Hi, I'm Julie and
welcome to Adventures
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in Missions here
at Gospel Outreach.
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Thank you so much
for joining us today.
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Today, we are going to
have a special opportunity
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to look into the life of one
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of our longstanding regional
directors, Beverly Thompson.
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And later, I
have the opportunity
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to share a conversation
I had with Brant Scully
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about a recent trip to India.
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I hope that you'll enjoy
today's episode of Adventures
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in Missions.
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Gospel Outreach
Presents Adventures
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in Missions.
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Hi. Hi, Tiff.
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Is T.J. ready?
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Hi, T.J.
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I hear you.
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Are you guys going to get home?
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We'll go outside
and play together.
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Okay?
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I love you.
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Bye, bye. Bye, bye.
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My involvement with Gospel
Outreach as a regional director
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has allowed me to follow
God's leading in my own life.
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When I'm not involved
with volunteer work, you'll
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usually find me with my great
grandson, T.J., a two year old.
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When I go to see my little T.J.,
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He is my boost.
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Every day I go there
four or five times a week
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and we play together outdoors
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for between an hour and 2 hours.
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I have three children,
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seven grandchildren and three
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great grandchildren
with another one on the way.
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Yes, sir.
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Hi there.
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Here he goes.
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Ouch! Ouch?
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Let's go find some more.
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Let's go.
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Now where are you going?
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We just have a
grand time together.
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And I love him.
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And he says,
Grandma, I love you.
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he says, Nana, He calls
me Nana. Nana, I love you.
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And it's just so sweet.
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How old is this one?
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Three months.
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My name is Beverly Thompson.
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When we heard
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about Gospel Outreach, we
said, This is our cup of tea.
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This is what we need to do.
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This is the way to go.
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And both my husband and I
were excited about the idea.
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We started
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with evangelism in
Kurnool southern India
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and had while I was
there, I was asked to be
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a regional director
for Gospel Outreach, and
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I accepted.
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And it's the best thing
that ever happened to me.
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I have a prayer request.
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And we'll have the
president, the Treasurers
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secretaries.
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when we go there
on Tuesdays at noon.
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We share our
concerns and our praises
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and then everyone
prays and I just go away
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feeling spiritually blessed.
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Foreign
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missions has been a
big part of my life.
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When I was ten years old.
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I read a book in my
grandmother's basement
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when we went to
visit her for one week.
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It's called The King and I.
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And it was my first
introduction to missions.
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Bruton.
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And they have
such gorgeous buildings
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and decorated
buildings and temples.
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You know, the women have
that kind of looks like a suit.
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It's a gorgeous outfit.
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When I first moved here
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14 years ago or 13,
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I got to know Bev
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and she said, You have to come
over and see Gospel Outreach.
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So Larry and I went
over to see Gospel Outreach.
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And when we left there, we said,
Wow, this is the way to go.
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We also had something in common
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and that they had
served in Afghanistan.
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And I had also I
was in the mountains
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and she was in the city.
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And I actually visited
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the place where she was.
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While we were there,
way, way out in no man's land,
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I mean, where you
just drove and no roads.
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We were like,
where is this guy going?
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Hi, Pastor.
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Do you have that zoom
ID and passcode to stream?
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Yes. You both are
very fresh and strong.
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Oh, we are. You should see us.
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We're tough old ladies.
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You should go to exercise class
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with us. Yes.
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My name is Ramon Zamora, Jr.
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Locally owned.
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I'm born and raised
here in Walla Walla.
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I've been doing Rock City boxing
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for Parkinson's since 2016.
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Four, Five. Eight, back, seven.
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Ten, ten, eleven, eleven.
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Twelve, thirteen, fourteen,
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fifteen.
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Good job, good job.
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With this regime of
fundamentals of boxing
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it triggers the nerves
in people with Parkinson's.
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Left side, right side.
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So just different combinations
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the fire of that
left side of the brain.
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The right side of the brain.
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Well, Parkinson's
deadens one of those sides
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Hands high, hands high,
Beverley. Get those hands high.
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One, two, its a
rhythm. Its just a rhythm?
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Three, One, two, three.
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One, two, three.
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Beverly came to
me really soft voice.
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And we can, as you
can tell, she been with me
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going on three
months. Her voice has changed.
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We're having to
tell her to be quiet now.
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Way up high. There you go.
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Me Studying about Parkinson's.
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I have found that every activity
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they do has something
related to Parkinson's.
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And it is a wonderful program.
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And he directs
it in a very jovial,
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upbeat, good manner.
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I enjoy it.
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Count down. Count down.
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100, 99, 98, oh boy!
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I was just taken by Beverly
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just in some of her
experiences with going to India.
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And my thought was,
okay, I need to get her strong
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if she's going to make
this trip over and over,
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you're in the right facility
because we need to stay mentally
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strong to be able
to take those journeys.
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What she does is
extremely difficult,
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you know, not only
to going abroad, but
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she's going to an environment
that we're not accustomed to.
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My family is
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right now, they're
concerned about my health and me
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going to India and they
say they don't want me to go,
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but I still have
charge of my own life.
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That's that's true.
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That's true.
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You still have charge
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Brant Scully, welcome
to Adventures In Missions.
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Hi, Julie.
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Thanks for having me.
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It's great to
have you here. Brent,
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You are the president
of Gospel Outreach. And
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why don't you share a little
bit about what that entails.
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Well,
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it entails interesting things.
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I answer to the board,
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but also that I get to be a
part of the vision of Gospel
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Outreach, you know, the
vision of Gospel Outreach,
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which is like, what are we
going to do in the 1040 window?
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And, you know, my job really
is to stay really connected
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to what God's plan is,
because it's really his plan.
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Yeah, this is his ministry.
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This is the ministry that
he started and he's continuing.
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And my job is to just
basically build relationships,
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talk to other organizations.
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The leadership in other
organizations support the staff
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and the different entities
that this organization has.
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Basically, I
oversee all the entities,
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and we're looking at
expanding into other countries.
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Of course, right
now Gospel Outreach
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is we have about 2200
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Gospel Outreach Bible workers.
And we always need more, right?
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We always we always need more.
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Yeah, we are currently I
believe we're in 35 countries
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and Southern
Asian Division is India.
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And we have the
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most Bible workers in
the Southern Asian division.
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I think we're up
to like 12, 1200.
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Bible workers there.
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One thing that has
happened here at Gospel Outreach
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in the last couple of years is
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we've developed a
system in the office here
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that will help us
keep really good contact
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with the Bible workers
and what they're doing.
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You know, we believe
that, you know, these donations
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that come in are are
incredible, precious donations.
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They're God divine
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inspired donations that
that go directly to evangelism.
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And so,
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you know, we feel in a way
obligated to make sure that
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that all those funds are
being used in the in the way
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that God wants them to be used.
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So we have a reporting system
every quarter, the Bible workers
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report to us and what
their their activities
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and the baptisms
and what they're doing.
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And that's that's
inspiring because we get to see
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how God is
working in their lives.
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And these Bible
workers are just amazing.
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They're laypeople.
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And in fact,
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we have a friend of ours who
works in the division office.
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He said that
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the Southern Asian
Division appreciates the fact
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so much that Gospel
Outreach works with laypeople
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and not just pastors.
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We support laypeople.
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It's basically an
apostolic ministry, you know.
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So, Brent, you
mentioned about India
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having a lot of Bible workers
and you were able to go to India
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and to meet with them and
meet with the leadership there.
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And please tell us a little bit
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about that and
where it was located.
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Well, we had our
meetings in Hyderabad,
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and there is an
acceptance in Christianity,
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more in Hyderabad area,
for christianity. Why is that?
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Well, you know, that
in India particularly
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there are non conversion
laws that the Hindu government
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is clamping down on.
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And so there are
five northern states
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that are more
particular about evangelism,
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you know, against, you know,
non conversion laws a stricter
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and then in the southern
states where Hyderabad is,
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there's a much
larger Christian presence.
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And so they're
they're more open and willing
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to allow
Christians in that area.
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But this meeting
was really brought about
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because the new
leadership was voted in
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in October, you know,
for for all of the division.
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And what that means is that
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these new leaders
that are coming in
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and their positions
don't understand or know
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the Gospel Outreach ministry
and the policies that we have
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in place
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and how they work with our Bible
workers and in the Bible work
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the workers, supervisors
and coordinators and everyone
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that's working together.
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So we wanted to have a division
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leadership meeting, and
I think there were around
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300 or so
division leadership plus
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55 or 60 ministerial directors.
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And the purpose of the meeting
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was to get together
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and share, cast the vision of
what Gospel Outreach looks like.
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And of course, you know,
we're in the end times, right?
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And we kind of the
most effective ministry
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is when we're all
united in the in God's mission
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and just allowing
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the Holy Spirit to
work on us so that the idea
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behind our meeting together
was not only to educate them
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on our ministry and how
we work better, work together
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and get acquainted,
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but to really try to
spark a revival in our hearts
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and to be honest with you,
I am a laodicean in Christian
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right because everything
has been so easy in my life.
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Pretty much. We live in,
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We have first world problems.
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We have first world
problems where, you know,
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everything is,
you know, is so easy.
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And we have
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things and money and we're
sitting in air conditioning.
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Yeah.
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So life isn't that
hard really, compared to
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third world countries
that have religious persecution
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where it's,
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you know, there are consequences
to being a Christian. Correct.
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Here in our country,
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there are no consequences
to being a Christian.
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Now, it's changing, Correct.
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You know, to be more
so, there are consequences.
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Just read Matthew 24 Right.
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So for this for this guy
right here, I need revival.
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And I think in the
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spirit of prophecy talks about
our greatest need is a revival
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within our church,
within each other's hearts.
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And the Holy Spirit does that.
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And like what you're
saying, it all starts at home.
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So help me understand.
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So the new leadership, for
example, in India is coming in.
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Are they coming in
for a four year term,
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then new leadership?
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I believe it's
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probably more like a five year
term. four year or five year.
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Okay. So there's a turnover.
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So basically it's
introducing Gospel Outreach
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to all these people,
explaining how it works.
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And yes, you can do
this over Zoom and yes,
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you can do this over
email and phone calls, but
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to make sure that everything
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gets communicated
well, it's the one on one.
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It's the face to face.
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Well, you know,
and I think, too, that
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we get tied down with
church work and there is
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there's more to evangelism
than just church work.
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There's there's
reaching our neighbors. There's
00:15:11.74\00:15:14.21
being filled with
the Holy Spirit, too,
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where you're saying,
Lord, I want to be totally yours
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all the time.
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I want to be surrendered.
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I want to just be 100% in
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and not just
part partially right.
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And so we get caught
in church work and and,
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you know, bless,
bless these people.
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They're just like us, right?
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They get bogged down with
their jobs and everything.
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And and then on top of that,
they, you know, they're expected
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to go out and do evangelism
just like, you know, all of us.
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It's it's not
just an expectation.
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It's a privilege.
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And and so we're trying to
just build relationships, right?
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One of the
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examples that
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I shared with my friends over
there was the fact that when
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I think it was
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Joshua came to River Jordan
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and they they were
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they were on this
side of the River Jordan,
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right, with all of
the people of Israel,
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Needing to get
to the other side.
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and they'd been wandering around
in the desert purposeless,
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and they needed to
get to the other side.
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They needed to pass
through the river of baptism
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and have this full
conversion experience,
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because on the other side
there was land to be taken back.
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And to me,
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that's not just so
much land as we walk
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on, but it's people's hearts
that's going to be converted.
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And that's kind of
what's exciting for me,
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because I get to be
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part of a ministry
that is sort of trailblazing
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in this ministry
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to see how God is
using people like myself who
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who don't have a lot of
any church work experience or,
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you know,
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sort of this church
administration experience,
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you can
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he can use every one of
us, any one of us, if we just
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for just willing and Lord, I
want to be willing, you know,
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make me willing to just
go where you want me to go.
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How important is prayer with
our Gospel Outreach workers?
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It's vital.
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It's it's vital for
each of each of us to
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prayer is the connecting
point between us and God.
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It's that. It's the channel
that opens up the channel.
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It's a prayer is what opens
up God's power in our lives.
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We can see that.
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And we've gone
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through different phases
of training for my workers.
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And you know, that
Gospel Outreach has shifted
00:17:28.84\00:17:31.75
to the health message
because in the end times, Spirit
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prophecy states very
clearly that the entering
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wedge is medical missionary,
it's the health message.
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And when you
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when you go to villages
and I was there I've been to
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I've been to India
like four or five times
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and I've walked through
complete Hindu villages.
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If you walk through a village
and you have something that
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you can offer them
in the health ministry,
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some teaching, some
training, something that some
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health screening
that you can offer them,
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they'll let you into their
home almost 100% of the time.
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And then you build on
friendship evangelism.
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You build on things
that can really help
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increase their quality of life.
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Right.
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And when you have
a smile that shows up
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and a good attitude
and love in your hearts
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to people, they just the I
kind of want to be like that.
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Yeah, I want that. What I want.
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What is it you do?
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What's the remedy?
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Of course.
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Jesus Christ is the
remedy for everything.
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But yet it.
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It doesn't happen right away.
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Sometimes it takes a long time
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for a muslim or a
Hindu to be converted.
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Yeah, it takes time. Yes.
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Relationship. It's
not only just religion.
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This is culture.
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This is family. This
is everything wrapped up.
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And until you have
visited a country where they're
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a Buddhist country,
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a Hindu country,
a muslim country,
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you don't quite
understand all of that.
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Exactly.
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And we we hear
Jesus all the time.
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Sure. There are
towns and full villages
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that have don't have one
reference of Jesus Christ.
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They have never
heard his name. Yeah.
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So we talked about prayer with
the Gospel Outreach workers.
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What about prayer
Here at Gospel Outreach,
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we have a prayer team
and they meet twice a week
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and they
sometimes meet on the phone.
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But they are the force
behind what's happening here.
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Prayer is a huge, huge thing.
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Number one reason is because
anything that good happens here,
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Jesus Christ gets the credit.
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Yeah, Yeah, we
don't get the credit.
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No. Jesus Christ does. Because
we have a great need for him.
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Yes, we know.
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We can't do without him.
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Yes, he's the brains that force
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and everything
behind everything.
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good that happens here.
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You know, we're
talking about prayer
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and I wanted to
share a little story
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when I was when we were
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over there in
January, working with a SUD,
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I woke up one morning.
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It was early.
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I felt a sense that Jesus woke
me up about 4:30 in the morning
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and that I needed to go down
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to the auditorium
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where all of these leaders
were going to be meeting.
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So I got dressed
and I went down there
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and I'm like,
okay, what do I do, Lord?
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And he says, Just walk
around and start praying
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for every chair
that is in there.
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So I go down
there and it's dark.
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I can't figure out how to
turn the lights on right there.
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There's wires and things
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I'm trying to do
things. Use your phone.
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No, I'm not supposed to
turn on the lights, okay,
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Because there's lights coming
through the windows from outside
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so I can kind of see
silhouettes and see chairs.
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So I'm going around
and I like, okay, this is
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this is not normally what I do,
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but I sense that, Lord,
the same pray for each chair,
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each person.
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So I'm, I'm, I'm
standing behind a chair.
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I'm saying, Lord
00:20:40.00\00:20:40.97
bless this person who
is sitting in this chair
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that he may know
you, that may he may be
00:20:43.44\00:20:45.74
revived to the deepest core
of having you live in his life.
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And then I go to the next chair
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and there would be
another prayer for that person.
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There would be another prayer.
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And I'm walking around
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this whole building and
I'm walking and walking.
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And then and then the prayers
became began to be more intense.
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You know they
just started coming.
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And I'm just
praying now and I'm singing.
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I don't sing, Julie. I don't.
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I'm not a singer. The Holy
Spirit was working on you Brent
00:21:09.20\00:21:11.67
Scully. I'm
singing and I'm praying
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And then I come around the back
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and I see someone sitting
in the back of the auditorium.
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I walked by and I stopped.
00:21:17.81\00:21:19.54
I said, Hi what are you doing?
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And he says, I'm just here.
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My back is really hurting.
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I have pain and I can't sleep.
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And I said, Well,
can I pray for your back?
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Perfect.
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I asked and prayed.
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I pray for this man. And prayers
kept coming for this man.
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I kept praying, praying. And
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and then we were done.
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And he left.
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And I kept on praying.
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Well, so I finally got time that
I need to go back to the room.
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Sure. Well,
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so I got ready for the
day and we all met down here.
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And during one of the
breaks I ran into that man.
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I said, Now I
know he looks familiar.
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Yeah, he was the
guy that was there.
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And I asked him how
his how his back was.
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He said that my
back is, is is healed.
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It's way better.
00:22:02.12\00:22:03.22
Praise the Lord. And I'm
like, wow, that's that's neat.
00:22:03.25\00:22:05.62
Yeah.
00:22:05.65\00:22:05.95
You know,
00:22:05.99\00:22:07.09
And it's that feeling
that the Holy Spirit gives you
00:22:07.12\00:22:09.39
and it's like a split second.
Are you going to take it?
00:22:09.42\00:22:11.69
Are you going to go, Oh, no,
I don't think I should do that.
00:22:11.73\00:22:14.36
But you took it and
that's beautiful. Oh, Brent.
00:22:14.36\00:22:16.43
And sometimes you just
you go and you think, Well,
00:22:16.46\00:22:18.67
I might embarrass
myself, you know, or.
00:22:18.70\00:22:21.57
Or I could glorify
God. Well, you did. You did.
00:22:21.60\00:22:24.07
You did.
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And going we're going out and
doing what God wants us to do.
00:22:25.37\00:22:27.94
Well, Brent, thank you so much.
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Prayers are with
you. Thank you. Thank you.
00:22:29.81\00:22:31.61
Have you heard the
term 1040 window before?
00:22:33.42\00:22:36.05
This is a term that
gets thrown around here
00:22:36.08\00:22:37.79
at Gospel Outreach quite
a lot, along with many other
00:22:37.82\00:22:40.22
Christian
organizations who use this term.
00:22:40.26\00:22:42.39
But what exactly
is the 1040 window
00:22:42.42\00:22:45.13
and why is it so
important to Christians?
00:22:45.16\00:22:47.30
Well, that's something
that I want to delve into today.
00:22:47.30\00:22:49.60
So, first of all,
00:22:49.63\00:22:50.67
let me give you a
visual representation of this
00:22:50.70\00:22:53.44
1040 window.
00:22:53.47\00:22:56.54
this, this rectangular area
00:22:57.57\00:23:01.78
on this map that I've
done a very good job of drawing
00:23:01.81\00:23:04.88
is the 1040 window,
this long expanse right here.
00:23:05.05\00:23:09.45
Now, this 1040 window,
it's called the 1040 window
00:23:09.65\00:23:12.42
because it's 10 to 40 degrees
north latitude of the equator.
00:23:12.45\00:23:16.46
Now, this term was first
00:23:16.83\00:23:17.96
coined by a Christian
missionary named Luis Bush.
00:23:17.99\00:23:21.03
And the reason why
this area is so important
00:23:21.20\00:23:24.07
is 97% of the
people in our world
00:23:24.10\00:23:28.10
who have never heard of Jesus
live within this 1040 window.
00:23:28.14\00:23:31.67
The other very important
thing about the 1040 window
00:23:31.71\00:23:34.18
to understand
is a large majority
00:23:34.21\00:23:37.28
of the poorest of the
poor people on our planet
00:23:37.31\00:23:40.15
live in this area.
00:23:40.18\00:23:41.02
In fact, they say
that eight out of ten
00:23:41.05\00:23:42.85
people who live
within this 1040 window
00:23:42.88\00:23:45.65
live on no more
than $200 to $300 U.S.
00:23:45.69\00:23:48.76
dollars per year.
00:23:48.79\00:23:50.66
So this area contains
four of the major religions
00:23:50.69\00:23:53.60
in the world today.
00:23:53.63\00:23:54.46
First of all, the
followers of Islam.
00:23:54.50\00:23:56.63
Then you have the Hindus,
then you have the Buddhists,
00:23:56.67\00:23:59.23
and then you have the agnostics
also that live in this area.
00:23:59.27\00:24:03.71
So as you look across the
1040 window, you can see that
00:24:03.74\00:24:06.54
a large majority of
the Muslim population
00:24:06.57\00:24:09.31
is in the western
portion of this 1040 window.
00:24:09.34\00:24:12.58
Buddhism is the primary
religion in South East Asia.
00:24:13.01\00:24:16.69
And even though
China has claimed
00:24:16.72\00:24:18.15
to be an atheist country,
00:24:18.19\00:24:20.06
there is still a very large
Buddhist influence within China.
00:24:20.09\00:24:23.79
So where does Gospel
Outreach fall into all of this?
00:24:24.13\00:24:26.83
The 1040 window
consists of 69 countries.
00:24:26.86\00:24:30.30
Now Gospel Outreach has
2300 workers working within
00:24:30.33\00:24:34.07
39 of those countries
within the 1040 window.
00:24:34.10\00:24:38.01
Now, one of the countries where
Gospel Outreach has focused
00:24:38.04\00:24:40.34
a lot of effort is
the country of India.
00:24:40.38\00:24:42.48
And here's the reason why
00:24:42.51\00:24:44.18
the country of India is
mainly dominated by Hinduism.
00:24:44.21\00:24:46.85
In fact,
00:24:46.88\00:24:48.08
just over 2% of the population
within India are Christian.
00:24:48.12\00:24:51.59
And so with that small minority
and with all of the issues
00:24:51.79\00:24:54.76
that come with that Gospel
Outreach has 1200 of their 2300
00:24:54.79\00:24:59.86
Bible workers working
within the country of India.
00:25:00.13\00:25:03.03
Another reason why
that is so important
00:25:03.06\00:25:05.20
is there's many countries
where we can have a Bible worker
00:25:05.23\00:25:08.14
and we can actually have
him travel long distances.
00:25:08.17\00:25:10.94
He can go out and he
can work within large areas.
00:25:10.97\00:25:14.04
But within the
country of India, many people
00:25:14.08\00:25:16.08
don't really have a
way to be able to travel
00:25:16.11\00:25:18.88
and they're more
community driven.
00:25:18.91\00:25:20.62
And so when we
place a Bible worker
00:25:20.65\00:25:22.78
in a small village in
India and that Bible worker
00:25:22.82\00:25:26.22
reaches out to maybe
four surrounding villages
00:25:26.25\00:25:29.42
and he spreads the name of
Jesus that works so much better.
00:25:29.59\00:25:33.50
Let me give you
an idea on the model.
00:25:33.63\00:25:35.13
The Gospel Outreach follows.
00:25:35.16\00:25:36.43
So when Gospel
Outreach stipends a Bible worker
00:25:36.46\00:25:40.07
in a specific area, his
role is to start a church.
00:25:40.10\00:25:45.21
Many times those churches
are simply home churches.
00:25:45.24\00:25:48.11
So he starts a church,
he builds up that church,
00:25:48.14\00:25:51.31
he trains the elders
and then he moves on.
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And so he starts
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it starts by creating these home
churches throughout villages
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surrounding his area
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and then training people to
take care of those churches,
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training, training those
elders so that he can start
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to pull away from putting
so much attention in that area.
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Once those
places are established,
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many times
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our Bible workers will move on
and they'll go to a new location
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and they'll start
within that location.
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In this way, we
have created this model
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so that our Bible
workers create missionaries,
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create more missionaries
and more missionaries,
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and it just completely explodes.
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It starts with one.
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It goes to five and
hundreds and hundreds of people
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hear the name of Jesus in
such a short amount of time.
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Gospel Outreach spends
all of their time training
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and stipend
indigenous Bible workers.
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And the reason why
that is, oftentimes
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when we take somebody from
our culture here, from the U.S.
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or from Canada
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and we teach them
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a new language,
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we teach them
about a specific culture,
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and then we send them
into the mission field,
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it can be very effective.
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But the issue is, as many times,
we will never fully understand
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that culture.
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No matter how much we study,
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we will never
fully understand it.
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And so when you train
indigenous Bible worker,
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somebody who loves
Jesus, somebody who's passionate
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about spreading the gospel,
and you take care of their needs
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so that they can put a majority
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of their time into
spreading the gospel,
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starting home churches
and raising up more disciples.
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This is by far one of
the most effective ways
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to spread the gospel
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in many of these countries
throughout the 1040 window.
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So I hope you've
learned something
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about the 1040 window today.
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I appreciate you
giving me this time.
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And until next
time, get out there.
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Get involved.
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God bless you. I'll see
you in the next episode.
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