(gentle music)
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- [Mary Ann] We've
grown up in the church
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and have always been
somewhat involved in outreach
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but how can we get
involved in missions overseas?
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My name is Mary Ann.
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- [Lilyann] And I'm Lilyann.
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We wanted to find out.
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Join us on our journey
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(gong ringing)
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to discover the
culture, the lifestyle.
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- [Mary Ann] The
need and the mission.
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- [Lilyann] In two
of Southeast Asia's
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least reached countries.
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Welcome to MissionTREK.
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Hey it's so good to
have you join us again.
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- In the last
episode we met a girl
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who was raised from the dead
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and Myranda Lumbee who
is hoping to plant schools
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in impoverished villages.
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- In this episode we
will visit an amazing center
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of influence being built
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by a young couple
living in Bangkok.
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- Then we get to go
to a Thai cooking class
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where we will learn
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how to make really good
tasting traditional Thai dishes.
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But don't worry,
it's all vegetarian.
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- But before we learn
how to cook Thai food,
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we visit Bryan
and Jessica Atwell
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who are building
the center of influence.
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- Mm-hm, before
they moved to Bangkok
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they were newly married
Bible workers in America
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and had just had
their first child.
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- They found out about
the great need in Bangkok
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by watching "I Want This
City" which you can also watch
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at Iwantthiscity.com.
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They took the call personally.
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- Yeah, so they moved to
Bangkok and the first thing
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they did was start
learning the language.
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- Thai is a hard language
to learn because it is tonal.
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- Yeah, so that means that not
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only do the words
mean something different
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but each way you say them
means something different too.
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Like my, my, my and my
all mean different things.
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But it's the same word.
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- So it must be best to
learn it while you're young.
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- Definitely, older people
have a really hard time with it.
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So that is just
one of the advantages
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of being young in
the mission field.
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- It was slow for them
at first, but God blessed
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and he gave them a huge
building for their project.
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- So could you
explain a little bit
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about what a
center of influence is?
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- Yes, it's a term
Mrs. White uses quite often
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when referring to
the work in the cities.
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She says it is the
positive duty of God's people
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to go into the regions beyond
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and establish new
centers of influence
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wherever an
opening can be found.
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- Wow, that sounds like a
really important thing to do.
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- Yeah, for sure.
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She talked a lot
about missionary work
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to the people of the cities
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but we have tended to
ignore these instructions.
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- Yeah, thankfully the Atwells
did not ignore God's call
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for them and after learning
the language have been led
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to this large building.
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- One of the great things
about this building is that
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it's just a few
hundred feet from the main gate
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of a huge university
with over 500,000 students.
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Wow can you imagine a school
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with over half a
million students?
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- No, that's
bigger than many cities.
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- Yeah, I'm excited
to meet that Atwells
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and see their place.
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- Me too.
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While we were there,
they were in the early stages
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of building so keep in mind
that it's under construction.
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(gentle music)
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- We're with the
Atwells, Jessica and Brian,
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at their house and we wanted
to ask them a few questions
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about their project,
what they do here in Bangkok.
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- So how'd you guys
come here to live in Bangkok?
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- Well we ended
up coming to Bangkok
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because God impressed
us that we were supposed to
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give all and come live
in a foreign mission field.
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We didn't have any money
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but we had our lives
and since Jesus died for us,
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we're the most expensive
things in the entire world
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because giving
your life over here.
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- Basically we quit our jobs
and sold everything that we had
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that was of any value
and gave away the rest.
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And moved over here.
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- So you have two
little kids, right?
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- [Jessica] Mm-hm.
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- Is it scary raising
kids in the mission field?
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- It's petrifying to
raise children period,
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no matter where
you are (laughing).
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But it's an adventure
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and that's what I
wanted for my kids.
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I didn't want just
a regular old life.
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I wanted them to
have a unique childhood.
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- And I think raising
them where God wants us to be,
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I think is the best
place that we can be.
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- Yeah it's the
safest place in the world
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is wherever God wants you to be.
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- Mm-hm. - Yeah, so.
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- What do you do here?
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- We are in the midst of
setting up a ministry here
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that's just getting started.
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We did language study
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for a couple of years and
yeah, now onto the ministry.
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- So-- - He does the hard stuff.
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- We're setting up
a center of influence
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where we can build
relationships with people.
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- We had all
these different ideas
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about what God wanted us to do.
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Maybe we'll just
have a small little cafe
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and, oh no, we
should do a restaurant.
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Oh, but the gym
thing would be so cool.
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And you know we should have
like a church plant there too,
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so we could do meetings
and we felt so scattered.
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What did God want us to do?
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And then we just kind
of gave it up and said,
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"Well whatever
building he leads us to
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"then that's what we'll do."
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Whatever it fits.
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Well then God gave us
this monstrous building,
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four floors and the project
is all of these projects.
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And so we
weren't scatterbrained,
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they were all God's ideas,
he just wants us to do them all.
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- And so the first
floor will be a cafe,
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second floor
will be a restaurant,
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the third floor
would be a church
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and kind of like a
meeting lecture hall
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and then the fourth floor
and the fifth floor combined
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will be a rock climbing
gym and a fitness center
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for helping people.
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We're wanting to focus on health
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and so we're kind of
trying to get a complete picture
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of health, not just nutrition
but extra fitness as well.
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- I'm so glad he didn't
show us what he wanted us
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to do three years ago
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'cause we would have been
way too scared to get over here.
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And that's just
how God leads is,
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you know, it's
always adventurous.
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every little baby
step is adventurous.
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It's never too much but
it's always enough to scare you
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and keep it exciting, so.
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- As we got more into
establishing what we're doing,
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we realized that this
center not only would be
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for reaching out to
other people but it can,
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it's going to be
training the workers
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that are coming to work with us.
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And so as we work in connection
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with our Bible
workers one-on-one
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and then working
with other people,
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they're able to witness
how we all work together.
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And so it will also
serve as a training center
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where the goal will
be within a few years
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to be able to see
which ones are really solid
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and working well
and we can take them
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and help them
establish their own center
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in a different part
of the town, of the city
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or in a different
part of the country even.
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And then they can kind of
continue this model on their
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own. - God gave you
your own personality,
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like stand in your
God-given personality
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and be no man's shadow.
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Be who God made you to be.
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All those unique
things you like and dislike,
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the passion he gave you,
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he can use to reach others.
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God doesn't want
your life to be boring.
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He gave you a personality
and talents and skills
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and whatever you like to do.
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If you want to use that
for the Lord, he'll use it.
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Let it be Christ-led
and it'll be awesome.
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It'll be so exciting.
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I love our life, I
don't ever want to go back.
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(laughing) It's perfect here.
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- Well thanks
so much for sharing
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we've learned a lot more
about your background story
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and we're excited
to see the project.
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So, could you take
us to the building?
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- Yeah, let's go check it out.
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- Okay, you guys
have fun at the building.
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I hear Asher, I gotta go.
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(gentle music)
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(people chattering)
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- And so they can
sit up at the bar top.
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We'll have plugs here so
they can plug in their laptop.
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And they can kind of work
on homework, order smoothie.
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This will be the
library for people
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to read Christian
literature as well as some stuff
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on learning English
'cause we can't legally teach
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more than seven
students at a time
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and all of these students have
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to pass an English
class in order to graduate.
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And so they want
to learn English.
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And so a couple of
Thai workers suggested,
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what if you had books
where they could kind of read
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and study themselves
and then they can come out
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and talk to you to practice.
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But then that's
not us teaching them.
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So we're not breaking the rules
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but we're still
technically kind of helping them
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with their English classes.
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If you want to go
up to the second floor.
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So this floor, there will
be a wall coming out here.
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It goes here,
all the way across.
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It will be a half wall
the rest will be glass,
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going up and around.
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And there'll be a
sliding glass door there
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to go into the restaurant.
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(gentle music)
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Two really big things here
in the university age people,
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they suffer from
depression and that often leads
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to addiction, alcoholism.
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And so we want to hold
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some ongoing meetings
and classes about that.
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So this room here
will be the meeting room
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where we'll hold those
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but as well as
different health topics.
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We're wanting to
give them practical help
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on how they can
change their health
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so that they can have more
energy, they can be happier,
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they can be healthier but
then that's also an opportunity
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for us to build a
relationship in that.
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'Cause when you help
someone with something
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that they're struggling with,
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they kind of build
a connection with you.
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So we can
bridge that opportunity
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to building a relation with us
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to build a
relationship with God.
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The last floor is
none of the fun floor.
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So this is where we're
going to have the climbing wall
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and the fitness center.
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The Thai people aren't
super excited about exercising.
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I mean, it's hot so
it's not really all that fun.
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But we found that
rock climbing is something
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that they're good at
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but they don't see
it as exercise really.
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They see it as just
like an activity to do.
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But it is a full-body
exercise as well as the mind.
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It helps stimulate the mind
and so it helps with depression
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and some of these other
things that we're trying
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to help them with as well.
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(gentle music)
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- Well thank you so much
for showing us your project.
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- You're welcome,
thank you for coming.
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- We'll definitely keep
this project in our prayers
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and we'd like to
encourage all of our viewers
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to also pray for this project.
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Support it if you feel led to.
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(gentle music)
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After showing us the
center of influence building,
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Mr. Atwell asked if he
wanted to do some climbing
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on a nearby wall.
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We were excited
to give it a try.
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- That's kind of
an easy spot to grab.
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This is a big one. Try to
focus on getting your feet up
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and then finding a
hand after you do that.
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(people chattering)
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There, there you go.
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There you go, nice.
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- [Mary Ann] Good job!
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Hold on!
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(Lilyann laughing)
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- [Cameraman] How
you feel about that?
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- My hands are just
shaking, like this arm (sighs).
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(gentle music)
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¤ Oo, oo, oo ¤
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- God has been
doing amazing things
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since we visited the Atwells
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and we want to share with
you some more recent stories
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about how God has
worked and provided
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for their center of influence.
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- The renovation
process has been going on now
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for almost 15 months, I think.
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We got original
estimate of four months
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to fully renovate
everything and have it finished.
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And you know
throughout this process
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there was a lot of things that
were on the original invoice
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from the builder
and I looked at it
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and I was trying to save money
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and so I started
cutting things out.
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I said, "Well, I
know how to do this,
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"I can do that, I can
do this, I can do that."
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For the most part I was
by myself for a lot of it
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and so I would just listen
to sermons on my headphones.
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So that day
specifically, I went home
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and I was talking to Jessica
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and I was kind of ranting
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about how I was
so frustrated with,
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you know, and
there's all these things
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I don't know how to do
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and there's things
I do know how to do
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and when I go to do those
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and those still
don't even work out.
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And I said you
know what I've listened
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to so many passages
and so many things today
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but God will bless in
city work if we trust him
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and we move forward in faith.
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And I said, "I'm just gonna hire
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"some people to do this work."
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I said, "Even though
I know how to do it,"
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I said, "I need to be focusing
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"on the ministry side of things
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"and not just saving a
couple hundred dollars."
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And I opened my phone
and I was checking my emails
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and there was an email
from someone and they said,
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"Hey, we just wanted you to know
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"that we're praying for
you and also to let you know
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"that we just sent you
a donation for $10,000,
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"to help with
the renovation work."
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And I literally just
went around the corner
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and I fell down on the ground.
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I was crying, I was
praying and I was just like,
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I was confessing
how negative I've been,
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how selfish I had been in trying
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to take what I
could take from it.
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And there have
been countless times
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where God has done things like
that throughout the last year
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where it's just,
he's trying to remind me
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that this isn't your project.
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This is my project and
if you'll just let go of it,
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I can do stuff.
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(triumphant music)
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When we got into
climbing and we felt impressed
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that we could
use that as an avenue
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to bridge
relationships to Christ
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that was kind of
the exciting main focus
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that we were
trying to emphasize.
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I contacted the local
company that would come out
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and build a wall for us
and they wanted like $97,000.
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And so at first we
said, "Well God can provide
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"if that's what
he wants us to do."
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And so we were kind of
telling people in our newsletter
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that there's so much
money we needed to be able
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to have this happen
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and we didn't get a
single donation towards it.
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So we just let it go. I
just said, "You know what?
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"If God lets us
have a climbing wall,
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"we'll have a
climbing wall at some point."
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When we were in
the States actually,
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we tried to meet with
a few different people
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to see if they could come
and help establish the wall
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and then stay on and work it.
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There was one young
guy that we met with
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who seemed really
promising and so we met with him
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and at the end he's
like, "Well, I can't you know.
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"I have a job and I just
started a new profession."
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And so I kind of went away
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from that meeting feeling
a little bit discouraged.
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Well he contacted us
three months later and he said,
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"Hey, I have a friend
that might be interested
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"in helping out with
you at the climbing stuff
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"that you have going on."
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Basically he connected
me with this guy who said,
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"Every year I try and
arrange a mission trip
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"where we go out and we do some
kind of a building project."
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And he said, "My friend
told me that you're trying
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"to build a climbing wall."
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And he said, "We're all climbers
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"and that would be
something really awesome."
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You know, he had
given me a budget.
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He said it would probably be
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around 30 to $35,000
including everything.
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I asked him, "How sure are you
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"that you're
thinking you'll be coming?"
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And he said,
"Well, I'll tell you what.
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"If you're officially
inviting us, we will come."
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And so I told them,
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"Well I'll tell you
I'm officially inviting you
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"but I have no money."
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So then we get an email
from someone that we didn't know
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and the guy says, "I'm
a lawyer in the States."
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And he said, "And I
had covenanted with God
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"that this case that
I had been working on,
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"that when it was
settled that I would give 50%
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"of what I
earned to your project."
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And he said, "And so
I'll be sending you $35,000
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"but I can't get it
to you until this date."
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And he said the
day and I looked at it
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and the other guy had
just sent me an email saying,
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well we just bought tickets
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and they were for
right about the same time.
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And so God just
just worked it out
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and provided the
resources that we needed.
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And then the team
to come over and do it.
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It was really encouraging to see
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that God had a plan again.
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He wanted to work it out
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but he wanted to get
the right people involved
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and make it work
in the right timing.
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(gentle music)
(people chattering)
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So we're trying to figure out
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how everything was
gonna get tied together.
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And I was messaging my
friend Calvin in the States
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and he said, "Well have
you heard what we're doing,
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"the ministry
that we have going on?"
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I said, "No." And he
sent me a link to it.
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He said, "It's
called F5 Challenge."
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They do fitness events,
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the five Fs are
fun, fitness, faith,
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fellowship and fortitude.
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And so we prayed about it
and said, "Well this seems like
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"it would just bring
everything together."
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It's like one club.
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And so on the front actually
we put the sign the first time
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we put up was Club F5.
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And so it's kind of
like a membership thing,
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you can sign up, you
can be a member of the gym
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but then it also includes
a certain number of meals
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at the restaurants and
certain number of juices.
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It's kind of all one thing
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and it really just
brings everything together.
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And so the idea is
that we have this gym,
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people can come and kind of
learn and practice climbing.
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But the real goal
is that once a month
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we take a trip, we
go outside of the city.
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There's a few places
within three hours of here
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where there's some
really awesome outdoor climbing
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but then we can take people out,
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we can do a weekend
camping trip, get them out
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to where they can be in
nature, see God's creation
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and it gives us opportunities
to talk to them about God.
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We do worships with them
in the morning and evening.
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The main important thing
is building a relationship.
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And when you're at
the bottom of a rope
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and you're holding that rope
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and you're the only reason
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why that person
isn't gonna fall down,
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it builds a lot of that trust
that is an important factor
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in being open
to spiritual things
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and these different
ideas that are contrary
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to what they've
grown up believing.
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- Recently we've
been working really hard,
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preparing for a
grand opening event.
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We had a bouldering competition.
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And it was kind of a sneak peak
00:16:46.67\00:16:48.40
for all of the
climbers in this area.
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And what was
really amazing is we had
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over 200 people show up
and it was a huge success.
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I'm just so thankful.
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God pulled it off.
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- So the plan from
here is to open the cafe.
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From there we're then
doing recipe development
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and trying to work on getting
all of our equipment set up
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for the pizzeria that
will be on the floor above that
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and getting our staff trained
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and then finding the other staff
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that we need in
order to do that.
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- Wow, that's amazing.
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- Yeah, can you
imagine the amount of faith
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it must have taken to
build a ministry that big?
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- It must cost a
lot to do that, too.
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- Yeah but we
serve a big God don't we?
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- Yep and he can fill any need
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that brings glory to his name.
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- This is something
that anyone could do.
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I mean Ryan and
Jessica didn't go to school
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to learn to set up
a center of influence.
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They were just Bible workers.
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They used their imagination.
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They prayed a lot and they
followed God one step at a time
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to where the need was greatest.
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- Yeah, and God will
do the same for anyone.
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We just need to take
that one step of faith
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and then another
and another and another
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and God will direct
us if we don't give up.
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- Mm-hmm, but moving on now,
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our next adventure is the
promised Thai cooking class.
00:18:03.38\00:18:06.21
- Yeah, one of our
favorite restaurants
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in Bangkok is May Kaidee.
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We can order
anything on the menu
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and know that it's
gonna be vegetarian.
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- And the
flavors are so wonderful.
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I love how Thai food relies
so heavily on fresh vegetables
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directly from the garden with
very little processed foods.
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- And they use almost completely
natural seasonings as well
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- And they rarely use any salt.
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- Yeah and May Kaidee
also offers cooking classes.
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And we thought we'd try it out.
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So we met up with
a friend Jim Katzdoor
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and they thankfully
let us film our experience.
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- Yeah, we will be
providing a couple of recipes
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to go along with some dishes
so you can follow along at home
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and then make them for
your friends and family
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to remind them of the forgotten,
unreached people in Asia.
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- So get your pen and paper
out to write down these recipes
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or you can find
them at MissionTREK.net.
00:18:55.36\00:18:57.50
(gentle music)
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- We're here at May Kaidee's
00:19:09.44\00:19:11.35
and that is like a
cooking class place,
00:19:11.35\00:19:15.42
Thai cooking class place.
00:19:15.42\00:19:17.59
So we're gonna get a
Thai cooking class with Jim.
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- For those of you who
are wondering, that's Jim.
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Okay, okay here's what
we're making, says right here.
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It says chili paste,
tom yam soup, pad Thai
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and green or massaman curry.
00:19:35.54\00:19:37.07
and it ends with us getting
to eat sticky rice and mangoes.
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So the whole thing's
worth it just for that.
00:19:40.78\00:19:45.01
(bright music)
(people chattering)
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- How about spicy food?
00:19:59.33\00:20:00.53
I like it a little bit.
00:20:01.76\00:20:02.56
- [Chef] You like a little bit.
00:20:02.56\00:20:03.43
- More than me. - More than her.
00:20:03.43\00:20:04.53
- Oh, okay, and for
you, how 'bout spicy?
00:20:04.53\00:20:07.57
- I will die. (all laughing)
00:20:07.57\00:20:09.37
- Okay, Thai food
very spicy, very spicy
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because like no spicy no yummy.
00:20:12.81\00:20:15.11
Sometime you eating spicy
and runny nose after you cry.
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No worries.
00:20:18.75\00:20:19.81
Happy eating, happy
cry, happy holiday, okay.
00:20:19.81\00:20:23.49
First time Thai cooking?
00:20:23.49\00:20:24.55
- Yep. - Yes.
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- So how to make
Tom Yum Chili Paste.
00:20:26.52\00:20:27.86
Now you can write down new one.
00:20:27.86\00:20:30.09
Write it down new one, okay.
00:20:30.09\00:20:32.29
Today we had a little bit.
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Just three tablespoon.
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- Oh. - Three tablespoon.
00:20:36.30\00:20:39.07
(Mary Ann
murmuring) - A little bit.
00:20:40.24\00:20:41.94
This time we use a
little bit for you.
00:20:41.94\00:20:43.51
- That's a little bit? - Yes.
00:20:43.51\00:20:44.97
Actually we add a lot.
00:20:46.14\00:20:47.11
- When you mix it all in.
00:20:47.11\00:20:48.38
- But it's gonna
mix into all the soup,
00:20:48.38\00:20:49.68
so it's not gonna
be super concentrated.
00:20:49.68\00:20:51.38
- [Jim] Okay,
three tablespoon of--
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- Dry chili.
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- Dry chili. - Dry chile.
00:20:55.55\00:20:56.69
- Dry chili
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- And then
(whirring) you know that?
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- What's that? -
(whirring) Blender.
00:21:01.72\00:21:04.56
Blender, blender, okay.
00:21:04.56\00:21:05.46
- [Jim] Yeah, blender.
00:21:06.23\00:21:08.50
- That's it and
washing your hands.
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Cleaning complete, over there.
00:21:11.60\00:21:13.34
(Jim spitting)
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- So are you guys excited?
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- Yeah. - I think
it's gonna be fun.
00:21:17.84\00:21:19.94
- I am not so
excited with this spicy part.
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- You're in Asia get over it.
00:21:22.48\00:21:24.11
- [Jim] I'm not Asian.
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- Yes, you are.
00:21:25.98\00:21:27.32
- Okay, so now we start
making Tom Yam Chili Paste.
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10 tablespoon oil, okay.
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- 10 of these? - Yes.
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- [Chef] Oh, big one.
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Three, four.
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- No it's five. - Five.
00:21:38.89\00:21:40.90
Seven, six, one,
three, two, five.
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For one tablespoon,
one small Asian hand.
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- Okay. - Okay, now this.
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That's American hand.
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- Like that? - Yes.
00:21:53.31\00:21:54.28
(all laughing)
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- Yeah? - Yes, right there.
00:21:55.38\00:21:56.21
- We need bigger hands.
00:21:56.21\00:21:57.31
- Oh, hot! - Yeah, it's popping.
00:21:57.31\00:21:59.95
- Try again.
00:22:03.59\00:22:04.82
If you do more
quickly, there's more color.
00:22:04.82\00:22:07.49
- Oh, let me try it.
- If you go like this.
00:22:07.49\00:22:09.99
- Oh, okay.
00:22:09.99\00:22:10.99
- This makes me hungry.
00:22:12.46\00:22:14.00
It's so good.
00:22:16.40\00:22:17.57
- It's nice. - Mm-hm.
00:22:18.50\00:22:19.83
- [Chef] Now we making
peanut sauce, recipe number six.
00:22:19.83\00:22:23.24
That's good.
00:22:28.64\00:22:29.94
After you crush it.
00:22:29.94\00:22:31.35
Like this you get.
00:22:31.35\00:22:32.91
(people chattering)
00:22:35.95\00:22:37.19
Oh, something this, yes.
00:22:37.19\00:22:39.25
- Nice.
00:22:40.22\00:22:41.12
- Good job peanut sauce.
00:22:44.89\00:22:45.76
(all cheering)
00:22:45.76\00:22:47.96
Okay.
00:22:47.96\00:22:49.50
- That's really good.
00:22:49.50\00:22:50.60
(singing in foreign language)
00:22:52.17\00:22:54.70
- What is this? - Galangal.
00:22:54.70\00:22:56.40
Galangal? - It's
similar to ginger,
00:22:56.40\00:22:58.31
I think.
00:22:58.31\00:22:59.44
- Do you like this? - Oh yeah.
00:22:59.44\00:23:00.18
- Oo, it smells so good.
00:23:00.18\00:23:01.51
It reminds me of
something but I can't--
00:23:01.51\00:23:02.61
- [Woman] It's
like an essential oil.
00:23:02.61\00:23:04.31
- Yeah, it's good.
00:23:04.31\00:23:06.11
- But you know
the ginger, right.
00:23:06.11\00:23:07.35
This one ginger.
00:23:07.35\00:23:09.35
Sometimes you
can cut the small one
00:23:09.35\00:23:10.99
and then you can grow it.
00:23:10.99\00:23:12.59
- This is not the
ginger, this is ginger.
00:23:12.59\00:23:14.99
- Ginger, great ginger, oh yeah.
00:23:14.99\00:23:18.03
Master chef not have
recipe for the cooking.
00:23:18.03\00:23:21.33
Okay, you can cook.
00:23:21.33\00:23:22.50
I read recipe for you.
00:23:22.50\00:23:24.87
Okay.
00:23:24.87\00:23:25.73
(all laughing)
00:23:25.73\00:23:26.87
Are you ready
now for Tom Yam Soup.
00:23:26.87\00:23:29.14
- Yes! - Yes!
00:23:29.14\00:23:30.21
(singing in foreign language)
00:23:31.57\00:23:35.48
Asian hand.
00:23:36.51\00:23:37.48
- This one is enough? - Enough.
00:23:38.75\00:23:40.68
Because when you
use big hand carrot,
00:23:40.68\00:23:42.58
they don't say Tom Yam
Soup, they say carrot soup.
00:23:42.58\00:23:44.99
- [Jim] Oh (laughs).
00:23:44.99\00:23:48.36
- Yeah, that's fine.
00:23:48.36\00:23:50.09
Okay, so fine.
00:23:53.23\00:23:54.46
- [Jim] That's nice.
00:24:00.40\00:24:02.10
- Oh, that's good. - Whoa.
00:24:03.87\00:24:05.71
It's really good.
00:24:05.71\00:24:06.78
- I didn't know I
could cook this good.
00:24:07.84\00:24:09.68
- That is good.
00:24:11.01\00:24:12.58
- It's so flavorful.
00:24:12.58\00:24:13.55
- I know, it's like, whoa.
00:24:13.55\00:24:15.88
- An man, that is good, bro.
00:24:15.88\00:24:17.65
- [Mary Ann] They don't even
really follow the recite 100%.
00:24:19.02\00:24:20.79
- [Cameraman] That's all right,
I've been filming this for--
00:24:20.79\00:24:22.89
- It's so good.
00:24:22.89\00:24:24.46
(gentle music)
(people chattering)
00:24:24.46\00:24:29.50
- [Chef] Looks
good, looks like the same
00:24:36.10\00:24:38.34
as Thai restaurant now.
00:24:38.34\00:24:40.14
- Yeah. (laughs)
00:24:40.14\00:24:42.14
(gentle music)
(people chattering)
00:24:42.14\00:24:45.01
- [Man] Yeah.
00:24:45.01\00:24:46.15
(Jim sighs)
00:24:51.25\00:24:53.49
- So good.
00:24:53.49\00:24:54.39
- [Cameraman] What
are you gonna make?
00:24:59.86\00:25:01.16
- Pad Thai. - Mm.
00:25:01.16\00:25:02.80
- We're gonna make Pad Thai.
00:25:02.80\00:25:05.20
(oil sizzling) (gentle music)
00:25:06.40\00:25:11.47
(people chattering)
00:25:38.53\00:25:41.60
(Jim moaning)
00:25:42.94\00:25:44.21
- [Lilyann] What is it?
00:25:44.21\00:25:46.94
- It's scary.
00:25:46.94\00:25:47.84
(people chattering)
00:25:49.18\00:25:52.25
- Does it work? - What?
00:25:58.12\00:25:58.95
- Can't hear. - Can't hear me?
00:25:58.95\00:26:00.69
It's so good.
00:26:01.89\00:26:06.26
It is so good.
00:26:06.26\00:26:07.50
You like it?
00:26:08.33\00:26:09.53
- Yeah, it's really good.
00:26:09.53\00:26:11.73
- [Jim] What is that?
00:26:11.73\00:26:13.40
- Mm, mango sticky rice.
00:26:13.40\00:26:15.54
- [Cameraman]
We're liking you so much.
00:26:15.54\00:26:17.37
(all laughing)
00:26:17.37\00:26:18.54
- Enjoy. - Thank you.
00:26:18.54\00:26:20.28
- [Cameraman] So
what'd you guys think of that?
00:26:21.41\00:26:23.08
- It was fun. -
It was a lot of fun.
00:26:23.08\00:26:26.01
- It was nice,
it was really good.
00:26:26.01\00:26:28.02
It was not so spicy at all.
00:26:28.02\00:26:29.88
- The food was good.
00:26:30.85\00:26:31.69
- The food was good.
00:26:31.69\00:26:32.82
- It was a
really great experience.
00:26:32.82\00:26:34.56
Our food tastes
so good even though
00:26:34.56\00:26:37.69
we have three different
cooks follow the instructions.
00:26:37.69\00:26:40.36
But we followed
the instructions.
00:26:40.36\00:26:42.26
I guess this is the
reason why that God wants us
00:26:42.26\00:26:45.17
to obey his
will, to obey his law
00:26:45.17\00:26:48.40
that whatever
life that we are in,
00:26:48.40\00:26:51.17
if we obey, if we
follow the ingredients
00:26:51.17\00:26:52.81
that God has for us,
00:26:52.81\00:26:54.94
what will happen is, we
will have the same flavor.
00:26:54.94\00:26:57.51
We'll all taste delicious.
00:26:58.65\00:27:00.65
(gentle music)
00:27:00.65\00:27:03.28
- I hope you were
able to get those recipes
00:27:04.62\00:27:06.55
but if you didn't
you can visit our website
00:27:06.55\00:27:08.82
MissionTREK.net and
look for them there.
00:27:08.82\00:27:11.26
- And it's definitely worth it
00:27:11.26\00:27:12.33
because the food is
just as good as it looks.
00:27:12.33\00:27:14.50
- Mm-hmm, well this has
been such a great show today.
00:27:14.50\00:27:17.67
- Yeah, I
really miss being there
00:27:17.67\00:27:19.47
and I hope we
can go back someday.
00:27:19.47\00:27:21.20
- And maybe we could
start a center of influence
00:27:21.20\00:27:22.94
like that someday.
00:27:22.94\00:27:24.27
- Yeah and there are
people that have gone before us
00:27:24.27\00:27:26.31
that we can learn from.
00:27:26.31\00:27:27.64
- We encourage you to
read up on the methods
00:27:27.64\00:27:29.61
that others have used
in reaching the cities.
00:27:29.61\00:27:31.81
- Unfortunately there
is not a lot of material
00:27:31.81\00:27:34.22
out there about city ministry
00:27:34.22\00:27:36.08
because not very many people
have done long term missions
00:27:36.08\00:27:38.79
in the cities.
00:27:38.79\00:27:39.59
- But we can change that.
00:27:39.59\00:27:41.32
Pray about how God can
use you to reach his children
00:27:41.32\00:27:44.03
in these giant metropolises.
00:27:44.03\00:27:45.46
- We'll see you
next time on MissionTREK.
00:27:45.46\00:27:47.56
- And remember to pray
for the unreached cities.
00:27:47.56\00:27:50.10
(triumphant music)
00:27:50.10\00:27:53.07