Hello and welcome to
our Jesus for Asia Now,
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end of year special.
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God is so good, and today
at the special time of year,
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we wanted to pause and thank Him
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and give glory to Him
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for His blessings
throughout the year.
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We want to look forward
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to what He may
have in store next year.
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And we also want to
thank you our 3ABN viewers,
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for helping to make this
year a very special year,
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not only for
your financial support
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but also for your
words of encouragement
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and your many prayers,
they mean the world to us.
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Joining me today
is my husband Jon.
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Hello, darling. Hi,
darling. How are you?
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I'm doing fine. Awesome.
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How has this
been a special year?
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Oh, my!
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So many things have opened up
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and that we've been
able to go forward in
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and done just because
of the extra encouragement
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that our viewers have given us.
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And the many
prayers. Absolutely.
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God has opened so
many doors, that's amazing.
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And to be able to watch
through some of those stories
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and not only watch through them
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but start to see
the fruit already.
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Many years of
prayer have gone into
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some of these new
ventures that we're starting in.
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And we get to share
them today. Absolutely.
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I'm looking
forward to that. Yeah.
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Some of them, we
just got the news.
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We just got the video yesterday.
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Yeah, absolutely.
And so it's like...
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for first time we've seen it.
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So this is happening real time,
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this isn't something
that happens six years ago
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or in the Book of Acts,
you know, 2,000 years ago.
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This is happening today.
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Right. Right. Yeah.
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And first, we want to
talk about financials.
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Yeah.
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What has happened in
the last couple years
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financially to Jesus for Asia?
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In the last few years,
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well, actually in
the last ten or so years,
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we have been under
financial constraints,
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and so we've been
praying every single month
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for just the basic
needs of that month.
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And God has been
providing just barely enough
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and what He's been
doing is teaching us faith.
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And He is more interested in us
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developing a character
and developing our faith
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than He is in actually us
accomplishing a certain task.
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And so in the way,
He's been teaching us
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but this last year,
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the Lord has been
giving us a little extra.
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And so what do we do with that?
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Do we sit back and
enjoy, you know, relax?
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Or do we go forward
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and push this thing
as far as we can go?
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And so we've
decided to go forward,
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and we've got some
stories that are coming directly
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out of that
decision to move forward.
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And just to reiterate,
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I know we've said
this on the show before.
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Our financial
situation is that we've chosen
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that 100% of the donations
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that are dedicated
to a specific project
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go to that project.
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You may pay bank
fees for that project,
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but it goes to that project.
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Right, so like, if
somebody gives $100
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towards our Bible workers,
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we send $100 to
the Bible workers.
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None of the overhead,
like administrative overhead
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for here in
America comes out of that.
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Right. So 100% goes.
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So how do we survive then on?
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We pray a lot
because God provides,
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but He provides us.
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We pray and follow His leading.
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So we've been
camping out on Matthew 6:33.
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"Seek ye first
the kingdom of God
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and He'll take
care of your needs."
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And this has been
working for the last 12 years.
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It's not always easy.
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No, definitely not.
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But it definitely
is better for the work
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and we would rather see
the work go forward than
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for us just to be comfortable.
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Right. Yeah.
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To start our topic for
today, our thankfulness is,
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this is one of them
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that comes out of where
we needed most of the time,
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there's very little that's given
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directly for this project.
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And so this is our
Love for Asia foundation
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in Thailand.
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And some of our viewers
may recognize some of the...
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We've shared about
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the Love for Asia
foundation before,
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but this is a new thing
that we want to share about.
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Yes, now we got the
Love for Asia foundation
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and the Love
for Asia media team.
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So the media team has been there
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for quite a number of years,
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been developing
and getting stronger.
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The foundation is something
that the Lord brought together
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just in the last couple years.
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And He did it for a
very specific purpose.
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And that is the
laws have changed
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and the missionaries
that have been in Thailand
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are no longer able to
stay under the same situations,
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same visa that
they've had in the past.
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They've had to
get a work permit.
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And they can
only get a work permit
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from like a
foundation or business.
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So the Lord
brought this foundation
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into being just in time
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so that these missionaries
could now stay in Thailand
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and continue to preach.
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Under work
permits. That's right.
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Right. Stay there legally.
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So now we have two
people under work permits
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that are there, and
we've got another six
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that have just signed up,
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and there's gonna be more
shortly that are gonna come
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and be able to stay
long term in Thailand
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because of this new foundation
that the Lord has raised up.
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And, of course, the foundation
was completely out of this
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where we needed most, funding.
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Right. So...
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Okay, so a few years ago,
we were praying for a studio
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for our team to work out
because we have a media team,
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and they're
working in the house.
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Correct.
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So we're praying for a studio
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and then the Lord
kind of gave another idea.
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What if we had a
mobile production unit?
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Okay.
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We could drive to the church,
we could set up the cameras,
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videotape it, come home,
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we could do our
work during the week,
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other projects
and stuff like that,
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but our sermon library
could start be building up.
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Now this is in a country
with less than 1% Christian,
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and almost no media whatsoever
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in the Thai
language and there's...
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For Christians. For Christians.
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Oh, yeah,
absolutely, for Adventists.
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And there is like
almost 73 languages
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represented in
Thailand alone, 73 languages.
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And the vast
majority of those people
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do not speak a lick of English.
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So if we come to them
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with English books
and English sermons,
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it's not gonna do
anything for them.
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No, yeah.
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So how can we build
up the sermon libraries
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like, well,
there's mobile studio
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but it's so expensive.
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How in the world
are we gonna be able to
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do anything like that?
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Yeah, right.
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Until just earlier this year,
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my team, the Love
for Asia foundation
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went and visited another
one of our missionary sites,
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and it was a very
difficult place to get to.
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So they came back and they said,
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"You know what?
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We really need a
four wheel drive vehicle."
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And in my mind, I'm
thinking, "Oh, there's no way."
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And you know,
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that's just being
lazy, you know, come on.
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But we are borrowing a car,
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our church member's car
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that was kind of on the edge.
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I mean, sometimes
to get it into reverse,
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we have to spend five
minutes for the transmission
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to warm up, so
then it would finally...
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Anyway, so they went
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and they sent me
pictures of this truck.
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And I'm looking at
this truck, I was like,
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"Man, that's for rich people.
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There's no way
we can afford that."
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And so it's like,
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I just was gonna
like pass it off,
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just forget about it.
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But for some
reason, that vehicle
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kept sticking in my mind,
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kept coming up in my
mind from day to day.
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And I started
thinking about that.
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And I started thinking
about the possibilities.
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What if we could put
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a production
switcher into this truck?
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Okay.
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So we could go up
to like, for instance,
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Gayle Haberkam's
place which is way up there.
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Really bad roads,
it's really steep.
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Yeah, it's like,
seriously like this steep.
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Definitely need four-wheel drive
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but they'll see some
video in a little bit.
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We will be showing some video.
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Okay, so I was thinking
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what if we could
go up to her place
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and, you know, it's
like I didn't think that
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we would need to,
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because they don't
do evangelistic series.
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I don't know who
does the sermons.
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Yeah, it's a
small village, you know.
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Little tiny church,
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maybe two or three
people show up at the church.
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And so why would
we need to do that?
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But it'd be nice to
have that capability,
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so I kept thinking, I
kept praying about this.
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For several months,
I was praying about it.
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And for some reason
it just didn't go away
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until we went to PYC in May,
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and I was then going
to go to Thailand in June.
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And I said,
"Okay, now it's the time
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to make a decision."
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I've been, you know,
talking to God a lot about it,
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but I needed to have
a more concrete answer.
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I needed to have
something that was more,
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that I could say,
"Okay, this is my Ebenezer.
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This is my memory stone.
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This is what God did
for us in this project
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one way or the other."
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So we were in the Philippines,
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and it was about 3
o'clock in the morning.
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I woke up early,
everybody else was sound asleep.
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I was tired but I
says, "You know what?
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I really need to find
out what this is all about."
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So I started praying to God.
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And I was like, "Lord,
what do You want us to do?
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Should we do this,
should we not do this?
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You know, what about the cost?
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What about the
money, about the expenses?"
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This is really, you know,
it's $15,000 for this truck."
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Now this truck was
worth three times that
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when it was brand new.
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But it's about ten years old,
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but it only has
100,000 miles on it,
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and it's a turbo diesel,
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and it's a Toyota, so
it's gonna last forever.
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But still $15,000,
it's a lot of money.
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So I was begging God
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and for about an
hour, hour and a half,
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I was just going
after God, going after God,
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"Lord, what do
You want us to do?
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What's Your will
on this project?"
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And finally, it's like I
ran out of things to say,
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and I just went silent.
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And during that silence,
about 20 minutes into that,
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I started thinking about
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what was the last
thing that Ellen White said
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that she heard
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in her final
days of life on earth.
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She was in her Elmshaven home,
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and she told somebody
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that she would hear
voices in the night,
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and these voices would say
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advance, advance, advance.
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Press the battle to the gate.
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In other words, she was
nearing the end of her life,
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but don't slow down,
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move forward as hard as you can,
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press the battle to the gate.
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In other words, go all
the way, go all the way.
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And so this was in my mind
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and this is what
was coming into my mind
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as I was
praying, as I was asking
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about this particular situation.
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And I just felt
this incredibly warm
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peace just envelop me.
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And they say not
to follow emotions,
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but it's nice when
God can put an emotion,
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can touch you with an emotion
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to kind of confirm
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the direction that you're going.
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Okay?
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So I'm like, "Okay.
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I recognize that this is
God's voice talking to me.
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I didn't hear an
audible voice, I didn't..."
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You know, in the Old Testament,
they had the Urim and Thummim.
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You know, if God said yes,
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then it was like
a bright light here.
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If He said no,
there was a dark shadow.
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I need one of those.
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I need a set of those, you know.
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But I didn't have that.
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So this was the next best thing.
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So it's like, you
have to go forward by faith
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because you cannot
come out in the morning
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and say, "Honey, look
what God said," you know.
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There's nothing I can
just relate my experience
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but it's easy to even
doubt my own experience.
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So I just have to go by faith
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that this was
God confirming to me,
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"I want you to go forward."
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And the principle,
what is the principle?
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Okay.
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Where you're
taking a financial risk,
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but we may win
people to Christ, okay.
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What's the greater value?
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The people, you know, okay.
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So I went to Thailand,
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we went and test drove it
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to make sure it felt solid.
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I says, "We're buying this.
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We're gonna do this."
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And now the dealer had said that
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we, the foundation
could get a loan for it
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because we
didn't have the $15,000,
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we had $7,500
that we scrape together
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that we could put down on it.
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But then, when we
finally made the deal,
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we found out that the bank
wouldn't loan to a foundation.
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So it wouldn't loan
to a foreigner either.
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So we had to take out a loan
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in the name of our local worker.
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So even though,
we are paying for it,
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it's in his name.
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So if we default, then it's...
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It's on him. It's on him.
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So he has a lot of trust in us
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to move forward
and not to default,
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and we're not gonna default.
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I mean, I would give my life.
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God will provide.
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I mean, honestly,
I would give my life
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to see this team
continue to operate.
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Why? 'Cause
nobody else is doing it.
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Okay.
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And this is a country
of less than 1% Christian.
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And nobody is
going forward and doing,
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so somebody's got to do it.
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Well, absolutely, we have to.
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We have to go forward
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which is why we're
excited to share pictures.
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Yes. And video for the viewers.
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Yeah.
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So we have a couple of
pictures of the truck itself.
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Yeah. There's the first one.
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So, obviously it's got
lot of ground clearance,
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so we can go over
big ruts and stuff,
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and big rocks and stuff,
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and it's four door,
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it's a seven passenger vehicle.
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This is Daniel Bair,
he's our director over there
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of the foundation.
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And then Gop Zion,
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he's the officer
there that is the Thai.
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He's Thai, born and raised Thai,
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and his wife Frame.
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So these are the officers,
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and we're here
standing next to the truck
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that we have purchased.
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Wow. Yeah.
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Okay. And then you
started outfitting it for...
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Yes, for production,
television production.
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First thing is we
need a large screen TV.
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As you can see,
this is a multi view.
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You can see all cameras,
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plus your
preview and your program,
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what's going out on
air, all in one monitor.
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So we had to have a big one.
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So we went and
bought a 32 inch TV.
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And this is kind of a set up.
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We're gonna have the
director sit in the middle seat
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with monitor off to the side.
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And he'll be switching.
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And so then, it's like
how do we build something
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that's gonna hold the TV.
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So we went to a mod shop.
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Okay.
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As you can see
the shop, we got some
00:13:42.62\00:13:44.09
really awesome cars.
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This is the guy that
actually built the stand.
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You can see the stand
there between the front
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and the center seat,
00:13:49.82\00:13:51.73
the stand that
the TV is mounted on.
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And he just went in
there, he did the measurements,
00:13:53.93\00:13:55.66
he did the cuttings,
it's all made out of wood.
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And he just did a fantastic job.
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And so now this
is the end result.
00:14:01.30\00:14:03.57
And so we can
pile into this truck
00:14:03.57\00:14:05.97
all of our
equipment, all of our people
00:14:05.97\00:14:08.01
and go shoot something.
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That's great. That's great.
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And you got to be there... Yes.
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For the first
Sabbath it was used.
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This next video shows
the very first Sabbath
00:14:15.65\00:14:18.45
in which we
actually utilized this truck.
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Okay. Here we go.
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Okay.
00:14:21.89\00:14:22.96
Today, we're at
the village of Wat Doi,
00:14:31.27\00:14:33.77
and now it's up in the mountains
00:14:33.77\00:14:36.37
in northern Thailand.
00:14:36.37\00:14:38.57
And this is a
really exciting day for us
00:14:38.57\00:14:41.18
because it is the first time,
00:14:41.18\00:14:42.94
we are taking our new,
to us, production truck.
00:14:42.94\00:14:46.01
And this is a fully
00:14:46.01\00:14:49.12
self contained
production vehicle.
00:14:49.12\00:14:52.15
So this is designed
that we roll up to a church,
00:14:52.15\00:14:55.66
roll out the
cables, set up the cameras,
00:14:55.66\00:14:57.56
and shoot and produce.
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Today is a fulfillment
of many years of dreaming,
00:15:08.64\00:15:11.94
and planning, and praying,
00:15:11.94\00:15:13.94
and begging God for reaching...
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New ways to reach people
00:15:18.78\00:15:20.65
that don't have
access to the gospel.
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We're here in Thailand,
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and less than 1%
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of the entire
population is Christian,
00:15:25.95\00:15:28.36
and much less
than that is Adventist.
00:15:28.36\00:15:31.06
So how are they to
hear of this message?
00:15:31.06\00:15:33.13
We have such a small work force
00:15:33.13\00:15:34.83
to share the
message to so many people.
00:15:34.83\00:15:37.60
And today is like a
fulfillment of a huge dream.
00:15:37.60\00:15:41.90
God has given us this truck,
00:15:41.90\00:15:44.37
and we've been able
to outfit this thing
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with a broadcast
quality video switcher,
00:15:48.04\00:15:52.18
and monitor, and
a recording device.
00:15:52.18\00:15:55.65
But in addition to that
we've got this little tiny box
00:15:55.65\00:16:00.46
that then takes that signal
and broadcast it to Facebook.
00:16:00.46\00:16:04.46
So here I am with this phone,
00:16:04.46\00:16:08.76
and I've got the
Facebook app open right now.
00:16:08.76\00:16:11.80
And you can see,
if I click on this...
00:16:11.80\00:16:14.97
This is coming from Facebook,
00:16:20.18\00:16:22.11
streaming the sermon
that's happening right here
00:16:22.11\00:16:24.91
in the middle of Thailand.
00:16:24.91\00:16:26.28
Now anybody in the
world can watch the sermon
00:16:26.28\00:16:30.65
that's coming out of
this little tiny church
00:16:30.65\00:16:33.89
here in Northern Thailand.
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It's crazy.
00:16:36.32\00:16:38.09
This truck, okay,
00:16:38.09\00:16:40.13
all tooled with
everything, including cameras
00:16:40.13\00:16:43.16
which we're borrowing,
00:16:43.16\00:16:44.80
about 27,000, so
less than $30,000,
00:16:44.80\00:16:48.87
entire self contained
mobile production unit.
00:16:48.87\00:16:55.28
Now, this is just amazing.
00:16:55.28\00:16:57.81
The new
technology, combining things,
00:16:57.81\00:17:00.65
the way things
are coming together.
00:17:00.65\00:17:02.05
This is broadcast
quality production
00:17:02.05\00:17:04.69
for neglected
languages in the world.
00:17:04.69\00:17:10.36
Think about the implications.
00:17:10.36\00:17:12.49
We could have one of
these for every language,
00:17:12.49\00:17:14.83
and get a team going,
00:17:14.83\00:17:16.50
a team of about three people
00:17:16.50\00:17:18.97
can run a truck like
this, production truck,
00:17:18.97\00:17:21.54
it could go anywhere.
00:17:21.54\00:17:23.14
I can't believe
how exciting this is.
00:17:23.14\00:17:25.07
I mean, just...
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I'm not gonna be
able to sleep tonight
00:17:28.88\00:17:31.28
because the people
that this is gonna reach
00:17:31.28\00:17:33.28
is probably never be able
to reach them in any other way
00:17:33.28\00:17:37.19
and no one's really trying.
00:17:37.19\00:17:39.09
But look what you can do now.
00:17:39.09\00:17:41.19
Just look what you can
do. Look what God has done.
00:17:41.19\00:17:43.46
Thank you for your
help, for your donations,
00:17:46.80\00:17:49.70
and for your prayer
00:17:49.70\00:17:51.07
in allowing this and
making this thing happen.
00:17:51.07\00:17:53.84
And praise be to God
00:17:53.84\00:17:55.30
who has given us the
courage to try new stuff.
00:17:55.30\00:17:59.74
God is so good. I know.
00:18:16.16\00:18:17.99
And He's so amazing. That
was in the Hmong language.
00:18:17.99\00:18:20.93
So that's one of the languages
that has so few resources.
00:18:20.93\00:18:24.83
And now we get to give
them some sermons on video.
00:18:24.83\00:18:28.60
They don't have
to learn to read,
00:18:28.60\00:18:30.91
they just listen and watch.
00:18:30.91\00:18:32.24
Yeah. Yeah.
00:18:32.24\00:18:33.51
So the modifications to
the truck at the mod shop,
00:18:33.51\00:18:36.11
the special TV stand and stuff.
00:18:36.11\00:18:38.38
How much did that cost?
00:18:38.38\00:18:39.61
Well, it's not only the stand
00:18:39.61\00:18:41.68
but also we had three invertors,
00:18:41.68\00:18:43.65
so we can power everything
off of the engine of the truck.
00:18:43.65\00:18:47.22
So the three
invertors, the modifications,
00:18:47.22\00:18:49.42
everything, the stand,
00:18:49.42\00:18:50.69
as you can see that
00:18:50.69\00:18:51.73
it's covered with
a nice vinyl also.
00:18:51.73\00:18:53.26
Okay. Eight hundred dollars.
00:18:53.26\00:18:54.96
Wow. Yeah.
00:18:54.96\00:18:56.63
And we're borrowing the cameras,
00:18:56.63\00:18:58.73
we already own the
switcher, we had bi cables,
00:18:58.73\00:19:02.30
and do the mod
and buy the truck,
00:19:02.30\00:19:04.14
and then it's ready to go.
00:19:04.14\00:19:05.47
So that 27, $30,000 thing
00:19:05.47\00:19:07.58
that includes
the truck as well as
00:19:07.58\00:19:10.21
if you had to replace
all the other equipment.
00:19:10.21\00:19:12.58
That's about how much
another one would cost.
00:19:12.58\00:19:15.12
Wow. Yeah.
00:19:15.12\00:19:16.72
Oh, God is good. So good.
00:19:16.72\00:19:19.82
And it gives me so much joy
00:19:19.82\00:19:22.02
because it's like
God confirmed this
00:19:22.02\00:19:23.96
and then it's like...
00:19:23.96\00:19:25.43
Or God directed this
and then God confirmed it
00:19:25.43\00:19:28.03
by actually seeing it in action.
00:19:28.03\00:19:30.07
So many times
it's like the projects
00:19:30.07\00:19:32.80
that are started
like long term, year,
00:19:32.80\00:19:35.27
but this is like so quick,
we could see what happened.
00:19:35.27\00:19:38.54
See results. Okay. Yeah.
00:19:38.54\00:19:40.61
So broadcasting to the internet
you were using an iPhone?
00:19:40.61\00:19:43.71
Yeah, so this little box,
00:19:43.71\00:19:45.15
it connects to the internet
through your cell signal,
00:19:45.15\00:19:49.58
okay, your data
signal on your cell phone.
00:19:49.58\00:19:51.52
So your iPhone,
00:19:51.52\00:19:52.62
it can connect up to
four iPhones all together
00:19:52.62\00:19:55.96
and multiplex a stream
00:19:55.96\00:19:57.96
that we were
able to use just one,
00:19:57.96\00:19:59.86
and broadcast from that little
tiny Hmong church to Facebook.
00:19:59.86\00:20:03.33
Wow.
00:20:03.33\00:20:04.33
And once we broadcast,
then it stays on Facebook
00:20:04.33\00:20:06.74
and other people come and watch,
00:20:06.74\00:20:08.37
and we can then edit
and put it up on YouTube,
00:20:08.37\00:20:10.64
whatever, it's just...
00:20:10.64\00:20:12.91
I mean, Facebook is free.
00:20:12.91\00:20:15.41
In the past we'd have to go
up to satellite and, you know,
00:20:15.41\00:20:18.01
its just expense
is just out the roof
00:20:18.01\00:20:19.75
but this is free.
00:20:19.75\00:20:20.95
Right. Right.
00:20:20.95\00:20:22.65
And it's gonna be
a blessing elsewhere.
00:20:22.65\00:20:24.42
Absolutely.
00:20:24.42\00:20:25.59
How many different languages
can we reach, I mean, boom!
00:20:25.59\00:20:28.89
Yeah.
00:20:28.89\00:20:29.96
Materials in other languages
00:20:29.96\00:20:31.46
will become a
lot easier this way.
00:20:31.46\00:20:32.89
Correct. Yeah. Okay.
00:20:32.89\00:20:34.36
So right after that,
00:20:34.36\00:20:37.97
you got a phone
call from Gayle Haberkam.
00:20:37.97\00:20:40.04
Yes.
00:20:40.04\00:20:41.37
She was planning to put together
00:20:41.37\00:20:43.81
an evangelistic series.
00:20:43.81\00:20:45.84
And first time ever
in that entire area,
00:20:45.84\00:20:48.44
they've done an
evangelistic series
00:20:48.44\00:20:50.21
for the local people.
00:20:50.21\00:20:51.95
And she just was talking...
00:20:51.95\00:20:54.12
She had heard, she says,
00:20:54.12\00:20:55.18
"I heard that you got
this new truck together.
00:20:55.18\00:20:57.59
And I know it's
way too expensive
00:20:57.59\00:20:59.39
and you're not gonna
send it up to my place.
00:20:59.39\00:21:01.26
It's so rough roads
and everything and...
00:21:01.26\00:21:03.43
But it should be neat."
00:21:03.43\00:21:04.49
I'm like, "Well, I
was just wondering if I...
00:21:04.49\00:21:06.73
I was just gonna call you
and ask you for permission
00:21:06.73\00:21:08.80
if I could send my truck
to your evangelistic series."
00:21:08.80\00:21:11.27
She's like, "What?
00:21:11.27\00:21:12.43
You're kidding me. No
way! You're gonna do that?"
00:21:12.43\00:21:14.80
I'm like, "Yeah, absolutely.
00:21:14.80\00:21:15.97
That's one of the
reasons we built this truck."
00:21:15.97\00:21:18.51
She was so excited. Yeah.
00:21:18.51\00:21:21.01
She was so excited.
00:21:21.01\00:21:22.14
And so just a little while ago,
00:21:22.14\00:21:24.51
the truck went up
and I couldn't be there.
00:21:24.51\00:21:27.05
I was so disappointed.
00:21:27.05\00:21:28.05
But the truck went up
there with a local team,
00:21:28.05\00:21:30.79
from Love for Asia media team.
00:21:30.79\00:21:32.55
And here we have a video.
00:21:32.55\00:21:34.92
Now, this video
was edited mostly
00:21:34.92\00:21:36.86
by Jonathan Hill in a
vehicle, in a moving vehicle.
00:21:36.86\00:21:39.89
So he just threw this
together and send it to us
00:21:39.89\00:21:42.03
just a few days ago.
00:21:42.03\00:21:43.60
Yesterday? Yes.
00:21:43.60\00:21:45.37
We're thinking,
00:21:49.80\00:21:50.87
"Oh, man, it'd be so much better
00:21:50.87\00:21:51.94
to have a 4x4 truck
00:21:51.94\00:21:54.84
that we could have all our gear
00:21:54.84\00:21:56.11
and roll up to
any site, anywhere.
00:21:56.11\00:21:59.15
Pull out the cameras,
the gear and then record."
00:21:59.15\00:22:02.68
It seem like a pipe
dream, it seem like too much.
00:22:02.68\00:22:05.99
And then along comes this year,
00:22:05.99\00:22:08.76
actually it only
dawned on me this week that,
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that was the dream
we had four years ago.
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It's really amazing how
God brings things about.
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I cannot tell you
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how excited I was to hear
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that the media
team with this new truck
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would actually
come to my village.
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There is so much potential
with what we're able to do now.
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I just pray that
hearts will be changed,
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and that many,
many of the people hear,
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and everywhere that
that media truck goes
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can be in heaven
because it is a great work.
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Well, that just
brings tears to my eyes.
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Mine too.
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It just... God is so good.
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These people in
their hearts are gonna...
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You know, a lot of them,
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they never are able
to hear the Word of God
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unless they go to a church,
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and a pastor happens to
show up to read it to them.
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And now they can
have it in their homes.
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They can listen to
it throughout the week.
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They can be fed.
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They can have
their personal devotions.
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You know, if they don't read,
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how do they get
their personal devotions?
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How do they grow
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unless somebody comes and
talks to them, tells them.
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So here, now
with these materials,
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this is in the Karen language,
so we did one in Hmong,
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one in Karen, in
between those two events
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we've gone to
several Thai churches.
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So we've already hit
three languages with this truck
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that we just
started this last summer.
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Actually you just
started it in October.
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Yeah.
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So it's been two months. Yes.
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And it's already
worked in three languages.
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Praise God. God is so good.
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And this is what happens
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when God's people
start to give into
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where it needed
most, these things happen.
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Yeah. God is so
good. Absolutely.
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Okay, we don't
have a lot of time left
00:23:55.33\00:23:57.00
but we want to
share a little bit
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about another country
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that's heavy on our hearts,
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deep in our hearts as
well, and that is India.
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Yes.
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And our director in India,
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Israel had asked for a long time
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if he could do a TV show.
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Yes.
00:24:11.61\00:24:12.65
We are reaching people
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who are Hindus,
Muslims, and Christians
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apart from
Seventh-day Adventists.
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God is doing
mighty, miraculous things
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in so many of their lives.
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This media ministry,
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it is opening doors
of many religious people.
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When they watch
the program in the TV,
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when they see the
number, when they call us,
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we are getting connected.
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And not only that, we
ask our Bible workers,
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when we give them their address,
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when we give them
their phone numbers,
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when they are
connected, they go in person,
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go visit their
house, sit with them,
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sharing the love of Jesus.
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Through this program,
00:25:08.14\00:25:09.54
God has given this
beautiful whole family.
00:25:09.54\00:25:14.01
He called us over
the phone and he said,
00:25:14.01\00:25:16.14
"Please pray for my
wife, she's very sick."
00:25:16.14\00:25:19.45
So the lady, she
started praying for her.
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And also with the prayer,
00:25:22.78\00:25:24.09
she started even telling
the truth about the Bible,
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about Jesus Christ,
about the true Sabbath.
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Everyday she calls,
00:25:30.96\00:25:32.59
God has been
answering the prayer.
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People came and asked
her, "What is happening?
00:25:34.83\00:25:37.23
We can see a lot of
changes in your family,
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changes in your physical health.
00:25:39.70\00:25:41.87
Your husband has
given up drinking.
00:25:41.87\00:25:44.47
He has given up
smoking, chewing tobacco.
00:25:44.47\00:25:47.74
What is happening?"
00:25:47.74\00:25:49.08
And she said, "I have
accepted the true Jesus Christ
00:25:49.08\00:25:52.95
as my personal Savior.
00:25:52.95\00:25:54.52
He is leading us, He is
giving us this strength."
00:25:54.52\00:25:58.72
Today, the head of
this house, he took baptism.
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I thank the Lord for
this beautiful ministry.
00:26:04.06\00:26:08.13
We are reaching many
people who are very thankful
00:26:08.13\00:26:12.43
that they can hear about Jesus,
00:26:12.43\00:26:15.20
the name which
they have not heard
00:26:15.20\00:26:16.74
before at all.
00:26:16.74\00:26:19.91
Wow.
00:26:19.91\00:26:20.91
So after just a couple
months, this is the fruit
00:26:20.91\00:26:23.41
that we're already
seeing from this ministry.
00:26:23.41\00:26:26.18
And there is
another... God is so good.
00:26:26.18\00:26:27.42
There is another
village where he visited,
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and in that village,
00:26:29.75\00:26:31.49
there is an opportunity
for a daily one hour broadcast,
00:26:31.49\00:26:37.06
daily one hour broadcast
with our pastors in the area.
00:26:37.06\00:26:40.66
And I'm like, "How
much is that gonna cost?"
00:26:40.66\00:26:43.30
He's like, "It's
gonna cost $110 a month."
00:26:43.30\00:26:47.54
A hundred and
ten dollars a month
00:26:47.54\00:26:48.70
for seven days a week,
00:26:48.70\00:26:51.27
seven hours a
week, one hour a day.
00:26:51.27\00:26:55.64
He's like, "Should we
go forward with that?"
00:26:55.64\00:26:58.58
I'm like, "Well, yeah,
okay, just go, just do it."
00:26:58.58\00:27:01.42
Yeah.
00:27:01.42\00:27:02.52
But the question I have is
00:27:02.52\00:27:03.72
how many other
towns and villages
00:27:03.72\00:27:05.19
throughout India are gonna have
that same kind of door open,
00:27:05.19\00:27:09.86
same kind of opportunity?
00:27:09.86\00:27:11.49
You know, and
there's so many towns
00:27:11.49\00:27:12.99
and villages within India.
00:27:12.99\00:27:14.60
Last I heard there is
over 400,000 towns and villages
00:27:14.60\00:27:18.20
that nobody has
ever preached the gospel
00:27:18.20\00:27:20.30
in any kind of
denomination in before.
00:27:20.30\00:27:23.61
So how are we gonna
accomplish all that?
00:27:23.61\00:27:25.61
It's got to be
through mass media.
00:27:25.61\00:27:26.94
It's like we have the ground
force with our Bible workers,
00:27:26.94\00:27:29.84
and the air force
with our media work.
00:27:29.84\00:27:33.82
And it's just so exciting. Yeah.
00:27:33.82\00:27:35.92
It's always good to
see what God has done,
00:27:35.92\00:27:37.99
and think about
00:27:37.99\00:27:39.02
what He's going
to do in the future.
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Amen.
00:27:40.46\00:27:41.52
And I would like
to invite our viewers,
00:27:41.52\00:27:43.39
if you have been
impressed to be a part of this,
00:27:43.39\00:27:45.86
to get involved, please pray,
00:27:45.86\00:27:48.70
but please also
if you would like
00:27:48.70\00:27:50.63
to send a tax
deductible love gift,
00:27:50.63\00:27:52.63
please do so to Jesus for Asia,
00:27:52.63\00:27:55.04
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00:28:00.91\00:28:04.78
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00:28:04.78\00:28:09.05
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00:28:09.05\00:28:11.35
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