We are here in
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Thailand filming season
two of Destination 10/40.
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And the way that we film things
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as well, we
don't we don't reenact.
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We don't reenact anything.
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That is one thing I
want everyone to know.
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We do not reenact,
if at all possible.
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There's a lot of things
that we could learn from
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the people that we
meet while we're traveling.
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That by the beginning of Covid,
the growth of the ministry
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there had gone from
one church to six churches,
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from three members
being served to 180 members.
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So word got out.
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He's coming here
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in the Philippines on January
2nd to be baptized January 19th.
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To be baptized he's a buddhist.
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And we have also from
us a Filipino from us.
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Saw us also.
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And he's coming to
visit and to be baptized.
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Welcome to
Adventures in Missions here
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at Gospel Outreach.
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I'm Julie and here at Gospel Out
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It is our goal to make
sure that we're sharing Jesus
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in the 1040
window with everybody.
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And coming up in
the next segment,
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you'll want to
hear what is happening
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in the Philippines with Gospel O
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and who are reaching
people in the 1040 window
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in the Philippines
and around the world.
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Stay tuned.
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You'll want to hear more
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Gospel Outreach presents,
Adventures in Missions.
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My name is Aaron.
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And who are you?
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What is your name?
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My name is Aaron
and my name is Lexi.
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And we produce a show for Gospel
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called Destination 10/40.
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We are currently
at Sunshine Orchard.
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It's on the Thai
border with Myanmar up north.
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We are here in Thailand
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filming season two
of Destination 10/40.
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I always had a vision of making
a television show in the style
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in which we created Destination
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was looking for something
new, something different.
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And so that's where Destination
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I would say the
name Destination 10/40.
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I think I came up with
three names on a tablet,
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and then
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I close my eyes and pointed
and it was Destination 10/40.
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We're also going to
be hosting this show.
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What was the
name we came up with?
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Destination 10/40.
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I think the Lord
has a sense of humor.
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I think he
chooses the least likely
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because this is something
that I never wanted to do.
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And yet here I am.
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And I doubt you
ever imagine being here.
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No, not not filming a TV show.
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It's not, it's
definitely not always easy.
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Uh, trying to get
the bag under the bed.
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Step one, bail out the water.
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Step two.
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Get into the boat with
all the camera equipment.
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And hope we don't fall in.
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And don't sink.
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Are you washing the clothes
from the water in this pond?
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I sure am.
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I'm gonna tear these pants open.
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Okay.
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I'm almost at the top.
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How many do you do
before you put them down?
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Oh, four. How much
you can get in your hand.
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Tell me about how hot it is.
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It's just a tad warm.
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And this is the
cooler time of year.
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Yes, this is winter, apparently.
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What's happening Lady?
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I'm not 100% sure.
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Later.
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I don't know
exactly where we're headed,
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A fire alarm went off, in
the hall for, like, two hours.
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Then there was a loud explosion.
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And the way that we film
things as well, we don't.
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We don't reenact. We
don't reenact anything.
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That is one thing I
want everyone to know.
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We do not reenact,
if at all possible.
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We never
reenact church services.
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If you see a church
service, it's really happening.
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If you see a Bible
study, it's really happening.
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We're not doing a mock
Bible study, just to film.
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If we are
working in the community,
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if we're helping
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people in their gardens,
if we're out planting rice,
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whatever we are doing,
it is really happening.
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Because of that, we
are constantly filming.
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We look like some vloggers
that just film everything,
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which is very
uncomfortable. Sometimes.
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Every time I travel, I'm
acutely aware as to how silly
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it is to just film
everything, but it's important.
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Cause we're trying
to tell you a story.
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I think often times
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when we use when we create,
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foreign mission media,
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it's always very
upbeat and positive,
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which is nice, but then
we don't see the reality.
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We don't see the reality
of how these people live.
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We don't see the reality of how
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how incredibly
difficult it is to live in these
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different environments.
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And we don't see how
difficult it is to work as a
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Gospel Outreach Bible
worker in these places.
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So I think when we
live with these people
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for multiple days at a
time, and our priority is
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not always filming,
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we have a lot of stuff
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that we do with the people off
camera, for the simple reason
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that we want them to feel
like we're there for them,
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and we're not there for
taking advantage of them.
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You know,
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as somebody who is
here to make videos,
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one of the things
that's very easy to do
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is to say, well,
let's go to a home,
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let's get a few shots of
praying, reading the Bible,
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and then let's just
leave and go to the next home
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because we need
video of multiple homes.
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Well, that's
something that I promised myself
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I really didn't want to
do when we were traveling.
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I want to spend the
time with the people.
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I don't care if that means
a 45 minute worship time with
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one specific group.
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everybody always gather
around, in curiosity when
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Aaron flies the drone.
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Always a
commotion with the drone.
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Picture. Picture.
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Put your hands in the sky.
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One of the things
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that I love, and
what I've noticed
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about traveling to
these other countries,
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is just how warm
and welcoming they are.
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Like, you don't need
to have an invitation
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to go to someone's house.
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You just walk right
in and they'll feed you
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this massive feast
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and give everything
they have to you, like they,
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They'll make sure that
you have the best chairs.
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You have the best food.
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Like they want to make
sure that you feel welcome,
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regardless of
whether they can afford it.
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If they don't own
a chair, they will go
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around the neighborhood
and find a chair for you.
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Yeah.
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They are very gracious to us.
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We have, a bowl of chili's
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We been up to?
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Well, they fitted me with a sari
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There's a lot of things
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that we could learn
from the people that we meet
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while we're traveling.
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Despite the living situations
that these people are in.
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They are so happy.
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They're so grateful
to have what they do
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have.
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Traveling to
these different places
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and seeing how the
Lord is working within
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the lives of our
sponsored Bible workers,
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and also seeing how
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the Lord is working
through them to reach people
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in remote places, in
villages, people who some people
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who have never really
even heard the name of Jesus.
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People who don't have even
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the slightest
concept of who Jesus is.
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I think it's definitely
helped to grow our faith.
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And I don't really
know what I'm trying to say,
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but what what it what it
all boils down to in the pot.
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The boiling pot.
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Is that
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I love my wife.
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That has nothing
to do with travel.
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Oh, sorry.
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What was the question?
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If you are watching
this video and you have yet
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to see Destination 10/40,
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I want to encourage you
to go and watch season one.
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Season one is on our Gospel Outr
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we do have a streaming service.
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There is an app
that you can download
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on the Apple Store or
the Google Play Store.
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You can also download the app
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on your smart TV like
Roku or Apple TV, etc.
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go and watch the show.
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I we appreciate people who do.
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If you're inspired by the
show, if you want to donate to
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Gospel Outreach
because of Destination 10/40,
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we've been
asking people that they
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if you donate online,
there's a dropdown menu.
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You can select Destination
10/40 as where as the reason
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why you're donating.
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And it's same thing
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if you send in a check
just right in the memo line.
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Destination.
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1040 the reason why
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we're asking
people to do that is
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we are trying very hard
to keep track of the money
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being raised by this show.
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The whole reason why
we're here filming season two
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is because of all the money
that was raised from season one.
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Well, we're very
pleased and blessed.
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to be able to say that we
have now based almost $200,000.
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And because of
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the money raised from
season one, we sponsored
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we sponsored 55 Bible workers
for a year from season one.
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And this year,
the goal of season two
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is to sponsor 250
Bible workers for one year.
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That is our goal.
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We prayed about it
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and we decided that
with the Lord's help,
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we can sponsor 250
Bible workers for a year
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150 145 9 I
don't know, that's it.
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Does that sound like a good one?
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David Streifling, I'm so
excited to visit with you today.
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Our topic is exciting
and let's dive right in.
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Tell us about
your involvement here
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at Gospel
Outreach and the ministry
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that you're involved with.
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I have been involved with
Gospel Outreach since 2018.
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And, today I want
to talk about the work
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for the deaf in the Philippines
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because I've been
involved with the Philippines
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Gospel Outreach chapter
for the last several years.
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Well, wonderful.
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So this is a
special need that we have.
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And it has a new
term, though, doesn't it?
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And referring to
people with special needs
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possibilities, ministry.
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And I love that
word possibilities.
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That's the general Conference
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I believe has created that
name for us, and I love it.
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And as a woman blessed
with seven fingers, it's
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all about the possibilities
and the opportunities.
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So let's dive in.
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So tell me about how many people
are deaf in the Philippines?
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David,
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the latest statistic
that I could find show
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that there are 1,140,000 totally
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deaf people in the
Philippines at the moment. Wow.
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And you know what?
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As I hear that, I think, well,
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maybe that's a
number around the world,
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but that's just in one country.
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That's one country.
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Yes. So we need to be
reaching these people right.
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And this is what we're here
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to talk about today,
reaching these people.
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May I introduce to you, a Lyshel
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sitting in the
middle on the screen there.
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And her sister,
Chayard, I have a hard time.
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Gboko is their
name, and, they will
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they'd like to tell
you their story, I guess.
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So maybe we should
let them introduce it.
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Let's listen
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here in, Metro Manila.
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Since the Possibility Ministry
opened, a lot of churches
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are calling us to to have a
deaf ministry in their church.
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So we have been
going to different parts
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of the Philippines
to give deaf awareness.
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But the deaf ministry
itself has four different
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churches, six
different churches already.
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they are strong and going
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and still
baptizing a lot of members.
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We have interpreters.
I am also training.
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We are also training
interpreters for the church
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so we can go around
and help other church,
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more church to build
their own deaf ministry.
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So basically
that's what we do now.
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I was able to record
this at the recording studio
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in Central Zone
Conference headquarters,
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at a recent trip
to, the Philippines.
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And, so I asked
her that sounds like
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you just working for the
church, but she said something.
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Well, here's her answer.
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it's bigger than
just the Adventist church?
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We also,
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go to, whatever,
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whatever the deaf
needs, like me, for example.
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They they need
help in their job.
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I go to,
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I go with them
in their interview.
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Job interview?
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I try to find
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them a job in the companies,
and if they need to go,
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they need the school.
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I also interpret for the school.
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And if they have cases,
court cases, I go with them.
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So it's not just
Seventh-Day Adventist.
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Anything that the deaf needs.
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We try to accommodate them,
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to help them in
any way that we can.
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Bless these women's hearts, Davi
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They're just
really getting involved.
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They really are.
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No. On the left on
the screen is Chayard.
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The one that was just speaking
on the right is L'Échelle.
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But Chayard presented a
real problem to her father
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and family.
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Her father was a
Seventh Day Adventist pastor,
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most recently, I think, serving
at the Persi Adventist Church
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near the Union headquarters.
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But when the little sister
was born, she was born deaf.
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And by the time she
was three years old,
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they were worried
about possible meningitis.
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They were worried.
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And they realized that
finally that she was deaf.
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They took her to a
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they were desperate because
they couldn't communicate.
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They described how
she was so frustrated.
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She was pounding of
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head on the floor and
on a wall or whatever,
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trying to communicate.
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And they they
prevailed upon a teacher,
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a headmaster of the local
school for the deaf to take her
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when she was only three,
but he took her on condition
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that she would learn
100 words within one week
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and three year old.
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And did she? In
three days she was in.
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And then the the.
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All the tantrums are
stopped at that point.
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But you know what?
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We hear stories like this
of of Helen Keller about here.
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Not only was she
blind, she was also deaf.
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So absolutely the
frustration of a young child.
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And so her sister then
has learned how to sign.
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I think this is wonderful.
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And of course,
the two sign together.
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You'll see the little sister
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doing some signing a
little later on here.
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And so this led to
the beginning of a, of
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a, deaf ministry in the church.
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It was confined to one church,
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and they had a total of
three deaf people at the time.
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And this would have been about
the year 2008 if I got it right.
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And, they had three deaf people
at the time, including Chayard.
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Now here I'm going to
get we're going to talk
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about the growth of the
ministry just a little bit.
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Too and this is,
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beginning in 2008, they
started with Gospel Outreach.
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And, this will show how it grew.
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Let's play that one. Okay.
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During the pandemic,
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that's like 2009.
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I don't know, I don't
really know what to do
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because because of the
pandemic, we can't go anywhere.
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So we need them. Internet.
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At the time we
don't have internet,
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but the Lord has
given us this internet
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and it's amazing
how how that happened.
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But but because of that,
we were able to interpret
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and, we have a
devotional every day.
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It's called Lifting Christ.
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Yes. Lifting Christ. At that tim
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Go ahead.
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And I was, me that was me.
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I was interpreting
and because it's in,
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in social media, it
goes all around the world.
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We have Canada,
we have, in France,
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we have Thailand, we have German
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we have India.
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We reach these people
because of the pandemic, even in
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Hong Kong and different places,
not only in the Philippines.
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And a lot of them are asking
us about the Bible, about Jesus.
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Wow, that is
absolutely incredible, David.
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So the interpreter said
00:17:33.15\00:17:34.62
that the pandemic was 2009, but
I think it was actually 2020.
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But for this devotional
to go around the world,
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and I love that I
think I understood
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that it was raising Christ,
living Christ, lifting Christ.
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Yeah, I like that
like that. Right, right.
00:17:47.20\00:17:49.63
But you know, what's
interesting to me, too, is,
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is that these women here, they
are speaking in perfect English.
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So they're using obviously,
American Sign Language.
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They're using Filipino
sign language. Oh, Filipino.
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So this this, translator
is actually double translate.
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Oh, there's a lot of
overlap between American
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and and Filipino
Sign Language. Okay.
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but by the year that
by the beginning of Covid,
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the growth of the ministry
there had gone from one church
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to six churches,
00:18:16.73\00:18:17.73
from three members
being served to 180 members.
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So word got out. Word got out.
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And this was at
the beginning of Covid.
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I don't have the
most recent statistics,
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but it has continued to
grow as a result of being on,
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being online with the,
with the video, the lifting.
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Christ, all these all
these things were happening,
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but also others, other people
that are working for the deaf
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in the Philippines,
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began to see what was going on
and invited her to come and be
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a part of a 24 denomination
Asian group that are of deaf.
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They call it deaf
religion in the Philippines, DRP
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and so she was invited
to be a part of that group.
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And that group,
it's interesting.
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She's the only
lady out of the 24.
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There's one from each of
the each of the 24 denomination.
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She's the only lady.
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The rest are older man.
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She is the only young
lady in the whole group.
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Those are some smart men, David.
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And she points out that
they are now asking questions.
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Some of the smart
men are asking questions
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about the distinctive
Seventh Day Adventist beliefs.
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But what a ministry.
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You know,
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I'm doing a lot
of of, Bible study.
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Even people from Taiwan.
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This one is
Thailand, from Thailand.
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He's a Buddhist.
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And he saw us in
the lifting Christ.
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And so sometimes I
teach him in the night,
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nine, ten, 11 at the evening
and we talk about many things.
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And now he's coming.
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He's coming here in
the Philippines on January
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to be baptized,
January 19th to be baptized.
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He's a modest. Amen.
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And we have also from US a
Filipino from US saw us also.
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And he's coming to
visit and to be baptized.
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This is fantastic, David.
00:20:06.80\00:20:08.60
The fact that how God has used
this woman and how she is now
00:20:08.64\00:20:13.41
ministering to so many
people, this is wonderful.
00:20:13.44\00:20:16.44
Isn't it interesting
how God can take something?
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Can I use the word
ugly as ugly as a handicap
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and make it into a crown jewel?
00:20:22.98\00:20:24.89
Yeah, God can take something
that appears to be a problem
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and he sees the
opportunity in it.
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And this lady is ministering
now around the world.
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I have to say
this about it, though,
00:20:33.96\00:20:35.70
when I first started
working in the Philippines,
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I knew of them.
00:20:39.90\00:20:40.74
I interviewed
them a couple of times,
00:20:40.77\00:20:42.40
and they were
trying this and that,
00:20:42.44\00:20:43.74
and I thought to my, in my mind
the reports that were coming in
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because their ministry wasn't
the typical Gospel Outreach
00:20:47.61\00:20:50.55
ministry serving you,
creating a group in a village.
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The reports didn't
quite match, but I sense
00:20:54.18\00:20:56.55
that they were doing something
I if I characterize them
00:20:56.58\00:20:59.42
a little bit as a maverick,
you know, doing their own thing.
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And I think the result is
that I made a good decision,
00:21:02.59\00:21:05.69
because if I hadn't tried
00:21:05.73\00:21:06.90
to regulate them
and micromanage them,
00:21:06.93\00:21:08.83
I don't think it would have
turned out as well as it has.
00:21:08.86\00:21:11.97
Well, and deaf
ministry has been something
00:21:12.00\00:21:13.87
that's been
very important to us.
00:21:13.90\00:21:15.50
in the 1040 window
and in the Philippines
00:21:15.54\00:21:17.84
with John Blake's
work, Marvin Buds.
00:21:17.87\00:21:19.81
Now you're taking on
Fred Webb's been involved.
00:21:19.84\00:21:22.51
And so we're just excited
about what you're doing here.
00:21:22.54\00:21:25.81
Yeah.
00:21:26.31\00:21:27.28
And it reminds it
reminds me of a scripture.
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You know, why
don't you read it for us?
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Sure.
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Isn't Isaiah 35:5 it says,
then will the eyes of the blind
00:21:32.12\00:21:35.49
be opened and the
ears of the deaf unstopped
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then will the lame leap
00:21:39.56\00:21:40.83
like a deer, and the
mute tongue shout for joy?
00:21:40.86\00:21:44.43
And in the Bible
Jesus healed so many people,
00:21:44.63\00:21:48.04
the man with the
withered hand and the blind man
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and all of this, and the deaf
and hear we're hearing about
00:21:50.97\00:21:54.38
how God is using
these women and and men.
00:21:54.41\00:21:57.45
So I asked, I
asked the girls there
00:21:57.48\00:22:00.62
what their dreams
were, what they would like
00:22:00.78\00:22:02.75
to see happen in the future
00:22:02.78\00:22:04.62
as far as deaf
ministry is concerned.
00:22:04.65\00:22:07.69
And here's their answer
00:22:07.72\00:22:09.52
I would like I would
like this a dream, right?
00:22:09.56\00:22:12.09
I would like, I would, I
would like to have a school
00:22:12.13\00:22:15.40
for the deaf.
00:22:15.43\00:22:16.60
They need it. A school for
the deaf, for the deaf, a dorm
00:22:16.63\00:22:20.64
where we can teach them about
Jesus from a very early age,
00:22:21.07\00:22:25.17
from a young age, so
they can grow and love Jesus.
00:22:25.54\00:22:29.61
Not when they're old already.
00:22:29.88\00:22:32.61
That's one of our dreams.
00:22:32.65\00:22:33.92
Not only mine, but my family.
00:22:33.95\00:22:36.35
All right as well.
00:22:36.38\00:22:37.12
That is exciting.
00:22:38.32\00:22:39.62
So they want a
school for the deaf
00:22:39.65\00:22:41.72
David. A school
for a boarding school
00:22:41.76\00:22:43.39
for the deaf, where the
kids can go at a very young age.
00:22:43.43\00:22:45.76
That's what that's
what they're asking for.
00:22:45.79\00:22:48.23
And, I think it's a
good idea because use
00:22:48.26\00:22:51.10
their own personal
experience, you know,
00:22:51.13\00:22:53.23
and this story,
though, is another example,
00:22:53.27\00:22:55.37
if you stop to think about it,
about how God can take something
00:22:55.40\00:22:58.37
that is negative
00:22:58.41\00:22:59.57
and turn it into something
positive, did you notice how,
00:22:59.61\00:23:03.11
when there were
problems with the methods
00:23:03.14\00:23:05.15
they'd been using for Covid,
00:23:05.18\00:23:06.78
when Covid came
along, that was a problem,
00:23:06.82\00:23:08.92
but now a ministry
00:23:08.95\00:23:10.29
that was basically
within the Greater Manila area
00:23:10.32\00:23:13.39
suddenly is launched
as a worldwide ministry,
00:23:13.52\00:23:16.69
you know, and I
think it's wonderful that
00:23:16.83\00:23:19.63
God has been able to bless them
with the inspiration to try it.
00:23:19.66\00:23:23.40
Absolutely.
00:23:23.53\00:23:24.47
And we need to do what
00:23:24.50\00:23:25.73
we can here at Gospel Outreach
to continue to help with this.
00:23:25.77\00:23:28.84
So what about the
school for the deaf?
00:23:28.97\00:23:31.64
Well, there are
some possibilities.
00:23:31.67\00:23:33.94
I don't want to say too
much, but there is an abandoned.
00:23:33.98\00:23:37.51
I think it's still
abandoned, campus that was used
00:23:38.15\00:23:41.45
there as an orphanage before,
with four, four homes in it
00:23:41.48\00:23:45.19
and an elementary school
and other facilities there.
00:23:45.22\00:23:48.29
And if we could team together
with 1 or 2 other organizations,
00:23:48.46\00:23:52.03
including the
Central Luzon Conference,
00:23:52.06\00:23:54.30
I believe there could be
a school for the deaf there.
00:23:54.30\00:23:56.80
So this is what I
call possibility thinking.
00:23:56.83\00:23:59.30
And Doctor Robert Schuller
is the one that started that.
00:23:59.33\00:24:02.14
When faced with the
mountain, I will not quit.
00:24:02.17\00:24:04.81
And with God's help.
00:24:04.84\00:24:06.14
So we want to,
pray for these people.
00:24:06.17\00:24:08.74
And, this is where the support
of Gospel Outreach comes in.
00:24:08.78\00:24:11.65
Of the donors.
00:24:11.68\00:24:12.88
I see you have one
more clip to share with us.
00:24:12.91\00:24:14.72
I have one more clip to
share, and I'd like to share it.
00:24:14.75\00:24:17.25
It's a little
bit different in that
00:24:17.29\00:24:18.49
we don't need any sound on it.
00:24:18.52\00:24:19.99
It's,
00:24:20.02\00:24:20.86
the last one we're
going to show here,
00:24:20.89\00:24:22.02
but we want to you to see
Chayard at work, you know, now
00:24:22.06\00:24:25.76
we've seen her
working through a translator,
00:24:25.79\00:24:27.66
but here you're going to see her
00:24:27.66\00:24:29.03
the way the deaf
people actually see her.
00:24:29.06\00:24:31.17
And that will allow me to
summarize briefly while she's
00:24:31.20\00:24:34.90
signing online.
00:24:34.94\00:24:36.24
I had the privilege
the following Sabbath
00:24:38.24\00:24:40.21
from this interview.
00:24:40.24\00:24:41.48
I had the privilege
of meeting with the, deaf
00:24:41.51\00:24:44.71
people in the
Pasi Church in Manila
00:24:44.75\00:24:47.82
and they had gathered together
there from all six churches.
00:24:47.95\00:24:51.42
They hadn't had this
privilege for three years
00:24:51.45\00:24:53.59
because two years they
were shut down for Covid.
00:24:53.62\00:24:55.89
And so there was excitement.
00:24:55.92\00:24:57.03
But the school teacher in me
00:24:57.06\00:24:58.59
was surprised as I
met with these people
00:24:58.63\00:25:00.93
and watched how,
00:25:00.96\00:25:02.10
you know,
there's always a hubbub,
00:25:02.13\00:25:03.60
never normally in a
in a regular classroom
00:25:03.63\00:25:05.87
chit chat,
00:25:05.90\00:25:06.70
they're tapping each other
00:25:06.74\00:25:07.74
on the shoulder and
going from here to there,
00:25:07.77\00:25:09.57
and they clap and you
hear sound. Yeah, yeah.
00:25:09.60\00:25:12.27
But it was just delightful.
00:25:12.31\00:25:13.94
But it was an opportunity
for some very, very precious
00:25:13.98\00:25:17.81
fellowship.
00:25:18.01\00:25:19.08
You could tell that these people
00:25:19.11\00:25:20.38
were starving for the fellowship
that's afforded because,
00:25:20.42\00:25:23.45
remember, deaf people
especially live in isolation.
00:25:23.49\00:25:27.59
They do.
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There is a lot
of isolation. There.
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And it's just it's just exciting
to see how they get excited
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about getting together.
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And for me, it
was a strange thing.
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You know, nobody goes to
sleep when you're preaching.
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I was I was I
preached that Sabbath.
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Their eyes were glued
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on the lady beside
me that was signing.
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But you can't go to
sleep in a church service.
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You miss. What's going on?
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Miss it all, I love it. Yeah.
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So I'm thankful
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for the dedication of
these two precious workers.
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And I'm just so thankful to
see how God can take a problem
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deafness, a handicap,
and turn it into a strength,
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and how God can take a
problem like Covid and say,
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think larger,
enlarge my borders,
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think larger, and with
God all things are possible.
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Well, thank you so much
for being with us here today.
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And the need that
I hear is for funding
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and also for prayers
for these people. Right.
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As we think about a boarding
school, possibly for the deaf.
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So I want to say thank
you because I know that that's
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sign language.
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And I think this
is praise the Lord.
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So we'll do that here.
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Thanks, David, for being here.
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Thank you so much for having me.
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Wasn't that exciting
to hear what these women
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are doing for Gospel
Outreach for the deaf ministry.
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I love that
Possibilities Ministries.
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And here they are
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not only helping people who
are deaf in the Philippines,
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but with this daily devotional,
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they're reaching
more people online.
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And we want to say thank you
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for your prayers
and your donations
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because they are wanting to get
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this deaf school
going, and it takes all of us
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to help them in the Philippines.
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So I want to
encourage you to do just that.
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If you'd like to watch previous
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episodes of Adventures in Missio
00:27:04.72\00:27:06.19
you can do that
at gotvmissions.org.
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And you can go to GOTV
missions in the App Store,
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and you can get
the app where you can
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find all sorts of great things
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from Gospel Outreach,
including Destination.
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10/40 so on behalf of Gospel Out
00:27:18.70\00:27:21.74
we want to say thank you
for watching today and may the
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Lord bless you.
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You know, just like
your general wrap up.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Lexi, go.
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Mm, no. Are you sure?
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Are you sure you
don't want to go?
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You can be the
one to share this.
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No. You're so much better at it.
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But you do great
job as well. No I Don't.
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They want to hear from you.
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You're the sweet
wife, but you're the.
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It's actually your job.
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