Hi, and welcome to
Jesus for Asia Now.
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We want to spend
a little time today
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just sharing with you
what Jesus for Asia is,
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who we are and what we do.
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Hi, Dear.
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Hi, Darling, how are you doing?
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Doing fine.
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What is Jesus For Asia?
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Oh, why don't you tell me?
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Okay.
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Well, Jesus For
Asia is made up of people
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that desire to see
God's work go forward
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and that involves two visions.
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It's a twofold vision.
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One is to reach the unreached,
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of which there are still
a lot of people out there
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that have no
access to the gospel.
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It is like almost
7,000 languages of the gospel
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in the world today.
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And our church even though,
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it's in almost every
country of the world,
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still it's only a 900 languages,
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924 was the last count.
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And so there's almost
6,000 languages still left.
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But 6,000 languages
doesn't seem like that
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a larger amount when
you think of our church
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having 17 million people.
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So it's something
that's possible...
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We should be
able to do something.
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Yes, but the thing is that,
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I think that a lot of
times we're not as engaged
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as we could be with
the great commission.
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And so our vision
is to bring people
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into the great commission.
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And so, that's
the twofold vision.
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Bringing the
gospel to the unreached,
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but reengaging North America
with missions because we...
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over the last 70 years,
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kind of like had a
little falling away
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from doing missions.
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Okay, so the
mission of Jesus for Asia
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then is encapsulated
in that twofold vision?
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Right.
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We first started out in
India with the idea of...
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Instead of us
going as missionaries,
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'cause I really would
like to go in as missionary.
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But I figured that we
could be more effective
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if we enable the
local missionary in India,
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'cause just for a plane
ticket for me is like $1,500.
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And so you bring our
whole family involved
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and that's $6,000 just going.
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And we don't know the language,
and we don't know the culture,
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and we probably
offend people left and right.
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Exactly.
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But if we hire somebody
local, that's $60 a month.
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And so our plane ticket
for our family going over
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would sponsor one
person to work for God
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for almost 10 years.
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And so, we figured that
we would be more effective
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in enabling them to do the work.
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And so, now we have
about 220 Bible workers,
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national Bible workers in India.
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Okay. Yeah.
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So we want to talk
about the projects,
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but we also want to say
that we've expanded beyond India
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and we'll share that as we go.
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But also the fact that
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there are so
many unreached people,
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and there are so many languages
that have no work in them yet.
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And even languages that have
no portion of the scripture.
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There's nearly 2,000
that have no witness,
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no portion of the scripture...
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No missionary,
no Christian. Yeah.
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So the need for
work overseas is huge.
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It's huge, the need far
outweighs the resources,
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far outstrips the resources.
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So there is a huge need,
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probably 40 percent of the world
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still has no
access to the gospel,
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which is representing
about 2.5 to 3 billion people
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depending on how
you measure that,
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but those are the unreached.
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Some countries in the
world that we consider reached,
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North America.
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Yeah, not
everyone's a Christian,
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there's still more work to do,
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still lot more witnessing to do.
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But everybody pretty much
has access if they wanted to.
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They drive past churches,
they go to a bookstore.
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You can get a Bible
in a Dollar Store now.
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They are available.
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We've got how many
satellite programs and channel
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that are Christian?
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You can go to a hotel
and find a Gideon Bible
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in your language.
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But there's a lot of
languages, lot of people groups
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that don't have any of that.
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Anything.
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That's where our burden is
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because Jesus says in Revelation
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that this gospel will
be preached to all nations,
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kindred, tongue and people.
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In fact, He talks about
every nation, kindred, tongue
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and people having a
representative in heaven.
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And so right now that's tongue.
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Okay, just even
tongues of 7,000 languages,
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we're still only
in 924, 6,000 left.
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And lot of those last
languages are very difficult
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because it's
hard geographically,
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politically,
culturally, maybe physically,
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lot of those are
up in the mountains.
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Let's say for instance,
Western Papua New Guinea.
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The island of New Guinea,
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which is used to
be called Irian Jaya.
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It's like 500
languages just there.
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We had no work in 511 of them.
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Last summer, one
more was reached.
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So now we have no
work in 510 of them.
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It sounds like a huge challenge.
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Yeah. Well, let's go on
to our project overview.
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And, you know,
some of these projects,
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we're direct project
managers so to speak of.
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Yes.
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And we provide
financial support.
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We're the only source in America
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for advertising these projects
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or trying to
seek to share the need
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for these different
projects, some of them.
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And then others, we're
just like a financial support.
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They have other people
that are project managers,
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they do their advertising,
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they do whatever
trying to share...
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Awareness raising.
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Awareness
raising, that's the word
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I was looking for.
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And we provide the
financial services for them.
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Yeah, so we take the
funds from the donors
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and pass them through.
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Because Jesus For Asia's 501c3.
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So people can donate
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and get their tax
deductible receipt and...
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Right.
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So, but we don't charge these
projects overhead from those.
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Right. No.
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You know, any
actual straight bank fee
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that comes and
goes against that,
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but otherwise we
don't charge anything.
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Right.
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Which the Lord
is taking care of us
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and He has blessed.
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There's a lot of need
and we can't go forward
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in some of the other areas.
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Right. Yeah. So, anyway.
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So like for instance,
we were into originally
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a sending organization.
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Right.
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But people have come to
us and said we want to go.
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What does it take? Yeah.
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We've been rejected
by this organization
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or we've been
told we're too old or,
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you know, how do we go?
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Or some of them were our friends
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that were working with us
in some of our camp meetings
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that got inspired and
they just said, we want to go.
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What does it take to go?
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And we're like,
okay, well, plane ticket.
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Yeah.
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Some of them
went on a vision trip
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and never, never
could live in America again.
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Right.
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So let's start with
the Bible workers in India.
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Okay.
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Our major ministry in India is
we have over 200 Bible workers.
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They are national Bible workers
that already know the language,
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already know the culture.
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And for $60 a month,
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you can sponsor a
fulltime Bible worker.
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And they are very effective,
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they are very
efficient and they are lovely.
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And we're gonna do a whole show
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on just how they work
and how they function.
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Okay. We also have
four evening schools.
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Yes, for $7 a month,
you can sponsor a child
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that will give them a free meal,
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nutritious meal and education.
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And this includes...
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And they have a
worship time. Yes.
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And they learn
memory verse and everything.
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Yeah, that's exciting.
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And since this started,
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we have probably
served over 250, 000 meals.
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And this combats
the two biggest problems
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with young people in India,
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that is
malnutrition and education.
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And it also provides
them a opportunity for growth
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and it's just a beautiful thing.
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I love our
evening schools. Yeah.
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And then we have an orphanage
that is in process of moving
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to a new location
that the board provided.
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Out in the country.
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We've had 11
children there. Yeah.
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And now we're going to have 13
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because we're adopting
two more into the orphanage.
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And there's room for more
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as it grows with
this new facility.
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As of Lord leads.
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We've also worked a little bit.
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Our director there has
worked a little bit with media.
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Media is so powerful in India.
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Everybody has a television.
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Even the last
government that was voted in,
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in southern India, they
said, if you vote for us,
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we will give you a free TV.
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So now almost everyone has a TV.
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He did a guest
appearance on a TV show
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and he had like 80 people call
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asking for prayer on the phone
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as a result of that one show,
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half hour show, Sunday
morning it's like 6.30.
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So there's so many
opportunities there.
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We haven't been able
to take advantage of them
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because of a lack of funds,
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but what a powerful
ministry that could be.
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Yeah, there's another
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couple of
projects there in India
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and one is Health
and Life for India
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with Carlton and
Scott which is a pseudonym.
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Not their real names
because they are in an area
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that's little bit
hostile to what they are doing.
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They just move there. Right.
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They have already done
some Bible worker training,
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which is a beginning.
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Yeah, they do
Bible worker training
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as Bible study.
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They also do
medical missionary training.
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Yes.
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Some to these, so that
it's a complete package
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that they are
giving to the workers.
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Right.
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Then we also
have the young lady,
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we're calling Anne.
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While she was
visiting there in India,
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one of our evening schools,
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she realized
the need for widows.
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Yes.
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So she actually started a
widow sewing school as well.
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Because these
widows, they don't have
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very many options.
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They can never get remarried
and they end up like begging,
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'cause very few of them
have any kind of education.
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So some people sponsored
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the purchase of
some sewing machines
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and there's somebody
there that's training them
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how to sew,
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so that they can support
themselves and their children.
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Yeah.
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So that's kind
of an encapsulation
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very brief of India.
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Yes. And then we have...
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In Thailand, we have
a number of projects.
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Yes.
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One of them is our
All Asia Studio Team.
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Yes.
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Because in Thailand,
it's another country in Asia
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that has a tremendous capacity
for watching television.
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They don't read much,
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but they watch a
lot of television.
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And so, we've got a team
there that's translating videos
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and DVDs and stuff
into the local languages,
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so that they can
get fed in the medium
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that they are used to.
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That's a powerful
team, wonderful team.
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Yeah, and working
there with them right now
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and directing them is
Daniel and Tesha Bair.
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Yes. So that's the neat project.
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Yeah.
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Overall they are
working together.
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They got four
people working there
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that are providing
the salaries for...
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Stipends for, yeah.
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In Thai, Karen
and Hmong languages,
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those three languages
that we're targeting first.
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There is like 78
languages in Thailand,
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but we're starting
out with these four.
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So that's exciting. Yeah.
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So we're doing
media in Thailand a bit,
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and then we also have a burden
for publishing in Thailand.
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Yes.
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Right now, we're trying to
raise funds for which book?
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The Desire of Ages. Okay.
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It cost about $50,000
to relay out and publish
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10,000 copies of
The Desire of Ages,
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it's a big thick book.
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This book has been out of
print in the Thai language
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which for almost 20 years.
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Can you imagine being
without The Desire of Ages
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in your church?
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Even your pastor
doesn't have The Desire of Ages.
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What a concept?
That's a huge need.
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And the division has
provided some funding,
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the union has
provided some funding,
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and the local mission
has provided some funding,
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but they are very short funded
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because of the decline in giving
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to foreign missions
over the last 70 years.
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And the decline is so
much that they can't keep up.
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Okay. Then we have
the Sharon Family Project.
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Sharon family's,
they have four boys.
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The parents are
in Northwest Thailand
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and they are working
with the Karen people group
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that are up in
the mountains there.
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Some of them are
coming over from Burma
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because of the Civil War
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that's been
going on for 60 years,
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that's letting up
now, so that's really good.
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But they are
doing a training school
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and they are in the jungle.
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They have to get
there by boat or motorbike
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across the difficult
dirt roads and mud roads.
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And then hike
through the jungle.
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So they are in the jungle
and they built their own house
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out of bamboo,
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and they are setting
up a training school,
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where young people
would come and learn
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what it means to
walk with Christ.
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They are also
teaching English and Maths
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and some of those
other things there.
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Yeah, and their youngest son
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is in the south
western part of highland,
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and he's doing a school also,
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teaching English and
teaching the Bible study
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and all these kinds of things.
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How to walk with Christ?
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Another son of
course is over in Cambodia.
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And the fourth
son, which is the oldest
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is actually in Burma.
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And he's been studying there.
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Studying there at
one of the seminaries.
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Yeah, and then we have a
young lady working with them,
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that's been working
in Cambodia, Sarah Van.
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He recently moved to
work with the Sharon.
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So she's teaching
there in their school.
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Yeah. That's the Sharon family.
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So you can go to
sharonfamily.org.
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You can also find
them on our website,
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jesusforasia.org.
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And you can look
under Thailand...
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Under Thailand, you will see
a list of different projects.
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Right.
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Then we have a family,
actually three families
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that run a couple
of different projects.
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One of them is
the Children's Home.
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Yes. And that's Adam's family.
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Paul and Lena
Adams and their children.
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Yeah, wonderful
ministry, beautiful ministry.
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They got the
orphanage in their own home.
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They are taking care of children
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that they
basically adopted for life.
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They have also
headed up a ministry called
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Karen Outreach,
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which now there's more
families working with them,
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the Steck
Family, Harvey and Brenda
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and their girls and
then also the Meyer family,
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Kelly and Denise Meyer
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are working there with them now.
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And they have a school there
and a training school and...
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Yeah, it's a trade school.
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They have got
about 250 kids there.
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It's a day and a
boarding school elementary,
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they are trying
to move into academy.
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Okay, then we
have Gayle Haberkam.
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Yeah, she's in her 60s
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and she's up in
the mountain villages
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and she hikes in there.
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I think at one time,
she had to hike two hours
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to get to a place
where she could call out
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on her cell phone.
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Yeah.
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And she went there temporary
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and she fell in
love with the people
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and now she's opened a clinic
that services up to 50 villages
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up in the
mountains that have no access
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or very difficult
access to medical care.
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Yeah. Good care. Yeah.
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So and they also are
teaching them about Jesus
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and praying with them.
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Yeah. It's beautiful.
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We also are working with
Bible workers in Thailand.
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And then we have couple of
different projects in Bangkok
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and that's
called Bangkok Outreach.
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Bangkok Outreach
is a group of people,
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friends that
have gone over there,
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inspired by the need in Bangkok.
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You know, 51 percent
of the people in the world
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live in cities.
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Yeah, so Brian
and Jessica Atwell
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recently went with
their young son Asher.
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Yes. He's a cutie pie.
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Anyway, they also had shared
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the need with a
couple of friends of theirs,
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who were also Bible
workers in the northwest.
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And they actually went first
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and got there
before the Atwell's.
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So they are all working there
in Bangkok and studying Thai
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and trying to learn their way
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around the
culture and everything.
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Yes.
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So, also we have
another project in Thailand,
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Love and Care Project...
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Yes. With Rodney and Phimpha.
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Yes. And they are located...
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They are east of
Bangkok, located in the country.
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And they take care of
anyone that has a need.
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And so they have
like 17 kids living at,
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what they call a Timothy House.
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And they take
care of those kids.
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They like adopt them.
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And these kids have been abused,
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they have
really amazing stories,
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but they bring them here
and then Phimpha and Rodney,
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they just love them,
take them as their own kids.
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Make sure Jesus is with them.
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And they have a lot of
people around the country
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that they help as well.
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It's a wonderful ministry
that we are associated with.
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And then in the Philippines,
moving to the Philippines now.
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Yes
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We have a couple of
different things going on,
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one is GoBeDo Missions.
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Where is that located?
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That's in the
Southern Island of Mindanao.
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And this is the guy that,
in one of our camp meetings
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and the theme for
that camp meeting was
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''Claim your Inheritance''
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and that was based on
Isaiah 54:3 that says,
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'Thy seed shall
inherit the Gentiles.'
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Our inheritance is the Gentiles,
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so he says I claim
Southern Philippines
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as my inheritance
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and since then, he's gone there,
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set up this ministry
called GoBeDo Missions
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and in the last few years
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they've baptized
several hundred people
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and they're solid Christians.
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They have a team of
about 15 or 20 Bible workers
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that go up in these mountains
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and they work
really hard to reach
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unreached people groups.
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There had been
no work among them
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before they
started doing this work
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and so that's exciting.
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Yeah. That's awesome
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And then in the
central area we have...
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The West Central Visayas.
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Iloilo. Yeah.
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The Philippines is
made up of 7,500 islands.
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Not all of them are inhabited
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but this is the West
Central Island of Panay.
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A little city called...
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Well, it's a big city
for us but in the Philippines
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it's a little
city, it's called Iloilo.
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And we went over there in
2008 and we did some training
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and brought some
computers and some cameras
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and they got
going with broadcasting
00:16:07.96\00:16:10.57
so they're taping shows,
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they got their little
studio that they built
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and they've actually
been broadcasting on satellite
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for quite a number of years.
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That's an exciting program.
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And we also have
some Bible workers...
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Yeah, I was gonna
say it, that same church,
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they had a
disaster actually, it was...
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We'll have to tell the
story in a different episode,
00:16:26.15\00:16:28.28
but that church realized
the need for Bible workers.
00:16:28.32\00:16:31.52
And so we've been sponsoring.
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They had a request for
like 2,800 Bible studies.
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Yeah.
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So we've been
sponsoring Bible workers there
00:16:35.69\00:16:37.56
for a number of years.
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Then we also want
to talk about Cambodia.
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And we have some friends
that are in ministry there,
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named Tim and Wendy Maddocks.
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And their ministry is called...
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The Salt Ministries
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Saltmin.org Yes.
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We'll not only provide
financial services for them
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but we also are
inspired by them.
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Oh, yes.
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They're one of the
reasons why we're doing
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what we're doing because we saw
00:16:57.45\00:16:58.95
how God moved in their life.
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And we said we want that
same experience in our life
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and so we started camping
out on Mathew 6:33, which is...
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"Seek ye first
the kingdom of God,
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and his righteousness,
00:17:08.72\00:17:09.92
and all these things
shall be added unto you.
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Exactly.
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And we saw that
lived out in his life.
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So now he's come over and spoken
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in number of our faith camps.
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Tremendous,
wonderful friends. Yeah.
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Well, they have quite a number
of different projects there.
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They have an orphanage.
They got like 45 acres.
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With eight homes. Yeah.
00:17:26.07\00:17:27.41
And they have a
school with 12th grade.
00:17:27.44\00:17:29.04
Hundred and fifty kids. Yeah.
00:17:29.08\00:17:30.31
And they have a media
centre with a giant studio.
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A studio.
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It's quite an involved ministry
00:17:33.85\00:17:35.52
and so we'll spend a
little time on that one
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in a different episode.
00:17:37.39\00:17:38.45
And then, also
we have a young lady
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that's actually there
working with the Maddocks.
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Her name is Laura Calkins
and that's where Sarah been,
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he was until she
went to Thailand.
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And that's where
one of the Sharon sons.
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That's my next one on the
list, Andrew and his wife Ken,
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who is Cambodian.
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Yes. They're teaching there.
00:17:52.90\00:17:54.44
She's actually finishing
her student studies there.
00:17:54.47\00:17:56.97
And they're planning to
start a new program like Tim's
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in a different
section of Cambodia.
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There's a lot of
need in Cambodia too.
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Huge need. Huge need.
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Okay, that kind of
covers one area of the vision.
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Okay.
00:18:07.82\00:18:08.78
That was to reach the
unreached with the gospel.
00:18:08.82\00:18:12.49
And then we have the
other part of the vision,
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which is to reengage
North America with missions.
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Yeah.
00:18:17.33\00:18:18.29
And you've just completed
a project for the office
00:18:18.33\00:18:20.53
of Adventist Mission
at the General Conference,
00:18:20.56\00:18:22.93
which is part of this.
00:18:22.96\00:18:25.03
It's completed now but we
want to mention it anyway.
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Yeah. And you
mentioned it earlier.
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What is that?
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It's called,
''I Want This City."
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And it's a series
of half hour shows.
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They're 13 half hour shows
00:18:33.68\00:18:35.74
where I follow a
church planting pastor
00:18:35.78\00:18:37.65
around Bangkok
to show the affect
00:18:37.68\00:18:40.72
of the decline in
giving to foreign missions.
00:18:40.75\00:18:43.22
What that looks
like on the frontlines.
00:18:43.25\00:18:45.49
And we see him crying
because he can't go into areas.
00:18:45.52\00:18:48.52
We see him dealing with
having to close a church plant
00:18:48.56\00:18:51.29
because there's no funds.
00:18:51.33\00:18:52.89
Yeah, and we see
the joy at the baptism,
00:18:52.93\00:18:55.10
and we see some of the
ways that life is different
00:18:55.13\00:18:57.77
for missionaries and
some of the challenges.
00:18:57.80\00:18:59.93
Yeah. We see his heart. Yeah.
00:19:00.04\00:19:01.24
The heart of Christ
00:19:01.27\00:19:02.54
that gives him a
heart for the people.
00:19:02.57\00:19:04.87
And it's exciting. I
mean, it's a wonderful show.
00:19:04.91\00:19:07.24
But with that, the
reason for that is because
00:19:07.28\00:19:10.21
we started seeing that
there is not much interest
00:19:10.25\00:19:13.25
in foreign missions
00:19:13.28\00:19:14.35
or not much
awareness of foreign missions.
00:19:14.38\00:19:16.48
And this is
because it's not promoted.
00:19:16.52\00:19:18.89
We don't know about it very much
00:19:18.92\00:19:20.52
and so we're seeing a
trend overall in the church
00:19:20.56\00:19:24.09
that we're kind of disengaging
from foreign missions.
00:19:24.13\00:19:28.10
A lot of people think that
00:19:28.13\00:19:29.13
the work is going
forward very well,
00:19:29.16\00:19:31.20
when in
actuality in lot of places,
00:19:31.23\00:19:32.90
it is kind of imploding.
00:19:32.93\00:19:34.27
It's kind of dying away.
00:19:34.30\00:19:35.87
That's why we have no
Desire of Ages in Thailand.
00:19:35.90\00:19:38.14
We used to, we don't now.
00:19:38.17\00:19:39.67
And so, this is the purpose
I think God brought us into
00:19:39.71\00:19:42.78
because we were really
enjoying taking the gospel
00:19:42.81\00:19:45.45
to places where it's never been.
00:19:45.48\00:19:47.05
But engaging North America,
God's heart is for His church.
00:19:47.08\00:19:51.39
To be involved
for their own sakes,
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for character development,
and for their own joy, the joy,
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I mean, it's a feast.
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Gospel work,
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and taking the gospel
to the nations is a feast.
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It's a spiritual feast to
see people's eyes light up
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when they receive the gospel.
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It just does so much,
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it feeds our own spiritual life.
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And it fed Jesus.
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That's what He said
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when He was
talking with the widow.
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The woman at the well.
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Yeah. Yes.
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The food I have
that you know not of.
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He was eating based
on giving her the gospel.
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Right.
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So we want to share
that great opportunity.
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Right. Okay.
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So then, the last part of...
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The second part of
this is recovering...
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Well, we've done
camp meetings also,
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that's been part of
what we've been doing.
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These camp
meetings are very special,
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they're called faith camps,
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because it requires
faith to follow the Lord.
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But the focus is on missions
and a lot of our workers
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that came to help in
these meetings are now overseas.
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Yeah, they said, it's dangerous
to be staff at faith camp.
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You might end up going. Yeah.
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So...
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So the other
part that we're doing
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and that's more long term
and more 24/7 is Mission TV.
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Can you briefly
encapsulate Mission TV for us?
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Mission TV is
24/7 mission stories,
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foreign mission,
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because there are some countries
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and people groups and languages,
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there are no missionaries,
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there's no
Christians, there's nothing.
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So our focus is on
foreign missions and it's 24/7.
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It's a streaming channel
right now on missiontv.com.
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Our dream and hope is
to have it on a satellite
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where more people can get to it,
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and view it in their
homes 24 hours a day,
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7 days a week.
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And we show
different ministries like AWR,
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Adventist Mission.
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Gospel Outreach.
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All these wonderful
ministries like ASAP
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that are doing
wonderful ministries overseas
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and they're showing their work.
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And we want our
channel dedicated to their work
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and those types of things.
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So that's the channel. Okay.
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Now we do have projects
in several other countries
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that we're not
going to mention today
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because of the
nature of those countries
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in being closed countries.
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But there are
projects in other places
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that we can't talk openly about,
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but they're just as important.
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And Jesus for Asia,
the way we get our funding
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for administrative
cost, how do we do that
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because you're the accountant.
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Yeah, the funding
for administrative cost
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comes by donation.
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We don't hold anything from...
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So if somebody
donated to Bible workers?
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No, it goes to Bible workers.
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No funding for
administration comes from that?
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No. We made a
commitment a long time ago.
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All these other projects
that people donate money to,
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none of that goes
to administrative.
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No. So then, how do we function?
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How does Jesus
for Asia function?
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By the grace of God we function.
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If people say where-needed-most
or they say general fund,
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or Jesus for Asia and
they just leave it blank,
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whatever, then
those are used for
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paying administrative cost
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and that includes some
of these other projects
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that we've mentioned
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because some of these
don't have their own funding.
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You know, they
don't get enough funding
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or they get a
little bit but not enough.
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So if somebody
donates to administrative,
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a large percentage of that
actually goes to a project.
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Yes.
00:22:52.73\00:22:54.10
And even if it
doesn't go to a project,
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it sponsors something
that's a project cost.
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Right. Like
financial services. Exactly.
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Like we have a bookkeeper
and we pay her a small stipend
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and it pays those.
00:23:05.18\00:23:06.82
And if she wasn't here,
00:23:06.85\00:23:08.25
then it would be
much harder for us
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to get the money
out into the field.
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So those kinds of
things are very important
00:23:11.79\00:23:14.12
and also the Mission
TV, most of the crew,
00:23:14.16\00:23:17.13
most of the Jesus for Asia crew,
00:23:17.16\00:23:18.76
the small stipends are
paid out of that fund also.
00:23:18.79\00:23:21.63
It's an important thing
and it's not all buying paper
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or sending out newsletters
or something like that,
00:23:24.80\00:23:27.50
the unrestricted is what
is called in accounting world.
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The where-needed-most type
of funds cover a lot of things,
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both here and
overseas, and here for overseas,
00:23:35.38\00:23:39.48
and here for North America,
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for the ministry
in North America.
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So it's important
to have those as well.
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So all these projects, honey,
00:23:45.69\00:23:48.12
we must've been in
ministry for a long time.
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No. We started in
2005, in February of 2005.
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God has accomplished
all this in just nine years.
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Yes.
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And so, we must be
really special people.
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No, we're not
special, but God is special.
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God is special.
00:24:02.54\00:24:03.57
And when God
shows you a picture of
00:24:03.61\00:24:05.41
what you need to be
doing for Him in His work,
00:24:05.44\00:24:07.94
and you go forward,
00:24:07.98\00:24:09.38
He opens the doors, He provides,
00:24:09.41\00:24:11.35
and then
suddenly you're like, wow.
00:24:11.38\00:24:13.11
We do a show like this
00:24:13.15\00:24:14.72
and we have to list
everything to do the show,
00:24:14.75\00:24:16.62
and it reminds us
of how much He's done.
00:24:16.65\00:24:18.95
How much He's accomplishing
through Jesus for Asia,
00:24:18.99\00:24:21.39
but sometimes we just,
we just see the big picture
00:24:21.42\00:24:24.03
and we don't focus on
all the different list.
00:24:24.06\00:24:26.70
And that of course is
the subject of another show,
00:24:26.73\00:24:29.00
as how God has led.
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Right.
00:24:30.53\00:24:31.50
And the beautiful
thing is He can lead anybody.
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Right.
00:24:33.13\00:24:34.17
And a lot of the missionaries
that are over there,
00:24:34.20\00:24:35.60
finding that out,
that's what's exciting.
00:24:35.64\00:24:37.31
This is the
feast of the harvest.
00:24:37.34\00:24:39.51
And I'm really
happy to be a part of it.
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Yeah. It's a
blessing and a privilege.
00:24:42.14\00:24:44.88
And so this is the feast
that God has called us to.
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And He is calling
everyone to this feast
00:24:47.22\00:24:49.08
and there's so much joy.
00:24:49.12\00:24:50.82
And this is what drives
us is that we have discovered
00:24:50.85\00:24:53.56
so much joy in doing God's work.
00:24:53.59\00:24:56.19
One of the greatest thrills
that I have, and I've had cars,
00:24:56.22\00:24:59.66
I've driven
fast, I've skied fast,
00:24:59.69\00:25:01.96
I've done all those stuff,
00:25:02.00\00:25:03.26
but one of the
greatest thrills for me
00:25:03.30\00:25:04.90
is seeing a young
person or an old person
00:25:04.93\00:25:07.57
accept Jesus
Christ to be baptized.
00:25:07.60\00:25:09.44
The light comes on in their eye,
00:25:09.47\00:25:11.07
that's better than
driving the fastest sports car.
00:25:11.11\00:25:13.88
And the blessing of
doing the mission work
00:25:13.91\00:25:16.41
that we've experienced is
for our marriage, for our kids,
00:25:16.44\00:25:19.85
gives them
purpose, gives them vision
00:25:19.88\00:25:22.32
and it gives them hope
00:25:22.35\00:25:23.62
to cling on and make sacrifices.
00:25:23.65\00:25:25.72
And it's such a blessing for us
00:25:25.75\00:25:27.52
that we want more of
this blessing for others.
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Right.
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We want others to
experience this blessing as well
00:25:31.19\00:25:33.23
and so we're
encouraging you to get involved.
00:25:33.26\00:25:36.43
Bring missions, bring the needs
of the world into your home,
00:25:36.46\00:25:40.87
into your own mind and
into your children's mind
00:25:40.90\00:25:44.01
by books, by Mission TV,
00:25:44.04\00:25:46.44
all these
different ways that God has.
00:25:46.47\00:25:48.04
Sometimes it's kind of
hard to find the right things,
00:25:48.08\00:25:50.28
but as we get more
involved with God's mission,
00:25:50.31\00:25:53.35
we draw closer to His heart,
00:25:53.38\00:25:55.18
and we experience
more of His blessings.
00:25:55.22\00:25:57.09
And His blessings
are peace, joy, love,
00:25:57.12\00:25:59.42
longsuffering and
patience, and all these things,
00:25:59.45\00:26:02.02
and trials to
develop our patience,
00:26:02.06\00:26:05.36
and to develop our
love, and to develop our joy.
00:26:05.39\00:26:08.10
And so God is calling
every single Christian
00:26:08.13\00:26:10.47
to the feast of the harvest.
00:26:10.50\00:26:12.33
Come and be a part
of taking the gospel
00:26:12.37\00:26:14.67
to the unreached, to the world.
00:26:14.70\00:26:16.24
There are so many
ways you can get involved,
00:26:16.27\00:26:18.24
by your prayers first of
all, that's the most important,
00:26:18.27\00:26:21.44
by your financial gifts,
00:26:21.48\00:26:23.04
this is what God
is calling us to do,
00:26:23.08\00:26:24.78
this is what God
is using to prepare us
00:26:24.81\00:26:27.45
and call us out of Laodiceanism
00:26:27.48\00:26:29.82
which is rich, and
increased with goods.
00:26:29.85\00:26:31.59
That's why he set
up this arrangement
00:26:31.62\00:26:33.96
of seeing the needs,
00:26:33.99\00:26:35.42
and by, maybe even
going, going overseas.
00:26:35.46\00:26:39.73
Just earnestly inquire of
God, what He wants us to do.
00:26:39.76\00:26:43.53
And in that obedience
is tremendous blessing.
00:26:43.57\00:26:46.53
And in doing so,
experiencing growth in His grace
00:26:46.57\00:26:49.50
and it's so exciting.
00:26:49.54\00:26:50.67
I've been so
blessed in doing this.
00:26:50.71\00:26:52.37
If Jesus for Asia
was to shut down today,
00:26:52.41\00:26:54.64
I'd just say, thank you Lord.
00:26:54.68\00:26:56.28
Thank you for these nine years.
00:26:56.31\00:26:57.91
But I don't believe
God, that's God's plan.
00:26:57.95\00:26:59.71
No.
00:26:59.75\00:27:00.82
I believe God's
plan is to keep growing
00:27:00.85\00:27:02.88
and keep reaching people.
00:27:02.92\00:27:04.55
There's still so
much work to be done
00:27:04.59\00:27:06.76
and I believe with all my heart
that if we all get involved,
00:27:06.79\00:27:09.62
God could finish this work.
00:27:09.66\00:27:11.33
He's waiting for us to do that.
00:27:11.36\00:27:13.56
Here at Jesus for
Asia, we praise God
00:27:13.60\00:27:15.80
for what He has accomplished
00:27:15.83\00:27:17.13
in these last 10
years of ministry.
00:27:17.17\00:27:19.73
And it's all been made
possible by the generous support
00:27:19.77\00:27:22.74
of people like you who love
to see the gospel proclaimed
00:27:22.77\00:27:26.64
to the unreached of the world.
00:27:26.68\00:27:29.04
We're right now
poised for explosive growth,
00:27:29.08\00:27:32.68
as calls from Asia
continue to pour in for help,
00:27:32.71\00:27:36.32
for more Bible workers,
Bibles, help for orphans,
00:27:36.35\00:27:40.12
evangelistic
materials and missionaries.
00:27:40.16\00:27:43.19
Won't you please
consider partnering with us
00:27:43.22\00:27:47.00
to communicate His love
00:27:47.03\00:27:49.43
to a people who
are dying without Him,
00:27:49.46\00:27:52.17
who have never
heard the name of Jesus.
00:27:52.20\00:27:55.04
You may send your
tax deductible gift
00:27:55.07\00:27:57.31
to Jesus for Asia, PO Box 1221,
00:27:57.34\00:28:00.88
Collegedale, Tennessee 37315.
00:28:00.91\00:28:04.71
Or you can call
us at (423) 413-7321.
00:28:04.75\00:28:10.15
You can also find us on
the web at Jesus4asia.org
00:28:10.19\00:28:14.66
May God richly bless you
00:28:14.69\00:28:16.66
as you join in the
feast of the harvest.
00:28:16.69\00:28:19.09