Hello and welcome
to Jesus for Asia Now.
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I'm Natalie Wood,
and my husband Jon
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is joining me today to share
with us an inspiring project.
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Hello, darling. Hi,
darling. How are you?
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Doing fine. Awesome.
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You know, I know that
we've shared a lot of things
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on this show, very
statistics and stuff like that,
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and what we're going
to be talking about today,
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we've actually
shared a little bit of it
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on our Christmas
special recently.
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Yes.
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And we just want to
share a little more in-depth
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with our
viewers and let them see
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a little more about the project.
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Right.
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Yeah, well,
there's a huge problem
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in the in our
foreign mission program
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because, you know,
the statistic is that
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over 90% of all
Christian giving worldwide
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goes to ministry to
the 8% that speak English.
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Yeah, I know we've
shared that statistic before.
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And it's always very
sobering to think about
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all the people that
don't speak English.
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And there's 10% or less,
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actually one
missions organization
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told us it was 96%, so that's 4%
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or less of
Christian giving worldwide
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that goes to everyone else.
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Right.
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And what does that look
like on the front lines?
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You know, we've
got very few resources,
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very few books in print,
very few Christian literature,
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things like that that are not
able to communicate the Gospel
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to a vast number of
people in foreign countries.
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We take things for granted,
how many versions of the Bible
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do we have an English,
and then how many languages
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don't even have a Bible at
all or if they have a Bible
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that might be
very inaccurate, or...
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So there's a lot of challenges
in foreign countries that we,
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living here in
America, aren't exposed to,
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we don't have to deal with,
so that's one of the reasons
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why God has asked us
to do shows like this
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is to bring
awareness of the needs
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not because, you know,
"Oh, that sounds terrible,
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oh, you know, I
have to go do that..."
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Beat ourselves up or something.
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Right, but it's like
wow this is an opportunity
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where we actually
can make a difference.
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Right. Right.
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And that's the
exciting part. Yes.
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It's that it
doesn't take very much
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to make a huge difference.
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Right. Right.
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And some people may think,
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"Well, there's so
much need out there.
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Where can I fit
in, what can I do?
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What difference
will I make?" Right.
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But just one soul is
worth Jesus Christ dying for.
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And so if we can just
gain one soul, one more soul,
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it's worth... It's all worth it.
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Yeah. Absolutely. That's right.
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Yeah.
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It reminds me of
what Mrs. White said,
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over 100 years ago about
needs in the mission field,
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"Unless your hearts are
touched in view of the situation
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in foreign fields,
the last message of mercy
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to the world will be
restricted, and the work
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which God desires to have done
will be left unaccomplished."
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The sad thing is that
over the last 100 years
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that prediction has
actually played itself out.
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And so we look at our mission
program throughout the world
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and it's not anywhere
near where it could be
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or even where it should be.
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And so God is calling
us to make a difference
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to redeem the
time and do what we can
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in the little time that we have.
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Right. Right.
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So today, we want
to talk about Thailand.
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Now Thailand in particular
has some unique challenges.
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There's over 70 languages
in the country of the Thailand.
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Yeah. Can you imagine?
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I know that's really a
huge, huge task right there.
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Right. Yeah.
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And many of those languages
don't have any resources,
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spiritual resources, some
of them don't have Bibles,
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some of them don't
have any missionaries,
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vast walls of Thailand that have
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no Adventist
presence whatsoever.
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In fact, the majority
of the church in Thailand
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is in the minority
groups and the Thai themselves
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are pretty much unreached,
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statistically
they're not reached.
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And so this is what has
been a huge burden on our hearts
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for many, many years.
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Right, and you know
Thailand is still somewhat open,
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there's still religious freedom.
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Correct.
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And so there's a
lot of people there,
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and we still have an opportunity
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to do more broad
reaching type of evangelism
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so to say, so to speak.
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And like for instance, India.
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India has had an open
door for many decades,
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but now we see
that door closing,
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and it's closing hard.
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And so it's getting much
more difficult to work in India.
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But Thailand we
still have some time,
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it's starting to
get a little tighter,
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but it's not like
some of the countries
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that are really closed
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and takes very
creative ways to get in.
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We still have the
opportunity in Thailand.
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But if we do it in
Thailand, then it spreads
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through these
other language groups
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into other parts of
the countries and stuff.
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Right.
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So the project that we
want to talk about today
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is the Love For Asia Foundation,
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and the seeds of that
were actually planted in 2009.
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Correct.
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And the current team
that we're working with
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came together starting in 2012.
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Yes.
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And so we're
excited to be able to share,
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I know we've shared
a bit about it before,
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but we're excited to be able
to share the current status.
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Yeah, and I put
together this little tiny video,
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it's only 30 seconds
long, but it just gives people
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a sense of the environment,
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the area that the
office is based in.
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Okay, let's
watch that now. Okay.
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Well, that's a
beautiful location
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for the office.
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I know. I love
it up there so much.
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Papaya, mango,
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right on the
trees growing there,
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rice fields, it's
just really beautiful,
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and it's warm all the time.
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Yeah, that would be a
blessing, wouldn't it?
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Yes.
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Well, that team is led
by a volunteer Daniel Bair
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and his wife Tesha
and three children.
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They've been in Thailand
for five or six years now.
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And so it's really neat to see
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how their family
is doing over there,
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but the majority of the
team is made up of Thai people.
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Correct.
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And various tribes within that,
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but they are all
born in Thailand,
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natives of Thailand.
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So on our team we have
people that speak Hmong,
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Korean, and Thai.
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But there's many
other language groups
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in the area also that
we work with like Lahu
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and different groups like
that that we try to work with
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and develop material for.
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Right.
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So we have another
video, and that's a walk through
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of our office and then
we'll talk a little more
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about what the team is doing.
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Okay.
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Right now we're
going to the office
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where our team
works day in and day out
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developing
resources for the Thai people
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here in Thailand,
and the Hmong people,
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and the Mien people,
and the Korean people.
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People say, "Why do media?"
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because two reasons,
number one is expensive
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and number two you
can't hug people with a TV.
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Well, it's expensive if you look
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at the actual operating
cost, but if you look at,
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I mean, as an individual unit.
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But if you look at the
cost of reaching people
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on a purpose and
basis, this is actually
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one of the cheapest ways,
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the most cost-effective
ways to reach people.
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We find that media
is a very effective way
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to reach the masses.
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And if you look at the number
of people that are out there,
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I mean, 65 million
people here in Thailand,
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and there's maybe
14,000 SDAs for 65 million.
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And probably
12,000 of those SDAs
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are foreigners
or minority tribes.
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So how are we going to reach
the other 65 million people
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that don't have access
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and don't have a
way to meet, you know.
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So we've got to do it both ways.
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I see the Bible
workers as the ground force.
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And the television and
radio as the air force.
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So send in the air
force, send in the ground force,
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you do it both,
you're going to do it all.
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So I'm excited about this.
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And right now, we're
going to go into the office
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and I'll show
you around in there.
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So this is our office at
Love for Asia Foundation.
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And the foundation is like
a nonprofit 501c3 in America.
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It's a legal
entity that we can hold
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property through this,
we can have bank account,
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we can have a board of directors
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that kind of
oversee and make decisions,
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and we can do
operations, we can help people,
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a lot of things that we
can do through this foundation.
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And I'd like to show you
around inside our office.
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This is just a regular
workday, we did not clean up,
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we didn't do any
preparation for this filming.
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But I figured that you'd
rather see it the way it is.
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But let's come on in,
this is where they have
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the morning
worship, and they sing
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and pray together,
go over the day's plans,
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this is where we
have our board meetings
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for the foundation.
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And over here, we
have a lot of the material
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that they developed.
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You can see all these
DVDs ready to be passed out.
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And different
languages, the Hmong language,
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and the Thai
language is what we've done
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the most of so far.
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And then we've got,
here's the Steps to Christ,
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which is pretty amazing.
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Sometimes they run out,
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sometimes the
whole country runs out,
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and there's no Steps to
Christ available at all.
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Here's a recently
translated Ellen White book.
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Here's our
office where Gop works.
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Gop, say hi to
the camera. Hello.
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And he does the
lot of the music,
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and audio production,
and audio sweetening work
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for our production.
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And also has been
spending a lot of time
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putting all the
paperwork together
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with his wife
for the foundation,
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and the videos
and things like that.
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So he's on the board,
one of the board members,
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and a part of
the administration.
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And so we really
appreciate him and his wife
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and what they bring to the table
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because without them we
wouldn't have a foundation.
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So Frame, this
is where she sits.
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And she's been
doing some translation
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of Ellen White books.
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They just finished an
Ellen White devotional
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which they haven't had
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in the Thai
language up until now.
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She's also agreed just
in the last couple days
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to help with the
translation of "Man of Peace,"
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which is the condensed
version of Desire of Ages.
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Over here is another office
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where we have some more workers.
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Brother Suet,
he's our video editor,
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he sits here.
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And Bawbaw, who does
our Quran language work,
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sits here.
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And this is where
Wanida sits, and she is Hmong,
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so she does a lot
of the Hmong work.
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She's right now doing
a live radio broadcast
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at the local Christian
radio station in Hmong.
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So this is where we work.
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And this is where
our team comes every day
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and does the best they can.
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Please pray for our team
because working in a country
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where there's
less than 1% Christian,
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there's a lot of challenges.
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So thank you for your
support and for your prayers.
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So that is our rented
office, that's a rented house
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that we're
using as office space.
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Right.
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And it's kind of gets
crowded in there sometimes.
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Very crowded.
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There's extra
people there in this video
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because we have interns
that come in the summertime.
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But since we've filmed that,
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we've hired several more people,
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so it's crowded all the time.
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Right.
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And you know it gets
very hot there in Thailand.
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And before we
had air conditioners,
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we had equipment failing,
and we had candles that melted
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and hard drives failing.
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Yeah, these big old candles
and they just went like that
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just from the
heat in the office.
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And hard drives were
failing from overheating.
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Right.
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So we're really thankful
that a donor made it possible
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that helps the people
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as well as
helping the equipment.
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Right. Yes.
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So we do have need
to have our own office
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and an actual studio
for this team to work in.
00:14:53.72\00:14:56.16
Yeah, we need to
build something larger
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and there
aren't very many houses
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in the area to rent.
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Right.
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Much less large enough
to hold a growing team.
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Right, there is a local
donor in Thailand that has given
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land for us to build an
office and studio for this team.
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Yay!
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So we're very
excited about that.
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And you've seen
the property. Yup.
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It must mean that God
wants us to go forward
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which is going to be another
leap of faith to start building
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because as you
know, this project gets
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very little funding
directly of its own.
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Right.
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Very few donors
actually mark their donations
00:15:28.66\00:15:30.96
specifying that to
go to this media team.
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Correct.
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And so most of the
funding for this team
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on a monthly basis
comes from the general fund
00:15:36.80\00:15:39.47
of Jesus for Asia, so
donations that are marked
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for some other
project or some specific need
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will go to help pay for this.
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And so it's a huge leap of faith
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to start another large
building project like that.
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Correct.
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So but it seems
like if it's God's will,
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then God will provide.
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That's right.
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And the truth is that this
is such a strategic project,
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you know, we've got projects
that seem to be really massive
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and flow like our
Bible Workers Project,
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you know, it's something easy
to understand and to support.
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But this
project, not many people
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really
understand the impact of it
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and yet it can
impact millions of people.
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Right. Right.
00:16:19.44\00:16:20.68
And we've got another
video that you talk a little bit
00:16:20.68\00:16:23.18
in the video, I
think, about the impact
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and how far reaching it can be.
00:16:25.61\00:16:27.92
And so let's look
at that video now.
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I do want to say that
you were there last June,
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and you were sick.
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I was sick.
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I've been pushing really hard,
and it just caught up with me.
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Right, so you sound very croaky
in this video, but it's okay.
00:16:37.93\00:16:41.26
That's all right. All right.
00:16:41.26\00:16:42.50
Okay. The Holy Spirit
is being poured out here.
00:17:07.86\00:17:10.59
You know the Holy Spirit is
poured out through His Word,
00:17:10.59\00:17:12.93
whenever His Word is
preached, whenever it is shared
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with people that
don't know His message
00:17:16.03\00:17:18.23
or have heard it before,
but it's all fresh to them
00:17:18.23\00:17:21.40
through the Holy
Spirit is being poured out.
00:17:21.40\00:17:23.47
And this is an area
of course in Thailand
00:17:23.47\00:17:26.24
where less than 1% is Christian.
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This academy has a
real mission outreach
00:17:28.31\00:17:31.38
probably less than half
of this Adventist academy
00:17:31.38\00:17:34.55
is actually Adventist.
00:17:34.55\00:17:37.22
And many others are
Buddhists, some are Christians
00:17:37.22\00:17:40.26
from other denominations,
but with this evangelistic...
00:17:40.26\00:17:44.23
It's not really
evangelistic series,
00:17:44.23\00:17:45.63
this is a seminar on
Righteousness by Faith.
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And I'm actually quite
amazed at how much the kids
00:17:48.20\00:17:50.77
are tuning in because
these are high school kids
00:17:50.77\00:17:53.87
and this is a college
professor talking about
00:17:53.87\00:17:57.27
Righteousness by Faith.
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So it's a pretty high concept.
00:17:58.37\00:18:00.24
But you can see these
kids are like sometimes
00:18:00.24\00:18:03.11
they get tired,
but a lot of times,
00:18:03.11\00:18:04.78
a lot of them are just like
really focused on the message
00:18:04.78\00:18:08.28
and writing down the
scriptures and stuff.
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And we're going to
have baptism this Sabbath.
00:18:09.88\00:18:12.92
I'm very excited about
that. But it doesn't end here.
00:18:12.92\00:18:16.79
If this was just an
evangelistic series,
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this would be all that happened.
00:18:19.19\00:18:22.36
But we're
filming this, we're doing
00:18:22.36\00:18:24.87
a five-camera
production plus PowerPoint.
00:18:24.87\00:18:28.84
So we have six sources in
and we're doing it, you know,
00:18:28.84\00:18:32.54
in a way that's more engaging
the people who want to watch,
00:18:32.54\00:18:35.44
high quality, we're
going to send it out.
00:18:35.44\00:18:37.68
And this series will
live on in Thai forever.
00:18:37.68\00:18:42.15
And what's cool
is that other pastors
00:18:42.15\00:18:44.79
will listen to
it, and they'll use
00:18:44.79\00:18:47.52
some of the illustrations,
some of the concepts
00:18:47.52\00:18:49.09
in their sermons so
we'll continue to go on,
00:18:49.09\00:18:51.73
continue to grow.
00:18:51.73\00:18:52.83
And a lot of these
countries, they don't have
00:18:52.83\00:18:56.93
the resources that we do.
00:18:56.93\00:18:58.17
You know, some of the
things we take for granted like
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concept of
righteousness by faith
00:19:00.24\00:19:02.40
is not always clear in a
country that is dominated
00:19:02.40\00:19:05.81
by a religion
that says, you know,
00:19:05.81\00:19:09.51
you have to earn
your way to salvation
00:19:09.51\00:19:11.68
and earn your way into heaven.
00:19:11.68\00:19:13.48
So this righteous by
faith is really exciting.
00:19:13.48\00:19:17.25
And it's awesome
that people like us
00:19:17.25\00:19:19.92
that are more
like behind the scenes
00:19:19.92\00:19:21.92
that wouldn't
preach a series like this,
00:19:21.92\00:19:24.36
get to help in the
part of multiplying it
00:19:24.36\00:19:27.76
across the world.
00:19:27.76\00:19:28.93
Thailand is one country,
there's other countries also,
00:19:28.93\00:19:32.23
So there's a lot
of work to be done,
00:19:32.23\00:19:34.97
but God is behind it
and He's pushing for it.
00:19:34.97\00:19:38.77
And if we give it our all,
then He will come a lot sooner.
00:19:38.77\00:19:42.08
So thank you for joining
us right here in Chiang Mai.
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That's really
wonderful to think about
00:20:35.10\00:20:36.70
the multiplication factor.
00:20:36.70\00:20:37.97
Oh, yeah.
00:20:37.97\00:20:39.03
You know, this
was a special event,
00:20:39.03\00:20:40.44
but the special event
is available now to anybody
00:20:40.44\00:20:44.27
that wants to watch it
that has access to the Internet
00:20:44.27\00:20:46.78
because it's on the website,
it's on our YouTube channel,
00:20:46.78\00:20:50.15
and it's available in DVD or VCD
00:20:50.15\00:20:52.48
whichever they're using now.
00:20:52.48\00:20:53.62
Right.
00:20:53.62\00:20:54.82
And it's really cool because
it's another tool in the hand
00:20:54.82\00:20:56.79
of like a Bible Worker.
00:20:56.79\00:20:58.25
Somebody going door
to door, or let's say,
00:20:58.25\00:21:00.42
they're having a
Bible study, or a church,
00:21:00.42\00:21:02.66
something to
give out to visitor,
00:21:02.66\00:21:05.56
something in their hand,
00:21:05.56\00:21:06.59
and that might
not sound like much,
00:21:06.59\00:21:08.60
but in the
country, there was a time
00:21:08.60\00:21:10.10
when I was there in
Bangkok living there,
00:21:10.10\00:21:12.13
and I met somebody
that was a Christian,
00:21:12.13\00:21:13.84
but didn't know
much about Christianity.
00:21:13.84\00:21:15.97
I wanted to give
him Steps to Christ,
00:21:15.97\00:21:17.71
I couldn't find
one at the headquarters
00:21:17.71\00:21:20.88
of the church in Thailand.
00:21:20.88\00:21:22.98
So that's...
00:21:22.98\00:21:25.41
Yeah, to have materials
available is a huge thing.
00:21:25.41\00:21:28.52
Yes.
00:21:28.52\00:21:29.62
And this can
overcome illiteracy.
00:21:29.62\00:21:32.22
If somebody
doesn't know how to read
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or doesn't like to read,
just listen to something.
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Right, writing all
the materials there
00:21:36.42\00:21:39.13
in their own language.
00:21:39.13\00:21:40.23
Yes. So what a blessing.
00:21:40.23\00:21:42.70
Now this
foundation is fairly new.
00:21:42.70\00:21:44.97
Yes.
00:21:44.97\00:21:46.03
And you want to
share a little bit about
00:21:46.03\00:21:48.17
where it came to be
or how it came to be.
00:21:48.17\00:21:50.67
Oh, we've always wanted
to have our own foundation.
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So with a foundation, you have
a legal standing in Thailand.
00:21:52.71\00:21:55.84
So you can own
property, you can kind of like
00:21:55.84\00:22:00.05
set something up
that's more permanent.
00:22:00.05\00:22:03.69
And it's been like
almost impossible to do that.
00:22:03.69\00:22:07.26
But just in the last
few years, we found out that
00:22:07.26\00:22:10.66
now the doors are open
and it's possible especially
00:22:10.66\00:22:13.80
to have a
foreigner on the board.
00:22:13.80\00:22:16.20
And so we started
moving forward with it,
00:22:16.20\00:22:18.57
weren't sure how
it's going to work,
00:22:18.57\00:22:19.70
we saw a lot of people trying it
00:22:19.70\00:22:21.20
and not really
working out or taking years,
00:22:21.20\00:22:24.11
and years, and years to do it.
00:22:24.11\00:22:25.84
So we went ahead
and when Gop and Frame,
00:22:25.84\00:22:31.38
his wife, when
they came on board,
00:22:31.38\00:22:33.68
they started
connecting with the government
00:22:33.68\00:22:35.42
in a way that the
government started helping us,
00:22:35.42\00:22:37.75
telling us what to do.
00:22:37.75\00:22:39.42
Yeah, that's huge. Yeah.
00:22:39.42\00:22:41.02
That's what opened the
door for us to have it now,
00:22:41.02\00:22:43.63
the foundation, the
benefit of the foundation
00:22:43.63\00:22:46.36
is we didn't
realize this when we were
00:22:46.36\00:22:48.46
first setting it up
was that the laws have
00:22:48.46\00:22:52.13
changed for people
staying in Thailand.
00:22:52.13\00:22:54.60
So a lot of the missionaries
that were staying there
00:22:54.60\00:22:56.60
on a certain type of
visa were no longer allowed
00:22:56.60\00:22:59.74
to stay there on that
visa, but with the foundation,
00:22:59.74\00:23:04.01
they were able to provide them
with a different kind of permit
00:23:04.01\00:23:08.72
that they were
able to stay long-term.
00:23:08.72\00:23:10.79
So God raised up this
foundation just in time
00:23:10.79\00:23:14.59
to provide continued presence
00:23:14.59\00:23:17.86
of quite a number of
missionaries in Thailand.
00:23:17.86\00:23:21.43
So I feel like God
brought this into being
00:23:21.43\00:23:24.87
for such a time as this.
00:23:24.87\00:23:26.37
Wow, that's awesome. Yeah.
00:23:26.37\00:23:29.04
What a vital project. I know.
00:23:29.04\00:23:31.04
Can you see why
I'm so passionate
00:23:31.04\00:23:32.87
about this project?
00:23:32.87\00:23:33.94
Yes.
00:23:33.94\00:23:35.01
But the sad thing
is a few years ago,
00:23:35.01\00:23:36.34
we almost had to
close the program
00:23:36.34\00:23:38.05
just due to
financial constraints.
00:23:38.05\00:23:41.48
And I said, "God, you know what?
00:23:41.48\00:23:43.72
I'll give my life for
this program to continue."
00:23:43.72\00:23:46.86
I don't mind going on
record and saying that I would
00:23:46.86\00:23:49.59
give my life for this
program to continue and to grow.
00:23:49.59\00:23:52.36
Why?
00:23:52.36\00:23:53.50
Because there's so many
people that don't know Christ,
00:23:53.50\00:23:55.90
and for them to not
have even have access
00:23:55.90\00:23:59.47
and have the resources...
00:23:59.47\00:24:01.34
It's just this
has to happen. Right.
00:24:01.34\00:24:04.47
And so that's why
we're so passionate
00:24:04.47\00:24:06.01
about this particular project.
00:24:06.01\00:24:08.81
And it's not so
exciting visually, you know,
00:24:08.81\00:24:11.68
people sitting in their
office, working on a computer,
00:24:11.68\00:24:15.15
you know, that's not something
that we can like see the need,
00:24:15.15\00:24:18.49
like poor starving
children in the slum
00:24:18.49\00:24:21.36
or something like that.
00:24:21.36\00:24:22.42
But it's vital,
it's a vital necessity
00:24:22.42\00:24:26.86
for this project to go forward.
00:24:26.86\00:24:28.53
You know, we talk
about witnessing to people
00:24:28.53\00:24:30.97
that don't know
Christ, the other part is like
00:24:30.97\00:24:33.50
you talked about in
that last video encouraging
00:24:33.50\00:24:36.14
and strengthening the
believers that are there
00:24:36.14\00:24:38.77
and enabling them to know more
00:24:38.77\00:24:41.14
so that they even
have more to share.
00:24:41.14\00:24:42.74
Yeah, this is an amazing concept
00:24:42.74\00:24:44.65
that a lot of our
churches in other countries
00:24:44.65\00:24:49.05
that haven't had that
wealth of Ellen White material
00:24:49.05\00:24:52.62
or spiritual or
religious material.
00:24:52.62\00:24:56.09
They don't really
understand what it's like
00:24:56.09\00:24:58.33
to live a Christian lifestyle.
00:24:58.33\00:25:01.53
It's kind of strange, but
the vegetarians in our church
00:25:01.53\00:25:06.07
in other
countries are like really
00:25:06.07\00:25:09.80
kind of super
conservative, and kind of weird,
00:25:09.80\00:25:12.14
and kind of, it's not a
norm, it's not an accepted norm.
00:25:12.14\00:25:16.34
And so that's because there
hasn't been this groundwork
00:25:16.34\00:25:19.71
and these resources
that people have been able
00:25:19.71\00:25:22.92
to get into and
really understand
00:25:22.92\00:25:25.22
because it's not
just information,
00:25:25.22\00:25:27.86
being a Christian
isn't just knowing
00:25:27.86\00:25:29.39
a bunch of information,
00:25:29.39\00:25:30.96
it's living a life
that's Christ-like.
00:25:30.96\00:25:33.66
Right, and this is especially
important in a country like
00:25:33.66\00:25:36.33
Thailand where there's
less than 1% Christian.
00:25:36.33\00:25:38.67
Absolutely. It's vital.
00:25:38.67\00:25:40.40
Yes.
00:25:40.40\00:25:41.54
And so there's so much
distance between where someone
00:25:41.54\00:25:45.04
that doesn't know who Christ
is moving them all the way
00:25:45.04\00:25:48.44
into being a fully understanding
00:25:48.44\00:25:52.11
Christian
Seventh-day Adventist believer.
00:25:52.11\00:25:54.52
That's a long ways.
00:25:54.52\00:25:55.98
And there's very
few bridge materials,
00:25:55.98\00:25:58.75
majority of the Christian
material even is quite details,
00:25:58.75\00:26:02.89
little details about
this, and this, and this.
00:26:02.89\00:26:05.03
Whereas there like, "Who is God?
00:26:05.03\00:26:08.46
Why did He have
to send His Son?"
00:26:08.46\00:26:10.10
Right. "What
does salvation mean?
00:26:10.10\00:26:12.43
What does the word saved mean?"
00:26:12.43\00:26:13.97
They don't have
a reference point.
00:26:13.97\00:26:15.04
Exactly.
00:26:15.04\00:26:16.04
You've mentioned they
don't know the word saved
00:26:16.04\00:26:17.77
and that's because
of their world view,
00:26:17.77\00:26:20.31
they believe in reincarnation.
00:26:20.31\00:26:21.74
So if you don't
do well in this life,
00:26:21.74\00:26:23.51
then you pay for
it in the next life,
00:26:23.51\00:26:25.45
but you will
have another life...
00:26:25.45\00:26:27.28
Karma.
00:26:27.28\00:26:28.32
And many and thousands... Yes.
00:26:28.32\00:26:29.75
Of lives to look forward
or to dread thousands of lives
00:26:29.75\00:26:34.19
and ahead until you
may be in turn of honor.
00:26:34.19\00:26:39.13
And so the idea of being
saved, either you get one life
00:26:39.13\00:26:42.63
and it's either uncomfortable
or it's very comfortable,
00:26:42.63\00:26:47.17
you know, that or you are bound
00:26:47.17\00:26:49.04
to lose your life.
00:26:49.04\00:26:51.91
And thus Jesus
comes in and saves you
00:26:51.91\00:26:54.94
and then you have eternal life.
00:26:54.94\00:26:56.81
So that concept is based
on a Christian worldview.
00:26:56.81\00:27:01.08
And so that's where we really
need to put this extra work
00:27:01.08\00:27:04.65
into to provide them
the introduction to Jesus.
00:27:04.65\00:27:09.92
And teaching
materials, and growth materials,
00:27:09.92\00:27:13.43
and introductory materials even.
00:27:13.43\00:27:15.73
So introductory
materials for nonbelievers
00:27:15.73\00:27:18.30
and then growth
materials for believers.
00:27:18.30\00:27:20.27
Right. Yes. To be encouraged.
00:27:20.27\00:27:22.50
Like for
instance, our high calling
00:27:22.50\00:27:25.14
is going to be the
very first Ellen White
00:27:25.14\00:27:28.18
Daily Devotional
translated into Thai ever.
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And the team is doing that.
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They're almost done. Wow.
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That's exciting. Yeah.
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Isn't it amazing to
think that we can be
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a part of sharing the
Gospel with these people?
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It's such an amazing project
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that we've just
shared with you today.
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And if the Lord is impressing
you to be a part of this,
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you can send your
tax-deductible love gift
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to Jesus for Asia, PO Box 1221,
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Collegedale, Tennessee 37315.
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Call us at (423) 413-7321
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or visit our
website at Jesus4Asia.org.
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May God richly bless you
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until we see you again next time
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on Jesus for Asia Now.
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