Find out how God
gave a man the vision
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to use a simple cell phone
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to send out over 3,000
Bible studies in a day.
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Stay tuned.
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This is AWR360A°.
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We are at Victoria Falls,
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located on the border
of Zambia and Zimbabwe,
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these are the largest
falls in the entire world.
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Over 550 million liters of water
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drop 305 feet over
the cliff every minute.
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The spray from the falls
typically rises to 1,300 feet,
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sometimes even twice as high,
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allowing the spray to
be seen over 30 miles away.
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It's not far from
here where our story began.
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The pastors in Lusaka,
Zambia had met with Kathy
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and I and Bob Pecan.
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They had decided to have
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a thousand
evangelistic meetings,
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all at the same time.
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This was
unprecedented and unheard
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of because no one in the world
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has ever had that many meetings
in one city at one time.
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The next night we're
flying to Victoria Falls,
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so living in Zambia,
we need a place to stay.
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I went into the
internet looking for a place,
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I couldn't find anything.
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There were no hotels available,
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there were
government meetings there
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and nothing was available.
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Finally, I found one
way out on the Zambezi
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and I said to Kathy,
"Well, we'll go there.
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It's not that far it says,
just a few miles outside town."
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When we got there,
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we found it was an
hour's drive over terrible roads
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and we kept asking ourselves,
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"Why, why, why, why
Lord, why are we here?"
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When we arrived, we
were met by very kind face
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and we realized
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why we had gone
across that terrible road.
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That kind face was Antoinette.
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Antoinette is the
manager of the lodge.
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We decided to
meet her for ourselves
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to hear the rest of the story.
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We had to take a jeep
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because the
roads were not paved.
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Many times, we
drove through water
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and experienced many bumps.
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Along the way, we saw
many humbled villages.
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We then reached
the Zambezi River.
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And to our surprise,
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we saw boats carved out of logs.
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This type of boat
is called a mackerel.
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This was to be our
next form of transportation.
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A kind man paddled for
us across this great river.
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God really blessed us.
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Along the way, we saw elephants
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and monkeys.
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Traveling along this river
was quite a beautiful sight.
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So far from everything else,
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we wondered in what way
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did the Lord reach her out here.
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It wasn't long till
we reached the shore
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and I was able
to meet Antoinette.
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She was in the middle of
preparing a delicious meal.
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So, Antoinette,
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you had two guests
coming to your lodge,
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what did you
first notice about them?
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That they're Christian.
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And yeah, that's
like it seemed to me.
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And that intrigued you?
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Very much.
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Okay.
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Now at that time were
you seeking more Bible truth?
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Yes, I was.
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Let me quickly tell you this.
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Yes.
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When I first moved
here, my husband said to me,
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Zambia will do
two things to you,
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to either move you closer to God
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or you will
either forget about God.
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And it moved me closer.
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The McKey's visit to
the lodge was not by chance.
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God was setting up
something wonderful.
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You see,
Antoinette's uncle Karel,
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had just started sharing
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a Bible prophecy series
with her on her cell phone.
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Got this message
from him when I thought,
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"Why he's sending me a message."
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And I saw it
was a voice message.
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And I was listening to it
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and I was so amazed about
this because this is Karel,
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you know, it's him
telling me about God.
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And when I listened to
the first study, it was...
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I just want it more.
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You wanted more? Yeah.
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She would drink her tea,
and listen to the message.
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What was said in the
series intrigued her.
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It was different, but it
came straight from the Bible,
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straight to her heart.
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She was convicted to
share this with others.
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I did share that
with a lot of my friends
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and lot of my family.
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I did send out to them.
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That's wonderful. Yeah.
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Then came the Sabbath truth.
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Antoinette was convicted.
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She wanted to
share with her husband.
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But what would he think?
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I was scared.
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I was really
scared to do that and,
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but when I just sat
at the table and ask him,
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"Listen, what do you
think about the Sabbath?
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What day, I mean it
could be any day, you know."
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And he said to me now it's...
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"You think Saturday."
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Here's a lady isolated
from the rest of the world,
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yet she learned
about the Sabbath.
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Once Dwayne heard
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about how Antoinette
studied these Bible truths
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through her cell phone,
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he knew this
would be a tool for AWR
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to use around the world.
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After talking with Antoinette,
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we knew cell phone
evangelism was important.
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Our stay at this
hotel was not random.
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God have been leading us
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and we were not about
to let this idea drop.
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Cell phone evangelism
was reaching many people.
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Antoinette told us,
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even though Karel
sent the messages,
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they originally came
from a man named Neville.
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Who was Neville?
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We were able to meet
Neville for ourselves.
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As he drove up, I saw the
biggest smile on his face.
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Neville! Hi there, Cami.
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So good to see you.
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Yes, good to see you
in Africa for a change.
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That's right.
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Oh, a beautiful country.
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Oh, absolutely. Yes.
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Oh, look at your van!
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Yeah, that's an interesting van.
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It was an interesting story.
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One of our congregation
members donated that to us,
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and at the same time we
thought it'd be a good idea
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to do something evangelistically
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minded witnessing
sort of opportunity.
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And we agreed, of
course, we think it's good.
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And so we had one
of the design people
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that have got some talent
in designing in the church
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and they designed it
for us and well, there's...
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That's it, that's
the result. Excellent.
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I bet a lot of people
notice it, don't they?
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Oh, they do.
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When we fill up,
the first thing they do
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is they come over
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and they wanna know
whether we're Christians.
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Yeah, we are.
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And then, you
know what, they ask us,
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"Do you have Bibles?" Oh, amen.
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Wonderful. Absolutely.
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All right, so are you ready?
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Let's go. We're ready. Let's go.
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Good.
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We had a long but fun
drive from Zambia to Namibia.
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What amazing sights.
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Many wild animals roam
freely along the roads.
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And soon the lush
greenery of Zambia
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changed into the
dry desert of Namibia.
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During the drive,
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Neville pointed out
a large termite mount.
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We had to see this up close.
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Now I'm tall and this
mount was much taller.
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Amazingly,
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it is a solid as a brick wall.
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Namibia is one of the least
densely populated countries
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of the world,
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with just two people
per square kilometer.
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One reason for this is
that the average rainfall
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is comparable to
some parts of the Sahara.
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It is in one of
these desolate areas
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that Neville lives,
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the town of Otjiwarango.
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One of the few areas
that has a supply of water
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and oasis in the desert.
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Though he is now doing a
mighty work for the Lord,
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years ago, Neville was burdened.
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He loved God and
desire to do His will.
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But what could he do?
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The Lord was positioning
him to do something great.
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I reckon that takes for sin
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as Achilles
probably a good description,
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dry bones,
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because I was only
one of three Adventists
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living in all of the
North Central Namibia.
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And that number
almost became two
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because something
dramatic was about to happen.
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Canyon was actually very
close to where we are sitting.
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In fact, it's right there
on my right and your left.
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That I was walking
around one Sunday morning,
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trying to find water leak,
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and I had this really
pressing pain in my chest.
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That's when I had
the first heart attack.
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Wow.
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Well, my elder son
was here at the time
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and he insisted
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that I go down to
the local hospital.
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And it's right
there in the hospital
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that I had the
second heart attack.
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And while lying on the bed,
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waiting for the
doctors and the nurses
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to do everything
that they needed to do.
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That's when I started thinking,
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"What am I really
doing for the Lord?"
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Impressed by the
Lord, Neville took action,
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and invited his friend
Gideon to preach a series
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at one of the local churches.
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After the meetings,
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they decided to
form a small group
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on a cell phone
application called WhatsApp.
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This created a
way to talk about God
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with one another.
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Well, then
something interesting happened
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because Yuan and Petro,
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who happened to be
my friends all along.
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I had given them
a Great Controversy
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some 20 years ago.
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And we visited
them this December,
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and there was this
meeting on the neighbor's farm.
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And on the neighbor's farm,
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they showed this
DVD of Mark Woodman,
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asking about is the
end really that close?
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And in that DVD,
they were talking
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about the
relevance of the Sabbath.
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And that night Yuan and
Petro decided this is the truth,
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and that's where they wanna go.
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And, of course,
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not only did we have
a very good discussion
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after our time at
the neighbor's farm,
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but they too then went and
read the Great Controversy,
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joined the cell phone group
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and very soon afterwards
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we were about 30 plus
on that cell phone group.
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Amen.
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With the group's success,
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it was time for
their first big step.
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Yuan and Petro, who
had just joined the group
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were blessed with a property
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big enough to
hold the camp meeting.
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It wasn't a
major big camp meeting.
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We were only about 15.
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I think the Sabbath
program where the most people,
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I think we were 22.
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But that was a good start
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and it was
really a very good place
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because that's where we decided
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evangelism was
gonna be our main focus.
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At that camp meeting,
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they were inspired by a
story of a church in Russia
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that was dying,
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but because their
small congregation
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devoted themselves
to the Lord in prayer
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every morning at 5 am,
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their church in
Russia is now thriving.
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And that inspired
us, and we said then
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and that this is where our
whole evangelistic aim started
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and developed and we said,
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"God, we are more or
less in the same situation."
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Yes, it's not cold and ice,
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but we have got the
same logistical problems
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of distance and
being secluded and we said,
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"God, we do not know
how to find the people.
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So You find them,
You bring us the people,
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and we will be ready."
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So we started praying
every morning at 5 o'clock.
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Amen.
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By the time of
their next camp meeting,
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86 people had joined.
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This was a huge accomplishment.
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But the Holy
Spirit was impressing them
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that they could do even more.
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Their cell phone ministry
was about to impact many lives
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across their country.
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But what happened is we
started a Sabbath school group
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on WhatsApp.
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And then, a second
need arose from that
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which was the
evangelistic prayer group.
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So we had a
separate WhatsApp group
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for the prayer group,
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which then also became
our mid-week prayer meeting.
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So in this way, God was
slowly but surely preparing us
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to set up a full digital church,
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doing everything that
a normal church would do,
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but digitally.
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Amazing.
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Part of their WhatsApp group
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included two
isolated Afrikaans women
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Sally and Nola,
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living on separate farms
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volunteered for leadership roles
00:14:38.41\00:14:40.41
within this new digital church.
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Together they set up
a Sabbath school program
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to present an organized message
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for their members every Sabbath.
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The nice part is that
whenever you have done your bit
00:14:50.82\00:14:54.79
whether it's Sally and I
at Sabbath or Durke and Elise,
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the other Sabbath,
there is always feedback.
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And that to us is very important
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because you realize that,
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that message that you have given
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has brought a little bit of hope
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or a little bit of comforts
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or to whoever has
listened to that message
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and you can listen
to it again and again
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because it only is
removed from the cell phone
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when you delete it.
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And it becomes a real
blessing to you as a person
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because you sharing this message
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that means so much to you,
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and then it's really
wonderful when you get feedback.
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Okay, so our
church was growing, Cami,
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and people were being
added on a regular basis.
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So that was all fine
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except we decided to do
this digital church thing
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because of the logistics.
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Yeah. And that
was all working fine.
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But then we had camp meeting.
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And camp meeting
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had its own unique little
possibilities and troubles
00:16:00.92\00:16:03.93
and one of them
was that we could,
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in this
beautiful facility of ours,
00:16:05.89\00:16:07.90
we could really house up
to 500 people for preaching.
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That's easy.
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But what we couldn't
do is have them here,
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and not have
water, toilets, bathrooms,
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kitchen facilities
that kind of thing.
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So our next
project was physically
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to get those facilities going,
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so that indeed we can
grow our camp meeting,
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and make it accessible to much,
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much more people to
come and listen to the Word.
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Praise God.
00:16:32.59\00:16:35.92
One of their newly
baptized members Marius
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shared his new
found joy with his boss,
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who is so impressed.
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He responded by supplying
every need for their building.
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Materials, a work
team, a full welding team,
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and of course money.
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Quite a bit of it actually.
00:16:54.31\00:16:57.18
So they sent that out there
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and that provided the
needed facilities for us.
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Now this is a blessing.
00:17:04.15\00:17:07.92
But we still had one more issue.
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It was dry.
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And without rain,
there's no water at Ruppel.
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So that was a big problem.
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Yes.
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We were sitting on
the veranda at Ruppel,
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and Petro and Yuan
was really depressed.
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It had not rained.
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The animals were
not in good shape,
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there's no food,
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and there's this
looming camp meeting.
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We've got speakers invited.
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We've got money plant,
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or have already
actually spent the money
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on airfare and stuff like that.
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And yet, there is no water.
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And we were
actually in a predicament
00:17:53.67\00:17:56.00
because we thought,
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"If there's no
water, what are we gonna do?
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Are we going to
cancel this camp meeting?
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Are we going to move it?
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How are we gonna go about this?"
00:18:04.98\00:18:06.45
There's a lot
of people involved.
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And that's when Heerden and
I sat out there on the veranda
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and we said, "Well, let's pray."
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And we prayed
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and the amazing
thing is with blue skies,
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all of a sudden there
was this cloud coming over.
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It really poured down.
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As it moved over,
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it seemed like the wind turned
and God stopped that cloud
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right over Ruppel and
it rained over Ruppel.
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Wow.
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Another miracle
was about to happen.
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The invited
speaker could not come
00:18:47.82\00:18:49.76
and he referred
Jonathan Zirkle to us
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which I didn't
know from a bar of soap.
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So Jonathan came,
00:18:54.43\00:18:56.06
he did the series
of sermons with us,
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and Jonathan and I
became good friends.
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Awesome.
00:19:01.70\00:19:03.04
And about a year later,
Jonathan called me and said,
00:19:03.07\00:19:06.54
"Don't you wanna
come to Georgia with me
00:19:06.57\00:19:08.71
for the Total Member
Involvement Project?"
00:19:08.74\00:19:12.68
Well, I just felt that
God was starting to do things.
00:19:12.71\00:19:17.65
God had answered Neville's
humble prayers in a big way.
00:19:20.66\00:19:24.76
But this was
leading to something bigger.
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After leaving the lodge
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and we said
goodbyes to Antoinette,
00:19:30.27\00:19:31.60
we immediately called Neville.
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This is when we realized
00:19:33.37\00:19:34.87
God had put everything together,
00:19:34.90\00:19:36.94
He arranged it all.
00:19:36.97\00:19:38.31
AWR360A° is about
broadcast to baptism.
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God had already put the pieces
of the puzzle together for us.
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In 2017 we held TMI
AWR meetings in Georgia,
00:19:45.38\00:19:49.55
the same time we did
Eastern Europe and Romania.
00:19:49.58\00:19:52.05
Our coordinator for
Georgia was Jonathan Zirkle
00:19:52.09\00:19:54.82
who had invited Neville to
be one of the speakers there.
00:19:54.86\00:19:58.49
What timing.
00:19:58.53\00:19:59.86
Neville had already preached
a series at AWR meetings.
00:19:59.89\00:20:03.50
He shares the
vision of AWR360A°.
00:20:03.53\00:20:06.43
God matched us.
00:20:06.47\00:20:08.74
It was amazing to
join Adventist World Radio.
00:20:08.77\00:20:14.64
During Neville's return
flight home from Georgia,
00:20:14.68\00:20:17.78
he was reading
the depressing news
00:20:17.81\00:20:19.71
on his phone
00:20:19.75\00:20:21.08
and decided more had to be done.
00:20:21.12\00:20:25.45
And I knew the
sermons that I had preached
00:20:25.49\00:20:28.42
was the answer, I knew that.
00:20:28.46\00:20:31.36
And I was then
struck by this whole idea
00:20:31.39\00:20:35.06
that I actually can,
there is a way I can do this.
00:20:35.10\00:20:40.20
In fact, that was my phone.
00:20:40.24\00:20:44.51
That was the way.
00:20:44.54\00:20:45.87
And nearly up to this,
00:20:48.54\00:20:50.11
God had prepared
this little church
00:20:50.15\00:20:52.18
to have everything in place,
00:20:52.21\00:20:54.18
that'll be required
for this very moment.
00:20:54.22\00:20:58.65
Well, we had a team
behind all these presentations
00:20:58.69\00:21:02.42
because remember God had
set all this up prior to us
00:21:02.46\00:21:05.79
knowing about all this.
00:21:05.83\00:21:07.60
And they were
dedicated, they were taught.
00:21:07.63\00:21:11.00
They knew about evangelism,
00:21:11.03\00:21:13.13
they were
evangelistically minded people.
00:21:13.17\00:21:16.17
And that made it
all so much easier.
00:21:16.20\00:21:20.28
And so, I had all
these members in church
00:21:20.31\00:21:22.84
that could do all these things.
00:21:22.88\00:21:24.78
They were already
involved in digital church,
00:21:24.81\00:21:27.15
they all already
started playing parts,
00:21:27.18\00:21:31.02
and then we did the
10-Day Prayer series.
00:21:31.05\00:21:35.69
And that's where I
picked up that indeed
00:21:35.72\00:21:38.26
they were right
for greater things.
00:21:38.29\00:21:42.43
We had a target in mind of 1,000
00:21:42.46\00:21:47.44
and we thought
that we would be lucky
00:21:47.47\00:21:49.10
if we got that.
00:21:49.14\00:21:50.87
Five days later,
1,300 people were listening.
00:21:50.91\00:21:55.88
Some were
ministers of other religions,
00:21:55.91\00:21:58.38
some non-Adventists
and many ex-Adventists.
00:21:58.41\00:22:04.39
With Neville's background
in radio and broadcast,
00:22:04.42\00:22:07.39
he discovered a way to
send an evangelistic series
00:22:07.42\00:22:10.96
through his cell phone,
00:22:10.99\00:22:12.36
so that others too
could replicate this process.
00:22:12.39\00:22:16.40
So because of my background,
00:22:16.43\00:22:18.53
we put these sermons
00:22:18.57\00:22:21.64
into two minute sound bites,
00:22:21.67\00:22:25.04
and I figured out
00:22:25.07\00:22:27.74
that this was the attention span
00:22:27.78\00:22:31.11
that people could
handle at any one time.
00:22:31.15\00:22:33.88
And the other important
thing about the whole drive
00:22:33.92\00:22:39.25
was that it had to be presented
00:22:39.29\00:22:42.62
as if I was
talking to you personally.
00:22:42.66\00:22:45.89
It cannot be
presented as a sermon.
00:22:45.93\00:22:48.53
It will not work.
00:22:48.56\00:22:50.67
It had to be a conversation,
a one on one conversation.
00:22:50.70\00:22:55.94
You know, we talk
about this one soul audience.
00:22:55.97\00:23:01.61
You know Jesus did that?
00:23:01.64\00:23:03.18
He had these one soul audience,
00:23:03.21\00:23:04.71
it was Him talking to
the woman at the well,
00:23:04.75\00:23:07.18
Him talking to the leper,
00:23:07.22\00:23:09.48
it was Him
talking to the layman,
00:23:09.52\00:23:11.09
it was Him,
00:23:11.12\00:23:12.45
you know, it was this
one on one conversation.
00:23:12.49\00:23:14.52
Although there was a
lot of other people present,
00:23:14.56\00:23:16.83
it was just this
one on one conversation,
00:23:16.86\00:23:19.93
and the cell
phone allows for that.
00:23:19.96\00:23:22.20
So we needed to
present it in such a way
00:23:22.23\00:23:25.53
that we
immediately establish intimacy
00:23:25.57\00:23:28.07
if I can call it that.
00:23:28.10\00:23:29.80
And it's this one
on one conversation
00:23:29.84\00:23:32.44
where, in fact it's not me
preaching anymore or talking,
00:23:32.47\00:23:36.91
it's actually
inviting the person
00:23:36.95\00:23:39.61
into the
audience chamber of Jesus.
00:23:39.65\00:23:42.68
And it is the Holy Spirit
that is just using my voice
00:23:42.72\00:23:46.65
to talk to the
heart of the person.
00:23:46.69\00:23:49.09
That's the idea.
00:23:49.12\00:23:51.86
At one point in time,
00:23:51.89\00:23:53.23
we were already past
10,000 Bible studies per week.
00:23:53.26\00:23:57.87
The first series
eventually became 1,800 people
00:23:57.90\00:24:02.94
and of the 1,800
people, we baptized 350.
00:24:02.97\00:24:07.11
Because we had
people in South America,
00:24:07.14\00:24:09.28
people in
England, people in Canada,
00:24:09.31\00:24:11.11
the USA,
Australia, Korea, South Korea,
00:24:11.15\00:24:16.48
all over Europe.
00:24:16.52\00:24:18.85
We had people listening
that could speak the language
00:24:18.89\00:24:21.46
or understand the language.
00:24:21.49\00:24:22.82
The language was the
only limiting factor.
00:24:22.86\00:24:24.89
They had to understand Afrikaans
00:24:24.93\00:24:27.10
because that was the language
I presented in initially.
00:24:27.13\00:24:29.90
We also now present
in English, of course,
00:24:29.93\00:24:32.17
because the team
also consists of Gideon
00:24:32.20\00:24:35.37
which is doing
the English sermons.
00:24:35.40\00:24:39.21
So now, we
really have a situation
00:24:39.24\00:24:44.25
where we actually
don't quite know anymore
00:24:44.28\00:24:48.65
because the bit of
research that we did,
00:24:48.68\00:24:51.35
we found that
people pass these massages
00:24:51.39\00:24:54.16
onto at least five levels down.
00:24:54.19\00:24:56.32
We get responses, we get
people coming back to us,
00:24:56.36\00:25:00.50
and we just don't
even have the foggiest idea
00:25:00.53\00:25:03.06
where they get it from.
00:25:03.10\00:25:04.67
But obviously from somebody
who passed it onto somebody
00:25:04.70\00:25:08.37
who passed it onto somebody.
00:25:08.40\00:25:10.74
It just moves
extremely fast and it never dies
00:25:10.77\00:25:14.81
unlike in another
evangelistic series
00:25:14.84\00:25:17.61
where it's
finished, it's finished.
00:25:17.65\00:25:18.98
This thing is never finished
00:25:19.01\00:25:20.72
because the materials out there,
00:25:20.75\00:25:22.08
you can't stop it of
going on and on and on and on.
00:25:22.12\00:25:25.32
It just continues.
00:25:25.35\00:25:27.59
So it's a massive
evangelistic tool in the end.
00:25:27.62\00:25:33.03
While we getting the
responses daily of people say,
00:25:33.06\00:25:36.40
they wanna be baptized.
00:25:36.43\00:25:37.77
Or people say, "Oh, we're
going to be baptized this week.
00:25:37.80\00:25:40.04
We already joined
the church." Amen.
00:25:40.07\00:25:42.07
You know, sometimes we
actually get them to churches,
00:25:42.10\00:25:45.11
sometimes we don't.
00:25:45.14\00:25:46.47
Sometimes they
join the digital church,
00:25:46.51\00:25:48.38
and then eventually we move them
00:25:48.41\00:25:50.38
over to the
church closest to them.
00:25:50.41\00:25:52.31
Other times, we find out
00:25:52.35\00:25:54.12
they've already
been to the church,
00:25:54.15\00:25:57.02
they've already
made arrangements.
00:25:57.05\00:25:58.69
We just hear, that's
it, we're being baptized,
00:25:58.72\00:26:00.96
thanks for the lectures.
00:26:00.99\00:26:04.83
One of the first people to
send out a series was Karel.
00:26:04.86\00:26:08.90
Then Neville's thought
of the cell phone evangelism
00:26:08.93\00:26:11.33
and I wanted to get
involved through this.
00:26:11.37\00:26:14.07
So we started with it and
we started sending it out.
00:26:14.10\00:26:17.34
And eventually for me to
do that was a bit of a mission
00:26:17.37\00:26:23.24
because I'm dyslexic.
00:26:23.28\00:26:25.88
So I need to read
through the mission story,
00:26:25.91\00:26:31.29
and memorize it
as far as possible,
00:26:31.32\00:26:34.02
because I find it
difficult to read.
00:26:34.06\00:26:36.42
It doesn't come easy,
00:26:36.46\00:26:37.83
it's really hard to
do this and to read,
00:26:37.86\00:26:40.90
and then to, you
now, to send it over.
00:26:40.93\00:26:43.87
And it takes a lot of time.
00:26:43.90\00:26:47.80
The first person
he shared the series
00:26:47.84\00:26:49.80
with was his
sweet niece Antoinette,
00:26:49.84\00:26:52.57
living on a remote island.
00:26:52.61\00:26:54.64
It is the same Antoinette
00:26:54.68\00:26:56.64
that smiled at the
McKey's that fateful night.
00:26:56.68\00:27:01.35
It's a God thing!
00:27:01.38\00:27:02.72
You see, Antoinette is
preparing to be baptized.
00:27:02.75\00:27:06.09
She's also preparing
00:27:06.12\00:27:07.72
and working on
starting a new church
00:27:07.76\00:27:09.46
there in the village near
her hotel on the Zambezi River
00:27:09.49\00:27:13.60
just above Victoria Falls.
00:27:13.63\00:27:15.66
The interesting
thing about this is that
00:27:15.70\00:27:17.80
people are not
only receiving the truth
00:27:17.83\00:27:21.00
but say, they're so fired up
00:27:21.04\00:27:23.30
that they
immediately start becoming
00:27:23.34\00:27:26.14
cell phone evangelists
almost automatically.
00:27:26.17\00:27:29.51
Awesome.
00:27:29.54\00:27:31.55
This story does
not have to end here.
00:27:31.58\00:27:34.22
It's waiting for you
00:27:34.25\00:27:35.58
to be a part of
cell phone evangelism.
00:27:35.62\00:27:38.45
People around the world
00:27:38.49\00:27:39.82
are joining AWR
cell phone evangelism.
00:27:39.85\00:27:43.53
No matter your age,
00:27:43.56\00:27:44.93
whether you're visually impaired
00:27:44.96\00:27:46.66
or the shyest guy in the room,
00:27:46.70\00:27:48.66
you too can win
souls for the kingdom.
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Remember, there are no
starless crowns in heaven.
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