Hello, and welcome
to Jesus for Asia Now.
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I'm Natalie Wood
and I have my husband,
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Jon here with me on this show.
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You know, many people,
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when they hear
our ministry name,
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wonder why we limit
ourselves to just Asia.
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Well, we don't see it as a limit
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because of the
fact that more than half
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of the world lives in Asia.
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In fact, more
people live in Asia
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than all the other
continents combined.
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Honey, we have a little map
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that illustrates
this a little bit.
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Can you share that with us now?
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Yes, so here's
a map of the world
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and as you can see,
more people live inside
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that circle than live
outside of the circle.
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So, the majority of the
world lives inside that circle,
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just that circle and it includes
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India and China,
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which of course, is
major population density.
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North America is
only eight percent
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of the world's population.
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South America is
only eight percent.
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Africa is like 15 percent
of the world's population.
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Europe is like 12 percent.
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Asia is like 57 percent
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and so that's one of the reasons
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why there is so much to do.
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There is so much to do there.
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How can you say no
when an opportunity opens?
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When the Lord
provides an opportunity,
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how can you say
no and walk away?
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And so, that's
one of the reasons
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why Jesus for Asia,
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we've got so many
projects going on.
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Right, we have over 40
projects in the last 11 years.
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The Lord has
started or brought us
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into contact with
over 40 projects now.
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So, we want to
share a little video
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as an
introduction to Jesus for Asia
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and then we'll get a
little more into Thailand
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and the situation there.
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Sounds good. All right.
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So you can see,
there's something for everyone.
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If you love children,
there are projects for you.
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If you love adult evangelism,
there's a project for you.
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If you love jungle
ministry, there are options.
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A city ministry,
there are so many options.
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God gives us many
options to build up
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our eternal heavenly treasure.
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These are the
things we're doing,
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but what about
what we're not doing?
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And that's the
thing that really,
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you know, weighs on
the back of my mind.
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It's something, as the
voices that I don't hear
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that scream the loudest.
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The people that don't
know that Jesus exists
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and that those people
that are willing to help them
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and so they're not able to call
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and say, "Hey, can you help us?"
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It's the people that
find out about Christ
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that make some kind
of connection that say,
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"Can you come over and help?
We need this, we need that."
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But what about all
the people that don't know
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that they can even ask?
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Right.
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You know the gospel
has been communicated
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for centuries by
the written page,
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not just by being spoken
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and that's what we
want to talk about today,
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the printed page, a little bit.
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Right, I mean, can you imagine
your life being a Christian,
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being a believer
without anything printed
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that you could read.
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Yeah.
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In many places, not even
any portion of the Scripture.
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Right. Yeah.
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So, it's painful, it's
painful to think about that
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because how do we learn
more about God through His word,
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His written word
and through nature?
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Right, and how do we introduce
other people to the depths
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of the knowledge of God
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without
something written, printed,
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something that
you can hand somebody?
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Right.
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And I know we
talked about our media team
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that's working on DVD's
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and evangelism
using the new media,
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but there's still, you know,
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that's really
good in introducing
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and broaching subjects to people
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but the depth you know...
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They need the written...
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The printed word
can go so much deeper
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and you can watch it,
you read it, watch it.
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You can read the
printed word at your own pace
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and have it sink really in.
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Right, so in 2008, share with us
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what happened in 2008?
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Oh, my, well, I met Pastor Doug.
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We were in
Bangkok and we met him.
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His wife is your good
friend from high school days
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and found out what he was doing
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and we were just
learning about Bangkok,
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but Thailand was a country
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where it was kind of
like a vacation place.
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Our ministry was
in other countries
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and we come there to relax,
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but then when we
started talking to Doug,
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and seeing the
state of the progress
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of the gospel in Thailand,
our hearts really moved,
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and so, I was able to go
and meet him in his office
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and he started sharing
with me the dearth of materials
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that they had and he took me
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into the office of,
it's kind of like the office
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where all the
requests for literature,
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requests for Bible studies come,
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and so he took me and showed me
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what material they have
available to send to people
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that are
interested in the truth.
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Okay, so let's
run that video now.
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God's work is languishing
and one example of that,
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here that I live with daily is,
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what is there to
communicate the hope
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that we have as Seventh-day
Adventist Christians?
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What is it that communicates
to the people around us?
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What the Bible teaches about
what will happen in His endings.
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And obviously, if you go
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to your local
church literature rack,
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you can find tracks on Sabbath,
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and the Sanctuary,
and the State of the Dead,
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and the fact that
Jesus is coming so soon,
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but here in
Thailand, we're here actually
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in the office of the Adventist,
The Voice of Prophecy,
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but I want to just
have you to take a look.
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Here, we have
photocopies of lessons
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that are what I've been
told they are over 60 years old
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and you can see here that,
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you know, the truth is there
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but even at my second and
third grade level of Thai,
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some of these
words I can't even read,
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what letter this is.
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You know, what is that?
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What is that letter right there?
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It it's a blob of ink
and so how can the truth
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be clearly
communicated when it's...
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We're dealing with a
copy of a copy of a copy.
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Here is another
set of... That...
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This is, you know,
because here in Thailand,
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we have Buddhists,
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and their world view
is completely different,
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and so, here this
is a set that looks out
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what is good in Buddhism?
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How has God used
the truth there to,
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then, make a bridge to the Bible
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and so here this is a
wonderful set of lessons,
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but you look at the picture
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and what do you see here?
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Bunch of blobs.
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It's just... it's
not quite clear and...
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Not very attractive.
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Yeah, it's needless to say.
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Then, we can look here that...
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So when somebody calls
interested in Adventism,
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this is what we send them?
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When someone calls or
actually when they write,
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they come, you know, the
letter comes here to the mission
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or an e-mail is sent
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or you know churches
ask for literature and...
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This is what we have.
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Even though we don't
have the sharpest tools...
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Help God.
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He is still using them...
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Look here on this picture.
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You can see that
here is actually,
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these men are in
prison and the seeds of hope
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are still going through to them
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and God is
changing lives despite...
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Despite our selfish greed.
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We have...
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There are some
other literature...
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I asked them and they said,
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"Where did you
get these printed?
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We've got some new ones here,"
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and I must just show
you these right here,
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we got Steps to Christ,
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and we've got
these health lessons
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and he said, "Jon, which
means leader or teacher, boss...
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Where did we get these?"
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And goes, "The
layman paid for these."
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I said, "Well,
where's your budget?"
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She goes, "I
don't have a budget."
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And I said, "What?
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Where do you get
this stuff reprinted
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when you run out?"
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And she says, "We don't.
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We just use what we
have until it's all gone."
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And it just...
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It just breaks my heart
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because, even at
my former church,
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in our district,
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our local church literature rack
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was bigger and was more,
had more stock than what...
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Than what we have
here at the mission.
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It was more well
stocked than what we had here
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at the headquarters
to serve an entire nation
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and there we were just trying
to serve one or two cities
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of 50,000
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and seven nations of 65 million.
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We have prisoners
who don't know the hope
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because we don't
have the lessons.
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We have this entire city here
in Bangkok of 13 million who...
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They have not heard it
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and are
compelling in creative ways
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because we don't have the tools
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or finances to
publish it in vast amounts.
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So, yeah, I live with that...
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I live with the
languishing every day.
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That's really
sobering and very heartbreaking
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and as we can see
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it was a heavy
burden on Doug's heart.
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Yeah. He is whole time there.
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Yeah.
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So there are many
needs for literature,
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not just in Thailand.
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Not just a program either.
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It's not just
literature program.
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You know, this
affects real people
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and it can open
or close the door
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for some people for eternal life
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which is really
important to God,
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and I think if as
the Lord places His love
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for others in our
hearts, it affects us too.
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Yeah.
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Right, and this is he's
talking about the Thai language.
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Right.
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Now, there are other
languages spoken in Thailand.
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Yes, you have Akha,
Karen, Mien, on and on and on.
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I've read once were
there're 78 different languages.
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I even counted them myself,
but 78 different languages,
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just in Thailand.
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All the different tribes
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and because of
the displaced people
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that are living in Thailand now.
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There are many languages
represented in Thailand.
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That's right.
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Yeah, that was
looking at Bible study lessons
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and small literature, you know,
and they were talking about
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Steps to Christ there.
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So what about Ellen White?
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Well, this is the
challenge, this is the thing
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that really surprised me
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because I was out
in Bangkok by myself
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and I had dinner and
the waitress ended up...
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She was
interested in Christianity.
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She considered
herself at some level,
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a believer and so I got excited,
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I'm like would you
be interested in a book
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that I have and she's like,
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"Yeah" because she
couldn't tell the difference,
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she didn't know the difference
between denominations.
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She had very, you
know, limited knowledge about
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what it means to be a Christian.
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And so, I was gonna
give her Steps to Christ.
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So I went back
to the headquarters
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of our church in Thailand
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and I was just going to
pick up the Steps of Christ.
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There was an ABC there.
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And I looked all
over the headquarters
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and I couldn't find a
single Steps to Christ,
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these little
books, just a little book
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and if you don't
have a Steps to Christ...
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I mean, it's one
thing to be a believer
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in the Seventh-day Adventist
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and not have the Steps
to Christ in your home.
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I mean, that would be
really surprising actually
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but to not have one
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in the
headquarters of our church.
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For the whole
country. For the whole country.
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They had some
when Doug was there,
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but he said in the video
the layman printed those.
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Yeah, every once in a while...
So they must have been...
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Between printings when
you were looking for them.
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Yeah, like, like
somebody will donate some.
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They'll print a batch
and then they will run out
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and they'll go for a
certain amount of time,
00:14:31.53\00:14:33.47
who knows how long
without Steps to Christ,
00:14:33.50\00:14:38.74
and so, you know, you wonder,
well, can do they really...
00:14:38.77\00:14:43.21
Do they appreciate those
books even when they have them?
00:14:43.24\00:14:44.88
Doesn't make a difference. Yeah.
00:14:44.91\00:14:46.21
I've got a little testimony
00:14:46.25\00:14:48.02
by a literature
evangelist interviewing somebody
00:14:48.05\00:14:50.42
that had read Steps to Christ
00:14:50.45\00:14:52.05
and this is from a Thai
person that read Steps to Christ
00:14:52.09\00:14:54.86
and this is a video
of her talking about
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what she thinks
about Steps to Christ.
00:14:57.23\00:15:00.10
Okay.
00:15:00.13\00:15:01.23
I'm very happy to know
that you have found peace,
00:15:01.26\00:15:05.30
joy and happiness of this book.
00:15:05.33\00:15:07.64
Yes! Very, very good book!
00:15:07.67\00:15:09.94
In Thai, what is this?
00:15:09.97\00:15:13.38
Secret of Happiness.
00:15:15.84\00:15:17.21
Yes!
00:15:17.25\00:15:18.41
Okay, can you tell me
because one day you told me
00:15:18.45\00:15:21.68
that this book
is a different book
00:15:21.72\00:15:28.56
from other books that
says also about happiness.
00:15:28.59\00:15:33.90
Yeah.
00:15:33.93\00:15:35.03
I read two books and I
like two books very much.
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It's a best
seller, million of book.
00:15:38.90\00:15:43.37
International best
seller. Yeah. Yeah.
00:15:43.41\00:15:46.37
But when I found this
book it's very, very old book,
00:15:46.41\00:15:52.01
not attractive,
but when I read I...
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Exciting!
00:15:58.62\00:15:59.65
It's a deep spirit of happiness.
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I read and read and read...
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Very, very happy.
00:16:07.73\00:16:09.13
It's a deep truth for
people to become happiness life.
00:16:09.16\00:16:16.00
I think, we should
give to Thai people.
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That's right.
00:16:21.28\00:16:23.38
So you can see how
powerful that book is to her,
00:16:23.41\00:16:27.48
and you can see also that
they're true honest people,
00:16:27.52\00:16:31.52
lovely people and
seeking for happiness,
00:16:31.55\00:16:35.62
and my goodness, you
know, Christ, God is the sort...
00:16:35.66\00:16:38.69
He is happy God.
00:16:38.73\00:16:39.73
He is the source of
all happiness and light
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and truth and joy
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and His children,
He has many children,
00:16:43.47\00:16:45.87
still in other
countries like Thailand
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and are we holding that
light back from his kids?
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I mean, that's
our job is to give...
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Are we helping it to go out?
00:16:56.28\00:16:57.65
Yeah, exactly.
00:16:57.68\00:16:59.28
So going back to Pastor Doug
00:16:59.31\00:17:00.78
because of what
he showed me there
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I said, "People don't know this.
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People in America do not
know the effect of the decline
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of giving in foreign
missions on the frontline."
00:17:09.19\00:17:11.76
So I'm gonna go back and
we shot an entire series.
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A 13-part series.
00:17:16.36\00:17:17.57
Following Pastor Doug around
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as a church
planting pastor in Bangkok
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and part of
that was to highlight
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what's happening
with our literature.
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I mean, that's
just one little book.
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What about the other books?
What about Desire of Ages?
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So then, when
we had the director
00:17:31.45\00:17:33.18
of Adventist
mission come and visit us,
00:17:33.21\00:17:35.95
we set up this
little challenge for him.
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Can you find
Desire of Ages on campus?
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And so we'll roll that clip now.
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Okay.
00:17:44.26\00:17:45.39
And, Gary, I've got a
challenge for you today.
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Have you ever been blessed
00:17:47.13\00:17:48.40
by the book Steps to
Christ or Desire of Ages?
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I have indeed.
00:17:51.77\00:17:52.83
Okay, so your challenge today is
00:17:52.87\00:17:55.17
we're going to try to
go onto this campus here
00:17:55.20\00:17:57.97
and see if you
can find that book.
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Well, this is the
Adventist Book Center,
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good place to find, right?
00:18:01.94\00:18:02.98
Right. Let's
see... Let's start here.
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Do you have a copy of
the Desire of Ages, please?
00:18:04.95\00:18:07.82
Oh, we don't have. I'm sorry.
00:18:07.85\00:18:09.65
Okay. Steps to Christ?
00:18:09.68\00:18:11.65
Steps to Christ? I
think we have only one.
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Okay. Oh, sorry.
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Thai, isn't?
00:18:16.99\00:18:19.46
Steps to Christ.
00:18:19.49\00:18:20.80
As for Desire of Ages,
00:18:20.83\00:18:21.86
we are out of stock
for a long time already.
00:18:21.90\00:18:24.70
Right. Yeah.
00:18:24.73\00:18:25.80
Here is Steps to Christ. Right.
00:18:25.83\00:18:27.70
So we have it in English
00:18:27.74\00:18:29.04
and how many copies
of these do you have?
00:18:29.07\00:18:30.77
Sorry, we are out of stock also.
00:18:30.81\00:18:32.27
We're out of stock of
English Steps to Christ.
00:18:32.31\00:18:35.01
Is it an accident
that it's upside down?
00:18:35.04\00:18:38.91
Probably that's why, Gary,
00:18:38.95\00:18:40.28
that's the last
copy is because...
00:18:40.32\00:18:42.05
It's a
misprint. It's a misprint.
00:18:42.08\00:18:43.72
Yeah, which Ellen White's books
00:18:43.75\00:18:45.75
do we have in the
Thailand languages,
00:18:45.79\00:18:47.22
do you have like
Patriarchs and Prophets?
00:18:47.26\00:18:50.03
Yeah, we have
Patriarchs and Prophets.
00:18:50.06\00:18:51.13
Yeah, you have some of that.
00:18:51.16\00:18:52.39
What about Acts of the Apostles?
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We don't. No.
00:18:54.36\00:18:55.73
Great
Controversy? Great Controversy?
00:18:55.76\00:18:57.93
We have just...
Do you have a copy?
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Used up.
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So that just
kills me that the ABC
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in a country of
67 million people
00:19:05.71\00:19:08.68
does not have a Desire of Ages.
00:19:08.71\00:19:10.98
Yeah. They don't
have Desire of Ages.
00:19:11.01\00:19:13.21
Acts of the Apostles is
not even available in Thai.
00:19:13.25\00:19:15.58
Never been translated. Yeah.
00:19:15.62\00:19:17.25
Great Controversy?
00:19:17.29\00:19:19.22
Nothing
available. They used them up.
00:19:19.25\00:19:20.49
They're gone. Yeah.
00:19:20.52\00:19:22.09
That's just... So
that, that's just like...
00:19:22.12\00:19:25.59
It just...
Yeah, it's killing me.
00:19:25.63\00:19:27.30
So you took this information
00:19:27.30\00:19:29.10
that there weren't
any available in the ABC
00:19:29.13\00:19:31.23
and you went
looking for the director
00:19:31.27\00:19:32.67
of The Voice of Prophecy office.
00:19:32.70\00:19:33.90
Yes.
00:19:33.94\00:19:35.00
This is Dr. Sirachet Insom.
00:19:35.04\00:19:36.67
He is a director for
the Spirit of Prophecy
00:19:36.71\00:19:40.84
and Gray Krause is
on the challenge today.
00:19:40.88\00:19:42.71
I've given him an
assignment to try to find
00:19:42.74\00:19:45.91
Steps to Christ in
Thai and he was able to find
00:19:45.95\00:19:48.88
the last copy
of Steps to Christ,
00:19:48.92\00:19:51.29
but you can see
that it's being printed,
00:19:51.32\00:19:54.12
it's upside down and
it's not quite perfect,
00:19:54.16\00:19:57.43
but at least he found one,
00:19:57.46\00:19:59.26
but the other
part of his challenge
00:19:59.29\00:20:01.36
was to find a Desire of Ages.
00:20:01.40\00:20:04.57
So can you guide... Help Gary.
00:20:04.60\00:20:08.80
You know, find out
00:20:08.84\00:20:09.90
why the Adventist
book center downstairs
00:20:09.94\00:20:12.57
does not have Desire of Ages?
00:20:12.61\00:20:14.84
As far as I know right now
00:20:14.88\00:20:17.25
that there is no Ellen G.
White book available in our ABC.
00:20:17.28\00:20:22.85
My first book, in
my Christian life,
00:20:22.88\00:20:25.09
is the Desire of Ages.
00:20:25.12\00:20:26.92
Because
previously you were Buddhist.
00:20:26.96\00:20:28.62
Yeah, you came
from a Buddhist family.
00:20:28.66\00:20:30.26
I came from a Buddhist
family, and when I came to join
00:20:30.29\00:20:34.10
the Seventh-day
Adventist Church,
00:20:34.10\00:20:36.36
the church pastor conducted
00:20:36.40\00:20:38.97
what we have midweek
prayer every Wednesday night
00:20:39.00\00:20:43.67
and he used that
book, the Desire of Ages.
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We don't have that book.
00:20:46.78\00:20:48.81
I have one copy at home
00:20:48.84\00:20:50.41
and I keep that
for more that 20 years.
00:20:50.45\00:20:52.85
I never give to anyone.
00:20:52.88\00:20:55.18
I never bring it
to my office even.
00:20:55.22\00:20:57.29
I keep it at home
00:20:57.32\00:20:59.05
because I don't want to lose it.
00:20:59.09\00:21:01.79
Can you believe this?
00:21:01.82\00:21:02.86
Okay, here's a
man, here's the pastor,
00:21:02.89\00:21:04.53
he's the director of
the Spirit of Prophecy
00:21:04.56\00:21:06.26
and he's holding on
to his Desire of Ages
00:21:06.29\00:21:08.36
because he doesn't
want to loan it out
00:21:08.40\00:21:09.73
because that's the last copy.
00:21:09.76\00:21:11.67
And it's not even there
where he's living in Bangkok
00:21:11.70\00:21:14.74
at the mission office.
00:21:14.77\00:21:16.87
It's at his house
and he's not bringing it.
00:21:16.91\00:21:19.74
And it's been out of
print for almost 20 years.
00:21:19.77\00:21:23.45
It was translated 60 years ago.
00:21:23.48\00:21:25.48
This was shot five years
ago. It's still not in print.
00:21:25.51\00:21:28.78
So, we're talking over 20
years where the Desire of Ages
00:21:28.82\00:21:31.79
has not been in print in Thai.
00:21:31.82\00:21:34.09
So all of the church members
that have come into the church,
00:21:34.12\00:21:36.96
all the kids that
have been born, never...
00:21:36.99\00:21:38.89
That don't speak English,
00:21:38.93\00:21:40.30
very few of them
actually speak English.
00:21:40.33\00:21:43.00
All of those kids,
all of those people,
00:21:43.03\00:21:44.57
have not had the understanding
00:21:44.60\00:21:46.87
and the insight
that the Desire of Ages,
00:21:46.90\00:21:49.14
the life of Christ gives.
00:21:49.17\00:21:55.48
We can stand by and do nothing.
00:21:55.51\00:21:59.55
So we had to do something.
00:21:59.58\00:22:01.02
We have to do something.
00:22:01.05\00:22:02.52
This is just like
they're not acceptable.
00:22:02.55\00:22:04.65
Right.
00:22:04.69\00:22:05.85
So we have to do
something, had to do something.
00:22:05.89\00:22:07.79
Okay.
00:22:07.82\00:22:08.92
So, it's been 60 years
since it was translated.
00:22:08.96\00:22:14.10
Now, what about
the Thai language?
00:22:14.10\00:22:15.43
Has the Thai language stayed
the same in that last 60 years?
00:22:15.46\00:22:18.20
The Thai language
is actually more fluid
00:22:18.23\00:22:20.80
than the English language,
00:22:20.84\00:22:21.94
so a lot has
changed over 60 years.
00:22:21.97\00:22:24.44
So people that I've asked
that read the Desire of Ages
00:22:24.47\00:22:27.84
in the old printing,
00:22:27.88\00:22:29.51
they can't really understand it.
00:22:29.54\00:22:31.18
Wow. Yeah.
00:22:31.21\00:22:32.48
So in order to do a reprinting,
you really had to update
00:22:32.51\00:22:37.12
the language and
then it's all in,
00:22:37.15\00:22:39.62
you know, this
is before computers.
00:22:39.65\00:22:41.06
This was all
done before computers
00:22:41.09\00:22:42.76
and so we have to like
retype it into the computer
00:22:42.79\00:22:45.83
and then do the layout,
00:22:45.86\00:22:47.23
so that it's all nicely
00:22:47.30\00:22:48.80
designed and designed the book
00:22:48.83\00:22:50.23
and the book cover and
all that kind of stuff,
00:22:50.27\00:22:51.67
that's what had to happen
and so we as Jesus for Asia,
00:22:51.70\00:22:55.90
we approached the
leaders and says, "Can we help?"
00:22:55.94\00:23:00.34
And they said,
"Yes, we would love."
00:23:00.38\00:23:02.64
And they made the
action, they voted that,
00:23:02.68\00:23:05.05
that Jesus for
Asia would help them
00:23:05.08\00:23:07.38
in making this happen,
00:23:07.42\00:23:08.65
and one of the
biggest challenges
00:23:08.68\00:23:10.02
that they had in redesigning
and putting this book together
00:23:10.05\00:23:13.36
was getting people that
could update the language
00:23:13.39\00:23:16.79
and that could
do the editing work,
00:23:16.83\00:23:19.83
you know, editing and
making sure everything
00:23:19.86\00:23:21.76
was grammatically proper and...
00:23:21.80\00:23:24.60
And read properly and
didn't change any meaning.
00:23:24.63\00:23:28.14
Exactly.
00:23:28.17\00:23:29.40
Because, you know, often
when you translate something,
00:23:29.44\00:23:31.74
you can translate the
words and you lose the meaning
00:23:31.77\00:23:34.98
and so that's one thing I
know that they've mentioned
00:23:35.01\00:23:38.55
that they have to watch for.
00:23:38.58\00:23:39.98
So what happened
is the president,
00:23:40.02\00:23:42.78
executive secretary,
and the president secretary
00:23:42.82\00:23:45.82
have been in their spare time
going through the whole thing
00:23:45.85\00:23:50.06
and making it readable,
correcting any mistakes,
00:23:50.09\00:23:53.50
bringing it into the computer
00:23:53.53\00:23:55.36
and we're very
close to reprinting...
00:23:55.40\00:23:58.27
It's being ready to
print. This thing...
00:23:58.30\00:23:59.43
But the thing is that
00:23:59.47\00:24:01.67
if we can have a
larger volume of print,
00:24:01.70\00:24:04.94
then the per
book cost goes down.
00:24:04.97\00:24:07.21
Okay. And so we've...
00:24:07.24\00:24:08.94
The Lord has brought people
00:24:08.98\00:24:10.95
in with the same
burden that we have
00:24:10.98\00:24:13.25
and we have enough
to print 5000 copies,
00:24:13.28\00:24:16.58
but we're really
wanting and what they requested
00:24:16.62\00:24:18.99
is 10,000 copies and
so we're still looking
00:24:19.02\00:24:21.96
and it only cost 10,000 copies,
00:24:21.99\00:24:24.49
a hardbound nice
Desire of Ages book in Thai
00:24:24.53\00:24:27.96
which is gonna be
thicker than in English
00:24:27.96\00:24:30.30
because it takes more
words to get the same concept,
00:24:30.33\00:24:34.44
it's gonna be about $5 per book.
00:24:34.47\00:24:37.04
If we can do 10,000 copies?
00:24:37.07\00:24:38.27
If we can do 10,000
copies, so $5 per hardbound...
00:24:38.31\00:24:40.48
That's really a good investment.
00:24:40.51\00:24:41.91
Yeah. That's fantastic.
00:24:41.94\00:24:43.48
And then we can
send these books.
00:24:43.51\00:24:45.31
These 10,000 books,
00:24:45.35\00:24:46.72
there's about 12,000
Thai SDAs in Thailand.
00:24:46.75\00:24:50.62
So, not enough for everybody,
00:24:50.65\00:24:52.75
but definitely
enough for every family
00:24:52.79\00:24:54.89
and then some for the literature
00:24:54.92\00:24:56.56
evangelists to take out
00:24:56.59\00:24:57.66
and sell as well as to provide
00:24:57.69\00:24:59.86
as gifts to
government officials,
00:24:59.89\00:25:02.53
leaders in
villages, and start being able
00:25:02.56\00:25:05.47
to share these books as well.
00:25:05.50\00:25:07.74
And then once we've
printed it the first time,
00:25:07.77\00:25:10.24
then it's easier
to continue printing.
00:25:10.27\00:25:12.64
Right, because you don't have
00:25:12.67\00:25:13.78
to go through all the
layout, the upgrading.
00:25:13.81\00:25:15.64
It's ready to reprint,
00:25:15.68\00:25:17.61
and so, I'm really, really,
really excited about this.
00:25:17.65\00:25:20.12
This really has to happen
00:25:20.15\00:25:22.02
and it really
has to get out there
00:25:22.05\00:25:23.42
because in Buddhism
they value respect of life,
00:25:23.45\00:25:28.99
being able to give
without any personal hope
00:25:29.02\00:25:32.73
of return of gain and peace
00:25:32.76\00:25:36.40
and getting along
well with your neighbors.
00:25:36.43\00:25:38.53
Those are the things they value.
00:25:38.57\00:25:41.07
Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
00:25:41.10\00:25:42.84
Sounds kind of
like... It sounds like Christ.
00:25:42.87\00:25:44.11
Christ.
00:25:44.14\00:25:45.37
So when they can get
behind the cultural barriers
00:25:45.41\00:25:50.78
to Christianity as
a foreign religion.
00:25:50.81\00:25:53.48
It's a foreign religion.
It's a Western religion.
00:25:53.52\00:25:55.85
It's the
religion that Hollywood,
00:25:55.88\00:25:58.92
you know, just cusses.
00:25:58.95\00:26:00.89
If we can get behind that
00:26:00.92\00:26:01.89
and show them
this is who Christ is.
00:26:01.92\00:26:03.79
This is His
values. This is what He...
00:26:03.83\00:26:06.09
This is how He treated people.
This is how He lived His life.
00:26:06.13\00:26:10.07
It's powerful as it
was for Pastor Sirachet
00:26:10.10\00:26:14.07
when he started
seeing the life of Christ,
00:26:14.10\00:26:15.84
and this is why
I'm so excited about
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the Desire of
Ages in a lot of ways,
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even more
important than in my mind,
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the Great Controversy.
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Now, there is a place
for the Great Controversy,
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but to start with, I
think, it's more important
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to fall in love with
Jesus Christ who He is,
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then there's a place
for the Great Controversy.
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So that's on the
way to... Christ first.
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Yeah.
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There are people
working on translating...
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The Great Controversy
also. Yeah, but there's needs.
00:26:42.80\00:26:44.10
There's so much needs
for other books as well.
00:26:44.13\00:26:46.23
You've got The
Acts of the Apostles,
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Pastor Sirachet is
by himself translating
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The Acts of the
Apostles into Thai with the hope
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that someday it'll
get funded to be printed.
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You know, what I mean, he is...
00:26:59.31\00:27:00.55
Here he is translating
this big old thick book
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and other books have not
been printed for 20 years.
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I mean, for me
it's an active phase.
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And other books
have never been...
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Never been printed,
never been translated.
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Yeah, never been
translated, never been printed.
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This is an ongoing project,
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but I believe
that this is a project
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that will bring
souls into the kingdom
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and not just souls,
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but souls with the
depths and those that are...
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A deeper
understanding of who Christ is.
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Yeah, and those that
are already in the faith,
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this deepens their faith.
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Deepens their
connection with Christ
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as their knowledge of God grows
so does their happiness and joy
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and what better gift to give?
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Yeah. Give the gift of Christ.
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Yes. The life of Christ.
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Yeah.
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If you would like to
help with the printing
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of the Desire of Ages
to make this available
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to churches and
pastors and for the up building
00:27:55.07\00:27:57.34
of the church in
Thailand as well as introducing
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others to the life of Christ,
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you can send your
tax deductible love gift
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to Jesus for Asia, PO Box 1221,
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Call us at (423) 413-7321
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or check out our
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God bless you
until we see you again.
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