"The Carter Report" presents,
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The Living Word
around the world.
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Hello, friend, I'm John Carter.
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Welcome today to
the Carter Report.
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Today we're talking
about, the Little Pastor.
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The story of the young man
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who was in the midst of
one of the greatest bloodbaths
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in the history of that nation.
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Did you know, 75,000 people
were murdered in El Salvador
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and this man, the Little Pastor
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was right in the
very midst of it all?
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Welcome today, to
the Carter Report.
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Hi, I'm John Carter.
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I guess the toughest
place that I've ever been to
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as far as the preaching
of the gospel is concerned,
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is India, home to
more than a billion souls.
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And I guess, hundreds of
millions of different gods.
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It almost overwhelms the senses.
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What can we do?
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Well, we've been to India,
we've run outdoor meetings,
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we've had thousands
and thousands of people,
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Hindus, Muslims at our meetings
coming forward in altar calls.
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But we're going to try to
do something else as well.
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We're going to start small.
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We are starting
with the program called,
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"Touching the untouchables."
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And we're going to start
with little untouchable goals.
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We're doing this now.
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We're getting them food
because they are so hungry,
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it's hard to come to
Jesus when you are hungry
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and so we're getting them food
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and we'll be
sending them to school.
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We are trying
to feed their souls
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and fill their bellies in India,
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home to more
than a billion souls
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and hundreds of millions of
gods controlled by evil spirits.
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Please help us in
this work. Please help us.
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Write to me, John
Carter, Post Office Box 1900,
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Thousand Oaks, California, 91358
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or write to me at
Terrigal, in Australia.
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We have an Australian office
as we have an Indian office,
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where somebody
there working full-time
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trying to touch the untouchables
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with the love of Jesus.
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Please write to me today.
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And Jesus said, "I've
come to seek and to save
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that which was lost."
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Our guest today
comes from El Salvador,
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a beautiful land
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with a terrible
history of bloodshed.
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His name is Pastor Pacheco,
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the leader of
the Adventist church
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in that part of the world.
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Our translator is
Pastor Carlos Acosta,
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the senior pastor
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of the Spanish
American Adventist Church
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in Southern California.
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Welcome today,
Gentlemen, to the program.
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Thank you very much.
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Welcome, Pastor, Pastor Pacheco.
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Gracias. Gracias.
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We're so glad that
you were able to come
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to this part of the
world from El Salvador
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and be part of our program.
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In one of our
programs, the last program,
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you told us that they
called you the Little Pastor.
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Because as a boy
of 10 years of age...
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you were out
preaching the gospel...
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You were caught in a war
between two awful factions...
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You saw some of your
friends gunned down...
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They were going to
put you on a helicopter...
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And take you to Nicaragua...
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And then they were
going to take you to Cuba...
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And as a little boy of 14...
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they were going to train you
to be, as a freedom fighter...
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And as they were
putting you on the helicopter...
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the government soldiers came...
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and they fought
the other militia...
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and you saw some of
your friends just fall
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in this awful bloodbath...
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But you believed that God
had a purpose for your life.
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How did you become a Pastor...
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And the leader of
a world wide church,
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Pastor Pacheco?
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At that moment when
that bloodbath began,
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I felt God's presence...
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Nothing happened to me
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and my other
Adventist friends...
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Some of my friends
that I had from church,
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they are same age...
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They decided to come
here to the United States...
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I couldn't come...
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I had no money to come...
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So I had to face the situation
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there in El Salvador...
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But I also knew that God
had a purpose for my life
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there in El Salvador...
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In my mind, I always
wanted to be a pastor...
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And I was always
praying for that to the Lord.
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And so some of your friends
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fled to the United
States of America...
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But you couldn't do this...
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And you were
stuck in El Salvador...
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How did you feel
about this in your heart?
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I was not saddened by the fact
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that I could not travel
or come to this country...
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I said if the Lord has a plan,
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he calls me to be a pastor...
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I have to do it
here in El Salvador...
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I have to help my people,
my own people, my church...
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I'll serve the Lord
here in El Salvador.
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Now, and you
had a calling inside
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that God wanted
you to be a minister...
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How did you become a pastor?
I mean, you were a pastor...
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How did you
become a grown up Pastor?
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My mom and my dad...
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they never thought...
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that I was going
to become a pastor.
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They never thought
you're going to be a pastor?
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But weren't your parents
God-fearing really good people?
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The pastor was going
to be my other brother...
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Not me. How many
brothers and sisters?
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They were ten in total.
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That's a great family.
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Yeah, that's a little kingdom.
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But for that time...
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six of my
brothers had already died.
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Oh.
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It was not through the war
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because they didn't
get killed like that or...
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It was just a lot
of natural death...
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Six, they were
my older brothers.
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Six out of ten.
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The last brother...
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That all of us thought that
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who was going
to be the pastor...
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his name was David...
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He was the best brother...
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He was preaching there
more than I was preaching...
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He was eight years old.
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Eight years old?
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You started when you were ten...
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What kept you from
getting on with it?
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He was eight
when he was preaching.
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I was more shy.
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And his name was David?
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Now where is David today?
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At eight years old, David...
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he got ill...
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He had cancer in the blood...
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Leukemia. Leukemia.
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What a story this is.
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So with him we would talk,
we would have conversations...
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I was one year
older than he was...
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He was not afraid of
preaching the gospel.
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He would be on
the buses preaching.
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And so he had a
fire in his soul.
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And he knew the Bible?
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He could not read.
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He could not read?
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He would
memorize the Bible text...
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and that is the way
that he would preach.
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And that impressed me so much.
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That I said I
want to be like David,
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like my little brother.
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I want to say
something to the audience.
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I want to say
something to the people.
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We hear a lot today about
the death of Christianity.
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I want to tell you something.
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You can't kill Christianity
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because it is built
upon a living Christ.
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So here in El Salvador,
you got terrible bloodshed,
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you got persecution,
you got natural disasters,
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earthquakes, hurricanes
and famines and even volcanoes.
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And then you've got a
tremendous war going on
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but you still got people
who are preaching the word.
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Tell him what I said.
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So where is David now?
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When I was 10 years old...
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he was nine years
old, I was a year older...
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I remember that
there was nothing more
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they could do at
the hospital for him.
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My parents, they had
withdrew him from the hospital.
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And he said
something very, very important.
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He told my mom and my dad...
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I do not want to
die in the hospital...
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God has told me
that I'm going to die...
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but I want to die at home.
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So they took him
out of the hospital.
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We all gathered
around him in the bed.
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And then he had
said to everyone,
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all of us to leave the room...
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and he told me to stay, only me.
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That's when he then
started to tell me, "Brother...
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you are going to be
the pastor, not me...
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Glory be to God.
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I'm going to die...
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And I began to cry...
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I began to say, you can't die.
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He loves you so much.
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You're an angel here.
You need to be the pastor...
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Not me, I can't do that.
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So he said, you are
going to be the pastor.
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Then my parents
were called back in...
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my little brothers and sisters.
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As we were there
gathered with him...
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he began to sing a hymn...
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and he began to sing
with the lyrics that says,
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Only the power of
God can change your life.
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The evidence I give to
you, He has changed me.
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Don't you see that I'm happy...
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following the Lord Jesus?
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He closed his eyes and he died.
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He died at nine years old
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and I was ten
years old at the time.
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At that time, that moment,...
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God told me in my mind...
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what your brother
could not preach,...
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you are going to do it...
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and you are going to preach...
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And my mother says that
day that my brother died...
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she began to fast...
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every Sabbath...
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Because she was in a lot of pain
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that this was her
sixth son that now had died.
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And I began to
feel that in my soul.
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I pray that the Lord
would give me the strength
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to become that pastor.
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You're going to see him again.
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You're going to see
him when Jesus comes.
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And he's going to be
your brother again...
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And he'll never get cancer...
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And he'll never die...
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Because we believe
that the Lord is coming.
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Amen.
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And we'll be back
after this message.
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Stay with us.
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God has His time and
His place for everything.
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And the time and the
place now is Latin America,
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including Cuba.
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Time Magazine talks about the
Second Protestant Reformation
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and describes how
hundreds of thousands,
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even millions of Latinos
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are coming to
the gospel of Christ.
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I'm not an armchair theologian.
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I'm speaking
according to experience.
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I've seen it with my own eyes.
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Recently we went
down to El Salvador.
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There I spoke in the
largest football stadium
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in Central America
with the biggest crowd
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that that football
stadium had ever, ever seen.
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They came not to
see a football match,
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but to hear about
the blood of Christ.
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Millions are coming
to a knowledge of God
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in Latin America.
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Doors are opening in Cuba.
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Who knows, we may
be going to Cuba soon.
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As the doors open
by the grace of God,
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we are going to
step through those doors.
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And we want you to step
through those doors with us
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and be part of our team
for such a time as this.
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Please write to me friend.
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Don't put it off.
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Write to me, John
Carter, Post Office Box 1900,
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Thousand Oaks,
California, 91358.
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In Australia,
write to me at Terrigal,
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New South Wales.
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Be a part of the
Second Reformation.
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Join us and see
the miracles of God.
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Amen.
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Welcome back.
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Pastor Pacheco,
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you were in charge of a
huge evangelistic campaign
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that we ran in San Salvador.
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The capital of El Salvador.
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Gracias.
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I was amazed by
the organization...
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Because I've never seen anything
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as good in
Australia or America...
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We hired the
largest football stadium
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in Central America...
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But this was preceded
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by a number of
evangelistic campaigns
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right around the nation.
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Now tell me
about those campaigns?
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I would like to
extend my appreciation
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to the Carter Report...
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for the blessing
that you gave us...
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to have hold those
meetings there at the stadium.
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Thank you.
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When we spoke with you...
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we began to pray for this...
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All the brotherhood,
they began to pray for this...
00:17:30.68\00:17:33.95
So that God would
manifest Himself powerfully...
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I had never
thought in my life...
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since I was there and
since I grew up and remember...
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we had never had had
an event just like that...
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We were afraid...
00:17:55.34\00:17:56.67
The brotherhood was
very scared and worried...
00:18:00.08\00:18:03.88
We thought it was just
going to be a small campaign...
00:18:05.85\00:18:08.32
And all, from the
presidents of the field
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to the brothers of the
church, we began to pray...
00:18:18.33\00:18:20.40
We began a meetings
many months before...
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so that we could
create specific plans...
00:18:30.11\00:18:32.17
There was a special
commission, committee made...
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and many of them were
volunteered brothers...
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elders.
00:18:41.82\00:18:43.15
And also, this was
the best organization
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I'd seen anywhere in the world.
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How many pre-campaign
meetings were there?
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Evangelistic meetings.
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We made 96 evangelism meetings.
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I want you to hear this.
96 evangelistic meetings.
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96 evangelists from
Central America came...
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Amazing.
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To come and to unite themselves
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with the 96 pastors that we
have there in El Salvador...
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And a week before
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the big evangelistic
meeting at the stadium...
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the brothers and the pastors...
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they allowed, they
gave their homes,...
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they opened the doors
to give their food,...
00:19:49.82\00:19:52.52
and they gave their cars...
00:19:53.96\00:19:55.42
and we began to
preach the word of God...
00:19:58.19\00:20:00.30
I felt that the moment
of Pentecost has arisen...
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All the churches were united.
00:20:07.67\00:20:09.17
All the churches were united...
00:20:09.20\00:20:10.57
about a 180 pastors...
00:20:11.54\00:20:13.81
and to God, you
were the leader...
00:20:13.84\00:20:15.21
I congratulate you...
00:20:16.64\00:20:18.78
Because I could see
God working through you...
00:20:18.81\00:20:20.62
The organization was the best
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I've seen
anywhere in the world...
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How many buses did you hire?
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That was another
amazing thing that happened...
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We thought there was going to be
00:20:40.80\00:20:42.14
200 or 250 buses
that would arrive.
00:20:42.17\00:20:43.67
That's a lot of
buses. 200 buses.
00:20:43.71\00:20:45.67
But we had 750 buses arrived.
00:20:49.54\00:20:52.35
Just see this, 750 buses.
00:20:52.38\00:20:54.58
And that was not even
counting all the buses,
00:21:00.99\00:21:03.43
the pickup trucks and
I'm sorry the mini buses
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that people just came in.
00:21:06.36\00:21:07.70
That wasn't the
mini buses or the cars?
00:21:07.73\00:21:11.37
But 700 how many?
00:21:12.43\00:21:14.20
750, sir.
00:21:14.24\00:21:15.64
50 buses.
00:21:15.67\00:21:17.74
Now when the buses came,
00:21:17.77\00:21:19.11
now I've never
seen so many buses...
00:21:19.14\00:21:20.88
and you were the
organizer of this
00:21:26.25\00:21:29.22
with the rest of
the presidents...
00:21:29.25\00:21:30.59
and the people came from
all across El Salvador...
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Tens of thousands...
00:21:38.23\00:21:39.96
and the meeting
started on time...
00:21:41.36\00:21:43.13
And we had great music...
00:21:45.63\00:21:46.97
And the meeting
has finished on time...
00:21:48.77\00:21:50.47
And we saw in one day,
around 5000 souls baptized...
00:21:52.14\00:21:57.45
Now people tell me in
this part of the world...
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and in Australia...
00:22:03.55\00:22:05.19
and in Europe...
00:22:05.22\00:22:06.62
They said it can't be done...
00:22:06.65\00:22:07.99
And the reason they say that
00:22:08.86\00:22:11.16
is because they
don't have faith...
00:22:11.19\00:22:12.66
And they don't have obedience...
00:22:14.00\00:22:15.36
And it seems to me
00:22:16.56\00:22:18.13
they don't really believe
the words of the Bible...
00:22:18.17\00:22:21.07
Now tell me about the
people coming to the meetings.
00:22:22.80\00:22:26.04
I was very impressed,
specifically about the buses
00:22:36.75\00:22:39.19
that you mentioned...
00:22:39.22\00:22:40.56
Even the policemen...
00:22:41.49\00:22:43.32
How are you going
to place the buses?
00:22:45.59\00:22:47.46
I know.
00:22:47.50\00:22:48.83
But the Lord opened
powerfully these situations...
00:22:49.96\00:22:53.67
They were complete churches...
00:22:55.60\00:22:57.61
That they would
travel a whole day...
00:23:01.61\00:23:03.81
to come to the
evangelistic meeting...
00:23:05.71\00:23:07.55
They would leave at 3 A.M...
00:23:10.79\00:23:12.42
And they would
arrive at 4.P.M...
00:23:15.56\00:23:18.06
To get the good seats...
00:23:21.00\00:23:22.36
They would come
with their little flags.
00:23:25.20\00:23:26.90
Yes.
00:23:26.94\00:23:28.27
With their small group leader...
00:23:29.04\00:23:30.61
with the church elders...
00:23:31.54\00:23:33.27
Very, very well organized...
00:23:34.41\00:23:36.08
And with the list of the people,
00:23:38.88\00:23:40.48
friends that
they were bringing...
00:23:40.52\00:23:41.98
The best organization ever...
00:23:44.09\00:23:45.95
Everybody knew
where he was to sit...
00:23:47.16\00:23:49.39
And we had more than
50,000 people in the stadium.
00:23:50.73\00:23:53.96
Yes, sir. Glory be to God.
00:23:56.73\00:23:58.17
That stadium had
never been filled before.
00:24:03.61\00:24:06.31
Tell me about the baptisms
00:24:06.34\00:24:09.44
before you talk
about the baptisms,
00:24:09.48\00:24:12.38
I want to say to the audience...
00:24:12.41\00:24:13.82
That Carter Reporter was
privileged to pay for the,
00:24:14.85\00:24:19.15
all these preliminary meetings,
the hire of the stadium
00:24:19.19\00:24:23.63
but our partners were
the people in El Salvador...
00:24:23.66\00:24:27.73
These people put up
hundreds of thousands...
00:24:30.80\00:24:33.00
And our donors sent us
hundreds of thousands...
00:24:34.14\00:24:36.47
And we saw another Pentecost...
00:24:37.54\00:24:38.91
So, thank you...
00:24:39.91\00:24:41.68
You thanked me for coming...
00:24:41.71\00:24:43.24
It was my privilege...
00:24:45.08\00:24:46.92
It was my honor...
00:24:46.95\00:24:48.65
I got the blessing...
00:24:48.68\00:24:50.52
Now tell us about the baptisms.
00:24:50.55\00:24:52.19
There was a great celebration...
00:24:57.93\00:24:59.39
Now I'm still
visiting churches...
00:25:02.26\00:25:04.03
And recently I had an
evangelistic meeting...
00:25:06.90\00:25:09.14
Two and a half
hours from the capital...
00:25:11.87\00:25:13.81
And many
brothers approached me...
00:25:15.41\00:25:17.31
They said, "Pastor...
00:25:18.38\00:25:19.71
I got baptized at the stadium,..
00:25:20.98\00:25:22.52
I am a member
now of the church."
00:25:23.69\00:25:25.42
You cannot forget
that wonderful feeling
00:25:32.89\00:25:35.56
and that moment that we've
experienced at the stadium.
00:25:35.60\00:25:38.10
Pastor Pacheco, not all
church leaders do evangelism...
00:25:38.13\00:25:41.94
They talk about evangelism...
00:25:43.57\00:25:45.51
They even
believe in evangelism...
00:25:45.54\00:25:47.48
But they are more
comfortable behind the desk...
00:25:47.51\00:25:49.81
Do you do evangelism?
00:25:51.98\00:25:53.38
In the Salvadorian Union,
00:26:00.76\00:26:02.09
I personally have
three evangelistic meetings.
00:26:02.12\00:26:04.99
Three meetings?
00:26:05.03\00:26:06.36
Three evangelistic campaigns...
00:26:06.39\00:26:08.06
Big evangelistic
meetings... Big campaigns.
00:26:09.60\00:26:11.20
Two weeks ago I finished my
another evangelistic meeting.
00:26:17.17\00:26:19.77
I'm so proud of you.
00:26:19.81\00:26:21.14
Evangelism is a passage,
00:26:27.95\00:26:29.32
it's a way of
living, it's Jesus Christ.
00:26:29.35\00:26:32.89
It's a
lifeblood of the church...
00:26:32.92\00:26:34.89
When the church does it,
God blesses the church...
00:26:36.19\00:26:38.49
And when the
church doesn't do it...
00:26:39.69\00:26:41.83
The church dies out...
00:26:41.86\00:26:43.20
And so we are
privileged to know you...
00:26:44.93\00:26:47.90
Know you both...
00:26:49.24\00:26:51.07
Because we
believe in the Bible,...
00:26:51.11\00:26:53.17
We believe in Christ...
00:26:53.21\00:26:55.01
We believe in the
atoning sacrifice...
00:26:55.04\00:26:57.45
We believe in the
coming of the Lord...
00:26:57.48\00:27:00.02
And that's why we do evangelism.
00:27:00.05\00:27:02.55
Now what are your
plans for the future?
00:27:02.58\00:27:04.22
This year, Pastor...
00:27:10.83\00:27:12.16
we are with the
pastors of my union...
00:27:13.80\00:27:15.56
we want to plant in one year...
00:27:17.80\00:27:19.13
a 100 churches.
00:27:20.24\00:27:21.57
Hundred churches?
00:27:21.60\00:27:22.94
And you will.
00:27:22.97\00:27:24.31
In November, Lord willing...
00:27:26.27\00:27:27.61
We're praying...
00:27:28.41\00:27:29.74
We're asking the Lord...
00:27:30.55\00:27:31.88
And with the Ministry
of the Carter Report...
00:27:35.92\00:27:38.32
Our brothers are
now more on fire...
00:27:40.72\00:27:42.56
Because now,
there's a lot of seeds...
00:27:44.09\00:27:45.69
that were planted and now
people are coming for it...
00:27:47.83\00:27:50.00
And now we are
taking them to the future.
00:27:51.23\00:27:52.57
Let me give you a secret...
00:27:52.60\00:27:53.94
We left our hearts down there...
00:27:54.47\00:27:56.27
We'd like to go back one day...
00:27:57.41\00:27:58.81
Amen.
00:27:58.84\00:28:00.18
And thank you, for
being leaders in God's work...
00:28:00.21\00:28:03.61
And thank you, for
your passion for Christ...
00:28:03.65\00:28:06.41
And thank you, for
being our guests today.
00:28:06.45\00:28:09.95
So my friend, what
do you think about that?
00:28:09.98\00:28:11.75
Write to me, John
Carter, Post Office Box 1900,
00:28:11.79\00:28:15.09
Thousand Oaks,
California, 91358.
00:28:15.12\00:28:17.79
Write to me in Australia.
00:28:17.83\00:28:19.29
Remember evangelism is
the lifeblood of the church.
00:28:19.33\00:28:24.70
Support evangelism.
00:28:24.73\00:28:26.63
Help us to preach
Christ to the world.
00:28:26.67\00:28:29.30
Thank you and God bless you.
00:28:29.34\00:28:31.17