In the year of our Lord 988,
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Kiev, the capital of Ukraine
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witnessed the
coming of Christianity
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to the Russian
and Ukrainian peoples.
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Prince Vladimir
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decreed that his people
would become Christians.
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He conducted a
baptism in the Dnieper River
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and hundreds were immersed
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professing faith in
Christ and the Orthodox Church.
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In 1995,
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Kiev saw another
page of history unfold
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as thousands of
Ukrainians and Russians
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by their own personal decisions
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were baptized
into the Lord Jesus
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and the great truths of
the three angels' messages.
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The Carter Report with
the greater glory of God
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presents victory
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at Kiev 3,488, baptisms.
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Kiev, a city of 3 million
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is the cradle of Russian
and Ukrainian civilization.
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Historically and culturally,
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it is arguably the
most important city
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of the former Soviet Union.
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It is a city of
gold dome churches,
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tree-line boulevards
and magnificent parks.
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It is the proud capital of
the newly independent nation
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of Ukraine.
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It is a city that's had
more than its share of trouble
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and suffering.
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Hundreds of thousands
of brave Ukrainians died
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defending Kiev
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against the onslaughts
of Nazi storm troopers.
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More than 100,000,
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perhaps even 300,000 Jews
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were murdered at this Kiev site
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by the German forces
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that occupied
Ukraine from 1941 to 1944.
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Even more
Ukrainians were slaughtered
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by the communists
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who carried out
a reign of terror
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against
intellectuals and dissidents.
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This peaceful forest,
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just outside the
city's boundaries
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is the resting place
for a multitude of victims
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whose only crime
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was the desire for
political and religious freedom.
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Tens of thousands
were transported here
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made to kneel
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and then shot in the back
of the neck by the communists.
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During 1932 and '33,
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8 million
Ukrainians died of starvation.
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This genocide occurred
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when the Marxist
government in Moscow
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decreed that the
bountiful harvest
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of the Ukraine were
to be sent to Russia,
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a number
equivalent to the population
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of New York City perished
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because they were forbidden
to eat the food, the bread,
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and the potatoes
that they had produced
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with their own
hands on their own lands.
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Stalin while living
like a czar in the Kremlin
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remarked that it was impossible
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to avoid breaking
eggs when making an omelet.
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He further observed
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that the death
of a million people
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was just a statistic.
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For 70 years,
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the godless Marxist
carried out a war of terrorism
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against all who
professed faith in God.
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Millions were sent to
prison where they were beaten,
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frozen, interrogated,
tortured, and starved.
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The soil of the
former Soviet Union
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is drenched with the blood
of a great multitude of martyrs
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who did not count their
lives dearer into themselves.
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More recently
communist incompetency
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combined with a
callous disregard
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for human life
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caused the deaths of
at least 125,000 persons.
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Just 60 miles from Kiev
is the city of Chernobyl.
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The site of four
carelessly constructed
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maintain nuclear reactors.
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On April 26, 1986 at
1:23 AM a meltdown occurred.
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The great
concrete containment shield
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over reactor number four
was blasted into fragments.
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A cloud of radioactive gas,
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many times more deadly
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than that of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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exploded into the atmosphere.
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Workers wearing
inadequate protective clothing
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were ordered by the
communist authorities
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into the area of
greatest contamination.
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Armed with shovels and brooms,
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these people who
had been promised
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a worker's paradise
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waged war against
chunks and fragments of uranium
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that were scattered
like monstrous autumn leaves
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over an apocalyptic landscape.
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They died in agony a
few hours or days later.
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It's estimated that
at least 125,000 died
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as a direct
result of the meltdown.
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Others still suffer
without hope or compensation.
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These children in Kiev
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are victims of the
worst nuclear accident
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in history.
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They live in orphanages
with a minimum of medical care.
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All this suffering
has prepared the soul
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of the Ukrainian for
the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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That alone gives
light in darkness
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and hope in despair.
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John Carter,
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an Australian
pastor and evangelist
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went to Kiev
during January of 1995.
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It was his mission to
explore the possibilities
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of conducting a
citywide crusade.
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He had in March of 1991
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conducted the
first evangelistic series
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of meetings in the Soviet Union
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when he proclaimed God's Word
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at the Palace of
Culture in Moscow.
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Subsequent
Carter Report meetings
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in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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resulted in more
than 5,000 baptisms.
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The baptism in June of 1992,
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when 2,530
precious Russian souls
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confessing Christ
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were baptized in the Volga River
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was an historic occasion.
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At that time, it was the
largest baptism since 988,
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when Prince
Vladimir opened the door
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to Christianity in Kiev.
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Providence had
directed the Carter Report team
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from Moscow to
Nizhniy Novgorod to Kiev,
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birthplace of a
great Slavonic civilization
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that was to shake the world.
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What will happen here?
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Will Kiev respond
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to the public
proclamation of Christ
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and the truths of the
three angels' messages
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were questions
with which John Carter
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and Ukrainian
Adventist believers
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wrestled.
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The Palace of Sport
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downtown Kiev
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is a prestigious auditorium
that seats 95,000 people.
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It was chosen as
the site for the crusade
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and negotiations with
Ukrainian government officials
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commenced.
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Ukrainian church
leaders spent days and weeks
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meeting with officials
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who were
reluctant to give permission
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for the crusade.
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Months passed
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and no positive
word was forthcoming.
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Then a
significant event occurred.
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Somebody even
called it a miracle.
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Almost all the churches of Kiev,
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including the Baptists,
Pentecostals, and Orthodox
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signed a petition
requesting the government
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to allow the meetings.
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In response,
government officials,
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including the mayor and
the minister of religion
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placed their
signatures on the authorization.
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With only weeks to go
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before the opening
night of July 29th, 1995,
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great printing
presses in Texas, USA
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rolled into action
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to produce 1
million color brochures
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to advertise the crusade,
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Delta Airline employee
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and community Adventist
fellowship church member
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Javier Piraino organized
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the air freighting
of the 30,000 pound load
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of handbills to Kiev.
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Pastor Norman Matiko,
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Carter Report manager
left Los Angeles for Kiev
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and carried newspaper,
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radio and television advertising
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ready for release.
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One week later in Kiev,
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teams of hundreds
of Adventist Christians
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distributed 1 million handbills
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as the media carried the message
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that the Carter
Report was about to commence
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at the Palace of Sport.
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Two days before
the opening nights,
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John Carter and
his team of Australian,
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Canadian and American laymen
and women arrived in Kiev.
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The question
foremost in the minds of many,
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both local and foreign
was will the advertising work,
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after all Kiev had had
in the past four years,
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many crusades
sponsored by many denominations.
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Would this unique
approach so different
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from anything previously
seen captivate the masses.
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"Will the people
come," they asked.
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They didn't have to
wait long for an answer.
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The opening day of the crusade
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saw 25,000 packed
the Palace of Sport.
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Every square inch
of available space
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was taken.
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Doors were broken by
the crowds in a frantic rush
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to secure admission.
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Tens of thousands stood outside
unable to enter the building.
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So great with the crowds
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that filled the city square
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and flooded into
the thoroughfares
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that the authorities closed
the local railway station.
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During the opening lecture,
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Pastor Carter showed
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from the world of ancient Egypt,
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that the Bible is
historically accurate,
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and that there is a
God in heaven who loves us.
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You are not an
animal. You are not a machine.
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You are a child of God
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was his message to the multitude
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that had been immersed
in the hopeless teachings
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of Marxist's atheism.
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I will be on God's side...
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Here in the great
land of the Ukraine...
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I will be on the side
of the great Creator God...
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I will be on the side of Christ.
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From the very start,
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it was evident
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that God was
doing a special work,
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lost souls were
finding their way home
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to the Father's house.
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The name of Jesus
was being magnified
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and the mighty
Spirit of the living God
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was moving powerfully
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upon the hearts of
the great congregation.
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Then came the first
of a series of crises.
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As the meetings
progressed with capacity crowds
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attending two
sessions every evening,
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Kiev's minister of
religion issued a decree
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revoking the authorization
to conduct the crusade.
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Church leaders were
summoned to city hall
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and charged with
violating the law.
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You are teaching
religion that is not permitted.
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You have created
a public disturbance
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that is against our laws.
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You are teaching
children to pray.
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That is forbidden.
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You have covered the
city with your advertising.
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That must cease.
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We are issuing an order.
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Stop the
preaching. Stop the meetings.
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Calmly Pastor Murga,
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leader of the
Adventist Church responded,
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"We have broken no laws.
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We are abiding
by the Constitution.
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We will not close
down the meetings.
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By God's grace, we
will complete our mission."
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The following day, John Carter,
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Norman Matiko and Paul Mickelson
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visited the embassies of
the United States in Canada
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and the
Australian consulate general
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to seek their support
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to influence the
Ukrainian government
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to honor the rights of
freedom of religious expression.
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The United States ambassador
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personally contacted
the Ukrainian government,
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and embassy officials declared
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that the Kiev
government was operating
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outside the laws of
Ukraine and the United nations.
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Despite intense lobbying
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by the
Australian consulate general
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and protest and pleas by civic
and religious liberty groups,
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the harassment and threatening
continued and intensified.
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Pastor Carter
on August 9th, 1995
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was summoned to city hall.
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Accompanied by church leaders,
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he arrived at the office
of the minister of religion,
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refusing to allow any witnesses
or supporters to accompany him.
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Government officials
escorted John to an office
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where he was threatened
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and interrogated
for more than an hour.
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If you do not
close down the meetings,
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we will not
guarantee your personal safety
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was the message
of the officials.
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Responding to their tactics
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that were reminiscent
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of the ugly
days of the Cold War,
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Pastor Carter replied,
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"The Adventists
have broken no laws,
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but you are
breaking the Ukrainian laws
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that guarantee freedom
of religious expression.
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We will not close
down the meetings."
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After the interrogation,
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he was greeted by
the leaders of the church
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who were anxious to know
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if the evangelist had
compromised under pressure.
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We must hold
firm and not retreat
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was the resolve
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of these brave
Ukrainian Christian leaders
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who are not
strangers to persecution.
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Another crisis occurred
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when the Kiev
government issued an order
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to the police to
immediately cease
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their security
duties at the crusade,
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because it was unlawful
to conduct public meetings
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without a police presence.
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The government now
had a legal pretense
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to stop the
proclamation of the Word of God.
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Church leaders visited
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one police
station after another,
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only to receive the same answer.
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And yet we are
forbidden to come.
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As the critical
hour for the commencement
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of the evening
meeting approached,
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the Carter Report team
prayed to the God of heaven
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that He would quickly come
to the defense of His people
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and provide a
legal police presence.
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When church leaders
explained the situation
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to a major in
the Kiev police force
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that they have
providentially met
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on the street.
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The senior police
officer responded,
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"Yes, I will come
and I will bring my men.
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These meetings must continue.
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I will protect your meetings
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for the sake of
the Ukrainian people."
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Frustrated that the
meetings were continuing
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and that the
police were providing
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security services,
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the mayor of Kiev then called
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the director of
the Palace of Sport
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with the order close
the meetings immediately.
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These people are
breaking our laws.
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The director of the auditorium
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during the 90
minute conversation
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responded,
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"These people are
not breaking our laws,
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but you are.
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They are honorable people.
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I will honor the contract
with the Carter Report."
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Day by day the
battle for the souls
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of the Ukrainian
people continued.
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Day by day God
provided our daily bread.
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For 26 days.
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John Carter
preached twice every day
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to cumulatively
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spiritually hungry souls.
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When the pastor gave the
invitation to the audience
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to accept the great creator,
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believe the Bible is God's word
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and trust in Jesus
Christ as man's only savior,
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16,000 responded.
00:14:02.30\00:14:04.74
This was an audience
00:14:04.77\00:14:06.11
that had been born
and bred in Marxism,
00:14:06.14\00:14:08.11
communism, and atheism.
00:14:08.14\00:14:10.15
Now thousands were
turning their lives
00:14:10.18\00:14:12.38
over to God.
00:14:12.41\00:14:14.55
Several nights later,
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many thousands
received for the first time,
00:14:15.95\00:14:18.55
their own copy
of the Word of God.
00:14:18.59\00:14:20.56
Twenty five thousand Bibles
were placed in grateful hands.
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Moving beyond words
00:14:24.26\00:14:26.23
was the unforgettable experience
00:14:26.26\00:14:27.83
when thousands of ex-atheists
00:14:27.86\00:14:29.43
and unbelievers
read for the first time,
00:14:29.46\00:14:32.00
John 3:16,
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"For God so loved the world
00:14:33.64\00:14:34.97
that He gave His
only begotten Son
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that whoever believes
in Him should not perish,
00:14:36.91\00:14:39.01
but have everlasting life."
00:14:39.04\00:14:43.21
The battle to keep the meetings
going continued every day.
00:14:43.24\00:14:46.88
Every morning
presented a new challenge.
00:14:46.92\00:14:49.15
Every evening
witnessed a new victory.
00:14:49.18\00:14:52.92
The news of what God was
doing at the Palace of Sport
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reached the ears of
the influential leader
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of the
Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
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Metropolitan
Filaret, his predecessor,
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the patriarch had died
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during mysterious circumstances
00:15:05.63\00:15:07.64
only days before
the crusade commenced.
00:15:07.67\00:15:10.61
The patriarch had
vowed that while he lived
00:15:10.64\00:15:14.11
the Carter Report
meetings would never take place.
00:15:14.18\00:15:17.38
Now his successor
welcomed Pastor Carter
00:15:17.45\00:15:20.62
and his team to his palace
00:15:20.65\00:15:22.18
and warmly
greeted the evangelist.
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"We can see that God
is with you," he said.
00:15:24.65\00:15:26.86
"You are doing a good work."
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Pastor Carter
expressed to the metropolitan,
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the love of all
Adventist Christians
00:15:31.19\00:15:33.90
and assured him
that their only desire
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was to build up
the kingdom of God.
00:15:36.00\00:15:38.30
He also expressed to
the Archbishop their sorrow,
00:15:38.33\00:15:41.10
that Orthodox priest had
been killed by the militia
00:15:41.14\00:15:44.27
as they had endeavored
to bury their patriarch.
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May God bless you and your work
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was the metropolitan's response.
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Baptism for the new believer
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is a significant
and meaningful act.
00:15:54.35\00:15:57.05
It represents a
public confession of faith
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in Jesus Christ
as Lord and Savior.
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When Pastor Carter invited
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those who wished to be baptized
00:16:03.39\00:16:04.73
to come forward
00:16:04.76\00:16:06.09
as an act of
faith and obedience,
00:16:06.13\00:16:07.66
more than 8,000 responded.
00:16:07.66\00:16:10.77
Little wonder that
the arch enemy of souls
00:16:10.80\00:16:13.27
wanted these meetings stopped
00:16:13.34\00:16:16.04
as the Carter Report team
00:16:16.07\00:16:17.51
continued to work
and pray for the victory.
00:16:17.54\00:16:20.01
God's Spirit held
back the winds of strife
00:16:20.08\00:16:22.64
and thousands of Ukrainian souls
00:16:22.68\00:16:24.48
became members of
the kingdom of God.
00:16:24.51\00:16:27.02
To Him alone, to the
honor, power and glory.
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In a few minutes,
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this video will
show the largest baptism
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in the history of
the ex Soviet Union.
00:16:35.36\00:16:38.06
You will see in here the story
00:16:38.09\00:16:39.43
of how the
government authorities
00:16:39.46\00:16:40.80
did all in their power to stop
00:16:40.83\00:16:42.13
thousands of
Ukrainian and Russians
00:16:42.16\00:16:44.03
from traveling to
the Dnieper River,
00:16:44.07\00:16:45.93
where the baptism was planned.
00:16:45.97\00:16:47.90
You'll see a multitude
of precious new believers
00:16:47.94\00:16:50.47
released from the curse
of communism and unbelief
00:16:50.51\00:16:53.11
immersed in the waters
00:16:53.14\00:16:54.48
of that same mighty river
00:16:54.51\00:16:55.84
that witnessed
00:16:55.88\00:16:57.21
the first great
baptism of 988 AD.
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But before that grand spectacle
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meet some of the
people who attended
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the Carter Report meetings.
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My name is Kalina Katheran.
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First I was an atheist,
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and I didn't not believe in God.
00:17:14.13\00:17:18.97
But now when I started
attending these lectures,
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I liked it.
00:17:23.94\00:17:27.58
And faith started
growing inside of me.
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Carter's Report
really affected me,
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it touched my heart.
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It's very high level.
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And after the first lecture,
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I felt kind of
feeling strange a little bit,
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and I told all my
friends and relatives,
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all my neighbors about this,
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and lot of people who I know
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became interested in
this and they are here today,
00:18:00.24\00:18:04.51
and they are
receiving great blessings too.
00:18:04.55\00:18:08.38
And I'm very glad
00:18:08.42\00:18:09.75
that there is a
report like that,
00:18:09.78\00:18:13.79
group of people
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who like give money
00:18:15.19\00:18:21.46
to bring truths to
people first about existence,
00:18:21.50\00:18:26.40
about Bible,
00:18:26.43\00:18:27.77
the truths they
didn't know before.
00:18:27.80\00:18:31.51
Before we had
only Marxist theory.
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And I think that,
00:18:35.88\00:18:39.35
programs like that
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are really great.
00:18:45.12\00:18:46.62
They're priceless.
00:18:46.65\00:18:50.33
I wanted to really
thank those people,
00:18:50.36\00:18:53.80
who gave money for this program,
00:18:53.83\00:18:58.13
so it can happen.
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I really like these lectures.
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They're really neat.
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And I would like to say that,
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this is very essential
00:19:09.81\00:19:11.15
for our people here,
00:19:11.18\00:19:13.31
so they can believe
that there is something,
00:19:13.35\00:19:17.69
somebody who can
support them and save them.
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The first of a
series of baptisms
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was planned for Sabbath,
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the 19th day of August.
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Church leaders contacted
00:19:29.63\00:19:30.97
Kiev bus
companies to hire buses,
00:19:31.00\00:19:33.20
to transport the new
believers to the baptismal site,
00:19:33.23\00:19:36.30
the Dnieper River.
00:19:36.34\00:19:37.67
Each bus company
representative responded,
00:19:37.71\00:19:40.28
"We have been forbidden
to allow you to have buses.
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The Kiev minister of religion
00:19:43.38\00:19:44.78
does not want this
baptism to proceed.
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We will not help you."
00:19:47.42\00:19:49.12
Friday the 18th
of August arrived
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and still there
were no buses available.
00:19:50.89\00:19:53.15
Carter Report team members
00:19:53.19\00:19:54.52
met together and
prayed the prayer.
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Our Lord had taught us
to say, give us this day,
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our daily bread.
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Believing that God would
supply their daily needs,
00:20:02.36\00:20:05.47
they plan for the
baptism on the moral.
00:20:05.50\00:20:08.47
On Sabbath
morning, the 19th of August,
00:20:08.50\00:20:10.77
33 giant buses
pulled into the parking lot
00:20:10.81\00:20:13.94
at the Palace of Sport.
00:20:13.98\00:20:15.58
These buses had come
from outlying districts
00:20:15.61\00:20:18.55
without the
knowledge or permission
00:20:18.58\00:20:20.32
of the Kiev authorities.
00:20:20.38\00:20:22.12
God was leading
00:20:22.15\00:20:23.55
and He was taking charge
00:20:23.59\00:20:25.39
of what was to be
the largest baptism
00:20:25.42\00:20:27.52
in the history of the nation.
00:20:27.56\00:20:29.69
Running a shuttle service,
00:20:29.72\00:20:31.06
these buses conveyed
thousands of Ukrainians
00:20:31.09\00:20:33.36
to the Dnieper River,
00:20:33.40\00:20:34.73
where the Carter Report team
00:20:34.73\00:20:36.06
and 50 Ukrainian
pastors and elders waited.
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Who were these people
who had come for baptism?
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What had brought them
to this place at this time?
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They were people who
had been born and bred
00:20:45.57\00:20:47.61
in atheism and communism.
00:20:47.64\00:20:49.98
They were people who had
seen their nation ravaged
00:20:50.01\00:20:53.01
by the reign of monsters
00:20:53.05\00:20:54.82
whose lives had been brutalized
00:20:54.85\00:20:56.82
by the most corrupt
and oppressive system
00:20:56.85\00:20:58.75
known to man.
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They were young
and they were old.
00:21:00.46\00:21:02.46
They were old women
00:21:02.49\00:21:03.83
whose husbands had been murdered
00:21:03.86\00:21:05.19
by bloodthirsty dictators.
00:21:05.23\00:21:07.23
They were young people
00:21:07.30\00:21:08.60
longing for a
new and better life.
00:21:08.63\00:21:11.17
They were old men
who had somehow survived
00:21:11.20\00:21:13.13
the bloody purges
00:21:13.17\00:21:14.50
of Marxist's
demons in human form.
00:21:14.54\00:21:16.77
All soldiers who had lived
00:21:16.81\00:21:18.27
through more
suffering and sorrow
00:21:18.31\00:21:20.54
than we can comprehend.
00:21:20.58\00:21:22.64
They were God's children,
frail, stumbling, courageous,
00:21:22.68\00:21:26.01
with hearts
strangely warmed by a new hope.
00:21:26.05\00:21:29.95
They were part
of a great multitude
00:21:29.98\00:21:31.72
of every
kindred, tongue and people
00:21:31.75\00:21:34.39
redeemed by the grace of God
00:21:34.42\00:21:36.46
and washed in the
blood of the Lamb.
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Here in 90 minutes,
00:21:40.40\00:21:41.70
50 pastors and elders
00:21:41.73\00:21:43.06
under the
direction of Pastor Carter
00:21:43.10\00:21:44.93
baptized 2,817 precious souls.
00:21:44.97\00:21:49.57
For each of these new
beloved brothers and sisters,
00:21:49.60\00:21:52.54
along with another 671
00:21:52.57\00:21:55.41
who were baptized
during the following two weeks,
00:21:55.44\00:21:57.81
we say
00:21:57.85\00:21:59.18
glory, be to the Father
00:21:59.21\00:22:00.82
and to the Son and
to the Holy Spirit.
00:22:00.85\00:22:03.39
Let the world and the church
know we serve a mighty God.
00:22:03.42\00:22:07.26
And the victory at Kiev
was wrought not by might,
00:22:07.29\00:22:10.13
nor by power, but
by His Holy Spirit.
00:22:10.16\00:22:13.70
Glory. Hallelujah.
00:22:13.73\00:22:15.03
Hallelujah!
00:22:15.06\00:22:17.27
Hallelujah!
00:22:17.33\00:22:19.40
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
00:22:19.43\00:22:21.77
Hallelujah!
00:22:21.80\00:22:24.41
Hallelujah!
00:22:24.44\00:22:26.84
Hallelujah!
00:22:26.88\00:22:28.94
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
00:22:28.98\00:22:31.25
Hallelujah!
00:22:31.28\00:22:33.98
For the Lord God
00:22:34.02\00:22:36.69
Omnipotent reigneth
00:22:36.75\00:22:40.86
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
00:22:40.92\00:22:43.12
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
00:22:43.16\00:22:45.79
For the Lord God
00:22:45.83\00:22:48.46
Omnipotent reigneth
00:22:48.50\00:22:52.57
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
00:22:52.60\00:22:54.87
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
00:22:54.90\00:22:57.24
Hallelujah!
00:22:57.27\00:23:00.48
Hallelujah!
00:23:00.51\00:23:04.25
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
00:23:04.28\00:23:06.35
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
00:23:06.38\00:23:09.25
Hallelujah!
00:23:09.28\00:23:11.22
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
00:23:11.25\00:23:13.29
Hallelujah!
00:23:13.36\00:23:16.19
Hallelujah!
00:23:16.22\00:23:18.26
Hallelujah!
00:23:18.29\00:23:20.33
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
00:23:20.40\00:23:25.07
The kingdom of this world
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Is become
00:23:31.41\00:23:35.18
The kingdom of our Lord
00:23:35.21\00:23:39.18
And of His
Christ, and of His Christ
00:23:39.21\00:23:44.42
He shall reign for ever and ever
00:23:44.45\00:23:49.82
And He shall
reign for ever and ever
00:23:49.86\00:23:55.83
And He shall
reign for ever and ever
00:23:55.86\00:24:01.70
For ever and
ever, forever and ever
00:24:01.74\00:24:08.08
King of kings
00:24:08.11\00:24:10.25
Forever and ever
00:24:10.28\00:24:12.58
And Lord of
lords Forever and ever
00:24:12.61\00:24:17.29
And He shall
reign And He shall reign
00:24:17.32\00:24:20.66
Forever and ever
00:24:20.69\00:24:24.86
King of kings And Lord of lords
00:24:24.89\00:24:29.66
King of kings
00:24:29.70\00:24:31.87
And Lord of lords
00:24:31.90\00:24:34.34
And He shall reign
00:24:34.37\00:24:38.27
Forever and ever
00:24:38.31\00:24:41.94
King of kings!
00:24:41.98\00:24:44.11
And Lord of lords!
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King of kings!
00:24:46.51\00:24:48.88
And Lord of lords!
00:24:48.92\00:24:52.72
And He shall reign
00:24:52.75\00:24:59.73
I've just come back from Russia.
00:25:08.07\00:25:09.90
What a trip?
00:25:09.94\00:25:11.57
With a team of 16 Russians,
00:25:11.61\00:25:13.61
Americans,
Canadians and Australians,
00:25:13.68\00:25:16.24
I've traveled 6,000 miles
from Moscow to Vladivostok
00:25:16.28\00:25:20.72
through seven time zones.
00:25:20.75\00:25:22.72
Oh, my friend, I wish
you could have been there
00:25:22.75\00:25:25.32
to see the faces of the people
00:25:25.35\00:25:27.16
waiting for us at
35 stops along the way.
00:25:27.19\00:25:32.13
Old babushkas, young men,
00:25:32.16\00:25:34.86
young women standing
for hours in the snow
00:25:34.93\00:25:38.10
crying out Slava Bogu,
00:25:38.13\00:25:40.54
praise God,
thank you for coming.
00:25:40.60\00:25:42.40
Thank you for not forgetting us.
00:25:42.44\00:25:46.14
They stood there
and we gave them Bibles.
00:25:46.17\00:25:48.91
Every person got a Bible.
00:25:48.94\00:25:50.71
Every person got a box
of medicines and vitamins,
00:25:50.75\00:25:53.88
and we gave out
00:25:53.92\00:25:55.25
62,000 gospel audio
cassettes that tell,
00:25:55.28\00:25:59.55
tells them that
there's a God in heaven
00:25:59.59\00:26:01.82
who knows all about them
00:26:01.86\00:26:03.32
and who loves them
00:26:03.36\00:26:04.69
and who sent
Jesus to die for them.
00:26:04.73\00:26:07.30
I said to one little old
lady who'd been waiting there
00:26:07.36\00:26:09.86
in the snow for
three hours of temperature
00:26:09.90\00:26:12.83
35 degrees below.
00:26:12.87\00:26:15.20
I don't know what the
windshield factor was.
00:26:15.24\00:26:17.87
I do know it was cold.
00:26:17.91\00:26:19.47
I said, "What
are the needs here?"
00:26:19.51\00:26:21.84
She said, "I don't
know how even to tell you,"
00:26:21.88\00:26:23.75
I said, "Please
tell me the needs."
00:26:23.78\00:26:25.11
She said, "We haven't been paid
by our employers for a year."
00:26:25.15\00:26:28.88
People here are on
the verge of starvation,
00:26:28.92\00:26:31.62
but she said,
"Our needs are greater
00:26:31.65\00:26:33.05
than anything physical.
00:26:33.09\00:26:34.72
We need Christ.
00:26:34.76\00:26:36.19
We need the Word of God.
00:26:36.22\00:26:37.73
Go back to America.
00:26:37.76\00:26:39.09
Tell the people do not forget us
00:26:39.13\00:26:41.16
in the name of God.
00:26:41.20\00:26:42.90
Don't forsake us."
00:26:42.93\00:26:45.07
My friend, don't forsake
your brothers and sisters
00:26:45.10\00:26:48.14
in the ex Soviet Union.
00:26:48.17\00:26:49.50
That's my pleading you today.
00:26:49.54\00:26:51.87
I wish you can come
with me to Chernobyl.
00:26:51.91\00:26:54.18
My wife Beverley
has a special ministry
00:26:54.24\00:26:56.04
for the suffering
little children of Chernobyl.
00:26:56.08\00:26:58.61
I wish you
could see their faces.
00:26:58.65\00:27:01.08
I wish I could describe
to you if I had the ability,
00:27:01.12\00:27:04.65
their pains, their sorrows.
00:27:04.69\00:27:06.79
They are the victims of
the worst nuclear disaster
00:27:06.82\00:27:10.39
in the history
of the human race.
00:27:10.46\00:27:12.59
Recently with the help
00:27:12.63\00:27:14.30
of the good old
United States Air Force,
00:27:14.36\00:27:17.27
we were able to take a
great quantity of goods
00:27:17.30\00:27:20.17
to the suffering people of Kiev,
00:27:20.24\00:27:22.70
and the little
children of Chernobyl.
00:27:22.74\00:27:25.01
This is our
latest mission update
00:27:25.04\00:27:27.51
and it gives the amazing story.
00:27:27.58\00:27:30.18
This is the US
Air Force Hercules.
00:27:30.25\00:27:32.31
Thank God for what they did.
00:27:32.35\00:27:34.88
I wish you could come with me,
friend, and visit the soldiers.
00:27:34.92\00:27:38.25
I've had generals, colonels,
00:27:38.29\00:27:41.29
thousands of soldiers say to me,
00:27:41.32\00:27:44.03
"Don't forget us.
00:27:44.06\00:27:45.39
We've got souls
too. We've got hearts."
00:27:45.43\00:27:48.63
I've had the
privilege of speaking recently
00:27:48.66\00:27:50.73
to thousands of KGB officers,
00:27:50.77\00:27:53.84
their message
is, don't forsake us,
00:27:53.90\00:27:56.87
don't forget us.
00:27:56.91\00:27:58.51
I want to put this in your hands
00:27:58.54\00:28:00.51
our latest mission update.
00:28:00.54\00:28:01.88
Write to me, John
Carter, P.O. Box 1900,
00:28:01.91\00:28:05.68
Thousand Oaks, California 93158.
00:28:05.71\00:28:10.32
We wish to thank the members
00:28:10.35\00:28:11.79
of the Community
Adventist Fellowship
00:28:11.82\00:28:13.92
and our loyal
and faithful friends
00:28:13.99\00:28:15.82
across North America
00:28:15.86\00:28:17.26
for making this
crusade possible.
00:28:17.29\00:28:19.43
We also wish to
record our gratitude
00:28:19.46\00:28:21.36
to an admiration
00:28:21.40\00:28:23.13
for our brothers
and sisters in Kiev,
00:28:23.16\00:28:25.80
who stood courageously
with us when the battle raged.
00:28:25.83\00:28:29.57
Above all, we thank God
who gave us grace to fight
00:28:29.60\00:28:33.71
the good fight of faith
and who gave us the victory.
00:28:33.78\00:28:37.25
To God be the glory,
great things He has done.
00:28:37.28\00:28:42.72
I'm John Carter in the
cabin of the locomotive
00:29:04.27\00:29:07.31
of the Trans-Siberian Express.
00:29:07.34\00:29:09.88
We're on an
incredible 6,000 mile journey
00:29:09.91\00:29:13.55
crossing seven time zones.
00:29:13.58\00:29:15.82
At every major stopping place,
00:29:15.85\00:29:17.75
we are greeting our
Christian brothers and sisters
00:29:17.79\00:29:20.89
and placing in
their hands Bibles,
00:29:20.92\00:29:23.46
medicines, vitamins,
and gospel audio cassettes.
00:29:23.49\00:29:27.96
Join me in the
adventure of a lifetime
00:29:27.96\00:29:31.10
as by the grace of God
00:29:31.13\00:29:33.13
we blaze a
pathway off hope and light
00:29:33.17\00:29:36.57
from Moscow to Vladivostok
00:29:36.60\00:29:39.14
in the midst of this
bitter Siberian wilderness.
00:29:39.17\00:29:42.78
Welcome aboard
the Carter Report,
00:29:42.81\00:29:45.45
Trans-Siberian Hope Express.
00:29:45.48\00:29:48.38
Siberia,
00:29:56.29\00:29:57.63
the very name conjures up images
00:29:57.66\00:29:59.73
of vast sweeping planes,
00:29:59.76\00:30:01.96
never-ending
forests, howling blizzards,
00:30:02.00\00:30:05.03
Arctic temperatures
and brutal death camps.
00:30:05.07\00:30:08.94
Siberia is a
land of superlatives.
00:30:08.97\00:30:12.44
It is covered in part by
the largest massive trees
00:30:12.47\00:30:16.34
in the world.
00:30:16.38\00:30:17.98
The Taiga Forest
spreads its foliage
00:30:18.01\00:30:20.38
over an area larger
than the United States.
00:30:20.42\00:30:25.22
Siberia holds
within its icy embrace
00:30:25.25\00:30:28.39
the largest and
deepest fresh water lake
00:30:28.42\00:30:30.89
on the planet.
00:30:30.93\00:30:32.56
Lake Baikal
00:30:32.59\00:30:34.20
is a mile deep and holds
00:30:34.23\00:30:36.80
one-fifth of all
the surface fresh water
00:30:36.83\00:30:39.23
in the world.
00:30:39.27\00:30:41.04
This land of legend is
the home of the biggest cat.
00:30:41.07\00:30:44.97
The male Siberian tiger
weighs more than 700 pounds.
00:30:45.01\00:30:50.08
Siberia is so large, it
makes Europe look small.
00:30:50.11\00:30:54.48
It covers 5,850,000 square miles
00:30:54.52\00:30:58.85
and stretches 2,850
miles from East to West.
00:30:58.89\00:31:04.63
Beneath its frozen surface,
00:31:04.66\00:31:06.93
fabulous riches,
mountains of precious metals
00:31:07.00\00:31:10.03
and seas of oil
waits for harvest.
00:31:10.07\00:31:14.30
In its cities and
villages, men and women,
00:31:14.34\00:31:16.67
boys, and girls
00:31:16.71\00:31:18.04
worth more than all
of earth's treasures
00:31:18.07\00:31:20.74
wait for the
harvest of the gospel.
00:31:20.78\00:31:24.48
"They will be mine,"
says the Lord Almighty,
00:31:24.51\00:31:28.75
"in the day when I
make up My jewels."
00:31:28.78\00:31:33.82
The Carter Report for
the greater glory of God
00:31:33.86\00:31:37.33
presents the
Trans-Siberian Hope Express.
00:31:37.39\00:31:41.50
The Trans-Siberian Express
00:31:57.51\00:31:59.11
passes through great cities
00:31:59.15\00:32:01.18
where millions of Russians live
00:32:01.22\00:32:02.92
without hope or
God in the world.
00:32:02.95\00:32:05.92
They're the victims
of an evil dictatorship
00:32:05.95\00:32:08.12
that
slaughtered a vast multitude
00:32:08.16\00:32:09.69
of its own people.
00:32:09.72\00:32:11.29
Across the frozen Northern plain
00:32:11.33\00:32:13.43
are 10 million lonely graves
00:32:13.50\00:32:15.73
that mark the resting place
00:32:15.76\00:32:17.13
of those who perished in Siberia
00:32:17.17\00:32:18.97
at the hands of the communists.
00:32:19.00\00:32:21.04
While millions were murdered
elsewhere in the Soviet Union,
00:32:21.07\00:32:24.47
the Siberian death
camps hold a special place
00:32:24.51\00:32:27.04
in the chronicles of
mankind's descent into hell.
00:32:27.08\00:32:31.58
While nothing can be done
for these poor tragic people
00:32:31.61\00:32:34.28
who are now sleeping
in the dust of the earth,
00:32:34.32\00:32:36.65
much can be done
00:32:36.69\00:32:38.02
for the survivors
of Stalin's Holocaust.
00:32:38.05\00:32:40.62
The millions of
lost, forgotten souls
00:32:40.66\00:32:43.49
who live lives
of quiet desperation
00:32:43.53\00:32:46.26
along the railway line of
the Trans-Siberian Express.
00:32:46.29\00:32:52.60
John Carter is
an Australian pastor
00:32:52.63\00:32:54.97
and evangelist.
00:32:55.00\00:32:56.50
Igor Pospehin
00:32:56.54\00:32:57.94
is a Russian
pastor and translator.
00:32:57.97\00:33:00.68
During the past five years,
00:33:00.71\00:33:02.84
they have spoken
to 2 million Russians
00:33:02.88\00:33:05.48
and Ukrainians.
00:33:05.51\00:33:07.32
They have seen the hand of God
00:33:07.35\00:33:08.95
stretched forth in mighty power,
00:33:08.98\00:33:11.29
as tens of thousands have
confessed faith in Christ.
00:33:11.32\00:33:15.56
They have stood on the banks
of the Volga and Dnieper rivers
00:33:15.59\00:33:18.69
and watched more
than 10,000 precious souls
00:33:18.73\00:33:22.23
publicly declare
their belief in God
00:33:22.26\00:33:24.67
as Creator and Jesus as Savior.
00:33:24.70\00:33:28.44
Igor's words
during October, 1996,
00:33:28.47\00:33:31.87
made a profound
impression on the evangelist.
00:33:31.91\00:33:35.48
"There are great Russian
00:33:35.51\00:33:37.61
cities without God
or hope in the world
00:33:37.65\00:33:40.28
that have never heard
the good news of the Savior.
00:33:40.32\00:33:43.85
They're being left to
perish in darkness and unbelief.
00:33:43.89\00:33:47.52
Does no one care?"
00:33:47.56\00:33:50.33
At that moment the idea
00:33:50.39\00:33:51.83
of the
Trans-Siberia Hope Express
00:33:51.86\00:33:54.23
was born.
00:33:54.30\00:33:55.60
John Carter resolved
00:33:55.63\00:33:56.97
that somehow by
the grace of God,
00:33:57.00\00:33:59.50
a kindle of hope
would be lit in the darkness
00:33:59.53\00:34:02.40
of the brutal Russian winter.
00:34:02.44\00:34:06.41
The journey started
in Moscow on Thursday,
00:34:06.44\00:34:09.21
the 23rd of January.
00:34:09.24\00:34:11.98
I'd like you to come inside,
come and share our quarters.
00:34:12.01\00:34:15.38
We'll be in here
for the next eight days,
00:34:15.42\00:34:18.05
6,000 miles, eight days.
00:34:18.09\00:34:20.66
Come inside with me.
00:34:20.69\00:34:24.43
The place is almost
completely filled with Bibles
00:34:24.46\00:34:30.33
and books and audiotapes.
00:34:30.37\00:34:33.94
And these are going to be
given out to our believers
00:34:34.00\00:34:35.90
along the way.
00:34:35.94\00:34:37.27
We've also taken some water.
00:34:37.31\00:34:38.91
This is going to be
a 6,000 mile journey.
00:34:38.94\00:34:41.78
There's hardly
room for sleeping.
00:34:51.82\00:34:54.12
I'd like you to meet
two very special friends,
00:35:03.97\00:35:06.53
Dr. and Mrs. Belco.
00:35:06.57\00:35:09.54
Uh, they don't
have a lot of room,
00:35:09.57\00:35:11.34
but they're going to
have a great time here with us
00:35:11.37\00:35:13.41
on the
Trans-Siberian Hope Express.
00:35:13.48\00:35:16.28
Dr. Belco is going
to play his trumpet
00:35:16.31\00:35:18.68
every time the
train comes to a stop,
00:35:18.71\00:35:20.72
and he's going to be
playing that great old hymn,
00:35:20.75\00:35:22.92
lift up the trumpet loud,
00:35:22.95\00:35:24.62
let it ring,
Jesus is coming again.
00:35:24.65\00:35:28.96
I have a special
friend and supporter
00:35:28.99\00:35:31.26
is Pastor BJ Christiansen,
00:35:31.29\00:35:33.60
and he's getting
ready to start to pass out
00:35:33.63\00:35:36.00
all the goodies.
00:35:36.03\00:35:38.10
Now these are the Bibles.
00:35:38.13\00:35:40.30
Also, uh, tens of
thousands of audio cassettes,
00:35:40.34\00:35:44.31
vitamins, and
minerals and medicines.
00:35:44.34\00:35:47.24
And we're just glad
to have Pastor BJ with us
00:35:47.28\00:35:49.81
on this tremendous adventure.
00:35:49.84\00:35:51.65
Now this is a
very special suite.
00:35:55.48\00:35:57.25
This is where
Beverley and I are living.
00:35:57.29\00:35:59.65
Up here, we've got the Bibles
00:35:59.69\00:36:01.89
and these are Russian
Bibles as you can see.
00:36:01.92\00:36:04.66
And I'm just
looking at the breakfast
00:36:04.69\00:36:06.19
that Brother
Matiko has handed me.
00:36:06.23\00:36:08.16
It's a box of
vanilla almond crunch,
00:36:08.20\00:36:11.27
plus a bottle of
ketchup to go with it.
00:36:11.30\00:36:13.84
So I believe it's quite tasty.
00:36:13.87\00:36:15.20
We're just gonna
have a great time here.
00:36:15.24\00:36:18.51
And we want to
say to all the people
00:36:18.54\00:36:20.48
who have helped
us put this together,
00:36:20.51\00:36:23.58
you're making a
tremendous contribution
00:36:23.65\00:36:26.58
to the peace and the
joy and the happiness
00:36:26.61\00:36:28.75
of thousands of precious
Russian Christian believers,
00:36:28.78\00:36:31.82
as well as people,
00:36:31.85\00:36:33.19
hundreds of thousands,
00:36:33.22\00:36:34.56
who've never heard the
blessed Gospel of Christ.
00:36:34.59\00:36:37.06
Keep coming with me.
00:36:37.13\00:36:38.46
We've still got other
things to show you here.
00:36:38.49\00:36:41.20
Here we have two
very special people.
00:36:41.23\00:36:44.73
This is our manager,
Pastor Norman Matiko.
00:36:44.77\00:36:48.40
And Norm is the
person who is responsible
00:36:48.44\00:36:51.07
for putting all of this together
00:36:51.11\00:36:52.57
and making our living conditions
00:36:52.61\00:36:54.08
so, so difficult
00:36:54.14\00:36:55.94
if I use like
this, but he's done.
00:36:55.98\00:36:58.35
But, folks, we believe
00:36:58.38\00:37:01.42
that the most
important thing we can do
00:37:01.45\00:37:03.32
is to get these Bibles
00:37:03.35\00:37:04.69
and these medicines
out to these people.
00:37:04.72\00:37:06.82
This is Pastor Alexander,
00:37:06.89\00:37:08.22
the president of
the Volga Conference.
00:37:08.26\00:37:10.36
And he's coming with us.
00:37:10.39\00:37:11.73
He'll be talking to the
people and greeting the people
00:37:11.76\00:37:15.50
and telling them
that God loves them.
00:37:15.53\00:37:17.63
And that the church
in the Western world
00:37:17.67\00:37:19.57
has not forsaken
them or forgotten them.
00:37:19.60\00:37:24.31
For 70 years,
the people of Siberia
00:37:24.34\00:37:26.88
seem to be
forsaken and forgotten,
00:37:26.91\00:37:29.61
not only by man, but by God.
00:37:29.64\00:37:32.91
It was to this vast
inhospitable wilderness
00:37:32.95\00:37:36.05
that millions
came not willingly,
00:37:36.08\00:37:38.92
but as the persecuted
slaves of the communist state.
00:37:38.95\00:37:42.49
Like the children of Israel
00:37:42.52\00:37:43.93
who toil beneath the
fiery lash of Pharaoh,
00:37:43.96\00:37:47.00
so the Russian people
who were exiled to Siberia,
00:37:47.03\00:37:49.56
slaved in the mines,
00:37:49.60\00:37:51.37
the forests and the death camps.
00:37:51.40\00:37:54.70
Millions died violent deaths
00:37:54.74\00:37:57.47
while
multitudes weak with hunger
00:37:57.51\00:37:59.67
and broken by
impossible work requirements
00:37:59.71\00:38:02.61
embraced death
as a welcome friend.
00:38:02.64\00:38:07.08
Today, there is a new government
00:38:07.15\00:38:08.82
in Moscow
00:38:08.85\00:38:10.22
and people are
free to worship God.
00:38:10.25\00:38:12.75
The vast
majority of the Siberians
00:38:12.79\00:38:14.46
however were born
and bred in atheism
00:38:14.49\00:38:17.79
and know nothing about
the one who sent His only Son
00:38:17.83\00:38:21.43
that they might have life.
00:38:21.46\00:38:23.90
They continue to live
00:38:23.97\00:38:25.30
without hope or
God in the world.
00:38:25.33\00:38:28.14
But scattered
through the cities and towns
00:38:28.17\00:38:30.71
of Siberia are small
groups of Christians.
00:38:30.74\00:38:34.18
They are God's
lifeline to these lost millions.
00:38:34.21\00:38:38.31
The Carter Report team
00:38:38.35\00:38:40.02
was about to meet the
first of many such groups
00:38:40.05\00:38:42.25
that they would greet
00:38:42.28\00:38:43.62
along the
Trans-Siberian Railway.
00:38:43.69\00:38:46.19
Good morning. Good morning.
00:38:46.22\00:38:48.96
We're glad to see you.
We bring you greetings.
00:38:48.99\00:38:51.79
We bring you greetings
from the United States,
00:38:57.77\00:39:01.20
and Canada, and Australia.
00:39:01.24\00:39:04.54
And we come to
bring you greetings
00:39:04.57\00:39:06.84
from all of these believers.
00:39:06.91\00:39:08.24
And we want you to know
00:39:11.85\00:39:13.18
how glad we are
to reach you today.
00:39:13.21\00:39:14.55
And we have brought
with us gifts of love.
00:39:17.52\00:39:24.06
We've brought medicines.
00:39:24.09\00:39:25.43
These believers are survivors,
00:39:25.46\00:39:28.80
they are the remnant
who by God's amazing grace
00:39:28.83\00:39:32.47
outlived the bloody
reign of communist dictators.
00:39:32.50\00:39:36.37
We salute them as God's heroes.
00:39:36.40\00:39:40.08
This is our first
stop at Yaroslavl.
00:39:40.11\00:39:42.14
We met here with the
leaders of the church
00:39:42.18\00:39:44.31
and it was our
great joy to greet them
00:39:44.35\00:39:47.45
and to give them Bibles,
00:39:47.52\00:39:49.05
and vitamins, and packages,
00:39:49.08\00:39:52.25
and medicines
for their families.
00:39:52.29\00:39:54.46
And also our audio
cassettes of the gospel.
00:39:54.49\00:39:57.89
They're just wonderful people
00:39:57.93\00:39:59.53
and their greeting
was extremely warm.
00:39:59.56\00:40:02.10
We haven't just brought
a blessing here tonight.
00:40:02.13\00:40:04.03
We have received
a great blessing.
00:40:04.07\00:40:05.57
As the great train
rumbled further eastward,
00:40:09.44\00:40:12.47
the weather became cold,
00:40:12.51\00:40:14.28
but the days were
bathed in sunshine.
00:40:14.31\00:40:17.61
It was as
though God were smiling
00:40:17.65\00:40:19.45
upon the
Trans-Siberian Hope Express.
00:40:19.48\00:40:23.95
The next stop was Kirov,
00:40:23.99\00:40:25.95
and industrial
city of 400,000 people
00:40:25.99\00:40:28.89
that was founded in 1181.
00:40:28.92\00:40:32.33
As the train
rolled into the station,
00:40:32.36\00:40:34.93
Dr. Boris Belco
played on his trumpet,
00:40:34.93\00:40:38.07
lift up the trumpet
and loud let it rain,
00:40:38.10\00:40:41.90
Jesus is coming again.
00:40:41.94\00:40:45.01
Vadim, a 20 year old evangelist
00:40:45.04\00:40:47.31
stood waiting
with 100 new converts
00:40:47.34\00:40:49.64
in the Christian faith.
00:40:49.68\00:40:51.55
This young Russian
00:40:51.58\00:40:53.21
who is studying
for the ministry,
00:40:53.25\00:40:55.02
worked with the
Carter Report team
00:40:55.05\00:40:56.48
in Nizhny Novgorod
during September '96.
00:40:56.52\00:41:00.59
He had just completed
an evangelistic crusade
00:41:00.66\00:41:03.43
in Kirov and
baptized 400 new believers.
00:41:03.46\00:41:07.76
Perm, a city
00:41:12.67\00:41:14.00
of more than 1
million inhabitants
00:41:14.04\00:41:16.17
was the next
major stopping place.
00:41:16.20\00:41:18.91
It was 10
o'clock on Friday night
00:41:18.94\00:41:20.88
when the Trans-Siberian
Hope Express arrived.
00:41:20.94\00:41:24.85
The Carter Report team was
met by a group of believers
00:41:24.88\00:41:27.62
whose warmth
dispelled the bitter cold.
00:41:27.65\00:41:31.59
The atheists and communists
00:41:31.62\00:41:33.19
once boasted that
the Christian faith
00:41:33.22\00:41:35.16
would be wiped from
the face of the earth.
00:41:35.19\00:41:38.16
They imprisoned, beat,
tortured, froze, starved,
00:41:38.19\00:41:42.10
drugged, and murdered
00:41:42.13\00:41:43.80
millions of
innocent men and women
00:41:43.83\00:41:45.80
whose only crime
was faith in God.
00:41:45.83\00:41:49.27
These believers
00:41:49.30\00:41:50.64
worshiping at 10
o'clock on Friday night
00:41:50.67\00:41:52.77
on a freezing railway station
00:41:52.81\00:41:54.81
were a testimony to
the power of the gospel.
00:41:54.84\00:41:57.88
We believe in
the same great God.
00:41:57.91\00:42:01.85
And we believe in
the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:42:01.88\00:42:05.82
And we believe
in the great truth.
00:42:05.85\00:42:09.22
That God made us, and
that we are His children,
00:42:09.26\00:42:14.00
and we are brothers
and sisters together.
00:42:14.00\00:42:17.70
We also believe in
the everlasting gospel.
00:42:17.73\00:42:22.04
The God so loved the world,
00:42:22.07\00:42:25.14
that He gave His only Son,
00:42:25.17\00:42:27.74
so that whoever believes
in Him should not perish,
00:42:27.78\00:42:31.58
but have everlasting life.
00:42:31.61\00:42:33.88
And we also believe
00:42:33.92\00:42:36.22
that Jesus is
going to come again.
00:42:36.25\00:42:40.02
And the trumpet song
that Dr. Belco played,
00:42:40.06\00:42:43.69
says, lift up the trumpet,
00:42:47.20\00:42:52.30
and louder it ring.
00:42:52.33\00:42:55.40
Jesus is coming again.
00:42:55.44\00:42:58.91
And so we have a
message for you tonight,
00:42:58.94\00:43:03.11
that you are
the children of God.
00:43:03.14\00:43:05.88
You are special in God's sight.
00:43:05.91\00:43:09.65
God made you.
00:43:09.68\00:43:11.62
Jesus redeemed you.
00:43:11.65\00:43:14.06
God loves you.
00:43:14.09\00:43:15.89
And you are our brothers
and our sisters in Christ.
00:43:15.92\00:43:19.76
And we salute
you and we greet you.
00:43:19.79\00:43:23.97
And we'll show you of
our love for each one of you.
00:43:24.03\00:43:28.94
At each of the
30 stopping places
00:43:28.97\00:43:31.31
from Moscow to Vladivostok,
00:43:31.34\00:43:33.98
the Carter Report team
unloaded boxes of Bibles,
00:43:34.04\00:43:36.95
medicines, vitamins,
and gospel audio cassettes.
00:43:37.01\00:43:40.92
These gifts met
spiritual and physical needs.
00:43:40.95\00:43:43.85
Here we have Bibles
for every Christian here,
00:43:43.89\00:43:47.69
for these people to
share with their friends
00:43:47.72\00:43:49.39
and their relatives,
00:43:49.42\00:43:50.83
and also many, many boxes
00:43:50.89\00:43:54.23
of all packets of
vitamins and medicines,
00:43:54.30\00:43:57.23
and also audio sets
of evangelistic talks,
00:43:57.30\00:44:01.70
and these dear folks are
going to take these Bibles
00:44:01.74\00:44:05.31
and these audio tapes
00:44:05.34\00:44:06.78
and share them
with their friends
00:44:06.81\00:44:08.51
and let the hope of
the knowledge of God
00:44:08.54\00:44:11.05
shared abroad in this place.
00:44:11.08\00:44:13.72
These cities are
desperately in need
00:44:13.75\00:44:15.75
of the Gospel of Christ.
00:44:15.78\00:44:17.62
And these precious
Christian believers
00:44:17.65\00:44:19.92
are God's ambassadors
00:44:19.95\00:44:21.76
to take Christ
00:44:21.79\00:44:23.12
and the message of salvation
00:44:23.16\00:44:25.09
to the suffering Russian people.
00:44:25.13\00:44:29.26
Ekaterinburg
00:44:29.30\00:44:30.63
named after czar
Peter's wife Catherine
00:44:30.67\00:44:33.17
is one of
Russia's most important
00:44:33.20\00:44:34.94
industrial centers
00:44:34.97\00:44:36.30
with a population of
one and a half million.
00:44:36.34\00:44:38.71
It is a city of
historical significance.
00:44:38.74\00:44:41.81
Czar Nicholas,
Tsarina Alexandra,
00:44:41.84\00:44:45.15
their four daughters and son
00:44:45.18\00:44:46.55
were brutally murdered
here by the communists in 1918.
00:44:46.58\00:44:50.65
Gary Powers, the
American U2 pilot
00:44:50.69\00:44:53.62
was shot down not far
from the Ekaterinburg,
00:44:53.66\00:44:56.36
the home of Boris Yeltsin.
00:44:56.39\00:45:00.16
The Carter Report team arrived
00:45:00.23\00:45:02.23
at the
Ekaterinburg Railway Station
00:45:02.26\00:45:04.00
at 3:59 AM
00:45:04.07\00:45:06.17
and was met by a large
group who presented the visitors
00:45:06.20\00:45:09.10
with the
traditional Russian greeting
00:45:09.14\00:45:10.81
of bread and salt.
00:45:10.84\00:45:12.57
Where else in the world
00:45:12.61\00:45:13.98
that believers
congregate to praise God
00:45:14.01\00:45:15.84
in the dead of winter at 3:59 AM
00:45:15.88\00:45:19.11
when it's minus 17 degrees.
00:45:19.15\00:45:22.15
The train is
going to leave soon.
00:45:22.18\00:45:25.62
It may only take
15 minutes to start.
00:45:25.65\00:45:31.06
Let us all get
around for prayer.
00:45:31.09\00:45:35.33
Greg, Norman, let's
all get in for prayer.
00:45:35.36\00:45:40.60
We're going to bow
our heads and have prayer.
00:45:40.64\00:45:44.07
Ask God to bless us.
00:45:44.11\00:45:46.14
Shall we bow our heads?
00:45:46.17\00:45:48.48
Our Father in heaven,
00:45:48.51\00:45:50.61
we thank You here
00:45:50.65\00:45:51.98
that in this great
city of Ekaterinburg,
00:45:52.01\00:45:57.45
this city of one and
a half million souls.
00:45:57.49\00:46:02.26
That here we have
the people of God.
00:46:02.29\00:46:05.99
Bless the pastor today.
00:46:06.03\00:46:08.40
Bless this precious
sheep of Your flock.
00:46:08.43\00:46:13.00
Protect them.
00:46:13.03\00:46:14.80
Cover them with
the blood of Jesus.
00:46:14.84\00:46:18.31
Write their names again
in the Lamb's book of life.
00:46:18.34\00:46:22.24
Give them joy and
peace and happiness.
00:46:22.28\00:46:25.98
And may they have
hope in their hearts today.
00:46:26.01\00:46:29.48
The hope of Jesus coming,
and the hope of heaven at last.
00:46:29.52\00:46:35.16
Bless these Bibles.
Bless the medicines.
00:46:35.19\00:46:38.89
Bless the audio tapes.
00:46:38.93\00:46:41.26
May they be used to win souls.
00:46:41.30\00:46:44.23
So bless these
precious people for Jesus' sake.
00:46:44.27\00:46:49.20
Amen. Amen.
00:46:49.24\00:46:52.27
To win souls
00:46:52.31\00:46:53.84
and bless these
people for Jesus' sake.
00:46:53.88\00:46:56.71
The closing words of the
prayer describe the mission
00:46:56.75\00:46:59.55
of the
Trans-Siberian Hope Express
00:46:59.58\00:47:02.58
to win souls and bless
these people for Jesus' sake.
00:47:02.62\00:47:07.49
Millions across
this vast continent
00:47:07.52\00:47:10.46
still await for the
coming of God's messengers
00:47:10.49\00:47:12.86
with God's word
of life and hope.
00:47:12.89\00:47:16.33
Two thousand years ago,
00:47:16.36\00:47:18.27
Paul, the Apostle
to the Gentiles wrote
00:47:18.30\00:47:21.00
in the Book of Romans 10:14-15.
00:47:21.04\00:47:24.37
"How then can they call
00:47:24.41\00:47:25.94
on the one they
have not believed in?
00:47:25.97\00:47:28.18
And how can they
believe in the one of whom
00:47:28.21\00:47:30.08
they have not heard?
00:47:30.15\00:47:31.48
And how can they hear
00:47:31.51\00:47:32.88
without someone
preaching to them?
00:47:32.91\00:47:35.28
And how can they
preach unless they are sent?"
00:47:35.32\00:47:40.86
During the eight day journey,
00:47:40.89\00:47:42.66
the train
crossed seven time zones,
00:47:42.69\00:47:45.33
days and nights
blurred together at all hours.
00:47:45.36\00:47:48.93
Pastor and Mrs. Carter
with their team greeted,
00:47:48.96\00:47:51.93
prayed with, preach to,
00:47:51.97\00:47:54.04
and encouraged men and women
00:47:54.10\00:47:56.00
who had kept the faith
when Christians were hated,
00:47:56.04\00:47:58.84
despised and persecuted
by the atheistic government.
00:47:58.87\00:48:03.11
They met them on ice
covered railway stations
00:48:03.14\00:48:05.31
at 1:00 AM, 3:00
AM, 6:00 AM, 11:00 AM,
00:48:05.35\00:48:11.05
3:00 PM, 10:00 PM
00:48:11.09\00:48:13.49
in towns and cities
00:48:13.52\00:48:14.86
whose strange sounding names
00:48:14.89\00:48:16.86
are largely unknown in the West.
00:48:16.89\00:48:19.89
Tyumen, Novosibirsk,
00:48:19.93\00:48:23.10
Krasnoyarsk, Cheremkhov,
00:48:23.13\00:48:26.74
Angarsk, Slavyanska, Voronezh,
00:48:26.77\00:48:32.17
Birobidzhan and others.
00:48:32.21\00:48:35.98
While time will
not permit everything,
00:48:36.01\00:48:38.51
however exciting that happened
00:48:38.55\00:48:40.25
during the 6,000
mile journey to be told,
00:48:40.32\00:48:43.05
some special
stories are included.
00:48:43.08\00:48:47.89
It was 3:34 PM,
the 25th of January,
00:48:47.92\00:48:52.09
and the temperature
was minus 15 degrees.
00:48:52.13\00:48:55.40
The place was
the railway station
00:48:55.43\00:48:57.63
at Nazivayevskay.
00:48:57.67\00:49:00.07
A babushka, Russian grandmother
00:49:00.10\00:49:02.44
came to the train,
hoping to sell three sausages.
00:49:02.47\00:49:06.71
Many of these Russian people
had not been paid their wages
00:49:06.74\00:49:09.21
or receive their
pensions for many months.
00:49:09.24\00:49:11.95
The Russian
government had run out of cash.
00:49:11.98\00:49:15.65
Again, three sausages
00:49:15.68\00:49:17.02
were the equivalent
of a week's food supply.
00:49:17.05\00:49:20.19
When she saw the
Carter Report team
00:49:20.22\00:49:21.96
holding Russian Bibles,
00:49:21.99\00:49:24.26
she immediately
offered her three sausages
00:49:24.29\00:49:26.59
for one Bible.
00:49:26.63\00:49:28.53
Pastor Carter told
her this is God's Word.
00:49:28.56\00:49:32.20
It is our gift to you.
00:49:32.23\00:49:34.14
It comes to you with our love.
00:49:34.17\00:49:36.17
It is free.
00:49:36.20\00:49:37.97
It tells the story
of the great Creator God
00:49:38.01\00:49:40.88
who gave His only Son
00:49:40.91\00:49:42.88
so that you may
have eternal life.
00:49:42.91\00:49:48.25
The prisons of Siberia
during the time of the czars
00:49:48.28\00:49:51.15
and communists
00:49:51.19\00:49:52.52
were notorious for
their inhuman treatment
00:49:52.55\00:49:54.66
of prisoners.
00:49:54.69\00:49:56.26
Today, they remain
citadels of despair.
00:49:56.29\00:50:00.00
The Carter Report team was told,
00:50:00.03\00:50:01.90
bring Bibles and
medicines to these prisons.
00:50:01.93\00:50:04.50
The doors are open to you.
00:50:04.53\00:50:06.17
The prison
officials welcome you.
00:50:06.20\00:50:09.30
More stories from
Siberia after this message.
00:50:09.34\00:50:12.51
Behind me is a
Russian work camp.
00:50:16.28\00:50:20.62
I'm John Carter in Siberia.
00:50:20.68\00:50:23.45
In these work camps
during the days of communists,
00:50:23.49\00:50:26.42
some 70 million
people were placed.
00:50:26.45\00:50:30.49
There they went through hell.
00:50:30.53\00:50:31.86
They were brutalized
and finally put to death.
00:50:31.89\00:50:36.20
I received word
just a few days ago
00:50:36.23\00:50:38.43
that conditions
are no better today
00:50:38.47\00:50:40.87
than they were back
in the days of Stalin
00:50:40.90\00:50:43.34
in these concentration camps.
00:50:43.37\00:50:46.81
We desperately need your help.
00:50:46.84\00:50:48.94
We need Bibles.
00:50:48.98\00:50:50.31
We need Bibles
00:50:50.38\00:50:51.71
because these people
need to know the gospel
00:50:51.75\00:50:53.85
and we need medicines.
00:50:53.88\00:50:55.22
We need to treat these
people for their diseases,
00:50:55.25\00:50:58.49
particularly for the
sickness of tuberculosis.
00:50:58.52\00:51:02.49
I'm asking you
today, my dear friend,
00:51:02.52\00:51:04.79
please stand with
us in this great work,
00:51:04.83\00:51:07.50
this great work of bringing hope
00:51:07.50\00:51:09.43
and the Gospel of Jesus Christ
00:51:09.46\00:51:11.67
to the suffering
Russian Siberian people.
00:51:11.70\00:51:15.04
Write to me, John
Carter, P.O. Box 1900,
00:51:15.07\00:51:18.51
Thousand Oaks,
California, 91358.
00:51:18.54\00:51:22.21
And help us to bring hope
to the people here in Siberia.
00:51:22.24\00:51:27.12
This is John Carter
reporting from Siberia.
00:51:27.18\00:51:30.65
Forty miles south
of the city of Irkutsk
00:51:38.06\00:51:40.60
is Lake Baikal 400 miles long,
00:51:40.66\00:51:44.63
and between 20
and 40 miles wide.
00:51:44.67\00:51:47.94
Lake Baikal in Siberia is
the largest freshwater lake
00:51:47.97\00:51:52.24
in the whole wide world.
00:51:52.27\00:51:54.04
It contains one-fifth
00:51:54.11\00:51:55.44
of all the fresh
water on the planet.
00:51:55.48\00:51:58.35
So severe is the
cold here in Siberia
00:51:58.38\00:52:02.75
that this lake is
completely frozen over.
00:52:02.78\00:52:06.09
The lake goes for
more than 300 miles,
00:52:06.12\00:52:08.96
just solid, solid ice.
00:52:08.99\00:52:11.23
Here you can see how
the ice has been caught
00:52:11.26\00:52:13.23
by the winds
00:52:13.26\00:52:15.56
and thrown up
against the shoreline.
00:52:15.60\00:52:18.73
It was to this inhospitable spot
00:52:18.77\00:52:22.30
on planet earth,
00:52:22.34\00:52:24.44
that millions and
millions of people came
00:52:24.47\00:52:26.64
not willingly,
00:52:26.68\00:52:28.01
but they came as the
prisoners of communism.
00:52:28.04\00:52:31.88
And here they
died by the millions.
00:52:31.91\00:52:35.12
We've come to Siberia
to bring to the survivors
00:52:35.15\00:52:38.09
of the communist, Holocaust
00:52:38.12\00:52:40.42
a message of life
and a message of hope.
00:52:40.46\00:52:43.22
We've come here to bring them
00:52:43.26\00:52:45.36
the eternal
message of Jesus Christ,
00:52:45.39\00:52:48.70
the Son of God.
00:52:48.73\00:52:51.23
The eternal
message of Jesus Christ,
00:52:51.27\00:52:53.27
the Son of God was
proclaimed just a few hours
00:52:53.30\00:52:57.14
after John Carter
visited Lake Baikal.
00:52:57.17\00:53:00.41
The place was Irkutsk,
00:53:00.48\00:53:02.24
the only stop over on
the eight day journey.
00:53:02.28\00:53:05.71
The hunger of the Russian people
00:53:05.75\00:53:07.22
for the Word of
God seems insatiable.
00:53:07.25\00:53:10.62
During the
Carter Report campaigns
00:53:10.69\00:53:12.15
in Russia and Ukraine,
00:53:12.19\00:53:14.19
people broke down the
doors of the auditoriums
00:53:14.26\00:53:16.56
to hear the Word of God,
00:53:16.59\00:53:18.73
accumulatively more
than 2 million Russians
00:53:18.76\00:53:21.63
and Ukrainians have attended
00:53:21.66\00:53:23.63
the Carter Report crusades
00:53:23.67\00:53:25.43
and tens of
thousands have accepted Christ.
00:53:25.47\00:53:30.37
And almost every stopping place
from Moscow to Vladivostok,
00:53:30.41\00:53:34.61
petitions were
presented by local churches.
00:53:34.64\00:53:37.31
"Please, we beseech
you in the name of God,
00:53:37.35\00:53:40.12
come to our city and
preach the Word of God.
00:53:40.18\00:53:43.15
Our people have been in
darkness for many years.
00:53:43.18\00:53:45.72
Please come soon.
00:53:45.75\00:53:47.12
Do not forsake us as."
00:53:47.16\00:53:51.29
As the great train traveled
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across the
wastelands of Eastern Siberia,
00:53:53.09\00:53:56.10
the Russian members
of the Carter Report team
00:53:56.13\00:53:58.70
informed the others
that this was the area
00:53:58.73\00:54:01.07
where most of the
prisoners were sent.
00:54:01.10\00:54:03.64
We're now 4,500
miles from Moscow
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on our way to Vladivostok.
00:54:07.11\00:54:08.68
We're right in the very heart
00:54:08.71\00:54:10.05
of the worst portion of Siberia.
00:54:10.08\00:54:12.31
This is where it
gets the coldest.
00:54:12.35\00:54:14.52
In this area
00:54:14.55\00:54:15.88
it is often 60
or 70 degrees below
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in winter.
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And this is the area
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where they had the
infamous death camps.
00:54:21.92\00:54:24.23
This is a part of the
infamous Gulag Archipelago
00:54:24.26\00:54:28.10
that was described so strongly
00:54:28.13\00:54:30.03
by the great Russian
Patriot Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
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Hundreds of thousands of
people were sent to these camps.
00:54:34.54\00:54:37.57
In fact, we now know
00:54:37.61\00:54:39.47
that 10 million people perished
00:54:39.51\00:54:42.78
in the Marxist's death camps,
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concentration camps,
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or as they were
called work camps
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Before the
reign of the Marxists,
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the czars, and
also sent troublemakers
00:54:53.12\00:54:55.89
to Siberia at a
small railway station,
00:54:55.92\00:54:59.53
not far from the Chinese border,
00:54:59.56\00:55:01.70
the Carter Report
team discovered a memorial
00:55:01.73\00:55:04.27
to Russia's
first freedom fighters.
00:55:04.30\00:55:07.07
Here are some of
Russia's first freedom fighters.
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These men who were
nobles wanted democracy,
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and because of
their earnest desire
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to be free men,
00:55:17.18\00:55:18.61
they were taken by the czars
00:55:18.65\00:55:20.52
and exiled to
the land of Siberia.
00:55:20.55\00:55:22.85
And so we salute them
today, the freedom fighters.
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Today, there's a new
brand of freedom fighters
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in the land of Russia.
00:55:30.06\00:55:31.76
And they are preaching
the everlasting gospel.
00:55:31.79\00:55:34.20
Jesus said,
"You'll know the truth
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and the truth
will make you free.
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Everywhere we go,
everywhere we stop,
00:55:38.77\00:55:41.60
we are being met by
groups of Christians,
00:55:41.64\00:55:44.71
men and women who
have a zeal to preach
00:55:44.74\00:55:47.88
the gospel of freedom.
00:55:47.91\00:55:49.68
And we're here to
bring them Bibles,
00:55:49.71\00:55:52.55
to help them to fight
the good fight of faith.
00:55:52.58\00:55:55.45
They are God's freedom fighters.
00:55:55.48\00:55:58.32
We need to support them.
00:55:58.35\00:56:02.16
After eight days,
00:56:02.19\00:56:03.69
the Trans-Siberian Hope Express
00:56:03.76\00:56:06.53
rolled into Vladivostok,
00:56:06.56\00:56:08.70
a home of the Pacific fleet.
00:56:08.73\00:56:11.20
The Carter Report team
00:56:11.23\00:56:12.57
was met by an enthusiastic group
00:56:12.60\00:56:13.94
of believers,
00:56:13.97\00:56:15.30
the ceremony of the
bread and salt followed
00:56:15.34\00:56:17.87
and boxes of Bibles,
00:56:17.91\00:56:19.44
medicines, vitamins
and gospel audio cassettes
00:56:19.47\00:56:22.71
were distributed.
00:56:22.74\00:56:24.38
A bitterly cold
wind was blowing,
00:56:24.41\00:56:27.05
but nothing could detract
from the warmth of the love
00:56:27.12\00:56:30.22
that flowed from
these Russian Christians.
00:56:30.29\00:56:33.19
The Carter Report
team crossed Siberia
00:56:33.22\00:56:35.19
to bring a blessing.
00:56:35.22\00:56:37.03
They in turn were blessed.
00:56:37.06\00:56:41.80
The time has
finally arrived to go home.
00:56:41.83\00:56:44.57
In a few moments,
00:56:44.60\00:56:45.93
we'll be catching the plane
00:56:45.97\00:56:47.30
back to the
United States of America.
00:56:47.34\00:56:49.74
And as I stand here,
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my mind is just
flooded with memories.
00:56:52.01\00:56:54.64
I see people
standing out in the snow.
00:56:54.68\00:56:57.61
I see little children
00:56:57.65\00:56:58.98
receiving
medicines and vitamins.
00:56:59.01\00:57:01.65
And I want to say to you
00:57:01.68\00:57:03.42
a big thank you from
the bottom of my heart
00:57:03.45\00:57:06.09
for making all of this possible.
00:57:06.12\00:57:08.46
In a sense, this is the end
00:57:08.49\00:57:11.06
of the
Trans-Siberian Hope Express.
00:57:11.09\00:57:15.03
But in another sense,
it's only just beginning.
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