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- Hello and welcome
to Jesus for Asia Now.
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I'm Natalie Wood, and my
husband, Jon is joining me
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today. As we share about
a brand new ministry type,
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not just a new
project, a new type of project.
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Hello Love.
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- Hey darling, how are you?
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- I'm doing good. - Good.
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- I'm looking
forward to this show.
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- Yeah.
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- Some major miracle
stories. - Yes, very exciting.
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- Okay, so set us up.
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Tell us what
we're gonna do today.
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- Okay, several months
ago, we had the 10 condos here,
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now, you know the 10 condos.
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- Right, and
probably at least some
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of our viewers know them.
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- Absolutely, yeah.
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'Cause we've had them on
this show a number of times.
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- Right, Ramon
and Shandy. - Yes.
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And they are
missionaries in Indonesia.
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- Right. - They're Indonesian.
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- Right. - And
they came from a very,
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very wealthy background, that
had a lot of wealthy friends
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and God called them into
service because they were
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unsatisfied with the
things of this world.
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And so they really sought
after God, really sought after,
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you know, the
message, the truth, who is God.
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We did a faith
camp in Jakarta in 2011
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and they learned about
service. (Natalie chuckles)
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The missing component.
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And so they moved
out into the country
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and they started a
satellite ministry.
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Now, Indonesia, as you
know, is how many islands?
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- 17,508. - Yeah (indistinct).
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The number changes
depending on the type.
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- The water level,
yeah. (both chuckles)
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- Not all of them
are inhabited, obviously,
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but satellite is the perfect
method to reach 17,000 islands.
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And so they've been
doing that for 10 years.
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The Lord has tested them
amazingly and really done...
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They've done a lot of
changes in their life.
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So we recorded a show
with them a few months ago
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that was going to be
about the health work
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that they're doing,
the healthy lifestyle work
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that they're doing
with their old friends
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and this new project.
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And then what's
happened between that show
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and now is so amazing.
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Some miracles have
happened that we said,
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"Okay, this has
to be its own show."
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- Right, so we took the
part about this new project
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out of the other show.
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And that will only be
focused on the health ministry
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that they're
doing. - [Jon] Correct.
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- And then this one is
about this new project,
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which we keep talking about
as the new type of project.
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- Yes, yes.
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- Now we wanna
talk really briefly
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about another faith project
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that God seems to
be leading toward.
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And part of it's
because Indonesia
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is a land made of islands.
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And so there's a tool that
can get you from one island
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to the next much more quickly,
and that is an airplane.
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- Yeah. - Yeah.
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- So can you share a
little bit about this dream
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or whatever? (Ramon laughs)
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I mean, (indistinct chatters)
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It seems like
God's leading that way.
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I mean, I know it's not funded
yet or anything like that.
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And the health
center isn't either.
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So that's why it's like faith
project after faith project.
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And that's the lifestyle
that God has led you in but--
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- This is nothing
actually new, you know,
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we've had this
television on the satellite
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for the past 10 years
and a half now and then--
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- 10 years, six or seven months.
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- Yeah, 10 years
and seven months.
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And then as soon as we started
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to broadcast in the satellite,
we're getting signal, we're..
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The signal is reaching
all parts of Indonesia.
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Right, the footprint we call it,
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it's just as big as
America, the continent.
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- But the island is 17--
- Yeah, but 17,000 island,
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500 and something--
- 500, 8000, island.
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- And there's just so
many people that are responding
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from places that we
haven't even heard of.
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You know, where is this?
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Where are you calling from?
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- Yeah, what
Island, what-- - What area?
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Oh, okay, and then we'll
look at the map, you know,
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and then they're asking us to,
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"Well, do you have any
teachers or Bible worker
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you can send us or nurse
or can you send us books?"
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You know, some Muslim
ask for books even Bibles.
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And then we send them
Bible, we send them books.
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What do I read?
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What do I do?
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- We-- - They need mentorship.
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- Yeah, there's so
many different needs
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in different parts of island.
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We cannot serve
every single one of them.
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But you know, one of
the good, effective ways
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to reach out to
them is aviation.
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So very early in
this TV ministry,
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we knew we're gonna have
aviation somewhere down the
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line, even though it's
already been 10 years and no,
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I'm a pilot, I am the pilo...
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I became the pilot, but
still without wings, you know,
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but God is going to
provide, I think sometime soon,
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you know, before Jesus
comes, we're getting invitations
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to reach out the
television viewers, there's a...
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For instance, we're
planning to reach out
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to this to two destinations,
one in the slightly West,
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one is in the East part of
where we are, and then once...
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140, a 140 one miles West,
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and then the other
one is 170 miles East.
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That's not that far
really, but with a car,
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this is like 16 hours
and 18 hours to get there.
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It's ridiculous, but with
airplane they you can get there
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in an hour and a
half or two hours.
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And then we can drop
off the health worker
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or a Bible worker, depending
on the needs, you know,
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we can quickly develop,
you know, make frequent visits,
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you know, drop them
off and pick them up
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and then install
different programs.
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They know we care for them,
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and that's how you're
gonna make effective evangelism.
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You know, and this is
really the faith project.
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It's really gonna
cost a lot of money,
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but, you know, we were---
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- Yeah, because, you know,
one time we got in invitation
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in Kalimantan, Borneo and then--
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- [Ramon] Oh yeah.
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- You know, I remember
to reach to that place,
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it took us like how many hours?
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- That was about 150 miles
inland from the Coastal City.
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It took us 20 close
to 24 hours to get there.
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- And then we use-- - We drove.
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- We drove by car. -
And then the tire broke
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or the tire-- (chuckles)
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- When we visit
the, you know, that point
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and we met one a
pastor, old pastor, you know,
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you can see the old pastor,
you know, serving in the--
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- Yeah, he was serving six
or seven churches or something.
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- Yeah, and the pastor came
because, you know, he just like,
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you know, he just want
to meet us, and he's like,
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"Wow, I'm so happy
to see you in person.
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You know, I'm
really blessed to see
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because we
watched your television."
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And I was like, "Wow,
he's so old and he's so tired."
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- (indistinct)
motorcycle-- - (indistinct),
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when I see his motorcycle
and his motorcycle is very old,
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you can name it, it's
very old, like a, wow.
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And he drive like more
than 20 hours just only visit me
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to want to see me
and my husband in person.
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And I asked him, "Can you
explain, you know, your road,
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your way to go here?"
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Yeah, I need to
(speaking in foreign language)
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- (speaking in foreign language)
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It's just (indistinct)
the big river is crossing--
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- I need to
cross in the big river.
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- One town after another,
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village after
village. - And then I go,
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I was like, Wow!
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You know, and then when we
came to that place, you know,
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somebody come to
us and said like,
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"Hey, you know,
before this place is--"
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- Back in the
early 80s - Early 80s,
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this is Adventist village right?
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- This whole village used
to be Seventh Day Adventists.
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(indistinct) How come
they're not having this anymore?
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Well, because
there's a new church coming
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and then just kind of
recruit them one by one.
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And then, that your
church stopped coming here.
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What are you talking about?
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Yeah, back in the 80s,
there is an airplane going here
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like few times every month,
you know, by American pilot.
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So it used to be
funded, you know,
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the aviation program was
funded from this Coastal City
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to that area frequently.
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And then after that
stop, there's no more service.
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You know, people kind of
forgot after a few years,
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and then the generation sort
of have no connections anymore
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with the church.
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- They even
show us the airstrip.
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- And then I was
taken to the area
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where they used to have this
airstrip built by our church.
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It's not even airstrip
anymore, just like soccer field,
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you know, one after
another houses, and I'm like,
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"Oh, they kinda broke my heart."
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You know, I knew that God,
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you have to
re-install this program for us
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to reach out to them again,
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because they know
we're in television
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and there's not
one place like this.
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There's so many different places
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that are asking
us the same thing.
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We remember you, we
know you from long time ago,
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come back to see us, we
give you like acres of land
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for you to land your
airplanes, (indistinct).
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- You know, like we know like
Indonesian is a lot of island,
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like 70, 1700-- - 17,508.
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- 17, 508.(all chuckles)
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- I was like, I said like,
you know, we always, you know,
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like we go to state
and then we can drive,
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to go to the other,
you know, state right?
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- Yeah. - [Natalie] Yeah.
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To how many states this summer?
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- [Ramon & Mandy] 25
states. - In America? (chuckles)
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- In America, but in
Indonesia is impossible
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for us to bring car.
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- Yeah, no, it's island.
- Just no, its impossible,
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its an island. -
[Ramon] Yeah, you know.
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- You just so, you cannot
swim to go to the other island,
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you know, and the God always--
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- Not even ferries or
boats? - Yeah, not everything
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is connected to ferries.
- Yeah, takes a long time.
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- Even got all those
trees whispered to us like,
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"You need to do something,
you need to do something."
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And then we treat our
viewers as our family,
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they are very connect to us.
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They just like, "Hey, can you
give the name for my children,
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for my daughter?
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- [Ramon] Yeah. - They did...
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They just do it,
not just only that,
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"Hey, I need something for
even, you know, my (laughs)
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- We got a recent call
from a television viewer.
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"I got a problem,
so nobody can help me,
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I've spent so much money
to go see different doctors."
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What is the problem?
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"I have a strong
body odor." (all chuckles)
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We sort of smiled.
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Body odor and then,
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Well,
(indistinct) try one solution.
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"What is it?"
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Baking soda.
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Really?
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We can buy that
in a local market
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and like cheap too
like, yeah, go buy it, try it.
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And then the lady tried it
and in like few days after that,
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she came back
on the phone, like,
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"Whoa, wow, that's
such an easy solution."
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- You know, that
is how we-- - Simple.
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- Very simple.
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- That is how we very
close with our viewers.
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You know, they always
give us like stories, you know,
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like they just want to
talk to us and like many, like,
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you know, there's
many times we visit them.
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- Yeah, we see them in person.
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- We sleep in their house.
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They love to see
us because, you know,
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they love to see people in the
television right, and when...
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And they're just like,
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"Wow, they're just
people in television."
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And especially when
we came to their house,
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they are really appreciate that.
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And that just only
that they see something...
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Message, like very firm
message when they see us,
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wake up in the
morning, they just like,
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"Wow, your movement is
very firm. (Ramon chuckles)
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Why, what is (indistinct)?
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I can, you know, you know,
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what is the strong
message that you bring to us?
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What is that? (Ramon chuckles)
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I can see, what did
he say? - And they were,
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"You wake up in the
morning with the same look,
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the way you slept at night."
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It's something like that.
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- And then that is
only that the way I see you
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in the
television, it's same here.
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- Yeah, there is
simple-- - [Mandy] Simple.
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- Simplicity, you know,
that's some message to them.
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- And that some message.
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- Many of them
appreciate, you know.
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- So that's why we really
want to have some aviation
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like not us, if you ask
us as a human, of course,
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this is like, "Lord,
this is a big burden already."
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You know, you give
out the other big burden,
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but God always (indistinct),
you know, you need to do this.
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They need to see you, you
know, you need to do this.
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And so that's why we
just say, you know, like,
00:12:08.52\00:12:13.53
"Okay Lord"
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But not firm like, "Not okay!"
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You know, "Okay,
we're gonna do that."
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So that's why we--
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- Yes, you open the
door (indistinct) go forward.
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- Joshua 1:3 it says,
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"Wherever the soul of
thy foot shall tread upon
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that have
already given unto you."
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- You know. - [Shandy] True.
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- It's just a
matter of you willing
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to make step
there because that God
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has already given
unto us, you know,
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that's his promise. - To that--
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- Even though we
prefer not to go cycling,
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we prefer not to fly anywhere,
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we prefer to be home really
because we're tired, you know.
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But when God says,
"Go, if you wanna go,
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I'm going to provide."
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(Jon chuckles)
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- If you're willing
to go, I'm gonna provide.
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- Yeah, yeah.
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And just a really
quick statistic on
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why airplanes are so
powerful in Indonesia.
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The country is about the
size of the United States,
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geographically distance wise,
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even though the United
States is all connected by land.
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Whereas
Indonesia is all islands,
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but as far as
actual distance of roads,
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Indonesia is
about 5% of the roads
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that we have here in America.
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So you can imagine trying
to get anywhere in America,
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if we only had 5% of
the roads, that we have.
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- Yeah, it wouldn't
work well. (both chuckles)
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- And I've been in Indonesia,
I mean, you talk about,
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"Hey, let's go a 100
kilometers, you know,
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60 miles down the road."
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That could take several
hours, you know, and we...
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Here we think 60 miles--
- [Natalie] Depending on.
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- So that's, you
know, less than an hour,
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but over there, it's
not like that, and so--
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- Well, because it's
not just, is there a road?
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It's what is the
quality of the road
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and where is the road located?
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Like how much traffic
will there be on that road?
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- Exactly.
00:14:01.17\00:14:02.10
- Because there are fewer roads.
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There is a lot more
traffic on some of those roads.
00:14:03.57\00:14:04.97
- Right, and Indonesia
is one of the highly...
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Most highly densely
populated areas on the planet.
00:14:07.41\00:14:11.71
And so you get a lot of
traffic, a lot of people.
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- So we recorded this show and
then we were talking about it
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and praying about it together
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before they went
back to Indonesia.
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- Right, 'cause I was
very unsure about this
00:14:22.42\00:14:24.43
because I know
that airplane programs
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are not really
cheap and not only that--
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- And they're
usually underfunded.
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- And, just the
difficulty of running one,
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the paperwork, you know,
all the challenges, I mean,
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and so it's like, I was
unsure, but here's a guy
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that has a lot of
business experience,
00:14:46.18\00:14:49.68
and he's Indonesian
and there's this need,
00:14:49.68\00:14:53.25
I mean, that
story of the entire town
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that used to be
Adventist, that the runway that
00:14:55.59\00:14:58.66
our church built is being
used for a soccer field and--
00:14:58.66\00:15:01.96
- And housing now
on-- - It's like, okay.
00:15:01.96\00:15:03.10
- It won't be a runway anymore.
00:15:03.10\00:15:05.13
- Yeah, it's like, "Okay,
God, I can't see the way clear
00:15:05.13\00:15:08.60
to get a program going, but I...
00:15:08.60\00:15:11.07
But maybe you do, and
if we just move forward,
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according to the need,
just follow where the need is,
00:15:14.18\00:15:17.71
maybe you'll open the door."
00:15:17.71\00:15:19.75
And so I says,
"Okay, well, go back.
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You know, when you go back
to Indonesia, look for a plane,
00:15:21.98\00:15:24.72
see what God does."
00:15:24.72\00:15:25.95
You know, 'cause
we were thinking,
00:15:25.95\00:15:27.19
should we send one
from America to Indonesia?
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Because you've got to import
tax, you've got shipping costs,
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you've got to disassemble
the airplane in America,
00:15:32.26\00:15:34.73
send it over
there and reassemble it.
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And then you've got
to get it registered.
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And how are you
gonna register it?
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You know what, we just...
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Just a lot of
questions, a lot of unknowns
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and a lot of expense, you know?
00:15:44.71\00:15:46.68
So we're looking
at different airplanes
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for sale here, just
wasn't really working out.
00:15:48.98\00:15:52.35
And so then they went
back home to Indonesia
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and then I went on
a trip to Thailand.
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So--(chuckles)
00:15:58.75\00:16:00.46
- So we have a picture? - Yeah.
00:16:00.46\00:16:02.06
- From your hotel in Thailand.
00:16:02.06\00:16:03.32
- Very exciting
photo. (both chuckles)
00:16:03.32\00:16:05.43
I spent 10 days
right here, (both chuckles)
00:16:05.43\00:16:08.93
a lot of
praying, and a lot of...
00:16:08.93\00:16:11.10
I had my
walking trail, you know,
00:16:11.10\00:16:14.60
12 steps this way
and 12 steps that way.
00:16:14.60\00:16:17.17
It was back and
forth for 10 days straight.
00:16:17.17\00:16:19.31
- Right, it's hard to
get enough exercise that way,
00:16:19.31\00:16:22.48
but you try. (both chuckles)
00:16:22.48\00:16:24.38
- But while I was there,
I got a picture from Ramon.
00:16:24.38\00:16:28.08
He says, "Hey, I
found an airplane."
00:16:28.08\00:16:29.95
And I'm like, "Well, that's
not what I was thinking about."
00:16:31.35\00:16:35.09
'Cause I'm thinking,
you know, big Tundra tires,
00:16:35.09\00:16:37.33
really remote stuff.
00:16:37.33\00:16:38.79
And this is not a
remote type of airplane.
00:16:38.79\00:16:41.43
This isn't like a primitive
airstrip type of airplane.
00:16:41.43\00:16:46.07
And I'm like, "I'm not
sure this is the right thing."
00:16:46.07\00:16:48.84
And he looked into it some more.
00:16:48.84\00:16:51.97
He says, "You know,
it's a really good price."
00:16:51.97\00:16:54.94
It was selling for $62,000,
00:16:54.94\00:16:57.65
and brand new, this
is $120,000, $130,000.
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Only had 150 hours on it.
00:17:03.52\00:17:05.49
- That's really,
really very little.
00:17:05.49\00:17:07.92
- That's very little.
00:17:07.92\00:17:09.19
I mean, you don't
have to rebuild the engine
00:17:09.19\00:17:10.99
until like 2000
hours, so that's...
00:17:10.99\00:17:14.73
And you know, that's, I
mean, that's almost brand new.
00:17:14.73\00:17:17.97
And the guy that bought this
had bought it from the factory,
00:17:17.97\00:17:22.57
shipped it from America
and had the factory people come
00:17:22.57\00:17:25.94
and reassemble it in Indonesia.
00:17:25.94\00:17:27.91
- Wow!
00:17:27.91\00:17:29.04
- And then he
registered it in Indonesia.
00:17:29.04\00:17:31.71
So the total cost of this
airplane originally for that
00:17:31.71\00:17:34.78
guy, for the
seller was $180,000.
00:17:34.78\00:17:37.25
- Wow, so 62,000 was a
really cheap asking price.
00:17:37.25\00:17:40.99
- Yeah, that's a
third. - [Natalie] Wow!
00:17:40.99\00:17:42.86
- And then the miracle happened.
00:17:42.86\00:17:44.29
I was praying about
it, Lord, you know, really,
00:17:44.29\00:17:46.90
I mean like, "Lord, do
you really want this happen?"
00:17:46.90\00:17:50.00
And just praying, you know,
when you've got nothing to do,
00:17:50.00\00:17:53.30
then you can pray,
(chuckles) you got time to pray.
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And, then you guys called me.
00:17:56.40\00:17:59.64
- Right, because we got
a cheque here in the office
00:17:59.64\00:18:03.08
that was designated
for any project anywhere,
00:18:03.08\00:18:06.78
and it was $50,000.
00:18:06.78\00:18:07.72
- Yeah, but it was for pro...
00:18:07.72\00:18:09.28
For a mission
project. - Right, right
00:18:09.28\00:18:10.89
- Yes, and so it was
how much? - It was 50,000.
00:18:10.89\00:18:14.82
- [Jon] 50,000, we get
a lot of those don't we?
00:18:14.82\00:18:16.73
- Nope. (Jon chuckles)
00:18:16.73\00:18:17.99
- So this was a
very unusual experience.
00:18:17.99\00:18:20.56
And very unusual
timing. - Right, right.
00:18:20.56\00:18:24.80
- And so I told Ramon, I says,
00:18:24.80\00:18:28.14
"Okay, why don't you
go and offer him 50,000,
00:18:28.14\00:18:32.67
and if the guy accepts
it, we know God's in this."
00:18:32.67\00:18:36.98
- Right, that would
definitely be a good sign.
00:18:36.98\00:18:40.68
- Yeah, 'cause
he's already selling it
00:18:40.68\00:18:42.12
for a third of
what he put into it.
00:18:42.12\00:18:44.65
And so Ramon went
there and test fluid,
00:18:44.65\00:18:48.46
loved the plane
and offered him 50,000.
00:18:48.46\00:18:51.96
And the guy took it.
00:18:53.09\00:18:54.73
Yeah, he says, "But I
need the money right away."
00:18:54.73\00:18:56.80
Because his business
due to COVID was going down,
00:18:56.80\00:19:00.40
and so he needed
the cash right away.
00:19:00.40\00:19:02.00
And so we sent the
cash and what happened
00:19:02.00\00:19:05.81
to the wire transfer?
- It didn't get there.
00:19:05.81\00:19:10.45
- It went into-- - Yeah.
00:19:10.45\00:19:12.58
One of them had the name
on the account incorrect--
00:19:12.58\00:19:17.59
- By the bank. -
By the bank, yeah.
00:19:18.69\00:19:20.29
Somebody made a typo, and
so then once that was corrected
00:19:20.29\00:19:24.89
and the
correction was sent through,
00:19:24.89\00:19:26.33
then that one actually
went into the bank account,
00:19:26.33\00:19:28.06
but it went like a week later.
00:19:28.06\00:19:29.66
So he was like, the
money was not getting there.
00:19:31.07\00:19:33.50
It was nowhere, they couldn't
figure out why it was stalled.
00:19:33.50\00:19:36.74
The other one was
the name wasn't right,
00:19:36.74\00:19:39.54
and everything but it
did not go to the account.
00:19:39.54\00:19:42.44
And so we finally ended up
sending two more wire transfers
00:19:42.44\00:19:46.72
from a different account,
a totally different way,
00:19:46.72\00:19:49.98
and those ones
got there, but late.
00:19:49.98\00:19:52.25
- Yeah, so it was like that
he made the offer on a Monday.
00:19:52.25\00:19:57.26
We thought that we'd be
able to pay for on a Wednesday,
00:19:58.69\00:20:00.53
the following Wednesday--
00:20:00.53\00:20:03.13
- The money still
wasn't still wasn't there.
00:20:04.27\00:20:05.20
- Still wasn't there, so--
00:20:05.20\00:20:06.37
- So we sent it
again the second time.
00:20:06.37\00:20:07.87
- So we sent it again,
and I remember that Friday,
00:20:07.87\00:20:09.17
just like going after
God, just like, Lord--
00:20:09.17\00:20:12.34
- Because the owner had said,
"I need the money on Friday."
00:20:12.34\00:20:16.48
- Right, that Friday...
00:20:16.48\00:20:18.25
Yeah, that second Friday,
he says, that's the deadline.
00:20:18.25\00:20:21.88
If the money's not here--
00:20:21.88\00:20:23.49
- That's it. - Deal is off.
00:20:23.49\00:20:24.45
- I'm taking the other person.
00:20:24.45\00:20:25.95
- 'Cause somebody else had
offered more money by then.
00:20:25.95\00:20:28.19
And so we were...
00:20:28.19\00:20:29.42
I was just like really
begging God, I was like,
00:20:29.42\00:20:31.29
Lord, it's my
fault, I did it wrong.
00:20:31.29\00:20:33.03
And we should have
done-- - If it's your will,
00:20:33.03\00:20:34.30
or if it's, you know--
00:20:34.30\00:20:35.56
- Oh Lord if just
please don't let us lose it,
00:20:35.56\00:20:37.03
'cause we know
Satan's angry about this.
00:20:37.03\00:20:40.27
You know, and he likes to
control all the money matters.
00:20:40.27\00:20:43.20
And so he, you know,
he's fighting this thing hard.
00:20:43.20\00:20:46.64
And so we just
like prayed really hard,
00:20:46.64\00:20:48.71
and Ramon's friend who is
also friend with the seller,
00:20:48.71\00:20:52.85
came to, you know,
stood up for Ramon and say,
00:20:55.02\00:20:57.59
"Hey, please, don't let this--
- Just wait a little longer.
00:20:57.59\00:21:00.19
- Yeah, just
wait a little longer.
00:21:00.19\00:21:02.19
And praise God, the
money came in that Sunday.
00:21:02.19\00:21:04.39
- Right, so Monday he
was able to pay the owner?
00:21:04.39\00:21:07.50
- Yes.
00:21:07.50\00:21:08.63
- And become the
owner of the airplane.
00:21:08.63\00:21:11.63
- Right (Jon laughs)
00:21:11.63\00:21:14.40
- Yeah, it was
really frustrating,
00:21:14.40\00:21:17.11
like where did the money go?
00:21:17.11\00:21:18.61
Like, that's a lot of
money to have just disappeared.
00:21:18.61\00:21:22.44
- Thank God that
we've been able to find it.
00:21:22.44\00:21:24.45
So we haven't lost anything.
00:21:24.45\00:21:26.55
The other money's
part of it's come back,
00:21:26.55\00:21:28.58
and the other one's
over there getting used.
00:21:28.58\00:21:30.99
But it's safe, so it's just--
00:21:30.99\00:21:33.86
- It was one of those
things where I was like,
00:21:33.86\00:21:35.36
"Okay Lord, this is your money.
00:21:35.36\00:21:37.59
Anybody that's touching
it is messing with you."
00:21:37.59\00:21:40.00
(Jon laughs) So
it's like, you know,
00:21:40.00\00:21:42.26
that's the good
thing that really...
00:21:42.26\00:21:43.57
About realizing
that God owns everything
00:21:43.57\00:21:46.43
because we can
trust him with his money,
00:21:46.43\00:21:48.20
even if we don't
know where it is.
00:21:48.20\00:21:49.74
And it kind of freaks us out,
00:21:49.74\00:21:51.61
but we know that
nothing can happen to it.
00:21:51.61\00:21:54.34
That's outside of his full plan.
00:21:54.34\00:21:57.25
- Yes, and the other
beautiful thing is that,
00:21:57.25\00:21:59.51
through this, we've...
00:21:59.51\00:22:00.82
I've really come
to love our bank.
00:22:00.82\00:22:02.98
The people in there, they
just love what we're doing.
00:22:02.98\00:22:05.45
They just really try to
bend over backwards to help.
00:22:05.45\00:22:08.69
- Yeah, they pray.
00:22:08.69\00:22:09.62
They pray for our projects.
00:22:09.62\00:22:11.29
They're excited when
something good is happening.
00:22:11.29\00:22:14.83
I mean, it's really--
- It's very encouraging.
00:22:14.83\00:22:16.97
And every time we go in there,
00:22:16.97\00:22:18.13
we come out feeling, you know--
00:22:18.13\00:22:20.54
- [Natalie] Encouraged. - Yeah.
00:22:20.54\00:22:22.10
And that's a
blessing, in this world.
00:22:22.10\00:22:24.47
- So we have a few more
pictures that the airplane.
00:22:26.37\00:22:28.54
- Yeah, and here
they're washing it.
00:22:28.54\00:22:30.41
These are the first pictures
that I saw, these three.
00:22:30.41\00:22:32.55
It's the kind of
a smaller airplane.
00:22:32.55\00:22:34.58
This is a video of him flying.
00:22:34.58\00:22:36.48
And then here's Ramon
getting time, now he's...
00:22:36.48\00:22:38.82
Ramon had about a 100
hours of flight time, he....
00:22:38.82\00:22:41.12
So he already was a
pilot, had his pilot's license.
00:22:41.12\00:22:43.99
So he's getting checked
out that he needs another 20
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or so hours in this
plane before he can, you know,
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be let loose--
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- Be certified to
fly it by himself.
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- Right, now those of
you that are into airplanes,
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you'll notice that
it has a glass cockpit.
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That's a big deal.
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Instead of all the
little analog instruments,
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it's got like the
big digital instruments.
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So it's very modern, and
so this is really important
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because when I was growing
up, when I was two months old,
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my parents went to New Guinea
and I went there with them,
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- Good thing? (Jon chuckles)
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- And my dad has always
been an airplane fanatic,
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loved airplanes.
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If he could have figured
out how to have Sabbath off,
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he would have
been an airline pilot.
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But he was a doctor instead.
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And while he was a missionary
in New Guinea, he got to fly.
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And because the
main pilot was injured,
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and so they asked my
dad to do some flying.
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And there was a time when he
was flying and he could not see
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any runways 'cause he
was up above the clouds
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and he couldn't see
anything down below.
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And this is obviously
before they had instruments,
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they couldn't see the
weather patterns coming in.
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They couldn't
see how to get around
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and where the
runways, they couldn't land.
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- And New Guinea,
there are mountains.
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- Very tall mountains.
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And so it's very dangerous.
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And so having this
kind of instrumentation,
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I think is really
important for them.
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- You should finish that story.
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- Oh, so-- - He landed safely.
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- Yeah, my mom
didn't know where he was.
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He prayed really hard and
he saw a hole in the clouds
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and he just went right
down through those clouds.
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The ground control was yelling
at him, give us an update,
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and he's like, he just
took his headphones off.
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'Cause he, you know, he
just had to focus on landing.
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- He didn't have any update,
he didn't know where he was.
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- Right, and so
he got in, he landed,
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and then of course
he couldn't take off
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because
everything just socked in.
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So it was a
miracle that he landed
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and then he was locked
down there for three days.
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Of course my mom didn't
know, couldn't get word from him
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if he was okay or not.
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And so she's up
there in the Highlands,
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in her mission
house with two kids,
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not knowing where her
husband was, for three days.
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And so-- - A lot of praying.
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(both chuckles)
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So, now there's
something special about
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different kinds of gas
with airplanes as well.
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And this one, yeah,
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I think you need to
explain that as well.
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- Okay, so most
airplanes take aviation fuel,
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which is better fuel,
but it's very expensive.
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And so he was specifically
looking for an airplane
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that would take
normal car fuel, auto fuel.
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It's about a
third, the price. - Wow.
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- And so it gets good gas
mileage and it only takes,
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you know, normal car
gasoline, and so it's very--
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- Which is very important?
- Yes, (both chuckles) very,
00:25:30.89\00:25:34.20
inexpensive (indistinct)
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- Inexpensive in
smaller Airports.
00:25:35.40\00:25:36.33
- Yeah, yeah, to find the gas,
00:25:36.33\00:25:37.90
but also just the
cost of operation.
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That's one of the
least expensive airplanes
00:25:40.30\00:25:42.94
that you could find to
operate on a per hour basis.
00:25:42.94\00:25:47.08
- Wow. - So, very exciting.
00:25:47.08\00:25:48.38
- Which is a God
thing too? - Absolutely.
00:25:48.38\00:25:50.35
God's, I mean,
just God's been leading
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so clearly in
each step of the way,
00:25:52.41\00:25:55.35
and we know that
God's gonna continue to lead
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because he has a
plan and there's going
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to be people in
heaven because of this.
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New places opened, as
Ramon was saying, you know,
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taking Bible workers
and putting them in places
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where there's no evidence
present and in Indonesia, okay,
00:26:09.10\00:26:13.10
just to get an idea
of the unreached people,
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groups in Indonesia,
there's like 1500 languages
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in which there's no
(indistinct) work whatsoever.
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- Wow. - 1500 languages.
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The statistic
I've been told is that
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if we continue
entering into new languages
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at the rate that we're
currently entering into,
00:26:33.09\00:26:36.02
it'll take 600 years
before Jesus can come.
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And so--
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- Every nation,
kindred tongue, and people.
00:26:42.66\00:26:44.57
- Exactly, and so we've, I
mean, this has been our prayer
00:26:44.57\00:26:47.97
this whole last year is like,
00:26:47.97\00:26:49.54
"Lord, you gotta take over
because we gotta go faster."
00:26:49.54\00:26:54.54
We've got to take
this God, we gotta...
00:26:55.68\00:26:57.21
God's got to find new
ways to open up new territory.
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And--
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- And he's got a light that fire
00:27:02.58\00:27:04.22
that burns fast and furious
across the country sides.
00:27:04.22\00:27:07.99
- Right, right,
we're also praying for
00:27:07.99\00:27:10.46
a ultra light airplane,
(chuckles) that will help
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with this project as well.
00:27:14.73\00:27:16.16
We have one in Thailand,
00:27:16.16\00:27:17.80
but we're trying to get it
shipped down to Indonesia to--
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- Which just needs
a lot of prayer too.
00:27:20.77\00:27:22.17
- Yes, (Natalie chuckles)
00:27:22.17\00:27:23.41
because Satan has
been fighting that hard.
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He just doesn't want to
lose any of his territory.
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But God's in charge.
00:27:29.81\00:27:31.48
Yes, and God's gonna--
00:27:31.48\00:27:34.15
- And God will do
a lot more miracles.
00:27:34.15\00:27:36.48
- And Matthew
24:14, will be fulfilled.
00:27:36.48\00:27:40.22
- Right, that's true. - Yeah.
00:27:40.22\00:27:42.89
- Well, I would
like to invite you,
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if you would like to be a
part of this miracle story,
00:27:44.39\00:27:47.00
you can contact us at
Jesus for Asia, P.O.Box 1221,
00:27:47.00\00:27:51.13
Collegedale, Tennessee, 37315.
00:27:51.13\00:27:55.24
Call us at (423) 413-7321.
00:27:55.24\00:27:59.47
Or visit our
website at jesus4asia.org.
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May God richly bless you
until we see you next time
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on Jesus for Asia Now.
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