And over the past 60 years
there's been a massive decline
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in foreign missions.
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I'm sharing the gospel
through Church Planting.
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In the 1930's if
somebody gave $10.00 in tithe
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they'd give an additional
$6.00 in foreign missions;
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today just 28 cents.
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We're doing the best
we can with what we have,
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but I'm still not satisfied.
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God's crazy in love
with the Thai people,
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and I sense His spirit
hovering over the city.
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I've come to Bangkok,
Thailand to discover the truth
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about foreign missions.
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Come with me as I follow my
good friend, Pastor Doug Venn,
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in his everyday life of
a front line missionary.
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I prayed for God's biggest
dream, and He gave me this
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city of 12 million.
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Welcome to my world.
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We're here at the
Nonthoburi Church Plant.
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And I'm just talking to
one of the neighbors here,
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because yesterday on the
third floor there was a fire.
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I was going to ask
permission to see if we
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can go check it out.
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The water from
the Fire Department is
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still coming down, so...
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These are the ovens that
they use for the painting of the
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different parts
for the motorcycles.
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You can see the
fire caught and melted...
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So our friends here are making
the different motorcycle parts,
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and I'm going to
go upstairs here.
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So I need... Oh, here's what
could have started the fire.
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So there was a fan and the
paint thinner caught on fire,
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and so that's why yesterday
they had kind of like...
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They had a shelter over these
two areas, and it's now burned.
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Did the fan have like an
electrical short or something?
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Electrical short. You
can see, the next two over?
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That is where
the Church Plant is.
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The Lord protected us.
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I can't believe
this, that no one was hurt;
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it didn't continue.
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Nothing; I mean our
Church Plant is right next door!
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Oh, this is the paint thinner.
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I need, I need... Oh,
this is what started the fire.
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But it was open. Oh, and
so that's what caught on fire.
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And of all of
these paint thinner cans,
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they're right on the
other side of this door,
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and if they'd caught fire
this could have burned down
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on the other side? Yes. Right.
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Oh, so they've already taken two
trucks load of the rubble away.
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Do you have insurance? No.
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So if it would have gone down
the whole building would have
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exploded, because you see
underneath; you saw on the
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stairway there with all
of the cans of paint thinner,
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there's one thing that had 200
liters of this paint thinner.
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And so this was just one gallon.
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I'm going to share with him
that I see that this is God's
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hand protecting them.
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And so then that way to
show His love and grace to them.
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So that's what I'm
going to try to say in Thai,
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whether that comes across
or not, that's another story.
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Now we're heading
to the Church Plant.
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It's housed in a three
story building with apartments
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upstairs for
the full time staff.
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This is our Church Planting
team, and I was just asking them
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what happened
yesterday, and what time.
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So _, what time did
it happen yesterday?
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Around 9 o'clock.
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In the morning?
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In the morning.
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And so what did you guys do?
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Run! We just runned.
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I saw the fire. I came out.
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Oh, something's
wrong over there.
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I just go run; get my things.
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And he say, I don't
know what I'm doing.
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Got to take my
things. Your stuff?
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Can you tell me how long has
it been since this Church Plant
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has been in this community?
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I have been for
five years already.
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But Ajun Myo; and
so Ajun Myo is now a
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missionary at the hospital.
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So he is now serving there.
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But Ajun Myo, what was it
like when you first came here?
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What is the
background of these people?
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What is their faith background?
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So what was it like for you,
as I know you were the first
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Church Planting pioneer here.
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And so what was it
like for you to live Christ,
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and to experience God's grace,
but then to start, you know,
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over time start sharing
that with your English students?
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How did you see God
work not only in your life,
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but in the lives
of some of these?
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Can you tell us the story?
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The program's about
to start, but I wanted...
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There's so many other stories
of how God has been working
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in the lives of
these men and women.
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And some of them are
still in the valley of decision.
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One last question before we go
and start the program Ajun Myo.
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What... If this Church Plant
wasn't here, would these people
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have a chance to
know Jesus Christ?
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So I was asking Miss
Gyn, whom is a Buddhist,
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that five years ago,
when the center just started,
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and she came to hear, to
study English; had you ever
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heard of Jesus Christ before?
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And her answer to me was no.
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She'd never heard the
story about Jesus before.
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Okay, so she
was forty years old.
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But what language is
3ABN in, or Hope channel?
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But right now
what language is it in?
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Some of these women are
house wives or business women
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in the community here.
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They have been seeing how God
has been igniting one of their
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friends, and how God has
been changing their life,
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and marriage, and their family.
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And then the others are like
they're starting to feel that
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fire warming their hearts.
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And so to me that is why, over
the last five years, to see that
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spark ignite one, and then
starting to ignite another,
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and that gives me such...
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But I've been only
viewing through your eyes,
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over your shoulders as
you've been here in the field.
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Ajun Myo has been an inspiration
for me to see how God has been
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working, not only in his life,
through him, but also in the
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lives of these men and women's.
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So the program's
going to start now,
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so we don't want
to be late. Yeah.
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Right now we're singing Oh Come
All Ye Faithful, but as I look
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around many of these people,
they don't know this song,
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because this could be the first
time they're singing it today.
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Oh come let us adore Him...
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Silent Night, Holy Night.
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Ah no, A. Silent...
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Silent night, holy night,
all is calm, all is light.
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Right now we're singing
different beautiful songs,
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but the background on
these songs and the language is
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something that we have
give explanation, because...
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We're praying now, and
Dr. __ is telling the story
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of what's the real story about
Christmas to help the audience
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know he's giving an
overview of Who is God?
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He's... God is the Creator.
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And why did He come to
this Earth, and what's going on?
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Because many of these people,
they have no background at all
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in the Christian stories,
or the Christian perspective,
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or even the words that we use.
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And so that's one thing
that in our Church Planting work
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we have to give
explanation in ways that the
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people can understand.
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And you can't just
come in and say, you know,
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like right now, Who's Satan?
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Who is that? He's just
saying that the Thai's,
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they don't know this.
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But yet you see
the game Internet Shop.
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Today the Thai kids get
to see all kinds of evil,
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and where, where
does that evil come from?
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And so we have to teach
the kids that there's good
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and there's evil, and
this great controversy,
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and there's God,
and there's Satan.
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And we have to teach
our kids, you need to choose
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the good and not the evil.
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Dr. _ right now is
talking about how...
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Where did these
religions come from?
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This is a misconception
that many Thai's have is that
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Christianity is
a foreign religion.
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And so that's why Dr. _
right now is reminding them
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with the map that Christianity,
it's roots are actually ancient.
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And so whenever I
ask that question,
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Where does Christianity come
from? many Thai's are surprised
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that it is
actually an Asian religion.
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This Church Plant is
based in the community,
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and we were able to get
a good deal on the rent.
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But we're in a
light industrial park.
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But over the last
five years God has blessed.
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And despite the noise
pollution, the air pollution,
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and you saw our
neighbors with their painting,
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and fixing motorcycles.
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On a typical day here you'll
hear the lumber mill cutting
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wood over there, or the
printing press printing.
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So it's just, it's a
light industrial park.
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But God has just used us in
this place to share the gospel,
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and God's word is
going out in mighty ways.
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One lady who you talked to
today, she, when the team first
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opened the Bible she just
got in their face and said,
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Why are we studying that?
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And so for five years the team
has been faithfully sowing God's
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seed, God's word into the
lives of these men and women.
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And over time, now
they can sit through a
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sermon and understand.
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It's also a reminder of
how much more we have to go,
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because these men and
women would never have heard
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the gospel had we not
come to this community.
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And there's thousands more
little side streets like this
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across the city that
I'm just overwhelmed that
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we have to go forward.
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But this last week was a rude
reminder that our funding is
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not enough, the
staff aren't enough.
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And so it just,
from a human perspective,
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it's like
impossible, impossible.
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_ we have to go now.
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I just want to say Thank
you so much for your sacrifice,
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and for letting Christ be
uplifted. God bless you man.
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I'm so proud of
what you're doing here,
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so keep up the good work. Yeah.
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Let's cross over to the other
side of the city to another
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Church Plant that doesn't
have a permanent location yet,
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because again,
of a lack of funds.
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Welcome to the Khlong Toei
District that includes Bangkok's
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largest slum of
about 80,000 people.
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This is a daily wages working
community that's trying to fight
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its way out of poverty.
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The children born here don't
have much hope for improving
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their lives as this neighborhood
is becoming more and more
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crowded, domestic and
gang violence is commonplace,
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and child abuse is rampant.
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Many of the men go to work in
the nearby river port for their
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daily survival, or develop
simple skills, like this young
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artisan making little
fishing cowboy candy monkey's,
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as he was taught by his father.
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Bringing hope to
places like this is the
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essence of Christianity.
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Jesus said, I have
been anointed to preach
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the gospel to the poor.
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So you would expect to find
a lot of Seventh-day Adventists
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here, or at the very least a
lot of support for those that
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are doing this work.
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This is the Community Health
Center, and it's the only public
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meeting place in
this entire neighborhood.
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We've been granted free
access to use it, but as you can
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imagine, it's often
being used for other functions.
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We really need a
place of our own.
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You may ask yourself,
Can I make a difference with
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my mission offerings?
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When we don't give there
are real costs: lives are lost;
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lives like the lives of these
kids, and millions like them
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all around the world.
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What is your name?
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What is my name? My name is
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What's your name?
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My name is _.
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_, nice to meet you
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And your name?
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We're next to one of Bangkok's
largest slums, and our team...
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There's other groups who've been
working here for decades trying
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to share the
gospel in practical ways.
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But we've been
here now for four years,
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and God's opened great doors.
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We've been working
with the community leader.
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And when we do activities, or
have camps, and stuff like that,
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we invite the
community leader along.
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We've done health
education, Diabetes education,
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we've done natural remedies, all
kinds of different health things
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in this community,
and the Lord has just
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opened incredible doors.
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We're starting to do small
groups here, now that we've been
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able to tear down
some of the prejudice.
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And just this year the
community leaders of this...
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There's ten housing
developments, housing complexes
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here, and their government,
or their kind of, I'm not quite
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sure how to describe it _.
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So that's like the community
committee who kind of rules,
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or oversees this
political district.
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They tell me there's around
10,000 adults, and that's not
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counting the kids who live
in these housing developments.
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So we're right next
to that, the slum area.
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But they met together,
this community committee,
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and they said to us, I was
there at the meeting, they said,
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Please, we want you to be here
full time, because, Thank you
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so much for teaching English,
thank you so much for doing
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health programs, and thank you
so much for doing all of these
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other ways to
serve in the community,
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but we'd like you
to be here full time.
00:23:02.11\00:23:04.81
And we said, Great!
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What a great opportunity!
00:23:07.15\00:23:08.65
So they took us to the place
where they said, Yeah, you can,
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on this first floor
you can prepare this
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space to be your church.
00:23:14.66\00:23:16.66
And, please, we want you to
teach your religion as well.
00:23:16.69\00:23:21.23
And I just was rejoicing,
but it's been what, ten months,
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eleven months since that meeting
and our leaders, they were here
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just this last week, and they
were saying it's too expensive.
00:23:32.14\00:23:36.78
We can't build
the facility here.
00:23:37.48\00:23:41.78
The community leaders
have asked us to be here,
00:23:41.82\00:23:44.79
but our church leaders
say it's too expensive.
00:23:44.82\00:23:47.72
And so in my heart I
rejoice that we've got...
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Well, I don't know, I
didn't count the kids.
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We've got sixty kids here
for this Christmas activity,
00:23:53.19\00:23:57.17
and this place is just
jam packed with people who are
00:23:57.20\00:24:00.84
longing to meet someone
that you and I know very dearly,
00:24:00.87\00:24:07.38
and that's Jesus Christ.
00:24:07.41\00:24:08.74
And we've got this open door,
but instead of an open door,
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we just see the dollars.
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So, anyway, it's
a day of rejoicing,
00:24:18.45\00:24:22.42
but in my heart I'm also sad.
00:24:22.46\00:24:28.53
The Church Planting
pastor has got some blueprints
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from a builder, and it looks
like it will be about a million
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_, and in U.S. dollars
today that's around $30,000.
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So I know that may not
seem like a lot of money to you
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and to me, but that's...
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You can just
describe it in 7 million _.
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It's like a million dollars.
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Why would $30,000 seem
like such a lot of money?
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If your local church were
building a fellowship hall,
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it would be no
problem raising that amount.
00:25:12.84\00:25:15.24
But the fact is that that's
two thirds of the Thailand
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Adventist Mission's entire
yearly budget for the whole
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country of 65 million people:
for all outreach, evangelism,
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publishing,
personal ministries, etc.
00:25:25.72\00:25:28.09
And this is in a country that is
less than one percent Christian.
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How could this be? How could a
country that has so much need of
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hearing the gospel
have so little resources
00:25:36.10\00:25:38.70
with which to share it?
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In 1933 the average Adventist in
North America gave about $311.00
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a year in tithe in today's
money, and an additional $193.00
00:25:45.41\00:25:49.78
through the church
toward foreign missions.
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In 2006 the average Adventist
gave about $820.00 per year in
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tithe, which is more
than two and a half times
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what it was in 1933.
00:25:58.85\00:26:00.66
But when it comes
to foreign missions,
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today the average Adventist
will give only about $21.00,
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which is 89% less than before.
00:26:06.26\00:26:09.26
This drop in giving
didn't exactly happen suddenly.
00:26:10.73\00:26:13.34
It's been a long, slow, gradual
decline to where we are today.
00:26:13.37\00:26:17.44
And as you can see,
our mission program is
00:26:17.47\00:26:20.04
statistically nearly extinct.
00:26:20.08\00:26:22.38
The truth is we spend
eight times more on pets,
00:26:22.44\00:26:25.28
and seventeen times more
on our local church budget.
00:26:25.31\00:26:28.28
How do you think this
makes the missionaries feel?
00:26:28.32\00:26:31.22
We've been here for four
years serving the people,
00:26:33.99\00:26:36.59
and boys and
girls, and the families.
00:26:36.62\00:26:39.43
Our lack of giving tells
our missionaries and leaders
00:26:40.56\00:26:43.16
in other countries that we
don't care about the people that
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they're trying to reach.
00:26:45.93\00:26:47.27
It sends a strong signal to
them that says, Don't expand,
00:26:47.30\00:26:50.27
don't do more soul winning,
don't reach out to the poor.
00:26:50.31\00:26:53.68
We are telling them, and
the universe, that we don't care
00:26:53.71\00:26:57.48
about the lost souls for whom
Christ died, so why should they?
00:26:57.51\00:27:01.15
We're saying that our money is
more important to us than those
00:27:01.85\00:27:04.65
people are, and we've been
telling them this for decades.
00:27:04.69\00:27:08.02
And these are the working
class; people who the government
00:27:11.69\00:27:15.06
is trying to get them
out of poverty and to who are
00:27:15.10\00:27:18.53
looking for education.
00:27:18.60\00:27:20.24
Their community leaders asked us
to teach IT, to teach computers,
00:27:20.27\00:27:26.04
to teach media to help them get
out of this cycle of poverty.
00:27:26.07\00:27:30.48
And via our own closed eyes,
we don't see that this is Jesus
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Christ... Let's stop now.
00:27:42.02\00:27:57.61
The mission challenge
that we face today is greater
00:28:15.12\00:28:18.43
than ever before, yet for the
last seventy years our mission
00:28:18.46\00:28:23.26
offerings have been dropping.
00:28:23.30\00:28:25.27
But we can change that.
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If every Adventist in North
America would simply give $1.00
00:28:27.40\00:28:31.21
a week for mission offerings,
it would double the amount
00:28:31.24\00:28:35.78
that is now being given.
00:28:35.81\00:28:37.81
Will you join me in
that commitment to make a
00:28:37.85\00:28:41.65
difference for Jesus Christ?
00:28:41.68\00:28:43.39
Check it out:
AdventistMission.org.
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Every person matters to God,
and every dollar that you give
00:28:46.39\00:28:49.59
for mission helps us
to reach one more person.
00:28:49.62\00:28:51.99
And I'm so grateful to everyone
who's sacrificed for mission.
00:28:52.03\00:28:56.70
One day soon you'll be able
to meet the people who found
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Jesus because you gave.
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