I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello, friends,
welcome to 3ABN Today.
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My name is John
Lomacang and I have my partner
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my wife of x amount of
years sitting next to me,
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so I don't date this program.
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Honey, good to have you here.
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Glad to be here. So glad...
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It's gonna be an
exciting program today.
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Yes it is, and just in case
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you don't know what her name is?
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It's Angela.
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You could break
that down to Angel A
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if you want to
separate the last letter.
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But I know that for fact
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but we have a wonderful
exciting program today,
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it's about missions.
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Oh yeah, and I love missions.
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'cause we've
traveled all over the world
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and mission is,
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actually it's been
part of our life, hasn't it?
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That's right, and
particularly this country
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we are gonna
talk about today Asia.
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Not only, well,
we'll leave the details
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for later on in the program.
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But you don't want
to turn the channel
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because this is not
just about missions in Asia.
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This is about how to
activate in your family,
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in your children
the heart of mission.
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You know, sometimes
people are being raised,
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children are being raised
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and
statistically a lot of children
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unless they connect
to a purpose in life,
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they find that
as they get older,
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religion loses its grip on them.
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But people that are
involved in the mission
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tend to have a deeper roots
and to have more significant
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place in the work of the Lord.
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So we're gonna talk
about that today too.
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And want to thank
you for your prayers
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and your financial
support of this network
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as we are
continuing to go and grow,
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as we prepare for the coming
of the Lord, Jesus Christ.
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Now before we meet our guests,
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honey, we have some music today.
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Yeah. Well,
let's have good music.
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Yeah, we sure do.
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We have Jennifer LaMountain,
which is wonderful singer.
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Oh, yes.
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Singing a song
'Make Me More Like You'.
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Teach, me, Father
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What to say
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Teach me, Father
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How to pray
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Teach me
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All along the way
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How to be
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Like Jesus
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Teach me how
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We may be one
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Like the Father
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And the Son
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And when all
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Is overcome
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I will be
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Like Jesus
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Lord make me like You
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Please make me like You
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You are a servant
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Make me one too
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Oh, Lord I am willing
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To what You must do
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To make me like You Lord
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Make me
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Like You
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I would be
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Like Jesus
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I would be
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Like Jesus
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Help me Lord
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To daily grow
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More and more
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Like Jesus
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Thank you so much Jennifer
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for that song
'Make Me More Like You'.
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And you'll discover that's what
this program is about today.
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Not to just be made
like Jesus in character
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but also to be made
like Jesus in mission.
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You know, Luke
19:10, "The Son of Man
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has come to seek and to
save that which was lost."
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Where did we get that from?
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It was the memory
text we taught your niece.
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I tried many years ago.
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Many years ago,
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and she still
remembers it to this day.
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She is not in the faith
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but she does remember
that text to this day.
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Any time we call, we
say what is Luke 19:10?
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She always repeats it. Yeah.
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Well, let's meet
our guest right now
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Jon Woods and Natalie Woods.
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Since you are close,
Jon, I'll extend you a hand.
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John to Jon. Good to
meet you. Good name John.
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And, Natalie, good
to have you here also.
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Thank you.
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I know our...For
those who are listening
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to the program by radio,
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they have on this
beautiful outfits from Asia.
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And for those who are watching,
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they can tell
that, wow this and wow,
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these people must be in
the mission field somewhere.
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Good to have you here today.
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Thank you. Thank
you. It's a pleasure.
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Now, let's begin the beginning,
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and my wife jump
in anytime you want,
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Honey, we are from Brooklyn,
so we kind of talk together.
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But before we go to your story,
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walk us little bit
through your conversion
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and then your
connection with 3ABN,
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because you were
working here on a capacity
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before you went out
into the mission field.
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Well, John, I
was born and raised
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a Seventh-day Adventist.
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From parents, actually
all four of my grandparents
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were Seventh-day Adventists
from four generations.
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Wow. And so, I had my...
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Parents were missionaries
in New Guinea in the '60's
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till I was five years old.
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We came home,
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went through Adventist schools
all the way through college.
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But I never
understood what faith was,
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I never experienced
forgiveness of sins.
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And one time
and I always thought
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that every one out
there was having fun
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and every one here, I
was miserable and bored.
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And so, when we
finally got married
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and we moved up to Oregon,
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I started this search of
being, just doing my own thing.
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Just doing what I wanted to do.
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And I was amazed
that how bored I got,
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I was miserable and bored.
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Wow.
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And then I had a chance to go
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on a mission trip to
Cambodia and Thailand.
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And this was back in '96
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during the time of
Pope Paul was still alive.
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You know, he was the
author of 'The Killing Fields'.
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And he was still doing
his instructions and stuff
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and we were traveling
from one town to another,
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it was only 60 kilometers
but it took us six hours.
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Wow.
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And there was a
lot of road blocks
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and checks and armed guards.
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You had to pay them in
order for them to make it pass
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and so it's very
dangerous and on the way back
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it was getting
towards the evening
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and we weren't
supposed to travel at night.
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Everybody was
saying how dangerous it was
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and we were standing
in the back of a pickup
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and I heard of
AK47 go off behind me.
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Oh, no.
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And there were
just some soldiers,
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it was after a hot
day, it was evening cool,
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they were just
letting off steam.
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But I thought what
if those bullets hit me
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in the back of
the head right now?
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And I realized I'd be okay,
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because right now I knew
I was in the Lord's will,
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where as before I was
outside of the Lord's will
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and I was miserable.
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And here I was in the
Lord's will and happy.
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And as, and at that point,
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that was kind of
like my conversion
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that I knew that I would
rather die in the Lord's will
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than live
outside the Lord's will.
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Wow. Wow.
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And then I came
home and that's like
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all the stops were out of sight,
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I was going after God full time.
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Before if somebody
asked me to do a prayer for
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during the church service,
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it would take all week to
get the courage just to pray.
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And it will take me
another week just to recover.
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Whereas afterwards it's like,
you know, I'm dead already.
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It's like I wanted,
I just like everything,
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I was just full on for
God and I was asking...
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Asking our pastor, yeah.
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Can I preach? Can I preach?
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Wow.
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Really? Yeah.
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And it's like, I
had always wanted
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to have my own
career, control of my career
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and so, during the
time we were in Oregon,
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she was out of a job retraining
and I was out of a job.
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We were looking for
jobs, we couldn't find a job.
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And it's like, this is what
I would never give that to God,
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but when I came back
after I had my conversion,
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it's like, I had a
taste of the Holy Sprit.
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Yes.
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And it's like,
I want this. Amen.
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And it's like, God is good.
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And so I gave Him my
career and within two weeks,
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she had an awesome job,
and I had an awesome job.
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Wow.
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And within six months,
we bought a brand new house.
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Wow.
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And we were living there
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and we were just using
the house for God's glory
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and having Bible studies
and just really enjoying,
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and then we got
a call from 3ABN.
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Hmm. Oh-oh.
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Interrupting.
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Now, how long were
you married at that time?
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We were married in '91. Okay.
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So that was... yes.
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Five years.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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You got to tell
briefly, Natalie,
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about how you guys met.
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You told us off
camera, but I think people
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appreciate that
stories, kind of a cute story.
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We met first
when I was 16. Okay.
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I was living in the
dorm at PUC with my sister,
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she was a PU assistant,
but I was in high school
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and he was a senior in college
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and we met and he, he liked me.
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She had no idea.
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I didn't know.
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She was very young. Yes.
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College student
at 16. He was young.
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It's okay. It's okay.
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But he was a nice guy, you know.
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So, but anyway,
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he took the pictures from
my sister's wedding and so,
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and then his younger sister
was in high school with me
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and we played it together
in the band and everything.
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So we kind of knew each other
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a little bit as a distance,
you know, acquaintances.
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And then, his sister came
with New England Youth Ensemble
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to play and he had to
pick her up and stuff and so
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anyway we were
together to one of a concerts
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and it was the beginning
of a closer friendship.
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Yeah. Wow.
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I've gone to
Korea during this time.
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So it was a couple
of years in between
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where I knew her,
and then I saw her again,
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and she was still
pretty but not so young.
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In college. Right.
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I was in college,
there he is more acceptable.
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At PUC? Yes, at PUC.
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You said okay,
Lord, is that okay now?
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Lord said, sure, go for it,
Jon and now that's wonderful,
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but now you get
the call to 3ABN.
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I got the call to 3ABN,
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and here we had
invested into this new house
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and we knew that if
we came out to 3ABN,
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we would have to
surrender our investment
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because, you know, you
got to pay the realtor fees
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and that takes all of
what we invested in the house.
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So it would have
been a huge sacrifice
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and I-- and that
was actually Doug or C.A
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that was talking to me.
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Yeah. Yes.
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And he said, he
that kind of gave up
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when he found out
we had a new house
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and then it will
be this huge sacrifice
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and so I was
talking to God about it
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and I kind of let it go
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and when my youth friends,
young friends says, you know,
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if the Holy
Spirit is calling you,
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you better listen
to the Holy Spirit
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and it's like, I'm
like, okay, so I went back
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and I started
thinking, God gave me the house
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and do I like the house,
the gift more than the giver.
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And it's like if I
stick with the gift
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then that's then I
lose the giver in a large,
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I lose that experience.
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It's like what's
more important to me.
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Wow.
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God can give me... Anything.
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Yeah. He can give another house.
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Yeah. That's true. That's true.
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That's right. Yeah.
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Gain the whole
world. Yeah, exactly.
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So and eternal life. Yeah.
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So we gave up the house
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and we lost our
investment in it,
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like we expected.
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Moved out here and
spent two years here,
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it's best decision,
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one of the best
decisions we've ever made,
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we loved it here.
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Praise the Lord. Sacrifice.
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Such a fantastic experience.
That was well worth it.
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Yes.
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And in the
process, you both grew
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and started
getting some experience
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that would become
a tremendous benefit
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to the call that God was
about to open up in your life
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in ministry, am I correct?
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Oh, absolutely, you
know, I had never met anyone
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that really
believed what the Bible said,
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"Seek ye first
the kingdom of God
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and He will provide for you."
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Yes.
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I'd never seen
anybody actually believe that.
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Wow.
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I've heard, I've heard
that, that's text on my life.
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I've never seen
anybody actually, you know,
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plan that God would
come through on that text.
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And while we were here
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our pay check was
based on someone's faith.
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Oh, I see.
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He's still that way. Exactly.
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Praise the Lord.
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Thirty plus, wow.
Thirty something years later.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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And so, you know, my
monthly paycheck is like wow,
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we can really trust God in this.
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Yes.
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And so, Danny's faith
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and the faith of this
ministry and everything,
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it's just so inspiring to me.
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Now, talk about
launching out on faith.
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You've mentioned the faith
walk just a moment ago about
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deciding to give
up your home together.
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Natalie, what was it like,
kind of let the young lady,
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I'm saying that I'm
more messing with you.
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Let your wife register
here or kind of share with us,
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what was it like,
when did you guys know
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that was a call to get out
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into cast the net and
broaden that in missions
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or in whatever God
had in store for you.
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Well, after we... While we're...
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I don't even know where to start
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but for me giving up
the house to follow God,
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was like a logical
progression in the relationship
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He had been growing us in.
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And then, when
we were here at 3ABN
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and he got call to teach at PUC,
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I was kind of like wow,
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we just got here
almost, you know,
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we had only been here
for just barely two years,
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our son was
almost six months old
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when we got that call
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and it was just like
really now, you know it just.
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But it was another step,
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it seem like in
what God was asking
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because he has
talents in media and graphics
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and these kinds of
things that nobody has.
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I mean there is,
there is very few people
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as you well know
being in media ministry
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in the church that
have the media skills
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and the
understanding of ministry use.
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That's true.
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Because, so many times
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there're people with
these kinds of skills
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want to go out
and get the big jobs
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and get the big paycheck
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and get the
notoriety or, you know,
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whatever it is that
they are looking for.
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And so, to go to PUC to
teach other young people,
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it just, you know, it seems
like to multiply the talents
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would make the Lord, you know,
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it make sense in the
Lord's eyes I should say,
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so, it just seem
like the next step
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that the Lord wanted us to do.
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So, I'm very
blessed to have a wife
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that, that is so mission
minded and loves the Lord
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and is willing to
sacrifice, you know,
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some of the things,
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the comforts of
this world for His glory.
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Now, we can't
ignore your outfits.
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We really can't.
It's absolutely beautiful.
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Where did you
get the outfits from?
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Where have you
been? What should I say?
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These are
actually Indian clothing.
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Yeah.
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This is the sari which
most of the married woman
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in India wear most of the time,
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they do their laundry, dressed
in similar dress and, you know,
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they go to church
dressed in similar.
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I mean they have the fancy ones
and they have it everyday ones
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but it's the same kind of outfit
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and then his is the men's suit
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like a wedding
suit type of thing.
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Wow.
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So very fancy.
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So you're sending out a
marriage statement here.
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It's beautiful.
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That's a very nice one
though too because I mean,
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in India it's anything,
India is very colorful.
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Yes.
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You know, one thing
that they don't know lack on
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with a country
that has so many needs.
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It's amazing where they get
all this beautiful material.
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Yes. It's gorgeous.
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Now let's talk about missions.
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How did... Go ahead sweetheart.
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Go ahead, you are saying it.
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I like the way you sound better.
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I'm just...
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I was gonna ask the same thing
how did you get into missions?
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Well, when we are leaving 3ABN,
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one of the last
things that happen was that,
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it was Danny and Bob Paulson
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and Garwin McNeilus to India.
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Oh. When they did the big...
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"To the On Go series."
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In 2001, January 2001
and I saw there 40,000 people
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sitting on the ground listening
to an evangelistic series.
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Wow.
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It dawned on me that
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there is so many
opportunities out there.
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People would accept Jesus
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if someone would just tell them.
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Yes.
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And the statistic at that time
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was 30 to 40
percent of all Indians
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would accept Jesus
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if someone was
there to tell them.
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That's 300 to
400 million people.
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Wow. That's huge.
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Yeah, and that blew me away.
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And I started
thinking about Lord,
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what if it was up
to me you know, what...
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How could I, how would
I reach that many people
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and a twofold
vision started to be born
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and one is to
reach the un-reached.
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The other one was to reengage
North America with missions
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because my
parents were missionaries,
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but over the course of my life
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it seems as though we
have fallen away from missions.
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That's right.
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From doing missions, no,
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I don't know very
many missionaries,
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not a lot of
called to be missionaries
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come from the pulpit.
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Not a lot of giving, all
that kind of stuff for missions.
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So that twofold vision
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and that kind of
percolated for several years
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but in 2005, the Lord
did an amazing miracle
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and kind of put it on our hearts
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and after about six
months of intense prayer,
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Lord I want to work for
you. I want to work for you.
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What do you want me to do?
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He just gave us this calm peace
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that we should go into missions
full time and launch out.
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We felt His calling.
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So we didn't have any money.
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We didn't have any equity,
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but we felt that
He was calling us
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to start this thing
called 'Jesus for Asia'.
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Actually God started it. Yeah.
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And there is a little...
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She was asking for story,
so here is a little story,
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we've all heard about
the tsunami that happened.
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Yes.
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In December 2004.
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Well, Jon was in
Thailand with some student
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and one of the things
he did while he was at PUC
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was he would take his students
00:20:18.85\00:20:20.18
and they would
tape missions programs
00:20:20.22\00:20:22.28
and they call them
video student missionaries
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'cause they would go and
show what's going on out there,
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you know, in these projects
and they were on a project up
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in Northern Thailand and
then the next day he went,
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actually the earthquake happened
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while they were in
Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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We were gonna go down to Phuket,
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we were thinking about it.
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But we went up to
Chiang Mai instead
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and Phuket was hit very hard.
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Very hard.
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Did you feel
the earthquake? Yes.
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We were up in third
floor of our hotel room
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and I... It's like
hey, who is shaking the bed.
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Oh my.
00:20:53.31\00:20:54.65
So, we realize
it was an earthquake
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and I go running out but...
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He was too late by then.
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If it had been
a real earthquake,
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I would have been
dead before I got out.
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And then we started
seeing the reports coming,
00:21:01.96\00:21:04.33
ten people dead,
hundred people dead
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and just kept on building.
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Kept building.
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And then six days
from there I went to India,
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ended up on the beach,
00:21:12.10\00:21:13.44
the pastor that I was
with took me to the beach
00:21:13.47\00:21:15.30
and I've interviewed survivors
of that tsunami that came up.
00:21:15.34\00:21:20.11
And lot of people on that
beach lost their lives there
00:21:20.14\00:21:23.75
and I've interviewed
the survivors of that.
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It was very sobering.
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And let praise the Lord,
you were not at that beach.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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At the time
that it had happened.
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Where you there also? No.
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I wasn't, I was
home with the children.
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Our young ones.
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Speaking of
children, how many do you have?
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We have two, we have
a boy whose age is 15,
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and our daughter is 13.
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All right.
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James and Marian.
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And they are very
much involved in missions?
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Yeah. Yes.
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They are big part of this.
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Now, 'Jesus for Asia'
00:21:53.34\00:21:55.81
what made you to
choose that name?
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Well we have, we
started out 'Jesus for India'
00:21:57.98\00:22:00.48
because after I
videotaped on the beach,
00:22:00.52\00:22:03.62
in fact that show was
played many times here on 3ABN
00:22:03.65\00:22:06.42
called "India Face to Face"
00:22:06.45\00:22:07.79
very...you
know, 15 minutes show.
00:22:07.82\00:22:10.09
We came home and
people started donating
00:22:10.13\00:22:12.99
for that ministry
for those beach people.
00:22:13.03\00:22:15.33
To put, to give them
rice, to replace their boats,
00:22:15.36\00:22:18.33
to give them you
know, the gospel.
00:22:18.37\00:22:20.54
And so, we sent some money there
00:22:20.57\00:22:21.90
but they didn't
just give them rice,
00:22:21.94\00:22:23.57
they started a church.
00:22:23.61\00:22:24.97
They took Bible workers. Oh.
00:22:25.01\00:22:27.01
Through
sponsoring Bible workers.
00:22:27.04\00:22:28.61
Just lay people to go
and get give Bible studies
00:22:28.64\00:22:30.78
and people started the church.
00:22:30.81\00:22:32.58
And so, we were like,
we could do this full time.
00:22:32.61\00:22:34.92
Wow.
00:22:34.95\00:22:36.28
'Cause there is a lot of people
in India that love the Lord
00:22:36.32\00:22:38.22
and are willing to work
full time for the gospel
00:22:38.25\00:22:40.46
if we just provide a
small stipend for them.
00:22:40.49\00:22:42.42
Yes.
00:22:42.46\00:22:43.79
And so that was what
began the 'Jesus for Asia'.
00:22:43.83\00:22:46.70
We were like, Lord,
you want us to start this
00:22:46.73\00:22:48.76
and we had to subtle conviction
that that's what we should do.
00:22:48.80\00:22:53.54
And you brought with you a
video roll that will give us
00:22:53.57\00:22:55.57
an overview of
some of the projects
00:22:55.60\00:22:58.84
and what's
included in 'Jesus for Asia"
00:22:58.87\00:23:01.08
we'll look at that
video roll right now.
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That's an overview.
00:24:14.52\00:24:15.85
Yes. Yes, we
have over 40 projects.
00:24:15.88\00:24:18.35
Over 40 projects,
there was one...What was it?
00:24:18.39\00:24:21.32
This Jungle... Jungle...
00:24:21.36\00:24:23.53
Jungle schools...
00:24:23.56\00:24:24.89
Jungle schools. Widow school.
00:24:24.93\00:24:27.10
Talk about the widow
school for a moment, I mean,
00:24:27.13\00:24:30.73
Jungle school, Widow school.
00:24:30.77\00:24:33.03
We've been to India,
00:24:33.07\00:24:35.64
most of the things
are focused on children
00:24:35.67\00:24:38.01
but talk about Widow?
00:24:38.04\00:24:39.61
Okay. Well, man
where do we start?
00:24:39.64\00:24:42.94
This brings me so much joy.
00:24:42.98\00:24:44.58
I love this but the
truth is that in India,
00:24:44.61\00:24:46.95
if a man leaves his wife,
the wife becomes like a beggar
00:24:46.98\00:24:51.02
and we have
these evening schools,
00:24:51.05\00:24:52.95
you saw pictures
of the kids eating.
00:24:52.99\00:24:54.79
For seven dollars a month,
00:24:54.82\00:24:56.16
you can sponsor kid to
get two hours of education
00:24:56.19\00:24:58.26
and a free meal every evening
00:24:58.29\00:24:59.63
because the biggest challenge
00:24:59.66\00:25:01.00
these kids have is malnutrition.
00:25:01.03\00:25:03.20
They're fighting
malnutrition. How much?
00:25:03.23\00:25:04.57
Seven dollars a month.
00:25:04.60\00:25:05.93
Quarter... That's quarter a day.
00:25:05.97\00:25:07.90
A child. And so we...
00:25:07.94\00:25:10.47
That includes a
rent of the building,
00:25:10.51\00:25:12.61
and the cook, and the
teachers, and all that,
00:25:12.64\00:25:14.68
so we've had these buildings
00:25:14.71\00:25:16.38
that we were renting all day,
00:25:16.41\00:25:18.21
all month for
the evening schools
00:25:18.25\00:25:20.65
and we found out this
one school, the first one,
00:25:20.68\00:25:23.35
a lot of the kids parents
mom, you know, the dads are left
00:25:23.39\00:25:27.02
and so the moms were
like putting themselves
00:25:27.06\00:25:30.06
in these really bad situations
in order to earn money.
00:25:30.09\00:25:32.93
Begging and another... Right.
00:25:32.96\00:25:35.13
To get money and so we're like,
what can we do for these women
00:25:35.16\00:25:37.93
and so we had one
lady that was a widow
00:25:37.97\00:25:40.74
that she put her kids to school
00:25:40.77\00:25:42.77
and took care of
herself by sewing.
00:25:42.80\00:25:45.37
She sews these little
things, these blouses and stuff
00:25:45.41\00:25:48.34
and people would
give her money for that.
00:25:48.38\00:25:49.71
And so she volunteered to be
00:25:49.74\00:25:52.08
what we're paying her a
salary to teach other people.
00:25:52.11\00:25:54.92
We bought the sewing machines
00:25:54.95\00:25:56.89
and now these women
are coming and learning
00:25:56.92\00:25:58.85
how to sew for
themselves and giving them.
00:25:58.89\00:26:01.36
We've got a picture of that.
00:26:01.39\00:26:02.72
So they're dressed
up and they say that,
00:26:02.76\00:26:05.33
that these women
they have new hope,
00:26:05.36\00:26:07.06
new joy, new
opportunities in life
00:26:07.10\00:26:09.26
so they can, they have
their self-esteem back,
00:26:09.30\00:26:11.33
they have their self worth back
00:26:11.37\00:26:13.37
and they can take
care of their kids
00:26:13.40\00:26:14.74
and stuff like that,
it's really exciting.
00:26:14.77\00:26:17.07
That's good,
because in some societies,
00:26:17.11\00:26:19.07
for example here in America,
you know, there're so many
00:26:19.11\00:26:21.48
single women and
single parenting,
00:26:21.51\00:26:24.41
the stigma of our
society is not nearly
00:26:24.45\00:26:27.45
by any measure of the
word like it is in India
00:26:27.48\00:26:30.09
and some of the countries
00:26:30.12\00:26:31.45
where it's male
dominated society.
00:26:31.49\00:26:32.82
And these women, they
don't have an education,
00:26:32.85\00:26:34.19
so they can't go, get a job.
00:26:34.22\00:26:35.56
They have no options.
00:26:35.59\00:26:36.93
Yeah. Wow.
00:26:36.96\00:26:38.29
Just completely
dependent on the man
00:26:38.33\00:26:39.73
and when he leaves,
they're like beggars.
00:26:39.76\00:26:42.33
Yeah.
00:26:42.36\00:26:43.70
Now how did that impact
to you as a wife, I know,
00:26:43.73\00:26:45.33
because when you
think about that?
00:26:45.37\00:26:46.77
Seeing them it
just, it breaks my heart
00:26:46.80\00:26:48.67
thinking about
how many there are
00:26:48.70\00:26:50.04
and we're only helping the few.
00:26:50.07\00:26:52.44
And there are so
many other places
00:26:52.47\00:26:54.54
that need the same
help and it just, yeah,
00:26:54.58\00:26:58.51
it's just thinking about
them as our sisters, you know,
00:26:58.55\00:27:02.15
and thinking how I would
feel in the same situation
00:27:02.18\00:27:04.85
and they don't know
God as their father,
00:27:04.89\00:27:06.65
I know, God is my
father and He will help me
00:27:06.69\00:27:09.02
but they don't know that.
00:27:09.06\00:27:10.39
Wow.
00:27:10.43\00:27:11.76
And it just, it
just, it touches my hearth,
00:27:11.79\00:27:13.13
it breaks my heart.
00:27:13.16\00:27:14.50
How were you teaching them?
00:27:14.53\00:27:15.86
The woman,
there is a woman there
00:27:15.90\00:27:17.53
that has done all this
stuff and so she teaches them.
00:27:17.57\00:27:21.20
We have like six sewing machines
00:27:21.24\00:27:25.54
and six ladies
per episode, per class
00:27:25.57\00:27:30.55
and she goes through
and they do it hands on
00:27:30.58\00:27:32.61
and it's a treadle machine.
00:27:32.65\00:27:34.02
Oh, not to worry
about, they get exercise.
00:27:34.05\00:27:36.15
Yeah. Yeah.
00:27:36.18\00:27:37.52
Exactly.
00:27:37.55\00:27:38.89
So we have a neat
story that goes with that,
00:27:38.92\00:27:40.36
they're in that same
village, there is a tailor
00:27:40.39\00:27:42.99
and he does all
sorts of clothing,
00:27:43.02\00:27:44.96
he does women's clothing
00:27:44.99\00:27:46.33
and men's
clothing and everything.
00:27:46.36\00:27:47.70
And he had not wanted
anything to do with our school
00:27:47.73\00:27:50.83
because he is a Hindu.
00:27:50.87\00:27:52.47
And he recently came to
the director of that school,
00:27:52.50\00:27:57.91
the evening
school and he told them,
00:27:57.94\00:27:59.54
you know, I can help teach
those ladies some other things,
00:27:59.57\00:28:02.04
so they can sew other things.
00:28:02.08\00:28:03.95
And so his heart was
softened by seeing these ladies
00:28:03.98\00:28:06.92
receiving the
help that they needed.
00:28:06.95\00:28:08.65
And the teacher, the lady,
00:28:08.68\00:28:10.65
the teacher, she
is staunch Hindu.
00:28:10.69\00:28:12.82
But she was willing to
help for the sake of the ladies
00:28:12.85\00:28:14.76
and all these ladies were Hindu.
00:28:14.79\00:28:16.12
And we don't ask them to become
Christian to help anybody.
00:28:16.16\00:28:18.06
Yes.
00:28:18.09\00:28:19.43
But she was seeing the prayers
00:28:19.46\00:28:21.33
that was going
on in the Christians
00:28:21.36\00:28:22.70
and her daughter was
married for two years
00:28:22.73\00:28:25.57
and was not getting pregnant.
00:28:25.60\00:28:27.20
And in that society
that was, it means...
00:28:27.24\00:28:30.04
That's a bad thing. Yeah.
00:28:30.07\00:28:31.41
Basis for divorce.
00:28:31.44\00:28:32.84
Okay, so she really
wanted to get pregnant
00:28:32.87\00:28:34.68
so she asked our
Christians if they would pray
00:28:34.71\00:28:37.55
for her daughter and within
two months she was pregnant.
00:28:37.58\00:28:40.95
Amen. Wow.
00:28:40.98\00:28:42.32
So the testimony
of our Hindu teachers
00:28:42.35\00:28:44.39
that you Christians,
00:28:44.42\00:28:45.75
yeah, I like your religion,
I like what you're doing,
00:28:45.79\00:28:47.62
keep doing it.
00:28:47.66\00:28:48.99
She's been blessed by
working with Christians.
00:28:49.02\00:28:50.63
Yeah. That's amazing.
00:28:50.66\00:28:51.99
And I also notice that you
have a national Bible workers
00:28:52.03\00:28:54.53
orphan, orphanages,
00:28:54.56\00:28:56.90
even the media
center talk about that
00:28:56.93\00:28:59.80
for a brief moment because...
00:28:59.83\00:29:01.50
Well, we started out
with the Bible workers
00:29:01.54\00:29:03.44
and this is an amazing...
00:29:03.47\00:29:05.37
They're local Bible
workers, they're native,
00:29:05.41\00:29:08.21
they speak the
language, they live there.
00:29:08.24\00:29:09.91
And for $60 a
month, you can sponsor
00:29:09.94\00:29:11.91
a full-time Bible worker.
00:29:11.95\00:29:13.35
And they go door to
door, knocking on doors,
00:29:13.38\00:29:15.55
would like
prayers, anything wrong
00:29:15.58\00:29:17.59
and Jesus answers
and miracles happen
00:29:17.62\00:29:20.12
and people's lives are changed.
00:29:20.16\00:29:21.49
It's just awesome.
00:29:21.52\00:29:23.49
We see an average of about
one person convert to Jesus
00:29:23.53\00:29:28.66
per month, per Bible worker.
00:29:28.70\00:29:30.77
Wow. Praise the Lord. Wow.
00:29:30.80\00:29:32.30
It's amazing.
00:29:32.33\00:29:33.67
Now it's not just India,
00:29:33.70\00:29:35.70
you have gone to other countries
00:29:35.74\00:29:38.01
within that window.
00:29:38.04\00:29:39.37
Correct, we have
Bible workers in Thailand
00:29:39.41\00:29:41.58
and lot of the mission schools
and the jungle school you saw,
00:29:41.61\00:29:45.15
that's in Thailand.
00:29:45.18\00:29:46.51
And then also in the
Philippines, Mindanao,
00:29:46.55\00:29:49.92
we have Bible workers
and a missionary family,
00:29:49.95\00:29:52.15
center Philippines
and then also in Mindoro,
00:29:52.19\00:29:55.56
going into tribes
that are un-reached
00:29:55.59\00:29:57.79
that are so primitive
00:29:57.83\00:30:00.10
that they are afraid
of breaking up the soil
00:30:00.13\00:30:03.60
so they hang their
dead people in the trees.
00:30:03.63\00:30:06.94
What? Wow.
00:30:06.97\00:30:08.37
And they start to stink
00:30:08.40\00:30:09.74
and so they have to
move to another village,
00:30:09.77\00:30:11.37
to another place so
they're always nomadic,
00:30:11.41\00:30:13.48
they have no health
understanding, no sanitation,
00:30:13.51\00:30:16.81
all this kind of stuff.
00:30:16.85\00:30:18.21
And so going into their...
00:30:18.25\00:30:20.05
We also have the media centers.
00:30:20.08\00:30:21.58
We have one in, in
the Philippines HCBN
00:30:21.62\00:30:25.95
that was broadcasting
all over the Philippines
00:30:25.99\00:30:28.52
but we ran out of fund.
00:30:28.56\00:30:29.89
HCBN? Yeah.
00:30:29.92\00:30:31.26
Okay.
00:30:31.29\00:30:32.63
It's running,
they ran out of funds
00:30:32.66\00:30:34.00
so they're no
longer on satellite
00:30:34.03\00:30:35.36
but we had up to 50,
40 or 50 cable channels
00:30:35.40\00:30:38.93
that were re-linking at
making it local and stuff
00:30:38.97\00:30:41.34
and so we're praying that
we can go back on satellite
00:30:41.37\00:30:43.27
and we start feeling
00:30:43.30\00:30:44.64
but they're
getting it by internet
00:30:44.67\00:30:46.01
but it's not as clean.
00:30:46.04\00:30:47.38
We also have started out
one of our camp meetings,
00:30:47.41\00:30:52.58
HCBN Indonesia.
00:30:52.61\00:30:54.22
Wow.
00:30:54.25\00:30:55.58
And this is broadcasting
on air, over satellite,
00:30:55.62\00:30:58.92
all across Indonesia,
00:30:58.95\00:31:01.39
now 15,000 islands
24/7 in the Bahasa language.
00:31:01.42\00:31:03.53
In the Bahasa language.
00:31:03.56\00:31:05.46
And that's really exciting
because it's led by a couple
00:31:05.49\00:31:08.23
that used to be a millionaires.
00:31:08.26\00:31:10.13
And they gave up
their wealth to serve God
00:31:10.17\00:31:13.50
and they say,
now, we're much happier
00:31:13.54\00:31:15.40
than we ever were
when we had all this money.
00:31:15.44\00:31:17.87
Have you learned
any of the languages?
00:31:17.91\00:31:19.87
We are working...
00:31:19.91\00:31:21.31
We struggle with
that because we go,
00:31:21.34\00:31:23.28
we go to India and we
start learning the language
00:31:23.31\00:31:25.41
and then we go to
somewhere else in India
00:31:25.45\00:31:27.78
and there is a
different language
00:31:27.82\00:31:29.15
and then we go to Thailand
00:31:29.18\00:31:30.95
and there is a
different language,
00:31:30.99\00:31:32.32
and then we go to
another area in Thailand
00:31:32.35\00:31:33.86
and there is a
different language.
00:31:33.89\00:31:35.22
So we know few words of a
bunch of different things.
00:31:35.26\00:31:37.33
Can you just... It's really sad.
00:31:37.36\00:31:38.83
Forget about it,
let's talk English
00:31:38.86\00:31:40.33
and having a translator.
00:31:40.36\00:31:41.80
Now you brought
some pictures with you.
00:31:41.83\00:31:43.83
I'd like you to walk
us through some of those
00:31:43.87\00:31:45.47
and kind of
explain what actually
00:31:45.50\00:31:48.14
in the different
fields what actually is.
00:31:48.17\00:31:49.80
What are we seeing here? Wow.
00:31:49.84\00:31:51.81
When we...
00:31:51.84\00:31:53.17
When we were young,
we're going overseas we said,
00:31:53.21\00:31:55.58
how can we get our
kids involved with missions.
00:31:55.61\00:31:59.21
And what better
way, there is two ways
00:31:59.25\00:32:00.65
to get your kids
involve with missions.
00:32:00.68\00:32:02.08
Number one is
to show an example.
00:32:02.12\00:32:03.89
Do it yourself, and
number two is to involve them.
00:32:03.92\00:32:06.39
That's definitely not America.
00:32:06.42\00:32:07.96
No.
00:32:07.99\00:32:10.46
This was in India
with our orphanage,
00:32:10.49\00:32:14.30
one of our student missionary
that's over there right now
00:32:14.33\00:32:17.37
is loving these kids
and just being changed.
00:32:17.40\00:32:20.04
He's there, they
are for nine months.
00:32:20.07\00:32:21.70
And then here is
our evening school.
00:32:21.74\00:32:24.07
That's the meal time
at the evening school.
00:32:24.11\00:32:26.17
Wow, that looks
familiar, doesn't it?
00:32:26.21\00:32:27.54
Yeah, sitting
on the floor. Yeah.
00:32:27.58\00:32:29.24
We've got about six different
evening schools with about 300.
00:32:29.28\00:32:34.48
We've figured that we
fed over 200,000 meals
00:32:34.52\00:32:37.82
since the
beginning of this program.
00:32:37.85\00:32:39.19
Wow.
00:32:39.22\00:32:40.56
And this is one
of our Bible workers,
00:32:40.59\00:32:41.92
this is how simply
the gospel goes forward,
00:32:41.96\00:32:44.36
sitting down and sharing
the gospel with these people
00:32:44.39\00:32:47.13
and they listen,
they close their eyes,
00:32:47.16\00:32:48.93
they ask for
prayers, they love it,
00:32:48.96\00:32:50.70
they're hungry for some hope
and something in their lives.
00:32:50.73\00:32:54.50
Yes. And so this
is Bible workers...
00:32:54.54\00:32:56.40
Look at all the
colors in that picture also.
00:32:56.44\00:32:59.27
Now Gayle
Haberkam, our viewers may,
00:32:59.31\00:33:01.48
your viewers may recognize her.
00:33:01.51\00:33:03.04
She's been here on 3ABN before
00:33:03.08\00:33:05.55
but this is our
62 year old nurse
00:33:05.58\00:33:07.58
up in the highland jungles
of Thailand, reaching out.
00:33:07.62\00:33:10.85
She goes from
village to village,
00:33:10.89\00:33:12.59
lot of times by walking.
00:33:12.62\00:33:14.06
It's very dangerous,
they got wild elephants
00:33:14.09\00:33:16.12
and snakes and
spiders and stuff like that
00:33:16.16\00:33:19.33
and she goes out,
she takes her gospel.
00:33:19.36\00:33:21.13
And the roads are horrific.
00:33:21.16\00:33:22.56
Wild elephants? Yes.
00:33:22.60\00:33:24.53
Well, it's kind of frightens us,
00:33:24.57\00:33:25.93
all the elephants
that surrounded us,
00:33:25.97\00:33:27.30
look at this one.
00:33:27.34\00:33:28.67
Yeah, this is one of
our younger missionaries,
00:33:28.70\00:33:30.04
this is with the Sharon family.
00:33:30.07\00:33:31.44
Sharon family
started out with...
00:33:31.47\00:33:33.21
They have four
boys and two parents
00:33:33.24\00:33:35.18
and the oldest boy went
with us on the mission trip
00:33:35.21\00:33:37.28
and he never came home.
00:33:37.31\00:33:38.81
Then talk to his
two other brothers
00:33:38.85\00:33:40.72
in coming over
and then his parents
00:33:40.75\00:33:42.68
and this is the youngest son.
00:33:42.72\00:33:44.12
The youngest son is
starting his own school
00:33:44.15\00:33:46.86
in a very remote area
with his own bare hands,
00:33:46.89\00:33:50.93
built the school and
he's teaching these people.
00:33:50.96\00:33:53.13
He looked stuck.
Yeah, he is tough.
00:33:53.16\00:33:55.00
No, he looked stuck.
00:33:55.03\00:33:56.60
He stuck too but
that was temporary.
00:33:56.63\00:33:58.70
Wow. He just lifted the bike.
00:33:58.73\00:34:00.70
That's what the
roads kind of look like.
00:34:00.74\00:34:02.24
Yeah. Yes.
00:34:02.27\00:34:03.61
In rainy season.
00:34:03.64\00:34:04.97
And this is one of
our missionary couples,
00:34:05.01\00:34:07.18
they're actually
working in Bangkok,
00:34:07.21\00:34:08.58
they have a burden for the city.
00:34:08.61\00:34:10.35
So they're there
with their little son
00:34:10.38\00:34:12.68
and they're gonna be
helping us, in the stroller.
00:34:12.71\00:34:16.18
You can't see anybody
in that stroller behind.
00:34:16.22\00:34:17.55
They're gonna be
opening a center of influence.
00:34:17.59\00:34:19.95
Because you know,
00:34:19.99\00:34:21.32
we often think of
missionaries in the jungle,
00:34:21.36\00:34:23.02
but the majority of people
in the world live in the city.
00:34:23.06\00:34:26.33
Wow, that's true,
that's a very good point.
00:34:26.36\00:34:28.36
So they're starting
missions in the city.
00:34:28.40\00:34:30.90
Now this map here
shows us the circle.
00:34:30.93\00:34:33.74
Tell us why
that circle is there?
00:34:33.77\00:34:36.24
Lot of people ask
why just Asia, you know,
00:34:36.27\00:34:39.07
when you're gonna
upgrade the rest of the world.
00:34:39.11\00:34:40.94
But lot of people don't
know that Asia is more than
00:34:40.98\00:34:43.91
half the world's
population in that circle.
00:34:43.95\00:34:47.05
More people live
inside that circle
00:34:47.08\00:34:49.08
than outside that circle.
00:34:49.12\00:34:50.45
That's huge. Yeah.
00:34:50.49\00:34:51.82
I mean because Africa
is not in that circle.
00:34:51.85\00:34:53.19
No.
00:34:53.22\00:34:54.56
Africa is only 15 percent
of the world's population.
00:34:54.59\00:34:56.12
Wow.
00:34:56.16\00:34:57.49
Fifty seven percent of the
world's population is an Asia.
00:34:57.53\00:35:00.50
So 57 percent
00:35:00.53\00:35:02.23
and yet the least amount
of investment in missions
00:35:02.26\00:35:05.50
goes to Asia.
00:35:05.53\00:35:07.27
There are 25
times more missionaries
00:35:07.30\00:35:09.67
in South Americas
than they are in Asia.
00:35:09.70\00:35:11.61
Wow.
00:35:11.64\00:35:12.97
And the majority of all,
00:35:13.01\00:35:14.34
there is about 1.1
million Adventists in Asia,
00:35:14.38\00:35:18.38
in Southeast Asia,
Southeast Asia division.
00:35:18.41\00:35:21.82
But 9,000 of them
are in the Philippines.
00:35:21.85\00:35:25.95
So the rest of
those you know, yeah.
00:35:25.99\00:35:29.12
That's a huge amount.
00:35:29.16\00:35:30.86
Right, right.
00:35:30.89\00:35:32.36
So when you talk about missions,
00:35:32.39\00:35:34.00
and do you wake
up in the morning
00:35:34.03\00:35:35.60
and never get overwhelmed.
00:35:35.63\00:35:37.27
Oh yeah, I can pry.
00:35:37.30\00:35:39.33
Thinking about it is just, yeah,
00:35:39.37\00:35:41.40
and the other
statistic that was on that map
00:35:41.44\00:35:43.67
that we didn't talk about was...
00:35:43.71\00:35:45.04
You can talk about
that later. Okay, all right.
00:35:45.07\00:35:46.78
But yeah, I mean, thinking about
00:35:46.81\00:35:48.24
how many people are out there
00:35:48.28\00:35:49.61
and we've seen so many,
I mean, we've driven down,
00:35:49.64\00:35:52.51
down the roads and
there are so many people
00:35:52.55\00:35:55.08
and it's like Lord how...
00:35:55.12\00:35:56.45
It's like rice grains.
00:35:56.48\00:35:57.82
Do they know, do
they know, do they know,
00:35:57.85\00:35:59.19
most of them you drive
down and you have to say, no,
00:35:59.22\00:36:01.16
they don't know.
00:36:01.19\00:36:02.52
There is no way they
know the name of Jesus.
00:36:02.56\00:36:04.13
Even in Thailand,
the central valley,
00:36:04.16\00:36:05.89
you can drive for
eight hours without coming in
00:36:05.93\00:36:07.66
with the 100 kilometers
of an Adventist Church,
00:36:07.70\00:36:10.47
just nobody there.
00:36:10.50\00:36:11.90
What's the
dominant religion there?
00:36:11.93\00:36:13.64
Here, Buddhism. Buddhism.
00:36:13.67\00:36:15.90
Animist, they're
syncretic, so they syncretistic,
00:36:15.94\00:36:19.54
so they choose and
pick and choose what
00:36:19.57\00:36:21.58
of which religion they like
so, but it's mainly Buddhism.
00:36:21.61\00:36:25.11
Now back, before
we came on the air,
00:36:25.15\00:36:29.38
you were sharing the
story about a Bible worker
00:36:29.42\00:36:32.85
in the Philippines and
he's on dangerous grounds.
00:36:32.89\00:36:36.32
Oh, yes.
00:36:36.36\00:36:37.69
He is actually one of our
missionaries, Mike Curtis,
00:36:37.73\00:36:39.79
Mike and Michelle Curtis
they work up in the mountains,
00:36:39.83\00:36:42.36
they're in Mindanao,
where there is a lot of rebels.
00:36:42.40\00:36:44.57
Yeah.
00:36:44.60\00:36:45.93
And so, they
work with the rebels.
00:36:45.97\00:36:47.70
Some of there
are amazing converts,
00:36:47.74\00:36:51.24
most staunch
converts, used to be,
00:36:51.27\00:36:55.14
shall we say hitman in the army
00:36:55.18\00:36:58.75
and so now they're in
like witness relocation program
00:36:58.78\00:37:02.08
and stuff like that.
00:37:02.12\00:37:03.45
So...
00:37:03.49\00:37:04.82
But, yeah, they've
been hijacked and held up
00:37:04.85\00:37:06.19
and his wallet
stolen and stuff like that
00:37:06.22\00:37:08.26
and the Lord had
protected them over
00:37:08.29\00:37:10.03
and over and over again.
00:37:10.06\00:37:11.39
But they're going in,
only the thing that drives him
00:37:11.43\00:37:13.19
as they're going
into mountainous areas
00:37:13.23\00:37:15.40
that have no gospel,
00:37:15.43\00:37:16.77
no one has ever
reached up in there
00:37:16.80\00:37:18.67
and so they're having to start
00:37:18.70\00:37:20.04
from the very, very
basics of script, you know,
00:37:20.07\00:37:21.90
what is the Bible, who
is Jesus, stuff like that.
00:37:21.94\00:37:23.91
You know, now I
understand more clearly
00:37:23.94\00:37:25.47
when I was in Mindanao,
00:37:25.51\00:37:27.24
I was singing with
the Heritage singers
00:37:27.28\00:37:28.78
there at the
college, Mountain View College
00:37:28.81\00:37:33.65
but there was a 2,000
people were there on the campus
00:37:33.68\00:37:36.85
at the time and many of them,
00:37:36.89\00:37:38.29
lot of them from
the community too
00:37:38.32\00:37:39.82
and I wanted to go
out and mingle among them
00:37:39.85\00:37:42.52
and the host
says no, you cannot.
00:37:42.56\00:37:45.53
I said, but I just
want to talk to some,
00:37:45.56\00:37:47.66
they said, no, you
cannot, you'll disappear,
00:37:47.70\00:37:49.46
we won't know where to find you.
00:37:49.50\00:37:50.83
Wow.
00:37:50.87\00:37:52.20
They said, they
said because they said,
00:37:52.23\00:37:53.57
not too many miles from here
00:37:53.60\00:37:54.94
the village is 90 percent Muslim
00:37:54.97\00:37:56.57
and I thought
in the Philippines.
00:37:56.60\00:37:58.04
They said, yeah, there are
more Muslims in the Philippines
00:37:58.07\00:38:01.04
then there are
in the Middle East.
00:38:01.08\00:38:02.74
And I thought
that's, that's not possible.
00:38:02.78\00:38:04.51
Oh, yes, it is.
00:38:04.55\00:38:05.88
But not just that,
00:38:05.91\00:38:07.25
you have the other
religions out are there to
00:38:07.28\00:38:09.92
so, the diversity evident,
talking about the rebels too,
00:38:09.95\00:38:12.72
that's another thing
they say, you never know
00:38:12.75\00:38:14.69
who you're gonna be meeting,
00:38:14.72\00:38:16.06
you might think
they're Christians
00:38:16.09\00:38:17.43
because this is
an Adventist Campus,
00:38:17.46\00:38:19.06
but we don't who is here.
00:38:19.09\00:38:20.60
Right.
00:38:20.63\00:38:21.96
So but you face that
00:38:22.00\00:38:23.33
on a daily basis
in the mission field.
00:38:23.37\00:38:25.20
In some of these areas, yeah.
00:38:25.23\00:38:26.57
In some of those areas.
00:38:26.60\00:38:27.94
Now projects in America,
let's talk about that too
00:38:27.97\00:38:31.67
because not only are
their projects in Asia
00:38:31.71\00:38:34.41
but there are
projects in America.
00:38:34.44\00:38:35.78
Yeah.
00:38:35.81\00:38:37.15
Well, like she
was gonna say the,
00:38:37.18\00:38:38.51
the statistics is
that even though you know,
00:38:38.55\00:38:42.02
most of the world lives in Asia,
00:38:42.05\00:38:44.49
92 percent of all
Christian giving...
00:38:44.52\00:38:47.49
Let's look at that graphic
00:38:47.52\00:38:48.86
because there's a
graphic here, right?
00:38:48.89\00:38:50.23
Yes, yes.
00:38:50.26\00:38:51.59
You can see there is a
box around North Americas.
00:38:51.63\00:38:54.53
Over 90 percent of
all Christian giving
00:38:54.56\00:38:57.13
goes to the people
living in that box.
00:38:57.17\00:38:59.27
Wow.
00:38:59.30\00:39:00.94
We've been told us
it's high as 96 percent.
00:39:00.97\00:39:03.10
Yeah, that's in North America.
00:39:03.14\00:39:04.57
That's correct.
00:39:04.61\00:39:06.04
So the vast, vast majority
of all giving goes to them,
00:39:06.07\00:39:10.95
supply the ministry to
those who speak English.
00:39:10.98\00:39:15.32
And so to speak huge disparity.
00:39:15.35\00:39:17.62
Huge.
00:39:17.65\00:39:18.99
And so that's why we're wanting
00:39:19.02\00:39:20.39
to get more people
involve with missions.
00:39:20.42\00:39:22.79
Not just
because of the disparity
00:39:22.82\00:39:24.73
but also because of the
joy that we've discovered
00:39:24.76\00:39:27.70
and those that have joined
us have discovered in missions.
00:39:27.73\00:39:31.17
So God has given us this task
00:39:31.20\00:39:33.20
of taking the
gospel to the world,
00:39:33.23\00:39:34.87
not because He hates
us, but because He loves us.
00:39:34.90\00:39:38.01
Not because it's a
odious job, difficult job
00:39:38.04\00:39:41.38
but because it's a joyful job.
00:39:41.41\00:39:43.28
It's our feast you know,
it's a feast for our spirit.
00:39:43.31\00:39:47.08
When you share the
gospel, that's what Jesus says,
00:39:47.12\00:39:49.52
you know, what He
said, when He gave the gospel
00:39:49.55\00:39:51.09
to that lady at the well.
00:39:51.12\00:39:52.59
So I have food that you
know not of this feeds my soul.
00:39:52.62\00:39:56.29
That's right. You know.
00:39:56.32\00:39:57.66
I know exactly when we
were having lunch Sabbath,
00:39:57.69\00:40:00.23
we had some people at our home
that were of a different faith
00:40:00.26\00:40:04.27
and the lady said
you're not eating.
00:40:04.30\00:40:05.93
And I quoted that very same text
00:40:05.97\00:40:07.30
because she was asking,
00:40:07.34\00:40:08.67
they were asking Bible questions
00:40:08.70\00:40:10.04
and I just set my dinner aside,
00:40:10.07\00:40:12.11
I said, I have food
that you know not of.
00:40:12.14\00:40:13.94
Exactly, that's right.
00:40:13.98\00:40:15.31
Whenever we got
into the word of God,
00:40:15.34\00:40:16.78
but then there
are some other things
00:40:16.81\00:40:18.15
that are added here.
00:40:18.18\00:40:19.51
But also we know that food
is an entering wedge, you know.
00:40:19.55\00:40:24.32
Do you use that to reach people
00:40:24.35\00:40:27.96
how to eat, write
and things like that?
00:40:27.99\00:40:30.33
Oh, yeah, the
health message is huge.
00:40:30.36\00:40:31.86
Oh, yeah.
00:40:31.89\00:40:33.23
They don't understand
the basics over there that,
00:40:33.26\00:40:35.26
that you should wash your hands,
00:40:35.30\00:40:37.00
that you
shouldn't use your clothing
00:40:37.03\00:40:38.90
to wipe your child
snotty nose or, you know,
00:40:38.93\00:40:42.00
they don't
understand some of these things
00:40:42.04\00:40:43.91
that we take for granted.
00:40:43.94\00:40:45.84
And, yeah, we share with them
00:40:45.87\00:40:47.71
and they see that we
care about their health
00:40:47.74\00:40:49.74
not just, you
know, whether or not
00:40:49.78\00:40:51.65
they become Jesus' followers.
00:40:51.68\00:40:54.02
And especially in the
cities, you know, the diet,
00:40:54.05\00:40:56.28
with the western diet
coming in more affluence,
00:40:56.32\00:40:58.95
lot of diabetes and
lot of health problems.
00:40:58.99\00:41:01.26
And so, health is a
big deal in Bangkok.
00:41:01.29\00:41:05.26
And so, now our missionaries
that are going there,
00:41:05.29\00:41:07.10
they're
starting a health center.
00:41:07.13\00:41:09.30
Yeah, health center.
00:41:09.33\00:41:10.67
How many missionaries
do you have out there?
00:41:10.70\00:41:12.70
We have, I think six families
00:41:12.73\00:41:15.10
in various parts
of mostly in Thailand.
00:41:15.14\00:41:17.81
We have a young couple.
00:41:17.84\00:41:20.74
Well, he's American in Cambodia
00:41:20.78\00:41:23.41
and his wife is a
local from she is Khmer girl.
00:41:23.45\00:41:26.75
Yeah.
00:41:26.78\00:41:28.12
So anyway, we've got
00:41:28.15\00:41:29.98
but they're marrying
so they're expanding,
00:41:30.02\00:41:33.15
the families are getting bigger.
00:41:33.19\00:41:35.02
What do you call a Khmer girl?
00:41:35.06\00:41:36.62
They say Khmer.
00:41:36.66\00:41:37.99
Khmer, yeah, that's
the Cambodian nationals,
00:41:38.03\00:41:40.26
that's their name is the Khmer.
00:41:40.30\00:41:41.63
Khmer.
00:41:41.66\00:41:43.00
You might have
heard of the Khmer Rouge.
00:41:43.03\00:41:44.37
Yes, yes.
00:41:44.40\00:41:45.73
Khmer is the people group.
00:41:45.77\00:41:47.10
The language spoken
in Cambodian is Khmer.
00:41:47.14\00:41:49.47
Okay.
00:41:49.50\00:41:50.84
Yeah.
00:41:50.87\00:41:52.21
That's a good connection
Khmer Rouge, everybody.
00:41:52.24\00:41:53.98
I mean, if you've been
around any length of time,
00:41:54.01\00:41:55.91
Khmer Rouge is just
a very good example.
00:41:55.94\00:41:57.55
Mission TV, talk
about Mission TV?
00:41:57.58\00:41:59.61
Well, again we've
been enjoying mission.
00:41:59.65\00:42:03.18
We've got involved with missions
00:42:03.22\00:42:04.55
a couple of years
into it, we've realized,
00:42:04.59\00:42:05.92
man, we're having so much fun.
00:42:05.95\00:42:07.32
So it's so great, we love this.
00:42:07.36\00:42:09.02
Why aren't more people
aware of the joys in this
00:42:09.06\00:42:12.13
and so, you know, we've got to,
00:42:12.16\00:42:13.53
we've got to share
this with more people.
00:42:13.56\00:42:15.36
So we started traveling
around in the different churches
00:42:15.40\00:42:17.70
and sharing the joys
we were having in missions
00:42:17.73\00:42:19.67
and the call of God to missions.
00:42:19.70\00:42:21.44
People are so afraid of
getting involved with missions
00:42:21.47\00:42:23.64
but it's not, there is
nothing to be afraid of.
00:42:23.67\00:42:25.67
The biggest fear is
getting sucked into the comfort,
00:42:25.71\00:42:28.31
so that we lose
place for God in our lives.
00:42:28.34\00:42:31.41
And so, we started sharing
00:42:31.45\00:42:33.85
and we're going to
different churches,
00:42:33.88\00:42:35.22
we realized this
is going too slow,
00:42:35.25\00:42:37.22
we need a channel.
00:42:37.25\00:42:38.59
And so, we started Mission TV.
00:42:38.62\00:42:40.99
And so, now, you can
watch it on MissionTV.com
00:42:41.02\00:42:44.16
where it's 24/7 missions.
00:42:44.19\00:42:46.49
Wow.
00:42:46.53\00:42:47.86
Mission programs, any
ministry that puts together,
00:42:47.90\00:42:49.93
mission shall
we put it on there.
00:42:49.96\00:42:51.50
We do our own productions
and different things like that.
00:42:51.53\00:42:54.37
And so, we see
ourselves is missions advocates.
00:42:54.40\00:42:57.77
Which one is on Roku?
00:42:57.81\00:42:59.87
That one's on Roku.
00:42:59.91\00:43:01.34
Mission TV is on Roku.
00:43:01.38\00:43:02.71
Oh, Roku also.
00:43:02.74\00:43:04.08
Yes, it's on there.
00:43:04.11\00:43:05.45
And what about faith camp?
00:43:05.48\00:43:06.82
Faith camp, we started doing,
00:43:06.85\00:43:09.22
we realized that a
lot of missionaries...
00:43:09.25\00:43:10.59
It was part of the
same reason, you know,
00:43:10.62\00:43:12.39
realizing that in North America,
00:43:12.42\00:43:14.06
there is a disconnect
that most of the church
00:43:14.09\00:43:16.29
in North America believes
the work is almost done.
00:43:16.32\00:43:18.39
Yes.
00:43:18.43\00:43:19.76
We've heard sermons saying
that 95 percent of the world
00:43:19.79\00:43:22.83
has the gospel already
and it's like what, no,
00:43:22.86\00:43:26.60
if they can speak English,
00:43:26.63\00:43:27.97
if they can afford
to buy a satellite dish,
00:43:28.00\00:43:30.17
if they can
understand it once they get it,
00:43:30.21\00:43:32.67
then they have access to it.
00:43:32.71\00:43:34.88
But so many of these,
00:43:34.91\00:43:36.24
it's not available
in their languages,
00:43:36.28\00:43:38.01
I mean, it's only available
in English or, you know,
00:43:38.05\00:43:41.22
maybe Spanish, English but
it's not available in Thai,
00:43:41.25\00:43:45.35
it's not in, there is not...
00:43:45.39\00:43:47.72
Kawa, Kachin,
Karen, you know, Shan,
00:43:47.76\00:43:52.16
all these different languages.
00:43:52.19\00:43:53.53
Even Tamil, Telugu, you know,
bunch of these other languages,
00:43:53.56\00:43:56.16
they're slowly
starting to have programming
00:43:56.20\00:43:58.40
but the vast
majority of the world,
00:43:58.43\00:44:00.34
it's not available to them
00:44:00.37\00:44:01.70
and least of all in some sort of
00:44:01.74\00:44:03.91
understandable format for them.
00:44:03.94\00:44:05.77
You know, there
are so many things
00:44:05.81\00:44:07.28
we talk about the world view.
00:44:07.31\00:44:08.98
You know, they're just so
vastly different from ours
00:44:09.01\00:44:11.18
that if they see
something in our world view,
00:44:11.21\00:44:13.52
they still won't understand
it even if they speak English.
00:44:13.55\00:44:16.48
Wow. So...
00:44:16.52\00:44:17.85
So that we and we saw
that lot of missionaries
00:44:17.89\00:44:19.92
didn't have a chance to share
00:44:19.95\00:44:21.82
and so we wanted to put
together on camp meeting.
00:44:21.86\00:44:24.23
Missions camp meeting.
00:44:24.26\00:44:25.59
And so, it's all
about faith and missions
00:44:25.63\00:44:27.20
because I don't
believe you can do missions
00:44:27.23\00:44:28.76
without faith.
00:44:28.80\00:44:30.13
No. No, no, no, not at all.
00:44:30.17\00:44:31.60
And so we have
these camp meetings
00:44:31.63\00:44:33.13
and out of these camp meetings,
00:44:33.17\00:44:34.50
this last camp
meeting we had this summer.
00:44:34.54\00:44:36.10
I think we've had
like 21 of them now,
00:44:36.14\00:44:37.97
some here in America
and many overseas in Asia.
00:44:38.01\00:44:41.84
Five out of the nine speakers
got their start in faith camp.
00:44:41.88\00:44:45.58
Oh, wow.
00:44:45.61\00:44:46.95
So the first one was in 2007
00:44:46.98\00:44:48.75
and we always have
one in the northwest
00:44:48.78\00:44:51.42
and trying one in the
east and stuff like that so.
00:44:51.45\00:44:53.89
This last graphic that
has some squiggly lines on it,
00:44:53.92\00:44:57.03
just get to that and explain
that before we're done here.
00:44:57.06\00:44:59.49
This is really heart wrenching.
00:44:59.53\00:45:01.00
And this is one of the reason
00:45:01.03\00:45:02.43
God brought us
into a difficult time
00:45:02.46\00:45:05.23
in our ministry with funding
00:45:05.27\00:45:07.44
and I started to
realize the gospel.
00:45:07.47\00:45:10.11
This is a problem
throughout our church
00:45:10.14\00:45:12.64
that we can ignore
missions and still feel okay,
00:45:12.67\00:45:15.74
but if you notice
that the top line,
00:45:15.78\00:45:17.28
the blue line, this
is from 1933 on the left
00:45:17.31\00:45:19.88
all the way
through 2005 on the right.
00:45:19.91\00:45:21.92
Okay.
00:45:21.95\00:45:23.28
Okay, this is the
trend in giving in our church
00:45:23.32\00:45:25.25
to the North American division.
00:45:25.29\00:45:26.62
Okay.
00:45:26.65\00:45:27.99
The blue line on
the top is tithes.
00:45:28.02\00:45:29.52
And this is adjusted for
inflation and its per person.
00:45:29.56\00:45:32.56
Okay.
00:45:32.59\00:45:33.93
That's an average
per person giving.
00:45:33.96\00:45:35.30
The yellow line on
the bottom on the left
00:45:35.33\00:45:37.73
in the middle on the
right is a local church budget,
00:45:37.77\00:45:39.90
giving the local church budget
00:45:39.93\00:45:41.27
follow the trend
of in its giving.
00:45:41.30\00:45:42.64
Continuing to go up, right?
00:45:42.67\00:45:44.01
World missions.
00:45:44.04\00:45:46.47
It's the green
line. It's the green line.
00:45:46.51\00:45:48.38
And as you can see,
if somebody in, in 1933
00:45:48.41\00:45:51.01
if somebody gave $10 to Thai,
00:45:51.05\00:45:52.81
they'd given
additional $6 to foreign mission
00:45:52.85\00:45:55.08
so the average, the
average Adventist in 1933
00:45:55.12\00:45:58.25
was giving 6 percent of their
income to foreign missions.
00:45:58.29\00:46:02.82
Wow.
00:46:02.86\00:46:04.19
Today they're giving 28
cents per $10 given in tithes.
00:46:04.23\00:46:08.86
So the average
North American Adventist
00:46:08.90\00:46:10.90
gives $21 a year
to foreign missions.
00:46:10.93\00:46:13.67
That's all. That's it.
00:46:13.70\00:46:15.04
Through the
church. Through the church.
00:46:15.07\00:46:16.40
You know, that's
less than an evening meal
00:46:16.44\00:46:18.41
for two people practically.
00:46:18.44\00:46:20.11
Less than a bag of dog food.
00:46:20.14\00:46:21.48
Oh, wow.
00:46:21.51\00:46:22.84
Less than you know two pizzas.
00:46:22.88\00:46:24.95
And then a lot of that money
doesn't go to the un-reached,
00:46:24.98\00:46:27.45
it goes to established mission
where there are, you know,
00:46:27.48\00:46:31.69
countries where
there are already missions,
00:46:31.72\00:46:33.62
already Christianity in it.
00:46:33.66\00:46:35.19
And so, in general Christianity
in all North America,
00:46:35.22\00:46:40.16
American spend more money
on their Halloween costumes
00:46:40.20\00:46:43.00
for their pets than they do
00:46:43.03\00:46:44.83
to reach the un-reached
people groups of the world.
00:46:44.87\00:46:46.80
What a shame. Wow.
00:46:46.84\00:46:48.17
That's a startling statistic.
00:46:48.20\00:46:50.24
That's an overall
Christian statistic,
00:46:50.27\00:46:52.91
that's not just Adventist.
00:46:52.94\00:46:54.28
Yeah.
00:46:54.31\00:46:55.64
And that the sad reality of
it is, as you said a moment ago,
00:46:55.68\00:46:58.01
Natalie, that this
disparaging ideology
00:46:58.05\00:47:03.65
that the gospel is almost done.
00:47:03.69\00:47:05.85
And I never
forgot that few years ago
00:47:05.89\00:47:08.59
when Dwight Nelson
was preaching on 3ABN.
00:47:08.62\00:47:10.36
He says, his
indignation arose of his,
00:47:10.39\00:47:13.50
he says how can we be
so arrogant in America
00:47:13.53\00:47:15.66
saying please Lord
Jesus, high up and He's come
00:47:15.70\00:47:18.50
and some people
have never heard His name
00:47:18.53\00:47:20.20
around the world.
00:47:20.24\00:47:21.57
Yes. Yes.
00:47:21.60\00:47:22.94
And that just really
sunk into my thought there
00:47:22.97\00:47:25.41
and I don't want the
time to get away from you
00:47:25.44\00:47:27.18
but go ahead and
share that with me.
00:47:27.21\00:47:28.54
Well, the church, our church,
00:47:28.58\00:47:31.08
our wonderful faith is in
925 languages around the world
00:47:31.11\00:47:34.48
and we praise God for that.
00:47:34.52\00:47:35.85
There is only 6000 to go.
00:47:35.88\00:47:37.55
Oh, only 6000 to
go, 6000 languages.
00:47:37.59\00:47:41.42
Languages. Dialect.
00:47:41.46\00:47:42.79
Languages. It's lot of people.
00:47:42.82\00:47:44.16
Wow.
00:47:44.19\00:47:45.53
So, but think of it, John,
00:47:45.56\00:47:47.06
and if you get 10 percent
00:47:47.10\00:47:50.10
of our church
members in North America.
00:47:50.13\00:47:52.17
Ten percent to go,
that's a 110,000 people.
00:47:52.20\00:47:55.77
Wow. That's huge.
00:47:55.80\00:47:57.47
That's not that much.
00:47:57.51\00:47:58.84
All of the sudden 6000
languages isn't that undoable.
00:47:58.87\00:48:02.14
No, it isn't.
00:48:02.18\00:48:03.51
We could do it, if
we had this raising up
00:48:03.55\00:48:05.31
revival for missions.
00:48:05.35\00:48:07.38
God would move and I believe
00:48:07.42\00:48:09.15
this work can be
finished very soon.
00:48:09.18\00:48:10.99
then become a reality.
00:48:11.02\00:48:13.96
Absolutely.
00:48:13.99\00:48:15.32
I want to make sure and let
our viewers and listeners know
00:48:15.36\00:48:17.03
how they can get in
touch with both of you
00:48:17.06\00:48:18.56
because this is
amazing information
00:48:18.59\00:48:20.46
and 'Jesus for Asia'
00:48:20.50\00:48:22.26
is available to come to
your church or community,
00:48:22.30\00:48:24.63
your faith community
wherever you like to invite them
00:48:24.67\00:48:26.94
to know more about
this missionary ministry.
00:48:26.97\00:48:30.21
Here is the
information that you need.
00:48:30.24\00:48:34.44
Billions of people in Asia
00:48:34.48\00:48:35.98
still have not heard the
wonderful news of Jesus Christ.
00:48:36.01\00:48:38.98
If the Holy Spirit
impresses you to help,
00:48:39.01\00:48:41.35
then you can
write to Jesus for Asia,
00:48:41.38\00:48:44.09
PO Box 1221,
Collegedale, Tennessee 37315.
00:48:44.12\00:48:49.89
That's Jesus for Asia,
PO Box 1221, Collegedale,
00:48:49.92\00:48:55.13
Tennessee 37315.
00:48:55.16\00:48:57.53
You can call 423-413-7321.
00:48:57.57\00:49:01.80
That's 423-413-7321.
00:49:01.84\00:49:06.11
Or you can visit them
online at Jesus4Asia.org.
00:49:06.14\00:49:10.75
That's Jesus4Asia.org.
00:49:10.78\00:49:14.68
Call or write to them today.
00:49:14.72\00:49:18.52
You know when you think
about what we just heard,
00:49:18.55\00:49:20.29
6000 languages to go.
00:49:20.32\00:49:24.26
Missions is
something that we surely
00:49:24.29\00:49:26.73
in North America need to
really focus on getting back to,
00:49:26.76\00:49:30.67
I think I
mentioned this years ago,
00:49:30.70\00:49:32.20
Andrews
University is to be called
00:49:32.23\00:49:33.84
Emanuel Missionary College.
00:49:33.87\00:49:35.40
Now it's Southern University
00:49:35.44\00:49:36.77
with Southern
Missionary College.
00:49:36.81\00:49:38.44
Well, it's like we
deleted the word missions
00:49:38.47\00:49:40.58
and then we are hoping to
get the mission of the gospel
00:49:40.61\00:49:42.98
done in time for
the coming of Jesus.
00:49:43.01\00:49:45.45
Well, we are not
done yet with the program
00:49:45.48\00:49:47.65
but what we've
heard thus far, Honey,
00:49:47.68\00:49:49.62
what's the biggest need
that the church has today.
00:49:49.65\00:49:51.92
Missions. Wow.
00:49:51.95\00:49:53.29
Mission.
00:49:53.32\00:49:54.66
And you don't have to
be in the mission field,
00:49:54.69\00:49:57.13
you don't have to
take an airplane ticket
00:49:57.16\00:49:58.83
and go over to
the mission fields.
00:49:58.86\00:50:00.30
But there are ministries
like 'Jesus for Asia'.
00:50:00.33\00:50:03.40
Jon and Natalie Wood.
00:50:03.43\00:50:05.47
We're gonna talk about
00:50:05.50\00:50:06.84
how to get you
involved in giving.
00:50:06.87\00:50:09.10
We're gonna take a
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that you need about 3ABN.
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But on the other
side of that newsbreak,
00:50:13.91\00:50:16.01
we have a surprise
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Because you're
gonna get a chance
00:50:18.15\00:50:19.51
to meet their children.
00:50:19.55\00:50:21.02
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