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- Hello and welcome
to Jesus for Asia Now.
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Today, I am your host, John Wood
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and today I have a
special guest, Leroy Sharon
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all the way from the
mountains of Thailand.
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Leroy, when are you
going back to Thailand?
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- Tomorrow, morning (laughing)
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- Early in the morning?
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- Quite early, 6:00
o'clock in the morning.
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- And when did you arrive,
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when did you
come here to America?
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- Well, I
arrived here in Tennessee
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on Friday about
four or five o'clock.
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- And this is Sunday.
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- Yes
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- So you're here in
America for two days.
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- That's correct.
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- That's a
little unusual isn't it?
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- Yes
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- So, what's
your special occasion.
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- Well, you see,
the last of our sons
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was married today - Wow
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- And so, - You had to be there.
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- I wanted to
be there (laughing)
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- So how many
sons do you have have?
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- I have four boys.
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Benjamin, Andrew,
Jason, and Travis.
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- Wow, and so where did
Travis meet this young lady?
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- Travis met Becky
in the mission field
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at our place.
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- Ah, so Becky's been
living with you guys for?
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- She came about
three and a half years ago
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and was helping us
in our mission work.
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- And so you guys
know her pretty well.
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- Quite well yes.
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(laughter)
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- That's nice, that's awesome.
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So, you have four
boys, do you have any girls?
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- Well, since we
have come to Thailand
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we have
acquired some girls, yes.
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- Mm-hmm (affirmative) how
does that work, acquiring...
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- Well, you see it was
very soon after we got here.
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I had to make a
quick trip to America
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to set our house in
order so that we could be
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permanently in Thailand
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and then there
was a little baby girl
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14 months old that was
handed to my wife one day
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- Wow
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- And so I first
heard about this little girl
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when my wife called me
and said I really, really
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want this little
girl, can I have her?
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- Wow, did the parents die?
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- Well, this little girls
father was a soldier in the Army
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and the mother had left the
little girl alone for some time
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and so he could
not take care of her
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and so he wanted to
bring her and give her to us.
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- Wow, amazing.
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So how many
times did that happen?
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- Well, that particular
situation only happened once.
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(laughter)
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We've had six children that
we have accepted into our home
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as our children.
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- Wow
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- And each of
those have been girls
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and the oldest
one now is married
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and has two children of her own
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and the youngest
one is seven years old
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and we acquired her
when she was six days old
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so we are her only
parents that she knows.
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- Wow, so when you accept
a little child into your home
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this is all legal of course
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but you're
looking at how many years
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dedicated to raising that child?
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- Well, I am looking at 20
years to raise that child up
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to where she can take
care of herself in this world.
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- But then that's 20
years out of your life.
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- Yes (laughing)
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- 20 years where you're
stuck in a foreign country.
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- Well, that
depends on your perspective.
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- Okay
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- Stuck in a foreign country
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or you get to enjoy
being in a foreign country
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doing God's work.
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- Really?
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- Yes, taking care of children
that do not have parents
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that can take care of them.
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- So, you find this enjoyable?
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- Yes - Really?
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So, when you went
over there the first time
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to Thailand, it
was for how long?
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What was the plan?
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- Okay, the basic
story goes like this:
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My son went over
for a three month trip
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to help you set up
radio stations in India
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and he stopped
off here in Thailand
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and saw the plight that the
Karen people were going through
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where they are persecuted
and killed in their own country
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so they come
across into Thailand
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and they have to
be in refugee camps
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or run the risk of
the law taking them
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and discipling them for
not being in refugee camps.
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So, he saw what was going
on and he called us up and said
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mom and dad, I cannot come home.
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- Really?
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- I cannot come home to
live in luxury when I understand
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that this is happening on
the other side of the world.
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- Wow
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- And so he committed to staying
here to help these people.
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So, that was okay for me
because we had raised our boys
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to be young men, to
make their own decisions
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and even though he was
only about 18 at this time
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he made his decision and
after two years he came back
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and recruited two of
his younger brothers.
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- (laughing) but
not the youngest one.
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- Not the youngest one.
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So, those two boys
came and found places here
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in the mission field where
they were able to do Gods work.
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- Wow
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- And then one year after that
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Lisa, myself, and Travis came
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for a three and a
half month mission drum.
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We began to see what
was really taking place
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with our own eyes
and in a short time,
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Travis told us I
don't want to go back home.
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- Wow
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- And that was okay
because he was old enough
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to make his decisions so but
then my wife began to tell me
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that she did not
want to go back home
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so that kinda hit close
to home for me (laughing)
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so I talked to her about it
that if we could find a project
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that we could do
here in Thailand for God
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then I would be game.
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I would go back to the United
States, put our house in order
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and we could go as
full time missionaries.
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- Wow
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- So, that is
exactly what happened.
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While I was gone in America,
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this little baby
was handed to my wife
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(laughter)
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so I heard over the phone
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please, may I
have this little girl.
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- Wow, and the first
thought was 20 years.
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- Well, yes, I
understood 20 years
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- Okay
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- But my first thought was
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well, how can I
make that decision?
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I'm in America, you
are holding the baby.
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You have to make the decision.
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- Wow
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- So, I asked for
her to make the decision
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and we have a little baby girl.
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- Wow, so you were in
America when your family
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received this daughter and
what was your first thought,
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what was it like when
you got back to Thailand
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and held, how old was the child?
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- This little girl,
we have named her Hannah,
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and Hannah was 14 months old
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at that time
she was given to us.
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- You mentioned
that being in Thailand
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is an enjoyable experience.
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What are the things
that you enjoy about being,
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is it being in Thailand or
is it being in Gods service
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full time and how
does that interact?
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- Well, it's definitely
being in Gods service.
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Being free to do Gods work
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as He directs me
to do personally.
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- So then, we've grown up in
a country with lots of light,
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lots of resources, what
kind of resources are available
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for the villager living in
your village to learn about God?
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- There's not a
lot of resources.
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- Okay
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- Many of the people cannot read
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so we can give them a Bible
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and they
actually cannot read it.
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So, the best resource
is the living Christian
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that can go amongst the
people and live the life
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that Jesus would
have them to see.
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That's the best resource.
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- So they're oral
learners and visual learners.
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They see what you do
and they hear what you say.
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- Yes, that's
much how they learn.
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They are a people
that relationships
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mean a lot to these people.
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You can talk to them
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but they will not
really absorb very much
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but when you become their friend
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and you can really talk to them,
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you can really show
them what Christ is like.
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- So there's still a
place for the human, physical,
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warm body missionary in
the mission field of today?
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- There is definitely a place.
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- Okay, because I've
been told, I've heard
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that the gospel is
covering the world,
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95% of the people in the
world have access to the gospel
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and Jesus is
almost ready to come
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because there's so much progress
of the gospel commission.
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- It is true that the gospel
is going around and around
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and around the world but I think
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it's missing most of the people.
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- Wow, are there
other areas that you know of
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that have no
witness for the gospel?
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I mean, true, true gospel.
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- Well, for the true gospel, yes
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there's many, many areas.
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Now, what do we mean by that?
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There are many different
churches that are being
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represented in
these mountain villages.
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But they're not being converted.
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The people are not
leaving off the sins
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and becoming
close to Jesus Christ.
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- Okay, so they might
be adding that belief in.
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- Yeah, they will call
themselves of this religion
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or that religion but they
are still wearing the bands,
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the devil string bands
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- That's represents -
That represents that they
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are afraid of the spirits okay.
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- Okay
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- So, they need to
wear these to protect them.
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- Wow
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- So, we see this all the time
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where they're
calling themselves Christians
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they are still drinking alcohol,
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they are taking drugs,
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they are doing all the
things that sinful people do.
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- So, they're not
finding victory in their lives.
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- That's correct.
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So, is there a place for
the true Christian witness?
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Most definitely, yes.
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- So, there's a place for more
besides you and your family?
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- Oh, yes.
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- Okay, all right.
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So you've been there for
how long now in Thailand?
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- We've been in
Thailand for over 10 years.
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- 10 years, do you
think that you're in a place
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where you could
maybe mentor people
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that wanted to come and
learn how to do ministry in...
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- Yes, we are in a
place now where we could.
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In fact, I am wanting to
go out and do evangelism.
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Let me tell you just
a little bit about it.
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- Okay
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- About a year and a
half ago and further back
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I was going into a refugee camp
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and I was teaching English
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and I was teaching English
through using Bible story books
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and the students and the
school was really enjoying it.
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In fact, I had
Buddhist young people come to me
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and say they wanted to
learn more about the Bible,
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about God and so
wonderful things were happening
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in this school but
there was some influences that
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brought about the situation
where I was not able to go
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into that refugee camp anymore
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so at that time,
I began thinking,
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this is working very
well in this refugee camp,
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it will also
work in the villages
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teaching through
Bible story books
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and in a very simple manner
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and so I began to think and
to plan for doing evangelism
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and a year and a
half of preparation now
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I feel that we are
getting to the place
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where we could have Tai
speaking, Karen speaking,
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and also English
speaking people come
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that we could
integrate into evangelism
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into the mountain villages.
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The focus is people
who have a walk with God,
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a walk with God such
as Enoch, such as Moses,
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such as Daniel...
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- So, that's your goal. - Yes
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- Okay
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- I would like to share
with you and our audience
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something that God
brought to my attention
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when I began to teach English
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so I would like
to read this to you.
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I think you will recognize
many of the things in this.
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- Okay
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- It's titled By Beholding
We Become Changed okay.
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If you want to teach English,
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you need to surround your
students with English right?
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- Okay
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- They need to study
English, listen to English,
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talk English, walk
English, live English,
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sleep English and eat English.
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They will learn English right?
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- Right
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- In my home, I have a
very clear example of that.
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My little girl was given to me.
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She's a Karen girl.
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She does not speak Karen.
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She speaks English and
I read to her from these
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Bible story books, some of
them have very difficult words
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and she will understand
most or all of those words.
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She has learned English.
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But now, let me
share something with you.
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If the English is pure,
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they will learn pure English.
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Now this is the
whole meat of this.
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If I bring into my home movies,
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music that is not
of a Godly character,
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what is my little
girl going to learn?
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- She's gonna learn that.
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- What if I speak
language that's not fit
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to be heard in Gods temple?
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- Right
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- What is my little
girl going to learn?
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- She's going to learn that.
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- They will learn pure English
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if you speak pure English okay?
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Now, lets put this very
same thing into Christianity.
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If you want to
teach Christianity,
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you need to surround yourself
with Christianity right?
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You need to have regular
worships and Bible studies.
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You need to provide
Christian music, books,
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movies and recreation.
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Your conversation
needs to be pure, holy,
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uplifting, honest, transparent,
basically Christian.
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- Yeah
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- You need to take your students
only where God approves.
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You need to live
a Christian life.
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You need to sleep a
righteous man sleep.
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What is that?
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Honesty, when you are honest,
you can go to bed at night
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at peace with
God, at peace with man.
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You need to eat
as a Christian eats.
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How is that?
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Anything you desire to eat?
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No (laughing) but eat
according to the Biblical diet.
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- Right
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- They will become like Christ
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by your words and your life
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or they will choose to separate
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from the Christian environment.
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If you are a Christian
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and you do Christian things
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all around you is
Christian influence.
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People who don't want
Christianity will walk away,
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they will separate.
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I have seen this
happen over and over again.
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If the Christianity is pure
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they will learn
pure Christianity.
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- Right
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- So, in a nutshell,
this is the theme or focus
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of the evangelism
that I want to do.
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Now how can we achieve that?
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It is only by
being connected with God.
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- Okay
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- Yes, it is only by
having the Holy Spirit
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come into our
hearts and to convert us.
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- Yeah
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- Yes, that's the only way.
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- (laughing) So basically,
your approach to evangelism
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is to find ways to live a
Christian life in front of
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as many people as possible.
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- It's necessary, yes.
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So in very simple, we're
going to go live with the people
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- Okay - In their homes
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- Okay
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- We're going to
ask the head man,
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the leader of the village
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who are the poorest of
the poor in your village?
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Who are the needy?
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Who are the disabled?
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We want to go and
minister to these people
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and so when he tells us and
they agree that they want us
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to come, we will go
live with these people
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and in respectful ways,
we will live as Christians
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in their home and as we
become friends with them,
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and they give us opportunity,
we will open the Bible
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and share in a
very simple manner.
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- That's
awesome, that's amazing.
00:21:38.59\00:21:41.06
- Yeah so in a nutshell,
that's what we're doing.
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- Yeah (laughing)
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- And it will grow from there.
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- Right, so how can
people get in touch with you
00:21:46.60\00:21:48.90
if they are interested or
know somebody that might be
00:21:48.90\00:21:51.21
interested in
coming and being a part
00:21:51.21\00:21:55.04
and doing this kind of thing?
00:21:55.04\00:21:56.58
- Yes, they can contact
us through Jesus for Asia.
00:21:56.58\00:21:59.41
- Okay, we actually have a
volunteer form on our website.
00:21:59.41\00:22:02.65
People can fill that out
and we can forward that to you
00:22:02.65\00:22:05.99
and then you can connect
with them and get involved.
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That's awesome.
00:22:10.56\00:22:11.59
What other needs do you have?
00:22:11.59\00:22:13.13
Do you need a
projector, that kind of thing?
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Are you gonna use a projector?
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- I don't think that
we will use a projector.
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What this is all
built around is Christians
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living as Christians.
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Now, I'm looking for
Bible workers that can stand up
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and give evangelistic series
when the time comes for that
00:22:37.02\00:22:41.59
but to begin with,
a simple Godly person
00:22:42.72\00:22:47.56
that can live in a
home and share Jesus Christ
00:22:48.73\00:22:51.17
on simple terms with
people is who we're looking for.
00:22:51.17\00:22:56.14
- So it sounds like the time
of the missionary is not over.
00:22:57.81\00:23:00.84
That there's a lot of
opportunity for missionaries.
00:23:00.84\00:23:03.58
- Oh, they're everywhere.
00:23:03.58\00:23:05.58
I'm lacking people.
00:23:05.58\00:23:07.62
I have one worker whereas I
want five to begin this program
00:23:07.62\00:23:12.69
and so I am
searching for people right now.
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- Wow, so what are the
things that really excite you.
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What really gets you going?
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What keeps you
enthusiastic about this work?
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- I just spent a
week teaching English
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using Christ our
Savior in my own home
00:23:31.51\00:23:34.18
to a Sunday keeping lady
00:23:35.64\00:23:38.25
that agreed to be my translator
00:23:41.65\00:23:44.55
and just before I
came here I was told by
00:23:47.56\00:23:50.03
Jotipho my worker
that she is asking
00:23:50.03\00:23:53.46
do I need to be
re baptized to become
00:23:54.66\00:23:56.67
a Seventh Day Adventist?
00:23:56.67\00:23:57.97
- Wow
00:23:57.97\00:23:59.33
- Basically how
it comes about is
00:23:59.33\00:24:01.87
I cannot speak to my workers
00:24:01.87\00:24:03.97
because they don't speak English
00:24:03.97\00:24:05.84
and so I need a translator
so I found this translator
00:24:07.24\00:24:10.51
and explaining
the Christ our Savior
00:24:10.51\00:24:14.42
what Christ did for us.
00:24:14.42\00:24:16.89
I have to explain it right
00:24:16.89\00:24:18.79
and the words,
the meaning of them.
00:24:18.79\00:24:20.76
- Right
00:24:20.76\00:24:21.66
- And you can just see
on this young lady's face
00:24:22.99\00:24:25.03
her understanding
is really amazing.
00:24:25.03\00:24:28.83
But now she's my
translator, she's on vacation
00:24:30.47\00:24:34.47
until I get back. - Okay
00:24:34.47\00:24:36.04
- But now is the
really hard work.
00:24:37.14\00:24:39.27
I have one student, one student,
00:24:39.27\00:24:42.61
really hard to
teach one student.
00:24:42.61\00:24:45.08
I need five students
and teach them all the same
00:24:46.45\00:24:51.52
all at the same time
instead of me having to teach it
00:24:52.85\00:24:54.86
over and over and over.
00:24:54.86\00:24:56.89
- But it's exciting.
00:24:56.89\00:24:57.96
- But it's exciting because
00:24:58.76\00:24:59.96
- When you see...
00:24:59.96\00:25:02.03
- I asked four,
okay I'll go through,
00:25:02.03\00:25:05.43
I asked a Buddhist lady,
she spoke really good English,
00:25:05.43\00:25:09.04
she agreed, I hired
her and one week later
00:25:10.14\00:25:14.91
she emails me and says
I don't want to back out
00:25:14.91\00:25:19.98
but I have to back
out because my family
00:25:21.85\00:25:24.82
doesn't want me to come
and she indicated two things
00:25:24.82\00:25:29.89
well, my wife
wasn't there right okay,
00:25:31.33\00:25:33.29
she alluded to that
but didn't actually say it
00:25:34.36\00:25:36.73
but she said basically
the other thing would be that
00:25:40.47\00:25:44.21
they're afraid she'll be
converted to Christianity.
00:25:44.21\00:25:47.08
They know there's
power in the gospel okay?
00:25:48.14\00:25:51.61
- Yeah
00:25:51.61\00:25:52.98
- I wasn't bashful, I told
her the bar is way up here.
00:25:52.98\00:25:56.38
You're gonna have
to be a vegetarian.
00:25:57.49\00:25:59.32
You're gonna be keeping
Sabbath when you come help me
00:26:00.82\00:26:03.36
because you're
my mouthpiece right?
00:26:03.36\00:26:05.66
And so anyway, I
held the bar way up
00:26:06.73\00:26:08.93
and she wanted to do
it but she was held back
00:26:08.93\00:26:12.23
- By her family - Yeah
00:26:12.23\00:26:13.50
- Wow - And others also
00:26:13.50\00:26:16.30
but this lady accepted
00:26:16.30\00:26:21.28
and I know that God brought her.
00:26:22.54\00:26:23.85
- Praise the Lord.
00:26:23.85\00:26:25.18
- I know she's gonna be a
Seventh Day Adventist shortly.
00:26:25.18\00:26:28.25
- Yeah, okay,
well thank you so much
00:26:28.25\00:26:29.28
for joining me on the show.
00:26:30.75\00:26:31.65
It's the first
time you've been here.
00:26:32.75\00:26:34.12
I know your wife has been
on here, Lisa, several times.
00:26:34.12\00:26:36.66
It's really good
to have you on here
00:26:36.66\00:26:38.09
and to hear some
honest perspective
00:26:38.09\00:26:40.16
of what its really
like on the mission field
00:26:40.16\00:26:42.43
as far as, I know
I've heard people say,
00:26:42.43\00:26:46.33
actually we took
one family to India,
00:26:46.33\00:26:48.50
we were there for a
week and a half and she says
00:26:48.50\00:26:50.94
where's all the missionaries,
00:26:50.94\00:26:52.07
I thought there was
lots of missionaries
00:26:52.07\00:26:53.17
in the mission field
and they're not really
00:26:53.17\00:26:57.41
very many out there.
00:26:57.41\00:26:58.55
- There's not, no.
00:26:59.81\00:27:00.78
Well, thank you.
00:27:01.68\00:27:03.25
- And thank you so
much for joining us
00:27:05.12\00:27:07.06
on this episode of
Jesus for Asia now.
00:27:07.06\00:27:09.26
You can see that
there's huge opportunities
00:27:09.26\00:27:11.63
for Gods work, for missionaries,
00:27:11.63\00:27:14.66
and there's a famous
preacher recently that said
00:27:16.20\00:27:18.70
you can go, send, or disobey
00:27:18.70\00:27:21.47
and God's commission
is for every believer
00:27:21.47\00:27:24.31
and we can either go, or we
can send someone else to go,
00:27:25.71\00:27:28.88
the hardest part for us is to go
00:27:30.55\00:27:31.61
but that's really
where the greatest joy is
00:27:31.61\00:27:34.35
and the greatest rewards are.
00:27:34.35\00:27:35.72
Remember, this
life is very short.
00:27:35.72\00:27:37.85
If you'd like to get in
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00:27:37.85\00:27:40.02
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00:27:40.02\00:27:42.56
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00:27:42.56\00:27:43.73
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00:27:45.06\00:27:49.30
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00:27:49.30\00:27:54.37
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00:27:55.77\00:27:56.97
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May God richly bless
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