WELCOME TO "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" FROM GOSPEL 00:00:33.80\00:00:35.56 OUTREACH. 00:00:35.60\00:00:36.60 I'M DICK DUERKSEN, YOUR HOST AND TODAY WE HAVE A 00:00:36.63\00:00:40.04 STORY THAT YOU WILL REMEMBER THE REST OF YOUR 00:00:40.07\00:00:42.27 LIFE AND YOU WILL WONDER HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? 00:00:42.30\00:00:45.17 CHARLES SCHULTZ AND THE ROAD TO RUKUM, RIGHT? 00:00:45.21\00:00:51.51 YES, IT WAS AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE. 00:00:51.55\00:00:54.75 CHARLES, I LOVE YOUR OUTFIT. 00:00:54.78\00:00:58.15 I'M OBVIOUSLY UNDERDRESSED. 00:00:58.19\00:00:59.52 TELL ME ABOUT YOUR OUTFIT. 00:00:59.55\00:01:03.56 OH, THIS IS DAURA SURAWAL. 00:01:03.59\00:01:05.53 THIS IS THE - IT'S A WHO? 00:01:05.56\00:01:07.20 DAURA SURAWAL FROM NEPAL. 00:01:07.23\00:01:09.60 THIS IS THE OLD TIME TRADITIONAL DRESS. 00:01:09.63\00:01:12.80 NOW, I'VE CHEATED AND I HAVE REGULAR PANTS ON. 00:01:12.83\00:01:17.74 OK. 00:01:17.77\00:01:18.81 BECAUSE THE DUDA SURAWAL JUST HAS KIND OF -THERE IS 00:01:18.84\00:01:21.68 NO POCKETS. 00:01:21.71\00:01:23.31 SO, I GOT TO HAVE POCKETS. 00:01:23.35\00:01:24.78 WELL BUT THEY DIDN'T-MAYBE IT DIDN'T WORK TO HAVING 00:01:24.81\00:01:28.45 TO CARRY ALL THE STUFF YOU NEED TO CARRY? 00:01:28.48\00:01:30.15 LOOK AT ALL THE STUFF YOU HAVE TO CARRY ALONG. 00:01:30.19\00:01:32.72 THAT'S RIGHT, THAT'S RIGHT. 00:01:32.75\00:01:34.06 SO, CAR KEYS AND THIS AND THAT SO. 00:01:34.09\00:01:35.79 AND SO, HERE YOU ARE LOOKING LIKE NEPAL, YES, 00:01:35.82\00:01:38.73 AND WE'RE IN WASHINGTON AT THE GOSPEL OUTREACH 00:01:38.76\00:01:43.00 STUDIOS AND YOU ARE GOING TO TELL ME A STORY THAT 00:01:43.03\00:01:45.43 I'M STILL NOT SURE I BELIEVE. 00:01:45.47\00:01:47.24 A CHURCH THAT DOESN'T EXIST. 00:01:47.27\00:01:50.24 IT'S A MIRACLE. 00:01:50.27\00:01:51.44 THE WHOLE TRIP WAS A MIRACLE, OK, AND UH-TAKE 00:01:51.47\00:01:55.08 US ON A JOURNEY. 00:01:55.11\00:01:56.61 OK. 00:01:56.64\00:01:57.51 UM, RUKUM. 00:01:57.55\00:01:58.91 RUKUM? 00:01:58.95\00:02:00.78 YES, VERY REMOTE POSITION IN NEPAL. 00:02:00.82\00:02:02.35 IN FACT, FOR YEARS IT WAS-THERE WAS NO ROADS 00:02:02.38\00:02:10.36 THERE. 00:02:10.39\00:02:11.26 THAT'S THE BIGGEST PROBLEM. 00:02:11.29\00:02:12.53 OK. 00:02:12.56\00:02:13.56 AND THE GOVERNMENT YOU KNOW, DOESN'T REALLY HAVE 00:02:13.60\00:02:16.06 ANY WAY OF GETTING THERE, GETTING HELP TO THE 00:02:16.10\00:02:18.80 PEOPLE. 00:02:18.83\00:02:19.77 IT HAD BECOME A COMMUNIST HOTBED BECAUSE THE 00:02:19.80\00:02:21.57 COMMUNISTS THEY WOULD COME AND TALK TO THE PEOPLE AND 00:02:21.60\00:02:25.27 WELL, WE'LL DO SOMETHING FOR YOU AND YOU KNOW, THIS 00:02:25.31\00:02:28.61 TYPE OF THING. 00:02:28.64\00:02:29.68 AH, MY PARTNER FIFTY YEARS AGO DEEP TAPA, HE MET 00:02:29.71\00:02:35.45 SOMEONE WHO LIVED IN RUKUM. 00:02:35.48\00:02:39.05 HE WENT THERE TWO DAYS BY BUS, SEVEN DAYS WALK AND 00:02:39.09\00:02:44.09 HE STARTED UP THE RUKUM SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST 00:02:44.13\00:02:48.50 CHURCH. 00:02:48.53\00:02:49.53 NOW, WHEN I THINK NEPAL I THINK OF GIANT MOUNTAINS 00:02:49.56\00:02:54.50 AND SO THIS IS NOT A CHURCH THAT IS DOWN AT SEA 00:02:54.54\00:02:58.61 LEVEL. 00:02:58.64\00:02:59.57 NO, NO, NO. 00:02:59.61\00:03:00.74 THIS IS ABOUT 11,000 FEET. 00:03:00.78\00:03:02.21 OK. 00:03:02.24\00:03:03.18 AND SO, WHEN YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THREE DAYS 00:03:03.21\00:03:05.38 ON A BUS AND SEVEN DAYS ON YOUR SHOES YOU'RE TALKING 00:03:05.41\00:03:08.02 ABOUT HIKING IN SOME PRETTY HIGH COUNTRY. 00:03:08.05\00:03:10.05 YES. 00:03:10.09\00:03:10.95 YES. 00:03:10.99\00:03:11.85 UP AND DOWN, UP AND DOWN. 00:03:11.89\00:03:13.39 LOT OF DOWN OH MY, OK. 00:03:13.42\00:03:15.06 AND SO, HE WENT TO THIS VILLAGE-YES, AND STARTED A 00:03:15.09\00:03:19.03 CHURCH AND THEN ITS BEEN KIND OF NEGLECTED AND THEN 00:03:19.06\00:03:24.10 WE MET A MAN BY THE NAME OF SINGERMAN AND SINGERMAN 00:03:26.43\00:03:31.31 HAS A DISABILITY. 00:03:31.34\00:03:32.34 HE IS HUNCHED OVER BUT HE HAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL 00:03:32.37\00:03:34.98 SPIRIT AND SO, HE BECAME OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH 00:03:35.01\00:03:37.45 WORKER. 00:03:37.48\00:03:38.11 IN RUKUM. 00:03:38.15\00:03:38.78 IN RUKUM. 00:03:38.81\00:03:39.85 AND HE SAID, YOU KNOW WE'D LIKE TO HAVE A BETTER 00:03:39.88\00:03:40.78 CHURCH. 00:03:40.82\00:03:41.78 THE CHURCH THAT THEY HAD WAS JUST MADE OUT OF MUD 00:03:41.82\00:03:43.18 AND IT WAS ALL FALLING DOWN AND SO, WE UM GOT 00:03:43.22\00:03:48.29 SOME MONEY FOR HIM AND OF COURSE, IT IS ALL LOCAL 00:03:56.03\00:03:59.37 MATERIALS: MUD AND STONES. 00:03:59.40\00:04:02.37 THEY'VE GOT LOTS OF STONES. 00:04:02.40\00:04:04.47 THE TIN ROOF WAS EXTRA AND THEN THEY HAVE ONE LITTLE 00:04:05.57\00:04:08.74 SOLAR PANEL SO THAT THEY CAN HAVE ELECTRICITY FOR 00:04:08.78\00:04:11.95 TWO LIGHT BULBS IN THE CHURCH. 00:04:11.98\00:04:13.45 MY, MY. 00:04:13.48\00:04:14.48 AND SO, WE SAID OK, WE'LL COME AND SO WE STARTED 00:04:14.52\00:04:20.36 OFF. 00:04:20.39\00:04:21.86 WHEN WAS THIS? 00:04:21.89\00:04:22.66 THIS WAS LAST OCTOBER. 00:04:22.69\00:04:24.16 OCTOBER, 2019 RIGHT. 00:04:24.19\00:04:27.76 AND AH, I LOVE THE PICTURE. 00:04:27.76\00:04:30.67 BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY AND YOU KNOW, ITS' JUST BEFORE THE 00:04:30.70\00:04:33.50 RICE HARVEST IT REMINDS ME OF JESUS WORDS YOU KNOW, 00:04:33.54\00:04:36.37 "THE FIELDS ARE WHITE ALREADY FOR HARVEST" YES, 00:04:36.40\00:04:40.34 AND WE DON'T KNOW WHERE RUKUM IS BUT WE BELIEVE IT 00:04:40.38\00:04:43.41 IS OUT THERE SOMEWHERE THAT WAY. 00:04:43.45\00:04:45.85 THAT WAY. 00:04:45.88\00:04:46.68 WELL JUST GO TO YOUR GPS, COME ON. 00:04:46.72\00:04:48.62 NO, NO, NO, THERE IS NO GPS. 00:04:48.65\00:04:50.82 THERE IS NO GPS? 00:04:50.85\00:04:52.19 WELL, THIS HAS NOT BEEN MAPPED BY GOOGLE? 00:04:52.22\00:04:55.39 I DON'T BELIEVE SO BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING 00:04:55.42\00:04:58.13 SIGNIFICANT OUT THERE. 00:04:58.16\00:05:00.06 WELL, RUKUM. 00:05:00.10\00:05:01.03 THEN THAT'S ABOUT IT. 00:05:01.06\00:05:02.33 AND RUKUM ISN'T JUST A TOWN IT IS AN AREA. 00:05:02.36\00:05:05.03 OK. 00:05:05.07\00:05:05.73 THE DISTRICT LIKE A COUNTY. 00:05:05.77\00:05:06.80 SO, WE'RE MOVING ALONG ON FAIRLY NICE ROADS AND ALL 00:05:06.84\00:05:11.14 OF A SUDDEN, OUR ROAD IS GONE. 00:05:11.17\00:05:16.24 WE HAVE REBAR IN THE WAY AND THEN MORE REBAR AND 00:05:19.51\00:05:24.75 THEN WE ARE MET WITH THE NEWS THAT THE BRIDGE ON 00:05:24.79\00:05:28.69 THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS IS GONE AND SO, AND RUKUM IS 00:05:28.72\00:05:32.79 SOMEWHERE BEYOND. 00:05:32.83\00:05:33.86 YES, YES. 00:05:33.90\00:05:35.36 AND THEY ARE TRYING TO BUILD ROADS TO MAKE IT 00:05:35.40\00:05:38.50 ACCESSIBLE SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO WALK FOR SEVEN 00:05:38.53\00:05:40.84 DAYS BUT WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO? 00:05:40.87\00:05:43.61 SO, WE PRAY AND WE ASK AROUND -IS THERE ANY OTHER 00:05:43.64\00:05:46.21 WAY OF GETTING TO THIS RUKUM DISTRICT? 00:05:46.24\00:05:49.18 AND THEY SAID, WELL YOU KNOW IF YOU GO ON THE 00:05:49.21\00:05:51.35 OTHER MOUNTAIN AND YOU CAN KIND OF FOLLOW THE MOTOR 00:05:51.38\00:05:54.78 CYCLE TRAILS AND THIS IS RIGHT AFTER MONSOON AND WE 00:05:54.82\00:05:58.75 ARE THINKING, WOW, I DON'T KNOW. 00:05:58.79\00:06:00.96 AND WHAT ARE YOU DRIVING? 00:06:00.99\00:06:02.29 WE'RE DRIVING A BOLARO, AN INDIAN VEHICLE, YUP, FOUR 00:06:02.32\00:06:06.39 WHEEL DRIVE. 00:06:06.43\00:06:07.23 YES. 00:06:07.23\00:06:08.20 NOW, I HAVE A LOT OF RESPECT FOR THIS VEHICLE. 00:06:08.23\00:06:09.63 IF YOU GOT TO RUKUM, I HAVE A LOT OF RESPECT FOR 00:06:09.66\00:06:13.60 IT TOO. 00:06:13.64\00:06:14.27 YES, YES. 00:06:14.30\00:06:15.27 AND SO, WE START OFF AND BUT THEN WE HAVE ANOTHER 00:06:15.30\00:06:18.91 PROBLEM. 00:06:18.94\00:06:19.97 THERE IS NO DIESEL BECAUSE THE DIESEL IS FURTHER ON 00:06:20.01\00:06:22.31 IN THE ROAD INTO THIS TOWN AND WE PRAY AND LO AND 00:06:22.34\00:06:26.58 BEHOLD, HERE IS A MAN ON THE SIDE OF THE STREET 00:06:26.61\00:06:29.65 HE'S GOT 20 LITERS OF DIESEL. 00:06:29.68\00:06:32.15 THAT HE WANTS TO SELL. 00:06:32.19\00:06:34.02 YES. 00:06:34.06\00:06:35.09 SO, YOU PRAY-YOU CAN'T GET TO THE DIESEL, YOU CAN'T 00:06:35.12\00:06:36.93 GET TO THE PETROL STATION AT ALL. 00:06:36.96\00:06:38.49 NO, NO. 00:06:38.53\00:06:39.16 NO WAY. 00:06:39.19\00:06:40.20 AND IT IS CLEAR ON THE OTHER SIDE AND THE BRIDGE 00:06:40.23\00:06:41.93 IS OUT AND YOU SAY, LORD, WE'VE GOT TO FIND A PLACE 00:06:41.96\00:06:45.00 THAT'S GOING TO SELL US DIESEL. 00:06:45.03\00:06:46.74 YOU TURN THE CORNER AND HERE IS A DUDE ON THE SIDE 00:06:46.77\00:06:48.77 OF THE ROAD. 00:06:48.80\00:06:50.04 HIS ANGEL WINGS TUCKED IN HIS JACKET AND HE IS 00:06:50.07\00:06:53.51 SELLING DIESEL. 00:06:53.54\00:06:54.54 AND WE DON'T KNOW WHETHER THE DIESEL IS CLEAN OR 00:06:54.58\00:06:56.51 DIRTY SO THAT'S WHY ITS - DO YOU CARE? 00:06:56.54\00:06:58.88 WE, ITS STRAINED THROUGH CLOTH AND YOU KNOW, WE 00:06:58.91\00:07:02.68 PRAISE THE LORD FOR THAT, YOU KNOW. 00:07:02.72\00:07:04.99 WE GOT A TANKFUL OF DIESEL AND THEN WE HAVE THIS 00:07:05.02\00:07:09.86 SITUATION. 00:07:09.89\00:07:10.86 NICE ROAD. 00:07:10.89\00:07:12.23 TWO ROADS DO WE TAKE THE UPPER TRAIL OR DO WE TAKE 00:07:12.26\00:07:15.70 THE LOWER TRAIL. 00:07:15.73\00:07:16.83 BACK TO YOUR GPS. 00:07:16.87\00:07:17.93 GPS IS GOD'S PROTECTIVE SERVICE. 00:07:17.97\00:07:22.20 I LOVE IT. 00:07:22.24\00:07:23.30 SO, WE PRAYED AND WE SAID, WELL LET'S GO THE UPPER 00:07:23.34\00:07:28.54 TRAIL AND WE HAVE NO IDEA WHETHER THIS IS THE RIGHT 00:07:28.58\00:07:30.18 TRAIL OR NOT. 00:07:30.21\00:07:32.11 AND SO, WE GO ON AND ON AND THEN WE HAVE ANOTHER 00:07:32.15\00:07:38.79 OBSTACLE AND THIS IS RIGHT AFTER MONSOON-THE RIVERS 00:07:38.82\00:07:42.02 ARE ALL FULL AND YOU KNOW, WEATHER CHANNEL AT TWO 00:07:42.06\00:07:45.63 FEET WILL CARRY THE VEHICLE AWAY AND SO HERE 00:07:45.66\00:07:49.76 WE HAVE AN OBSTACLE. 00:07:49.80\00:07:52.33 WE'VE GOT ALL OF THE STONES - NOBODY'S GONE 00:07:52.37\00:07:54.67 WITH A VEHICLE THROUGH THIS. 00:07:54.70\00:07:57.11 UM AND SO AGAIN, WE STOP AND WE PRAY. 00:07:57.94\00:08:02.48 LORD, HELP US TO GET THROUGH THIS OBSTACLE. 00:08:03.31\00:08:05.25 THE BOLERO, THE BOLERO GOES DOWN THE HILL AND 00:08:05.28\00:08:09.62 THROUGH THE RIVER AND YOU CAN'T SEE THE ROCKS. 00:08:09.65\00:08:13.29 YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHAT WAS CONCERNING. 00:08:13.32\00:08:15.36 SO, I'M PRAYING, LORD PROTECT THE OIL PAN AND 00:08:15.39\00:08:19.13 THE CRANKSHAFT AND THE BRAKES-GOING THROUGH ALL 00:08:19.16\00:08:22.10 OF THE PARTS OF THE VEHICLE. 00:08:22.13\00:08:23.70 YOU KNOW, AT ONE POINT IN MY LIFE I HAD A LITTLE 00:08:23.73\00:08:26.17 CHILD WHO WAS ASKED TO PRAY FOR LUNCH ON SABBATH 00:08:26.20\00:08:29.37 AND GOD BLESS THE PEAS, GOD BLESS THE CORN, AND 00:08:29.40\00:08:33.21 GOD BLESS THE SALT, YES AND YOU ARE DOING THIS ON 00:08:33.24\00:08:37.15 THE BOLERO. 00:08:37.18\00:08:38.25 YES, ABSOLUTELY. 00:08:38.28\00:08:39.31 THE LEFT FRONT WHEEL, THE RIGHT FRONT WHEEL AND THE 00:08:39.35\00:08:42.85 BRAKE LININGS, YOU KNOW BECAUSE ANY KIND OF BIG 00:08:43.65\00:08:46.09 STONE COULD DESTROY IT. 00:08:46.79\00:08:48.02 ITS GOING TO DESTROY IT. 00:08:48.06\00:08:49.19 YES. 00:08:49.22\00:08:50.29 WE COULD BE STOPPING RIGHT THERE AND SO UM, WE GOT 00:08:50.33\00:08:52.26 THROUGH THAT AND THEN WE HAVE - DID YOU PRAY FOR 00:08:52.29\00:08:56.13 EVERYTHING AND EVERYTHING MADE IT? 00:08:56.16\00:08:57.83 WELL YES. 00:08:57.87\00:08:58.83 AND NOW WE HIT A QUARTER OF A MILE OF NOTHING BUT 00:08:58.87\00:09:03.17 UM MUD, MUCK. 00:09:03.20\00:09:06.27 IT IS AFTER THE MONSOON -EVEN A REALLY GOOD 00:09:06.31\00:09:08.28 FOUR-WHEEL DRIVE IS A MESS ON THAT ROAD. 00:09:08.31\00:09:14.25 AND YOU KNOW, THEN FEAR, YOU KNOW, SATAN'S ATTACK 00:09:14.28\00:09:17.35 IS WITH FEAR AND WE BEGAN TO BECOME FEARFUL. 00:09:17.39\00:09:19.75 LORD, WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IF WE GET STUCK. 00:09:19.79\00:09:23.56 IF WE GET STUCK HERE, THERE IS NO AAA TO PULL US 00:09:23.59\00:09:27.50 OUT, UM, AND SO BEFORE WE WENT THROUGH THIS THE 00:09:27.50\00:09:31.53 SLOUGH OF THIS POND, WE PRAYED. 00:09:31.57\00:09:33.30 LORD, HELP US TO GET THROUGH THIS AND I'M 00:09:33.34\00:09:35.70 PRAYING AND SINGING UM YOU KNOW, MOMENT BY MOMENT AND 00:09:35.74\00:09:39.94 ALL MY GOOD TRAVEL SONGS AND WE GET THROUGH THAT. 00:09:39.97\00:09:44.48 OH MY. 00:09:44.51\00:09:45.58 AND THEN WHERE IS RUKUM? 00:09:45.61\00:09:49.78 OH MY. 00:09:50.59\00:09:51.52 AND IT'S OUT THERE SOMEWHERE IT'S-WE FIGURED 00:09:51.55\00:09:54.69 THAT THE VALLEYS WOULD TAKE US TO RUKUM AND NOW 00:09:54.72\00:09:57.96 WE COME TO ROADS THAT ARE PARTIALLY CONSTRUCTED BY 00:09:57.99\00:10:03.23 THE GOVERNMENT BUT NOBODY IS WORKING ON THEM BECAUSE 00:10:03.26\00:10:06.30 IT'S FESTIVAL TIME. 00:10:06.33\00:10:08.07 UM. 00:10:08.10\00:10:08.94 AND SO, WE KEEP GOING.WE KEEP GOING. 00:10:08.97\00:10:11.74 BUT WAIT ALL YOU KNOW IS THAT IT'S PROBABLY ON THE 00:10:11.77\00:10:16.41 END OF THIS ROAD SOMEWHERE? 00:10:16.44\00:10:18.05 WELL, IS ANYBODY HELPING YOU GET THERE? 00:10:18.08\00:10:21.28 NO. 00:10:21.32\00:10:22.35 THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER WOULD CLIMB UP ON TOP OF 00:10:22.38\00:10:26.02 THIS MOUNTAIN EVERY ONCE IN AWHILE, HE'D SAY, WELL, 00:10:26.05\00:10:29.12 TELL ME ABOUT THE SCENERY? 00:10:29.16\00:10:31.66 WHERE ARE YOU? 00:10:31.69\00:10:33.86 WHERE ARE YOU? 00:10:33.90\00:10:34.93 RIGHT. 00:10:34.93\00:10:35.86 SO, YOU DO HAVE A GPS. 00:10:35.90\00:10:37.47 YOU'VE GOT A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER UP ON TOP 00:10:37.50\00:10:39.50 OF THE MOUNTAIN. 00:10:39.53\00:10:40.80 HE DOESN'T WHERE WE ARE AND WE DON'T KNOW WHERE HE 00:10:40.84\00:10:43.00 IS. 00:10:43.04\00:10:44.07 AND THEN, THEN WE ARE GOING ALONG THIS TYPE OF A 00:10:44.11\00:10:47.54 TRAIL AND THERE IS NO GUARD RAILS. 00:10:47.58\00:10:49.04 IT GOES OFF TWO OR THREE THOUSAND FEET AND SO, I 00:10:49.08\00:10:52.31 BEGAN TO RECITE SOME OF MY SCRIPTURE PROMISES. 00:10:52.35\00:10:56.58 I BET YOU DO A LOT OF THEM. 00:10:56.62\00:10:58.55 YES, AND "WHAT TIME I AM AFRAID, I WILL TRUST IN 00:10:58.59\00:11:02.92 THEE" AND I LEARNED ALL ABOUT TRUST. 00:11:02.96\00:11:06.36 AND YOU KNOW, THE OTHER THING IS WE DIDN'T KNOW 00:11:06.39\00:11:10.30 HOW FAR IT WAS AND I FELT LIKE A LITTLE KID YOU 00:11:10.33\00:11:12.93 KNOW, LORD, HOW MUCH FURTHER IS IT? 00:11:12.97\00:11:15.94 WHEN ARE WE GOING TO GET THERE? 00:11:15.97\00:11:17.51 ARE WE THERE YET? 00:11:17.54\00:11:18.84 ARE WE THERE YET? 00:11:18.87\00:11:20.84 AND THEN, THE DRIVER HE WAS NEPALI AND MY NEPALI 00:11:20.88\00:11:26.01 IS RATHER LIMITED BUT WHEN HE SAYS, "WHERE IS THE 00:11:26.05\00:11:28.82 ROAD"? 00:11:28.85\00:11:29.88 I BEGIN TO GET A LITTLE NERVOUS. 00:11:29.92\00:11:31.52 WELL, IT TURNS OUT THAT THE ROAD IS THIS SOMETIME 00:11:31.55\00:11:34.86 RIVERBED AND TO BE ABLE TO DRIVE ON IT, WE'VE GOT TO 00:11:34.89\00:11:39.79 GET OUT AND REARRANGE THE ROCKS. 00:11:39.83\00:11:42.33 BECAUSE WHAT I'M LOOKING AT IS-IT LOOKS LIKE A ROAD 00:11:42.36\00:11:46.30 BUT I CAN SEE THOSE ROCKS WERE NOT THERE AND THE 00:11:46.33\00:11:50.04 MONSOON HAS DUMPED THEM THERE. 00:11:50.07\00:11:52.14 YES. 00:11:52.17\00:11:53.07 YES. 00:11:53.11\00:11:54.08 THAT'S IT EXACTLY. 00:11:54.11\00:11:55.64 HM. 00:11:55.68\00:11:56.48 SO, WE PRESSED ON - WHAT DID HE SAY? 00:11:56.51\00:11:58.45 WHAT IS THAT AGAIN? 00:11:58.48\00:11:59.81 WHERE IS THE ROAD? 00:11:59.85\00:12:01.12 AND HOW DID YOU SAY THAT? 00:12:01.15\00:12:02.85 BOTTO KOY. 00:12:02.88\00:12:03.62 BOTTO KOY. 00:12:03.65\00:12:04.72 YOU KNOW, I READ A BOOK ONCE CALLED GOD WILL MAKE 00:12:04.75\00:12:10.66 A ROAD YES, AND IT WAS A STORY FROM NEPAL. 00:12:10.69\00:12:13.33 YES, YES AND MAYBE THEY BOTH GOT THE SAME REALITY. 00:12:13.36\00:12:16.93 ONE CAN SAY WHERE IS THE ROAD? 00:12:16.97\00:12:19.27 WELL, THERE IS AN ANSWER, THE GOSPEL OUTREACH ANSWER 00:12:19.30\00:12:21.47 IS: IT'S GOD. 00:12:21.50\00:12:23.24 GOD WILL MAKE A ROAD. 00:12:23.27\00:12:24.94 LET ME STOP YOU FOR JUST A SECOND. 00:12:24.97\00:12:26.64 I WOULD LIKE TO CHALLENGE YOU AS SOMEBODY WHO LOVES 00:12:26.68\00:12:31.68 GOSPEL OUTREACH AND SOMEBODY WHO LOVES SHARING 00:12:31.71\00:12:34.22 THE MINISTRY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, I WOULD LIKE TO 00:12:34.25\00:12:36.45 REALLY CHALLENGE YOU TO TAKE A MINUTE OR TWO AND 00:12:36.48\00:12:40.09 WRITE US A LETTER: GOSPEL OUTREACH, P.O. 00:12:40.12\00:12:41.62 BOX 8, COLLEGE PLACE, WA 99324 AND WHEN YOU DO, 00:12:41.66\00:12:51.50 TELL US YOU ARE PRAYING FOR US, TELL US YOU ARE 00:12:51.53\00:12:54.37 THANKFUL THAT GOD MAKES A ROAD EVEN TO A PLACE YOU 00:12:54.40\00:12:57.07 DON'T KNOW WHERE IT IS AND THAT GOD IS WORKING 00:12:57.11\00:13:03.08 THERE-ADD A CHECK BECAUSE WE'VE GOT GOSPEL OUTREACH 00:13:03.98\00:13:09.08 WORKERS OUT THERE WHO NEED YOUR SUPPORT. 00:13:09.12\00:13:11.22 EARTH- VAST, BEAUTIFUL BUT TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AND YOU 00:13:11.25\00:13:23.67 CAN SEE THE PAIN OF A WORLD ON A COLLISION 00:13:24.53\00:13:26.17 COURSE WITH ITS OWN GREED. 00:13:27.10\00:13:29.90 HUMANITY. 00:13:29.94\00:13:31.87 WE NEED LOVE. 00:13:31.91\00:13:34.01 WE NEED HOPE. 00:13:34.04\00:13:36.01 WE NEED A SAVIOR. 00:13:36.04\00:13:38.58 MORE THAN ONE-THIRD OF THE WORLD'S SEVEN BILLION 00:13:38.61\00:13:43.55 PEOPLE STILL NEED TO HEAR ABOUT GOD'S LOVE AND HIS 00:13:43.59\00:13:46.49 PLAN TO SAVE US-ONE THIRD. 00:13:46.52\00:13:48.29 IN SUCH A BIG WORLD, IT'S EASY TO FEEL SMALL BUT YOU 00:13:48.32\00:13:54.86 CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 00:13:54.93\00:13:57.77 PARTNER WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH TO FUND BIBLE 00:13:57.80\00:14:00.47 WORKERS WHO ARE MISSIONARIES IN THEIR OWN 00:14:00.50\00:14:03.24 VILLAGES, TOWNS AND CITIES. 00:14:03.27\00:14:05.81 THEY SHARE THE LIFE CHANGING LOVE AND STORY OF 00:14:05.84\00:14:09.54 JESUS CHRIST. 00:14:09.58\00:14:10.88 THANK YOU FOR GIVING. 00:14:10.91\00:14:13.68 TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE SO THAT ALL THE 00:14:13.72\00:14:18.45 WORLD MAY KNOW JESUS. 00:14:18.49\00:14:20.89 YOU KNOW, LISTENING TO THAT PROMOTIONAL VIDEO AND 00:14:20.92\00:14:30.97 THINKING ABOUT WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT IT IS REALLY 00:14:31.00\00:14:33.50 TRUE. 00:14:33.54\00:14:34.54 YES. 00:14:34.57\00:14:35.64 IT'S A LONG WAY OUT THERE AND A THIRD OF THE WORLD'S 00:14:35.67\00:14:38.27 PEOPLE SOME OF THEM LIVE IN RUKUM. 00:14:38.31\00:14:40.81 SO, DID YOU GET THERE? 00:14:40.84\00:14:42.61 WELL, YOU KNOW EVENTUALLY. 00:14:42.64\00:14:44.11 THEN WE HAVE THE LOCAL LIVESTOCK AH, DO YOU HAVE 00:14:44.15\00:14:49.82 A PICTURE OF THEM? 00:14:49.85\00:14:51.69 WE HAD A ROAD BLOCK OF SHEEP. 00:14:51.72\00:14:54.89 A SHEEP BLOCK. 00:14:54.92\00:14:56.46 A SHEEP BLOCK AND THAT'S ENCOURAGING BECAUSE YOU 00:14:56.49\00:14:59.56 KNOW THERE'S LOTS OF GOOD STUFF HAPPENING. 00:14:59.59\00:15:01.30 AND YOU KNOW, THERE IS NOT A LOT OF -TO EAT. 00:15:01.33\00:15:04.90 THERE IS NO RICE FIELDS, YOU KNOW AND PEOPLE EAT 00:15:04.93\00:15:07.34 SHEEP. 00:15:07.37\00:15:08.20 UH HUH. 00:15:08.24\00:15:09.24 AND SO, WE PUSHED OVER TO ONE SIDE AND THE SHEEP 00:15:09.27\00:15:12.51 CAME AROUND US AND SO WE MANAGED TO GET BY THE 00:15:12.54\00:15:15.71 SHEEPGATE. 00:15:15.74\00:15:16.85 HOW FUN. 00:15:16.88\00:15:17.85 AND OH, AND THEN WE'VE GOT MORE PROBLEMS WITH 00:15:17.88\00:15:21.38 BOULDERS AND ROCKS AND OUR DRIVER, HE KNEW EXACTLY 00:15:21.42\00:15:26.69 HOW TO HANDLE EACH BOULDER, EACH ROCK. 00:15:26.72\00:15:28.96 HE KNEW EXACTLY WHERE HIS WHEELS WERE GOING AND OF 00:15:28.99\00:15:32.19 COURSE, WE WOULD PRAY. 00:15:32.23\00:15:33.96 WE'D PRAY AND A GENERAL PRAYER AT THE BEGINNING 00:15:34.00\00:15:37.47 AND THEN AS WE WOULD PROCEED THROUGH THE ROCKS 00:15:37.50\00:15:41.34 AND THE WATER, I WOULD PRAY FOR THE OIL PAN AND 00:15:41.37\00:15:45.77 THE CRANK SHAFT AND, OH, I LOVE IT, GO THROUGH VERY 00:15:45.81\00:15:51.68 INDIVIDUALLY AND WE MADE IT. 00:15:51.71\00:15:53.45 YOU KNOW, IT WAS EXCITING AND THEN LO AND BEHOLD 00:15:53.48\00:15:55.42 THERE IS RUKUM. 00:15:55.45\00:15:56.99 AND YOU KNOW, THEY HAD AN AVALANCHE AND SO PART OF 00:15:57.02\00:16:02.72 THE ROAD IS GONE SO THAT MEANS THAT WE COULD WALK. 00:16:02.76\00:16:06.03 YOU FINALLY CAME TO THE END OF THE ROAD. 00:16:06.06\00:16:08.53 YES.YES. 00:16:08.56\00:16:09.53 YOU COULD NOT GO ANY FARTHER. 00:16:09.56\00:16:10.90 RIGHT. 00:16:10.93\00:16:11.80 AND RUKUM WAS BEYOND. 00:16:11.83\00:16:13.10 THAT'S RIGHT BUT WE DIDN'T HAVE TO WALK FOR SEVEN 00:16:13.13\00:16:16.04 DAYS IT WAS ONLY LIKE TEN MINUTE WALK AND THEN THE 00:16:16.07\00:16:19.37 CHURCH MEMBERS CAME DOWN THE HILL AND HELPED US 00:16:19.41\00:16:22.98 CARRY OUR STUFF BACK UP AND WE HAD RICE AND WE HAD 00:16:23.01\00:16:26.45 ALL KINDS OF THINGS TO GIVE THEM AND THEY WERE 00:16:26.48\00:16:28.95 THRILLED TO SEE US AND THEN THE GOOD NEWS WAS WE 00:16:28.98\00:16:34.46 ACTUALLY WERE ON TIME FOR THE CHURCH DEDICATION. 00:16:34.49\00:16:38.59 NOW, I'M CONFUSED. 00:16:38.63\00:16:43.83 BECAUSE THIS CHURCH WAS STARTED BY A GOSPEL 00:16:43.87\00:16:48.50 OUTREACH WORKER HOW MANY YEARS AGO? 00:16:48.54\00:16:50.17 THIRTY YEARS AGO. 00:16:50.21\00:16:51.74 AND IT HAS CONTINUED TO GROW BECAUSE OF JUST LOCAL 00:16:51.77\00:16:55.58 TEACHING. 00:16:55.61\00:16:58.25 AH, IT'S BEEN-IT'S HAD CHALLENGES. 00:16:58.28\00:17:00.78 CHALLENGES FROM COMMUNISTS, CHALLENGES 00:17:00.82\00:17:05.52 FROM OTHER CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATIONS AND THEY 00:17:05.55\00:17:08.56 JUST NEEDED TO KNOW THAT THEY WERE PART OF THE 00:17:08.59\00:17:11.79 SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST MESSAGE. 00:17:11.83\00:17:13.46 AND BASICALLY, THAT WAS MY SERMON. 00:17:13.50\00:17:15.63 YOU ARE PART OF A WORLDWIDE CHURCH AND YOU 00:17:15.66\00:17:19.77 KNOW, THERE IS MAYBE 150 THERE. 00:17:19.80\00:17:22.60 WOW. 00:17:22.64\00:17:23.71 BUT YOU KNOW, AND I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY OF THOSE ARE 00:17:23.74\00:17:27.34 SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST, BUT THAT'S OK, YES. 00:17:27.38\00:17:29.38 AND WE WERE ABLE TO HAVE THE DEDICATION AND WE CUT 00:17:29.41\00:17:34.55 THE RIBBON YOU KNOW HOW THEY DO AND EVERYONE IS 00:17:34.58\00:17:37.22 GATHERED AROUND. 00:17:37.25\00:17:38.52 THERE IS THE CHURCH. 00:17:38.55\00:17:40.02 THERE IS THE CHURCH AND TIN ROOF. 00:17:40.06\00:17:42.46 NOW YOU TOLD ME THAT IT WAS BUILT FROM STONE. 00:17:42.49\00:17:44.93 I'M IMPRESSED. 00:17:44.96\00:17:46.56 AND THIS IS -THERE IS NO WOOD, VERY LITTLE WOOD 00:17:46.59\00:17:51.63 AROUND AND ONE OF OUR CHURCH MEMBERS HERE IS A 00:17:52.97\00:17:56.00 SHEPHERD AND YOU KNOW JOHN 10 SAYS JESUS IS THE DOOR, 00:17:56.04\00:18:00.41 RIGHT. 00:18:00.44\00:18:01.78 IT'S NOT A WOODEN DOOR, THEY PUT THE STONES IN A 00:18:01.81\00:18:05.68 LITTLE ENCLOSURE AND THEN THEY PUT THE SHEEP THERE. 00:18:05.71\00:18:09.52 THE SHEPHERD LIES ACROSS THE THRESHOLD AND THAT'S 00:18:09.55\00:18:13.15 WHY JESUS SAYS, HE IS THE DOOR. 00:18:13.19\00:18:16.32 I LOVE THAT. 00:18:16.36\00:18:17.33 I GOT THAT FROM THE PICTURE -WE HAVE ONE OF 00:18:17.36\00:18:20.40 OUR MEMBERS IS A SHEPHERD AND I GOT ALL OF THESE 00:18:20.43\00:18:24.47 INSIGHTS AND THE GOOD SHEPHERD LAYS DOWN HIS 00:18:24.50\00:18:27.37 LIFE FOR HIS SHEEP AND IF YOU COME IN ANYWAY BUT 00:18:27.40\00:18:30.37 THROUGH THE DOOR, THEN YOU ARE A THIEF AND A ROBBER. 00:18:30.41\00:18:32.87 YOU ARE A THIEF, YES, AND SO WE HAD A WONDERFUL UM, 00:18:32.91\00:18:37.38 DEDICATION. 00:18:37.41\00:18:38.38 THE VILLAGE LEADER HIS WIFE IS A SEVENTH DAY 00:18:38.41\00:18:43.55 ADVENTIST AND HE SAID, YOU KNOW I JUST HAVE ONE 00:18:43.59\00:18:48.96 QUESTION FOR YOU. 00:18:48.99\00:18:50.79 YOU'VE COME HERE TODAY-YOU'VE OPENED UP 00:18:50.83\00:18:54.00 THIS CHURCH. 00:18:54.00\00:18:55.76 AFTER THIS WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO FOR THESE 00:18:55.80\00:18:57.43 PEOPLE? 00:18:57.47\00:18:58.30 AND THAT HAS BEEN RINGING IN MY MIND. 00:18:58.33\00:19:02.24 I WOULD THINK SO, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT IS SO 00:19:02.27\00:19:03.87 HARD TO GET THERE. 00:19:03.91\00:19:04.91 YES, YES AND HE KNOWS THAT AND THAT'S WHY THE 00:19:04.94\00:19:07.34 COMMUNISTS WERE THERE BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE, 00:19:07.38\00:19:09.91 NOBODY ELSE HAD EVEN COME. 00:19:09.94\00:19:11.01 NOBODY BOTHERS. 00:19:11.05\00:19:12.78 IT'S A NEGLECTED LITTLE CHURCH AND SO I TOLD HIM, 00:19:12.81\00:19:18.12 I SAID, WE WILL HAVE SOMETHING ELSE FOR YOU 00:19:18.15\00:19:21.26 PEOPLE AND I SAID, UM AND WE SENT IN A GROUP OF 00:19:21.29\00:19:24.96 YOUTH -NEPALI ADVENTIST YOUTH AND-NOW THAT'S A 00:19:24.99\00:19:29.20 MISSION TRIP I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE BEEN ON. 00:19:29.23\00:19:31.97 AND THEY HAD A HARD TIME GETTING THERE, YES, AND 00:19:32.00\00:19:35.77 THEN, YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY WERE THERE FOR A WEEK, 00:19:35.80\00:19:39.24 THEY WERE NOT ALWAYS FULL. 00:19:39.27\00:19:41.31 THERE WERE MANY TIMES WHEN THEY WERE HUNGRY. 00:19:41.34\00:19:43.08 AND THEY CAN GROW CORN SOMETIMES ON THESE 00:19:43.11\00:19:46.05 TERRACED FIELDS AND THEY WOULD HAVE CORNMEAL MUSH 00:19:46.08\00:19:51.05 AND THEY SUFFERED. 00:19:51.09\00:19:55.66 THEY SUFFERED. 00:19:55.69\00:19:56.22 THAT WAS A TOUGH WEEK. 00:19:56.26\00:19:57.19 YES, AND THEY HAD A VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL. 00:19:57.23\00:20:00.03 THEY HAD A LITTLE HEALTH SITUATION WHERE THEY WOULD 00:20:00.06\00:20:03.03 TAKE PEOPLES BLOOD PRESSURE AND THEN THEY 00:20:03.06\00:20:06.13 GAVE OUT SOME CLOTHES BUT HARD, HARD TIMES FOR THOSE 00:20:06.17\00:20:10.04 PEOPLE. 00:20:10.07\00:20:11.37 THIS IS OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN THE RUKUM 00:20:11.41\00:20:14.71 SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH AND MY HEART WAS 00:20:14.74\00:20:18.65 TOUCHED, YOU KNOW. 00:20:18.68\00:20:20.32 THESE PEOPLE WERE SO ANXIOUS, SO EAGER, SO FULL 00:20:20.35\00:20:24.09 OF JOY. 00:20:24.12\00:20:25.09 WHAT ARE WE DOING FOR THE RUKUM SEVENTH DAY 00:20:25.12\00:20:27.32 ADVENTIST CHURCH? 00:20:27.36\00:20:28.36 WELL, WE HAVE A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER THERE AND 00:20:28.39\00:20:32.19 THAT IS OUR CONTRIBUTION AND I PRAY FOR THIS 00:20:32.23\00:20:36.50 CONGREGATION EVERYDAY. 00:20:36.53\00:20:37.73 NOW WE DID HAVE ONE THING THAT WE COULD GIVE THEM 00:20:37.77\00:20:41.27 AND THAT IS THE MP3 PLAYER WITH THE NEPALI NEW 00:20:41.30\00:20:42.60 TESTAMENT, SOME DEVOTIONALS IN NEPAL. 00:20:42.64\00:20:43.94 THERE IS NO ELECTRICITY BUT THEY'RE SOLAR POWERED 00:20:43.97\00:20:45.31 AND YOU KNOW, TO GIVE THEM BIBLES THEY DON'T READ, 00:20:45.34\00:20:46.64 WHAT ARE GOING TO DO WITH THE BOOKS? 00:20:46.68\00:20:47.98 UH HUH. 00:20:48.01\00:20:49.04 AND GOSPEL OUTREACH HAS THESE MP3 PLAYERS WHICH 00:20:49.08\00:20:49.98 ARE CALLED GODPODS, RIGHT? 00:20:50.01\00:20:50.65 YES. 00:20:50.68\00:20:51.31 YES. 00:20:51.35\00:20:51.91 JUST EXACTLY LIKE THAT. 00:20:51.95\00:20:57.09 OK. 00:21:08.46\00:21:09.53 SO, I'VE GOT ONE OF THESE IN MY HAND SO, LET ME JUST 00:21:09.56\00:21:12.37 TAKE A MINUTE HERE. 00:21:12.40\00:21:13.23 THAT'S A GODPOD AND THAT'S THE SOLAR POWERED -IF I 00:21:13.90\00:21:18.71 PULL THE PLASTIC OFF I'VE GOT A SOLAR PANEL BACK 00:21:18.74\00:21:21.34 HERE AND ALL I'VE GOT TO DO IS LEAVE THAT IN THE 00:21:21.38\00:21:25.28 SUN AND I HAVE FULL ACCESS TO JESUS. 00:21:25.31\00:21:28.45 AMEN. 00:21:28.48\00:21:29.45 TO UNDERSTAND THE GOSPEL THAT YOU AND I HAVE COME 00:21:29.48\00:21:31.95 TO LOVE. 00:21:31.99\00:21:32.62 YES. 00:21:32.65\00:21:34.22 IN MY LANGUAGE. 00:21:34.26\00:21:35.52 THAT'S RIGHT. 00:21:35.56\00:21:36.26 I CAN'T READ, I CAN'T WRITE. 00:21:36.29\00:21:38.13 I'M NEVER GOING TO GO TO NEW YORK. 00:21:38.16\00:21:39.59 YES. 00:21:39.63\00:21:40.76 NEVER GOING TO GO TO SCHOOL. 00:21:40.80\00:21:42.50 YOU MIGHT NEVER GET OUT OF RUKUM. 00:21:42.53\00:21:43.83 BUT THERE IS A SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH IN RUKUM. 00:21:43.87\00:21:47.97 THAT'S RIGHT AND THEY LOVE THE LORD. 00:21:48.00\00:21:51.37 THEY ARE VERY ENTHUSIASTIC AND THEY HAD THE SONG 00:21:51.41\00:21:55.71 SERVICE AND -WHAT SONGS DID THEY SING? 00:21:55.74\00:21:59.55 AH, THE ONE I WISHED THEY'D SUNG WAS RAJA JESU 00:21:59.58\00:22:01.42 IAYA AND JESUS IS COMING, KING JESUS IS COMING AND 00:22:01.45\00:22:02.78 THEN IT GOES ON SITONA LIGITNOCOLAGI - SATAN HAS 00:22:02.82\00:22:04.12 BEEN THROWN OUT. 00:22:04.15\00:22:04.79 OH. 00:22:04.82\00:22:05.45 RAJA JESU IAYA. 00:22:05.49\00:22:06.52 AND YOU KNOW BECAUSE SATAN IS A BIG DEAL THERE IN 00:22:06.55\00:22:11.23 NEPAL BUT JOHN 12 SAYS THAT AFTER THE CROSS SATAN 00:22:15.46\00:22:20.50 HAS BEEN CAST DOWN AND I ASKED SOMEONE WHO KNOWS 00:22:22.07\00:22:26.41 NEPALI, I SAID JITNUCOLAGI IS THAT PAST, PRESENT OR 00:22:26.44\00:22:30.58 FUTURE? 00:22:30.61\00:22:31.31 THEY SAID, IT IS ALL THREE. 00:22:31.35\00:22:33.52 SATAN WAS CAST DOWN WHEN HE WAS THROWN OUT OF 00:22:33.55\00:22:36.35 HEAVEN. 00:22:36.38\00:22:37.39 HE WAS CAST DOWN WHEN JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS 00:22:37.42\00:22:40.32 AND THEN THE FINAL FUTURE DESTRUCTION WILL BE AFTER 00:22:40.36\00:22:43.76 THE MILLENIUM AND YOU KNOW, WE HAVE NOTHING TO 00:22:43.79\00:22:47.40 FEAR FROM SATAN BECAUSE YOU KNOW, HE IS CAST DOWN. 00:22:47.46\00:22:50.80 HE IS CAST DOWN. 00:22:50.83\00:22:51.90 AND YOU KNOW DICK, YOU AND I- SATAN CAN STILL GET AT 00:22:51.93\00:22:56.44 US UH HUH, FEAR AND I TELL YOU I WENT THROUGH ALL OF 00:22:56.47\00:23:00.78 MY FEAR PROMISES. 00:23:00.81\00:23:02.14 I'LL BET. 00:23:02.18\00:23:02.94 FEAR THOU NOT FOR I AM WITH THEE. 00:23:02.98\00:23:05.38 BE NOT DISMAYED I AM THY GOD. 00:23:05.41\00:23:07.62 AND WE STILL HAD TO GET BACK DOWN THE HILL. 00:23:07.65\00:23:09.75 YES, THAT'S RIGHT. 00:23:09.78\00:23:10.52 YOU'VE GOT TO GO BACK THAT ROAD. 00:23:10.55\00:23:11.79 YES, YES. 00:23:11.82\00:23:12.72 BUT AT LEAST WE KNEW WHERE WE WERE GOING. 00:23:12.75\00:23:14.32 HOW LONG DID IT TAKE YOU TO MAKE THAT TRIP? 00:23:14.36\00:23:16.19 AH, WE MADE A LOT BETTER TIME GOING BACK THAN WE 00:23:16.22\00:23:21.03 DID COMING THERE. 00:23:21.06\00:23:21.93 WELL, AT LEAST YOU KNEW WHERE HOME WAS. 00:23:21.96\00:23:24.87 YES. 00:23:24.90\00:23:25.93 AND THIS IS THE FINAL PICTURE IS OUR YOUTH GOING 00:23:25.97\00:23:31.27 THERE. 00:23:31.31\00:23:32.31 BLESS THEIR HEARTS AND THEY ARE TAKING THE BLOOD 00:23:32.34\00:23:35.14 PRESSURE AND YOU KNOW, THESE PEOPLE- MEMBERS OF 00:23:35.18\00:23:39.31 THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH WITH NO IDEA THAT 00:23:39.35\00:23:43.35 THERE ARE OTHER SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS THAT LOVE 00:23:43.39\00:23:47.26 THEM THAT ARE PRAYING FOR THEM. 00:23:47.29\00:23:49.59 THIS IS WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO GET THROUGH. 00:23:49.62\00:23:52.36 YES. 00:23:52.39\00:23:53.40 AND THE NEXT TIME I GO TO NEPAL, AFTER COVID, UM I 00:23:53.43\00:23:57.37 WANT TO GO TO RUKUM AGAIN AND I FEEL SO BAD THIS 00:23:57.40\00:24:03.27 SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH HAS BEEN IN 00:24:03.30\00:24:04.94 EXISTENCE FOR THIRTY YEARS HAS NEVER HAD COMMUNION. 00:24:04.97\00:24:10.05 NOW, THE GRAPE JUICE I WOULD HAVE TO BRING IT. 00:24:12.15\00:24:15.38 HAVE TO BRING IT. 00:24:15.42\00:24:16.38 I'D HAVE TO BRING IT AND THEY PROBABLY WOULD BE 00:24:16.42\00:24:19.09 VERY UH, AMAZED WITH THAT AND THEN THEY PROBABLY 00:24:19.12\00:24:22.76 WOULD THINK THERE IS MAGICAL VALUE -THEY 00:24:22.79\00:24:25.66 PROBABLY WILL- WITH THE GRAPE JUICE AND THEN HOW I 00:24:25.69\00:24:28.76 AM GOING TO TELL THE LITTLE CHILDREN? 00:24:28.80\00:24:30.27 BECAUSE THERE ARE AS MANY CHILDREN AS THERE ARE 00:24:30.30\00:24:32.03 ADULTS BUT WE'LL HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ELSE. 00:24:32.07\00:24:35.60 WE DISTRIBUTED MANGO DRINKS AND CRACKERS BUT 00:24:35.64\00:24:41.11 WE'D HAVE TO HAVE SOME KIND OF A - IT WOULD BE AN 00:24:41.14\00:24:45.91 INTERESTING EXPLANATION, AND EVENT. 00:24:45.95\00:24:49.05 YES. 00:24:49.08\00:24:50.12 YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO GO THIS YEAR BECAUSE OF COVID 00:24:50.15\00:24:53.42 BUT I WENT VIA ZOOM AND YOU KNOW ZOOM IS, YOU HIT 00:24:53.46\00:24:55.76 -CONNECT ALL OF THESE COMPUTERS TOGETHER AND 00:24:55.79\00:24:57.09 LAST WEEK I PREACHED TO 49 DIFFERENT CONGREGATIONS IN 00:24:57.13\00:24:58.43 NEPAL. 00:24:58.46\00:24:59.13 IN NEPAL? 00:24:59.16\00:25:00.23 AND IT WAS A SIX O'CLOCK EVENING PROGRAM AND I WAS 00:25:00.26\00:25:00.96 DOING IT AT 8:15 IN THE MORNING. 00:25:01.00\00:25:02.50 YES. 00:25:02.53\00:25:03.53 AND IT WAS THRILLING BECAUSE, I GUESS, IT WOULD 00:25:03.57\00:25:04.63 TAKE ME PROBABLY TWO OR THREE MONTHS TO GET TO ALL 00:25:04.67\00:25:09.60 OF THESE 49 DIFFERENT LITTLE CONGREGATIONS. 00:25:24.79\00:25:27.12 AND AGAIN, WE ARE CONNECTED. 00:25:27.52\00:25:29.72 WE MIGHT BE SEPARATED BY DISTANCE BUT WE BELIEVE IN 00:25:30.19\00:25:34.00 THE SOON COMING OF JESUS. 00:25:34.00\00:25:35.46 WE HAVE THIS ADVENT HOPE AND I WAS THRILLED AND I 00:25:35.50\00:25:40.14 THOUGHT WELL, LOOKS LIKE, YOU KNOW, THIS HORRIBLE 00:25:40.17\00:25:44.51 VIRUS MIGHT HAVE DONE SOMETHING GOOD OR GOD. 00:25:44.54\00:25:47.91 WHAT A GREAT BLESSING ZOOM AND COVID HAVE BEEN. 00:25:47.94\00:25:51.28 YES. 00:25:51.31\00:25:52.38 NOW THAT'S NOT THE NORMAL CONVERSATION WE HAVE ABOUT 00:25:52.41\00:25:54.55 THE DISEASE, QUARANTINE AND EVERYTHING. 00:25:54.58\00:25:57.82 OUR GOD IS A CREATOR GOD AND HE CAN CREATE 00:25:57.85\00:26:03.32 SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL, SOMETHING BENEFICIAL OUT 00:26:03.36\00:26:06.46 OF ANYTHING THAT SATAN THROWS AT US INCLUDING 00:26:06.49\00:26:09.23 COVID. 00:26:09.26\00:26:10.00 INCLUDING COVID. 00:26:10.03\00:26:11.00 AND SO, ON SABBATH I CAN TUNE IN AND LISTEN TO 00:26:11.03\00:26:15.40 CHARLES SCHULTZ SPEAKING NEPALESE, OH NO, SORRY 00:26:15.44\00:26:20.01 THIS IS ANOTHER PROBLEM. 00:26:20.04\00:26:21.48 I SAID, WELL ARE YOU GOING TO TRANSLATE? 00:26:21.51\00:26:24.51 THEY UNDERSTAND A LITTLE BIT OF ENGLISH. 00:26:24.55\00:26:27.02 OF ENGLISH, SO SPEAK SLOWLY. 00:26:27.05\00:26:28.75 SPEAK SLOWLY, SIMPLE AND THEN I'M PRAYING FOR THE 00:26:28.78\00:26:32.15 GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE GIFT OF THE 00:26:32.19\00:26:33.92 TONGUES THAT THEY CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT I AM 00:26:33.96\00:26:36.06 SPEAKING ABOUT. 00:26:36.09\00:26:37.46 UNFORTUNATELY, RUKUM WAS NOT ON THAT LIST. 00:26:37.49\00:26:40.23 NO. 00:26:40.26\00:26:41.00 BECAUSE RUKUM HAS NO ELECTRICITY. 00:26:41.03\00:26:42.53 NO ELECTRITICY, NO INTERNET. 00:26:42.56\00:26:44.83 NO COMPUTERS, NO POWER. 00:26:44.87\00:26:46.33 THEY'VE GOT-BUT THEY'VE GOT GODPODS, YES AND THEY 00:26:46.37\00:26:49.50 HAVE JESUS AND THEY HAVE PRAYER. 00:26:49.54\00:26:52.31 BECAUSE YOU AND A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER HAVE BEEN 00:26:52.34\00:26:56.91 ABLE TO GET THERE AND TOUCH THEIR LIVES. 00:26:56.95\00:26:59.38 YES. 00:26:59.41\00:27:00.45 FOLKS, "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS", YOU BET IT IS 00:27:00.48\00:27:04.72 AN ADVENTURE. 00:27:04.75\00:27:06.29 GOSPEL OUTREACH WILL GET YOU THERE BECAUSE WE'RE 00:27:06.32\00:27:08.79 COMMITTED TO MAKING SURE THAT WHEREVER THERE IS 00:27:08.82\00:27:11.73 PEOPLE, THEY KNOW ABOUT JESUS. 00:27:11.76\00:27:14.30 [CLOSING MUSIC]. 00:27:14.30\00:27:19.37