Hello, friend. I am John Carter.
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I've just come back from Russia.
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It was my 43rd
visit to that land.
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I'm gonna tell you
today about Putin's Russia.
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And the amazing
things I've found today
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happening in Russia,
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because I saw the power of God.
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Welcome today to
the Carter Report
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and The Russian Experience.
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Hello, friend, I am
John Carter here in Russia.
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It is a cold day.
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This is my 43rd
visit to the old lands
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of the Soviet Union.
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Thank God, that
evil empire is gone.
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And I am here today,
because God has called me
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to Russia and Ukraine,
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to preach the everlasting gospel
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of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
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It's great to be back.
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I first came
here in the year 1971,
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and I came as a boy,
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and I came as a
tourist just to have a look.
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I returned 20 years
later in the year 1992, 1991,
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not as a tourist
but as an evangelist.
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And I came to the
great city of Moscow.
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We conducted the first
ever evangelist campaign by
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a foreigner in
the old Soviet Union.
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We held the meetings
in the palace of culture,
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just down the
road from the Kremlin.
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These were days
of grace, and glory,
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and mighty power.
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The meeting started at
10 o'clock in the morning,
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and they finished
10 o'clock at night,
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with only time out
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for a little bit
of bread and water.
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We had a tremendous
choir but better still,
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we had a tremendous audience.
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I was talking to an
audience basically of atheists,
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communists with a few believers.
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And when I made
altar calls for Jesus,
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the people would
break down and weep.
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They were hearing
the gospel of Christ
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for the first time,
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and they were just
filled with amazement.
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I can never forget those days.
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And then the next
year, it was 1992,
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I came here to Nizhny Novgorod
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or the city which
used to be called Gorky
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after the famous Russian poet.
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In faith, we hired the
great Palace of Sports.
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The old communist
director said to me,
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"Mr. Carter, this is going to be
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a failure because no
one is going to come."
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He said, "We've
taught the people here
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not even to think about Him,
He doesn't exist in our minds."
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But when we open those
meetings a few months later,
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the crowds was so great
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that that old
director was almost killed
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in the rush of people there.
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It was amazing.
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When I came down
to the auditorium,
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I couldn't get in my self.
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The Russian army had to
take me to the meetings.
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The people broke down the doors,
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they smashed the windows,
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and we had
tremendous opposition too,
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days of grace, and
glory, and opposition.
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The great state
church sent along ruffians,
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and they had smoke
bombs, and they had fire bombs,
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and I was preaching with
smoke bombs all around me
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and our believers
were putting out the fires.
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We saw the power of God.
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The place was filled with
tens of thousands of atheists
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and communists and unbelievers.
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But I want you to know today,
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listen to this.
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The Gospel of Jesus
Christ is the power of God
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unto salvation to
everyone who believes.
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That is why I am here today
to preach that same gospel.
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And when I preach
the gospel back there,
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we saw hundreds of
thousands of people come,
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come to Christ.
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I want you to know this,
I have seen the latter rain.
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I have seen the
mighty outpouring
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of the spirit of God.
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I've seen hundreds
of thousands of atheists
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and communists come to Christ.
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This is my 43rd visit.
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You say, "Why do you
come? Why do you go there?
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Is it because you
like the climate?"
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I come here my
friend because of the need.
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These people still
have a tremendous need.
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Please support our work here.
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Write to me John Carter,
PO Box 1900 Thousand Oaks,
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California 91358.
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In Australia,
write to me at Terrigal,
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in the name of
Jesus, please support us
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in this great work, amen.
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Welcome to the Carter Report
and the Russian Experience.
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I'm privileged to have
with me today my wife Beverley.
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Beverley, I'm glad
that you're with me today.
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How many times, Beverley,
have you been to Russia?
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I've been over
20 times with you.
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And some of my first
impressions of course,
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I was impressed at
first that God should give us
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this opportunity to go
to the former Soviet Union
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just as it as communism was
falling back in the 90s, 91.
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One of the greatest
blessings of our lives together
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when we went to Moscow.
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Do you remember the year?
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1991. 1991.
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And there weren't
any cars on the roads
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and that was one of the
things that impressed me,
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no cars except some
two or three small cars,
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I forget the name.
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I think there was a
car call the Moskvitch.
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That was it.
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I think it was
partially made out of wood.
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Yes, they were very small.
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And this was before the Volgas,
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before they started making
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the Volga which
was a bigger car.
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Yeah.
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And also another impression
was no food in the shops,
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and of course what had happened
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the Soviets had
spent all their money
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making weapons of war.
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And so they had gone broke. Yes.
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And you had people
we saw them lined up
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to get bread and
cheese and that was something
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and also another thing
that impressed me Igle,
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our translator
took us to his home,
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and in that time people
couldn't choose where to live.
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They were told to live in
a certain small apartments,
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the apartment, the
one that we went to
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was no bigger than this room.
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Yes.
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And there were three
families living there.
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Using the same toilet.
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Well, that's right.
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And they couldn't
choose who they lived with.
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No.
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Certain people were
just told to go there
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and they had the
kitchen were small,
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you could only fit
about two people in.
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The bathroom, it could
only fit one person in.
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And then so,
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they took turns
cooking their foods and food.
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And then, they would
go into their bedroom
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which was also
their eating room.
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And that's where they took us.
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And you'll
remember that in those days,
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the doors, they weren't wooden,
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they were curtains
separating these rooms,
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so no privacy.
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Not a lot of
privacy. Things have changed
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Yes, I know.
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Now, you've just come back
from your 43rd visit there.
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So what is changed?
And what did you...?
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What impressed
you about in the time?
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lots of motorcars,
lots of great hotels,
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lot of apparent prosperity.
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But there are still
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the aching void in
the hearts of these people
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because of
atheism, and communism,
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and false religious systems.
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And so, that's why I've gone
and that's why you've gone too.
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Not because we agree,
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necessarily with
the Russian government.
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But we want to reach
these people for Christ.
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The door opened. Yes.
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And God led us to
go through in there.
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I'm so thrilled about that
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and the things that happened
there were just miraculous now.
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Then you went down
to Nizhny Novgorod.
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Yes, I did.
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That was one of our highlights
of our work in Russia.
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Beverley, '91, we ran the
first ever evangelistic campaign
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by foreigners in
the old Soviet Union.
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You know, hallelujah.
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And that was Moscow.
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Yeah, glory hallelujah.
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Just down the
road from the Kremlin.
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And then, we book the Kremlin
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but we never got to the Kremlin.
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It got, it got taken from us,
you can talk to Danny Shelton
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about this because
he knows the story.
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He was our partner there.
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And then the next year,
we went to Gorky which is now
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called Nizhny Novgorod.
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And there we saw
the mighty power of God.
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I've just come back
from Nizhny, Beverley.
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And I'm almost overwhelmed by
how God has blessed this work.
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And '92. '92.
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Just tell us
again, what happened?
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Well, since '92 my
hair has turned white.
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Your's seems to be doing okay.
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My hair's too, but I
get a little bit of help.
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You don't want to confess
those things on television.
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But what you see
here is what you get.
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What happened in '92?
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Oh, dear Lord, we
saw the power of God.
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It was miraculous.
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We saw the greatest crowds
attending evangelistic meetings
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in the history
of the Soviet Union.
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Thousands, tens
of thousands inside,
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tens of thousands outside,
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people breaking down the doors,
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people breaking into the windows
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and then the largest baptism
in the history of Russia,
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in the Volga River.
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A church is established.
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The people were
looking for something,
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because I think
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what had happened
as I look back now,
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that communism at
least structured their lives.
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Yes, yes.
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Even though it wasn't
good, a good structure.
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But once communism fell,
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and though many of
them were atheists,
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they had no belief in God,
they were left with nothing.
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There was a terrible void there.
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Let's, let me
talk about this void.
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Because somebody you
talk to me last night,
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
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He spoke about the
void caused by atheism.
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Somebody said,
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Stalin ripped the heart
out of the Russian people.
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Atheism, what a curse it was.
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Tens of millions
of people murdered
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in the name of communism,
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and in the in
the name of atheism.
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And when we went there,
there was this tremendous void.
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People were so hungry for God.
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And I was thrilled
because as you well know
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I used to stand
behind the curtain...
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You were there, yes.
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Behind the curtain
praying right through.
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We head out the groups
praying around the hall too.
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But, that they would come in
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and their eyes was
so full of hopelessness
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Yes. They look
so sad, but then...
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Yes, depressed
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With the translator you
opened up the word of God
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and you gave them
evidence from archaeology
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to believe the Bible.
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And then from then
you could tell them,
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"Well, there is a God." Yes.
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"There is the God of the Bible",
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and that gave them hope
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and you could say
their faces change.
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Beverley, we saw Pentecost,
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people say you know,
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and people say, well,
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the latter rain is
way down in the future.
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We saw, glory be to
God the latter rain.
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We saw more than
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two and a half thousand atheists
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and communists and
members of the KGB walk out into
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the freezing
waters of the Volga River
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and get baptized.
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And, I've just come back
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from greeting some
of these new believers.
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Now, old believers.
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Yeah, and
they're still faithful,
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the majority of
them are still faithful.
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Went to the
Christian Cultural Center this,
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the largest
Protestant building in Russia.
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It's amazing, I
spoke there to our church
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that was packed to the doors.
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I saw young
people playing violins,
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wonderful singing.
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They're great musicians.
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One of the best.
Just, just touches my heart.
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I saw Julia,
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who's in charge of
the 3ABN ministry there.
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This last year she's
lost her brother, murdered,
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Boris Nemtsov, our friend.
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Yes, yes, we knew him.
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My friend, I knew him.
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Then she lost her
husband. He was drowned.
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And when I got over there,
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her mother had
just broken her hip.
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And Julia is taking care of her.
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And so we meet these
people, who are saints,
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who are standing firm
for God in spite of hardship.
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Beverley, the church has
been through a time of trouble
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in Nizhny Novgorod.
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And this left
them stronger for that.
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There was a man who professed
to be a member of our church.
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And he murdered his
wife and all of his children
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and the government moved in
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and our churches
have been under siege.
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That was just a few
months ago, wasn't it?
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Yes, Julia sent me
a message she said,
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"Don't come. It
may be too dangerous."
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But God put his
hand over his church.
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That church is survived
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the people of
God need to realize
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this is no time
to sound the retreat,
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and forsake as suffering
Russian brothers and sisters.
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Just because we don't
like the booten government.
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That's right,
and not to be feeble
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and not know it
is the novel says,
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"Not to fight in
times of trouble."
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Now, in used in Novgorod,
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that was where I first
started my orphanage work.
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Yes.
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I felt impressed at the time
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as you know the Book of
James I think it is says,
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"A true and pure
really is just a vision
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the orphans and widows widowers
in their pristine and flexion",
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and I just felt impressed that,
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to do something practical
for the people because,
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I didn't want
them to think well,
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"Okay, you're
here just to preach us.
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You're also here to help." Yes
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And that, and also because
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we love children.
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So, that's where I
began the orphanage work and,
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and at that time I also
visited a children's hospital.
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And I noticed
that they had nothing.
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If you went into hospital,
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you had to take
your own bathing,
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you had to go and
buy your own medication
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because the
hospitals have you nothing.
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Nothing.
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Because as we said before.
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The footage of atheism
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All the money had gone
to the building weapons,
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of destruction.
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Instead of helping the people
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And so with us at
that time we had two,
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German friends,
who were from at church
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back here in America
they went over with us.
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And they still had
relatives in Germany.
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And so what we did, we
got some money together
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and our friends in Germany.
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There able to buy by
ten tons of medication,
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and medical supplies.
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And they brought it
over on a big semi truck.
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And glory be to God.
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And we just thank God,
we thank our supporters,
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and for all those people
that helped us to do that.
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And I know that
did make an impression
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on the people to say well,
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"These Christians
they're not just here to preach
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that they're
also here to help us."
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And we'll be back,
after this special message.
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Hello friend, I'm
John Carter in Russia.
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This is my 43rd
visit to this land.
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And I come not for this weather,
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but to preach
the gospel of Christ.
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The need here is tremendous.
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The first big campaign
was in the year in 1991.
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In the great city of Moscow,
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followed by a
mighty campaign find here,
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in 1992 in Nizhny Novgorod.
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When the Volga River,
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2,530 souls were baptized
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into Jesus Christ.
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The need here has not lessen
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the people are
crying out for God.
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I'm asking you today
in the name of Jesus.
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Please support
us in the preaching
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of the gospel of
Christ to the Russian people.
00:17:01.05\00:17:05.29
Please write to me
John Carter Post-office Box
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1900 Thousand
Oaks, California 91358.
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In Australia, you can
write to me at the address.
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Now, appearing on
the screen at Terrigal.
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I' am here my
friend to bring Christ,
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to the Russian people.
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Already we have seen
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the mighty pouring
of the Spirit of God.
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We have seen hundreds
of thousands of people
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come to Christ in Russia.
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please write to me
John Carter Post-office Box
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1900 Thousand Oaks California.
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91358 in Australia
Write to me at Terrigal,
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in the name of God to
please support this work.
00:17:54.04\00:17:58.34
Welcome, back to
the Russian experience.
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I'm so happy today,
to have you with me.
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But I'm super happy
to have Beverley with me.
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Beverley, welcome
today to the Carter report.
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Well, thank you I'm
very happy to be here too.
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You've been my partner,
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in this great work in
Russia for many years.
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And I've just come back
as you know my 43rd visit.
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You've been there
more than more 20 times.
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And one of the places,
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I've visited is a
place that you know all about
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Dzerzhinsk.
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Dzerzhinsk.
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Yeah, very polluted
city tell us about that.
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Yeah Dzerzhinsk polluted,
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it used to be
the pollution capital
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for the old Soviet empire.
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Is where they made
their hellish chemicals.
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And when you go to
Dzerzhinsk You see there the,
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the disease, the cancer
and so forth among the people.
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As you know by the grace of God
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we built a church in Dzerzhinsk
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God has used the Carter
report to build churches
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throughout the old Soviet Union.
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We built a church there.
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And all day every day
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I wish you had
been there with me
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this time to see
the faces of the people
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to hear the music.
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The church was
founded 25 years ago,
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it's still standing
strong thank you Jesus.
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Yes, praise the Lord
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To the glory of God.
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Yes, that's wonderful because,
and talking about pollution
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there's so many cities on
to in the former Soviet Union.
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Where Nuclear
dumps where you know
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they were just dumped.
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And so many cities there,
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so many people sick as you said,
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with cancer and
other terrible diseases.
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And I want to say to the
people watching this telecast.
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Don't think, what you believe
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doesn't affect the way you live.
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Easy atheism is
one the greatest curses
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in the history of the world.
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It almost destroyed
the hearts, and the souls,
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and the bodies of
the Russian people.
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Beverley we're going to talk
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in the next part of our program.
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About your noble,
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we're gonna leave that
to the talk on Ukraine.
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But when I went to Dzerzhinsk,
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I was so glad to
meet with their people;
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their love almost
just followed me up.
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But my heart goes out to them,
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because of the
terrible suffering
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and their great needs there.
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Could you tell us
about some of the needs?
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Beverley, I will try
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I'm sure there are so many but.
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I think of the young people.
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Some of the most
beautiful young people,
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you'll find
anywhere in the world.
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But they need help,
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we're thinking
by the grace of God
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if we can raise the money.
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Are putting on a, I
use Congress in Russia.
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And going there and
putting on meetings,
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and winning young
people, not only old people
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but we're going to
have a concentrated effort
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to reach young
people for Christ.
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Because in Russia,
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it's been relatively
easy to get the babushka,
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some of the old people.
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But the young people and
own Christian young people.
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They desperately
need help at this time.
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By the grace of
God we want to go back,
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and work especially
for our young people.
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We must do that, by God's great.
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We've got to raise
the money Beverley.
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And you know,
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I'm just a no
pastor with his wife.
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You called me old
too, but I guess I' am.
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No, no, no I' am
just an old pastor
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with his young wife.
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But raising the
money is not easy.
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We don't get any
support of course,
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from the organization.
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But thank God, we
get support from God.
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That's right.
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And God's people.
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And usually,
we've always found that
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when people hear of
the need, or see the need.
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They come to our help.
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And I'm sure that
will happen again.
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Can I ask you a question.
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Yeah,
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In the last segment,
you spoke about the orphans.
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Now in a program on Ukraine,
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that's going to
follow this program.
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We're going to talk about
the children of Chernobyl.
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Do you remember when we went
on the Trans-Siberian Express.
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Yes, I'll never forget it.
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You know, we went
from Moscow to Vladivostok
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11 time zones.
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Eight days on the
train. And no shell
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Just a little
thing to wash a face in.
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Do you remember the
children in Siberia?
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Who came to the train starving?
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Yes, I remember that.
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Can you tell me about that.
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Well, when we stop there.
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Like we stopped at
every station along the way.
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At any time of
the day and night.
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Yeah, Two O'clock, Four
O' clock in the morning.
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These children were
there and they were well,
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you know that
every dirty, grubby,
00:23:03.78\00:23:05.58
little children God bless them.
00:23:05.61\00:23:07.68
And, the lady in
our carriage told us.
00:23:07.72\00:23:10.92
A Russian lady said,
00:23:10.99\00:23:12.39
"That, every time a
trying stops. They come.
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Because and number one,
00:23:15.86\00:23:17.69
they get the
warmth of the train.
00:23:17.73\00:23:20.10
And then people give them
bread and give them cheese
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or any food that they
might have left over."
00:23:22.63\00:23:25.30
And so we had some food
left and we gave it to them.
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But that was sad, because
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Do you
remember, how cold it was?
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It was
freezing, it with freezing
00:23:33.04\00:23:35.38
I wish it had been freezing
00:23:35.41\00:23:36.75
it was 30 or 40
degrees below freezing
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Yeah, yeah.
00:23:39.18\00:23:40.58
But they say,
"Children are hungry every day,
00:23:40.62\00:23:42.72
they come to the train to get
warmth and to get some food."
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I didn't know if you know this.
00:23:47.96\00:23:49.52
But I have discovered that,
00:23:49.56\00:23:51.06
these children
who were all orphans
00:23:51.09\00:23:54.23
and deserted
children were deserted,
00:23:54.30\00:23:57.20
because of the
demon in the bottle.
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Yes, yes I do remember.
00:24:01.40\00:24:02.74
Remember? The
Vodka, and the parents
00:24:02.77\00:24:06.34
because they were
atheists gave up on life
00:24:06.37\00:24:09.94
and they turned to the demon
in the bottle or the vodka.
00:24:09.98\00:24:14.25
And they were
drunk all the time.
00:24:14.32\00:24:16.69
And the children were
driven out onto the streets,
00:24:16.72\00:24:20.36
were minus 30
and minus 40 degrees.
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That was one of the reasons
they were so many orphans.
00:24:24.16\00:24:27.23
Because either,
both parents had died
00:24:27.30\00:24:29.93
or there was one
parent. But they were alcoholic.
00:24:29.96\00:24:33.30
And I couldn't
look after the children.
00:24:33.34\00:24:35.47
So, they were
given to the orphanages.
00:24:35.50\00:24:37.67
So alcoholism has,
has destroyed millions
00:24:37.71\00:24:41.58
in Russia and Ukraine.
00:24:41.61\00:24:43.45
It's one of the greatest
curses in the history of,
00:24:43.51\00:24:46.18
of the Russian people.
00:24:46.21\00:24:47.58
And in the history of America,
00:24:47.62\00:24:51.29
America go to day is no longer
the great Christian nation
00:24:51.32\00:24:55.42
she used to be.
00:24:55.46\00:24:57.39
Because, forces of
atheism, and secularism,
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are starting to
tear the heart out
00:25:01.66\00:25:04.07
of this great nation.
00:25:04.10\00:25:05.93
And the results you
can see it all around the,
00:25:05.97\00:25:09.87
the breakdown of society.
00:25:09.90\00:25:12.01
But Beverley
you asked me before.
00:25:12.04\00:25:14.81
What can we do? What
can our supporters do?
00:25:14.84\00:25:19.08
I think we are a move
ahead by the grace of God
00:25:19.11\00:25:21.62
and try to run this
bigger evangelistic campaign
00:25:21.65\00:25:24.75
for the young people.
00:25:24.79\00:25:28.06
My heart sometimes fails me
00:25:28.09\00:25:30.36
I think we're going to
get the money for this.
00:25:30.43\00:25:32.76
But God is never,
never failed has he.
00:25:32.79\00:25:35.53
Now he has not.
00:25:35.56\00:25:36.93
We've run campaigns
all around Russia Moscow,
00:25:36.97\00:25:41.64
Garonne in St Petersburg
over Nick Coots in Siberia,
00:25:41.67\00:25:47.61
Cazan. Do you remember Cazan?
00:25:47.64\00:25:50.41
Yeah, well, I didn't
get to Cazan because,
00:25:50.45\00:25:52.38
I had a health problem.
00:25:52.41\00:25:54.45
But tell us about
that because, that was
00:25:54.48\00:25:56.95
That was Muslim city
00:25:56.99\00:25:58.32
Yes.
00:25:58.35\00:25:59.69
But she came with
me, later on Cazan.
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Yes, we did you
came with me to Cazan.
00:26:01.82\00:26:04.43
It was a Muslim city.
00:26:04.46\00:26:06.63
And we saw hundreds of
Muslims baptized in the river.
00:26:06.66\00:26:10.17
In front of the mosque,
people say it can't be done.
00:26:10.20\00:26:13.74
Just to get back a
moment when you said,
00:26:13.77\00:26:16.04
you know we're getting
older of course, we are.
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Why not have a
perhaps a training school.
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Yes
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For the young people because,
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so many of them
are eager for years.
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Yes, and this is
now the Bible better
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and had to present
it to our listeners.
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This is a great idea.
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Years ago, we ran
a school evangelism
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for the Russian pastors.
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We had every Russian, and
every one of their pastors.
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Come into a central place.
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At the Christian
Cultural Center established
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by 3 ABN and we had a
grade school of evangelism
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And it was very successful.
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Super successful,
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we need a school of evangelism
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for our young people.
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Absolutely
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Don't you believe this?
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All from my heart.
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I love the young people here
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I spend a lot of time
with the young people.
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Teaching them
how to communicate,
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with God how to pray because my,
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they didn't know about prayer.
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And had to commune with God.
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And so I love the young people.
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And we need, I
just feel impressed like
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you did to do
something for them.
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Not to do less but to do more.
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Yes
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My friend won't to be a partner.
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Want to be Beverley's partner
and want to be my partner.
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We've been telling you
about the Russian experience.
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We, we've been telling you about
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what atheism can
do to our nation.
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How it can destroy the nation.
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And in many ways,
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even though Russia
has had a period of peace
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and prosperity and freedom.
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That time is passing.
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The freedoms are going.
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It is time now, to
work for the Russian people.
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Please write to me
John Carter Post Office Box
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1900 Thousand
Oaks, California 91358.
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In Australia write
to me at the address
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on the screen to next time.
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God bless you.
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