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
another 3ABN Today program.
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We're so glad that
you're able to join us today.
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Thank you for letting
us come into your home
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or may be you're
driving along in your car
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and listening to
this on the radio.
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Thank you for allowing us
to come into your home or car,
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wherever that is
each and every day.
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You know, we
appreciate your prayers
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and your financial
support of the ministry of 3ABN.
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You know, we say that it
seems like on every program
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but we truly are grateful
because if it weren't for you
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and without the
Lord Jesus Christ,
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3ABN would not be here.
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So it's a team, truly is a team.
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And so Jill and I are
glad to be joining you today.
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We have some
exciting guests with us
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which Jill will
introduce in just a moment.
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But it has to do
with missionaries,
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real life missionaries.
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We have them here
in our studios today.
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And, you know, when I was a
kid there was a hardback book
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that my mom would read
to me before I could read,
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and it wasn't entitled
When Tommy Goes To Africa.
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And I'll say, Mom,
read that book again.
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So she read the book
When Tommy Goes To Africa,
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and I enjoyed
those missions stories.
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Well, today, we're
not talking about Africa,
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we're talking about
another part of the world
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that has some...
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that this person will be
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sharing some great
missionary stories from.
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And it's always neat
to see how God is leading
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and working not only
maybe here in the United States
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but in other parts of the world.
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But I want to encourage
you too because you know,
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you can always listen
to a program like this
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and say, oh, well,
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that's there, I'm here,
wherever your home is and say,
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ah, that's great, I'll never
be able to be a missionary,
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like I never went to a
foreign land as a missionary.
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But you know what,
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when God calls you
to be a missionary,
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you can be right where you are.
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So it could be New York,
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it could be out in
the country somewhere.
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My parents live
in West Virginia,
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could be West
Virginia, California,
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anywhere in the world.
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Wherever God has placed you,
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that's your
opportunity to be a missionary.
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So take heart,
we're going to hear about
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missions stories
around the world,
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but also you can be a
missionary where you are.
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So who do we have with us today?
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Hey, man, I'm
excited about the program
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and the missionaries
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that we have here in the studio.
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That's right.
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We'll start at the far
end, here we have Natalie Wood,
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and you and your
husband John Wood
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are no stranger to 3ABN.
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In fact, Natalie,
you, you used to work here,
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you and your husband.
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Yeah, John did,
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John worked here full
time in 1998 to the year 2000.
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Okay. And I remember you guys.
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Yeah?
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Because I came in
1999, you were here.
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And I remember,
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now for those of you that have
followed 3ABN for many years,
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do you remember the open called
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3ABN On The Road?
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Your husband put that together,
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and I always remember that one
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where the lid of the trunk,
so to speak is closing here,
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and you see a face.
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That's your husband,
that's John Wood's face.
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Yeah, I was on the
road with the truck
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when he was doing that open,
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and so he put that
face in so I could see him.
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Wow. Yeah, that's great.
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Now, Natalie, you are co-founder
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and your husband is
president of Jesus for Asia.
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Right.
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And we want to unpackage that
story what Jesus For Asia does,
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we're going to talk about them
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and the story of Jesus For Asia,
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what they're
doing with mission work
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around the world,
especially in Asia.
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And we have a special guest
who is a foreign correspondent
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for Jesus for Asia,
that's Jonathan Hill.
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And, Jonathan, we're so
glad to have you here as well.
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I'm happy to be here.
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And...
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Your work started
to hear your stories
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and how God has
worked in your life
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because you've been a part
of Jesus For Asia for how long?
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Just over two years.
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And I know that
God has some mega work.
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God has done some
amazing things in your life
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and you've
experienced an amazing things
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what God has done
for you absolutely,
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so we'll un-package that soon.
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And we have some wonderful,
those mission stories.
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Oh, my.
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And what God is
doing in your life.
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And he has some miracle stories,
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so we're excited
about this program.
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We have a scripture first
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and this is I asked Jonathan
what scripture he would like.
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And he said this
is one that has been,
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I don't know if it's a
mission statement or something
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that has been a
call on his life.
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And he'll talk about it
more during the program.
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But the scripture
is Matthew 28:18-20.
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Oh, yeah.
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The Bible says,
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"And Jesus came and
spoke to them, saying,
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'All authority, or
King James says all power
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has been given to me
in heaven and on earth.
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Go therefore and make
disciples of all nations,
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baptizing them in
the name of the Father
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and of the Son and
of the Holy Spirit,
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teaching them to
observe all things
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that I have commanded you.
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And lo, I am with you always,
even to the end of the world."
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Today we could say even
to Asia, God is with us.
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Before we hear their story,
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we're going to go to
our music at this time.
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We're blessed to have
Sandra Entermann here with us
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and we always
love to hear her music.
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The anointing of the
Holy Spirit is on her.
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And Sanya Kantarovsky is
going to be on the piano,
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and the song they're going to be
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ministering to
us now is entitled
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"I am willing, Lord."
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Sometimes when I am down
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And I don't feel
like you're around,
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oh Lord
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Feelin' so sorry for me
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Not knowing that all the while
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You're working to see
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if,
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when I'm put thru' the fire
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I'll come out shining like gold
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Oh Lord,
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please don't ever
stop working with me
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'Til you see
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I can be all You want me to be
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I am willing, Lord
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I am willing, Lord
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To be just exactly
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what You want me to be
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I am willing, Lord
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I am willing, Lord
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To be just exactly
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what You want me to be
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Often when I ask why
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Teach me then on
You to rely, oh Lord
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You surely know what is best
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May I learn that in confidence
and strength I can rest
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Then, leaning fully on You
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My questions fall one by one
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Dear Lord,
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Please don't ever
stop working with me
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'Til you see I can
be all You want me to be
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I am willing, Lord
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I am willing, Lord
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To be just exactly
what You want me to be
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I am willing, Lord
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I am willing, Lord
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To be just exactly what You want
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To be just exactly what You want
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I want to be just
exactly what You want
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Need to be
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Wow.
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Amen. What a powerful song.
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"I am willing, Lord."
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Praise the Lord.
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You know, we're
talking about missions today
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and being willing
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to do whatever God is
asking each one of us to do.
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And so I just pray,
I know, you the same.
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Amen.
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Want to be willing, Lord,
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to do whatever
you're asking us to do.
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So again we have missionaries.
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Tell us who we
have with us today.
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We do.
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We have Natalie
Wood with Jesus for Asia
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and Jonathan Hill who
is a foreign correspondent
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for Jesus for Asia.
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Now if our friends at home
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may be haven't heard
about Jesus for Asia,
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may be they
didn't catch a program
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you and your
husband John are on before,
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or aren't familiar
with some of the programs
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that we actually air on
3ABN that you all produce.
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Tell us just a little bit
about what Jesus for Asia is?
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We are a ministry, we
work in India, Thailand,
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the Philippines, Cambodia
and several other countries
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that we don't
talk about too widely
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because of the situation there.
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More closed.
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Yeah, more closed,
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not necessarily as close
to some areas but more close.
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Can you go through
those countries again?
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What were they again?
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India. India.
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Thailand. Two.
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Philippines. Three.
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Cambodia. Four.
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And then there's... Others.
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Yeah.
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Okay, so you must
have a massive staff
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then because that's
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you're not just
talking little-bitty cities,
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these are countries.
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Right, well, we do have
local people that work with us.
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That's our, that was
how we started actually
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was doing the local
Bible workers in India.
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And now we have over
200 Bible workers in India.
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And then we have work also now,
yeah, we have children's work,
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we have evening
schools and orphanage,
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and a widow's
sewing school in India.
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And then in Thailand
we have a media team,
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staffed mostly by local
people there in various,
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working in various languages.
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And then we have
some missionaries
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that are there from
America working there.
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And then in the Philippines,
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we have a media team
that we work with also
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and we have some Bible workers.
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And one of our
friends from Idaho
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claimed the South
Philippines for his inheritance,
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so he and his
wife are working there
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and they have Bible
workers that they work with.
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And so they're in a
dangerous area, but anyway.
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The scope of the
ministry is incredible.
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Yeah, we have
over 40 projects now.
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So it's kind of
to narrow it down,
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it's a little bit hard but
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our focus so to speak,
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our challenge
is to enable people
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to spread the gospel,
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whether they're local worker
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or a foreign
worker that wants to go.
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And so that's what we do.
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And we also,
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the Lord has asked us to be
part of asking North America
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to be involved
with missions again.
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And we'll talk
about that a little more.
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Sure.
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But basically our
church here in North America
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has for a large part abandoned
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without even realizing
the foreign mission field
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and that's something
that people if they knew
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it wouldn't be that way.
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But because of the lack of
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actual missionaries in the field
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people believe the
age of missions is over,
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the age of missionaries is over,
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but there's large
portions of the vineyard
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where little to
nothing is happening.
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There are places
where things are happening,
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praise the Lord for that,
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which encourages
all of us, you know.
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But there's a lot
more need out there.
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Well, I think
it's neat too because
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when we hear stories like
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we're going to hear
from you Jonathan, surely.
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You know that's encouraging
because when people have
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the missions stories like
I mentioned the book earlier
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When Tommy Goes to Africa,
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it seems like there was
a lot of missionary books
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because my mom had
a lot of old books,
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and most of them
were mission books.
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Yes, yeah.
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We had the Eric B. Hares
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and some of those other ones,
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great mission stories
which then puts missions
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sort of on the forefront.
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And missionary
spoke at camp meetings.
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You had Josephine
Cunnington Edwards,
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telling mission
stories, she's hysterical.
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I met her once.
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And Eric B. Hares. Yeah.
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Oh, really?
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I don't think I ever
saw her in person but
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challenged by
her stories you know.
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And all the Norman
Young Burt books and you know,
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all these ones and yeah,
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there's a lack now of stories
coming back from the field
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because there aren't as
many missionaries out there.
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So part of your
work with Jesus for Asia
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is to bring that
back to the States
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to show the
need, is that correct?
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Right, right, to
show the need, yes.
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So then has missions been
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a big burden of
you and your husband
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because I know you were
here at 3ABN so quickly,
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I know we want
to get to Jonathan.
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But you went from 3ABN...
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To PUC, John was teaching there
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in the film and
television department,
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and while he was there,
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he started taking his students
overseas to a mission project
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that didn't have
any exposure whatsoever
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to get funding or you know,
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things like that
and they would do
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what they called Video
Student Missionary Programs.
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Okay.
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And so they would
do a little taping
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and make a short
video about the project
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and then people
could see it and therefore
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learn about it, pray for it,
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and become
involved in other ways.
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Wow. So...
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So then a fire was lit
then when you made those trips?
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Yes, he did. We
need to start on own.
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He did.
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Yeah, James and I didn't go,
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the children and I didn't go
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until they were four and
six, and then we went to India.
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Wow. Yeah.
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That's great. But...
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So Jesus for
Asia is how old then?
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How long is it approximately?
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Eleven years,
we started in 2005.
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Yeah, fantastic.
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So...
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And you spend how
much of your time overseas,
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how much of your
time here in the States?
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Most of our time
right now is in America
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because of the burden
that the Lord has placed on us
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to get North America involved,
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and He's been
enabling us to send people like
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Jonathan over to see the
work and to report on the work.
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So our trips end up being
John goes at least once a year,
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usually twice or three times
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for administrative
trips and things like that.
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Amen.
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As far as reporting,
we have Jonathan now.
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Amen.
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So, Jonathan, have
you always had missions
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as a burden like a fire in
your soul to be a missionary?
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You know, it's interesting
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when we were talking
about the mission books
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because I grew
up on mission books.
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Did you, really? I
read all those books.
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All right.
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We would read them as a
family. Let me shake your hand.
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Yeah, I was so inspired myself.
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Oh, yeah, and
that was, you know,
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that was in the
forefront and very much there.
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And having that background
with the mission stories
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and then also
going to faith camps
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that Jesus for Asia put on
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which is just
saturated with missions,
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and missionaries, and
faith, and it's just amazing.
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And they're held here in
the States, the faith camp?
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Yes, in the States
and also some overseas.
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We've had some in Asia,
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in Philippines,
Indonesia, and Malaysia.
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Like a weekend experience?
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Yeah, Wednesday
through Sunday noon.
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Right, yeah.
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Wednesday evening.
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So through that
the mission books
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and the camp meeting,
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since I was 10,
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I wanted to be a missionary.
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Wow.
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I made that decision, I
want to be a missionary,
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that's what I want to do.
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Amen.
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And, you know, I was
very active in the church,
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I played piano, I
did different things,
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Sabbath schools, and you know,
you name it, I probably did it.
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I was very active
through my teen years
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but I was empty inside.
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Even though you were active.
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Even though I was active, I
was doing things, I was busy,
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but when it came
right down to it,
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there was a hole
inside of me, I wasn't filled.
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Wow.
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And I realized that
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I was trying to take
things from the world
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to fill that hole.
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So even though I was active,
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even though I
wanted to be a missionary,
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I hadn't really
surrendered myself to God.
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And it wasn't until
I made that surrender
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that I experience
that joy and peace
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that only Christ can give.
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Wow.
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Did you feel in your heart
00:17:29.98\00:17:31.31
that you were
holding something from God,
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like He was
calling for something
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and you were saying, no,
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I don't want to give that to you
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or do you even know
you hadn't surrendered?
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A little bit of both.
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I knew that I wanted to have
a little taste of the world,
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I didn't go away, I
wasn't doing drugs, you know.
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But I was trying to take
things from there to fill that.
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I knew that
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the only way I could have
that peace was total surrender
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but I wasn't ready to make that,
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I didn't want to
do that just yet.
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And once I did
then everything changed.
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How old were you
when you made that choice,
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just totally surrender to Jesus?
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Well, I first went
overseas when I was 18
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and that was really
the start of the journey
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of complete total surrender
to God's leading in my life,
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whatever that may be.
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So when you were 18,
was this Jesus for Asia,
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is this or there's some
other mission experience or...
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It wasn't
through Jesus for Asia,
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my brother was
actually in Africa,
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starting up a TV
station and he needed help.
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So I went there for
three and a half months
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and then my first time in Asia.
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John and Natalie
were doing a vision trip,
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which is basically they
go to Thailand, Cambodia,
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India two months, travel around,
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see a bunch of
different projects
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to plant that
vision in people's minds
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of the need and of
the joy of service.
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Amen.
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And so I went there,
we went through Thailand,
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and one of the first
experiences that I had there
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which was in Bangkok,
and I have a picture of that.
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Bangkok is this
massive, massive...
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I've never been to Bangkok.
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Oh, there we go. Oh, my.
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Huge.
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Over 12 million people.
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Wow, it's very developed. Yeah.
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Very much so,
looks like something
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you see in the States.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It was, it was
amazing to be there
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and it was like two days after
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we got there and you know,
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we were meeting up
with a group and everything,
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and we went out,
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we visited some
tourist spots and we,
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you know, at the end of
the day came back to the hotel.
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And I was sitting in my hotel,
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thinking about the day and
the different things I saw,
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I thought, you know,
00:19:34.60\00:19:36.91
I wonder if I saw
a Christian today.
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Wow, what a thought?
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I never had to think that before
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because I've never
been in a place where,
00:19:43.61\00:19:44.95
you know, there's no Christians.
00:19:44.98\00:19:47.78
But I seriously had to think,
00:19:47.82\00:19:49.15
I wonder if I saw
a Christian today.
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What is the religion
of those in Thailand?
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Buddhist.
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Mostly Buddhist,
there are animist pockets,
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but mostly Buddhist.
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Mostly Buddhist, okay.
00:20:00.46\00:20:01.80
So back to you,
you had this thought,
00:20:01.83\00:20:03.16
I wonder if I
even saw a Christian.
00:20:03.20\00:20:04.53
Yeah, and it was, it
was just like this...
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whoa experience, like, really?
00:20:07.74\00:20:10.54
You know, this places is...
00:20:10.57\00:20:11.91
because I've heard you know,
00:20:11.94\00:20:13.27
the mission stories
and we had missionaries
00:20:13.31\00:20:14.64
coming to church
and everything, I heard,
00:20:14.68\00:20:16.08
you know, there's people
that don't know about Jesus,
00:20:16.11\00:20:18.38
but I hadn't seen them.
00:20:18.41\00:20:20.45
When I saw them, I wonder,
if I saw a Christian today.
00:20:20.48\00:20:23.65
And it's just totally...
00:20:23.69\00:20:25.02
whoa. Yes.
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So what did that do
for you, that thought?
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It really, it really changed,
00:20:27.79\00:20:29.42
it started to
change the way I thought
00:20:29.46\00:20:32.09
about missions and about life.
00:20:32.13\00:20:35.36
Had you made a total
surrender before that point
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or were you
still in the process?
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In the process. Okay.
00:20:39.33\00:20:41.20
I'm sorry, Natalie,
go ahead. That's okay.
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One of the things
that we say, you know,
00:20:42.80\00:20:46.61
it's a perspective of the world
00:20:46.64\00:20:48.04
that we don't
get here in America.
00:20:48.08\00:20:50.11
And I call it God's reality.
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Mrs. White particularly says
00:20:52.25\00:20:53.95
that God sees all the
suffering of every human,
00:20:53.98\00:20:57.39
you know, all at the same time
00:20:57.42\00:20:58.95
and if we could understand
what kind of, you know,
00:20:58.99\00:21:01.92
thing that is, it
would, it would break us.
00:21:01.96\00:21:04.03
I mean, we wouldn't
be able to handle it.
00:21:04.06\00:21:05.93
And so we say
it's God's reality.
00:21:05.96\00:21:08.16
And so when we take
people on vision trips,
00:21:08.20\00:21:10.07
we want to show
them God's reality,
00:21:10.10\00:21:11.80
God's reality is that
more people live like them
00:21:11.83\00:21:14.70
than live like us.
00:21:14.74\00:21:16.07
More people don't know Him
00:21:16.10\00:21:18.01
than you know,
we have ever seen.
00:21:18.04\00:21:20.51
So, you know, it's just
the opening of the eyes,
00:21:20.54\00:21:24.08
kind of thing to
see that perspective.
00:21:24.11\00:21:25.95
Absolutely.
00:21:25.98\00:21:27.32
So what happened next?
00:21:27.35\00:21:28.68
So you have this amazing thought
00:21:28.72\00:21:30.49
and this is all
part of your process
00:21:30.52\00:21:31.85
of the surrender to the Lord
and to your mission service.
00:21:31.89\00:21:34.16
So what happened?
00:21:34.19\00:21:35.52
Yeah, well, after that
it was, it was, you know,
00:21:35.56\00:21:37.86
that little spot,
that little thought
00:21:37.89\00:21:40.06
but it just kind of was
rolling around in my head
00:21:40.10\00:21:42.26
the remainder of the trip.
00:21:42.30\00:21:43.63
And we spent a month in India
00:21:43.67\00:21:45.00
and I've a picture
of an Indian village.
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Okay.
00:21:46.40\00:21:47.74
One that we were at and...
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What a contrast?
00:21:49.30\00:21:50.64
Yeah. Wow.
00:21:50.67\00:21:52.01
Yeah, big contrast.
00:21:52.04\00:21:53.38
But you know, we
had this big group
00:21:53.41\00:21:54.81
and we would travel by bus from,
00:21:54.84\00:21:56.85
you know, place to place.
00:21:56.88\00:21:58.55
And I remember sitting, it
was dreadfully hot this day,
00:21:58.58\00:22:01.32
you know, there was no
AC, It was just murderous.
00:22:01.35\00:22:04.75
And we're just going
through these villages
00:22:04.79\00:22:08.36
and I would pass a
village, pass another village,
00:22:08.39\00:22:11.76
and I think
00:22:11.79\00:22:13.46
I wonder if they ever
had a Christian live there.
00:22:13.50\00:22:15.30
Wow.
00:22:15.33\00:22:16.67
I wonder if they
ever heard about Jesus,
00:22:16.70\00:22:18.10
because there's more than
400,000 villages in India.
00:22:18.13\00:22:21.14
Four hundred thousand villages?
00:22:21.17\00:22:22.64
Villages that have
no Christian presence.
00:22:22.67\00:22:24.61
Wow.
00:22:24.64\00:22:25.97
My goodness.
00:22:26.01\00:22:27.34
Just driving, you know,
00:22:27.38\00:22:28.71
and it was the
same thing as Ban...
00:22:28.74\00:22:30.08
it was like, whoa,
00:22:30.11\00:22:32.01
this is a whole
different world over here.
00:22:32.05\00:22:34.58
Okay, so numbers,
that's villages, so numbers,
00:22:34.62\00:22:36.99
do you have any numbers
00:22:37.02\00:22:38.35
as to what that
represents for as people,
00:22:38.39\00:22:39.72
you have 400,000 villages?
00:22:39.75\00:22:41.62
So, I mean not on
there's millions...
00:22:41.66\00:22:43.96
Yeah, there's millions.
00:22:43.99\00:22:45.69
That have no
Christian experience.
00:22:45.73\00:22:47.06
And they say that 30
to 40 percent of Indians
00:22:47.10\00:22:49.46
would accept the
gospel if someone told them.
00:22:49.50\00:22:51.67
They would.
00:22:51.70\00:22:53.03
Would accept the
gospel if someone told them.
00:22:53.07\00:22:55.17
You know, this is heavy.
00:22:55.20\00:22:56.81
I'm just sitting here thinking,
I'm in my little bubble,
00:22:56.84\00:23:01.84
you know, just thinking,
oh, I'm spreading the gospel,
00:23:01.88\00:23:04.81
I'm reaching out for Jesus.
00:23:04.85\00:23:07.08
And there's people who
never even heard of Jesus.
00:23:07.12\00:23:08.98
But would.
00:23:09.02\00:23:10.35
But would if someone would go.
00:23:10.39\00:23:11.92
That's powerful.
00:23:11.95\00:23:13.29
Wow. Wow.
00:23:13.32\00:23:14.66
Praise the Lord.
00:23:14.69\00:23:16.02
That, I mean, it's
speaking to my heart
00:23:16.06\00:23:18.26
and I hope it's speaking
to your heart at home too
00:23:18.29\00:23:20.56
that there's people,
millions, billions of people.
00:23:20.60\00:23:23.77
Wow. That's incredible.
00:23:23.80\00:23:25.50
You know, they say that
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there's 2.74 billion
people in the world today
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have no access to the gospel.
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2.7 billion?
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There's no
scripture in their language,
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no portion of the scripture,
there's no missionary,
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there's no, you
know, there's no access.
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Nothing.
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I mean, we can
go to a bookstore,
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we can go, you know, anywhere.
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Many places in the
world, they have, you know,
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some access but there's...
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Yeah, it's really,
00:23:50.76\00:23:52.13
there's a lot of
people out there that don't...
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There's a huge need.
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Right, exactly.
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Massive.
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And that's part
of our burden. Amen.
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You know, and sometimes
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I believe it can
almost get overwhelming like,
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oh, my we're just
one, you know, just that,
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you know, I'm one,
you're one, you're one, but...
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Yeah, you asked
earlier how much staff we have.
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We actually have,
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we have one
full-time bookkeeper,
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we just started a
part-time bookkeeper to help
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because things are increasing.
00:24:15.12\00:24:16.45
We have a gentleman that
does mission awareness for us
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which is our
development officer so to speak.
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And John and I,
and at this point
00:24:22.16\00:24:24.43
that's that we
have one volunteer,
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that's a part-time volunteer
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and then we have
Jonathan in the field.
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So that's it for the
home office so to speak.
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Yeah, absolutely.
00:24:31.67\00:24:33.00
But you know, I think
what's neat though is that
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God is making a difference.
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Yes, it's Him that
makes the difference.
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They use this
analogy a lot of that storm
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that blew all the
starfish up on the beach
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and the dad and the little boy
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walking along and
little boy felt bad
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for the starfish that
were washed up on the sand,
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so he threw one back in
and then he throw another one.
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And the dad said, well,
stop doing this son, look at,
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there's thousands
across this beach,
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it doesn't make any difference.
00:24:52.05\00:24:53.39
And the little boy
said, oh, Daddy, it does,
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it made a
difference for this one,
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he picked up another starfish
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and threw him back in the ocean.
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So we do our part. Amen.
00:24:59.09\00:25:00.43
God has given you a burden.
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And it's God that...
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there's a quote in Ellen White,
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she says that our part
is infinitesimally small...
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no, immeasurably
small, is what she says.
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So our part really is nothing,
it's God that does everything,
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but He needs the
willing hands and feet.
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Amen. That's right.
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You know, that's
our part is to be
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the willing hands and feet
as the song said, I am willing.
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Yeah, He needs a
surrendered heart,
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which God was
leading you on this journey.
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That's right.
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So you're going through
India and 400,000 villages.
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Yeah, it totally changed
the way I looked at my life,
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because I had
heard about these people
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but I hadn't seen
them, and when I saw them
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it made me realize
00:25:34.86\00:25:36.20
it doesn't matter
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if I want a good job in America,
00:25:38.03\00:25:40.57
a nice house, a nice car,
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a nice family,
that doesn't matter.
00:25:42.20\00:25:44.84
Because there's people on
the other side of the world
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that have never
heard the name of Jesus.
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I cannot live my life as I want
00:25:51.45\00:25:54.65
when they don't
know about Jesus.
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So that has to be my focus,
00:25:56.75\00:25:58.22
that has to be my number
one ultimate goal in life
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is to fulfill the
commission that God gave us.
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So God kept speaking
to you through this trip
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like the Holy Spirit working
in your heart through this,
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you call it the vision trip,
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through the vision trip to
make that complete surrender,
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to give yourself
fully to the service of Him.
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Amen. Amen.
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That's powerful.
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So then your
journey continues on then
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to becoming part of
then Jesus for Asia?
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Right.
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The next year,
00:26:25.31\00:26:26.65
in January 2014 I
joined Mission TV,
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Jesus for Asia.
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Mission TV is a
project of Jesus for Asia.
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Because you have the
media background, right?
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You...
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Well, I didn't really
have a media background
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but I had a
desire to be in media.
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Okay. Amen.
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And I had talents, I
was really into photography
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and so I was
leaning in that direction.
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That's one thing that we do
is we allow volunteers to come
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and they learn from John.
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That's right,
John is very talented.
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Yeah.
00:26:51.87\00:26:53.21
Absolutely, he is. Yeah.
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And so I went kind of
as a intern you might say.
00:26:54.61\00:26:58.88
I started out as a video editor,
00:26:58.91\00:27:00.65
that's all I
did, three weeks later
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I was directing shows.
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Three weeks? Live shows.
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Not because I was qualified
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but because I was
the only one that could.
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It's funny how life puts
us in a situation sometimes.
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Yeah. Yeah.
00:27:13.19\00:27:14.53
It's either sink or swim,
but when Jesus is in control,
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you're going to
swim and make it.
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Right. Right.
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And if you have a problem,
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it's okay
because God's in charge,
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you need to just say okay, Lord,
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just help us with this problem.
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Yeah.
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So I was there
for about five months
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and I was really feeling like
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I was making a
difference, I was, you know,
00:27:31.25\00:27:33.18
things were
working out, I was making,
00:27:33.21\00:27:35.45
I felt like I had a place.
00:27:35.48\00:27:37.45
And then I get this email,
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"We need you to come to Thailand
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and teach
English, like next week."
00:27:40.72\00:27:42.86
And this came
from John and Natalie.
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One of our missionaries...
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Okay. In Thailand.
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One of the
missionaries in Thailand.
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They had an emergency
need and they needed me.
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I was like,
okay, Lord, you know,
00:27:50.13\00:27:52.53
I'm willing
00:27:52.57\00:27:54.27
but this doesn't fit into
the whole media talent thing.
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Yeah.
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Teach English, you know. Right.
00:27:59.81\00:28:01.14
It's a bit different
than directing the program.
00:28:01.18\00:28:02.74
Right, right. Yeah,
a television program.
00:28:02.78\00:28:04.28
And so, I was,
I just said, Lord,
00:28:04.31\00:28:06.38
if you want me to go,
00:28:06.41\00:28:07.75
you need to provide the ticket
to get me there, I'm willing.
00:28:07.78\00:28:12.02
He provided someone
to pay for the ticket.
00:28:12.05\00:28:14.22
Amen.
00:28:14.26\00:28:15.59
And in 20 days, I
was there in the jungle
00:28:15.62\00:28:17.06
and I have a picture of
one of the buildings there.
00:28:17.09\00:28:19.39
This jungle school
with the Sharon family.
00:28:19.43\00:28:21.76
It was just... Wow.
00:28:21.80\00:28:23.63
You can see it's
jungle, it's primitive.
00:28:23.67\00:28:25.73
It's a bamboo building.
00:28:25.77\00:28:28.20
We live eight
kilometers down the river,
00:28:28.24\00:28:30.04
I had to learn to
drive the boat in three days.
00:28:30.07\00:28:31.91
Just incredible experiences.
00:28:31.94\00:28:34.28
And this is not your
normal American boat,
00:28:34.31\00:28:36.04
let me just tell you that.
00:28:36.08\00:28:37.41
Okay.
00:28:37.45\00:28:38.78
So it's not
like a nice speedboat
00:28:38.81\00:28:40.15
that you see on a...
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No, I wish we
had a picture of it
00:28:41.55\00:28:42.88
but it's what they
call a long tail boat.
00:28:42.92\00:28:44.55
So it's actually a long boat
00:28:44.59\00:28:46.55
and then the engine is actually
at the end of a large shaft.
00:28:46.59\00:28:50.09
Well, the engine is...
00:28:50.13\00:28:52.16
On the boat.
00:28:52.19\00:28:53.53
You have a handle
and then this pole
00:28:53.56\00:28:55.26
goes out with the propeller.
00:28:55.30\00:28:56.83
Oh, my goodness.
00:28:56.87\00:28:58.20
Basically, so that
when the water gets low
00:28:58.23\00:28:59.67
you can lift it
out if you need to,
00:28:59.70\00:29:01.74
you know like that.
00:29:01.77\00:29:03.37
But it gives you
enough body work.
00:29:03.41\00:29:04.77
So in 20 days
you came from, okay,
00:29:04.81\00:29:06.47
you were in the
United States, right?
00:29:06.51\00:29:07.84
Right. Okay.
00:29:07.88\00:29:09.21
So in 20 days you
were living in this hut,
00:29:09.24\00:29:11.11
is it right, that we just saw?
00:29:11.15\00:29:12.48
Right.
00:29:12.51\00:29:13.85
And you learned to drive a boat
00:29:13.88\00:29:15.22
that I don't even quite
picture in my mind, right?
00:29:15.25\00:29:18.29
Yeah. That
sounds pretty difficult.
00:29:18.32\00:29:20.76
Shocked. And you
began teaching English.
00:29:20.79\00:29:22.62
Yeah. Right.
00:29:22.66\00:29:23.99
Yeah, it was, it was
totally different primitive,
00:29:24.03\00:29:27.16
there's no cell coverage,
we had a solar panel for power.
00:29:27.20\00:29:30.10
What, no cell phones?
00:29:30.13\00:29:31.47
No cell phones, no WiFi.
00:29:31.50\00:29:33.00
The coconuts didn't give
off a very good WiFi signal.
00:29:33.03\00:29:34.97
They didn't. They didn't.
00:29:35.00\00:29:36.34
Yeah, it was just...
00:29:36.37\00:29:37.71
yeah.
00:29:37.74\00:29:39.07
So how did you feel,
00:29:39.11\00:29:40.44
because I mean,
that's a big shock.
00:29:40.48\00:29:41.81
I mean, 20 days?
00:29:41.84\00:29:43.18
Folks, I mean
that's not much time,
00:29:43.21\00:29:44.55
you think 20 days,
that's less than one month.
00:29:44.58\00:29:45.91
You went from
living with basic anything
00:29:45.95\00:29:47.28
that you needed to there.
00:29:47.32\00:29:48.65
So how did you feel?
00:29:48.68\00:29:50.02
I mean, you felt
God calling you...
00:29:50.05\00:29:51.39
Absolutely.
Peace, you felt peace?
00:29:51.42\00:29:52.75
I felt peace only because
I knew God was calling me.
00:29:52.79\00:29:55.76
That was the only
reason because, you know,
00:29:55.79\00:29:57.89
it was a little
uncomfortable, I'll say that.
00:29:57.93\00:30:00.43
But I got used to it
00:30:00.46\00:30:01.80
and I learned
to really enjoy it.
00:30:01.83\00:30:03.90
Amen.
00:30:03.93\00:30:05.27
And it was, it was,
I was so much happier,
00:30:05.30\00:30:08.00
you know, over there.
00:30:08.04\00:30:10.31
I was, it was just so
fulfilling to me to be there
00:30:10.34\00:30:14.51
and to be in that environment.
00:30:14.54\00:30:18.08
I'm sure you must
have some amazing stories.
00:30:18.11\00:30:19.45
Yes.
00:30:19.48\00:30:20.82
I mean, because, yeah,
being there in the bush,
00:30:20.85\00:30:22.55
I mean which is called
the bush or the jungle.
00:30:22.58\00:30:23.92
Jungle, yeah.
00:30:23.95\00:30:25.29
Surely, I'm sure you've
got something to share with us.
00:30:25.32\00:30:26.65
I want to hear a story.
00:30:26.69\00:30:28.02
Absolutely, I
got a story for you.
00:30:28.06\00:30:29.39
All right.
00:30:29.42\00:30:30.76
So the Sharon
family, their youngest son,
00:30:30.79\00:30:32.13
his name is Travis Sharon.
00:30:32.16\00:30:33.50
And he has his own school
that's separate from the school
00:30:33.53\00:30:35.80
that I was at,
you saw a picture.
00:30:35.83\00:30:38.20
And I took my camera
00:30:38.23\00:30:39.67
and I was going to do a
couple of videos just to,
00:30:39.70\00:30:42.50
you know, keep the media up
00:30:42.54\00:30:44.01
and I was there
anyway, so why not.
00:30:44.04\00:30:46.78
So I decide I was
going to go with Travis
00:30:46.81\00:30:48.54
to go and visit his school.
00:30:48.58\00:30:50.55
Well, we went on a motorbike
and I have a picture of that.
00:30:50.58\00:30:54.92
A thousand kilometers. Oh, wow.
00:30:54.95\00:30:56.38
Okay, what is that, I mean,
00:30:56.42\00:30:57.75
I am not too good
at the metric system.
00:30:57.79\00:30:59.12
Six hundred
miles. Six hundred miles.
00:30:59.15\00:31:00.49
Six hundred miles?
On this motorbike here.
00:31:00.52\00:31:01.86
On that motorbike right there.
00:31:01.89\00:31:03.22
Okay, so I know
what saddle sore means.
00:31:06.13\00:31:08.73
It made worth a ride.
00:31:08.76\00:31:10.10
I've never ridden
600 miles on a bike,
00:31:10.13\00:31:11.83
my motorbike like that.
00:31:11.87\00:31:13.20
Yeah, it was amazing.
00:31:13.23\00:31:16.71
And the story that
I want to tell you is
00:31:16.74\00:31:19.27
on the way to that school.
00:31:19.31\00:31:20.64
We traveled for
about 12 hours in one day
00:31:20.68\00:31:24.21
and we stopped
at a pastor's house
00:31:24.25\00:31:25.75
to spend the night.
00:31:25.78\00:31:27.58
And so he laid out some mats
00:31:27.62\00:31:29.92
and by 9 o'clock
we went to sleep.
00:31:29.95\00:31:33.25
And the next thing
I know I'm sitting up
00:31:33.29\00:31:38.63
and all I know is
that there's something
00:31:38.66\00:31:40.90
back here that hurts really bad.
00:31:40.93\00:31:44.17
On the back of your neck.
00:31:44.20\00:31:45.53
Back of my
neck, right back here.
00:31:45.57\00:31:46.97
Now do you sleep with mosquito
netting over there or...
00:31:47.00\00:31:49.70
That house, they had screen
00:31:49.74\00:31:51.47
so we didn't have mosquito nets.
00:31:51.51\00:31:52.84
Okay, okay.
00:31:52.87\00:31:54.21
You sleep in a regular nice bed
00:31:54.24\00:31:55.58
with the
mattresses and everything?
00:31:55.61\00:31:57.21
Some pillows. About that big.
00:31:57.25\00:31:59.18
Okay, just a couple of inches.
00:31:59.21\00:32:00.55
Yeah, on the floor
mattress it was a tile floor.
00:32:00.58\00:32:03.59
So a pretty nice house
by standards over there.
00:32:03.62\00:32:07.09
And so I wake up
00:32:07.12\00:32:08.46
and there's this thing back here
00:32:08.49\00:32:09.82
that hurts really bad.
00:32:09.86\00:32:11.19
And before I
even think or wake up
00:32:11.23\00:32:12.56
to think about anything,
00:32:12.59\00:32:13.93
I'm just you know,
taking a swat at it
00:32:13.96\00:32:16.36
and it was still there.
00:32:16.40\00:32:18.83
And so I did it
again and it let go.
00:32:18.87\00:32:23.04
Let go.
00:32:23.07\00:32:24.41
It let it go
and I hear something
00:32:24.44\00:32:26.11
moving away from me.
00:32:26.14\00:32:27.48
Now what did it
feel like, furry?
00:32:27.51\00:32:29.74
I didn't feel, all I knew
is it hurt really, really bad.
00:32:29.78\00:32:33.11
That was all that I...
00:32:33.15\00:32:34.48
I mean, I'm still
waking up, you know.
00:32:34.52\00:32:36.18
And so I hear
moving away and I'm like,
00:32:36.22\00:32:37.55
I've got to
figure out what this is.
00:32:37.59\00:32:38.92
Absolutely.
00:32:38.95\00:32:40.29
So I grab my flashlight
00:32:40.32\00:32:41.66
and I shine it over
where I heard the noise,
00:32:41.69\00:32:44.53
and I see a
snake about that long.
00:32:44.56\00:32:45.89
Oh, wow.
00:32:45.93\00:32:48.16
Now I... It had bitten you?
00:32:48.20\00:32:49.53
It had bitten me.
00:32:49.56\00:32:50.90
Oh.
00:32:50.93\00:32:52.27
Now, I've been hearing
stories about this snake,
00:32:52.30\00:32:54.04
you take two steps
you're dead if it bites you.
00:32:54.07\00:32:56.10
They call it
the two-steps snake.
00:32:56.14\00:32:57.97
Not the snake that bit me,
00:32:58.01\00:32:59.34
I didn't know what kind it was,
00:32:59.37\00:33:00.71
but they were
telling stories about, okay,
00:33:00.74\00:33:02.08
so this specific
snake, I forget the names.
00:33:02.11\00:33:03.81
But this snake,
this snake, five minutes.
00:33:03.85\00:33:06.82
So these are all
over in Thailand.
00:33:06.85\00:33:08.18
Right,
dangerous, poisonous snakes.
00:33:08.22\00:33:10.39
So all you know you've
been just bitten by a snake.
00:33:10.42\00:33:11.99
Right. And I'm thinking...
00:33:12.02\00:33:14.12
That's terrifying.
00:33:14.16\00:33:15.72
Yeah, and I am thinking
00:33:15.76\00:33:17.09
I wonder if I'm going
to die in a few minutes.
00:33:17.13\00:33:18.66
Exactly.
00:33:18.69\00:33:20.03
Well, I never had
to think that before,
00:33:20.06\00:33:22.06
you know, I mean, really.
00:33:22.10\00:33:23.43
I wonder if I'm going
to die in a few minutes.
00:33:23.47\00:33:25.57
And it was just like, Lord,
00:33:25.60\00:33:26.94
save me, you know, Lord, help.
00:33:26.97\00:33:30.44
And then I was like,
okay, I need to wake up Travis.
00:33:30.47\00:33:33.04
Well, Travis is a
little bit hard to wake up.
00:33:33.07\00:33:34.51
So I had to get over there,
poke him, and yell at him.
00:33:34.54\00:33:37.25
That was Travis, an
American missionary.
00:33:37.28\00:33:38.65
Yeah, American missionary.
00:33:38.68\00:33:40.02
All right.
00:33:40.05\00:33:41.38
So he's not a
native from Thailand.
00:33:41.42\00:33:42.75
No, no, no, they're missionary.
00:33:42.78\00:33:44.25
So I was trying to
wake him up and he wakes up,
00:33:44.29\00:33:47.62
he opens his
eyes, he looks at me
00:33:47.66\00:33:49.42
and then he closes his eyes.
00:33:49.46\00:33:52.79
I am like this is not working,
00:33:52.83\00:33:55.26
so I said, Travis, I
just got bit by a snake.
00:33:55.30\00:33:58.47
And that guy sat straight up,
he looks at me and said what?
00:33:58.50\00:34:01.74
Yeah.
00:34:01.77\00:34:03.10
It woke him up. Of course, yeah.
00:34:03.14\00:34:04.47
Right.
00:34:04.51\00:34:05.84
And so I'm like, yeah,
seriously, right back here.
00:34:05.87\00:34:07.21
So I gave him my flashlight,
he looks and he says,
00:34:07.24\00:34:10.18
it wasn't poisonous.
00:34:10.21\00:34:11.68
How does he know that?
00:34:11.71\00:34:13.05
He was looking to
look at the bit mark.
00:34:13.08\00:34:14.92
At the bit mark,
you can tell that?
00:34:14.95\00:34:16.28
Right. Okay.
00:34:16.32\00:34:17.65
So he tells me, he's
like, it wasn't poisonous.
00:34:17.69\00:34:19.35
I am like praise the Lord,
I'm not going to die, you know,
00:34:19.39\00:34:22.46
this is okay.
00:34:22.49\00:34:24.59
And then he says, actually,
I didn't see any bit marks,
00:34:24.63\00:34:27.50
so I think you're
just feeling things.
00:34:27.53\00:34:30.67
I am like, oh, trust
me I felt it, I felt it.
00:34:30.70\00:34:34.37
Yeah, I'm
feeling things all right.
00:34:34.40\00:34:36.20
Right.
00:34:36.24\00:34:37.57
And so he pulled my shirt up
so he could see my whole back
00:34:37.61\00:34:40.38
and he said, okay,
okay, I see the bit marks,
00:34:40.41\00:34:42.08
you did get bit by a snake.
00:34:42.11\00:34:43.98
I am like okay, so
now what, what do we do?
00:34:44.01\00:34:45.95
He's like, go back to sleep.
00:34:45.98\00:34:48.58
I just got bit by
a snake in Thailand
00:34:48.62\00:34:50.69
and you're telling
me to go back to sleep?
00:34:50.72\00:34:52.05
You need some charcoal.
00:34:52.09\00:34:53.42
We didn't have charcoal, we
didn't' have anything to do,
00:34:53.46\00:34:55.82
and it was like, ah, you know.
00:34:55.86\00:34:57.33
Isn't the snake
still in the house?
00:34:57.36\00:34:59.43
I went over where the
direction the snake was,
00:34:59.46\00:35:01.36
I could not find that snake.
00:35:01.40\00:35:02.83
Okay, for one thing, I knew
00:35:02.86\00:35:04.20
I would not go back
to sleep that night.
00:35:04.23\00:35:06.53
Invariably with
the snake in the house.
00:35:06.57\00:35:09.14
Well, I couldn't find it.
00:35:09.17\00:35:10.54
Travis went right back to sleep,
00:35:10.57\00:35:11.94
it took me a little bit longer.
00:35:11.97\00:35:13.31
And you went back to
sleep? I went back to sleep.
00:35:13.34\00:35:14.68
That's Jesus.
Oh, praise the Lord.
00:35:14.71\00:35:16.04
Wow. Yeah.
00:35:16.08\00:35:17.41
Now the thing is
00:35:17.45\00:35:19.25
Travis told me
it wasn't poisonous
00:35:19.28\00:35:21.52
but I felt
something going in at the,
00:35:21.55\00:35:24.65
where he bit me, you
know, like a bee sting,
00:35:24.69\00:35:27.36
you feel it going in,
I felt that back here.
00:35:27.39\00:35:30.06
And so I just figured
I was imagining things
00:35:30.09\00:35:33.23
because it's a little scary
00:35:33.26\00:35:34.60
to get bit by a
snake in, you know.
00:35:34.63\00:35:35.96
Oh, absolute, yeah, in
the middle of the night too.
00:35:36.00\00:35:38.10
It will get your brain going.
00:35:38.13\00:35:39.47
And so the next morning
00:35:39.50\00:35:40.94
I wake up, I open my eyes,
00:35:40.97\00:35:42.37
and I'm like, hey... I'm alive.
00:35:42.40\00:35:44.51
I'm alive, exactly,
that's my thought, exactly.
00:35:44.54\00:35:47.14
Thank you, Lord, I'm alive.
00:35:47.18\00:35:49.04
And so when Travis woke
up I was like, you need to,
00:35:49.08\00:35:51.25
you need to look back here.
00:35:51.28\00:35:53.15
And so he looks
again with a flashlight
00:35:53.18\00:35:55.18
and he's really quiet.
00:35:55.22\00:35:58.92
He sits back and I
look at him and he says,
00:35:58.95\00:36:01.82
you know what I saw?
00:36:01.86\00:36:04.23
He says, I saw two fang marks.
00:36:04.26\00:36:07.43
You got bit twice?
00:36:07.46\00:36:08.80
No, that means it
was a poisonous snake.
00:36:08.83\00:36:11.03
Oh.
00:36:11.07\00:36:12.40
Because their fangs
are what inject a venom.
00:36:12.43\00:36:13.77
Okay.
00:36:13.80\00:36:15.47
And I'm like,
you mean to tell me
00:36:15.50\00:36:16.84
I got bit by a
poisonous snake last night
00:36:16.87\00:36:18.47
and I'm alive right now?
00:36:18.51\00:36:20.91
He was like, I guess so.
00:36:20.94\00:36:23.51
That's God.
00:36:23.55\00:36:24.88
That's totally God.
00:36:24.91\00:36:27.95
And I was going,
00:36:27.98\00:36:30.09
I was going to visit his
school to make a video, right?
00:36:30.12\00:36:33.99
I knew right then that
Satan tried to take me out.
00:36:34.02\00:36:37.76
Absolutely.
00:36:37.79\00:36:39.13
He did not want
that video to happen.
00:36:39.16\00:36:40.50
But God said, you know,
you let that snake bite,
00:36:40.53\00:36:43.23
you give a little bit of
venom, there was no swelling,
00:36:43.26\00:36:46.07
there was no ill
effects or anything,
00:36:46.10\00:36:48.84
just enough to
remind me I'm in charge,
00:36:48.87\00:36:52.14
I've got your life in my hands,
00:36:52.17\00:36:53.71
there's nothing
that devil can do.
00:36:53.74\00:36:55.08
Amen.
00:36:55.11\00:36:56.44
Reminds me of Paul
after the shipwreck.
00:36:56.48\00:36:57.81
Remember, they are
standing around the fire,
00:36:57.85\00:36:59.18
warming their hands and there's
a snake and they shook it off.
00:36:59.21\00:37:01.42
And they were
expecting to fall down dead.
00:37:01.45\00:37:03.79
God worked a miracle.
But God had a purpose.
00:37:03.82\00:37:05.69
This is a real life miracle,
I mean, right here. Wow.
00:37:05.72\00:37:08.12
Praise the Lord
that you're sitting here
00:37:08.16\00:37:09.82
in this chair today.
00:37:09.86\00:37:11.19
Yeah.
00:37:11.23\00:37:12.56
God has a purpose in
anointing over your life.
00:37:12.59\00:37:14.03
Absolutely.
00:37:14.06\00:37:15.40
I have to share
really quick story,
00:37:15.43\00:37:16.77
it's really neat because
he was at 3ABN camp meeting
00:37:16.80\00:37:19.23
not long before he went,
00:37:19.27\00:37:20.60
in fact that weekend
before you went, wasn't it?
00:37:20.64\00:37:23.17
Or two weekends
before? Yeah, I think.
00:37:23.20\00:37:24.74
Anyway, in the
kindergarten class,
00:37:24.77\00:37:27.48
there was one young man in
particular from 3ABN's family
00:37:27.51\00:37:31.85
Ben Primo and he met Jonathan
00:37:31.88\00:37:35.52
and we asked them to
pray for the missionaries
00:37:35.55\00:37:37.89
and especially for Jonathan
00:37:37.92\00:37:39.25
because Jonathan was
about to leave for Thailand.
00:37:39.29\00:37:41.46
And he started praying
00:37:41.49\00:37:43.26
and Moses and his wife would
tell us Adima would tell us
00:37:43.29\00:37:47.36
that he wants to pray for
every day for the missionaries
00:37:47.40\00:37:50.40
and especially for Jonathan.
00:37:50.43\00:37:52.40
And he was praying for Jonathan
00:37:52.43\00:37:53.77
and so we're
thankful, we told them,
00:37:53.80\00:37:56.00
your prayers were part of
what saved Jonathan's life.
00:37:56.04\00:37:58.77
Do you know, that's powerful,
because God spared your life,
00:37:58.81\00:38:02.24
God has a purpose for
you but at the same time
00:38:02.28\00:38:04.51
God calls each one of us
00:38:04.55\00:38:06.08
to intercede on
behalf of someone else.
00:38:06.11\00:38:09.05
And in this case, someone young.
00:38:09.08\00:38:10.42
And Ben was little then.
Yeah, he was so little then.
00:38:10.45\00:38:11.95
Yes, a child can intercede
for others, that's beautiful.
00:38:11.99\00:38:15.42
Anyway.
00:38:15.46\00:38:16.79
Yeah, and there's nothing
00:38:16.83\00:38:18.16
that encourages
a missionary more
00:38:18.19\00:38:19.69
than knowing that someone
is praying for them every day.
00:38:19.73\00:38:21.86
Amen. Amen.
00:38:21.90\00:38:23.23
Yeah, amen.
00:38:23.26\00:38:24.60
So, Natalie, how did the
foreign correspondent begin?
00:38:24.63\00:38:27.07
Because let's, we got to, our
time is running away from us.
00:38:27.10\00:38:29.70
I know. We got
to switch to that.
00:38:29.74\00:38:31.24
So how did God put it in you
00:38:31.27\00:38:32.97
and John's heart
regarding with Jesus for Asia?
00:38:33.01\00:38:35.31
Was it first a dream of yours
to do foreign correspondent
00:38:35.34\00:38:39.15
or...?
00:38:39.18\00:38:40.52
Yeah, basically
because we saw that there was
00:38:40.55\00:38:41.88
so much need out there
00:38:41.92\00:38:43.25
and there are so few
mission stories coming back.
00:38:43.28\00:38:44.62
And it's hard for
us to go and, you know,
00:38:44.65\00:38:46.96
get the stories ourselves.
00:38:46.99\00:38:48.62
We realize the
need to send someone.
00:38:48.66\00:38:51.09
And so John was
just like, you know,
00:38:51.13\00:38:52.99
I think we need to
enable Jonathan to go
00:38:53.03\00:38:54.90
because he had
made these videos,
00:38:54.93\00:38:56.97
we need to show
that video of Travis.
00:38:57.00\00:38:59.17
But he had made
these videos of Travis
00:38:59.20\00:39:01.70
and he made another
one at the other school
00:39:01.74\00:39:03.30
with Travis's parents,
00:39:03.34\00:39:05.24
the Sharon's and
just showing the need.
00:39:05.27\00:39:08.58
And people were connecting
because of the videos,
00:39:08.61\00:39:11.41
because you can see
00:39:11.45\00:39:13.21
the circumstances
where there's a need.
00:39:13.25\00:39:15.28
And so we realize
that that was a great need.
00:39:15.32\00:39:17.69
So John asked Jonathan,
00:39:17.72\00:39:19.25
if he'd be
willing to consider going.
00:39:19.29\00:39:21.19
Amen.
00:39:21.22\00:39:22.59
So set this video up
then for us, Jonathan,
00:39:22.62\00:39:25.29
because you were
talking about Travis.
00:39:25.33\00:39:26.96
And Travis is part of
these videos, is that correct?
00:39:27.00\00:39:29.46
That's right.
00:39:29.50\00:39:30.87
This was the video
that I was going to make
00:39:30.90\00:39:33.13
when the snake bit me.
00:39:33.17\00:39:34.50
It's just excerpts from a
longer video kind of to show
00:39:34.54\00:39:37.67
what Travis does a
little bit and his burden.
00:39:37.71\00:39:41.04
But it's all
glory to God, the video.
00:39:41.08\00:39:43.55
Amen. All right.
00:39:43.58\00:39:44.91
Well, let's go to
that video right now.
00:39:44.95\00:39:46.61
Sometimes it's
hard being a missionary
00:40:10.97\00:40:13.04
but it's well worth it.
00:40:13.07\00:40:14.44
In America I
wasn't helping anyone
00:40:26.76\00:40:30.13
and it was all about me,
00:40:30.16\00:40:31.56
so I wanted to do
something to help others.
00:40:31.59\00:40:34.96
Have you ever
regretted that decision?
00:40:35.00\00:40:37.37
No, never.
00:40:37.40\00:40:41.50
God has called every one of us
00:40:41.54\00:40:43.47
to share what we
know, to whoever we can
00:40:43.51\00:40:46.91
whether it be at home or abroad.
00:40:46.94\00:40:49.58
Very few people
take the call seriously.
00:40:49.61\00:40:53.35
We sit back and we say, yes,
00:40:53.38\00:40:57.22
we need to share with our
neighbors and our friends,
00:40:57.25\00:41:00.12
we don't need to go far away.
00:41:00.16\00:41:03.16
But yet those close to
us we don't even share with.
00:41:03.19\00:41:07.46
We say it to
make us feel better.
00:41:07.50\00:41:09.46
It's sad to me when I see that
there are not more missionaries
00:41:17.21\00:41:22.24
in these mountains
to reach the villagers,
00:41:22.28\00:41:25.31
the people that
don't know about God,
00:41:25.35\00:41:28.32
don't know about salvation.
00:41:28.35\00:41:31.25
What if you were the only one
00:41:31.29\00:41:33.56
to take the gospel to a village,
00:41:33.59\00:41:36.39
would you go?
00:41:36.42\00:41:37.76
What are we
willing to do for God?
00:41:45.03\00:41:47.34
God has called us to do His work
00:41:52.87\00:41:55.71
and it is up to us
to join in the work,
00:41:55.74\00:41:58.65
it will be more joy
than we have ever known.
00:41:58.68\00:42:01.05
Amen.
00:42:11.49\00:42:12.83
What a blessing, you
did a great job, Jonathan.
00:42:12.86\00:42:15.26
And just to see, it gives
you a visual picture, you know,
00:42:15.30\00:42:19.57
of what goes on
there of the need,
00:42:19.60\00:42:21.50
and I was blessed just in
what Travis shared, you know,
00:42:21.54\00:42:24.11
as far as getting
out of our comfort
00:42:24.14\00:42:26.11
and reaching out
and being a missionary,
00:42:26.14\00:42:28.64
you know,
stepping out for Jesus.
00:42:28.68\00:42:30.48
So a great job with that.
00:42:30.51\00:42:32.08
Now you did that with
some outdated video equipment,
00:42:32.11\00:42:35.72
is that correct?
00:42:35.75\00:42:37.09
Yes, it was very, very
basic and not adequate.
00:42:37.12\00:42:42.12
Well, it still
works great, but...
00:42:42.16\00:42:43.66
God bless. Amen.
00:42:43.69\00:42:45.03
I used what I had and he blessed
00:42:45.06\00:42:46.63
and all the glory goes to Him.
00:42:46.66\00:42:48.00
That all He
asks us to do. Right.
00:42:48.03\00:42:49.50
What do you have in your hand,
use it for honor and glory.
00:42:49.53\00:42:52.07
Exactly. Yeah.
00:42:52.10\00:42:53.60
So you have a
need for new equipment
00:42:53.64\00:42:55.14
or God blessed you
with some new equipment?
00:42:55.17\00:42:57.24
Yeah, God, when,
as Natalie was saying,
00:42:57.27\00:43:00.18
and when John asked me to
be a foreign correspondent,
00:43:00.21\00:43:01.98
I needed new
equipment in order to do that.
00:43:02.01\00:43:05.61
And so I begin
putting together a list
00:43:05.65\00:43:07.48
and I came up with right
around $7,500 to do that,
00:43:07.52\00:43:11.65
to just give me the equipment.
00:43:11.69\00:43:13.02
I need to do it
effectively and efficiently.
00:43:13.05\00:43:16.06
And so, I began praying,
00:43:16.09\00:43:17.99
and there was someone
who would ask me to go
00:43:18.03\00:43:19.93
and do a video of
their project in February.
00:43:19.96\00:43:22.66
And in middle of January
00:43:22.70\00:43:24.93
John says, you
need to get a ticket.
00:43:24.97\00:43:28.14
And so, I bought a ticket
00:43:28.17\00:43:30.54
and then I'm
thinking, what am I doing?
00:43:30.57\00:43:31.91
I have a ticket but I
don't have any equipment
00:43:31.94\00:43:33.91
to do the videos that
I'm going to do, you know,
00:43:33.94\00:43:35.98
it doesn't make any sense.
00:43:36.01\00:43:37.35
It's an act of faith.
00:43:37.38\00:43:39.05
But that night, I was
really stressed about it.
00:43:39.08\00:43:42.18
I was saying,
oh, what is going on?
00:43:42.22\00:43:44.32
The next morning the
Lord gave me a promise.
00:43:44.35\00:43:46.59
I was reading
Psalms 46, got to verse 10,
00:43:46.62\00:43:50.56
"Be still, and
know that I am God,
00:43:50.59\00:43:53.96
I will be exalted
among the heathen,
00:43:54.00\00:43:56.13
I will be exalted on the earth."
00:43:56.16\00:43:57.50
And that's exactly,
you know, it fits so well.
00:43:57.53\00:44:00.50
And so I said, Lord,
I'm gonna take that promise,
00:44:00.54\00:44:02.27
I'm gonna hang on
that, I'm waiting,
00:44:02.30\00:44:04.27
I'm being still,
I'm waiting for you.
00:44:04.31\00:44:07.44
God had already prepared
someone the very next week
00:44:07.48\00:44:10.15
who was praying, Lord,
00:44:10.18\00:44:11.58
what do you want me
to do with the $7,000?
00:44:11.61\00:44:14.52
So you needed $7,500.
00:44:14.55\00:44:16.08
I needed $7,500.
00:44:16.12\00:44:17.45
Others had come in,
other money had come in
00:44:17.49\00:44:19.69
for that extra $500.
00:44:19.72\00:44:21.06
Sure, but you has
someone else praying, God,
00:44:21.09\00:44:23.32
what should I do
with this $7,000?
00:44:23.36\00:44:25.56
Right, and then they
heard I had a need for $7,000.
00:44:25.59\00:44:29.63
Yeah, he did a
Sabbath school presentation
00:44:29.66\00:44:31.60
and raised their hand and said,
00:44:31.63\00:44:33.47
how much do you need?
00:44:33.50\00:44:34.84
Someone.
00:44:34.87\00:44:36.20
And so he said about
$7,000 and they knew.
00:44:36.24\00:44:39.01
Yeah, that this is
what God wanted them.
00:44:39.04\00:44:40.98
Because, they've
been praying themselves,
00:44:41.01\00:44:42.48
God what do I do this?
00:44:42.51\00:44:43.85
Right.
00:44:43.88\00:44:45.21
So that was just
a huge conformation.
00:44:45.25\00:44:46.82
Absolutely.
00:44:46.85\00:44:48.18
This is exactly what I
want you doing right now.
00:44:48.22\00:44:51.75
And, you know, I just was
over in Asia for two months,
00:44:51.79\00:44:55.02
just seeing the way
God worked was amazing.
00:44:55.06\00:44:57.73
Seeing the, you know,
00:44:57.76\00:44:59.09
the missionaries in their
everyday life doing the work.
00:44:59.13\00:45:03.80
But as I'm over there
and traveling between places
00:45:03.83\00:45:06.33
I see there's so many places
that there aren't missionaries.
00:45:06.37\00:45:11.97
There are so many
people who don't have someone
00:45:12.01\00:45:14.48
who is giving themselves to
go and tell them about Jesus,
00:45:14.51\00:45:18.48
and it's heartbreaking.
00:45:18.51\00:45:20.12
Absolutely.
00:45:20.15\00:45:21.48
So you're looking
for more missionaries
00:45:21.52\00:45:23.99
then, Natalie, or...
00:45:24.02\00:45:25.65
We are open to God's
leading no matter what.
00:45:25.69\00:45:28.12
Yeah, there is a great need
00:45:28.16\00:45:29.69
and if they can go
through other organizations
00:45:29.72\00:45:32.09
that's great, you know,
00:45:32.13\00:45:33.46
there's needs at the
general conference level,
00:45:33.50\00:45:35.03
there's needs, other
ministries have needs.
00:45:35.06\00:45:37.67
And so, yeah, we are
willing to talk to people,
00:45:37.70\00:45:40.24
and usually the Lord
ends up having us help
00:45:40.27\00:45:42.57
whoever approaches us, so.
00:45:42.60\00:45:44.31
Amen.
00:45:44.34\00:45:45.67
So what would be some
of your biggest needs now?
00:45:45.71\00:45:47.61
I mean Jesus for Asia is
just an incredible ministry,
00:45:47.64\00:45:50.48
either with
foreign correspondent
00:45:50.51\00:45:51.98
or with the overall
umbrella of Jesus for Asia,
00:45:52.01\00:45:54.95
what would be some of the needs
00:45:54.98\00:45:56.92
that folk at home can help with?
00:45:56.95\00:45:58.82
Well, there are, he
needs more equipment.
00:45:58.85\00:46:00.49
There's certain items
that he was not able, you know,
00:46:00.52\00:46:03.26
he weeded out of that
list to keep it bare minimal.
00:46:03.29\00:46:06.46
Because we work in television
here at 3ABN and $7,500,
00:46:06.49\00:46:10.00
oh, my, I can be using that
00:46:10.03\00:46:11.47
real quick in
equipment, television equipment.
00:46:11.50\00:46:13.23
Right. Right.
00:46:13.27\00:46:14.60
And the Lord blessed
00:46:14.64\00:46:15.97
and there's equipment out there,
00:46:16.00\00:46:17.34
there's a lot less expensive
for what he is doing, you know.
00:46:17.37\00:46:19.64
And it doesn't look like big,
00:46:19.67\00:46:21.31
really good
quality stuff either,
00:46:21.34\00:46:23.04
so he can go kind of
incognito into places
00:46:23.08\00:46:26.05
and, you know, yeah,
00:46:26.08\00:46:28.22
it looks like he's a
tourist more, you know.
00:46:28.25\00:46:31.15
So yeah, he has a
need for equipment
00:46:31.19\00:46:34.86
and he does
receive a small stipend,
00:46:34.89\00:46:36.79
so if someone
wanted to help with that,
00:46:36.83\00:46:38.16
that would be fine.
00:46:38.19\00:46:39.53
There's always needs
at Jesus for Asia, I mean,
00:46:39.56\00:46:41.13
we have so many
projects, so much going on,
00:46:41.16\00:46:44.57
so if someone has a
particular interest,
00:46:44.60\00:46:46.30
if they want to give us a
call or email us about it,
00:46:46.33\00:46:49.40
then we can share with them
00:46:49.44\00:46:50.77
what is going on in that
particular area of interest,
00:46:50.81\00:46:54.01
where need it most, you know.
00:46:54.04\00:46:56.54
So, Jonathan, you mentioned
earlier that you started,
00:46:56.58\00:46:58.85
you got really this, I
don't know for the burden
00:46:58.88\00:47:01.42
but just the interest was when
you went on this vision trip,
00:47:01.45\00:47:06.09
what do you call is
it a vision for Jesus.
00:47:06.12\00:47:07.46
Vision trip,
because we realize that...
00:47:07.49\00:47:09.46
You still do that?
00:47:09.49\00:47:10.83
We do occasionally, yeah.
00:47:10.86\00:47:12.46
We realized that when
people go on a mission trip,
00:47:12.49\00:47:14.96
two to three weeks,
00:47:15.00\00:47:16.36
it's not long
enough to really do mission
00:47:16.40\00:47:18.83
because mission
is a lifelong thing.
00:47:18.87\00:47:21.10
So what we can do in
two to three weeks is
00:47:21.14\00:47:23.30
we can catch a vision
for how big the need is
00:47:23.34\00:47:26.01
and how God can use
anybody because He can.
00:47:26.04\00:47:29.61
These
missionaries are out there,
00:47:29.64\00:47:31.21
some of them don't even have
00:47:31.25\00:47:32.58
a finished high
school education, you know.
00:47:32.61\00:47:34.68
Some of them have collage
level but some of them don't.
00:47:34.72\00:47:37.62
But God's using them
everywhere, you know,
00:47:37.65\00:47:39.85
where He needs them.
00:47:39.89\00:47:41.26
And so the open heart,
00:47:41.29\00:47:42.89
the full surrender that
we've been talking about,
00:47:42.92\00:47:45.49
that's what's needed.
00:47:45.53\00:47:46.86
Wow, that's great.
00:47:46.90\00:47:48.23
So, Jonathan, you
caught the vision?
00:47:48.26\00:47:49.60
Absolutely.
00:47:49.63\00:47:50.97
And praise the Lord
for that, because you said
00:47:51.00\00:47:52.33
about two years you've been
involved with Jesus for Asia.
00:47:52.37\00:47:55.10
So what are you
currently doing right now
00:47:55.14\00:47:57.17
then with Jesus for Asia?
00:47:57.21\00:48:00.01
Editing.
00:48:00.04\00:48:02.44
Basically the concept
of foreign correspondent
00:48:02.48\00:48:04.71
and what my
future holds is going
00:48:04.75\00:48:07.72
to the project of Jesus
for Asia to create videos
00:48:07.75\00:48:11.75
so that people in America
can connect with the projects
00:48:11.79\00:48:14.26
that are happening,
00:48:14.29\00:48:15.62
but also highlighting where
the work is not being done.
00:48:15.66\00:48:19.83
Because if you look
at our mission videos
00:48:19.86\00:48:21.56
that you show in
church and everywhere,
00:48:21.60\00:48:23.87
it's all about
what's being done.
00:48:23.90\00:48:25.83
How often do we something
about what's not being done?
00:48:25.87\00:48:28.77
And I think that has part to do
00:48:28.80\00:48:30.77
with why our churches largely
abandoned foreign missions.
00:48:30.81\00:48:34.78
Because it gives
you subconscious sense
00:48:34.81\00:48:37.68
that there's a lot being done,
00:48:37.71\00:48:39.41
and it's almost done.
00:48:39.45\00:48:40.78
So you're showing the need?
00:48:40.82\00:48:42.15
Right. Wow.
00:48:42.18\00:48:43.52
John took somebody to India once
00:48:43.55\00:48:44.89
and they were
there for like a week
00:48:44.92\00:48:46.25
and they're like,
where are the missionaries?
00:48:46.29\00:48:47.82
You know, it was like,
00:48:47.86\00:48:49.56
well, there were at that time
00:48:49.59\00:48:50.96
I think six or seven
missionaries in all of India,
00:48:50.99\00:48:53.66
you know, and...
00:48:53.70\00:48:55.03
Which is a huge county.
00:48:55.06\00:48:56.40
Or may be missionary
families but still, you know,
00:48:56.43\00:48:58.47
it's just there
aren't very many out there.
00:48:58.50\00:49:02.00
And then we say, well,
00:49:02.04\00:49:03.37
the natives are
taking care of it,
00:49:03.41\00:49:04.74
but there is so much need, so.
00:49:04.77\00:49:08.04
So, Jonathan, if you...
00:49:08.08\00:49:09.41
we have a couple of moments here
00:49:09.44\00:49:10.78
before we go to your address,
00:49:10.81\00:49:12.15
and we'll
definitely put that up,
00:49:12.18\00:49:13.52
so you can contact
Jesus for Asia for yourself.
00:49:13.55\00:49:16.45
But in the couple of
moments we have here,
00:49:16.48\00:49:18.29
could you take a minute or two
00:49:18.32\00:49:19.65
and just talk
to someone at home.
00:49:19.69\00:49:21.29
May be it's a young
person who is trying to decide,
00:49:21.32\00:49:23.79
do I want to surrender?
00:49:23.83\00:49:25.29
Do I want to give it to Jesus?
00:49:25.33\00:49:29.63
Is God calling me
to be a missionary?
00:49:29.66\00:49:31.43
May be it's someone older,
00:49:31.47\00:49:32.80
but someone who is feeling
the call of God in their life,
00:49:32.83\00:49:34.90
you want to just talk into
the camera to them at home.
00:49:34.94\00:49:36.81
Sure.
00:49:36.84\00:49:38.71
All I have to say
is in my experience,
00:49:38.74\00:49:42.61
surrendering 100 percent to God,
00:49:42.64\00:49:44.98
committing
myself to the mission of
00:49:45.01\00:49:47.28
what He has called us do is
00:49:47.32\00:49:49.08
the greatest
decision I ever made.
00:49:49.12\00:49:51.15
And I know that there are
times when we wonder, you know,
00:49:51.19\00:49:54.56
I don't really
want to surrender,
00:49:54.59\00:49:56.12
I want to do my own thing, I
don't want to just let it go.
00:49:56.16\00:50:00.33
But I can tell you
there is no greater joy
00:50:00.36\00:50:03.57
than when you
give it all to Jesus.
00:50:03.60\00:50:05.47
And I believe,
because you look around
00:50:05.50\00:50:07.44
there's tons of work to be done,
00:50:07.47\00:50:09.34
but we need not be overwhelmed
00:50:09.37\00:50:12.77
because God needs
you and He needs me.
00:50:12.81\00:50:17.05
We can't do it ourselves,
00:50:17.08\00:50:18.91
if we surrender
ourselves to Him,
00:50:18.95\00:50:21.52
then He can work in us
00:50:21.55\00:50:23.62
and if our whole
church is surrendered to Him,
00:50:23.65\00:50:26.72
that work can be
finished in no time at all
00:50:26.76\00:50:29.39
and we can go home to heaven.
00:50:29.42\00:50:31.59
Amen.
00:50:31.63\00:50:32.96
Thank you for that.
00:50:32.99\00:50:34.33
It's an incredible testimony.
00:50:34.36\00:50:35.70
My heart has been blessed.
00:50:35.73\00:50:37.17
Mine too, oh, absolutely.
00:50:37.20\00:50:39.30
This hour, it's hard to believe,
00:50:39.33\00:50:40.67
it's almost gone already.
00:50:40.70\00:50:42.20
I like mission
stories that is great.
00:50:42.24\00:50:43.97
But it's neat to
see how God has worked
00:50:44.01\00:50:46.27
and is currently
working in Jonathan's life
00:50:46.31\00:50:48.64
and how he is
spreading the gospel
00:50:48.68\00:50:50.01
around the world
with Jesus for Asia.
00:50:50.05\00:50:52.11
It's a blessing too to see
00:50:52.15\00:50:53.48
how God is using this powerful
ministry for the cause of God.
00:50:53.52\00:50:56.79
Amen.
00:50:56.82\00:50:58.15
And I've just been encouraged
00:50:58.19\00:50:59.52
and inspired in my
own walk with Jesus,
00:50:59.55\00:51:01.06
and we pray that you
have been as well at home.
00:51:01.09\00:51:04.19
Just get
involved in mission work.
00:51:04.23\00:51:07.03
Maybe God has a
call in your life
00:51:07.06\00:51:08.63
to get involved in
foreign mission work
00:51:08.66\00:51:10.33
and you want to
contact Jesus for Asia and say,
00:51:10.37\00:51:12.93
I want to get involved.
00:51:12.97\00:51:14.50
Maybe God has
provided you with finances
00:51:14.54\00:51:17.34
that you can
contact them and say,
00:51:17.37\00:51:19.51
I want to sponsor Jonathan,
00:51:19.54\00:51:21.61
the foreign correspondent,
00:51:21.64\00:51:22.98
or I want to help
with that video equipment,
00:51:23.01\00:51:25.01
or one of the other projects
00:51:25.05\00:51:26.65
that they are
currently involved in.
00:51:26.68\00:51:29.08
We want to give
you the opportunity
00:51:29.12\00:51:31.05
to contact them for yourself.
00:51:31.09\00:51:32.95
It's gonna have all
that information there.
00:51:32.99\00:51:35.56
And we encourage you,
00:51:35.59\00:51:37.33
most of all to
pray for this ministry,
00:51:37.36\00:51:40.03
pray for God's
protection over them,
00:51:40.06\00:51:42.13
pray for God's
anointing over what they will do
00:51:42.16\00:51:45.23
and what they have done.
00:51:45.27\00:51:46.60
We will be right back
00:51:46.63\00:51:47.97
with a few closing
thoughts after this.
00:51:48.00\00:51:51.84
Billions of people in
Asia still have not heard
00:51:51.87\00:51:54.21
the wonderful
news of Jesus Christ.
00:51:54.24\00:51:56.71
If the Holy Spirit
impresses you to help,
00:51:56.75\00:51:58.75
then you can
write to Jesus for Asia,
00:51:58.78\00:52:01.72
PO Box 1221,
Collegedale, Tennessee 37315.
00:52:01.75\00:52:07.49
That's Jesus for Asia,
00:52:07.52\00:52:09.59
PO Box 1221,
Collegedale, Tennessee 37315.
00:52:09.62\00:52:15.13
You can call 423-413-7321.
00:52:15.16\00:52:19.50
That's 423-413-7321.
00:52:19.53\00:52:23.61
Or you can visit them
online at Jesus4Asia.org.
00:52:23.64\00:52:28.31
That's Jesus4Asia.org.
00:52:28.34\00:52:32.18
Call or write to them today.
00:52:32.21\00:52:34.12