Hello, friend, I am John
Carter just back from Ukraine,
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where for the glory of God,
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we had the
largest Christian baptism
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in the history of the nation.
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That was back a few years ago.
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But I'm going to tell
you today the real situation,
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the inside story,
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of what is
happening today in Ukraine.
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Welcome to the
Ukrainian Experience.
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I am John Carter.
Welcome to the Carter Report.
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Hello friend, I'm
John Carter in Moscow.
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I'm standing here
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at the very center
of the Russian nation.
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I'm in Red Square.
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Behind me is St.
Basil's Cathedral.
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And over here is the Kremlin.
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It's amazing, I'm
able to talk to you
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from Red Square today.
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This is by the grace of God.
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I'm here today to preach
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the everlasting
gospel of Christ.
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I first came here in 1991.
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It was my privilege
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to run the first
ever evangelistic campaign
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in the old Soviet Union.
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And we saw thousands
of people come to Christ.
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I've been back here 43 times.
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We have run
campaigns right across Russia
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and all around Ukraine.
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We've seen millions of
people come to our meetings
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and hundreds of thousands
of people come to Christ.
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I'm asking you today
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to continue to
support the work of God
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here in the lands of
the former Soviet Union.
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The need is
greater than ever before.
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In the name of
Jesus, please write to me,
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John Carter, Po Box 1900,
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Thousand Oaks, California 91358.
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In Australia,
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please write to me at
the address at Terrigal.
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I've been taking
meetings the last few days.
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And from here,
I go on to Ukraine
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to preach the gospel of Christ.
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Thank you for your
magnificent support.
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Please write to me today.
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And I want to say to
you in the name of Jesus,
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thank you, thank
you and thank you.
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Welcome to the Carter Report.
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We're talking
today about Ukraine.
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And what's going
on in that nation.
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They're sort of
being torn to pieces
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because of the war.
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I'm so glad to
have with me today,
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my wife Beverley.
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Beverley, welcome
today to the Carter Report.
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Thank you for having me here.
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You've been my
partner in this great work
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for many, many years.
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Do you remember
the great campaign
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we had in Ukraine?
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I certainly do.
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Kiev, it was
such an exciting time.
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As always we advertise on T.V.
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for a couple of weeks before
the actual program begins.
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And because of that,
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we had thousands of
people coming to the meetings.
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An actual fact, they
told us, now we didn't go out
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and count one by one
ourselves, but we were told
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that there were
about 100,000 people
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outside the Palace of
Sport trying to get in.
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That's what the government said.
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Yeah, and there
were so many people
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they had to stop
the train from running
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that which was
nearby the Palace of Sport,
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so that normal
people could come.
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But that, that
was just something,
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it was the hand of God.
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And it was amazing.
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Now, this is going to
test your memory, Beverley,
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which I'm sure
is better than mine.
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Do you remember the
turmoil that shook the nation
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as we commenced those meetings?
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Well, because of
the television ads
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that brought the attention
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and all the newspapers
were talking about it.
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And of course, this in
turn upset the Orthodox Church,
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which wanted to
prevent the meetings.
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And in the video
which we have just shown,
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you were there on
the streets of the bishop
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who actually said, "These
meetings will not take place,
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only over my dead body.
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And you can tell that story
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because you were actually there.
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Yeah, yeah that was
not a good thing he said.
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No, it wasn't.
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He said, "The
meetings will go ahead
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only over my dead body."
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And in the video
that we've shown,
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that's exactly what happened,
it was over his dead body.
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But those meetings went
ahead for the glory of God.
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And, Beverley, you
remember because you were there.
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We had the largest baptism
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in the history of
the Ukrainian nation
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when 3,500
precious souls were baptized
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in the cold polluted
waters of the Dneiper River.
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Glory be to God, what days.
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Now, you've just
come back as you said,
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can you tell us how
the believers are doing?
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When I go back,
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and I've been to these countries
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now 43 times.
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You've been dozens
and dozens of times.
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You've been
tremendously faithful.
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When I go back, my heart is
just about torn out of my chest
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because of the love and the,
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the emotion that is generated,
when I go to these places.
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I go to their churches
now that we help to establish.
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I meet with thousands
and thousands of people
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that we baptized.
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A beautiful young
people, old people,
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I'm just overwhelmed and I just
want to say to our supporters,
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who are watching the telecast.
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Under God, you made it possible.
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Now, we may not agree
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with the policies of
the Russian government
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or the policies of
the Ukrainian government,
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that doesn't matter.
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We go for the saving of souls
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and you my dear,
friend, made it possible.
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And you hope to make
it possible to, Beverley.
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Now, you were telling me
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that we have a
shortage of churches.
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Now, tell us about
that, how some of the people
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have to worship in these
very difficult situations.
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When I would say, it was cold.
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Now, I know we don't live in,
we live in Southern California,
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we don't know whatever cold is.
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If the gate stand
are freezing here,
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we think it's,
you know terrible.
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But when I left
Kiev just a few days ago,
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it was minus 18 degrees.
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When I was speaking
out of doors in Russia,
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only two weeks
ago it was minus 25.
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Your eyes freeze over
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and saliva runs from your mouth
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then it turns into a ice.
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And instead of
articulating clearly I ended up.
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And anybody would
where you find it hard,
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you find it hard to
talk because you're freezing.
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Can you imagine
worshiping in a church?
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No, no, I'm
sorry, it's not a church.
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Because in Russia and Ukraine,
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most of our
believers don't have churches.
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Why is that? Why
don't we have more churches?
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Well, you tell me?
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They don't have churches,
they don't have the money.
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Now, there are some people
who are tremendously wealthy.
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But as David pointed
out to me an obvious truth,
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our people,
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the middle class are poor.
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There, a lot of them are
almost starving to death.
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They don't have churches.
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Now, we have helped to
build some beautiful churches.
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Our supporters
helped the Carter Report
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to build some
magnificent churches
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which is centuries of
hope in those desolate lands.
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Do you think this
is one of the reasons
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we lose some people
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because of that,
they're sitting at homes?
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Let me tell you
what the pastor told me.
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He said, they
rent, not churches,
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they rent buildings,
movie theaters, they're creped.
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We've been in these
dirty old holes, and he said,
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"It was minus 10
outside on this Sabbath morning.
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And it was minus 10
inside the building."
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Our believers are
sitting in a building
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that is minus 10 degrees.
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And then the
electricity went off.
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He said to me,
"The power failed."
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He said, I was sitting
there in total blackness.
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It amazes me that anyone stays.
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How many Americans, how many
Australians would go to church
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even inside the building,
it was minus 10 degrees,
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and they had no electricity.
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It was in total blackness.
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Now, we need in Australia
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and in this
great land of America,
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where we are privileged to live.
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We need to help
the struggling church
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in Russia and Ukraine.
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And don't say to me, you
know, the government is bad.
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We're not
interested in the government.
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We're not
interested in the politics.
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We're interested in
the souls of the people.
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Just imagine, if Jesus said,
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"I'm not going to
go down to that planet,
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because I don't like
the Roman government."
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We all would have gone to hell.
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Jesus came to seek
and to save the lost,
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and He came into
hostile territory.
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And therefore, we
need to be doing more
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to give these
people sanctuaries of hope.
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I agree, and I've always felt
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and I know other
people feel the same way
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that when you
go to these places.
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And you see the needs
and you come back home
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to such wonderful
countries that we live in.
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Yeah, we are blessed.
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And you think, you know,
why were they born there?
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Why was I born here?
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And that's, and the reason,
you know, we don't know why.
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But I do know that as Christians
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we have a responsibility
to help those people
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that live in other places.
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Beverley, last
Sunday I think it was,
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the believers took me to
a building that we can buy.
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We're gonna run video of this.
I want the folks to see this.
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We can buy this.
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We can make it a
sanctuary for three churches.
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Get these people
out of minus 10 degrees.
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Get them into a place
where the children can come,
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where the old women can come.
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Where the young people can come.
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We can buy it for $350,000.
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Well, that's not so much.
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It's a lot if you
don't have. To us in America.
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No, but it's a lot
if you don't have it.
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I'm just
appealing to our people,
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who are watching the telecast.
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Help us in the name of God,
to provide a sanctuary of hope
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for, for our believers
in the former Soviet Union.
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Some of them are worshipping
in church, not churches,
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but in buildings were it's--
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Beverley he told me, "Minus 10."
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I spoke out of
doors, where it's minus 10.
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I went to church in Russia
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when one, one
day, it was minus 25.
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Yeah, that's cold.
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You and I would freeze.
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Thank God, 3 ABN in Russia,
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established the
Christian Cultural Center.
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Thank God for the
vision of Danny Shelton.
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They've got a church there now,
and I preached in that church.
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More than a
thousand people there,
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all these
beautiful young people.
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By the grace of God, we
must be the servants of Christ,
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and we must seek to
save that which was lost.
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Yeah, well, as you
often say, God blesses us,
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so that we can bless others.
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Yes.
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And we take with one hand,
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but we give with the other hand,
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that's why God
gave us two hands.
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Yes, let me try to
answer your question.
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You asked me why do
people leave the church.
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Well, we know
there are many reasons
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why people leave the church.
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But I have returned to Russia
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and you've gone with
me most of the occasions.
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I've gone back 43 times.
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Because I don't
believe in evangelism
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that just goes to a
place and makes a big noise.
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Takes a lot of pictures,
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comes back and publishes
it all in church papers
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and never goes back.
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So, we've run,
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I think we've run 15 or 16
major evangelistic campaigns
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in the former Soviet Union.
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And that's not talking
about smaller campaigns
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that only lasted
for a week or two.
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But by the grace of
God, we keep going back.
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We have not only in
evangelistic interest
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in the souls of these people.
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You and I Beverley,
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have a pastoral
interest in their souls.
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And that's what
it's all about, isn't it?
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To tell them about Jesus.
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And to give them
hope for the future.
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Because many of them
still don't have a lot of hope.
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There's a lot of wealthy
people and they're doing okay.
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But the average person
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still has a
battle from day to day.
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And they're the ones we need
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to tell about
Jesus to give them hope
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that there is a
better future ahead.
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You're watching
the Carter Report
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and we're talking about
the Ukrainian Experience.
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I've just come back
from Russia and Ukraine.
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We don't go to these countries,
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because we believe
in their governments.
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We go there, because we
believe in the gospel of Christ
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and we believe in the people.
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I'm asking you,
friend, in the name of Jesus,
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please support this work.
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Help us to build a church.
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I can buy it for 300, I can
buy a building for $350,000 now.
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And get our
believers in out of the cold
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where they're
worshiping in dirty buildings,
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where the
temperature is minus 10 degrees.
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Please write to me.
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And we'll be back
after this special message.
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I've just come from
Russia via Switzerland.
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And I'm now in Kiev,
the capital of Ukraine.
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This place has got
huge memories for me
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because back in '95, we
ran a campaign in the city
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and in spite of
terrific opposition,
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by the grace of God, we baptized
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3,530 precious souls
in the Dneiper River.
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I'm back here
today, because I believe
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that we need to take care
of the people we baptized.
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I don't believe it's
right to baptize people,
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and then to walk away,
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and to leave them
literally in the cold.
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When I read my Bible,
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I find where the Apostle
Paul went back time after time
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to visit the people
that he had baptized.
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And so, I'm back here
today, for the 43rd time
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in Russia and Ukraine
together to visit the people.
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I'm back here to
preach the gospel of Christ.
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I'm back here to
explain the word of God.
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And let these people know
that they are not forgotten
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and never will be forgotten.
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We believe that there's
a tremendous opportunity
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for the preaching
of the gospel of Christ
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in this part of the world.
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The soul hunger still exists.
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And the Carter
Report has got a goal
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to take the gospel of
Christ to the people of Russia
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and the people of Ukraine.
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I just want to say
to you dear friend.
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My heart is
overwhelmed with thankfulness
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for your magnificent support.
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Thank you in Jesus name.
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Welcome back to
the Carter Report.
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We're talking about
the Ukrainian Experience.
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I've just come back
from an extended visit
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to Russia and Ukraine.
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So glad to have
you with me, Beverley.
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You're such a great
blessing to this ministry
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and to the people
of Russia and Ukraine.
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Do you remember what
happened at Chernobyl?
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Well, I wasn't actually
there when the disaster happened
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but we were
there not long after.
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And when we were in Kiev,
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I met with one
of our young pastors
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who pastored the church
just outside of Chernobyl,
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there was of course a
big perimeter around it.
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But outside of that
people were still living.
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It was still dangerous.
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Dangerously high
in its radiation.
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Hell hole.
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And he s looks
sickly and I said to him,
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you know how's your health?
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And he said, it's not
good and my doctor has told me,
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he was only young I'd
say probably in his 30s.
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He said that, "My
doctor has told me,
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if I want to have a long
life that I need to leave."
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And I said, "Well,
why don't you leave?"
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And he said, "How
can I leave the people?"
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He said, "I can't." He
said, "These are my people.
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If they have lost everything
and they have no money to move
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so I will stay with them."
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And unfortunately
I mean, I don't know
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whether he is still alive
but I probably, I doubt it.
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I'll never forget him,
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because he brought
a bus load of people
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every night to
the Kiev campaign.
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As you know, we
baptized glory be to God,
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3,500 people in that campaign.
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We had so many
people come to the meeting
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you know, 100,000 turned away.
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But, let's get
back to Chernobyl.
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Can you tell me
about the babies?
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Yes, well, the young pastor
took me to children's hospital
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and an orphanage.
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Close again to the perimeter,
just outside the perimeter,
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where people could still live
which they shouldn't have been
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but they still were.
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And I was taken
into this round room
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I'll never forget it.
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In most of the
orphanages and hospitals
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that I visited in
every city that we went to,
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they were clean and
usually quite well looked after
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even they were in
great need of medications
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and other supplies.
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But this one, it
had a round table
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and I could hear the
babies were moaning and crying.
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And it was just so sad,
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and there was a
stench in this room
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that I'll never forget.
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Goodness.
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And, the lady with me,
the director, she said,
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"These babies all have
some kind of brain damage"
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because of the radiation that
have had affected the parents.
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And there was nothing
they could do for them.
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And in that, at that
time I mean I don't know,
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whether things
have gotten any better.
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But that was, you
know, very bad then.
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So, then I went, they
took me over to the orphanage.
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And where a lot of the children
that were young ones too
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who had heart
defects and other defects
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because of the
radiation from their parents.
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And when I got back
to the hotel that night
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I told you about
what I had seen here.
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And we both decided when
we got back to the States
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we said, "We're going
to try to do something
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to help this
orphanage and this hospital."
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And so we got
back to the States.
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And we had some
good friends in Oregon.
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And they had
contact with some hospitals,
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and pharmaceutical
companies, and together,
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we were able to get 24,000
pounds worth of medications
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and medical supplies.
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But then of
course, we thought well,
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how do we get them to Kiev.
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And in defense they
also had some contacts
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with the U.S. military.
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And so they
contacted the U.S. military,
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the air force, and a
message came back to us.
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"Well, if you can get permission
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to land in Ukraine in Kiev"
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because it hadn't done before.
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Asking us. Then we'll go.
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The U.S. Air Force
asking us? Yeah, asking us.
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And then I think, you
know the rest of the story
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because you
helped to get permission.
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Well, we got permission,
for the first ever landing
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since communism
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of a U.S. military
aircraft in Ukraine.
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It was a Hercules. It
was amazing, a miracle.
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And a huge plane and the staff,
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the captain and
all of those Americans
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were mighty ambassadors
for God and for the nation.
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And they brought
over, what was it 24,000.
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24,000 pounds. 24,000 pounds.
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Now, I couldn't get back...
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For the suffering people.
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But you went back
on a commercial flight
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and you were there.
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At the airport, when the plan
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with some of
that Kiev dignitaries
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and their church leaders
when the Hercules came in.
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This big U.S plane and that was
really something worth seeing,
00:21:18.67\00:21:22.14
and I've got
some pictures of that.
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Glory be to God.
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Beverley, let me bring you
into a dirty little secret.
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I hope it's not too dirty.
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Well, it's dirty in
the sense that it's,
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it shows the extent
of the awfulness of sin.
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In Russia and Ukraine,
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you've got about one
or two percent at the top.
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And they're wealthy,
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they have great
motor cars and great homes.
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But the vast
majority of the people
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are in poverty.
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So, that's the
dirty little secret.
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People don't realize
this, they don't realize it
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either the terrible poverty
00:22:02.78\00:22:05.19
that our believers still
are even in these countries.
00:22:05.22\00:22:09.16
Yeah.
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And I was talking to a man
00:22:10.56\00:22:11.89
who is running a wonderful
Christian outreach in Kiev.
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And he told me, he's got these
young people working for him.
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And I said, "How
can you pay them?
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He said, "With
great difficulty."
00:22:23.20\00:22:26.37
I said, "How much
are you paying them?"
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He said, "Some
of them $40 a month.
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Some of them $50 a month."
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But when you go
down to the supermarket,
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it's like going to America.
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Everything's expensive?
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Yes and so, it's,
it's burning in my soul,
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I'm not going to
give up on these people
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because God
didn't give up on me.
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That's right.
00:22:48.13\00:22:49.46
And I know the
poverty, and I know the hunger,
00:22:49.50\00:22:52.00
and I know the
awful distress of people
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worshipping in dirty
holes, that's how dirty it gets.
00:22:56.91\00:23:01.98
And outside it's minus
10, inside it's minus 10.
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And they've got no electricity.
00:23:06.11\00:23:08.42
And they took me to
a place that we can buy
00:23:08.45\00:23:12.12
for three churches for $350,000.
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And so, I say to the people
watching in the name of God
00:23:15.82\00:23:18.99
is there not a course.
00:23:19.03\00:23:21.56
As it says in the
Bible, "Is it nothing to you,
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or you who passed by."
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We need to do
something for our young people
00:23:26.50\00:23:29.70
and the babies.
00:23:29.74\00:23:32.11
Don't worry about
these governments,
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these governments may be bad.
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We don't care
about the governments.
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We care about the people.
00:23:36.75\00:23:38.08
And that's right.
00:23:38.11\00:23:39.45
And we ask God for help and He--
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And God never
fails. And God is faithful.
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We've run campaigns as you know
00:23:44.19\00:23:46.19
in most of the
Great Russian cities,
00:23:46.22\00:23:49.89
also in Kiev, Odessa.
00:23:49.92\00:23:54.90
Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkov,
00:23:54.93\00:23:58.20
Zaporizhia, what experience?
00:23:58.23\00:24:02.74
What does it
bring into your mind?
00:24:02.77\00:24:04.61
Well, mostly of course,
it brings in the people.
00:24:04.64\00:24:07.71
Because once they
hear the good message
00:24:07.74\00:24:10.15
that they hear
the gospel message,
00:24:10.18\00:24:11.98
it just changes them.
00:24:12.01\00:24:13.62
And these people even
though, they haven't got much,
00:24:13.65\00:24:16.79
they're so generous
and they're so loving,
00:24:16.82\00:24:19.05
I don't know this is one thing
00:24:19.09\00:24:20.42
that we, we
didn't speak about back
00:24:20.46\00:24:23.22
when you were preaching.
00:24:23.26\00:24:25.06
On this, or on the
stages they will bring flowers
00:24:25.09\00:24:28.06
by the bucketsful
with tulips and roses,
00:24:28.10\00:24:31.87
I love their gardens.
00:24:31.90\00:24:33.77
And they're
always full of flowers.
00:24:33.80\00:24:36.44
Now, another
thing in Dnipropetrovsk.
00:24:36.47\00:24:39.24
I went to an orphanage
there, and I had 300 babies.
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In Kiev, Ukraine and Russia
they had their orphanages,
00:24:43.68\00:24:48.05
they would keep
the children from,
00:24:48.08\00:24:49.75
right from birth to three,
three to six, six and so forth.
00:24:49.78\00:24:53.05
And on this, in this one,
they needed a hot water system,
00:24:53.09\00:24:57.49
a sterilizer and some diapers.
00:24:57.53\00:24:59.96
And we were able to
help them with that.
00:25:00.00\00:25:01.90
Now, I know you also in Odessa,
00:25:01.93\00:25:04.20
you had something that happened
miraculously with a baby.
00:25:04.23\00:25:07.57
Could you tell us about that?
They took me to a hospital.
00:25:07.60\00:25:10.24
It's cold, and dark,
and damp, and dreary.
00:25:10.27\00:25:13.71
They brought out
a little baby boy,
00:25:13.74\00:25:15.21
they said he's going to
die in the next few hours.
00:25:15.24\00:25:18.35
And the mother was there,
00:25:18.38\00:25:19.75
and the old Babushkan
nurse gave me the baby,
00:25:19.78\00:25:23.85
and the dean Butov was with me
00:25:23.89\00:25:25.35
and we anointed that
baby in the name of the Lord.
00:25:25.39\00:25:29.46
And when I went back
a little while later,
00:25:29.49\00:25:31.83
I was met by the mother
00:25:31.86\00:25:33.60
and the little baby boy
who was then running around.
00:25:33.63\00:25:37.47
Healed by God, Beverley.
00:25:37.50\00:25:40.57
Can I tell you a secret? Yes.
00:25:40.60\00:25:44.11
Here's the secret,
just between you and me.
00:25:44.14\00:25:45.84
Don't you folks listen?
00:25:45.87\00:25:48.04
We need to do something
for these young people.
00:25:48.08\00:25:51.91
We've seen thousands of
young people come to Christ.
00:25:51.95\00:25:56.52
But these young people
need desperately spiritual help
00:25:56.55\00:26:00.92
they've asked me to go back
00:26:00.96\00:26:03.59
and run a series of
evangelistic meetings,
00:26:03.63\00:26:07.26
especially focused on
the needs of young people
00:26:07.30\00:26:13.50
in Russia and Ukraine.
00:26:13.54\00:26:15.44
And they're so eager to workout
00:26:15.47\00:26:16.87
because as you
said at 3ABN in Russia
00:26:16.91\00:26:19.64
and then Hope in Ukraine.
00:26:19.67\00:26:21.58
They're mostly young
people that are doing the work.
00:26:21.61\00:26:24.48
And the Hope and 3ABN
working together over there.
00:26:24.51\00:26:28.52
But I want to say to the
people watching the program.
00:26:28.55\00:26:31.79
Listen my, friend, we've got
to build sanctuaries of hope.
00:26:31.82\00:26:36.66
Are you listening to me?
00:26:36.69\00:26:38.26
We've get the believers in
out of this arctic conditions.
00:26:38.29\00:26:43.20
I can buy a building now
00:26:43.23\00:26:44.93
that will take care of
three churches in Kiev.
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It will cost $350,000.
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Please in the
name of God help me.
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And something else,
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help us to run a big
evangelistic campaign,
00:26:57.61\00:27:00.98
not only for old folks
but for the young people.
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The young people, who
are becoming mesmerized
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by the lights of the world.
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But I spoke to so
many young people,
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I saw their
faces, they came to me.
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Please support this
work, support the work of God
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in the lands of the
former Soviet Union please.
00:27:23.04\00:27:26.07
Write to me, John
Carter and Beverly Carter.
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PO Box 1900, Thousand
Oaks, California 91358.
00:27:29.94\00:27:35.08
My Aussie friends, I
want to hear from you.
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Please write to me John Carter
and to my wife Beverley Carter
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at the address in Terrigal.
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Help us to build
sanctuaries of hope
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in the former Soviet Union
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and help us to
light a gospel fire
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for the salvation
of thousands of souls.
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Help us to save the babies.
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Help us to save these
beautiful young people.
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Jesus said, "I've
come to seek, and to save
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that which was lost."
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Thank you for your partnership
in the gospel of Christ.
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God bless you.
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