Hello and welcome
to Jesus for Asia Now.
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I'm Natalie Wood,
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and I have my husband Jon
here with me on the show today.
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Hello, love.
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Hello and Happy New Year.
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Happy New Year,
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so this is our New Year special.
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Yeah, you can tell by
the decorations on the set.
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Right, we want
to start out today.
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Well, today is
kind of different.
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Yes.
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We want to kind of
vision cast so to speak.
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Usually we talk
very specifically about
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specific projects about
what is happening right now
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or just recently,
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but today we're
gonna kind of step back
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and take a big picture
and do some vision casting,
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some dreaming,
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you know, it's
the end of the year.
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That's right
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and as we look
into the New Year,
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we want to look
at new opportunities
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that the Lord is
opening before us
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opportunities for
expansion of current projects
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as well as new needs that
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we've been
seeing more and more of.
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That's correct, yes.
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As we move into God's work,
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it seems as though new
opportunities are opening.
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So we just kind of
want to step back and look,
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what's going to
happen in this New Year.
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It's kind of like
New Year resolutions
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but it's more like New Year,
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I guess you can say
New Year's resolution
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to follow God's will.
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Right, because even
though these are things
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that we see right
now that need to be done
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or that the Lord seems
to be directing us toward.
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He can change our direction,
He can multiply our direction,
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I mean, well, we'll be talking,
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we'll be talking
about some of this.
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Yeah, it's kind of a challenge
when your silent partner
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God is omnipotent.
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To know how to plan, you know,
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'cause He is much
bigger than we are,
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and so by faith, I mean,
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by faith we
claim the promise that
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this gospel will be
preached in all the world.
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If we look at it from
a human point of view,
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that's going to
take a long time.
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It's impossible.
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But if God says it,
it's going to be done.
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Right.
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Just a matter of, am I
going to be a part of it.
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I want to be a
part of it. Right.
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So we want to
first start out with
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just kind of a
pictorial or a video look
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at an overview of
many of our projects.
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Yeah, what God has
done this last year.
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Okay, well,
let's start with that.
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Okay.
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Pretty cool, huh.
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Yeah, that's
really always inspiring
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to see the different
pictures from different projects
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all mixed in together
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and kind of an
overview of Jesus for Asia.
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Yeah, the next thing we
have is kind of a overview also,
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but it has more space
for all of our projects,
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and so this is where we keep
a list of all of our projects,
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we just go to Jesusforasia.org
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and then we click on
in the upper right corner,
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it says a list of projects,
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and then we can scroll through
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and see all the
projects that we have it,
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and you know, we always say,
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we have over 40 projects.
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I counted today
and we have over 50.
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Okay.
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So God continues
to expand the work
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that He has placed in our hands
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which is exciting but daunting.
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Yes, very.
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That God is in control, not us.
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Yes.
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So we can place
it back in His hands
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and sleep well at night.
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Yeah, we don't have
to worry and stress out.
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No.
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It's a blessing. No.
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God isn't stressed. Right.
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God's not stressed,
He is not surprised by,
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you know, the end of time.
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Right, it's not like He
got here and decided oh,
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oops, I forgot to plan for,
either I forgot to budget for,
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either I forgot to put people
in the right places for it.
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I forgot that I need
certain number of angels,
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you know, it's
always been His plan.
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Yeah, from the
foundation of the world.
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So we don't know the day
or the hour of His coming,
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but we do know that it's
getting closer and closer.
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Absolutely.
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And there are a
lot of people out there
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that don't know Him yet.
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Yeah, and we're
gonna look at that today.
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Right, and so first we want
to talk about vision casting.
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We've used that term already
in the show and what is it?
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I mean, it sounds kind
of intimidating actually.
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So what is it?
Break it down for us?
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Yeah, Proverb says that without
a vision that people perish.
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And a vision is kind of
like a direction, a goal,
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something that's not there yet.
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Something that's
not materialized,
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but it's an idea.
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It's a first step
in creating something.
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Vision casting is kind of like
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we're throwing out
these ideas, His visions...
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Of what's
possible, what's available,
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what we see right now.
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What we would like to
see happen and just sharing,
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kind of like from
the heart of what we see
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as this year could bring.
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2017 is a brand New Year.
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God can do
amazing things this year.
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That's right. Yes.
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That's right.
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Well, let's start out
first with unreached people
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because that's part of
our vision for Jesus for Asia
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from the very beginning.
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Yes, well, an unreached people
group is a group of people
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that are separated
from other groups of people
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either by linguistic barrier
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or geographical
barrier or political barrier.
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So like, you may
have one group of people
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that speak the same language
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but they are in
different countries
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and they can't go
back and forth easily.
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So if you plant the
gospel in one people group,
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it doesn't easily
jump over to the other.
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So in the world today
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there is about
16, 000 people groups
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and there is about 41 percent,
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about 6, 000 of
those people groups
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don't have
access to the gospel...
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At all?
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In their language.
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Some of them are
completely unreached,
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there is no Christian,
there is no resources,
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there is nothing.
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No missionary.
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Some of them have
like one to two percent.
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So such a small
amount of Christianity that
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the average person
growing up in that culture
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can live his
whole life without ever
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hearing the
name of Jesus Christ,
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without ever hearing
the gospel of Jesus Christ
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and without ever
knowing a Christian,
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ever meeting a
Christian their entire life.
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Just no clue that
Christianity exists.
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We in North America
don't relate to that very well.
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No.
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Okay, well, let's
get started with a map.
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Yes.
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Now, what is this map?
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This map is a map of the
Southern Asia Pacific division,
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one division in our
church broken down by language,
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broken down.
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You know, we hear about
church growth by country,
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but this is a map that breaks
it down further by language.
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The red
represent language groups
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or people groups with
that specific language
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that we have no active SDA work.
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Non, nonbeliever, no church
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nothing happening
in those languages.
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So this one of our
divisions and this is...
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There is a lot
of red on that map.
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A lot of red, yes.
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That could be very discouraging.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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But there is hope, isn't there?
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Oh, there is huge amount of hope
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because you think about it.
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In this one division,
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there is about
over 1, 200 languages
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that are unentered at all,
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and yet there are 1.1
million church members,
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Seventh-day Adventist
Church members in North America.
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What if 10 percent went?
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That would be 110,000 people.
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All of a sudden 1,200
languages is not a big deal.
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That's right.
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Or what if 1 percent went,
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you know, that's 11,000 people.
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You know, that's like almost
10 people for each language.
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So all we need is
revival in missions.
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That's right.
That's all it takes.
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Okay.
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So you are talking about
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a revival for
mission with people.
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Yes.
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What about giving permission
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especially for the missions
that reach the unreached?
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That statistic is that
over 90 percent of all Christian
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giving worldwide
of every denomination,
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all Christian
giving goes to minister
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to the seven and half
percent that speak English.
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So North America, Europe,
parts of Europe and Australia.
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We tend to give to
ministries that minister to me,
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to us.
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And so the unreached are
kind of left out in the cold.
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Okay, so like if
someone gave a $100,
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how much of that would
end up going to the unreached?
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Somebody put a $100
in the offering plate,
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maybe half of a penny would go
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towards reaching the
unreached which is sad
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because that's one
of our primary tasks
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as a church, as
an organized church
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is to spread the gospel.
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The rest goes to maintaining
what's already there and...
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Yes, keeping the lights on,
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keeping pastors in the churches,
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keeping resources...
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Which is important also.
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Oh, sure, absolutely.
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And we are not
trying to say that,
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that needs to stop so
that others will start.
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What we are doing
here needs to be imported
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or exported over there.
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There is a need for more.
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Yeah, exactly,
share what we are doing.
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Not stop what we are doing
but share what we are doing
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with those that
don't know we can do that.
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Don't know that we can
worship God and praise.
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Don't know that
there is a Father
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that's worthy of
praise and honor in our lives.
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So sharing that
with others and it's like
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Lazarus at the gate of
the rich man in Luke 16,
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you know,
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he's just begging for a
crumb off the rich man's table.
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You know, right
now about 20 times
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what goes into missions goes
into our local church budget.
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So in other words,
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what we spend on the
local church budget is
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20 times larger than
what we give in missions.
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And then what
goes in the missions,
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just a fraction of that
goes to reach the unreached.
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A lot of that goes
to continue maintaining
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what we've already established,
which needs to be maintained.
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So instead of
taking some of what
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we need to maintain
what we've established away
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to go the unreached,
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we should give
extra and that should go
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to reach the unreached.
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Right.
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We need to continue
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because we want to
introduce our viewers
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to an unreached people group.
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So let's take an overview look
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at some unreached
people group maps.
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Right.
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If you're interested
in learning more about
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the unreached people groups,
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you can go to joshuaproject.net
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and that's an
evangelical ministry
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that focuses on measuring
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the progress of the
gospel through the world
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and so we downloaded.
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They have a
packet of place marks
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that we can put
into Google earth
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and then we can see
where all these unreached
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and reached people
groups are throughout the world.
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Okay, so the first video is...
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Coming into Asia.
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Okay.
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Wow.
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So each of those dots
represents a people group?
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Yes.
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But not necessarily reflecting
the area of that people group
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or the size of
that people group,
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it's just a dot in
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where they're most
likely concentrated.
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Kind of a center
of that people group.
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Of their location.
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Yeah, so that people
group may cover all of India
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for instance, we
just have one dot.
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Okay.
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And now some of
these dots could represent
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300, 600 million people.
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Other dots may represent 50,000,
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so that doesn't...
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Okay, so it
doesn't, the size of the dot
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doesn't reflect,
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'cause all the dots
are of the same size.
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Exactly, but
the color of the dot
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makes a difference.
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You'll see some green
dots, some yellow dots
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and some red dots.
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And the green
dots are people groups
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in which the church is
thriving and flourishing.
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Now, this is not the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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only, this is all churches.
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Okay, all Christianity.
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Right, yes. Okay.
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And so the red
dot are the unreached.
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All right, so here is
the unreached in India.
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India has the highest number
of unreached people groups
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in the world for one country,
over 2,000 people groups.
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You can see the names popping up
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of each of those people groups.
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India has so many people groups
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because they are
separated by caste
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and there are
very deep separations.
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So you can see this is
one, looking at just one area,
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and we're gonna
come back to this
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because there
has been some calls
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for churches
being built on property
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that we've already purchased,
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that the church has
already purchased in this area.
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We'll come back to that. Okay.
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All right, so the
next one is South India.
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South India is where
we have our orphanage
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and there is quite
a bit of work there,
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but as you can see
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there is still a huge
amount of work to be done
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which can be done if
we just go in and do it.
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Right.
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All right, and
the next one is...
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Indonesia. Indonesia.
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Indonesia was on that
map that we saw earlier
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from the Southern
Asia Pacific division.
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Yeah, I want to tell a
little story about that
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because I was at
the GC at the booth,
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and one of the leaders from
the Indonesian Conference came,
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and he was looking at that
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and seeing how
much was red and I says,
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and he is like, yeah,
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we don't have any churches here,
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don't have any believers here.
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And I says, I love to
send a team of videographers
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in there to
document those people group
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what they look
like, what their needs.
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He says, yes, please send them.
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We will support you,
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we'll do everything
'cause their heart...
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A lot of these
leaders that I see overseas,
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their heart is to
reach to the unreached,
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but they feel like
their hands are tied
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because they just don't
have the resources to do it.
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Usually the church
is a very poor church
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in these third world countries,
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because the gospel
is preached to the poor,
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right. Right.
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The poor are the ones
that are most receptive to it,
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and so you grow, you
raise up a poor church,
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and they are not
able to move forward
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like we would like to see.
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Right. Yeah.
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Okay.
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We've got another
country to look at.
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Now, this is Thailand. Okay.
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So there is a lot of
red ones in Thailand.
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Yeah, they're kind of spread out
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but it's not as
densely populated country.
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Okay. All right.
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So we want to look at one
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unreached people
group in Thailand.
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Yes, yes. Okay, here we go.
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This is the Lao
Krang people group
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and it's in the
center of Thailand.
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It's a people that were
brought over from Lao, you know,
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100 or more years ago,
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and as you can see with
this graphic that focuses in
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on this people group.
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There is no work
there of any kind.
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There is no one
that's Christian there.
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Zero percent Christian.
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Yeah, no
resources, no Bible, no...
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nothing.
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It's not a huge
group, it's only 57, 000
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but what if my family
was in that people group.
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Will I think it be worth it
to go take the gospel to them.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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So we've seen the
unreached people groups
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kind of an overview.
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Cut the vision a
little bit maybe.
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Yeah, seen maybe what's needed.
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What is one of the
most effective ways
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to reach the unreached peoples?
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Well, there is
lots of different ways
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that it can be done,
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but what we've found
is the most effective is
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partnering with our
local Bible workers.
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Okay.
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Opening up the opportunity
for them to move in there,
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and day by day
live among the people
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and there is
not as many barriers
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because where
they're not coming in
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as wealthy people,
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they are not
coming in as foreigners,
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they are coming in as locals.
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And so our Bible
workers have definitely been
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the biggest blessing in since
we've started this ministry.
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Okay, and we've got some goals
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or some challenges for ourselves
00:16:11.20\00:16:14.64
for 2017 with Bible workers.
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You know, I just came back
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from traveling
through India again
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and seeing the
impact of what they've done.
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Our dream is to see, is
to double our workforce.
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Okay, so right now we
have about 200, 250 in India,
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Thailand and the Philippines.
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Yes. Okay.
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And we would like to
see 500 by the end of 2017.
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Okay, part of
having the Bible workers
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is making sure they
have the training they need
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to be able to go
out and teach people
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about God in effective ways.
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And I know that some
of the units of the church
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in various areas
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that have Bible
workers are training them,
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you know, on a
frequent basis they get together
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and they train in different
subjects or different things,
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but we need more
Bible worker training.
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Correct.
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Yeah, the way that
our Bible worker program
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works is that,
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we work with the
church very closely
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and the funds go to the church
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and then the local leaders
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on the local fields will
then train the Bible workers
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and oversee the work.
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They've been asking us,
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can you please set
up a training seminar,
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a training center to train,
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to provide training
for these Bible workers.
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That's their biggest need
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and they've been
asking us for many years.
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We just haven't had the
faith to step out to do it.
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Okay.
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And this year I believe
God is starting to move.
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So that's one of our goals.
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That's one of our dreams
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and our request that we place
in the Lord's hands everyday.
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Right, right.
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So part of this though,
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once the Bible
workers go to an area
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and they start
teaching people about God,
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they need to
have a place to meet.
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Well, this is the issue that
we're finding 'cause originally
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as the ministry we
didn't focus on churches.
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We just wanted growth
and we wanted more people.
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We just send the
workers to seek for the lost.
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Exactly, and we've been
doing that for the last 11 years
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but we're finding this
year especially is that
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we sense God leading
to help build churches
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because we have congregations
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that have been raised up
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and they don't
have a place to worship,
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and we're gonna look
at some of those things.
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For instance in Udumalpet,
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this is a church that we
hold very dear to our hearts
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because we as a
family went there
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when my daughter
was four, my son was six
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and we did
evangelism with five other teams
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in the
surrounding small villages
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of the major
city called Udumalpet.
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Can you say that
six times in a row?
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Yeah, it took a while.
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The leadership in the area said,
00:18:48.76\00:18:51.13
we have all
these country churches,
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village churches,
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we don't have a city
church in the main city.
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So he says, okay, let's do this.
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And so we raised up
40 people were baptized.
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And now there is
about same number of people
00:19:02.27\00:19:05.37
worshipping every single Sabbath
00:19:05.41\00:19:07.44
but they only have a house
to worship in for the last...
00:19:07.48\00:19:12.08
that was nine years ago
that we did this evangelism,
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and for nine years they've
been meeting in rented halls,
00:19:14.88\00:19:18.12
rented facilities.
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The members and the leadership
00:19:19.92\00:19:22.12
just recently got together
and purchased some property
00:19:22.16\00:19:24.93
but they still
don't have a church.
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This next slide
is a church in Assam,
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and I kind of get choked
up when I talk about Assam
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because it is
such a mission field.
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There are 32 million
people in the state of Assam
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which is in the
northeast of India.
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We have four pastors,
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four Seventh-day
Adventist pastors
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for 32 million people,
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and we're gonna talk
more about this in the future,
00:19:46.95\00:19:48.98
so I don't want to
spend too much time
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but they requested,
00:19:50.19\00:19:51.59
can you please
give us two churches.
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We have property purchased
in two different places,
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we need to build churches.
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All right, and let's
move on to the next area.
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Yeah, Uttar Pradesh,
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this is the one
that I was telling about.
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I don't have any
pictures of the properties,
00:20:05.17\00:20:06.94
but I just got an
email just last week
00:20:06.97\00:20:09.64
requesting from the pastor
that had planted these churches
00:20:09.67\00:20:13.21
in these different communities,
00:20:13.24\00:20:14.44
four different
communities is requesting
00:20:14.48\00:20:17.11
a purchased property
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but and this was
like 2000 and 2004,
00:20:18.65\00:20:22.35
so like over 10 years
ago they purchased a property
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but they haven't been
able to use the property.
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So in that society if
you don't use the property,
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the government will come
and say you're not using it,
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you have to give it up.
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And so there is
getting some incursions...
00:20:35.00\00:20:37.80
Encroachments.
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Encroachments from
the local community
00:20:38.97\00:20:41.74
starting to take
over that property,
00:20:41.77\00:20:43.20
and so he is begging,
00:20:43.24\00:20:44.17
please he is no
longer a pastor in that area
00:20:44.21\00:20:46.81
but he is begging,
00:20:46.84\00:20:48.51
please can you help us,
you know, put up a wall,
00:20:48.54\00:20:51.61
build a church so we can...
00:20:51.65\00:20:53.55
because the
people are still there,
00:20:53.58\00:20:54.95
there are still believers there,
00:20:54.98\00:20:56.15
there is still a
community of believers,
00:20:56.18\00:20:57.75
there is just no
place to worship, no church.
00:20:57.79\00:21:00.66
Wow. So...
00:21:00.69\00:21:02.66
That's a desperate need.
00:21:02.69\00:21:03.89
Yeah, that, you know,
00:21:03.93\00:21:06.46
I mean it's one thing
if you don't have believers
00:21:06.49\00:21:09.10
and you're starting up brand new
00:21:09.13\00:21:10.13
but if it's another
thing, if you have believers
00:21:10.17\00:21:12.10
and they have got no
church, they are not able.
00:21:12.13\00:21:13.20
For more than 10 years.
00:21:13.23\00:21:14.37
Yeah, lot of these
people are, you know,
00:21:14.40\00:21:16.94
earning maybe one or
two or three dollars a day.
00:21:16.97\00:21:19.94
You know, how can
they afford a church.
00:21:19.97\00:21:22.81
Yeah.
00:21:22.84\00:21:24.05
Wow, well, that's heavy.
00:21:24.08\00:21:25.98
There is a lot
of need out there.
00:21:26.01\00:21:27.08
It's huge amount
of need, but you know,
00:21:27.12\00:21:28.48
if we all get
together, do our part,
00:21:28.52\00:21:32.12
the Lord will take
that and multiply it
00:21:32.15\00:21:33.92
and make a big impact.
00:21:33.96\00:21:35.36
Right, and that's
the beautiful thing
00:21:35.39\00:21:38.13
about working with
God on His projects...
00:21:38.16\00:21:39.96
That's correct.
00:21:40.00\00:21:41.03
Because He has this
multiplication thing
00:21:41.06\00:21:43.06
that only He can do.
00:21:43.10\00:21:44.17
That's right.
00:21:44.20\00:21:45.57
Okay, well, we want to talk
not just about new buildings,
00:21:45.60\00:21:47.80
but we want to talk also about
00:21:47.84\00:21:50.01
the need for
expansion of current buildings
00:21:50.04\00:21:52.24
or purchasing buildings
00:21:52.27\00:21:53.71
that are currently being rented,
00:21:53.74\00:21:55.08
those kinds of things.
00:21:55.11\00:21:56.18
So let's skip over to Mumbai.
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Yes, Mumbai scarred me for life.
00:21:58.28\00:22:01.28
I visited there just
recently and oh my word,
00:22:01.32\00:22:05.45
um, what need,
00:22:05.49\00:22:07.36
and I just want to
go through really quick
00:22:07.39\00:22:09.12
because we're
gonna spend the show,
00:22:09.16\00:22:10.56
a full show on Mumbai.
00:22:10.59\00:22:12.29
Okay.
00:22:12.33\00:22:13.43
But we're gonna show some
of the churches that we have,
00:22:13.46\00:22:15.60
this is a church.
00:22:15.63\00:22:17.30
It's the one with
the red and the green.
00:22:17.33\00:22:19.97
That's the church.
00:22:20.00\00:22:21.67
And this is inside the church.
00:22:21.70\00:22:23.57
You can see it's a
thriving community,
00:22:23.61\00:22:25.47
a story with this church...
00:22:25.51\00:22:26.54
Very crowded.
00:22:26.57\00:22:27.61
Yeah, and very
lively, and very sincere.
00:22:27.64\00:22:30.45
Oh my love.
00:22:30.48\00:22:32.05
Worshipping there,
00:22:32.08\00:22:33.15
if I had a choice
every Sabbath morning
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I'd go worship there.
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This church was
established and is still owned
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by a former
non-Adventist congregation.
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One of our Bible
worker's parents was living
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right next door to this church
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and the pastor
started studying with them
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and started
learning about the new truths
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and he became an Adventist
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and he presented to
its church congregation
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and they all became Adventist.
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Wow.
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And so then
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they felt call to plant
a church in another area,
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so they left and
left our Bible worker
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in charge of this
group of this church.
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We could then
purchase this church from them
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for just couple
of thousand dollars,
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and we need to also then
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build a Bible worker
accommodations on top,
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on the second
floor of this church.
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And then the parents that
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originally started Bible studies
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with this previous pastor,
their building collapsed.
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And so we need to
help rebuild that for them.
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Okay.
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And so this is
one of those places
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that would be very inexpensive
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and it would really
make a big difference.
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Okay, and the next
place is the Thane slum.
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Yes, now this is not a church.
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This is a slum area
just looking down the street,
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there is no church there.
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We've had JFA Bible
workers in that slum
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for quite a number of years
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and they have
done a wonderful Job.
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They've got over
a hundred converts,
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but there is no place,
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no regular place
for them to meet.
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And so sometimes
the Bible workers
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will pull their own
income, their own meager income
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and rent a place
for a little while
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but they can't sustain it.
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And so what we're
praying for right now is
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to buy a place for our
church members in that slum.
00:24:09.74\00:24:15.02
Okay, well, that is
a good challenge too.
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Yeah, it's a big need.
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Those churches that
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we've just seen in Mumbai
are not in Central Mumbai.
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No.
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What's the situation?
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Is there a church
in Central Mumbai?
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There is one
church in downtown Mumbai.
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It was built back in the '40s
by the original missionaries
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and it's an English church.
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It's like the
section office. Yes.
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So we've visited there
but that's an English church.
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That's an English church.
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And what's the
majority language in Mumbai?
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Marathi. Marathi.
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So, there is no Marathi
church anywhere in Mumbai.
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Not downtown, the...
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Where is the nearest one?
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The closest
church to that church is
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45 minute train ride away.
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So how many
people live in Mumbai?
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Well, there is
the Mumbai metropolis
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which includes the
surrounding areas and suburbs
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and there is
about 20 million people,
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not the size of New York.
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And then downtown Mumbai
itself is 12 million people.
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Okay.
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So 12 million people...
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One church in English. Yes.
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Okay, so the
Lord gave you a vision
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or a idea or a faith challenge.
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Yes, the Lord cast the
vision, did some vision casting.
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Last day I was there,
we were in the big church,
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and you know
it's built in the '40s
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so it looks kind of
old, but we were there
00:25:30.89\00:25:34.30
and we were
taking pictures outside
00:25:34.36\00:25:36.70
and I just had the sense,
00:25:36.73\00:25:38.83
wow, no other
church in downtown Mumbai
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for 12 million people.
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Lord, we need
another church like this
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and I was always...
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In their languages.
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Yeah, that would be good
00:25:49.78\00:25:51.71
and as I was talking
to the Lord about this,
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He was like $2 million
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and so I was like,
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well, I can't go that
big but what about one,
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and so I ask the president,
if you had a million dollars,
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could you build another
church like this in Mumbai.
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You know, and there is
lots of places in the world
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where we've spent
more than a million dollars
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for one church, right.
00:26:14.30\00:26:15.94
So that's not a
big deal, I must say.
00:26:15.97\00:26:17.84
Well, and it's
an expensive city,
00:26:17.87\00:26:19.64
you know, you never know.
00:26:19.67\00:26:20.71
You don't know how
much things cost there.
00:26:20.74\00:26:22.44
It's a cosmopolitan
city, very expensive.
00:26:22.48\00:26:24.45
Right.
00:26:24.48\00:26:25.55
You know, it's a
world class city, okay.
00:26:25.58\00:26:29.65
And so I asked him,
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could you build a church
like this for a million dollars
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and we did some calculating,
00:26:33.92\00:26:35.72
the exchange rate
and everything like that,
00:26:35.76\00:26:37.49
and he looked to me
and says, I can build six.
00:26:37.53\00:26:39.76
So for two million dollars...
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We can have 12.
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So one church
for million people.
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That would be great.
00:26:45.87\00:26:46.97
So this is the vision that
God has placed on our hearts
00:26:47.00\00:26:49.77
and I know that He will provide
00:26:49.80\00:26:52.47
because I feel so
much joy and peace.
00:26:52.51\00:26:55.41
Well, it's a show
full of challenges
00:26:55.44\00:26:57.18
that we've had today.
00:26:57.21\00:26:58.35
Yeah. Yes.
00:26:58.38\00:27:00.15
But it's also a show
full of prayer needs...
00:27:00.18\00:27:02.82
And opportunities. Right.
00:27:02.85\00:27:04.75
In this season, you know,
00:27:04.79\00:27:05.82
this movie about
Desmond Doss has come out
00:27:05.85\00:27:08.79
and it's inspiring many people.
00:27:08.82\00:27:10.83
As he was on that
escarpment, his prayer was Lord,
00:27:10.86\00:27:14.30
give me one more.
00:27:14.30\00:27:15.76
You know, many times
00:27:15.80\00:27:17.27
we as a mission organization
have prayed that same prayer...
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Yes.
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One more, Lord, one more.
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One more person who knows
about you before it's too late.
00:27:24.24\00:27:28.34
One more church,
one more missionary,
00:27:28.38\00:27:32.95
one more city.
00:27:32.98\00:27:35.65
Just one more
person that comes forward
00:27:35.68\00:27:41.26
and says I can't
go but I can send.
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