Over the past 60 years,
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there's been a massive
decline in foreign missions.
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I'm sharing the gospel
through church planting.
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In the 1930s, if
somebody gave $10 in tithe,
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it gave an additional
$6 in foreign missions.
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Today, just $0.28.
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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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Over 2 billion
people in the world today
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still have no
access to the gospel.
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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
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Pastor Doug Venn
in his every day life
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as a frontline missionary.
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I pray for God's biggest dream
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and He gave me
this city of 12 million.
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Welcome to my world.
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What are you carrying?
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This is the poster for
the Adventist health expo.
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Two days till ground zero.
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Yeah, two days
till health expo starts.
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Anytime we do public meetings
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we know that there is a
behind the faith curtain,
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there's a war going
on between good and evil.
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I'm feeling the weight
of this battle in my heart,
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the spiritual battles
that we're facing are real
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and you know this is a city
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where we just need
God's grace to flow
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and through this kind of event
or through this health ministry
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we can actually see
God's grace go forward,
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that's why for me
during these events
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anchoring with
Christ is just so vital
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and so needed in to
find the quiet moments.
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I now know why Jesus ran away.
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He ran away from the group
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and He put his phone on silence,
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but then people kept
tracking Him and said
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"Why aren't you returning
your calls or your emails?
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I now know why
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because Jesus was
anchoring to the Father
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and so that's
what I need to do too.
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I read today on Wikipedia
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that the Mormon Church
has 14 million members?
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Yeah.
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And sends out
51,000 missionaries?
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You and your
irreverent questions.
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What am I supposed to
do with those facts, Jon,
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what am I supposed to do?
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You know, go to the
local LDS ward and say,
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you know, sign me up,
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we've been given
such a message of hope,
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there's a disconnect though
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because we have this bright hope
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and yet we have
this lack of workers,
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lack of support.
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You keep telling me that
mission offerings are dropping
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and I see it here you know.
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The results of
that here in Thailand
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and so how do you close that gap
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between a message that
brings the brightest hope
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and then the other hand
that actually can support
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in advancing
that message forward.
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How's that make you feel?
How's that make me feel that?
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Yeah, as a frontline missionary?
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Sometimes when I go,
when I go back to America,
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you know, people ask, well,
how's the mission field going,
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you know, on Facebook,
you know, how the friends say,
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how's it going and you know,
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typically they want to
hear ruminative response,
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everything's fine,
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but it's at times like
this that things aren't fine,
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we're running full tilt
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and we just don't
have enough people
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you know, I
imagine that if we had
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a 100 more
workers here in the city
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or even 10 or even one more.
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You know what a
difference it would make.
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What motivates me is that,
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you know, Christ
emptied heaven to save me
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and so how can I...
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How can I respond?
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And so that's what,
you know, excites me
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so it gives me an imagination
for the work that's what,
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you know, motivates
me to learn this language
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that I slaughter every day.
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And, you know,
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to make me a student of
the people and the culture
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and to, you know, try to,
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you know, mobilize
and to train and coach,
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so yeah, that's what
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motivates me is
God's love and His grace
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and so I can't
shut up about that.
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We've got to go to
work though. Yeah, okay.
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We'll catch up to you later.
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I'm hungry, I just woke up.
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So, it's the night
before that health expo
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and I slept in.
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That's healthy. What time is it?
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My humanity is showing.
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So we got to go
now and meet the team
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because we're
supposed to be there at nine.
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And it is... I
don't know, you tell me.
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It's 8:33.
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Yeah, we got to
fly. Okay, let's go.
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Several have said,
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they have been
dreaming for many years now
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to do programs like this.
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We're told to arrest
the attention of the city
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or to gather it
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and so one way
is through health,
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and so I'm excited about
seeing what that looks like
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in a modern context of arrest
in the attention of the city
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so hopefully we
can do that tomorrow.
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And the mall closes
at 10 o'clock at night
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and so that's, that's
when they want us to be there
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to help set
things up so that way
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we're already for the
program in the morning.
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Which starts at?
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We are supposed
to leave here at 7,
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get there by 8, 8:30,
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set up for an hour or
so we're ready by 9, 9:15
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and then the minister of
health will come around 10.
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Minister of
health, is he like...?
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He's the equivalent of the
certain US sergeant general.
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This is the only way
to travel here in the city
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with the sky train.
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It's like a light
rail system over the city
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so we can go far.
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We're right here
across the street is where
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that health fair
is gonna to be at
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and you can see around us
just the life of the people.
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We were walking
through the traffic
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faster than the cars are going
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because it's just so crazy here.
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Tomorrow morning this
place will be all transformed,
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so we will have the stage here
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and then the concert
and the demonstrations
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and the music and
all that kind of stuff
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will be here and then behind us
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you can see where the tents are,
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here's the health screening.
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I just kind of wish
that the traffic flow
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was more like what
we just came through,
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because if you look down here
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there's just one or two friends.
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And, you know,
the bus stops there.
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So we know that God
brought us to this place
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and God will then also
bring the people here too.
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Nicole, what are you doing?
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I'm trying to design
for the health expo website.
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It's due tomorrow at 9:00 am
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Where are you?
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I'm at MBK, so
this is design on spot.
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I was just
talking to my friend here
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and you know as we were
waiting for the team to gather,
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I was trying to
explain what's going on here,
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and so I gave her
one of the brochures
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because the Thai is more clearer
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than what I can say
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and so she said
that she's interested
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because her eyes,
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you know, she needs
to get them checked up.
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She lives here in the city
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but she comes from
another one of the...
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Province. Province, yeah.
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I wanted to say changwat.
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Changwat which is
like the province in Thai.
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So Thai is coming out of me now.
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Nicole right now
is, this is her design
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and so we just wanted her
to get a chance to open it.
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I was taking a peek
already. I like hers.
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Okay, go ahead, Nicole.
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The unveiling
of Nicole's design.
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I'm excited to see
that the team working
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but most of all I'm also excited
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that our team
is also able to see
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how we can mobilize many people
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so then that way
Christ can be uplifted,
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so that's what
excites me the most right now,
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so I'm just
seeing it come alive.
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Even though it was late at night
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I enjoyed watching them
all staff set things up,
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especially the stage,
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I watched them a long time,
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it's like
they've done it before.
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Here let's talk to
this trouble maker.
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How do you feel
now that you see this?
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I just say this
that praise the Lord
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because it's just perfect.
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All the boards that
you see that line up.
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And you see that both sides,
people will walk on both sides.
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When we look at, at the place
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I believe that there will
be many people will come and,
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will see that
what we are doing here.
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And thank all of our
people for their hard work.
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Many people say that
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our work as
Seventh-day Adventist Christians
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that we even
heard it this morning
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with one of our pastor
telling our leaders that
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we've gone, the gospel
has gone to the whole world
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and we're finished,
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so is that's the
case here in Thailand?
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No, no, no, no.
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You see, in
Thailand, we have 64 million.
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And not even 1% of
the population in Thailand
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are Christian.
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And the Seventh-day
Adventist Church had been,
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you know, here for 100 years.
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So far, we have only
about 12,000 church members.
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We still have...
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tremendous work to do.
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But, we do believe
in one thing, that is,
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when God wants his gospel
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to go to the Buddhist people.
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And yes, you understand that
the Thai people are very kind.
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They welcome
everyone to their home.
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You want to
talk with them, fine.
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But it is very
difficult for them to change.
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That's where I found that
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instead of
trying to change them,
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let Christ change
them and then that way
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they are able then
to see that difference,
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that is what Christ makes.
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It's not a intellectual,
trying to convince the people,
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one is better than another.
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We find out that
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health can
penetrate in any home.
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'Cause in every home
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at least there
will be one person
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that have health problem.
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And that's how we can,
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we as Adventists,
can give them the answer.
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And we as
Adventists, we have the message.
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And I do believe that
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this is how we can
work with the Buddhists.
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And the Buddhists believe
that when you help someone,
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when you heal
someone, you are making merit.
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You are accumulating
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your own merit
for the next life.
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What we're doing is what Christ,
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if He is here today, He
would do the same thing.
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This place, if you rent
them, it would be so expensive!
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How did you afford that?
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No, this is free of charge.
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Yes! This is free of charge.
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Yah!
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Everything is free of charge,
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including the stage at the back.
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You know the chairs that we use,
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all the tables
that we have here,
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they provided for
us, everything for free.
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How'd you do that?
How'd you pull that off?
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Well, I believe
that the Holy Spirit
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worked ahead of us.
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Amen. Amen.
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The Holy Spirit prepare for us.
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The Lord has been so good
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and He prepare
everything for us.
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You see that nearby
here, there is a sky-train,
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that travels,
that millions of people
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are traveling
everyday by this sky-train
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and the company
offer us free of charge
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to put up our poster
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at every BTS
stations around Bangkok.
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Besides that, they gave us
50% discounts for 600 tickets
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round-trip for our
staff, throughout the four days.
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Today...
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the Minister of Health,
one of his advisors called me
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said that they need
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more information
about Adventists.
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And so I sent all the materials.
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To tell them that
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we bring the love of
Christ to the Thai people.
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And by tomorrow he
will know everything,
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that why we are
doing these things.
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So, thank God for that.
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He wanted to start off
with something small, 10 people.
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Now we're at one
of the biggest malls
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and 90,000 people,
the mall staff told us
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come every day and on
the weekend a 150,000.
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And so this is where God
took our little small faith
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and He said it's not big enough.
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Not big enough.
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So what's gonna happen next?
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The government
trying to cope with
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the health
problems of the people.
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They have been
trying with many methods
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but they failed.
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They neglect one thing
that is the spiritual part.
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And that is what
we expecting that.
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Maybe in the future,
they may call us or ask us
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that what can we do to help.
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And of course, that is the time
when we can show to them that,
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here it is, the true happiness,
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the true health methods
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is found in the Bible.
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And the Seventh-Day Adventists
is now showing to the people,
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our health message is
the key, is the answer,
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for this country.
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I happened to run
into another missionary,
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so I asked him about
the progress of the gospel.
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It's estimated
that there are probably
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between 8,000 and
10,000 unreached people groups
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still remaining in the world
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that are completely untouched
by any form of Christianity
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and numbering somewhere between
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two and three billion people.
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We dare not actually
come to the conclusion
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that the world's almost
reached because it's not.
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You have to define
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what's reached and
unreached look like.
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In the reached
part of the world,
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people have
access to Christianity.
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You know, they can
walk down the street
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and they walk by
Christians, they...
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You know, they can go to a hotel
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and get a Gideon
Bible out of a hotel drawer.
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There's Christian
bookstores everywhere.
00:15:50.41\00:15:52.38
That's reached when people
have access to Christianity
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basically it will,
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and there are vast
populations in the world
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who have none of that.
00:16:01.72\00:16:03.06
I feel Christianity
is dying in America.
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Why?
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I think it's
because of lack of purpose,
00:16:06.13\00:16:08.03
because of lack of engagement,
00:16:08.06\00:16:10.27
that we have become a
people focused on ourselves,
00:16:10.30\00:16:14.24
and as soon as
you focus on yourself
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we lose God's Spirit
00:16:18.01\00:16:20.08
because God's
Spirit wasn't given
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for our personal edification,
00:16:21.58\00:16:22.98
it was given so
that we could serve Him.
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It's midnight and
we're finally heading home.
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And we're back
after a very short night.
00:16:31.69\00:16:34.89
The Lord provided us an
umbrella for cloud cover
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so that way outside
is customarily humid
00:16:37.56\00:16:40.76
or customarily hot.
00:16:40.80\00:16:42.23
We're just
praying for the people
00:16:46.90\00:16:48.27
who see this poster
00:16:48.30\00:16:49.64
that the Lord
will open their hearts
00:16:49.67\00:16:51.24
and that they'll come.
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The big moment is approaching
00:16:53.11\00:16:54.54
and all the last
minute preparations
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are being made to
welcome the minister of health.
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Here he is being
greeted by the top leadership
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of the Seventh-day
Adventist Church in Thailand.
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Pictures taken,
he is then escorted
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through the MBK mall,
00:17:07.22\00:17:08.56
so that he can be
brought to the entrance
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of the health expo.
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This is an
important and influential man
00:17:11.99\00:17:14.20
and it's a great
honor for him to come
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to the opening of this event.
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As they passed through the expo,
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the president of
the Adventist hospital
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is explaining our
approach to total health.
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They then watch
a special number.
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Nation and brothers
and you receive Father
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For you and for me...
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And the Thai minister
of health takes the podium.
00:17:35.85\00:17:38.62
The cutting of the ribbon
00:17:48.10\00:17:49.46
and the health
expo is officially open.
00:17:49.50\00:17:51.73
The health
checks, consultations,
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training and services
to the people have begun
00:17:56.94\00:17:59.44
and will continue
for four long days.
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Volunteer nurses come from
the Adventist mission hospital
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bringing their equipment to do
00:18:04.95\00:18:06.28
rather
sophisticated health checks
00:18:06.31\00:18:07.95
and services free of charge.
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Pastors, church planters,
dedicated church members
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and students from
the Adventist high school
00:18:14.06\00:18:15.69
also volunteer to help.
00:18:15.72\00:18:17.99
The Thais are very
interested in health,
00:18:18.03\00:18:19.66
so a lot of people came
through the different stations.
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There's even a children's corner
00:18:22.60\00:18:24.07
where they can do crafts
00:18:24.10\00:18:25.43
and talk with
student missionaries
00:18:25.47\00:18:26.80
while waiting for their parents.
00:18:26.84\00:18:28.77
Some of the tests they
do include cholesterol,
00:18:28.80\00:18:30.91
bone density and eye checks
00:18:30.94\00:18:32.47
along with services
like teaching and massage,
00:18:32.51\00:18:35.11
all designed to show the people
00:18:35.14\00:18:36.61
God's love for them in
real and practical ways.
00:18:36.64\00:18:40.02
The volunteers
work all day long.
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This Thai event
would not be complete
00:18:42.78\00:18:44.55
without a traditional
Thai dancer reminding us
00:18:44.59\00:18:47.06
we're not in Kansas anymore.
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It's almost 5 o'clock now
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and rush hour
has already started.
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There's several
rush hours in the city
00:18:52.83\00:18:54.90
but one of them is
right after school gets out.
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The other one is
right after five.
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Why don't we go with our friends
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and we're gonna go and
invite a few more hundred people
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to come to the health screening.
00:19:05.57\00:19:08.24
For some reason we in the
west make a strong distinction
00:19:08.28\00:19:11.41
between physical
health and spiritual health,
00:19:11.45\00:19:13.85
between church and hospital.
00:19:13.88\00:19:16.42
This is the first time
00:19:16.45\00:19:17.79
I'm seeing the
two brought together.
00:19:17.82\00:19:20.09
Here we have a pastor
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initiating and helping
coordinate a health expo
00:19:21.49\00:19:24.03
as a way to bring
the gospel to the people.
00:19:24.06\00:19:26.36
Incredible, unheard of,
00:19:26.39\00:19:28.16
but he had done
this before in America
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where he had
doctors on pastor salaries,
00:19:30.47\00:19:32.63
teaming up with pastors
00:19:32.67\00:19:34.00
for the purpose
of medical ministry.
00:19:34.04\00:19:35.74
And did you know
that once upon a time,
00:19:35.77\00:19:37.54
Loma Linda University was called
00:19:37.57\00:19:39.44
Loma Linda College
of Medical Evangelists.
00:19:39.47\00:19:43.75
Our normal strategy is to
hold an evangelistic series,
00:19:43.78\00:19:47.05
yet I've seen
traditional direct evangelism
00:19:47.08\00:19:49.48
just not working here.
00:19:49.52\00:19:50.92
In fact I witnessed a series
conducted just a month before
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this health expo and
although they spent about
00:19:53.79\00:19:55.92
the same amount of money,
only about two non believers
00:19:55.96\00:19:58.96
showed up for the meetings,
00:19:58.99\00:20:00.33
but here almost
2,000 people registered
00:20:00.36\00:20:02.90
and about 10% of those
requested further studies
00:20:02.93\00:20:05.93
in spiritual health principles.
00:20:05.97\00:20:07.77
Maybe Pastor Doug
is on to something,
00:20:07.80\00:20:10.37
but isn't that
the way Jesus worked.
00:20:10.41\00:20:12.37
He healed the people and cared
for their physical well being
00:20:12.41\00:20:15.08
and then bid them "follow Me."
00:20:15.11\00:20:17.05
In fact He healed people
00:20:17.08\00:20:18.41
whether they
followed Him or not,
00:20:18.45\00:20:20.25
and He healed free of charge.
00:20:20.28\00:20:23.22
We're just talking to
the other leaders about,
00:20:23.25\00:20:25.62
we've got some
machines that are overheating
00:20:25.65\00:20:28.12
like the bone density, the EKG
and some of these other things
00:20:28.16\00:20:31.79
that there is too much to use.
00:20:31.83\00:20:33.80
Do you want to shut it down?
00:20:33.83\00:20:35.16
Why do you shut it down
when, if you look around
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this is gonna be one
of the busiest times.
00:20:37.43\00:20:39.90
What we're noticing is that
many people are going through
00:20:39.93\00:20:44.04
the health expo but
we're not able to get
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their names and
their information.
00:20:46.11\00:20:48.11
Do you have things that
00:20:48.14\00:20:49.48
when they come through the booth
00:20:49.51\00:20:50.85
that we can give them
besides a gospel tract?
00:20:50.88\00:20:54.82
We've got Bible
studies, but, see,
00:20:54.85\00:20:57.32
it kind of throws off
that personal relationship
00:20:57.35\00:21:00.06
that you meet
them, you serve them
00:21:00.09\00:21:02.82
and then you offer
further service to them
00:21:02.86\00:21:06.36
you know, whether it's
health, or Bible study or other,
00:21:06.39\00:21:09.90
you know other follow up.
00:21:09.93\00:21:12.43
And the team over there,
they're praying with people,
00:21:12.47\00:21:15.74
and that's one of
the most important.
00:21:15.77\00:21:17.74
Pastor Konkar, one
of our church planters
00:21:17.77\00:21:19.84
is having a Bible
study with someone.
00:21:19.87\00:21:22.08
That's super cool.
00:21:22.11\00:21:23.88
Having Bible studies here
at MBK is a divine appointment,
00:21:23.91\00:21:28.15
although that wasn't
part, specific course,
00:21:28.18\00:21:31.55
they have Bible
studies right away.
00:21:31.59\00:21:33.15
I saw the lady on the bus.
00:21:55.81\00:21:57.85
She's trying to look
and trying to figure out
00:21:57.88\00:21:59.65
what's going on over there.
00:21:59.68\00:22:01.15
And so I went and
grabbed the brochure
00:22:01.18\00:22:03.65
and gave it to her.
00:22:03.69\00:22:05.02
I said, hey, when
you're free, stop by,
00:22:05.05\00:22:07.76
we're doing this health
screening for four days.
00:22:07.79\00:22:10.09
It's the fourth
day of the health expo
00:22:23.24\00:22:24.91
and I'm tired.
00:22:24.94\00:22:26.47
The first day we had
457, the next day we had 403
00:22:26.51\00:22:31.11
and yesterday
Sabbath we had over 600.
00:22:31.15\00:22:33.95
As result of
our first day's data
00:22:33.98\00:22:36.05
that as we complied,
00:22:36.08\00:22:37.45
we found out of that 457
people that 10% or 49 people
00:22:37.49\00:22:43.53
are requesting resources
00:22:43.56\00:22:45.66
to improve
their spiritual health
00:22:45.69\00:22:47.56
and that includes Bible study,
00:22:47.60\00:22:49.06
and so that to me is
just a giant win back on.
00:22:49.10\00:22:53.57
The team here is
discovering that when combined
00:22:53.60\00:22:57.41
the physical, and spiritual,
and mental health all together,
00:22:57.44\00:23:01.61
then we are able to
minister in a holistic way
00:23:01.64\00:23:05.08
that is completely
relevant to the Thai society.
00:23:05.11\00:23:08.08
We had a goal of
serving like a thousand people.
00:23:08.12\00:23:12.82
We've already exceeded that goal
00:23:12.85\00:23:14.66
as well as in another,
00:23:14.69\00:23:16.02
one of our goals
to more like city,
00:23:16.06\00:23:18.59
the church
members in our schools
00:23:18.63\00:23:20.56
but as the goal
of reaching the city,
00:23:20.60\00:23:22.93
praise God that we've
been able to reach several,
00:23:22.96\00:23:26.20
impacts several thousand people
00:23:26.23\00:23:28.07
but again this is,
it's just the start.
00:23:28.10\00:23:32.54
The Thai society
combines lifestyle with faith,
00:23:32.57\00:23:37.85
and so this is
something where as Christians
00:23:37.88\00:23:42.15
many denominations are
separated what you believe
00:23:42.18\00:23:46.55
from what you practice.
00:23:46.59\00:23:48.02
Like here in Thailand,
00:23:48.06\00:23:49.39
what difference does it
make in the life, you know,
00:23:49.42\00:23:52.96
the fact that you believe
00:23:52.99\00:23:55.03
me to make a
difference in everyday life.
00:23:55.06\00:23:58.37
And so this is
something where when,
00:23:58.40\00:24:00.24
when we combine
the health message
00:24:00.27\00:24:02.80
with the gospel message,
the society is able to see
00:24:02.84\00:24:05.91
a clear picture of God
00:24:05.94\00:24:08.18
and His love, His grace His plan
00:24:08.21\00:24:10.81
as well as
Seventh-day Adventist.
00:24:10.85\00:24:13.21
The Adventist message
is truly to prepare people
00:24:13.25\00:24:16.48
for Christ's second
coming, and just like
00:24:16.52\00:24:18.69
Christ cared for
people, social needs,
00:24:18.72\00:24:22.42
the woman at the well, you know,
00:24:22.46\00:24:24.13
Christ met her at a level
00:24:24.16\00:24:26.46
that He was able to
minister to her in a short time
00:24:26.49\00:24:30.73
to meet those social
needs that transformed her life,
00:24:30.77\00:24:34.57
and thus that
transformed the village
00:24:34.60\00:24:37.01
and thus it transformed
the people, the Samaritans.
00:24:37.04\00:24:41.18
When we separate
the medical ministry
00:26:11.20\00:26:14.27
from the gospel ministry,
00:26:14.30\00:26:16.34
it's like we're
hacking out the body of Christ
00:26:16.37\00:26:20.74
and so thus we,
00:26:20.78\00:26:22.14
pastors become irrelevant
in trying to meet the needs.
00:26:22.18\00:26:27.22
And so thus the
physician becomes
00:26:27.25\00:26:29.78
the almighty super hero
00:26:29.82\00:26:31.15
in his or her white
cape or white jacket
00:26:31.19\00:26:34.69
and they can conquer anything.
00:26:34.72\00:26:36.26
But see, that's not the
picture that Christ portrayed.
00:26:36.29\00:26:40.30
Christ portrayed
an holistic picture.
00:26:40.33\00:26:43.10
Unfortunately
there's many pastors
00:26:43.13\00:26:45.73
like myself who...
00:26:45.77\00:26:48.74
We are trying to do our best
00:26:48.77\00:26:51.77
but when we don't
partner with the doctors,
00:26:51.81\00:26:53.98
then our ministry is limited.
00:26:54.01\00:26:56.14
One author, he puts it this way
00:26:56.18\00:26:57.81
that the physician is
10 times more effective
00:26:57.85\00:27:00.98
in ministry coming close
to the heart than the pastor,
00:27:01.02\00:27:04.09
and so this
kind of effectiveness
00:27:04.12\00:27:05.89
I'm looking for, I'm
looking for every edge
00:27:05.92\00:27:08.42
and if it means
getting out of the way,
00:27:08.46\00:27:10.96
so that way we got people
00:27:10.99\00:27:12.33
who are more
effective can do the work
00:27:12.36\00:27:13.80
than I would do that.
00:27:13.83\00:27:15.26
The physicians are happy
that they can actually minister
00:27:15.30\00:27:19.57
not only just to
the physical body.
00:27:19.60\00:27:21.54
When the
physician is able to see
00:27:21.57\00:27:24.04
the change in attitude
00:27:24.07\00:27:26.07
and change that
the gospel brings,
00:27:26.11\00:27:29.84
that just brings
in so much more joy.
00:27:29.88\00:27:32.25
We're here with this
Adventist health expo
00:27:32.28\00:27:34.58
are doing a community service,
00:27:34.62\00:27:39.12
but it's also
then in that process,
00:27:39.15\00:27:41.32
in that
relationship then to point them
00:27:41.36\00:27:44.53
to the great physician,
00:27:44.56\00:27:46.19
so that way they can
have the best life now
00:27:46.23\00:27:48.23
as well as then the
opportunity to choose,
00:27:48.26\00:27:50.93
you have the
best life in heaven.
00:27:50.97\00:27:53.87
Bangkok is just
one of the cities
00:28:13.12\00:28:15.06
where we have
barely touched the surface
00:28:15.09\00:28:17.36
in reaching the
people with the gospel.
00:28:17.39\00:28:19.59
In 1910, Ellen White wrote
00:28:19.63\00:28:21.76
and it's recorded in
Medical Ministry, page 304,
00:28:21.80\00:28:25.20
"When the cities are
worked as God would have them,
00:28:25.23\00:28:27.57
the result will be
00:28:27.60\00:28:28.94
the setting in
operation of a mighty movement
00:28:28.97\00:28:32.07
such as we have
not yet witnessed."
00:28:32.11\00:28:34.81
Your support of
mission giving will help us
00:28:34.84\00:28:37.75
to reach the big
cities with God's plans
00:28:37.78\00:28:41.08
helping to initiate
00:28:41.12\00:28:42.48
that wonderful
heavenly mighty movement.
00:28:42.52\00:28:45.49
Next week,
00:29:19.92\00:29:21.26
what's it like to try to
reach a large city like Bangkok
00:29:21.29\00:29:24.03
when the funds aren't there?
00:29:24.06\00:29:26.03
We can't work.
00:29:26.06\00:29:27.56
Watch, I want
this city, Wednesday.
00:29:27.60\00:29:29.76