We send out about
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12,000 newsletters a month.
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You know, the
stories that have come out,
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they made a real
impression on people
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as far as inspiring them with
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what's going on
in the mission field.
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So Dan, what's
the involvement now
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with Gospel Outreach
in Sunshine Orchards?
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Well, our purpose of
going there was to find out
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what their needs were
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and if Gospel Outreach
could fit in with our mission,
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if we could help them or if
we could work together somehow.
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Now, the exciting
news that I have for
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you today is my wife and
I are leaving in six days
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as of filming
this video to go film.
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Season two of Destination 10/40.
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Welcome to Adventures in Mission
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I'm Julie and so glad
that you've joined us today.
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I have a question for you.
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Do you receive our free
newsletter from Gospel Outreach?
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Well, if you do,
you'll enjoy learning
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more about what is involved
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in producing the
publication and meet our editor.
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And later
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on, we'll be telling you about
an exciting new opportunity
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that Gospel Outreach
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has involving teachers
and a school in Thailand.
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All of that and
more. So please stay tuned.
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Gospel Outreach
presents Adventures in Missions.
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Gospel Outreach has been
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publishing the newsletter pretty
much since the very beginning.
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So the point, of course, was to
let people know what was going
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on, where the
needs, what the needs were,
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and how people could help,
as well as to inspire people
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with stories from
the mission field.
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Oh yeah.
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I'm. I'm Kevin Waite.
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I've.
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I've helped out here at Gospel
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Outreach for a
couple of decades now.
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I've been working on the
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newsletter since
2003 in various roles.
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It's been my privilege to do so,
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branching out into technical
support with computers,
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networking, even
taking out the trash.
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I enjoy all aspects and
help out wherever I can.
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We send out about
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12,000 newsletters a month.
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Some of that goes to Canada
and is mailed out from Canada
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to the gospel reach Canada
subscribers and the rest goes
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here in the States
as well as some bulk
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that's mailed out to ambassadors
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that distribute them
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in their churches,
their local churches.
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Yeah, this was this
was an interesting story.
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You know, the stories that
have come out, I think have
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they made
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a real impression on people
as far as inspiring them with
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what's going on
in the mission field.
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I think here in North
America, we tend to be removed
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quite a bit from
the mission field.
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So, you know, the
newsletter and the people
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that have worked on it
have have made a real impression
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on me and inspired me.
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Yeah
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when Jesus said to go, yea,
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I think a lot of us
may just think in terms
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of the disciples or missionaries
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that go,
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but I think it's a personal
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imperative that Jesus
is telling each one of us
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that we all are part of this
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grand storyline
that stretches from
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creation all the way to eternity
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and as we can participate
and as our eyes are open, as
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as the Holy
Spirit works with us,
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we will find and discover ways
that we can become involved.
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Gospel Outreach is unique in tha
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it's basically all volunteer.
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It was started that way
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30 some odd years
ago with the idea that
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rather than sending
missionaries out and that maybe,
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you know, people who live
locally in various countries
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that have a passion for sharing
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their own testimonies
and what Jesus is doing and
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truths in the Bible could
be used far more efficiently.
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Their ability to know the
language already, the customs,
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the various religions or belief
systems that are around them
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to be able to build
bridges of understanding far
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easier than it
would be for somebody,
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you know,
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coming in
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fresh from the, say, the
United States or North America.
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And so you know, for
that concept to be there
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from the beginning in Gospel Out
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the organization a lot different
than many other organizations.
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I think there's a place for
virtually all ways of outreach.
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One of the stories that ran
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in the newsletter
quite a few years ago now
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was about a little
girl named Dawn West.
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She was four years old,
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and we became aware of her
here in the office, a four year
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old girl with
congenital heart lung defect.
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She and her parents
had heard about the work
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being done in the
Philippines through the Sulad
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Student missionaries from Mt.
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View College.
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Well, Little
Dawn, despite the fact
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she was only four years
old, somehow latched on to this
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and she decided to
raise funds and have a project
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for raising funds.
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So over the months, as the
word spread about Dawn's passion
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to help in the Philippines,
more than $30,000 were raised.
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Then, unfortunately,
in January of 2007,
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six year old Dawn died.
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But she left behind a
legacy in the Philippines
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as Gospel Outreaches.
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Littlest missionary.
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That was a story that
really, really touched my heart.
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And we ran several little
stories along the way about her
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and her treckathons
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and in different ways
that she raised money.
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And and as people read
about it in the newsletter,
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they ended up
donating to it as well.
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So she left behind quite, quite
a legacy for a little girl.
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And I missed
hearing about her now.
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I would
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definitely
encourage people to subscribe
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to Gospel Outreach Adventures in
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as easy as going to the
website which is goaim.org.
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That's G-O-A-I-M which
stands for Gospel Outreach,
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Adventures in
Missions dot org goaim.org.
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And it's really easy to find
the online subscription form.
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There takes all of
about a minute to subscribe.
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The newsletter comes
in two different formats.
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You can either have
it as an e-newsletter,
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which goes
straight to your email box
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on a monthly basis, or you
can have the printed version,
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or you can have both,
really, if you want Both,
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you'll definitely find
inspiration in the pages.
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You'll find
encouragement as well.
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You'll find perspectives
on what's going on in in
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the mission field.
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Anyhow,
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you'll see God's hand at
work through through the stories
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that you'll read.
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Dan, it's
wonderful to have you here.
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And Adventures in
Missions at Gospel Outreach.
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It's good to be here.
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So, Dan Neisner, you have been
familiar with Gospel Outreach,
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but we kind of did a big
recruit job on you, didn't we?
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Yeah, we were.
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We've lived in Walla
Walla 20 some years and then,
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yeah, we've gone to the
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the rallies
regularly that you have here
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and we're
interested in supporting them
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and aware of Gospel Outreach
and the work you're doing.
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And I went to the
rally you had last October,
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Gary Wagner and other
people gave a little testimony
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and I said, Well, you
know, I can probably help out.
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And I thought I'd give them
a few hours here, a few hours
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there, doing a little bit here
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and there, and
they got me involved.
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And in six months or so, I was
in Indonesia with Gary Wagner.
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But mission
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work is nothing new to
you. No,, we've done some work.
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I was a student missionary
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a couple of years in
Japan, and then my wife and I
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and our kids, we
served in Hong Kong.
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I was chaplain there at
the hospital. So wonderful.
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So what's it like
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for you to be back in
Asia now with Gospel Outreach?
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It was good and
the durian was awesome.
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So I knew that I like you.
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We haven't talked about
that yet. Oh, Isn't it good?
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It is so good.
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We got to Indonesia
and the first thing we
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I mean, within a few days
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they brought us
this big feast of durian.
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We were Gary loves it too.
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And we had a great time.
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See, I knew we had a
kindred spi there Dan.
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So for
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for people, a
viewer who is thinking,
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what are these
people talking about?
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Describe here
quickly what a durian is.
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A durian is a
beautiful fruit, a little bit
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domed on the outside,
but each one of those domes,
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it's very spiky.
Extremely painful. Yeah. Yeah.
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You think I was going to say
which part you describing dan?
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You don't pick it up
with your bare hands.
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Usually if you
have leather gloves,
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that's a great way
or a bunch of newspaper
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because they're pokey
and they're very sharp.
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They're not just a
little bit sharp. No, very hard.
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They're not.
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I mean, a cactus,
you can bend them over.
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But these are they're
very hard and they're oblong.
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Yeah, oblong and
pretty good size fruit.
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But the inside of each
one of those little humps
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there is is just as beautiful.
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Well, they fruit,
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they have to use a
chisel and a hammer
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to get those
things in or something.
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A good life will do it. Yeah.
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So once you open the
pillows of the durian,
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then you can pick them up
and they have a big seed inside.
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But the flesh on the
outside, it smells very bad.
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Yes, many people. So yeah,
you have to let it go like this.
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You did it to your mouth.
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The flavor is memorable
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It's like custard, isn't it?
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It's very sweet and very.
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it's just wonderful. Yeah. Yeah.
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So you have to have
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the whole conversation
about the durian, so.
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Yes. Well, I'm glad we did that.
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So, Gary Wagner,
you brought Gary up,
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so he is our regional
director for which countries
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for Southeast Asia
is a regional director
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and he and that
includes Indonesia,
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Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.
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And there are
some other countries
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in Southeast
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Asia that we're not working in
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right now as Gospel
Outreach, but hopefully soon.
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So you and Gary travel
together and this is more of a
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scouting trip.
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And what were you
scouting besides durian Dan?
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It was a scouting trip,
but there's a number of gospel
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outreach workers in
each of those countries.
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Gary had been there
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a number of times
before and gotten work started,
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and so we were
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supporting workers there
and looking to train new workers
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and support new workers
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and looking for
new possibilities
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for Gospel Outreach to
to take up the work. And.
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And you found one? We
found a beautiful place.
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Yeah. Tell us about it.
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Gary got this email.
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shortly after
we got to Indonesia
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and he showed it
to me and it talked
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about a possibility in Thailand.
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Well, we're in Indonesia,
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but it was some
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five or six weeks
later we're in Thailand
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and it worked out
that we were able to visit
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this place called Sunshine
Orchards that had a school,
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a large school that
is growing dramatically.
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And they wanted to see
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if maybe Gospel Outreach
wanted to help out there.
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And so the school is has about
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how many students
there? Well when we were there.
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We were actually
there between school term.
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So there were no children there
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to speak of except for the home.
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We stayed
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and we stayed at Lina and Paul
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Adams are the ones
that started the school
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and we stayed in their home
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and Paul was in the States
on the trip, but Lina was there
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and they had like 28
kids in that home,. 28 kids!
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I don't think they
all belonged in the home.
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I don't think they were
all adopted into that home.
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But they're all
they're all there.
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And what was that like?
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You and Gary show up and
you've got kids everywhere.
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I love it.
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It was a great setting and
the kids are so well behaved
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and the home is very, very well
run and very well organized.
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And the children took care
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of the chores and the
cooking and different things,
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and they just
had it scheduled out.
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So Lina and Paul have
have biological children.
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They've adopted children.
They've welcomed children.
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Is that where they've
gotten to the number of 28?
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Well, the 28, like I said, I'm
not sure with all those theirs,
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but they were
all there that day.
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There may be I don't
know how many they've adopted,
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but the days couple
of days we were there,
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there were 28 kids in the house.
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So give us a little
history on Sunshine Orchards
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and Lina and Paul.
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Lina, is she
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She she's from Sweden
and she grew up there and
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found the Lord.
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And shortly after that she moved
to the States and got married.
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That didn't go very well.
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They have a couple of
girls from that marriage.
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And finally he left the home.
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So she she found another man and
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have a couple more children,
another daughter and a son.
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And then he passed
away from cancer. Wow.
00:13:53.29\00:13:56.83
And so she's had a lot
of grief in her life. Yes.
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She was living in
Montana at a small church
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and somehow the Lord brought
another man into her life.
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Paul, That's
Paul just by chance.
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And he was willing
to take on this family.
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And he has a heart for the
Lord and a heart for mission
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and a heart for kids.
And they were going to
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they were looking at
their kids getting older,
00:14:18.75\00:14:20.56
and they realized
they wanted their kids
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to have a mission experience
before they left the home.
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And so they were
planning to go to India.
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Originally,
that didn't work out,
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but they
decided then they had an
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opening the door to Thailand
and they had things planned.
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And so they went to Thailand not
knowing what they'd be doing.
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And they got to
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Thailand and went up to
kind of northwestern Thailand.
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And they got there and weren't
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sure what they were, what
the Lord wanted with them,
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what are they supposed to do?
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And they began to look and
to figure out what was going on.
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And shortly after
they were there, there was
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some civil war going on in
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Burma, currently called Myanmar.
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And many people
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from that side of the border
were flooding across the border.
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And there were
many, many children.
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And it was
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they were living
at a place just oh
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500 yards from the
border or something like that.
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There's a river
that flows through there.
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Yeah, oftentimes that's
the case dividing countries.
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And the Burmese army is
very careful not to attack on
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the Thailand side.
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They don't want to
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create any animosity with
the Thai government. Anyway
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But the people
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they can get across the border,
they often feel like thats safe.
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And so they were there.
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So they have all these
refugees on the Thai side
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and Lina and Paul
are going, What do we do?
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What do we do?
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And they took them
in and provided housing
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and pretty soon they
realized we needed a school.
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So these kids have a future.
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And so they started this school.
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So what year was that?
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2009, I think is when
they got the school started
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and they were able to
purchase some property.
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The property they have
used to be a lemon orchard.
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It was right near
right like next door
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to where they were
living at the time.
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And it's a little more
expensive property. And
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these people have put
everything on the line
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and they just happened to
have they looked at Paul Savings
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and they looked at Paul's
savings from his retirement
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and they looked at the
00:16:16.87\00:16:18.07
price of the school
when it came on or the
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the land when it
came on the market
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and it just covered
it. Wow. They went ahead.
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And it's amazing.
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And these people are
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they just listen to what
the Lord says and follow him,
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do the best they can
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and provide and help and help
fill a need there at the school.
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So do the young
people live there?
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Is this a boarding school?
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How does it work Dan?
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we were talking about the
growth of the school 2009.
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Last year.
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Last school year, they had about
360 students in the school.
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And this year with the
65% increase in enrollment
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they've started the
school term started shortly
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after we left in June, I
think, and they had 600. Wow.
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So a dramatic increase.
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And I don't know exactly what
percent is boarding students
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and other students live in.
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They find a
place to live nearby,
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or some of them
are Thai students.
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They come to that school.
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I see.
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So you've got Thai and Burmese
students living together there.
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You've got languages.
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English, of course, is
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kind of the one that
brings them together.
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But many of the Thai
students obviously don't speak.
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Karen, which is
the Burmese language,
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and the Burmese people
don't speak any Thai or English.
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So it's confusing.
00:17:25.31\00:17:26.81
But there are students,
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there are
children there, you know,
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and even though six year old
Lina doesn't understand Thai,
00:17:29.64\00:17:32.75
there's another little
girl over here that does.
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And so they can
kind of make it work.
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So here we have this
couple, they have four kids.
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And you're telling me that
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when you were
there, they had 28 kids.
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Now we've got 600 kids
between these campuses.
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So it's not just one campus.
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We have a total of
two other satellites.
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There's a couple other
schools that they have helped
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start up over on the
Burmese side of the border.
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Yeah, and up in the mountains.
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And these are really up
in the mountains they're.
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There was we met the the
leader of one of the villages
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and he brought us to
his home and fed us there.
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And donated land for the school
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because they want
land for their school
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and it's their
school and the villagers
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are providing the
timber and whatever
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it takes to make that work.
00:18:14.46\00:18:15.69
And it's exciting.
00:18:15.72\00:18:17.53
So yeah, there's two mountain
schools, they call them,
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that are satellite
schools, part of that.
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And here
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these kids are
learning subjects,
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but they're learning
about Jesus, too. right.
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They're learning, you know,
00:18:27.90\00:18:29.04
Karen, everybody learns
some Karen and Tai and English
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and Bible and
geography and history
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and all the basic things
00:18:34.84\00:18:35.74
and they also try
to have some vocational
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training for the students,
get some practical skills.
00:18:38.88\00:18:41.68
So, Dan, what's is
the involvement now
00:18:41.72\00:18:43.92
with Gospel Outreach
in Sunshine Orchards?
00:18:43.95\00:18:46.15
Well, our purpose of
going there was to find out
00:18:46.19\00:18:49.26
what their needs were
00:18:49.29\00:18:50.89
and if Gospel Outreach
00:18:50.93\00:18:52.43
could fit in with our
mission, if we could help them
00:18:52.46\00:18:54.63
or if we could
work together somehow.
00:18:54.66\00:18:57.07
And we got there and
Gary and I were overwhelmed
00:18:57.10\00:18:59.03
with many things,
the number of kids
00:18:59.07\00:19:00.57
there, the the shoestring
budget they were running on
00:19:00.60\00:19:04.64
and the enormous needs they had.
00:19:04.67\00:19:07.41
We were also very impressed
that this young lady Anna their
00:19:07.44\00:19:11.21
youngest daughter,
00:19:11.25\00:19:13.55
Paul, and Lina's
youngest daughter
00:19:13.58\00:19:15.58
is not an accountant by trade,
but she was very skilled at
00:19:15.62\00:19:19.12
just putting all
the numbers together.
00:19:19.15\00:19:20.56
She had big spreadsheets
of the number of students
00:19:20.59\00:19:23.26
where they were staying,
what their expenses were,
00:19:23.29\00:19:25.76
and of course,
these are students
00:19:25.79\00:19:26.83
that can't really pay tuition.
00:19:26.86\00:19:28.70
You know, that's not
really a possibility.
00:19:28.73\00:19:30.57
They have a number of
00:19:30.60\00:19:31.63
boarding students, so
there's needs for building.
00:19:31.67\00:19:34.44
They just got a
new building recently.
00:19:34.47\00:19:36.07
So I think they're pretty well
00:19:36.10\00:19:37.27
situated there. But
if they keep growing,
00:19:37.31\00:19:39.54
they're going to
need more buildings.
00:19:39.57\00:19:41.04
And for teachers and gospel
as well, we can't do everything.
00:19:41.08\00:19:45.21
We can't help in every way.
00:19:45.25\00:19:46.18
But they agreed to
help fund the teachers.
00:19:46.21\00:19:48.62
And that's just exciting.
00:19:48.65\00:19:49.98
This is exciting.
How many teachers then?
00:19:50.02\00:19:52.15
They're funding
about 40 teachers.
00:19:52.19\00:19:54.59
40 teachers. Yeah.
00:19:54.62\00:19:56.46
And many of
these teachers are from
00:19:56.49\00:19:59.16
they came to that school
Sunshine Orchards as students
00:19:59.19\00:20:02.10
and then as students.
00:20:02.13\00:20:02.93
They got excited
and began to do it.
00:20:02.96\00:20:04.87
And when the opportunity
him to come back and serve
00:20:04.90\00:20:07.04
after they were
educated, they came back
00:20:07.07\00:20:09.10
and they're
teaching there now. Wow.
00:20:09.14\00:20:11.04
So so here you have
gone from sitting in a Gospel
00:20:11.07\00:20:14.81
Outreach rally going, yes,
I know about Gospel Outreach.
00:20:14.84\00:20:17.65
Isn't this great?
00:20:17.68\00:20:18.88
Then the Lord worked on your
heart and good job, Gary Wagner,
00:20:18.91\00:20:23.12
for getting you to come.
00:20:23.15\00:20:24.39
And so then
here you went on this
00:20:24.42\00:20:26.12
trip, got to see
Sunshine Orchards.
00:20:26.15\00:20:27.92
Here you are sitting here.
00:20:27.96\00:20:29.06
So what's it meant for
you to be part of all of this?
00:20:29.09\00:20:32.29
It's it's good. It's very good.
00:20:32.33\00:20:34.46
It's meant a lot
because I realize, as you know,
00:20:34.46\00:20:37.40
I'm retired now and
it's easy to sit at home
00:20:37.43\00:20:40.04
and twiddling my
thumbs or find things to do.
00:20:40.07\00:20:41.97
And I've got
three grandkids now.
00:20:42.00\00:20:44.27
I enjoy spending time with them,
but I also want to be involved
00:20:44.31\00:20:47.44
in the Lord's work.
00:20:47.48\00:20:48.64
And this is an opportunity
to to make a difference there
00:20:48.68\00:20:51.91
and to help people find out
about Jesus and his soon return.
00:20:51.95\00:20:55.98
Yeah, So, so
special Bible verse.
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Okay, Hebrews
11, verse 10. Okay.
00:20:58.69\00:21:02.16
Yeah.
00:21:02.19\00:21:03.36
For he was looking forward
to the city with foundations.
00:21:03.39\00:21:06.19
who's architect
and builder is God.
00:21:06.23\00:21:09.10
Tell me about that. Just
reminds me of Paul and Lena.
00:21:09.13\00:21:11.63
They're building
doing a work there.
00:21:11.67\00:21:13.97
Thats very important to be done,
00:21:14.00\00:21:15.14
but their eyes are not
just on what's happening there.
00:21:15.17\00:21:18.27
Their school, their eyes are
on what God has in store down
00:21:18.31\00:21:22.04
the road.
00:21:22.08\00:21:22.61
Yeah, He's got a plan
00:21:22.64\00:21:23.65
and God has come
through for them so many times.
00:21:23.68\00:21:26.01
It's just been amazing.
00:21:26.05\00:21:27.38
Well, and that is the
faith chapter, as we well know.
00:21:27.42\00:21:30.05
But just think about Lena.
00:21:30.09\00:21:31.45
I mean, here she left
Sweden, comes to the States.
00:21:31.49\00:21:34.19
Now she's got all these kids
that she's helping and yeah.
00:21:34.22\00:21:37.79
And she had no idea when
she you know, she had no idea
00:21:37.83\00:21:42.00
where God was leading
or how he was leading.
00:21:42.03\00:21:44.50
Just trusted him.
00:21:44.53\00:21:45.80
And when the need came
up, she did her best to fill
00:21:45.83\00:21:48.30
that need.
00:21:48.34\00:21:49.14
And God is using
her in a mighty way.
00:21:49.17\00:21:50.94
There she is. The
00:21:50.97\00:21:53.68
how is it?
00:21:53.71\00:21:54.18
She says in there,
00:21:54.21\00:21:55.41
in there, in the school there,
she's the one that wants to,
00:21:55.44\00:21:58.35
you know, take in more
kids and spend, spend, spend and
00:21:58.38\00:22:01.08
Anna has to help
rein her in. Now mom.
00:22:01.12\00:22:03.75
Yeah and Paul is the
stable one that, you know,
00:22:03.79\00:22:07.19
is just the
mighty force there. Yes.
00:22:07.22\00:22:10.13
But she's seeing the need
and maybe you've heard about
00:22:10.16\00:22:14.56
Katie Davis in Uganda,
and she is a single woman
00:22:14.56\00:22:17.77
adopted these 11 kids.
00:22:17.80\00:22:19.03
And when you see the need, you
know, you don't want to wait.
00:22:19.07\00:22:22.67
Your heart goes out and
you want to help everybody.
00:22:22.70\00:22:25.24
So that that's powerful.
00:22:25.27\00:22:27.34
So, Dan, as we close
here, what's something
00:22:27.38\00:22:30.88
that you might want
to share with our viewers
00:22:30.91\00:22:32.75
as we've talked about
Sunshine Orchard schools
00:22:32.78\00:22:36.05
and what would you like
to impress upon their heart?
00:22:36.08\00:22:39.22
we have a world.
00:22:39.25\00:22:40.22
There's people that
longed to know about Jesus.
00:22:40.26\00:22:42.06
They need to know about Jesus.
00:22:42.09\00:22:43.73
And life with
Jesus is so much better.
00:22:43.76\00:22:47.03
And people there,
00:22:47.10\00:22:50.23
they have so many questions.
00:22:50.27\00:22:51.77
There's so many people
with so many questions.
00:22:51.80\00:22:54.20
And when they find out about
a creator God that made them
00:22:54.24\00:22:57.84
and makes life work
and makes life work well,
00:22:57.87\00:23:02.14
it makes their lives.
00:23:02.18\00:23:03.35
It makes a huge difference.
00:23:03.38\00:23:04.81
And I being there, I
saw so many lives of people
00:23:04.85\00:23:07.95
that have been changed
by Jesus is just amazing.
00:23:07.98\00:23:10.62
And I'm just
excited to be part of that.
00:23:10.65\00:23:12.49
Yeah, because he's changed mine
00:23:12.52\00:23:14.52
and we have a
lot of lot to share.
00:23:14.56\00:23:16.29
So thank you for being here.
00:23:16.32\00:23:17.86
And when you head back
next time, have a couple bites.
00:23:17.89\00:23:20.96
Well, have more than that
of durian for me. All right.
00:23:20.96\00:23:23.50
You can be sure that.
00:23:23.53\00:23:24.47
All right. Thank
you, Dan, so much.
00:23:24.50\00:23:27.27
Today, I want to
talk to you a little bit
00:23:27.30\00:23:28.97
about the new Gospel Outreach
show called Destination 10/40.
00:23:29.00\00:23:32.41
Now, the goal of this show
00:23:32.44\00:23:33.71
is to take you into the mission
field and give you a personal
00:23:33.74\00:23:37.61
look into the lives
00:23:37.65\00:23:39.08
of our Gospel Outreach
Bible workers and health workers
00:23:39.11\00:23:41.62
showing you their struggles,
their challenges, and also
00:23:41.65\00:23:44.62
how the Lord is
blessing them in their ministry.
00:23:44.65\00:23:48.02
Now, my wife and I have
had the privilege of producing
00:23:48.06\00:23:51.13
this show for Gospel Outreach,
and it has been such a blessing
00:23:51.16\00:23:54.40
in our lives to be able
to be so intimately involved
00:23:54.46\00:23:57.80
with Bible workers out
there in the mission field.
00:23:57.83\00:24:01.07
If you want to watch the
show, you can find it on Gospel.
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Outreach's personal
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00:24:03.71\00:24:06.07
It's called Go to
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00:24:06.11\00:24:09.81
If you search
that in the App Store,
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the Google Play
Store, or on any smart
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TV like Roku or Apple TV,
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you can find the
app, download the app,
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go to the Gospel Outreach sectio
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and from there you can
watch Destination 10/40.
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It's also airing on Hope
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Channel and 3ABN
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and probably wherever you're
watching this show right now.
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But one of the things
that I wanted to get into today
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is when my wife and I
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went to film season one
of this show, we had a goal,
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we had a vision, and that
vision was to raise $100,000
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to support 55 Bible
workers for one year.
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So I wanted to just
report back to you, the viewer
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and the donors
who are interested
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in Gospel
Outreach and let you know
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that we reached that $100,000
within the first three episodes
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of the show.
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And we want to thank you so much
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for donating to Gospel Outreach
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and marking your
donation as Destination 10/40.
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And so if you want to make
a donation to Gospel Outreach
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by watching Destination 10/40,
we always encourage you to mark
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your donation as
such. If you donate online,
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there's a dropdown menu,
you can click Destination 10/40
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or if you send in a check
just right in the memo line.
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Destination 10/40.
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By doing that,
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we can figure out
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how much money we have raised
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through the
producing of this show.
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I want to personally
tell you that Destination
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10/40 has been quite a
journey for my wife and I.
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You know, producing a
show like this is no easy task
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and it has taken a lot of work
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and dedication on our
part to not only film the show,
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but we are also
editing the show as well.
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And so for those of
you who have seen the show,
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we want to thank
you so much for watching
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and we ask that you
continue to watch and to support
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what we are doing,
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because this is
something that we hope to be
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doing for some time
for Gospel Outreach.
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Now, the exciting
news that I have for
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you today is my wife and
I are leaving in six days
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as of filming
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this video to go film
season two of Destination 10/40.
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So we want to ask you to pray.
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Pray for us, pray for the
people that we interact with.
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Pray that their
hearts will be touched
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by the work that we are doing.
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After praying
about it quite a bit,
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my wife and I have
decided that this year
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our goal is to raise
$250,000 for Gospel Outreach
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through season
two of Destination
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10/40 Last year, our
goal was to raise $100,000,
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which supported 55 Bible workers
for one year with $250,000.
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We are going to
be able to support
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those 55 new Bible
workers for one more year.
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Plus, we're going to
be able to add extra.
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So we're going to be
supporting 137 Bible workers
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for one year with this $250,000.
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Imagine what the Lord
will be able to do with 137 new
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Gospel Outreach Bible
workers and health workers
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working throughout
the 1040 window, telling
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people about
Jesus and showing them
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the love of Jesus
in their daily lives.
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So my last appeal
once again, would be,
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if you want to get
involved with Gospel Outreach,
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if you have been
blessed and impressed
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by what this organization does,
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just as me and
my wife have been,
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I want to encourage you to go
to the Gospel Outreach website.
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Visit goaim.org
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It stands for Gospel Outreach,
Adventures in Missions.
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Go to the website.
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From there you can find
out how you can pray for us.
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You can also donate.
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If you want to do that,
just go to the donation page
00:27:33.58\00:27:36.42
and if you are donating by
watching Destination 10/40,
00:27:36.45\00:27:39.62
mark your donation
as Destination 10/40
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so that we can keep
track of the money raised
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and we can reach
our goal of $250,000
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and 137 frontline missionaries
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spreading the gospel
throughout the 1040 window.
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That's all I have for you today.
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Thank you for joining me.
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And until next
time, God bless you.
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Get involved.
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Find your mission field
and I'll talk to you next time.
00:28:01.91\00:28:05.81
Thank you so much for joining
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us here at
Adventures in Missions.
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And if you would like to receive
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our free newsletter,
just go to our website at
00:28:10.22\00:28:12.79
goaim.org and
we just want to say
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thank you for partnering
with us here at Gospel Outreach.
00:28:16.56\00:28:19.36
We hope that
you've enjoyed learning
00:28:19.39\00:28:20.86
more about the
Sunshine Orchard School.
00:28:20.90\00:28:22.76
Please continue to
pray for the school,
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the teachers and
the students there
00:28:24.67\00:28:26.47
and we thank you
00:28:26.50\00:28:27.54
for your financial
support of the school as well.
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May the Lord bless you today.
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