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 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
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to discover the truth
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
as a frontline missionary.
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I prayed 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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This is a neighborhood
on the east side of Bangkok
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in the Ramkhamhaeng district
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dominated by this massive
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thousand unit apartment complex.
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Right across the street is
our Hope for Bangkok Church plan
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led by Reben and his wife.
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Our theme for this
week, Jesus loves you.
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This program is not a
reaping but we plant seeds.
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Pastor Jim is our guest speaker
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from the
Southern Pacific Division.
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He's the director
of Adventist Mission,
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and we invited him to come here
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to meet some of our parents here
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to make friends with them.
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There are so many
beautiful temples here.
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I'm reminded that Christ wants
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to make each one
of us His temple.
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Here he is. Good
morning, good to see you.
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Morning, morning, morning.
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He's doing a TV show,
so you're part of it now.
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Praise the Lord, you made it.
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And praise the
Lord that we're here,
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and praise the
Lord, I didn't die.
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You had some big cities
for in your previous job.
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Yeah, but nothing
in comparison to these,
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these are monster cities.
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What was the biggest
city in your conference?
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Denver. Denver.
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Four million, that doesn't
even get on the radar screen.
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People in my division
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talk to me by
getting some funding,
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like, "Oh, how
big is your city?"
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"Oh, four million," I go...
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"We can't help you.
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"We only help those
with 10 million and above."
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So have you seen
the website 192021.com?
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It says, there
will be 19 cities.
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By the year 2020,
they'll have 21 million.
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Now as a conference leader,
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how was your
guys' mission giving?
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Oh, it crept along there,
and then seemed kind of level.
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If mission giving is
down, that really is a statement
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that people don't believe
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there's a need.
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Okay, and so I've
had friends in the US,
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missionaries who have come
back to SSD and told me that,
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"Wow I was home,
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and I ran into it
over, and over, and over."
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People saying, "Well,
what do we need missions for?
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The work's done!
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We're just waiting
for Jesus to come."
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Or the Sunday law.
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Or the Sunday law, that
will bring them all in, right?
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If I were to put, you
know, my blinders on and say,
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"Well, my
neighbors, they've all heard.
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We had evangelistic
meetings in our city.
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You know 100 of
them, and my town's heard."
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This idea that we
are in a fortress,
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everyone, you know,
were going to be saved
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because we have these
ideas, these biblical truths...
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is limited in the fact that
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what does these
truths motivate you to do.
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Do you even care
about other people?
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Does the message of
hope that I claim to have,
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does it motivate me to
be less selfish in my time,
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in my money,
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in how I
interact with the society?
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Those are big questions.
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This is the church plant.
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Yeah, I've been here.
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This is the team that's
gathered to meet Pastor Jim
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and plan out the week's program.
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In history, they came.
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Foreigner, I don't
know, missionary from Spain,
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from France, from
Portugal, they came.
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Yeah, Italy,
they came and helped.
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They used the medical helping,
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and some of them,
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not all of them, some of them,
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they entered to the, you know,
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to the government,
to the high position,
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and they get some,
you know, some position,
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and then become somebody,
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and finally in
the past they control.
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Ninety Five
percent of Buddhists,
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very, very strong, very strong.
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What we can do?
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We can share our
love, we can share...
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We have to exist,
and live among them,
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and help them,
and care for them,
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even without
mentioning of preaching.
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Your job as
professional pastors,
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as professional caregivers
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gives to
understand your culture,
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to understand your
people, and to figure out,
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"Okay, how do I
communicate the good news?
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How do I get the
trust levels, 'cause it's,"
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you know what teeter-totter is?
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Okay, if you have
high resistance, no trust.
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So as the resistance goes
down, the trust level goes up.
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And that usually
takes time, relationships.
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And that's, as I look at
that, that's what this is.
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This is a teeter-totter
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where you're trying to
increase the relationships,
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lower the resistance,
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so people simply get to
know you as a friend, right?
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Okay, so that's
what you're doing.
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And that takes lots
and lots and lots of time.
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Now that's where, simply
they're talking about myself.
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I go, "Wait a minute,"
then I need to disappear.
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If you've got into this house,
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this is venturing
for the last few weeks,
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then suddenly
here comes this falang.
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She is going to be sitting
there the whole time going,
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"Why is he here?
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Who is he?
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Why is he here?
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Who is he?
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Why is he here? Who is he?"
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And she is not going
to hear a thing you say.
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Okay?
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And that's why
I'm gonna tell you,
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"I love you but I
don't think I should go."
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Not while I'm here for a week.
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Okay?
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Simply because,
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if I understand the whole
issue of the teeter-totter
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of resistance and trust,
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you've been working for
weeks to slowly move that.
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For me to show up,
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is gonna do this
to the teeter-totter,
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you're slowly moving...
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That's what it does.
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Okay?
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And so, please, I
hope you take no offence.
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I think it's better
for me to stay away.
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I'm happy to come
here, and talk with you,
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and pray with you,
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and we can talk
about whatever you want
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in the morning.
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But frankly, to
go out and visit,
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I don't think that's helpful.
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And every book that say, says,
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"Unless I'm here for a year,
and I know how to speak Thai,
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and I started dressing Thai,
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I should stay away."
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Let's be real,
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what we have done is
not working, all right?
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Yeah, it works in Philippines.
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All right?
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So in this division, you go out,
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you hold meetings, you do it.
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Boom! You're baptizing 100.
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You set up a new church, okay.
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It works in Manado,
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because there's all
kinds of Christians,
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you have to set meetings.
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It takes two years for them
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to have a church full of people,
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three years before they
have their own church building.
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What, what's
wrong with you, Doug?
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How come you don't have
your own church building?
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Okay.
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So that's where
from the division
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which you need to hear me
clearly saying to these guys,
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"I'm not here to
repeat all the mistakes
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that have gone on for 100 years.
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I'm not even here
to try and tell you
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what we should be doing."
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Because every
book that I read about
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in terms of Thai
and Buddhism goes...
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We don't know.
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I'm here to support you, okay.
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And most important
thing I can do to support you
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is to show up, to say to
you, "I love you, here's $4000."
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As a result of Jim being here,
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we've been centered.
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Now we'll have programming money
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for the next year.
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Through small groups
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and through our already
teaching of the English,
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we have the trust of the people.
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We have a bridge,
it's a natural bridge.
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Reben will continue.
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After this week is over, he
will continue teaching here.
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By God's grace,
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this center will still be
here in the next five years,
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five to seven years.
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Father, thank You
for this good discussion,
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thank You for the honesty,
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thank You for the chance
to just be Your servants here,
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Your disciples.
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We were given
permission to film the team
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as they began
visiting the neighbors.
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I was just asking if
there's, in this area,
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if there's methamphetamines
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or it is called
Thai's crazy medicine,
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if that's a
problem in this community.
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As mothers, they say
there isn't no problems now.
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So she is saying that her
kids are not obedient to her,
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and they're really stubborn,
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wherein unlike what
you were saying, Reben,
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is that they are very active.
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So her kids are active,
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and they like to
play all kinds of sports.
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I was just saying that
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you're preparing
your next year's plans,
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and you're, you know,
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talking about different
activities for the kids
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including exercise,
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and so they're agreeing
that that's a good thing.
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What's happening with Sabbath?
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Oh, yeah, we have...
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We have
invitation for the event.
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So I was saying that the
songs that they'll be singing,
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or at least I tried to say that
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the songs that
they would be singing,
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you know, God will help the kids
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obey their mother,
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and to give
respect to their mother,
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and also not be so stubborn.
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I was also sharing
with them that, you know,
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even my children have benefited
from the church plants,
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there are these centers,
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because it teaches
them not to be selfish
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or tight fisted
with their lives,
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so that way,
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and she was saying
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helping me with the
proper Thai word to say.
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One of the mindsets in
America for Christians is that
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missions is...
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If it's not done
already, it's almost done,
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it's just about there.
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What are your feelings on that?
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Well, when I go
home, I tell people,
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"Well, Jesus
can't come tonight."
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And they look at me,
"Oh, what do you mean?
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He's coming in a day now."
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And I go, "Well, there are
millions, millions, billions
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who have never heard of Jesus."
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So I think it's safe to
say He's not coming tonight.
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And last Sunday, I go to MBK.
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Oh, what do you think?
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I think it's very good.
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So what did you think of
the Adventist Health Expo?
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I think it's a good idea
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to help the public.
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Health promotion is okay
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because it's a
prevention for the disease.
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Right.
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Newstart.
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Yeah, Newstart.
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We are in the health industry,
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so we know
something about that topic,
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but I think it's
very good for the people
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that don't know much about this.
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I wanted today, and we
need to get better acquainted,
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and to find out from you
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what are the
needs from your school,
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as well as what are the needs,
because you're training nurses.
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Yes.
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And this is something asked,
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we are also in health education,
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we also we can work together.
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But do you know
why we, as Christians,
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are involved in health?
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Do you understand?
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No.
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Can you explain? I
don't quite understand.
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Okay, all right.
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At first, it starts of
with very ancient scriptures.
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And so this here is,
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I don't know if
you've ever seen this.
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It's the Bible.
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Well, this actually
is the Jewish Bible.
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Yeah.
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So this comes from
many thousands of years ago.
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God, when He
first made the world,
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He gave us
choice, the opportunity,
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and that's where He
wanted to give us the best life.
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Spiritual
health, spiritual life,
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our mental health,
our physical health
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and then how we
relate to each other
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into our environment.
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That's why I'm a vegetarian.
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Why, why am I a
vegetarian all year long?
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Not just nine days
on the day first of all.
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So it is because
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that God wants to
give me the best life now,
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the best health,
and the clearest mind,
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so then that way I
can help my fellow men,
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and I can worship God.
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Thank you so much.
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I'm honored to see
you again, thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you very much.
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Any counsel for me?
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This and they really
understand how Christian is
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then they try to
find a way to support us
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also to proclaim the good news.
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Praise God that
God opened the way.
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Before when she was not to big
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she want through Thai school.
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I went to work in Canada.
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If I didn't go to Canada
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she could not
finish the high school.
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We had no money,
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but I went to work
in Canada for 10 years
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and then sent money back
for her learning, everything...
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After finish, now she has a job.
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I'm okay right now.
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I can take it easy.
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You try a way is that
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the mother and father
will sacrifice everything
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so then that way they
can give their children
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the best opportunities,
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and then that way in the future
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that then your
daughter can care for you.
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Yeah.
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In America or in Canada
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we expect the
government to take care of us.
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Yeah.
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The Bible's Asian,
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and so as a student of Bible,
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there are some
things I didn't understand,
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so like, you know,
there's a story of a father,
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and he had two sons,
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and how he cares
for his sons buy...
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And he gives them everything.
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And it's like, well, why did
he save away for his retirement,
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why did...
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And so in my understanding
I didn't understand.
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And so that's what I
learned here in Thailand.
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Well, that's why I'm
gonna invest everything
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into the children
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because they
would then return you
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when you are old.
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And that's where,
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like in my life I'm
wanting to follow that example
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that I see not only in
your, in the Thai society,
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we also see that in the Bible
that demonstration of love,
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that you really
sacrificed those years
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working everyday for 10
hours, that comes from a...
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That part of love.
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That's like a...
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That picture
inspires me or gives me,
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it reminds me of the
love that God has for us.
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Please forgive my Thai.
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Very good.
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Thank you.
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Jesus Christ died upon a tree
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To change a broken
life To set a captive free
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You simply cannot
rearrange the way your life is
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There has to be a
change So let me singing
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So he drives taxi, he's
one of the taxi drivers.
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And I said I had
watched him go by in his taxi.
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And he drives from
four in the morning
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to four in the afternoon.
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He is really tired.
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Can you smile?
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His smile has flown away.
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Here we are at
our neighbor's house,
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and this is where we gonna
have the small group meeting.
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She's bringing dinner.
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Yes, yes.
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Sounds like your typical
taco bell take out food there.
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Yeah, I'm just
praying for wisdom here
00:19:44.41\00:19:46.31
because in here this
is, you know, our neighbors,
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we've been with these
people now for four years.
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And, you know,
we've been seed sowing,
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ministering to the kids,
serving this neighborhood,
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and, you know, this week
we're wanting to take that,
00:19:57.93\00:20:00.53
you know, be a
little more intentional
00:20:00.56\00:20:02.80
at the seed planting
through relationships.
00:20:02.83\00:20:05.17
The influence
that we have is more
00:20:11.27\00:20:14.28
than just what we
preach on Sabbath morning.
00:20:14.31\00:20:16.91
Okay, they had onions...
00:20:16.95\00:20:18.51
chili,
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something I don't know,
00:20:25.02\00:20:28.19
some kind of
vegetable, some green thing.
00:20:28.22\00:20:30.39
Okay, so there we go,
there is a killer ingredient.
00:20:39.70\00:20:43.71
Moo is not cow.
00:20:43.74\00:20:48.44
Look here.
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Yeah, okay, so there's the fish.
00:20:51.28\00:20:53.75
You know what
that one is fried fish.
00:20:53.78\00:20:56.08
But Moo is not
cow, and that is pork.
00:20:56.12\00:20:59.62
And so this is where we
get to remind them to...
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Okay, we don't do the Moo.
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When you share the
gospel to the Thai people
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in a straight and direct way,
00:21:14.94\00:21:19.14
they don't want to listen.
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But when you meet
needs, and you build trust,
00:21:22.51\00:21:26.11
and the people know you,
then that's a different story.
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How many friends have they made?
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That's a good question.
00:21:31.32\00:21:32.89
So it's hard as foreigners.
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It's really hard.
00:21:36.02\00:21:37.36
What makes it so hard?
00:21:37.39\00:21:39.19
Language, number one,
00:21:39.23\00:21:42.63
you know, I've
had a chance to study
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about five to six months
00:21:45.30\00:21:47.14
and so, you know, I
understand, you know,
00:21:47.17\00:21:50.94
when they are
talking about fish, you know,
00:21:50.97\00:21:53.88
the one word that I know
in the last 100, you know,
00:21:53.91\00:21:57.28
they're talking about
the fish, but that's all.
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Understand.
00:21:59.61\00:22:00.95
So, you know, Reben had a chance
00:22:00.98\00:22:03.35
to study Thai may be two months.
00:22:03.39\00:22:05.95
And so how do we
expect our missionaries,
00:22:05.99\00:22:08.56
you know, to come in,
00:22:08.59\00:22:10.29
and you got language
and cultural barriers.
00:22:10.33\00:22:15.36
He wants to go and
listen to the songs being sung.
00:22:15.40\00:22:20.04
The mission tells me,
00:22:20.07\00:22:21.40
but there's no money
for them to study Thai.
00:22:21.44\00:22:24.34
I'm like, "How
can they do the work?"
00:22:24.37\00:22:28.28
It wasn't until one of
the former missionaries
00:22:28.31\00:22:30.95
here at the Thailand.
00:22:30.98\00:22:32.95
She came through
Bangkok one time,
00:22:32.98\00:22:35.32
and she just asked the question,
00:22:35.35\00:22:38.55
"Why doesn't
your team speak Thai?"
00:22:38.59\00:22:40.76
I said, "Well, they've
not had a chance to study."
00:22:40.79\00:22:42.42
And she...
00:22:42.46\00:22:43.79
we talked about it,
and so she wrote a check
00:22:43.83\00:22:46.03
that's why even
Reben had a chance to study
00:22:46.06\00:22:49.46
for the two months that he had.
00:22:49.50\00:22:51.33
And these are the missions
stories that aren't told,
00:22:51.37\00:22:55.84
but here is a kid sliding up.
00:22:55.87\00:22:57.61
He comes to the meetings,
00:22:57.64\00:23:00.04
you know, that means something,
00:23:00.08\00:23:03.11
you know, that means something.
00:23:03.14\00:23:05.71
They want to shut us
down for lack of funds.
00:23:05.75\00:23:09.48
The team gives their
blood, sweat, and tears
00:23:09.52\00:23:11.72
to build relationships,
00:23:11.75\00:23:13.49
and then people,
00:23:13.52\00:23:15.96
because of the
lack of mission giving,
00:23:15.99\00:23:20.23
they want to,
00:23:20.26\00:23:21.60
they don't know, they
don't know the stories,
00:23:21.63\00:23:23.06
they don't know the people.
00:23:23.10\00:23:24.97
But do we really have to
have an emotional video where,
00:23:25.00\00:23:30.34
you know, to continue
giving on a regular basis?
00:23:30.37\00:23:36.11
You know, I remember the day,
00:23:36.14\00:23:38.21
or I wish I
could remember the day
00:23:38.25\00:23:40.05
where we just give
because Christ gave for us.
00:23:40.08\00:23:43.99
Christ came to save us.
00:23:44.02\00:23:46.02
And to me that breaks my heart,
that's my motive of giving
00:23:46.05\00:23:50.79
because Christ
emptied heaven for me.
00:23:50.83\00:23:53.13
And so I'll sacrifice,
00:23:53.16\00:23:55.63
so that way others can
have that joy and peace.
00:23:55.66\00:23:59.57
"You're gonna be scared
'cause you'll get cancer,"
00:23:59.60\00:24:02.10
she saying, he is saying to her.
00:24:02.14\00:24:03.74
They're sharing.
00:24:09.78\00:24:11.88
Now, you'll get
this cancer in one lung,
00:24:11.91\00:24:13.88
I'll get the cancer
in another lung, right?
00:24:13.92\00:24:15.78
God was working on my heart
00:24:15.82\00:24:22.32
He said it's
time to do your part
00:24:22.36\00:24:28.63
I'm driving the
new mission truck,
00:24:28.66\00:24:30.20
and so it's like,
00:24:30.23\00:24:32.23
I do not want to be
the first one to dent it.
00:24:32.27\00:24:34.97
Whenever our church planters,
00:24:35.00\00:24:36.57
when he was
sharing the gospel message
00:24:36.60\00:24:39.04
in his community,
00:24:39.07\00:24:40.58
his community thought
he was the first Christian
00:24:40.61\00:24:43.65
coming to Thailand
with this new message
00:24:43.68\00:24:46.15
that Jesus is
coming again and, you know,
00:24:46.18\00:24:49.08
talking about
grace and the gospel.
00:24:49.12\00:24:51.79
It's like, they never
met a Christian before.
00:24:51.82\00:24:54.19
And so they thought our church
planter was a very first one.
00:24:54.22\00:24:57.33
"Who is this
Seventh-day Adventist?
00:24:57.36\00:24:58.86
You know, we've never
heard of these people."
00:24:58.89\00:25:00.63
And the gospel
commission is not done.
00:25:00.66\00:25:03.57
It's not done.
00:25:03.60\00:25:05.13
We just keep
wanting to reap, reap, reap.
00:25:05.17\00:25:08.04
But what about the planting?
00:25:08.07\00:25:10.07
I receive from the
general conference,
00:25:10.11\00:25:12.47
my budget each year is $100,000.
00:25:12.51\00:25:16.14
And where does that go?
00:25:16.18\00:25:17.65
We fund nine church
plants, I have a staff of 12,
00:25:17.68\00:25:21.02
and so the nine Hope for
Bangkok Church plants are...
00:25:21.05\00:25:25.95
I need to do a
lane change here so.
00:25:25.99\00:25:30.06
That goes to fund, the salaries
of our church planting team,
00:25:30.09\00:25:34.10
it goes also to pay the rent
00:25:34.13\00:25:36.23
of our nine Hope for
Bangkok Church plants,
00:25:36.26\00:25:39.30
where were just
at one right now.
00:25:39.33\00:25:41.27
And then we
then cover, you know,
00:25:41.30\00:25:45.61
some of the overhead
of like the utilities
00:25:45.64\00:25:48.78
and, you know,
00:25:48.81\00:25:50.31
for the foreign
missionaries on the team,
00:25:50.35\00:25:52.41
their visas and work permits.
00:25:52.45\00:25:54.72
And so for programs
like Adventist Health Expo,
00:25:54.75\00:25:58.95
for Bibles, for literature,
for even for programs,
00:25:58.99\00:26:05.39
you know, the heart of
how we serve the community.
00:26:05.43\00:26:10.53
That side of the
funding was not included.
00:26:10.57\00:26:14.60
And so as a missionary,
00:26:14.64\00:26:16.54
it's like I'm
given a car with no fuel,
00:26:16.57\00:26:20.44
or I'm told to fight a
battle with no weapons,
00:26:20.48\00:26:23.78
or you come up with the analogy.
00:26:23.81\00:26:27.38
Don't get me wrong,
I'm not complaining.
00:26:27.42\00:26:29.55
But it's just
that people don't...
00:26:29.58\00:26:33.66
People don't
understand that the expectations
00:26:33.69\00:26:39.73
of trying to do a job here
00:26:39.76\00:26:43.87
without the right
equipment and right resources.
00:26:43.90\00:26:48.90
It's also reality check that
00:26:48.94\00:26:51.31
this is why the
work here is languishing
00:26:51.34\00:26:54.38
is because I guess
00:26:54.41\00:26:57.15
it goes down to the
core of selfishness,
00:26:57.18\00:27:01.52
is that when I was as a pastor,
as a member in America...
00:27:01.55\00:27:07.46
Yeah, I gave to the local church
00:27:07.49\00:27:09.22
because I knew what was needed,
00:27:09.26\00:27:12.93
you know, the local programs,
00:27:12.96\00:27:14.80
you know, my pet
projects, stuff like that.
00:27:14.83\00:27:18.70
And of course you
give tithe because that's,
00:27:18.73\00:27:22.10
you know, that's
sacred, and that gives...
00:27:22.14\00:27:24.21
You give that to God.
00:27:24.24\00:27:25.64
But, you know, foreign missions,
00:27:25.67\00:27:28.61
you know, yeah,
you're putting a dollar,
00:27:28.64\00:27:33.18
but, you know,
00:27:33.21\00:27:37.69
I guess I do see
that the evidence of that,
00:27:37.72\00:27:43.86
you know, that inconsistent
00:27:43.89\00:27:48.20
or that
emotionally based giving,
00:27:48.23\00:27:51.90
and I'm living with it.
00:27:51.93\00:27:54.94
People are crying
00:27:54.97\00:27:58.37
Lost souls are dying
00:27:58.41\00:28:03.75
If Jesus was not
content in staying in heaven
00:28:03.78\00:28:07.42
while He saw this
earth suffering, and dying,
00:28:07.45\00:28:10.75
and came to reach us,
00:28:10.79\00:28:12.35
how can we sit
back and just relax?
00:28:12.39\00:28:15.42
We must push
forward to take the gospel,
00:28:15.46\00:28:18.33
the Advent
message to every person
00:28:18.36\00:28:21.16
across this planet.
00:28:21.20\00:28:22.90
Please encourage
each one around you,
00:28:22.93\00:28:25.40
and reach into your own heart,
00:28:25.43\00:28:29.00
and give
everything you possibly can
00:28:29.04\00:28:32.11
to reach the world
before it's too late.
00:28:32.14\00:28:35.91
Every person matters to God,
00:28:35.94\00:28:37.48
and every dollar
that you give for mission
00:28:37.51\00:28:39.48
helps us to
reach one more person.
00:28:39.51\00:28:41.35
And I'm so grateful to everyone
who has sacrificed for mission.
00:28:41.38\00:28:45.95
One day soon you'll be
able to meet the people
00:28:45.99\00:28:48.12
who found Jesus
because you gave.
00:28:48.16\00:28:50.09