Hello and welcome
to Jesus for Asia Now.
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I'm Natalie Wood,
and I have my husband Jon
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here with me on the show.
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Hi, darling. Hello, love.
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Good to see you.
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You know, over half of
the world lives in Asia?
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Yup.
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And there are a lot
of people over there
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that don't know Jesus.
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Yes.
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So today, we want to talk
about a very special project.
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Yes.
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With a special missionary family
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that God is
using in mighty ways,
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even though they're
just ordinary people.
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And that project
is GoBeDo Missions.
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Yup.
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And we're talking about
Mike and Michelle Cordes.
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Yes.
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This is a picture
of Mike and Michelle.
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Yeah, and they're
working in the Philippines,
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in the South Philippines.
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Now in Asia, the
Adventist church's
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highest
concentration of membership
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is in the Philippines.
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There's like 7,000 islands,
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and there's still
some pockets of people
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that have not had
any access to the Gospel
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and that no one's
actually yet entering in.
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And this family is working
among one of those groups.
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So we met Mike and Michelle
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because Mike went
to the same church
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as we went to.
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In Idaho. Yeah, in Idaho.
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And then he came
to Faith Camp 2008.
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Before they were married. Right.
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And at Faith Camp 2008,
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the theme there was
"claim your inheritance."
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Claim your
inheritance. That's right.
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And of course inheritance
is coming from Isaiah 54:3
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where it says, "...thy seed
shall inherit the gentiles."
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Right. So the
people. The people, yes.
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So we think of our inheritance
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as the physical
inheritance to heaven,
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but God left, Jesus
left the physical part
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to come and claim
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what he
considered the true riches,
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which is people.
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And so the two
things happen, though,
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is when we
claim our inheritance,
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when we take the
Gospel to the world,
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then the end shall come.
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So Mike and Michelle
actually met on the internet
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on an Adventist,
kind of, a singles area,
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and they got to know each other
and ended up getting married.
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And then they went
back to the Philippines
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to work together.
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Yeah. She was
from the Philippines.
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Which is what
GoDoBe Mission says, right?
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Right. She's
from the Philippines.
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When he was
going over to date her
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to get to know her a little bit,
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he fell in love with the
people up in the mountains,
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just had such a heart for them
getting access to the Gospel.
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And such a growth
process in his life.
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He saw that this is
something he really wanted to do
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for the rest of his life.
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And GoBeDo, what does that mean?
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It's like one word,
we say it as one word,
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but it's actually three words.
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"Go," obviously is
Christ calls us to go,
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and "Be" isn't
just preach the Gospel,
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but be the Gospel.
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You know, you may
be the only Christian
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that person sees,
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you maybe the only
Christ someone ever sees.
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And then "Do" is be the
hands and feet of Jesus.
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Doing. Do the work.
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And so, yeah, the going,
the being, and the doing,
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Christ in and through
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everything in
all phases of that.
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That's a neat name.
That's a really cool name.
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That's very practical,
very, you know, it's the call.
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Right, right,
their mission statement,
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all in one word.
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Yes. Okay.
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So this is a
picture of their family
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up in the mountains.
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They have two
girls and a boy. Yeah.
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And they have a motorcycle.
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And that, we've
got some video of that.
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So we do have a lot of pictures
and video to go through.
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So we got to keep
moving. We got to keep moving.
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Yeah. Okay, this is a picture...
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Of the mountainous areas
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that they live in, they work in.
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This isn't
exactly where they live,
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but you can see the
beautiful mountains.
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It's very lush jungle
with big steep mountains
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and a lot of challenging terrain
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that would be really
exciting for somebody
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that likes off-roading, like me.
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Right.
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And the next thing we
have is a video from Mike
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talking about where they work.
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Okay.
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So let's go ahead
and play that now.
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Awesome.
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The area that we're
working in is mountainous.
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It's the...
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I would say, it would be
areas that would be considered
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3,500 feet and above in
the mountains of Mindanao,
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mostly in provinces
of Agusan and Bukidnon,
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and Misamis Oriental.
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And in these mountains,
civil war has been raging
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for about 50 years
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between
communist rebel insurgents
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and the government.
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But in the mountains,
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there's also
many Bandido groups,
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that are lawless,
criminal type people.
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And then the tribal people
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that are caught in
the middle of all this,
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and they became our
mission, the tribal people.
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They have been much prejudiced
against them in the years.
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The costal people have
always regarded them as lazy,
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and dirty, and
poor, and uneducated,
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and they're all of the above.
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And but I'm
certain that God came
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and died for them too.
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Wow.
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God came and died for them too.
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The least of these,
you know, all those things,
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not attractive kind of
people to the visual eye,
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to the human eye
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but Christ assigns a value
to each one of those as well.
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Yeah, what a
lesson for us too? Yeah.
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The least of these My brethren.
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Right. Yeah, right.
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So this is a
picture of the House
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that they've built
at their mission post.
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And here's the
house under construction.
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What's
interesting is you can see
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over the top of the wall,
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the roof there,
the roof comes down,
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there's a little gap
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between the top of
the wall and the roof.
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Yeah.
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They were given
money to finish that off
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and to seal that,
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but there was a greater
need in their mission work.
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Somebody needed it more.
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And so even today, even though
the house is mostly finished,
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there's still that gap there,
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and the wind comes
howling up over that gap
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and they didn't have
enough money to put cement
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down inside the bricks,
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so it actually
makes a howling noise
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as the wind comes.
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It must be very cold
and, you know, cold sound,
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and kind of
haunting or eerie sound,
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having the wind, you know,
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make the whistling
noise through that.
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And so what's one
of my prayers is that
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we can somehow
help them get that.
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Finish the house. Yeah.
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And here's the kitchen
while it's under construction.
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They have shared with us
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that their weather is
a little bit challenging
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because their
weather temperature ranges
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from 50 to 80
degrees Fahrenheit.
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Yes.
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Sometimes as high as 85,
but it's 98 percent humidity
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and it rains all the time.
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So they have a very hard
time with clothes drying.
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Yeah.
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And you actually asked
him, "Would you like a dryer?"
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And he says, "Well, if we
can get one with an inverter
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and get it up
into the mountains."
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They do have power up there now,
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but they would
have to have an inverter
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or regulator of some kind,
'cause the power fluctuates.
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I think he'd really
like a washing machine.
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Yeah.
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I think they need
both, because he said that
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sometimes the clothes
will take a week to dry.
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Yes.
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Because they
hang them out to dry,
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they try to hang
them under the roof
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so that they can dry,
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but then the rain
comes in that way.
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And then... so
they're not drying,
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so they move them
to a different place.
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So they're moving
the clothes around
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trying to get them to dry
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and some of them have taken
up to a week to actually dry.
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Yeah.
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And so it's a challenge
and that takes a lot of time
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moving all the
clothes on a clothesline,
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around and round underneath.
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If they can at least
get a washing machine,
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then it has a spin
cycle and it spins it out,
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and they dry much faster.
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'Cause right now
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they're doing
everything by hand.
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So it takes a lot of time
out of their daily schedule
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and then you don't
get it as much water out,
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so it takes longer to dry.
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Right.
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So starting with washing machine
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would be wonderful.
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Now comparing that house
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to the house that they
left in America to go to...
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This is the house
that they were at.
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It was on 45 acres,
they were renting this house
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from a former missionary family.
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And it has an amazing
view out the front window.
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You could see for miles,
and it's a beautiful place.
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And they left this place to
go and work among the unreached.
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Right. So.
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But God is rewarding them.
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He's got some
stories a little bit later,
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but first, let's keep going.
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We have a little video
of your favorite plants.
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My favorite plant.
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I love this plant, it scared
me the first time I saw it
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because I was
walking through the grass.
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And I saw some
movement behind me.
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I'm like, "Whoa! Is it a snake?"
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But check out what it does.
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They named this
flower is touch me not.
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Touch me not. Yeah.
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That is so cool.
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I love those plants.
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If you touch the
flower, it closes its leaves.
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Isn't that cool? It is.
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It's a fun plant.
I love that plant.
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I love to touch it
every time I see it.
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And it's fun that
it opens back up again,
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and then you can
do it all over again.
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Yeah, and I did it
so much on one trip,
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one of our friends said,
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"Jon, stop teasing the plants."
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You're always teasing something.
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So the next shot we
have is of some kids playing
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and their life is
very simple there.
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So here they have...
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I don't know if it's cardboard
or pieces of metal or wood,
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what they have, but
here are some kids playing.
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Yup.
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Looks like fun.
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Yeah, I might go join them. Yup.
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So it's not all fun though.
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Yeah. They've had
some serious times.
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And this next video
is of Mike talking about
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when they were taken hostage.
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Couple of years ago,
we were taken hostage
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by communist rebels.
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And we were
coming down the road,
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and there were Philippine
Army soldiers on the road
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or what we thought were
Philippine Army soldiers,
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they were wearing
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the official uniform
of the Philippine Army
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with M16s in their hands
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and .45 ACP
pistols on their sides.
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And they told us to pull over
and they took us in the jungle.
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And then to our surprise,
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there were 300 other
people in the jungle.
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And they were
wearing black uniforms
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that said NPA or
New People's Army.
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That's the insurgents,
what they call themselves.
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And of course my wife
has memorized Psalms 91.
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And so she was quoting Psalms 91
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while they were
taking us in the jungle.
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And after three
hours, we were let go,
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given the rules of the mountains
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and their philosophy.
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They were there
to ambush the Mayor.
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They wanted to kill the
Mayor from the city below.
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They had heard
she was coming up,
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we were in the wrong
place at the wrong time.
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Three days later, they
did another ambush close by
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and they were able to
catch her and bodyguards.
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The bodyguards were killed
and she was put in the hospital
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for quite a
while, she did survive.
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Wow.
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So you are dealing
with danger face to face.
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Yeah, on a daily basis.
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This year alone, airplanes were
fighting over our mission post,
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artillery was being
shot over the houses
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where we live
from the village below
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and 80 young people
were killed in the river
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behind us.
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Eighty? Eighty.
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Wow. Eighty young people.
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Wow.
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So it makes him
feel even more urgency
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to share the
Gospel with these people,
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even though it's been dangerous.
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I mean, they were taken hostage.
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He's had his wallet stolen,
different things like that
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but just everything that happens
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gives him more of
a sense of urgency
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for the eternal
lives of these people.
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Yeah.
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And, you know,
it's not an easy thing.
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The house that
they were building,
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they've had to build
everything by hand, you know.
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And that's some of the
next shots we have, but...
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Okay. It's not an easy place.
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Yeah. It's not a safe place.
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What would call somebody
to do something like that
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when they could have a
comfortable life back home?
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Why would they go out
and do this kind of thing?
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Because of that
burden for souls.
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Because when you
claim your inheritance,
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you're taking, personally,
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these people
that you're claiming,
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and that's what Mike
has done and Michelle.
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Right. So it's
beautiful to see...
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Yeah.
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That dedication and
that devotion to the Lord,
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and how He lifts them up
in spite of all the challenges
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they've gone through.
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What's cool is that as Mike
has gotten into this ministry,
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I've seen his
spiritual life grow.
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And it's a wonderful family
to hang out with, sweet family.
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And I think that's
because of their hearts,
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their willingness
to give for others.
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And we think that would be
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really suffering
position to be in,
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but the truth is that
that's where heaven is,
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that's where true joy is.
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True joy is when you are
entering into the suffering
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and care of humanity
through Jesus Christ.
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Right. Because
that's what Jesus did.
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And He was looking for
joy when He came to the cross.
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Right. You know, He says...
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For the joy set
before Him. Exactly.
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It's exciting. Right.
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It's awesome.
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So let's continue looking at
some of the pictures and video.
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I think the next one
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is of Michelle
making bricks or blocks.
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Yes, for their house.
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Yes, this is how
they built their house.
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You don't just call the
local home building supply
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and order a bunch of
blocks, they make it themselves.
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They made the cement
and they made the block.
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And here's a video of
the making the driveway.
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Yes. Again Michelle's after...
00:14:02.14\00:14:03.87
I wonder why Mike
isn't in there doing it.
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I think he's running the camera.
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That's probably it.
00:14:07.78\00:14:09.21
You can see how painstakingly
laborious working there is
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and building what they have.
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Right, and you
could hear the wind
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actually blowing in that
video on the microphone also.
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Yeah, and that's the
wind that would make the noise
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in the house.
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Right. The howling sound.
00:14:54.32\00:14:55.99
Right, so this
next video is of them
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working in their garden
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because that was one of
the first things they did
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because they have
workers working with them,
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Bible workers and other workers,
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different kinds of missionaries
00:15:06.60\00:15:07.90
and they wanted to
be able to grow food
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to supplement what
they could afford to buy.
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Right.
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The training that they're doing
is Bible as well as practical.
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And they're trying to give
them different opportunities,
00:15:17.51\00:15:20.58
different ways to
support themselves
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and to feed their families.
00:15:22.25\00:15:23.59
So they're them different crops,
00:15:23.62\00:15:25.52
trying to find crops
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that will grow with all the bugs
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and everything in that location,
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but they're doing
really an amazing job.
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And their tractor, they've
got two types of tractors
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and one of them is Babe.
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This ox is in blue,
but they named her Babe.
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And she's actually
one of the family's pets.
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They love Babe and
she is a real sweetheart,
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very patient and
loving and sweet and kind,
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according to Mike.
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Okay.
00:15:53.92\00:15:54.98
Love you, kids. Love you, Dad.
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Bye.
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They're heading out
on an adventure today,
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this day,
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they're heading out to see
some of their Bible workers
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and see some of the
projects up in the mountains
00:16:03.73\00:16:06.29
because this is
the mission station
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where they're house is
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and where they do the
planting and everything,
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and that's the training place.
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But the real work is
out in the mountains.
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Bye, Dad.
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Bye. I love you. Love you, Mom.
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Can you give me a kiss?
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And they've got
several Bible workers, yeah.
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Different Bible
workers in different locations.
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And they're
living in the villages,
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doing the preaching,
doing the Bible study,
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doing the work
directly with the people
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and showing them
what a Christian is like.
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Now that looked like a
small motorcycle for Mike,
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but check this motorcycle out
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and what they
got on this family.
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They had the whole family
plus all their goods on there.
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Built a platform on
top of the motorbike
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so they can carry more.
00:16:54.41\00:16:55.58
Yeah, I get nervous when, like,
00:16:55.61\00:16:56.95
one other person
gets on a bike with me,
00:16:56.98\00:16:58.68
but those guys, they're experts.
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Right.
00:17:00.82\00:17:01.85
And this is what
it's like to go through
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that mountainous country
on one of their motor bikes.
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Actually this is
driving over a bridge.
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Yes. On a motorbike.
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You come down 29th.
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Oh, maybe Wednesday.
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On Wednesday.
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You have no spoon?
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No, my hand is a spoon.
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Need a spoon.
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So there you saw
00:18:02.64\00:18:03.68
the end result of their travels.
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They go and here is a
little group of believers
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that they're working with,
00:18:07.32\00:18:08.85
and they're
actually eating with them.
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So they're not
eating in a fancy restaurant
00:18:10.82\00:18:13.56
while the believers
eat in their own houses,
00:18:13.59\00:18:16.02
they're joining with
them in their houses.
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And this is the truth. I
mean, this is what Jesus did.
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And Jesus came to earth
when there wasn't running water
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or internet or
showers or anything like that.
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He came when it was
more like, what that is like.
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Right, right.
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And so, it's a
beautiful thing to see.
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Okay, this next video
that we have is a video of Mike
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talking about, what
he has learned about God
00:18:36.34\00:18:39.25
during this process.
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And let's watch that.
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He is either
every bit alive today
00:18:43.05\00:18:47.59
as He was in
the days of Abraham,
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Isaac, Moses or He's dead.
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Mission just taught me
to trust God at His word
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and then watch it in action.
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When I see or I'm facing
with a problem in the mission,
00:19:01.64\00:19:07.61
I can go to the Bible, we can,
in prayer claim Bible verses
00:19:07.64\00:19:13.05
and see God fulfill those.
00:19:13.08\00:19:15.28
And for me, that's probably
one of the biggest bonuses
00:19:15.32\00:19:20.52
of doing this work for
God is knowing that God
00:19:20.56\00:19:25.59
is not only a prayer hearing God
00:19:25.63\00:19:28.23
but He is a prayer
answering God as well.
00:19:28.26\00:19:31.67
And this is a beautiful
thing about the incarnational,
00:19:31.70\00:19:34.74
kind of, ministry
that they're doing.
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They don't have a regular salary
00:19:36.94\00:19:38.57
that's given to them,
00:19:38.61\00:19:39.64
that's dependable
every single month,
00:19:39.67\00:19:42.08
so they actually do trust in God
00:19:42.11\00:19:43.78
and they pray for their survival
00:19:43.81\00:19:46.01
and for the
growth of their ministry
00:19:46.05\00:19:48.22
in reaching other people.
00:19:48.25\00:19:49.48
And their kids get to see this.
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Right, right. So
it's not just theory.
00:19:51.59\00:19:53.15
They're engaged
00:19:53.19\00:19:54.26
and they're dealing
with real-life situations
00:19:54.29\00:19:56.52
and they get to
see God come through.
00:19:56.56\00:19:58.46
Right. It's awesome.
00:19:58.49\00:19:59.49
And they have to.
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They have to connect with God
00:20:00.63\00:20:01.56
because he's the only
one that can communicate.
00:20:01.60\00:20:03.93
Yeah.
00:20:03.97\00:20:05.00
And you know one thing I
want to say, in the past,
00:20:05.03\00:20:07.00
a lot of times missionaries,
they have gone overseas
00:20:07.04\00:20:10.14
and they've brought as
much of the western lifestyle
00:20:10.17\00:20:12.54
as they can, so
they build a compound
00:20:12.57\00:20:14.71
and they have a
western style house
00:20:14.74\00:20:16.68
and they have
very little interaction
00:20:16.71\00:20:18.55
with the local people.
00:20:18.58\00:20:19.91
And that's one
of the big reasons
00:20:19.95\00:20:21.32
why I like, for
instance, in China,
00:20:21.35\00:20:23.12
there was so much
sentiment against missionaries,
00:20:23.15\00:20:25.89
is because they
saw us missionaries
00:20:25.92\00:20:27.32
as being super
wealthy and really, you know,
00:20:27.36\00:20:31.83
there's lot of envy there
and so it's one of the reasons
00:20:31.86\00:20:34.10
why they kicked them out.
00:20:34.10\00:20:35.30
So that's why Mike and Michelle
are living like the people.
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Right.
00:20:38.00\00:20:38.97
You know, they do their
laundry like the people,
00:20:39.00\00:20:41.60
they ride the bikes, you know,
the motorbikes like the people,
00:20:41.64\00:20:45.41
and they eat with the people
because they don't want there
00:20:45.44\00:20:47.64
to be unnecessary barriers,
00:20:47.68\00:20:49.68
you know, there's
already differences
00:20:49.71\00:20:51.21
because they believe cleanliness
00:20:51.25\00:20:53.75
and they don't eat the
things that some people eat.
00:20:53.78\00:20:56.72
So they're there to show
them a more hygienic way to live
00:20:56.75\00:20:58.99
and a healthier way to live.
00:20:59.02\00:21:00.42
So they're there to lift them up
00:21:00.46\00:21:02.29
but not like this.
00:21:02.32\00:21:04.43
They're more
like this, you know,
00:21:04.46\00:21:07.10
and calling them up
to where people can go.
00:21:07.13\00:21:09.03
Right.
00:21:09.06\00:21:10.10
And they really
reach people that way.
00:21:10.13\00:21:11.23
Right.
00:21:11.27\00:21:12.20
Yeah, so this next
video is kind of a fun one.
00:21:12.23\00:21:14.44
It shows them crossing, well,
let's just watch the video.
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Okay.
00:21:17.64\00:21:18.74
That's probably
on the way into town.
00:21:35.59\00:21:38.13
Could have
been, could have been.
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And you think that's
bad. Check this one out.
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Okay.
00:21:42.66\00:21:45.80
Some guys carrying the motorbike
00:21:45.83\00:21:46.90
across the stream.
00:21:46.94\00:21:48.00
Now you have to watch,
right here, you'll see a log.
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See that log?
Went right by them.
00:21:50.54\00:21:51.97
What if it hit that guy there?
00:21:52.01\00:21:53.81
And it might
have knocked him over
00:21:53.84\00:21:55.71
and the whole bike
going on in the drain.
00:21:55.74\00:21:57.58
It's a dangerous type of thing
and it takes a lot of effort
00:21:57.61\00:22:00.18
just to do the very basics
00:22:00.22\00:22:01.68
that we kind of
take for granted.
00:22:01.72\00:22:03.12
Right, travel, going
somewhere, going to town,
00:22:03.15\00:22:05.89
going to the village next
door is not a, it's not a joke.
00:22:05.92\00:22:10.66
It's...
00:22:10.69\00:22:11.73
Yeah, it just
makes me really proud
00:22:11.76\00:22:13.13
to see the effort and the pain
00:22:13.16\00:22:15.83
that these guys go through
just to do the basic living,
00:22:15.86\00:22:18.97
let alone reaching out to
bring the Gospel to people
00:22:19.00\00:22:22.07
that haven't had
access to it in any other way.
00:22:22.10\00:22:24.34
It makes me proud to
play just a little role,
00:22:24.37\00:22:26.57
you know, we're here in America
00:22:26.61\00:22:28.58
accepting the tax
deductible donations
00:22:28.61\00:22:31.51
and then sending everything
to them that we receive.
00:22:31.55\00:22:34.42
And to do that little
bit in what they're doing,
00:22:34.45\00:22:37.22
it just makes me really proud.
00:22:37.25\00:22:39.19
It's something
to be thankful for,
00:22:39.22\00:22:40.69
to be a part of it.
00:22:40.72\00:22:41.76
It's an honor.
Yes, it's a big honor.
00:22:41.79\00:22:43.46
This is another little
video showing travel issues.
00:22:43.49\00:22:48.83
Big mud slide,
00:22:48.86\00:22:49.90
motorbike isn't going to
make it up through there,
00:22:49.93\00:22:51.37
so mommy and little boy
has to get out and walk.
00:22:51.40\00:22:54.50
Yeah, so the next video
we have is Mike talking about
00:22:54.54\00:22:58.47
what keeps them
there, why they stay
00:22:58.51\00:23:00.61
even though it's
challenging and difficult.
00:23:00.64\00:23:03.61
Jesus gave us a privilege
not only a marching order
00:23:03.65\00:23:06.58
but a privilege in Matthew 28
00:23:06.61\00:23:09.02
to go and to share the Gospel.
00:23:09.05\00:23:14.62
I think it's in I Peter
00:23:14.66\00:23:19.23
we're told by Paul that
Jesus was made an example
00:23:19.26\00:23:22.03
and suffered for our sakes
00:23:22.06\00:23:24.27
and that we should
follow that example
00:23:24.30\00:23:26.03
for others.
00:23:26.07\00:23:27.24
And then of course, James
says that we should be more than
00:23:27.27\00:23:30.11
just hearers of the
word but doers of the word.
00:23:30.14\00:23:34.61
I'm not a lovely
person and I know that.
00:23:34.64\00:23:39.18
And if God can give the
grace that He's given to me,
00:23:39.21\00:23:43.59
then the least I can
do is give back, you know,
00:23:43.62\00:23:46.76
you've heard the
saying, those that love much
00:23:46.79\00:23:49.69
or those that have been
forgiven much, love much.
00:23:49.72\00:23:52.56
And I've been
forgiven a whole bunch
00:23:52.59\00:23:55.30
and I owe the Lord a lot.
00:23:55.33\00:23:58.00
I owe my life.
00:23:58.03\00:23:59.70
And these people...
00:23:59.73\00:24:03.94
You know, Jon,
you and I have seen,
00:24:03.97\00:24:07.44
we've seen goodness in America,
we've seen goodness, okay,
00:24:07.48\00:24:10.68
we've been in nice houses,
we've been in nice buildings
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where royalty was at,
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we've seen
beautiful things here.
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And now you look at these people
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who live in a moldy wooden shack
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in torrential weather.
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And you think...
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if they can get
a taste of heaven,
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their reward is
gonna be so sweet.
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And I want to see their
faces, you know what I mean?
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It's a motivator for
me. It's a motivator.
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I want to see their faces.
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So he wants to
take them to heaven.
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And that moment when
they step into heaven
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and they see from
where they've been
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in their little huts, I mean,
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it's one thing
for us to imagine,
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but for them, wow.
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Yeah. Yeah,
that's gonna be a moment.
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That's a moment
worth working for.
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Right. Yeah.
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Right, so that's part of
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why I love Mike
and Michelle's story
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because they're so
motivated by eternity.
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Yes.
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So here is a
temporal blessing, sort of,
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it's a baptismal meeting.
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So this is some of the
fruit of their hard labor.
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Yes.
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Isn't that
amazing? It's beautiful.
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I don't know what it is,
but every time I see a baptism,
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I just get a little choked up.
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It's our need to think
about people being washed clean
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by the blood of Jesus.
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Yes, making that
step, that commitment.
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That it symbolizes.
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So we have a little
video of Mike talking about
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what baptism means to him.
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Three weeks ago, I
guess, when we came here,
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we came to the US,
three weeks ago on Furlough
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and we just had our
last baptism for the year.
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And I think that put
us over the 1,150 mark
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since 2008, by God's grace.
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Eleven hundred
and fifty baptisms.
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Awesome.
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A thousand people, you
know, I heard a statistic
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just a couple of
days ago that said that
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85 percent of Christians
that are born and raised
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in the church
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never share their
faith with someone else.
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Wow.
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Never bring
another soul to Christ.
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And here he's brought 1,150,
he and his wife and their team,
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that's so exciting.
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Yeah, that's awesome.
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I can't wait to get to
heaven too to see these people.
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To meet them, yeah.
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Maybe some of them will become
choir directors in heaven,
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you know.
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Or something more.
Yeah, yeah, it's just...
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I can't wait.
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So here's a
picture of a crippled man
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that wanted to be baptized,
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so they're carrying
him down into the water
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so he could be baptized also.
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Yes, yes.
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So here's Mike and Michelle
with some of their friends
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that they might
meet on the way to town.
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They're just out
there motivated by
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the vision of the future,
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that day when
these people meet Jesus,
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step into heaven,
what a day that's gonna be.
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Yeah, it'll be beautiful. Yes.
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I'd like to invite you
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to please pray for
Mike and Michelle Cordes
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of GoBeDo Missions
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as they'd lived the gospel
among these precious people.
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