Hello, and welcome
to Jesus for Asia Now.
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I'm Natalie Wood
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and today, we will be talking
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about a very
special yearly event
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that happens in the Philippines.
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I have gotten the
privilege of going twice already
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and I love it
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and I recommend it to everybody.
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To help us
understand what this event is
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and describe it to us,
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we have our
brother Gem Castor with us.
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Welcome to the show, Gem.
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Thank you for having
me here again, Natalie.
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So Gem, what is PYC,
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this yearly event
in the Philippines?
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Philippine Youth for Christ
is a conference of young people
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who are hungry for the Lord.
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Okay. And this is just like...
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What kind of conference is that?
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What do you do there?
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I guess you're familiar of GYC,
Generation of Youth for Christ.
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This group of young
people back in the Philippines
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were inspired by
the spirit of GYC,
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and we also
prayed and prayed that
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the Lord will somehow give
us an experience like that.
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And this is a place
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where young
people gather together
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to seek the Lord,
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not just to be entertained
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but to be fed
straight from the Word of God.
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So is there prayer room there?
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We know that you have
prayer ministry a lot.
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Yes, and as a matter of fact,
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PYC was started with
prayer, with so much prayer
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and this is one thing
that we have experienced
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because most of us who
organize such event are,
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our organizers
in our own districts
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or in our own churches
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and we have experienced
corporately as a group
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that the only
way to do God's work
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is to let God do the work.
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Okay.
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That's really a
powerful thought.
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Yes.
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And sometimes we think
that we are doing it on our own
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but no, we could
only be effective
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if we spend much time
with God on our knees.
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And this is one thing, Natalie,
that we have experienced
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that the more time we
spend pleading before God,
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asking for God's help,
asking for God's guidance
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the Lord pours out
His Spirit upon us.
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And you have experienced that
when you are organizing camps,
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you know, that you have
been organizing faith camps
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for how many years already?
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You'll be faced
with a lot of challenges.
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And at first we
shrink or we repel challenges
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but right now we
have seen the challenges
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is actually God's
ordained instrument
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to bring His
people on their knees.
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And the more...
To see dependence.
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Yeah, and the
more we bend our knees,
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the more the
Lord makes us realize
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that He's the
one taking the reins,
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taking the wheel for us.
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So what is your role,
you're an older youth,
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let's put it that way.
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Yes. So what is
your role in PYC?
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I'm one of the advisors
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and also the prayer coordinator.
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Since I'm involved
in the prayer ministry,
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I really love to see
young people on their knees
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in prayer.
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So you encourage them
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to spend more time with God too?
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Yes.
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So that's why PYC,
it's wrapped in prayer,
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enveloped in prayer
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and I guess that's
one of the main thing
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that you will notice in
PYC as you have experience,
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as you have observed.
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Even the programming,
it's just like a lot of,
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a lot of parts of the program
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that there's a
lot of prayer leaders
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coming on the pulpit
asking the people to pray
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before, during
and after the talks.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, and I know for
ourselves when we shared
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just a little five minute
thing about Jesus for Asia,
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someone prayed for us
like three different times,
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three different
people came and said,
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"Can I pray for you
before you go up there?"
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So they take it seriously
and God blesses as a result.
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Amen.
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I remember, morning prayer time
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we start at five in the morning.
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Okay. Five in the morning.
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That's early
for a lot of people.
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Especially for Americans. Yeah.
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And I remember last
2014, when we restarted PYC
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because PYC is
somehow have its rest
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for like four years.
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We faced a lot of
challenges but by God's grace
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even in those challenging times,
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the Lord somehow showed us
that we should want it more,
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that we should
be like that person
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who was knocking on the door
for his friend at midnight...
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Yeah.
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Yeah, and one
amazing thing, Natalie,
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is when the Lord gave
us back that wonderful gift
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of the youth ministry
back in the Philippines,
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you could see the
sense of eagerness,
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the hunger in this
group of young people
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that just grew and grew,
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and I remember
during the first night
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when we started, just
imagine we are like famished
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for the past four years
and now this event came.
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Oh, before that I
will, I will backtrack a bit.
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We had two months of
preparation for this.
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Two months? Two months.
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And it was not in
our plans to do it
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but somehow it's
the Lord's plans.
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God gave us like tweeps
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like He woke us up in
the middle of the night,
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have the burden
for the youth ministry
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to push forward
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and we just came
together, young people
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and we decided, "Let's do it,"
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and we saw the
impossibility and it's scary.
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And this time it's
going to be the first time
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that we'll be
putting it in a resort,
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not in our facility, not
in our, not in our church
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because in our
church it's just easy
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because everything is there,
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but now we have to
put a youth conference
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that young people
has to pay like $50
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and for us $50, that's too much.
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That's a lot of money.
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In Philippines sometimes
you just pay for like a dollar
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and a lot of people
are arguing about it.
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So $50, that's
too much. That's huge.
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And we're thinking the only way
to make these things possible
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if we have like 300 attendees,
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and for us to come up
with 300 attendees to pay $50,
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that's quite impossible.
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And somehow
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we were disheartened
at the middle of this,
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unbelief started to come in
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and we bend our
knees, we kept on praying.
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And sometimes
it's quite challenging
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because I'm out of the
country most of the time
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and the team is
back in the Philippines,
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so we just
encourage one another,
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sometimes I pray my...
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I pray my
prayers through Facebook.
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I send them...
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I send them my encouraging words
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and I know God is
our true inspiration,
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so when we bend our knees
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that's when the
desire comes in again
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to do the Lord's work.
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So what happened was
we made it through this,
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the first night and guess what?
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It's not 300 people who
came, it's more than 500.
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Wow.
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Until such time
that the resort said
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we could not
accommodate more than this.
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So young people just came
and came and the first night
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and I was one of the
host during that night.
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And after the plenary session,
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the keynote
speaker finished his talk,
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I was just compelled by
God, "Let's do a united prayer."
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So all 500 young people
came together and we prayed
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and you'll see
grown men weeping,
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you see the hunger
of this young people,
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you see that they have been
famishing for quite some time
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and now they are feasting on it,
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and this were tears of joy.
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And this is one thing
that we begin to realize,
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that is why the Lord
gave us this challenges
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of four years of famine
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because He wants us
to be hungry for Him.
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And that hunger was filled.
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Wow. God is so good.
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Remember 2015, when we had it,
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it's like 40 to 60 people
who came into the prayer room.
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And then 2015, it
began to increased.
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It went to 200
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and then the next
year it went to 400.
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That's awesome. Yes.
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And I'd like to show
you another picture here.
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This is PYC, 2016.
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Yep, I could see you there.
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Yep. Yeah.
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We were there, that was
the first time we got to go.
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And you got invited by your son.
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Yes. James.
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Because he came
to the previous one.
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What was his
reaction to the previous one?
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What did he say? He loved it.
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He said, "I wanted
to take all my friends."
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But none of his friends
would go, they were all busy,
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kind of
reminded me of a parable.
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But anyway they were all busy
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and so we said, "We have to go."
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Yeah.
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We have to go and experience
what James has enjoyed so much
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and been
challenged by and grown from.
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He just, yeah.
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And I remember James words
when he came to me and said,
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"Bro, I gave my
life to the Lord again."
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Yes.
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It's amazing. Yes.
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And seeing that,
Natalie, seeing that,
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that joy when young
people gave their lives
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again to the Lord,
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seeing that recommitment
makes all your effort worth it.
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And you could look back
and say, "What hardship?"
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Yeah.
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"What sacrifice?" Nothing.
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And this is one amazing
thing about this young people,
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they come to
this youth conference,
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remember I told you one
dollar is even a challenge
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for some people
to go and register
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but now you're
having like, $50 or $60,
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and by the way the $60 includes
already their accommodation,
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their food for
the whole conference
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meaning
breakfast, lunch and dinner
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and a t-shirt and
some little materials
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and yet it's too
expensive for them.
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And hearing the
stories upon stories
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of this young people,
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how they came up
with the money to go,
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it's just like heartwarming,
a humbling experience.
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They will, they will go
and sell like plastic bottles,
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they collect
garbage, they clean houses...
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Yeah, recycles
and... Yeah, cleaning.
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You know, even
sing and do caroling
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not during Christmas.
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It's caroling during summer
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hoping that
people will give them
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and they will let them
know about their project.
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And some of the kids who
are doing like summer jobs,
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they will work
overtime just to earn extra.
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And some of these kids
took the first plane ride
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in their lives...
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To come there.
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To come, and remember
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I shared with them my testimony
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of how the Lord has provided
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and they took
God at His word that,
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"If this could happen to
Gem and some other missionaries
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then it could happen to us.
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This is just one plane
ride, Lord, so please help us,"
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and the Lord brought them
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and their
testimonies were just amazing.
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Yeah.
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That's really neat
and to see their fire
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and then there's
the other testimonies
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where they had
their money to get there,
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but they didn't
have money to get home.
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Yes.
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Just imagine that they
give their all to the Lord
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and if they have come
up with just one way ticket
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they do it anyways,
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they go there
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sometimes without
having provision for food.
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They just believe that
God will provide for them.
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Do you call that presumption?
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No, because they knew
they were supposed to be there.
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They're supposed to be
there. God was drawing them.
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They're not
there for vacation. No.
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They're there for the Lord's,
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for the Lord's
fulfillment of the hunger
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or infilling of the hunger
that they have in their hearts.
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And you see how the
Lord answers their prayer.
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Yes.
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Like in the
middle of the conference,
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and I did not even know
that they have needs like this
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until they just
tell me like, "Koi, Gem,
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God answered my
prayer." "What prayer?"
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And they told me about,
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"I came here only
with one way ticket.
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I came here not even
having money for food
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and the Lord just provided."
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There was even one group
in another youth conference
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also in the Philippines,
they came, 17 of them
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went to a conference like
this, a conference prior to this
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and they came as well to PYC.
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They sold recyclable materials,
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they went around
and gather stuff.
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This one guy who
collected an iron,
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a corrugated sheet
like your background
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but it was rusty and he got cut.
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So he needs to have
like an anti tetanus shot.
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The tetanus shot, yeah.
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So they're gathering money,
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they gathering
stuff to raise money
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and now he has tetanus shot.
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Now he has to spend money.
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He has to spend money
and the doctor asked him,
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"So what was the
cause of this cut?"
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And the doctor somehow
heard about the testimony
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and instead of the doctor
charging him with some fees,
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the doctor donated for that.
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Wow.
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So as it happened...
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The curse ended up a blessing.
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A huge blessing.
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So they were
sharing these testimonies,
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they were all crying
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and after they were
sharing these testimonies,
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I came and
somehow prayed for them
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and then they said,
"Koi, Gem, one prayer request
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because we don't have
enough money to go back home.
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We need like 500, 5500 pesos."
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And that is like a $120, $130.
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So we were praying.
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While I was praying,
I was impressed by God
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to give the extra
$50 that I have for them.
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So I told them after
prayer, you know what?
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God is already
answering your prayer,
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God has
provided for you, like...
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Part of the
money. Part of the money.
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And they said, "Praise the Lord,
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praise the Lord.
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You know, God has already
given you part of the money
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because the Lord
compelled me to give you."
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And they still didn't
get it, praise the Lord.
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"No, I'm already giving
you half of the amount."
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And then they just
realize what I was saying
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and they begin to cry and
this young people told me,
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"Koi Gem, we're supposed to
be the one giving you money."
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And I was humbled like, "What?
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These young people
who could barely pay
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their way back to their hometown
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is thinking of giving
me money for my ministry."
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And I'm thinking, "Wow Lord,
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I should be more surrendered
like these young people."
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So if you have young
people like that, Natalie...
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Yeah. You don't
want to hold back.
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Yeah, you do
whatever it takes to help them
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and to encourage
them and to mentor them.
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Amen, amen.
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Wow.
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So look at this
slide, this next slide.
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This is the number of people
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who comes at
early morning prayer.
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As Melody said,
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while she was walking
at 4:45 in the morning
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thinking that she
could be alone with God,
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when she look around
00:15:18.51\00:15:19.75
there's like 30 or 40
young people walking behind.
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Beside her, in front of her.
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It starts out with just like
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a couple of
hundred of young people
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and then when the sun
rises up at six, yeah,
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because back in the
Philippines it's early sunrise
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sometimes the sun
rises up at 5:30, at 5:40
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and here you can see it's 6 am,
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and there's
like 400 young people
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kneeling before God.
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Such an inspiring thought.
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The next slide
will also show you,
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and this is one thing that
I'd like to emphasize as well
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because the hunger,
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the need for God's
outpouring of His spirit
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is not just
isolated in the Philippines.
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Because last year
I was asked by GYC
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to lead out in a prayer room
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and this time we
have a prayer room in GYC,
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we don't have one in
PYC but we had in GYC,
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and the Lord somehow
gave this burden to me
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when I saw the
size of the prayer room,
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it's really big.
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The Lord somehow
spoke to my heart,
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"This is too
small," and I'm thinking,
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"Lord, this is too small,
this is really big for me,"
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because back in the Philippines
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our prayer room would just
be one fourth of that room.
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So I asked the coordinator,
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"Can we increase the
size of the prayer room?"
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And he told me,
"Gem, a prayer room before,
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years before has not
been really successful
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so we pray that
God will put people
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in the prayer room this time."
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And the president,
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Moise Ratsara,
Pastor Moise Ratsara
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initiated a 40 days
of prayer prior to GYC.
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And then the
Lord just impressed us
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"We have been asking
for the Lord's outpouring
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for the past 40 days
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and now the Lord is
about to pour out His blessing,
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we're just holding a cup."
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So we opened the prayer
room, the next adjacent room
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and it became so
overwhelmingly big.
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And I'm thinking, "Lord,
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how are we
gonna fill this room?"
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But then... But you wouldn't...
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I was not the
one to fill the room.
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And every
single day it increased
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from nearly 200 to nearly 400,
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and the highlight was on
Sabbath morning, at 5:30,
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just imagine it's not
yet the start because...
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It starts at
six. It starts at six.
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And 5:30, nearly
100 young people,
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adults alike are there
meditating in the prayer room.
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And when we started,
people just flooded in
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and I remember, Natalie,
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I'm saying this
to the group like,
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"This picture right now
puts a huge smile on my face."
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I could not imagine how
big the smile of God right now
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looking down upon His
people bowing before Him,
00:18:11.35\00:18:14.16
kneeling down before Him.
00:18:14.19\00:18:16.02
And this picture
that you will see
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right now on the screen,
00:18:17.76\00:18:19.33
that was in the
middle of the prayer session.
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It was like 6:30
and you could see
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how many people
are already there.
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And after they
prayed in a small groups,
00:18:25.67\00:18:28.70
we gathered them
together, we moved closer
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and people started
filling in the prayer room.
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And when 7 o'clock came
when we opened our eyes,
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there's no place
for people to get in.
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People were kneeling
outside of the doors.
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God is really waking
up His church right now.
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And then praising God
00:18:49.69\00:18:50.73
that it's starting
with a young people
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and who would think
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young people
would have this desire
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to see God early in the morning
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for the outpouring
of the Holy Spirit.
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Yeah. Praise the Lord.
00:19:01.77\00:19:03.30
And just this previous PYC,
Philippine Youth for Christ,
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it happened in my hometown
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and you can see in this
video an aerial shot of Iloilo.
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My hometown, my
beautiful hometown.
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Yes, the whole island
has two million population.
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Iloilo city has
nearly 500,000, it's 448,000
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and these are the youth
who attended that conference.
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This was held,
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the Sabbath program
was held in a university,
00:19:31.73\00:19:37.64
in a Catholic
university auditorium.
00:19:37.67\00:19:40.74
And even that, even
that provision was amazing.
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That was God's
provision happening there.
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This is what's
happening during 5 am.
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So you could see
the young people here
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kneeling down in a very
quite challenging position,
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we don't have an open room
00:19:57.13\00:19:59.06
so we had it in
this hard wooden pew
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and some people are
kneeling on the floor.
00:20:03.13\00:20:05.17
And the next slide.
This is the workshop.
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Look at the workshop,
they don't even have chairs.
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Yeah. More than
200 young people...
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Carted in.
00:20:11.77\00:20:13.91
Listening to this
workshop entitled,
00:20:13.94\00:20:16.98
"Thy Will be Done," by Jon Wood
00:20:17.01\00:20:19.41
and Christian Bunch.
00:20:19.45\00:20:20.92
And they were just so engrossed.
00:20:20.95\00:20:23.18
Yeah, that was amazing.
00:20:23.22\00:20:24.62
And this is during
the plenary sessions,
00:20:24.65\00:20:26.55
and back in the
Philippines it's quite hot,
00:20:26.59\00:20:28.79
you've
experienced that, quite humid.
00:20:28.82\00:20:31.73
And look how they're
seated so close to one another.
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Yeah.
00:20:34.50\00:20:35.53
And they just could
not accommodate all.
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That's why the final session
was in the Catholic University.
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Yes.
00:20:43.44\00:20:44.44
It's like 30% or
40% of the attendees
00:20:44.47\00:20:47.48
in this church
are sitting outside
00:20:47.51\00:20:49.44
which we don't have
pictures to show you.
00:20:49.48\00:20:51.21
Yeah, the doors were open.
00:20:51.25\00:20:53.11
It was very hot, there
was no air conditioning.
00:20:53.15\00:20:55.05
There were fans but
no air conditioning.
00:20:55.08\00:20:57.49
Manual air conditioning. Yeah.
00:20:57.52\00:21:00.19
But that didn't keep them away.
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Oh, no. It
didn't keep them away.
00:21:01.22\00:21:02.92
The hunger was just so intense.
And this is the outreach.
00:21:02.96\00:21:05.86
At least we have 10 types
of outreach that they did.
00:21:05.89\00:21:08.86
So this is just
one of the outreach,
00:21:08.90\00:21:10.63
this is slum outreach.
00:21:10.67\00:21:13.20
It's also like a
door knocking type.
00:21:13.23\00:21:15.27
And there is a
children's ministry outreach
00:21:15.30\00:21:18.17
where they gather the
young kids in the street
00:21:18.21\00:21:21.54
and did like
00:21:21.58\00:21:22.98
a vacation Bible
school type of thing.
00:21:23.01\00:21:25.08
There's also a jeepney outreach.
00:21:25.11\00:21:28.55
Jeepney outreach where
groups of young people...
00:21:28.58\00:21:32.65
We call them family groups.
00:21:32.69\00:21:34.32
They go ride a jeepney
00:21:34.36\00:21:36.49
and then they'll share
something with the passengers
00:21:36.52\00:21:38.23
and with the driver.
00:21:38.26\00:21:39.26
They'll sing songs,
they'll pray in the jeepney
00:21:39.29\00:21:42.56
and they'll give water
bottles to the jeepney drivers.
00:21:42.60\00:21:46.20
Stop smoking outreach
00:21:46.23\00:21:48.34
where they'll share
about health message.
00:21:48.37\00:21:50.51
Hospital outreach,
they go visit beds,
00:21:50.54\00:21:53.17
sing songs and
pray for the patients.
00:21:53.21\00:21:56.38
Mall outreach,
00:21:56.41\00:21:57.98
they did an
orchestra concert in the mall
00:21:58.01\00:22:01.02
and went around the
mall distributing tracks
00:22:01.05\00:22:03.69
and they had this prayer box
00:22:03.72\00:22:05.82
asking people for
their prayer request
00:22:05.85\00:22:08.26
to put in the box and pray
for people inside the mall.
00:22:08.29\00:22:12.23
Wow.
00:22:12.26\00:22:13.29
That's nice.
00:22:13.33\00:22:14.23
And I know there
were a lot of testimonies,
00:22:14.30\00:22:16.03
we don't have time to share
00:22:16.06\00:22:17.23
but there were a lot
of variety of testimonies
00:22:17.27\00:22:20.20
because there's a variety
of different types of outreach.
00:22:20.24\00:22:22.54
Yes. But it was amazing.
00:22:22.57\00:22:24.74
I know one slum ministry.
00:22:24.77\00:22:27.08
They were this...
00:22:27.11\00:22:28.11
They're doing a
children's ministry
00:22:28.14\00:22:29.58
and a fire started...
00:22:29.61\00:22:30.65
Wow.
00:22:30.68\00:22:31.68
And because it was a slum,
00:22:31.71\00:22:32.75
it would go
rapidly through the slum
00:22:32.78\00:22:34.55
and burn
everybody's houses down.
00:22:34.58\00:22:36.35
And anyway they prayed
and the Lord stopped the fire
00:22:36.38\00:22:40.12
and enabled them to
get enough water, you know,
00:22:40.16\00:22:42.56
to put the fire out,
but it was amazing, yeah.
00:22:42.59\00:22:45.06
It's neat to hear their stories.
00:22:45.09\00:22:46.19
Great controversy battle.
00:22:46.23\00:22:47.40
Yeah, it's neat to see them
all in their light green shirts,
00:22:47.46\00:22:51.10
all going out by groups.
00:22:51.13\00:22:52.70
Flooding the city.
00:22:52.73\00:22:53.77
Yeah, that was really neat.
00:22:53.80\00:22:55.37
Oh, praise God.
00:22:55.40\00:22:56.54
Yes. And this is our last day.
00:22:56.57\00:22:59.41
This is the picture
of these young people
00:22:59.44\00:23:01.71
coming together, not
this time at 5 am but at 4 am.
00:23:01.74\00:23:05.81
We started at four with
like a couple of hundreds
00:23:05.85\00:23:08.95
but when we ended
00:23:08.98\00:23:10.55
there were like 500 young people
00:23:10.59\00:23:14.72
pouring their
hearts and souls to God.
00:23:14.76\00:23:17.93
And the room was full.
And the room was filled up.
00:23:17.96\00:23:21.13
And it is such
an amazing thought,
00:23:21.16\00:23:23.20
a very
encouraging thought to see,
00:23:23.23\00:23:25.87
we really are in the last days.
00:23:25.90\00:23:28.50
These young people
have been awakened by God
00:23:28.54\00:23:31.41
to pour out
everything to surrender all
00:23:31.44\00:23:35.14
and let God take control.
00:23:35.18\00:23:37.58
And I could see a
picture of the day of Pentecost
00:23:37.61\00:23:41.45
happening all over again.
00:23:41.48\00:23:43.72
And the last part
of this, of this video
00:23:43.75\00:23:48.26
we could see
00:23:48.29\00:23:49.59
that there's a picture
that it'll be flashed later on
00:23:49.62\00:23:52.93
where we gathered all
our speakers in a circle
00:23:52.96\00:23:57.33
and we know this
young people are quite poor,
00:23:57.37\00:23:59.50
yes, this is it.
00:23:59.53\00:24:01.00
We don't have much to give
00:24:01.04\00:24:03.10
so we gave them
the gift of prayer.
00:24:03.14\00:24:05.51
So we laid hands on them.
00:24:05.54\00:24:08.54
We put our hands
on each other as well
00:24:08.58\00:24:11.61
signifying our unity.
00:24:11.65\00:24:13.72
And when we prayed,
00:24:13.75\00:24:14.78
we prayed
unitedly for the speakers.
00:24:14.82\00:24:18.92
And the speakers said,
one of the speakers said,
00:24:18.95\00:24:22.52
"This is the best gift
that I've ever received,"
00:24:22.56\00:24:25.33
and they were in tears.
00:24:25.36\00:24:27.00
And they said,
"This is a family now.
00:24:27.03\00:24:30.57
This is not just a
conference, this is a family."
00:24:30.60\00:24:32.93
And this is I guess one
thing that God wants to see
00:24:32.97\00:24:36.91
coming out of these conferences
00:24:36.94\00:24:40.61
that we'll be bonded
as one body, as one church
00:24:40.64\00:24:45.08
that we may be able to finish
this work not by our own might
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or our strength
but by His Spirit.
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This is the prayer
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that happened at the end of PYC,
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but we're told that
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we should never leave
these things unchanged,
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these type of meetings,
conferences or whatever you,
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little camp meeting or whatever.
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So what happens to
these young people next?
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Where do they go from here?
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Yes, and that's
where our next burden is
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because I could, I could see
a lot of young people right now
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coming out of
their comfort zone,
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leaving their worldly dreams
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and following
God's dream for them.
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I receive a lot of messages
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coming from these young people,
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"Brother Gem, I
want to follow God,
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I don't know
where the Lord leads me
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but I'm willing to
do everything for God."
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And that's why while we
were praying a few days ago,
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the Lord impressed us
to have a missions outpost,
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you know JFA missions outpost
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where these young
people could come together,
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could convene and pray
where the Lord leads them.
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And not just that,
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we are planning as well
to have a training center
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for these young people.
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We don't want them to go
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and just like do
things in their way,
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but we want them to
do things God's way.
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We want them to be equipped,
we want them to be prepared.
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Wow.
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Well, that's a big dream
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but with God all
things are possible, right?
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Amen. We have a big God.
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That's right and
He can do anything.
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Amen.
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And it's so, it's so
needed, it's necessary actually.
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If people want to know more,
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how can they find
out more about PYC?
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We have a Facebook page,
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they could just type
philippineyouthforchrist...
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Okay.
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Or they could
contact Jesus for Asia.
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Right.
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There is also a website?
Yeah, there's a website.
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Our website is
undergoing construction.
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Okay.
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By God's grace
we will improve it.
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Okay.
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By God's leading and all,
the website is PYCWeb.org.
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Okay.
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You know, there's
so many young people
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that would like to
go that need sponsorship
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and there's young people
00:26:55.94\00:26:56.95
that would like
to do work for God
00:26:56.98\00:26:59.48
that need sponsorship.
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We know young people,
00:27:01.15\00:27:02.28
a young lady contacted
us after this year's PYC
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that needed sponsorship
to finish her schooling
00:27:05.65\00:27:07.76
because she wants to be a
missionary right afterward
00:27:07.79\00:27:10.93
and so we've sent money already
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even though no
one had sent us money
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to sponsor her with.
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If you would like to
sponsor someone to attend PYC
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or to work for God as
a full time missionary
00:27:19.50\00:27:22.50
or if you would like
to attend PYC yourself
00:27:22.54\00:27:25.01
or sponsor someone else to go
00:27:25.04\00:27:26.47
whether from
America or another country
00:27:26.51\00:27:29.08
or within the Philippines,
00:27:29.11\00:27:30.95
please contact us
here at Jesus for Asia.
00:27:30.98\00:27:33.55
It gives us great pleasure
00:27:33.58\00:27:35.28
to help with
these kinds of things
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when it's not
necessarily a specific project,
00:27:36.89\00:27:40.36
but we have the funds available
for where it needed most.
00:27:40.39\00:27:45.06
If you would like to enable us
00:27:45.09\00:27:46.36
to do more of
this kind of ministry,
00:27:46.39\00:27:48.03
please send your
tax-deductible love gift
00:27:48.06\00:27:50.17
to Jesus for Asia, PO Box 1221,
00:27:50.20\00:27:53.54
Collegedale, Tennessee 37315.
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Call us at 423-413-7321
00:27:57.04\00:28:01.01
or visit our
website at Jesus4asia.org.
00:28:01.04\00:28:04.28
Thank you so
much for joining us,
00:28:04.31\00:28:06.11
and may God richly bless you
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until we see you again next week
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on Jesus for Asia Now.
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