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- Hello, and welcome
to "Jesus for Asia Now".
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I'm Natalie Wood, and
I am not in the studio.
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I am in Sukhothai, Thailand.
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Now, why am I here?
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It's because we brought a
bunch of missionaries together
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for back to the altar training.
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Back to the altar
training is an initiative
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from the general
conference in association
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with In Discipleship Ministries
and Pastor Don MacLafferty.
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And basically,
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it's teaching us
how to be disciples
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and how to disciple others
to learn and grow in Jesus.
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It's been a very
blessed time here
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and I'd like to
introduce you to some of the
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"Jesus for Asia" missionaries
that have joined us here.
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Our first ones here
are, what are your names?
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- Harvey and Brenda Steck.
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- Okay.
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And where do you live?
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- We live in
Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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- Okay, in Thailand.
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Okay.
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And what do you do here?
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- I'm heading up the
Love for Asia office,
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the foundation that "Jesus
for Asia" has in Thailand.
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- Okay.
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And what's involved in that?
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Is that just like one office or?
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- We have the main
office where we have a studio
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and a translation team.
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We're producing
videos that are put up
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on YouTube and Facebook.
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- [Natalie] Okay.
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- We also have a
translation team working on
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Ellen White Books
and other materials
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to get into the
Thai and Hmong languages.
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And we also have
another studio in Mesat
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and we have a team
working there as well,
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producing videos
in Karen and Burmese.
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- Okay.
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All right.
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And Brenda, what do you do?
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- So I make small
booklets to hand out
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to the Buddhists so they
know that God helps them,
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He can answer their prayers
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and so they know
that He loves them.
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And so, so books to share.
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- Sounds awesome.
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And do you have
a brief testimony
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for us that you can share?
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- It's a great
blessing to work with our staff
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and they love to do their work
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and it's a blessing to be able
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to see materials
produced in the local languages.
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And I also find a
great blessing in studying
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the Bible with people.
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There was a lady
that we met recently.
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We were introduced
by another Adventist
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who was visiting Thailand.
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She introduced us to this lady.
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The lady says, "I
wanna read the Bible.
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I wanna start reading
in Genesis one and two."
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And so we went and
visited her a couple Sundays ago
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and she was just amazed
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what she could
learn just from Genesis 1.
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And she can't wait to study
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with us again when we get back.
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So we're really
thrilled with that.
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So it's a great blessing not
only to work with Adventists,
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but also to work with people
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that have never
heard the gospel.
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- Awesome. - Praise God.
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- All right.
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Well, thank you.
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- Thank you.
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- All right.
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And let's meet
our next family here.
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What are your names?
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- We're the Leffler family.
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My name's Matthew
and my wife Rachel
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and our children,
Emily, Alyssa, and Luke.
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- Okay.
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And where do you live?
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- We live in Chiang
Mai, Thailand right now.
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- Okay.
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And what are you doing here?
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- Right now, we are
doing Thai language learning.
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- Okay.
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- And our goal is to
move to central Thailand
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to church plant
among the Thai Buddhists.
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- Okay.
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And do you have a
testimony from your time here?
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- Yes.
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When we were first considering
coming to the mission field,
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one of the things that
we were wrestling over was,
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is this the right time
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to bring our kids
to the mission field?
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Because I know mission work
can sometimes impact families
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both positively and negatively.
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So since making
the decision to come
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and bringing them here,
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we've been really thankful
to have made that decision
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because we can see now
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that they're our greatest
asset here in the mission field.
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We've been able to make all
sorts of friends and contacts.
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Just going to the store,
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we'll have people
coming up to us and saying,
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"Can I meet your kids?"
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And asking to talk
to them, touch them.
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Thais love kids.
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And we met a lady
that way who we've
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developed a
relationship, a friendship with.
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And it ended up working
out that she came to our house
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to teach me how
to make pad Thai.
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And she brought a friend of hers
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who is actually a Buddhist nun.
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And I was able to
talk with this lady
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for a while about her
experience being a nun.
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That was a really interesting
opportunity to meet her.
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And we're just, it's a
developing relationship.
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We're still
spending time with her.
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Anyway,
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I just wanna encourage anyone
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who is not sure about bringing
kids to the mission field
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that they're
probably your biggest asset.
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- Yeah.
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We've seen that
over and over again.
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All right, well,
thank you for sharing.
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All right.
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Now let's meet the next group.
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What are your names?
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- I'm Kenton Rogers
and this is my family,
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Rachel and Jeremiah and Marta.
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And our oldest
daughter is still in Cambodia,
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so we're from Cambodia.
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- Okay.
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And what are you
doing in Cambodia?
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- We are working on
starting a publishing house.
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- Okay.
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- And actually getting,
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we have this last
year gotten to the place
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where we are starting to print.
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- Okay.
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So is there more to the
publishing work than just
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printing? - Yes.
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So translation
is also part of it
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and finding people is hard.
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And so a lot of our translators
are doing work on the side.
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And so it's taking something,
it's years to get translated.
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So this last month,
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we're this close to
having two books done.
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- Wow. - And it feels so nice.
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- Yeah.
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I'm sure it does.
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Do you have a testimony
you'd like to share with us
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about the work or about
your time here in Cambodia?
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- Yes.
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So we've been printing,
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one of the first things we
did was a small little booklet
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and it was not really
going out at all or being used,
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but this last year,
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there were evangelistic series,
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one done in Radnecurie
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and then a
larger one in Siem Reap.
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And in the process
of inviting people,
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they wanted to give
something to the people.
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And so one of the pamphlets
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we have on
introducing Jesus was given
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as an invitation to
the people in Radnecurie
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and 3,000 of them in Siem Reap.
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- Wow, okay.
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Well, praise the Lord.
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That's such a blessing.
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So what do you do
while he's working on the
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publishing and translation?
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- Well, I guess
I'm the support team.
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I homeschool the kids
and I fix meals for Kenton
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and our one full-time employee
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that's in the
print shop and pray.
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- That sounds
like a busy day anyway.
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Well, thank you so
much for sharing today.
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Let's meet our next group.
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What are your names?
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- My name is Biet Jhaw.
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- And I'm Gayle.
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- Okay.
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And where do you live?
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- Well God has definitely
called us up in the jungle
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mountains of Northern Thailand
to work in small villages
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of Karen people, which are all
through the jungle mountains.
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- Okay.
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And what do you do there?
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- I am a nurse and we
have a clinic, so to speak,
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and we get to see
hundreds of patients
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- And Biet Jhaw, what do you do?
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- I translate for her and then
I'll be like her driver, too.
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- Her driver, okay.
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Do you help also
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or do they have to
one-on-one wait for Gayle?
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- I do.
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I do help them, too.
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And then
sometime when she's gone
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and like she has
to go back to America,
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yeah, I will be the one.
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But I do not give shots
and I will not pull teeth.
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- Okay.
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So you've
learned a lot from Gayle
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about nursing over the years.
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Okay.
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Do you have a testimony that
you'd like to share with us?
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- Yes, because where we are,
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it might be kind of centrally
located to a lot of villages
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because we have
seen patients from over
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120 different villages.
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- Okay.
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- And they come from a
long way, some of them.
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Some walk for an hour or more.
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Some have motorbikes,
most have motorbikes.
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Sometimes they hire a truck.
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And they will
come, one or two trucks,
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and full of people
that want to be treated.
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And we say, why
did you come here?
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Because you passed two clinics
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and you could've
gone to that hospital.
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And they say,
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"Well, we heard you get
better when you come here."
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- Okay.
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- And so we have a
chance to tell them it's not us,
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but we pray with our patients
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and we have a
chance to tell them
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that God is more
powerful than anything.
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And it's because we pray.
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And you know,
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you can pack a lot of the
gospel in a simple prayer.
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We just have the
best job of anybody
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because we get to tell the
people about Jesus every day.
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- That's so wonderful.
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Thank you so much for sharing.
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All right.
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Let's meet our next family.
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What are your names?
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- We are the Espana family.
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- My name is Ric.
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- Jane.
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- Isabelle.
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- Juliana.
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- Lucas, and this is Francesca.
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- Nice to meet you.
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So where are you living?
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- We are temporarily
living in Khon Kaen learning the
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Thai language and
music for ministry.
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- Okay.
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And what else are you doing?
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- We are there connecting
with people and making friends
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and we're helping
people with their health
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or their emotional needs.
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- Okay.
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- One of the things that we've
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also been involved in is the
printing ministry in Thailand.
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And God has opened
the doors for materials
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to be translated in Thailand.
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And we are
involved in distributing
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books to Eastern Thailand.
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- Nice, nice.
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Sounds awesome.
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Do you have a
testimony from your time here?
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- Yes.
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We met a lady,
she grew up Christian,
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but she
experienced a lot of pain
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and suffering in her
life and she actually tried
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to commit suicide
just before we met her.
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So I prayed with her
twice a day for over a month.
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And in about a
month's time, she said,
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"I believe in God and
I have a lot of hope."
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And her faith was
really strengthened.
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So we just praise
the Lord for what he did.
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- Yeah.
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- There are 101
ideas that we have for what
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to do in Thailand,
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but we want the Lord to lead
us in what He wants us to do.
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There was one gentleman who
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was suffering from severe
ulcers on his lower limbs.
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We started helping
him with the ulcers.
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But what was most exciting
was that his heart was open
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to the relationship with God
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and that God wants him
to experience a relationship
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of healing for his own soul.
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- Wow.
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That's awesome.
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Is there anything
else you'd like to share?
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- We're going to an
unreached province at the end
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of this year and there's
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so few
missionaries out in the field.
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And so we would just
like to make an appeal
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to pray about God leading
you to be a missionary overseas.
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- All right.
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Well, thank you
so much for sharing.
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- Thank you for having us.
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- All right, let's
meet our next group.
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What are your names?
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- My name is Jim and
this is my wife Irene.
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Our last name is Hill.
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- Okay.
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And where do you live?
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- We live at a small school,
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an elementary school on
the western border of Thailand
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about an hour north
of the town of Mesat.
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- Okay.
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And what are you doing there?
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- Well, it was an
interesting call to come there.
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We met the secretary
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of the Thailand Adventist
mission while we were in Bangkok
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and he was instrumental
in asking us to come to this
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school. - Okay.
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- To grow food, to help the
budget of this very poor school,
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but also to bear our Christian
influence while we're there.
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- Okay.
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Wow.
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Do you have a
testimony from your time there?
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- Sure.
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I'd like to tell you about one
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of the students at this school.
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It only goes to grade six.
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So this girl was 11
years old when we met her,
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and she impressed me as
the most cheerful and kindest,
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most polite student on campus.
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And over the years,
we've gotten to know her.
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And she comes from
a very poor family.
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Her parents are separated,
her father's an alcoholic.
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And so she has
suffered quite a bit.
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And one of the things
that she would do often is she
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would come to the gardens
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and she would ask if
she could have a guava
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or if she could get
some long beans to eat.
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And she was always
very kind about asking
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and then then I would
respond to her and help her.
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And she would always say
to me, "You are so kind."
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Well, I wasn't
doing anything special.
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So she wasn't experiencing
much kindness in her life.
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This year, we've asked her,
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"What are you gonna do
after you're done here?"
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Says, "Well, I'd like to
go to academy, but I can't."
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- Oh.
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- So because of the
generosity of various donors,
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we're able to sponsor her
to go to academy next year.
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- That's awesome.
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- So we're anxious to see
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how is God gonna work in her
life to develop the potential
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that God has given her.
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- Wow.
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Thank you so much
for being here today
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and for sharing with us.
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- Thank you.
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- All right, let's
meet our next family here.
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What are your names?
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- Hello, we're
the Howell family.
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I'm Billy, this my wife
Natalie, my daughter Elisa,
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and we have another daughter
at school in the States.
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- Okay.
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And where do you live?
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- We currently live in Cambodia.
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- Okay.
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And what are you
doing there right now?
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- We're planning
to start a school,
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Adventist school in the
Battambang area of Cambodia.
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There's no schools in
that area, Adventist schools.
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We're having a few
issues with teachers.
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They don't have teachers.
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So we have to
train some young people,
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teach them English so
that they can go away to school
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so they can be
trained to be teachers.
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- Okay.
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Wow, that sounds challenging.
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So do you have a testimony
you'd like to share with us?
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- Yes, I do.
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Currently,
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we're living in the
capitol learning the language
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'cause we do not
have a translator.
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And recently,
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I received a call
from another missionary
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saying the head
police in our village area,
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province tried to reach us.
00:14:02.04\00:14:04.71
And I was nervous because
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I don't know the
language enough to speak to him.
00:14:06.17\00:14:09.21
And I was like, "I
have no one to help me."
00:14:09.21\00:14:12.01
So God wanted me to be bold.
00:14:12.01\00:14:14.05
So I called him and I was
able to talk to him in Khmer,
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telling him where we
were, what we were doing,
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how long we would be there.
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And in the middle of me talking,
00:14:23.12\00:14:25.73
I could hear the
smile in his voice because
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before when we
met him face to face,
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it wasn't the
friendliest, you know?
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And so it was really
nice to hear that smile.
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And then in the end,
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he responded to
me and I told him
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(speaking in foreign language),
meaning I don't understand.
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And he spoke perfect English.
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And I realized,
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I could've spoken to
him in English all the time,
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the whole time.
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And I'm like,
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it was a better
testimony being able to see
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how God has been
helping me with the language.
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And he was able
to understand that.
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And I feel like there's
a connection when they see
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that you're trying
to learn their language.
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- Wow.
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Well, praise the Lord.
00:15:01.33\00:15:02.03
Thank you for sharing.
00:15:02.03\00:15:03.06
- Thank you so
much for having us.
00:15:03.06\00:15:05.67
- All right, let's
meet our next couple here.
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What are your names?
00:15:08.04\00:15:09.54
- I'm Mike. and this is Marilee.
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We're the Kier family.
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- Okay.
00:15:12.27\00:15:13.04
And where are you living?
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- God called us here to Thailand
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and we are based
in the Central Valley,
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which is kind of the
heart of average Thailand.
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- Okay.
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- It's among the
Thai ethnic people that
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we really don't have
much Seventh Day Adventist
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Christians in this area.
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- So what are you
doing here in Thailand?
00:15:28.96\00:15:31.06
- We joined a
team when we first came
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and we helped to
plant a congregation
00:15:32.93\00:15:34.83
where there was no
Christian work before.
00:15:34.83\00:15:36.80
And then from that,
00:15:36.80\00:15:37.97
we helped to plant
two other congregations.
00:15:37.97\00:15:40.60
Natalie, when we came,
there was no "Jesus for Asia."
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But it's such a
joy to see all these
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friends that have
been coming through.
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And we had a breakthrough
happen when you and John
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and your children and another
family came to stay with us.
00:15:49.71\00:15:52.45
That kind of opened the
door for another dimension
00:15:52.45\00:15:54.85
where we're
helping people come and go
00:15:54.85\00:15:56.25
and help 'em with transportation
and orientation to be here.
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- Well, praise the Lord.
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We praise the Lord for that.
00:16:00.52\00:16:02.22
Do you have a
testimony you'd like to share?
00:16:02.22\00:16:03.99
- We do.
00:16:03.99\00:16:04.83
- Yes.
00:16:04.83\00:16:06.26
I was wanting to share about
a lady that we've been working
00:16:06.26\00:16:09.23
with for years and
she's gone through so much
00:16:09.23\00:16:13.07
and she was just broken.
00:16:13.07\00:16:15.07
She's just wondering
what the point of living is.
00:16:15.07\00:16:18.51
So we took her
to a friend's house
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and we just
stayed there with her
00:16:20.98\00:16:23.45
and we spent time focusing on
just ministering to her heart.
00:16:23.45\00:16:28.38
- You know,
00:16:28.38\00:16:29.48
there's no way to
describe her sufferings
00:16:29.48\00:16:30.92
and her
upbringing, but she said,
00:16:30.92\00:16:33.29
"Now I understand.
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God has given me
the gift of suffering
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so I can comfort
others and their suffering."
00:16:37.43\00:16:39.46
- Wow.
00:16:39.46\00:16:40.30
Praise the Lord.
00:16:40.30\00:16:41.66
- She's now open and caring
and showing love to others.
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It's just amazing to see
00:16:46.84\00:16:48.44
how God has worked in
her life for years and years
00:16:48.44\00:16:52.87
and now how He's
bringing a breakthrough
00:16:52.87\00:16:55.14
into her experience.
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And we're just
praising God for it.
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- Yes. - Amen, amen.
00:16:58.21\00:16:59.05
- I can understand that.
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Well, thank you so
much for sharing today.
00:17:00.38\00:17:02.38
- Thank you, Natalie.
00:17:02.38\00:17:03.52
- All right, let's
meet this group here.
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What are your names?
00:17:05.65\00:17:07.12
- I'm Michelle, and
this is my son, Micaia.
00:17:07.12\00:17:10.43
And sad to say Mike is not here
00:17:10.43\00:17:12.43
because of some health problems.
00:17:12.43\00:17:14.30
- Okay.
00:17:14.30\00:17:15.00
So where do you live?
00:17:15.00\00:17:16.70
- We live in,
00:17:16.70\00:17:17.87
God called us in the
mountains of Mindanao,
00:17:17.87\00:17:20.07
in the northern
part of Mindanao.
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- In the Philippines?
00:17:21.80\00:17:22.57
- Yes, in the Philippines.
00:17:22.57\00:17:23.97
- Okay.
00:17:23.97\00:17:24.74
And what do you do there?
00:17:24.74\00:17:26.71
- Whatever God asked us to do,
00:17:26.71\00:17:28.81
like what he said in Matthew
28:19 and 20 and Matthew 10:7,
00:17:28.81\00:17:33.88
those are the
things that we're doing.
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Like we have to
go where God leads us
00:17:37.45\00:17:39.82
and be Christlike
through His leading
00:17:39.82\00:17:42.29
and do what God asked us to do.
00:17:42.29\00:17:44.26
- Okay.
00:17:44.26\00:17:45.63
So do you have a testimony
you'd like to share with us?
00:17:45.63\00:17:47.56
- Well, just lately, there
was an old man with his sister.
00:17:47.56\00:17:52.00
They're all, you know,
00:17:52.00\00:17:53.13
their spouses
are already all dead
00:17:53.13\00:17:55.17
and nobody took care of them,
nobody's taking care of them.
00:17:55.17\00:17:58.67
And what happened
was that they found out
00:17:58.67\00:18:01.04
that this old man
has been paralyzed.
00:18:01.04\00:18:02.91
So God impressed our students
together with your mentor
00:18:02.91\00:18:07.98
to take care of him.
00:18:08.65\00:18:09.28
And you know what?
00:18:09.28\00:18:10.39
He opened up that
he was in the verge
00:18:10.39\00:18:12.32
of committing suicide.
00:18:12.32\00:18:13.42
- Oh.
00:18:13.42\00:18:14.56
- Because he felt
like he was hopeless.
00:18:14.56\00:18:16.56
And by God's miraculous healing,
00:18:16.56\00:18:19.79
like for like a week
only of taking care of him,
00:18:19.79\00:18:22.23
doing the new start, and last
Saturday, he came to church.
00:18:22.23\00:18:27.30
- Wow.
00:18:28.07\00:18:28.90
- So it's really a good thing
00:18:28.90\00:18:30.87
- Yes.
00:18:30.87\00:18:31.91
- That we can't
really take credit of.
00:18:31.91\00:18:33.61
And before I would say,
00:18:33.61\00:18:35.54
since Mike's
health is really bad
00:18:35.54\00:18:38.21
and he can't anymore
be useful in the mountain
00:18:38.21\00:18:40.58
because, you know, he trips
easy and a lot of health issues.
00:18:40.58\00:18:45.65
So by then he's still
asking God to use him.
00:18:46.86\00:18:49.19
So he's reaching out
the Muslims on the west
00:18:49.19\00:18:51.66
side of Mindanao.
00:18:51.66\00:18:53.29
- Well thank you
so much for sharing
00:18:53.29\00:18:54.56
and for being here today.
00:18:54.56\00:18:56.10
- Thank you, too.
00:18:56.10\00:18:57.67
- All right, let's
meet this lovely couple.
00:18:57.67\00:18:59.47
What are your names?
00:18:59.47\00:19:00.70
- My name is Robbie
and this is my wife Kasey.
00:19:00.70\00:19:03.37
- Okay.
00:19:03.37\00:19:04.07
And where do you live?
00:19:04.07\00:19:04.87
- We live here in Sukhothai.
00:19:04.87\00:19:06.68
- Okay.
00:19:06.68\00:19:07.51
And what do you do here?
00:19:07.51\00:19:08.61
- We have a home
for children at risk,
00:19:08.61\00:19:12.81
high risk for being kind
of pushed into prostitution
00:19:12.81\00:19:17.29
or human trafficking.
00:19:17.29\00:19:18.95
- Okay.
00:19:18.95\00:19:20.36
And then you have another
kind of side work in the city?
00:19:20.36\00:19:23.12
- Yes, we have a church
plant in the city as well.
00:19:23.12\00:19:26.09
- So do you have a
testimony you'd like
00:19:26.09\00:19:27.46
to share with us today?
00:19:27.46\00:19:28.63
- I think that looking back now,
00:19:28.63\00:19:31.73
after these few
years that we've been here,
00:19:31.73\00:19:33.90
the thing that strikes me most
00:19:33.90\00:19:35.24
is that when God first
convicted us to leave America,
00:19:35.24\00:19:39.51
we were living a very
comfortable to us life.
00:19:39.51\00:19:42.61
We have eight children and
we really didn't sense our need.
00:19:42.61\00:19:47.68
And so when
this impression came,
00:19:48.55\00:19:50.32
I think we thought God was
calling us to go do something
00:19:50.32\00:19:54.42
and not really recognizing
that God was calling us
00:19:54.42\00:19:57.26
because He wanted
to do a work in us.
00:19:57.26\00:20:00.20
And I think the greatest
blessing has come from walking
00:20:00.20\00:20:04.87
this out in such a
messy way and realizing
00:20:04.87\00:20:08.90
that while He can use us in
our mess to reach somebody else,
00:20:08.90\00:20:13.78
ultimately, He's
also after our hearts.
00:20:13.78\00:20:16.18
And so the
change in our children,
00:20:16.18\00:20:19.11
whether they came with us
00:20:19.11\00:20:20.28
or didn't come with
us, has been profound.
00:20:20.28\00:20:23.82
And then through that process,
00:20:23.82\00:20:26.19
He's also enabled us to
have daily interaction with,
00:20:26.19\00:20:30.93
we have 25 Thai
children right now
00:20:30.93\00:20:33.16
and just got
licensed to have 40.
00:20:33.16\00:20:35.93
- Wow.
00:20:35.93\00:20:37.43
- And so there's a work
to do as He's working on us.
00:20:37.43\00:20:40.70
And I just think
they go together.
00:20:40.70\00:20:43.71
And it's been such a
blessing to watch that.
00:20:43.71\00:20:45.64
- Praise the Lord.
00:20:45.64\00:20:47.04
Well, thank you so much
for sharing with us today.
00:20:47.04\00:20:48.94
- Thank you.
00:20:48.94\00:20:49.91
- Well thank you for having us.
00:20:49.91\00:20:51.78
- All right, let's
meet this next family.
00:20:51.78\00:20:54.18
What are your names?
00:20:54.18\00:20:55.72
- I'm Melson Martino
and my wife is Jonalyn.
00:20:55.72\00:20:58.19
And this is baby Kisaya.
00:20:58.19\00:20:59.75
- Kisaya, okay. - Kisaya.
00:20:59.75\00:21:01.22
- She's 30 months old.
00:21:01.22\00:21:02.46
- Okay.
00:21:02.46\00:21:03.76
So where do you live?
00:21:03.76\00:21:04.89
- We live in the
central part of the Philippines.
00:21:04.89\00:21:07.66
- Okay.
00:21:07.66\00:21:08.40
And what do you do there?
00:21:08.40\00:21:10.00
- Right now, we are a
JFA correspondent in the
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Philippines. What we do is we
bring the audience to where the
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mission is, where
the Bible workers are.
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- Okay.
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Do you enjoy that work?
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- Yes.
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So much.
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We have been traveling
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and experiencing
their experience,
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especially when we go to India
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or Thailand and
different places we see.
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At the same time,
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we experience what the
other workers are experiencing,
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especially in Asia.
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- Okay.
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Do you have any
testimonies you'd like to share?
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- Well, I have a testimony.
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Sometimes we go to like
places where Muslims are,
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so there's some places where
we go where known for pirates.
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So we went to this
place, this island,
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we don't know anyone,
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but we're with Pastor Rani
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and he doesn't
know anyone there also.
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So we went there
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and we just found
out that two weeks ago
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that there's two ladies
were burned alive, Christian,
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because they were sharing
God's, you know, the gospel.
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- In that village. - Yeah.
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- But we were there
and they welcomed us.
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- Huh.
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- And there's
some places where we
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go where there are
some Muslims, we are like,
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oh, this place are
just, you know, peaceful.
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And Pastor Rani said, oh,
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there are people like behind
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the houses where they have guns.
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They're looking at you.
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But, you know, it's very
risky, but praise the Lord.
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God has been protecting us.
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And there's some places
where we're the only Christians
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that we went to
the Muslim, you know,
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houses or, you know, worship.
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So they welcomed us because
we're a Seventh Day Adventist.
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Because of
through Bible workers,
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they're open to Christianity.
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- They know the similarities.
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- Yeah.
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- They know that
we share some beliefs.
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- Yeah. - Wow.
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- Praise the Lord.
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Well, thank you
for sharing today.
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- Thank you. - Thank you.
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- All right, let's
meet this next couple.
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What are your names?
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- I am Pete.
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- And I'm Jessica.
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- We are the Barolo family.
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Actually, we are
from the Philippines,
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working in Mindoro
Island among the Mangyan people.
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- Okay.
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So you're telling me
you're working there.
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What are you doing?
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- Primarily, that's
how our ministry started,
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reaching the
unreached tribe of the Mangyan
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through literacy centers.
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- Okay.
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So education?
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- Education, yes.
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And we have 11 literacy centers.
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- Wow.
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That's awesome.
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So do you have a
testimony you'd like to share?
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- Our God opened
a way wherein we can
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minister to the sick people.
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You see the
refused of the hospitals,
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the doctors would tell
them, okay, terminal cases.
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So when we learned, we
invited to them to the house.
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Okay, bring them.
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Maybe the Lord will
still heal your patients.
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And most of them actually died
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because
actually, they were dying.
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But one thing I
can assure you is
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when physical
healing is impossible,
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spiritual healing is not.
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Many of them died peacefully.
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You know, cancer,
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is so something too terrible
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to watch
somebody dying of cancer.
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But the missionaries were
gathered around singing hymns
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until the patient expires.
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And what a joy to
minister to these dying people.
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You see, the doctor said
their cases are hopeless,
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but I believe our
Master Doctor has no
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impossible cases like that.
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Pray for us as well.
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We need more missionaries.
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Those who are willing
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to sacrifice whatever they have.
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In the
Philippines, we are not rich,
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but we left everything,
even our comforts there.
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And I'm just so glad
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that we have now
missionaries with us who are
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as well sacrificial as just...
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They learn from
what we are doing.
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- Well thank you
so much for being
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here and sharing with us today.
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- Our pleasure.
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Praise God.
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- So let's meet
this lovely couple.
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Who are you?
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- My name's Jonathan.
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This is my wife Hannah.
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- Okay.
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And where do you live?
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- We live in
Nakhon Sawan, Thailand,
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which is about three and a
half hours north of Bangkok.
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- Okay.
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And what are you doing there?
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- We're born correspondence
for "Jesus for Asia."
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So we travel around and we film
a lot of different projects.
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- Okay.
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- And then,
actually, in Nakhon Sawan city,
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we're there
because as far as we know,
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there's no other Adventists
in the whole province,
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which has about
a million people.
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And so we moved there
almost three years ago,
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just wanting to
just let God lead.
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And so praying for the people,
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trying to
connect with the people.
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It's not like
things have gone as fast
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as we thought they might or
we kind of hoped they would,
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but God is definitely working.
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- Okay.
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Do you have a
testimony you'd like to share?
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- Sure.
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So one of the ladies
that we've actually gotten
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to meet
recently, fairly recently,
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is an older lady who's in
a very poor section of town.
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And Jonathan
actually met her while he was
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prayer walking one day.
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And it was really interesting
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because he got
talking with her about God.
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And in the end
of the conversation,
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he actually shared
some money with her
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'cause she was hungry.
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She didn't have money for food.
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And he told her the
money was from Jesus
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and she cried, just so grateful.
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And then he said, "I
have a book for you."
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And she's like,
"Is it about Jesus?"
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And he was like, "Yeah, it is."
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And so he brought it for
her and left it with her.
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And we came back
a few weeks later
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and she's like, "Yeah,
I've been reading that book.
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Like Jesus created the world.
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He's our Lord."
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- Wow.
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- We were trying to go to her
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to get massages once in a while
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because that's like
something she could still do
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to earn a little bit of money.
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And then we weren't
gonna be in town for a while.
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And so we're like,
let's just pray with her.
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And so we prayed with her
that God would send people
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to get massages and
came back like a month later
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and we were like, "You
wanna give us massages?"
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And she's like,
"Oh, I just got home.
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Like, I'm so tired.
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I've been
massaging people all day."
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And she's like,
"Jesus blessed me.
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I have been
massaging people every day
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since you prayed for me."
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So we were so excited.
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We had been praying
for her like every day
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whenever we thought of her.
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We'd just pray that
God would send her people
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and that she would
know that He was the one
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providing for her and not us.
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- Wow.
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Well, that's neat.
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Thank you so much for sharing.
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- You're welcome.
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- Well I hope you've
enjoyed meeting our missionaries
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as much as I have enjoyed
introducing them to you today.
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It has been such a
blessing to be here together.
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So many of them have told
me how much they've enjoyed it.
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And if you would like
to learn more about any
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of the missionaries
you've met today on our show
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and their projects,
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or if you'd like to learn more
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about in discipleship training,
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you can contact
us at Jesus for Asia,
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PO Box 1221,
Collegedale, Tennessee, 37315.
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Call us at (423) 413-7321
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or visit our
website at jesusforasia.org.
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May God richly bless you until
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we see you next time
on "Jesus for Asia" now.
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(inspirational music)
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