAS BUILT IN THE 12TH CENTURY AND IT 00:09:09.24\00:09:13.48 HAS IN ITS EARLY YEARS TRANSITIONED BETWEEN 00:09:13.52\00:09:20.46 HINDUISM AND BUDDHISM. 00:09:20.49\00:09:23.02 OH, I DIDN'T KNOW THAT. 00:09:23.06\00:09:24.86 YES, AND RIGHT NOW, OF COURSE, IT IS A VERY 00:09:24.89\00:09:29.46 IMPORTANT SITE FOR THE BUDDHISTS BECAUSE THEY 00:09:29.50\00:09:32.33 HOLD IT AND IT IS FASCINATING TO BE ABLE TO 00:09:32.37\00:09:35.97 TOUR IT AND SEE- AND IT IS HUGE, ISN'T IT? 00:09:36.00\00:09:39.37 ABSOLUTLEY HUGE. 00:09:39.41\00:09:40.34 AND REALLY TO SPEAK OF THAT ONE TEMPLE IS 00:09:40.38\00:09:44.51 INSUFFICIENT TO TELL THE STORY BECAUSE THERE ARE 00:09:44.55\00:09:49.38 MANY TEMPLES THAT ARE SOMEWHAT LIKE THAT IN THE 00:09:49.42\00:09:53.09 SURROUNDING AREA WHERE ANGKOR WAT IS BECAUSE IT 00:09:53.12\00:09:56.06 WAS-ANGKOR WAS MORE THAN JUST A PLACE IT WAS 00:09:56.09\00:10:01.33 HEADQUARTERS FOR THE UH MIGHTY EMPIRE OF ANGKOR. 00:10:01.36\00:10:07.70 SO, THERE WERE A LOT OF TEMPLES THERE. 00:10:07.74\00:10:10.17 INTERESTING. 00:10:10.21\00:10:11.34 UH, SO I'M PRIVILEGED TO HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SEE IT 00:10:11.37\00:10:16.41 EARLIER THIS YEAR FOR THE FIRST TIME AND I'M HOPING 00:10:16.44\00:10:21.75 TO BE ABLE TO GO BACK AGAIN. 00:10:21.78\00:10:23.59 SURE. 00:10:23.62\00:10:24.32 YOU CAN'T SEE IT ALL AT ONE TIME. 00:10:24.35\00:10:26.15 AND I HEAR THERE-IS IT TRUE THAT THERE ARE A LOT 00:10:26.19\00:10:28.06 OF MONKEYS THAT RUN AROUND THERE? 00:10:28.09\00:10:29.56 WELL, I DIDN'T SEE THE MONKEYS. 00:10:29.59\00:10:31.23 THEY MAY BE THERE AT DIFFERENT TIMES BUT MAYBE 00:10:31.26\00:10:35.70 COVID WAS KEEPING THEM AWAY. 00:10:35.73\00:10:37.33 YES. 00:10:37.37\00:10:38.07 MAYBE NOW THAT'S A FUNNY JOKE. 00:10:38.10\00:10:39.90 WELL, KEEP GOING HERE GARY. 00:10:39.93\00:10:43.20 BUT PASTOR NEAL, AS I SAID, BUILT A CHURCH AND 00:10:43.24\00:10:48.31 THE CHURCH AH, SERVED WELL. 00:10:50.38\00:10:54.95 IN FACT, FOR QUITE SOME TIME BUT MOST OF THE TIME 00:10:54.98\00:10:59.35 THAT IT EXISTED IT WAS EMPTY BECAUSE HE ALSO WAS 00:10:59.39\00:11:04.43 FORCED OUT UH IN THE 60'S HE WAS FORCED TO LEAVE 00:11:04.46\00:11:09.50 AGAIN. 00:11:14.80\00:11:16.04 AS THE VIETNAM WAR WAS PROGRESSING OR WAS 00:11:16.07\00:11:18.57 THIS-THERE WERE JUST STRUGGLES AND 00:11:18.61\00:11:21.21 DIFFICULTIES. 00:11:21.24\00:11:22.21 THE VIETNAM WAR MAY HAVE HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH 00:11:22.24\00:11:23.95 IT, AH, THAT PART I DON'T KNOW THE REASON WHY. 00:11:23.98\00:11:29.05 BUT THEN IN 1972, THE CHURCH DECIDED TO TRY A 00:11:29.48\00:11:33.42 NEW VENTURE AND THEY SENT ED MOORE INTO PHNOM PENH 00:11:33.46\00:11:38.53 AND HE STARTED AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCHOOL. 00:11:40.00\00:11:43.20 HIS TEACHERS THAT HE USED WERE STUDENT MISSIONARIES 00:11:43.23\00:11:46.10 FROM WALLA WALLA AND PUC AND I THINK ONE FROM 00:11:46.13\00:11:51.17 SOUTHERN. 00:11:51.74\00:11:52.37 OK. 00:11:52.41\00:11:53.21 AND THEY WENT IN AND DID A GOOD JOB. 00:11:53.24\00:11:56.61 THEY GOT THE SCHOOL GOING AND PUT IT UNDER A GOOD 00:11:56.64\00:12:00.25 FOOTING AND THAT'S WHEN I WAS BROUGHT INTO THE 00:12:00.28\00:12:04.89 PICTURE THEN IN 1973. 00:12:04.92\00:12:06.86 OK. 00:12:06.89\00:12:08.36 AND WHAT SCHOOL WERE YOU ATTENDINGAT THE TIME? 00:12:08.39\00:12:10.13 I HAD BEEN ATTENDING UNION COLLEGE, OK, AND I HAD 00:12:10.16\00:12:11.49 GONE AS A STUDENT MISSIONARY TO KOREA, TO 00:12:11.53\00:12:17.33 THE LANGUAGE SCHOOLS THERE AND THEY ASKED ME TO MOVE 00:12:17.37\00:12:20.44 DOWN TO CAMBODIA TO DIRECT THE SCHOOL. 00:12:20.47\00:12:22.54 SO, YOU WERE AN E.S.L. 00:12:22.57\00:12:24.01 PROFESSIONAL. 00:12:24.04\00:12:25.54 BY THE TIME I GOT THERE -ENGLISH AS SECOND 00:12:25.57\00:12:27.84 LANGUAGE- IF THERE IS SUCH A THING THEN I GUESS I WAS 00:12:27.88\00:12:30.71 IT. 00:12:30.75\00:12:31.78 AH, BUT IT WAS QUITE A DIFFICULT CHOICE-DECISION. 00:12:31.81\00:12:36.48 WHY? 00:12:37.25\00:12:38.09 TO MAKE TO GO FROM KOREA TO CAMBODIA. 00:12:38.12\00:12:41.19 FIRST OF ALL, TO SPEND A SECOND YEAR AWAY FROM 00:12:41.62\00:12:43.83 HOME, SURE, AWAY FROM SCHOOL AND AWAY FROM 00:12:43.86\00:12:46.26 FAMILY BUT SECOND BECAUSE I KNEW THE WAR THAT WAS 00:12:46.29\00:12:50.03 RAGING. 00:12:50.07\00:12:50.80 YES, WHAT A TIME TO BE THERE GARY. 00:12:50.83\00:12:52.80 SO, WHEN I ARRIVED I FOUND THAT ONE CHURCH MEMBER HE 00:12:52.83\00:12:58.47 WAS WORKING AT THE LANGUAGE SCHOOL AND I 00:12:58.51\00:13:01.94 SHOULDN'T SAY I FOUND HIM BUT -YOU MET HIM- I MET 00:13:01.98\00:13:05.71 HIM UH HUH AND ED AND THE REST OF HIS STAFF UH, LEFT 00:13:05.75\00:13:11.62 WITHIN A FEW DAYS AFTER MY ARRIVAL AND A FEW NEW 00:13:11.65\00:13:15.12 STUDENT MISSIONARIES ARRIVED THAT WOULD BE 00:13:15.16\00:13:17.63 WORKING WITH ME AND WE JUST WENT RIGHT AHEAD WITH 00:13:17.66\00:13:22.13 THE LANGUAGE SCHOOL. 00:13:22.16\00:13:23.16 THERE WAS ONE MORE YOUNG COUPLE THAT WAS THERE WHO 00:13:23.20\00:13:27.14 ARRIVED A WEEK BEFORE I DID. 00:13:27.17\00:13:28.70 UH, ROONGUN TEAL AND HIS WIFE IVIE WERE-THEY JUST 00:13:28.74\00:13:34.01 GRADUATED FROM SCHOOL IN SINGAPORE. 00:13:34.04\00:13:37.25 I LIKE THAT UU IN THE THROAT. 00:13:37.28\00:13:41.48 AND THEY GOT MARRIED AND THEY CAME TO PHNOM PENH 00:13:41.52\00:13:44.25 FOR THEIR AH, HONEYMOON, SEE, AND TO START STUDYING 00:13:44.29\00:13:49.19 THE LANGUAGE AND TO -THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE THERE 00:13:49.22\00:13:54.46 FOR FIVE YEARS. 00:13:54.50\00:13:56.56 SO, THEY WERE THERE AND WE WERE CONDUCTING THE 00:13:56.60\00:14:01.84 LANGUAGE SCHOOL AND BUT IT WAS DURING THE 14 MONTHS I 00:14:01.87\00:14:06.91 WAS THERE, BECAUSE OF THE WAR, BECAUSE OF THE KHMER 00:14:06.94\00:14:11.58 ROUGE UH THE EMBASSY TOLD ME ON FIVE DIFFERENT 00:14:11.61\00:14:18.52 OCCASIONS THAT WE NEEDED TO EVACUATE AND TAKE OUR 00:14:18.55\00:14:21.96 PEOPLE OUT BECAUSE IT WASN'T SAFE BECAUSE OF THE 00:14:21.99\00:14:24.76 MOVEMENTS OF THE KHMER ROUGE. 00:14:24.79\00:14:25.89 WOW, SO FIVE TIMES DID YOU STAY OR FIVE TIMES DID YOU 00:14:25.93\00:14:26.76 GO? 00:14:26.80\00:14:27.40 I WENT ONCE, OK. 00:14:27.46\00:14:28.50 AND THAT WAS TO SAIGON AND WORKED AT THE THIRD FIELD 00:14:28.53\00:14:33.17 HOSPITAL THAT THE US MILITARY HAD GIVEN TO THE 00:14:36.91\00:14:41.98 CHURCH THERE WHEN THEY MOVED OUT OF IT. 00:14:43.95\00:14:46.48 YOUR PARENTS ARE PRAYING FOR YOU THE WHOLE TIME. 00:14:46.51\00:14:48.62 SURE. 00:14:48.65\00:14:52.29 THEY MAY NOT HAVE KNOWN EVERYTHING THAT WAS 00:14:52.32\00:14:53.99 HAPPENING. 00:14:54.02\00:14:55.02 YES, PROBABLY NOT SINCE THAT WAS BEFORE EMAIL, 00:14:55.06\00:14:58.29 RIGHT? 00:14:58.33\00:14:59.33 YES, IN FACT WHEN I WAS SUPPOSED TO-WHEN I WAS 00:14:59.36\00:15:03.26 TOLD BY THE EMBASSY TO EVACUATE I HAD TO CALL THE 00:15:03.30\00:15:07.47 OFFICE IN SINGAPORE TO SEE WHAT THEY FELT WITH THAT 00:15:07.50\00:15:11.57 INFORMATION AND IT TOOK THREE DAYS TO GET THE 00:15:11.61\00:15:13.78 PHONE CALL THROUGH AND AFTER THAT, WHEN I FINALLY 00:15:13.81\00:15:17.58 GOT THROUGH THE RESPONSE WAS, WELL, YOU'RE THE ONE 00:15:17.61\00:15:21.55 SCENE YOU MAKE THE DECISION. 00:15:21.58\00:15:23.18 SO, IT TOOK THREE DAYS TO GET THE CALL THROUGH. 00:15:23.22\00:15:25.45 YES. 00:15:25.49\00:15:26.52 WELL, I REMEMBER LIVING OVERSEAS AND PRAYING THAT 00:15:26.55\00:15:28.46 THE PHONE WOULD WORK BUT IT NEVER TOOK THREE DAYS 00:15:28.49\00:15:30.66 BUT WOW. 00:15:30.69\00:15:31.73 WELL, GARY THANK YOU FOR SHARING WITH US AND IF YOU 00:15:31.76\00:15:33.90 ARE JUST ENJOYING THIS STORY THAT GARY IS SHARING 00:15:33.93\00:15:36.40 ABOUT CAMBODIA AND HOW GOD IS WORKING-IT IS JUST 00:15:36.43\00:15:38.97 GETTING GOING PEOPLE. 00:15:39.00\00:15:40.20 SO, WE JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR PARTNERING 00:15:40.24\00:15:42.67 WITH US. 00:15:42.70\00:15:43.67 THANK YOU FOR YOUR DONATIONS AND HERE IS SOME 00:15:43.71\00:15:45.07 INFORMATION FOR YOU. 00:15:45.11\00:15:47.18 GOSPEL OUTREACH IS SHARING JESUS WITH THOUSANDS OF 00:15:49.28\00:15:52.68 UNREACHED PEOPLE IN THE 10/40 WINDOW. 00:15:52.71\00:15:55.88 MORE THAN 25 YEARS AGO, FRANK STANYER AND EDGAR 00:15:55.92\00:15:59.79 PANGOLINAN SAW THE HUGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN THE 00:15:59.82\00:16:03.12 PHILIPPINES WHO STILL NEEDED TO HEAR ABOUT 00:16:03.16\00:16:05.96 JESUS. 00:16:05.99\00:16:07.23 THESE TWO LAYMEN FELT THE LORD CALLING THEM TO SHARE 00:16:07.23\00:16:10.37 THE GOSPEL IN THE PHILIPPINES. 00:16:10.40\00:16:12.27 TO GENERATE AND RAISE FUNDS THE TWO MEN STARTED 00:16:12.30\00:16:15.57 GOSPEL OUTREACH TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR LOCAL BIBLE 00:16:15.60\00:16:18.61 WORKERS THROUGH A VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION. 00:16:18.64\00:16:21.68 SOON FRANK AND EDGAR REALIZED THAT BILLIONS OF 00:16:21.71\00:16:24.65 PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF THE PHILIPPINES ALSO NEEDED TO 00:16:24.68\00:16:27.35 HEAR THE NAME OF JESUS AND LEARN ABOUT HIS PLAN OF 00:16:27.38\00:16:30.42 SALVATION. 00:16:30.45\00:16:31.79 NINETY-SEVEN PER CENT OF THE UNREACHED PEOPLE IN 00:16:31.82\00:16:35.09 THE WORLD LIVE IN THE AREA FROM 10/40 DEGREES NORTH 00:16:35.12\00:16:38.89 OF THE EQUATOR, FROM WEST AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST, 00:16:38.93\00:16:43.03 INDIA, CHINA TO JAPAN WHICH IS KNOWN AS THE 00:16:43.06\00:16:47.54 10/40 WINDOW. 00:16:47.57\00:16:49.50 FRANK AND EDGAR EXPANDED THEIR SCOPE TO ALSO 00:16:49.54\00:16:52.31 SUPPORT BIBLE WORKERS IN THESE COUNTRIES BY WORKING 00:16:52.34\00:16:55.14 THROUGH THE CHURCH AND PARTNERING WITH MISSION 00:16:55.18\00:16:57.61 ORGANIZATIONS. 00:16:57.65\00:16:59.01 CURRENTLY, GOSPEL OUTREACH SUPPORTERS FUND MORE THAN 00:16:59.05\00:17:02.25 2000 BIBLE WORKERS IN MORE THAN 50 COUNTRIES. 00:17:02.28\00:17:06.29 GOD IS DOING MIRACLES IN THE 10/40 WINDOW. 00:17:06.32\00:17:10.69 GOD IS DOING MIRACLES IN THE 10/40 WINDOW. 00:17:10.73\00:17:12.86 GOD IS DOING MIRACLES WITH US WHERE WE LIVE IN THE 00:17:12.89\00:17:15.76 COUNTRIES THAT WE LIVE IN AND GOD IS DOING MIRACLES 00:17:15.80\00:17:19.50 AND WE ARE HEARING ABOUT WHAT GOD HAS DONE AND IS 00:17:19.53\00:17:22.37 DOING IN THE COUNTRIES OF CAMBODIA AND VIETNAM WITH 00:17:22.40\00:17:25.77 GARY WAGNER. 00:17:25.81\00:17:26.81 YES, WELL THE WORK OF THE LANGUAGE SCHOOL BECAME 00:17:26.84\00:17:30.98 MORE THAN JUST TEACHING ENGLISH. 00:17:31.01\00:17:32.41 UH, IT ALWAYS IS. 00:17:32.45\00:17:35.05 OF COURSE. 00:17:35.08\00:17:36.38 WE ALSO CONDUCTED EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS AND 00:17:36.42\00:17:40.32 BIBLE CLASSES AND THEN WE GOT INVOLVED WITH UH 00:17:40.36\00:17:46.39 -THAT'S PASTOR NEAL THERE? 00:17:46.43\00:17:47.46 THAT'S PASTOR NEAL, WHO WE SPOKE OF EARLIER AND A 00:17:47.50\00:17:49.26 COUPLE OF PEOPLE HE BAPTIZED, UH HUH, AND I'M 00:17:49.30\00:17:53.30 BEHIND ON MY-KEEP GOING IT IS ALL GOOD. 00:17:53.34\00:17:55.84 SO, THIS IS THE LANGUAGE SCHOOL, UH HUH, WHERE WE 00:17:55.87\00:18:00.21 WORKED. 00:18:00.24\00:18:01.28 THEN ONE OF OUR STUDENTS -THIS IS THE YOUNG MAN WHO 00:18:01.31\00:18:05.98 WAS THE FIRST BAPTIZED MEMBER. 00:18:08.02\00:18:09.28 TRAN TRAN? 00:18:09.32\00:18:09.95 NO, OK. 00:18:09.98\00:18:10.95 TAK SAKARIA AND HE LEFT WITH US ON OUR FIRST 00:18:10.99\00:18:17.36 EVACUATION SO THAT WE COULD SEND HIM TO STUDY TO 00:18:17.39\00:18:20.66 BECOME A PASTOR. 00:18:20.70\00:18:21.43 WONDERFUL. 00:18:21.46\00:18:22.43 AH, OUR STUDENT MISSIONARIES HAD 00:18:22.46\00:18:28.34 INTERESTING MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION. 00:18:28.37\00:18:30.64 MOST OF THE TIME WE WALKED BUT TOWARD THE END OF THE 00:18:30.67\00:18:34.88 TIME WE DID GET BICYCLES AND- I HAD A BIKE WHEN I 00:18:34.91\00:18:39.48 WAS A STUDENT MISSIONARY AND WE JOKED WITHOUR BIKES 00:18:39.51\00:18:41.92 BECAUSE I THOUGHT I WAS DRIVING A JAGUAR SO THAT 00:18:41.95\00:18:44.52 WE HAD A MODEL OF A CAR FOR OUR RAMSHACKLE BIKES. 00:18:44.55\00:18:49.56 MY FIRST BIBLE CLASS WAS A CLASS WITH 12 BUDDHIST 00:18:49.59\00:18:52.96 MONKS. 00:18:52.99\00:18:53.66 INTERESTING. 00:18:53.70\00:18:54.73 AND SOME OF THEM WERE MORE INTERESTED THAN OTHERS. 00:18:54.76\00:18:58.97 THEY ACTUALLY JUST WANTED TO STUDY THE ENGLISH BUT 00:18:59.00\00:19:02.00 YOU SEE THE SECOND FROM THE RIGHT, HIS NAME LAM 00:19:02.04\00:19:04.77 SAMAT. 00:19:04.81\00:19:05.74 I NOTICED HIM- HE IS SMILING A LITTLE BIT. 00:19:05.77\00:19:09.74 YES, AND HE ACTUALLY ACCEPTED CHRIST AND WAS 00:19:09.78\00:19:12.78 BAPTIED. 00:19:12.81\00:19:13.45 HE DID? 00:19:13.48\00:19:14.48 YES, AND WE'LL SEE HIM MORE IN THE FUTURE, OK, 00:19:14.52\00:19:18.39 BUT STUDENTS OUR STUDENTS WERE MOSTLY YOUNG AND 00:19:18.42\00:19:23.96 MANY, MANY OF THEM WERE INTERESTED IN JESUS 00:19:23.99\00:19:26.16 BECAUSE THEY WERE RECOGNIZING THAT BUDDHISM 00:19:26.19\00:19:30.00 JUST WASN'T TEACHING THEM TO PREPARE THEM FOR LIFE 00:19:30.03\00:19:35.10 IN THESE CONDITIONS AND THEY WERE, THEY WERE VERY 00:19:35.14\00:19:40.11 INTERESTED. 00:19:40.14\00:19:41.18 SO, DURING THAT 14 MONTHS THE LORD WAS ABLE TO GIVE 00:19:41.21\00:19:45.41 US 23 SOULS WHO WERE BAPTIZED AND ONE OF 00:19:45.45\00:19:49.82 THEM-THIS IS ONE OF THE BAPTISM GROUPS. 00:19:49.85\00:19:51.69 UH HUH. 00:19:51.72\00:19:52.35 WITH G. 00:19:52.39\00:19:53.36 TEAL AND HIS WIFE IVIE THERE ON THE RIGHT SIDE. 00:19:53.39\00:19:57.66 G TEAL HE IS A FUNNY MAN. 00:19:57.69\00:20:01.76 YES, HE HAS A GOOD SENSE OF HUMOR. 00:20:01.80\00:20:03.93 RIGHT. 00:20:03.97\00:20:04.77 HE HAS A VERY GOOD SENSE OF HUMOR. 00:20:04.80\00:20:07.74 AND HE IS A VERY GOOD FRIEND. 00:20:07.77\00:20:10.97 SO, IT IS NICE TO BE ABLE TO LOOK BACK AT THE 00:20:11.01\00:20:16.34 BEGINNINGS, YES, OF THE ADVENTIST CHURCH BECAUSE 00:20:16.38\00:20:20.12 THE OTHER THING THAT WAS HAPPENING THROUGH THE WORK 00:20:20.15\00:20:23.15 THERE. 00:20:23.18\00:20:24.12 THIS IS SAMET BEING BAPTIZED UH, BY PASTOR 00:20:24.15\00:20:28.16 HELTON FISCHER. 00:20:28.19\00:20:29.92 PASTOR FISCHER WAS ACTUALLY IN CHARGE OF OUR 00:20:29.96\00:20:32.56 WORKIN CAMBODIA BUT HE LIVED IN VIETNAM AND WE 00:20:32.59\00:20:35.50 SAW HIM FOR A FEW DAYS EVERY MONTH. 00:20:35.53\00:20:36.83 UH HUH. 00:20:36.87\00:20:37.87 AND WE NEEDED SOMEBODY TO COME IN AND DO BAPTISMS. 00:20:37.90\00:20:38.83 YES. 00:20:38.87\00:20:39.73 BUT WE ALWAYS APPRECIATED HIS VISITS. 00:20:39.77\00:20:40.74 BUT THE OTHER THING THAT WAS HAPPENING OF COURSE, 00:20:40.77\00:20:42.20 WAS THE WAR. 00:20:42.24\00:20:45.17 AND POL POT WAS DESTROYING VILLAGE AFTER VILLAGE. 00:20:45.21\00:20:50.28 PEOPLE WOULD BE FORCED TO EVACUATE JUST ON A MOMENTS 00:20:54.12\00:20:57.62 NOTICE. 00:20:57.65\00:20:58.62 SOME OF THEM HAD OXCARTS LIKE THESE TO BE ABLE TO 00:20:58.65\00:21:00.92 PUT THEIR THINGS IN BUT MOST OF THEM JUST SIMPLY 00:21:00.96\00:21:02.99 HAD TO GRAB WHAT THEY COULD AND RUN. 00:21:03.02\00:21:06.29 SO, THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST WORLD SERVICE 00:21:06.33\00:21:08.80 BEGAN DISTRIBUTING CLOTHES AND SOME FOOD TO THE 00:21:08.83\00:21:13.20 REFUGEES IN THE VILLAGES WHERE THEY WERE GOING AND 00:21:13.23\00:21:17.57 THAT BECAME THE WORK OF THE LANGUAGE SCHOOL 00:21:17.61\00:21:19.74 BECAUSE IT WAS THE ONLY WORK THAT THE CHURCH HAD 00:21:19.77\00:21:21.74 GOING THERE. 00:21:21.78\00:21:23.14 SO, WE WERE ABLE TO VISIT MANY VILLAGES AND CAMPS 00:21:23.18\00:21:28.48 THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY OF CAMBODIA. 00:21:28.52\00:21:31.05 THE MILITARY WAS ALWAYS THERE WITH US WHEN WE WENT 00:21:31.09\00:21:34.32 BECAUSE THE KHMER ROUGE WERE ALWAYS CLOSE BY AND 00:21:34.36\00:21:38.86 THAT WAS THE BEGINNING. 00:21:38.89\00:21:42.30 OUR CHURCH MEMBERS WHO HAD BEEN BAPTIZED IN THE 00:21:42.33\00:21:46.63 LANGUAGE SCHOOL BECAME PART OF OUR SEVENTH DAY 00:21:46.67\00:21:48.74 ADVENTIST WORLD SERVICE WHICH IS WHAT BECAME ADRA 00:21:48.77\00:21:52.41 LATER-ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT RELIEF AGENCY, 00:21:52.44\00:21:54.68 YES. 00:21:54.71\00:21:55.68 AND SO, WE HAD A NICE UNIFORM TO WEAR AND SO 00:21:55.71\00:22:00.52 MANY OF THEM WORE A UNIFORM AND WENT OUT AND 00:22:00.55\00:22:03.35 WORKED WITH US TO DISTRIBUTE CLOTHES IN THE 00:22:03.39\00:22:05.79 REFUGEE CAMPS-IN THE REFUGEE CAMPS. 00:22:05.82\00:22:07.59 THEY WEREN'T CAMPS AS MUCH AS JUST THE VILLAGES THAT 00:22:07.62\00:22:10.46 THEY FLED TO. 00:22:10.49\00:22:11.13 OH. 00:22:11.16\00:22:11.83 AT THE TIME. 00:22:11.86\00:22:12.49 OK. 00:22:12.53\00:22:13.26 THIS WAS BEFORE CAMPS EXISTED. 00:22:13.29\00:22:18.00 WE WOULD GO TO THE BUDDHIST PAGODAS AND I 00:22:18.03\00:22:24.47 WOULD HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO TELL THE PEOPLE THESE 00:22:24.51\00:22:28.54 ARE THE GIFTS OF PEOPLE IN AMERICA AND THEY ARE GIVEN 00:22:28.58\00:22:33.72 TO YOU BECAUSE WE WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT JESUS LOVES 00:22:33.75\00:22:36.65 YOU AND IT WAS A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY. 00:22:36.69\00:22:40.99 IN FACT, WE LEARNED LATER THAT THE MEDIA THERE WAS 00:22:41.02\00:22:46.86 FOLLOWING IT AND THEY WERE EVEN DOING A NEWSREEL OF 00:22:46.90\00:22:50.47 OUR DISTRIBUTIONS AND SHOWING THEM AT THE MOVIE 00:22:50.50\00:22:52.77 THEATRES IN THE TOWN. 00:22:52.80\00:22:53.47 REALLY? 00:22:53.50\00:22:54.57 SO, WE FOUND PEOPLE WHO KNEW ABOUT THE WORK OF THE 00:22:54.60\00:23:00.91 CHURCH AND OTHER PEOPLE WHO KNEW ABOUT THE WORK IN 00:23:00.94\00:23:04.48 THE LANGUAGE SCHOOLS SO IN 1974 WHEN '75 WHEN VIETNAM 00:23:04.51\00:23:09.58 FELL, AH CAMBODIA FELL AS WELL AND FROM THEN UNTIL 00:23:15.46\00:23:20.16 1979 OR '80 IT WAS JUST DARK. 00:23:20.20\00:23:26.90 YES.NOT MUCH. 00:23:26.94\00:23:27.94 WE KNEW THAT OUR CHURCH MEMBERS WERE ALL TARGETS 00:23:27.97\00:23:33.14 UH, BECAUSE ANYONE WHO HAD A FOREIGN RELIGION, ANYONE 00:23:33.17\00:23:38.21 WHO HAD AN EDUCATION OF HIGH SCHOOL OR HIGHER, 00:23:41.82\00:23:46.39 ANYONE WHO WORE GLASSES OR HAD DENTAL WORK, ANYBODY 00:23:46.42\00:23:50.29 WHO HAD FRIENDS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES WERE ON THE LIST 00:23:50.33\00:23:55.43 TO BE EXECUTED. 00:23:55.46\00:23:57.10 EXECUTED? 00:23:57.13\00:23:58.07 EXECUTED. 00:23:58.10\00:23:59.07 EXECUTED FOR WEARING GLASSES? 00:23:59.10\00:24:00.80 YES, BECAUSE THEY WERE CONSIDERED TO BE EDUCATED, 00:24:00.84\00:24:05.24 YES, UPPER ECHELON, AND THESE WERE THE PEOPLE WHO 00:24:05.27\00:24:09.64 WOULD BE ABLE TO DEVELOP AN OPPOSITION-AGAINST THE 00:24:09.68\00:24:13.58 GOVERNMENT. 00:24:13.62\00:24:15.18 IT WAS HARDLY CALLED A GOVERNMENT. 00:24:15.22\00:24:17.35 CAMBODIAN COMMUNISM IS CONSIDERED TO HAVE BEEN 00:24:17.39\00:24:21.26 THE MOST, THE MOST PURE EFFORT UH, TO BUILD UP A 00:24:21.29\00:24:26.36 TRUE COMMUNIST COUNTRY AND WHAT THAT MEANS IS THEY 00:24:28.70\00:24:33.27 DESTROYED EVERYBODY WHO MIGHT HAVE HAD ANY 00:24:33.30\00:24:35.74 OPPORTUNITY TO LEAD AN OPPOSITION TO THEM. 00:24:35.77\00:24:38.81 WHAT DIFFICULT TIMES. 00:24:38.84\00:24:40.18 SO, DURING THOSE FIVE YEARS, AH THE POPULATION 00:24:40.21\00:24:46.31 OF THE COUNTRY WAS REDUCED BY AT LEAST HALF AND 00:24:46.35\00:24:50.32 POSSIBLY MORE. 00:24:50.35\00:24:51.29 THE NUMBERS ARE REALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW. 00:24:51.32\00:24:54.82 DON'T KNOW FOR SURE. 00:24:54.86\00:24:55.79 AND PEOPLE DIED IN TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE WAYS 00:24:55.82\00:25:00.16 BUT THEN IN 1980 WE BEGAN RECOGNIZING THAT THEY WERE 00:25:00.20\00:25:06.27 COMING ACROSS INTO THAILAND AND THAT IN 00:25:06.30\00:25:08.84 ITSELF WAS A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH AND MANY OF 00:25:08.87\00:25:13.44 THEM DIED TRYING TO GET ACROSS INTO THAILAND AND 00:25:13.48\00:25:17.51 THE CHURCH BEGAN WORKING IN THE REFUGEE CAMPS AND 00:25:17.55\00:25:21.68 THE VILLAGES ALONG THE BORDER AND SO S.A.W.S. 00:25:21.72\00:25:25.35 SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST WORLD SERVICE DEVELOPED 00:25:25.39\00:25:28.26 THIS WORK AND I WAS ABLE TO COME BACK AS A DIRECTOR 00:25:28.29\00:25:34.10 OF S.A.W.S. 00:25:34.10\00:25:35.13 IN 1981 AND I -ONE OF THINGS THAT I LEARNED FROM 00:25:35.16\00:25:39.83 THE MAN WHO I TOOK OVER FROM WAS THAT IN ONE 00:25:42.94\00:25:48.01 VILLAGE WE HAD A BAMBOO AND THATCH CHURCH THAT WAS 00:25:51.11\00:25:56.18 BEING BUILT AND SO IN OTHER VILLAGES WE HAD 00:25:57.09\00:26:02.26 OTHER ADVENTISTS WHO WERE TEACHING THE BIBLE TO THE 00:26:02.29\00:26:06.86 PEOPLE AND SO FROM THAT SAMET WHOM YOU MET 00:26:06.90\00:26:12.67 EARLIER, BECAME THE PASTOR OF THAT LITTLE CHURCH, 00:26:12.70\00:26:15.24 WOW, IN THE VILLAGE, WOW, AND HIS STORY IS AMAZING 00:26:15.27\00:26:18.37 BUT WE DON'T HAVE TIME. 00:26:18.41\00:26:19.24 NO, THAT'S FOR ANOTHER TIME, MY FRIEND. 00:26:19.27\00:26:21.04 AND AS A RESULT OF THE WORK THAT THE OTHER 00:26:21.08\00:26:22.38 ORGANIZATIONS AS WELL AS S.A.W.S. 00:26:22.41\00:26:23.75 WAS DOING AND THE PRESENT-DAY CHURCH WAS 00:26:23.78\00:26:25.08 BUILT FROM THAT BEGINNING AND NOW NUMBERS ABOUT 00:26:25.11\00:26:26.41 3500; 3500 FROM THE ONE PERSON THAT WE HAD IN 00:26:26.45\00:26:27.75 1921, YES, NOW WE HAVE 3000 AND WE NEED MORE. 00:26:27.78\00:26:29.08 WE NEED MORE. 00:26:29.12\00:26:30.22 WE NEED MORE TO KNOW JESUS AND THAT'S THE WORK OF THE 00:26:30.25\00:26:31.25 BIBLE WORKERS AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS BUT GOSPEL 00:26:31.29\00:26:36.19 OUTREACH IS TAKING A LEADING ROLE IN TRYING TO 00:26:50.91\00:26:55.51 TEACH THE BIBLE IN THE VILLAGES AND CONTINUE TO 00:26:55.54\00:26:58.55 DO THAT WORK THAT GOD HAS BEEN BLESSING. 00:26:58.58\00:27:01.68 WELL, GARY THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS WALK DOWN 00:27:01.72\00:27:03.55 HISTORY LANE. 00:27:03.59\00:27:04.52 I THINK IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT. 00:27:04.55\00:27:05.55 I LEARNED SO MANY NEW THINGS BECAUSE WE HAVE SO 00:27:05.59\00:27:07.59 MANY COUNTRIES IN THE 10/40 WINDOW AND IT IS 00:27:07.62\00:27:09.89 WONDERFUL TO HEAR ABOUT HOW GOD IS CONTINUING TO 00:27:09.92\00:27:12.43 BLESS AND THE BELIEVERS WHO HAVE STAYED STRONG. 00:27:12.46\00:27:14.46 SO, GARY THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US AND IF 00:27:14.46\00:27:16.93 YOU'VE BEEN ENCOURAGED HERE, THERE ARE SO MANY 00:27:16.97\00:27:18.80 MORE WAYS HOW GOD HAS BEEN WORKING IN THIS AREA. 00:27:18.83\00:27:21.84 WE WANT TO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR LOVE AND 00:27:21.87\00:27:23.94 YOUR SUPPORT OF THE LORD AND OF GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:27:23.97\00:27:26.68 ON BEHALF OF "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" AND GOSPEL 00:27:26.71\00:27:28.81 OUTREACH, I'M JULIE SANDERS KEYMER AND MAY THE 00:27:28.84\00:27:33.92