Participants: CA Murray (Host), Robert Folkenberg
Series Code: TDY
Program Code: TDY017050A
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00:01 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:18 Removing pain 00:24 Lord, let my words 00:27 Let my words 00:30 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:45 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:06 Hi, I'm C.A. Murray. 01:08 And let me once again welcome you to 3ABN Today. 01:11 And I thank you for the wonderful partnership 01:13 that we have enjoyed together these past 30 plus years 01:17 as together we lift up the mighty 01:18 and matchless name of Jesus. 01:20 And I must admit to being very, very excited today. 01:24 One, because of the subject matter 01:25 and two, because of our guest. 01:28 We don't often get to see him, 01:30 but we are pleased that whenever he is in the States, 01:32 he makes time to come by, spend a little time with us 01:35 and this is up I've gotta get it right 01:37 because you're not Robert Folkenberg, 01:39 you're not Rob Folkenberg, you're Bob. 01:41 Bob Folkenberg will work. Robert will work too. 01:44 Yeah. But I go by Bob. 01:45 Good to have you here, man. So good to be back here. 01:46 And good to see you whenever you come in from Asia, 01:50 from Hong Kong, it's good to have you here 01:51 because you always bring us good stuff. 01:53 Well, thank you. It's good to be here. 01:54 Yeah, we left you a chair open 01:56 because we thought Audrey is gonna be here. 01:57 But she said, no, it ought to be just kind of like guys' 01:59 night out. 02:00 Yeah, it's guy's night out. Exactly. 02:01 Tonight is just, is just me and you. 02:03 Just me and you. 02:05 So she's here in spirit as she also in person 02:07 because she's in a control room. 02:08 Yeah, that's right. 02:10 But she decided to let you kind of wagging solo today. 02:11 That's right, 02:12 I'm a little nervous about that. 02:15 Good to have you here, man. Thanks. 02:16 Since last you're here, of course, we lost your dad. 02:17 Yes. 02:19 And our condolences 02:20 because he was a great leader of the church 02:22 and someone we all loved. 02:23 Yeah, I miss my dad very much. Yeah. 02:25 But you know, we press on hoping 02:28 that everything that we do both here at 3ABN, 02:31 and what we're doing in Asia 02:33 will hasten the day of his coming, 02:34 that's our hope and that's our desire. 02:36 Yeah, and the beat goes on 02:37 because your son is now pastoring? 02:39 Yeah, that's right. 02:40 I have two of my three children are pastors. 02:42 My two boys are pastoring now. 02:45 Rob and... 02:46 Randy. Yep. And Randy. 02:47 Okay, you did broke it up a little bit. 02:49 Yes, we did break it up a little bit. 02:50 Yes, that's right. 02:52 Couldn't have taken two more Robs or Bobs and Roberts. 02:53 But, Robert, where are they serving? 02:55 Well, Rob is a pastor in the British Columbia Conference 02:58 in Kelowna. 02:59 And my son, Randy is pastoring in Salem, Oregon. 03:02 And my youngest girl Katie, 03:04 she is a junior now at Walla Walla University 03:07 doing social work, 03:08 still meeting the needs of people. 03:10 I'm very, and I'm happy. 03:11 Well, time gets away from you, man. 03:13 It does, where does it go, where does it go? 03:17 You've been over in Hong Kong how long now? 03:21 Well, now in total, 03:23 my family and I have been there for 14 years 03:25 working in the Greater China region. 03:28 That's where God has sent us. 03:29 And the second time around, we're going on five years. 03:32 We were there nine years 03:33 and then came back for a few years. 03:36 And now we're back for five years serving 03:38 as the union president there at the Chinese Union. 03:40 At the Chinese Union. 03:41 I remember you telling a story 03:43 the one you used to say, 03:44 have to take the kids over and bring them back 03:45 and get them acclimate for school. 03:47 That's all done now. It's all done. 03:49 And I'm happy about that, but of course we miss them. 03:52 It's a little bit of a distance between Hong Kong 03:55 and Canada or United States. 03:57 How often is it that you do get back? 03:59 Well, I have usually meetings a couple times a year. 04:01 You know, at the General Conference 04:03 or other events like right now 04:04 I'm actually preaching at a camp meeting 04:06 doing a series. 04:07 So that gives us a chance to connect either in 04:10 or heading back. 04:11 Yeah. Sure, sure. 04:12 Now I need to ask the all important question, 04:15 has anybody made you a granddad yet? 04:17 You know what? 04:18 I am so thankful that you have asked this 04:20 because somewhere along the way I would have to bring it up. 04:23 My oldest son 04:26 and his wonderful wife Bethany have had a baby girl. 04:30 And I am now a grandfather with little Eliza Joyce, 04:34 just three months old. 04:35 We just dedicated her last Sabbath. 04:36 All right. 04:38 It is... We're very, very excited. 04:39 Good stuff, good stuff. 04:41 Now that we got into the family stuff, 04:43 I don't know, Audrey is very happy 04:44 and very pleased also. 04:46 We do want to get to your mission work 04:47 because this is some exciting things are happening 04:49 and having been there 14 years, 04:51 I know you've seen some growths and some changes. 04:53 And this particular program is gonna kind be a prayer walk 04:57 through some of the needs, some of the trials, 04:59 some of the triumphs of this part of the vineyard 05:04 where you've been for 14 years, it's amazing. 05:07 Yeah. 05:08 That it's been that length of time. 05:10 Yeah, never would have thought, we would be there that long. 05:12 But you know what? You serve where God plants you. 05:16 Amen. Amen. 05:17 And you've seen some great things happening. 05:18 Yes, wonderful. Exciting things. 05:20 Praise the Lord. Yeah. 05:21 Yeah. We want to dive into that. 05:23 Gonna go to our music just now. 05:26 Johann Sentana, wonderful young man, pianist. 05:31 We'll hear from him and then we'll come back 05:32 and we'll kind of turn you all to loosen, 05:34 talk about some of the wonderful things 05:35 that are happening. 05:36 He's going to be playing, "Let all things now living". 08:58 Amen. 08:59 Well done, Johann Sentana, beautifully played. 09:02 A young man with a great talent and a very great spirit. 09:04 We were just taking a little walk down memory lane 09:07 because when you think Folkenberg, 09:09 that name is in exuberantly linked to ShareHim, 09:13 your dad and you 09:14 and then the ShareHim video magazine 09:16 that you and Audrey did for so many, many years. 09:18 Just I say few years ago, time gets away from you. 09:21 But it was a few years ago indeed. 09:23 Well, those are great programs and a great time. 09:25 Yeah, it was a wonderful opportunity for me 09:27 to work with my dad for four years. 09:30 And see so many lay people, 09:33 you know, get involved in frontline evangelism. 09:36 I see how it changed their lives 09:37 and including my own kids, my own, two, my own kids, 09:42 my oldest, the first one did it at 13. 09:45 Wow. And the other one was 12. 09:47 And then my daughter did it when she was 15. 09:48 So all of them participated and grew because of it. 09:51 Yeah, yeah. 09:53 And to see the light come on in people's eyes 09:55 once they get their sermons 09:56 and they get their computer again and say, 09:58 "You know, I can do this." 09:59 Yes. Yeah. 10:00 And to see the joy come over. 10:02 I'll never forget my 12 year old. 10:05 After he did the first altar call, 10:07 which was on the presentation of the wonderful gospel 10:10 that we have. 10:11 And he came bounding into the hotel that night, 10:13 12 years old, remember. 10:15 Yeah, yeah. 10:16 And he said, "Dad, 10:17 I made the call for people to accept Jesus." 10:20 And of course, I'm holding my breath 10:22 hoping that it was a positive. 10:24 And he said, "Daddy, I started to call 10:26 and nobody came up." 10:28 And my heart inside sank and I'm like, "Oh." 10:31 And he said, "But guess what daddy, 10:32 I was talking 10:34 and at the same time I was praying. 10:36 And I kept making appeal 10:38 and, you know, dad, six people came up," 10:41 and he was beaming. 10:43 He was beaming. 10:44 And at the end of the series, 10:45 I think he had 13 or 12 baptisms. 10:47 Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. 10:48 So he was just on call that night. 10:50 Yeah, so that kind of gets the bit in the mouth. 10:51 You better believe it. 10:52 You know, and of course, it's addictive 10:54 and of course, now he's in ministry. 10:55 Yes, he is. 10:56 And the neat thing about it is they see that 10:58 it's what a difference the joy of the gospel 11:00 makes in other people's lives. 11:03 And when you get them in evangelism 11:04 at such a young age, 11:06 every time they preach, 11:08 they're fortifying their own relationship. 11:09 That's... Oh, yes. 11:10 Yeah, yeah. So true. 11:12 So praise the Lord. 11:13 Now we can stand this for a long time. 11:14 Yeah, we really could, we really could. 11:16 Lot of great things and memories 11:17 and God is still using ShareHim in a tremendous way, 11:20 hundreds of campaigns every year by young people. 11:22 Praise the Lord, and praise the Lord. 11:24 This brochure Fan the Flame, 11:26 Pray for China is going to serve as our syllabus 11:30 for what we're going to do for the next several months. 11:33 We'll kind of walk through this together 11:35 because this highlights a lot of the things 11:37 that are going on in this field 11:39 and a lot of what we need to pray for. 11:41 So this is going to be shining the light on needs, 11:44 but also we're going to take time to pray 11:45 for some of these things, 11:46 because this is a part of the world that really... 11:49 First of all it's such a crowded part of the world, 11:51 there's so many people there. 11:52 That's right. 11:53 And so many challenges and yet, 11:55 I think you'd be the first to say, 11:56 God is doing some wonderful things. 11:57 Yes, He's working miracles there. 11:59 I just want to say to the viewers that 12:01 and as we talked about this brochure 12:03 will be available for download from our KGrowth.org, 12:08 a website which I think we'll be showing on the screen. 12:11 And so you can download it and then in the future 12:14 as you pray for China, you can then rehearse, 12:16 remember these specific prayer needs 12:18 that we have in China. 12:20 So you can download it, you can see it yourself, 12:22 and follow along, and pray for China. 12:24 But you're right, it is a crowded area. 12:27 It's the largest country 12:29 in terms of population in the world, 1.4 billion... 12:32 I'm looking at numbers 1.4 billion and growing. 12:34 And growing, and growing, 12:36 there are 23 provinces with 56 different ethnic groups. 12:41 And it's the largest unreached people group in the world 12:45 that the Chinese are in terms of numbers, 12:48 greater than even the Muslims because the numbers are bigger, 12:52 the Chinese group. 12:53 And this thing is that 12:55 they are becoming more and more saturated 12:57 with materialism, secularism. 13:00 Now when you travel to China, you don't see, you know, 13:03 the oxen plowing through the rice paddies, 13:07 what you see now are high rises. 13:09 And you see, you go to the big cities there 13:10 you might as well be in any large megalopolis 13:13 around the world. 13:15 But with that comes this materialism 13:18 and secularism. 13:20 And of course, as an undertone, 13:22 the largest concentration of atheists in the world, 13:25 63 percent of the population of China are atheists. 13:29 I didn't know that. 13:30 I thought they're all of some religion, 13:32 but most are nothing. 13:33 Atheists, because it's a communist country 13:34 which espouses atheism, 13:36 but 60 some, I think 63 percent are atheists, 13:39 the largest concentration of atheism 13:40 in the world is there. 13:42 And if you don't have atheism, 13:44 then you have that background noise 13:45 or that background culture of Buddhism 13:48 or Taoism or Confucianism. 13:50 So Christianity is not... 13:52 It's not an easy place for it to grow. 13:54 But one author has pointed out 13:56 the work of the Holy Spirit in that country. 13:59 Since the early church, 14:01 it's probably the greatest church growth 14:03 that has ever happened, 14:04 I'm talking about in Christianity as a whole. 14:06 Yes. 14:07 At the time of the revolution, 14:09 the communist revolution in 1949, 14:11 there were an estimated two million Christians 14:14 in China. 14:15 And right now, there's an estimated 14:17 80 million Christians. 14:19 Now you think about that in 60 years... 14:20 Yes, yes, yes. 14:22 In 60 years. Yeah. 14:23 And the same is with our church, 14:25 God has done miraculous things at the time of the cultural... 14:28 Not the Cultural Revolution, 14:30 at the time of the Communist Revolution 14:31 in 1949, we had around 20,000 members 14:35 and now we have 450,000 members. 14:37 Praise God. Praise God. And it is growing daily. 14:39 And yet, those are impressive numbers. 14:42 When you look at one, it's still a drop 14:44 in a very large bucket. 14:45 Oh, and I tell you. 14:46 Yeah. 14:48 Every time I go walk out my door in Hong Kong 14:51 or I travel in China which I travel all over, 14:54 it is constantly hitting me. 14:56 But I remember that verse tucked away in 1 Samuel 14, 15:01 where Jonathan and his armor-bearer 15:03 facing the incredible out numbers of Philistines, 15:08 it says, that there were men as the sand of the sea. 15:10 Yeah. 15:11 And these two guys... I know the text. 15:13 You know? Know it well. 15:14 Jonathan says to his young... 15:15 He says, "Nothing was strange to Lord 15:17 to work through many or few." 15:19 Or few, yes, sir. 15:20 And I keep saying God is not concerned about numbers, 15:24 He can do it, He's looking for obedience 15:26 and submission to His will. 15:28 Yeah, and you know, what is staggering 15:30 and it jumps out from here, 15:31 you talk about the ethnic, you know, 15:33 you're not talking about a monolithic 15:35 as far as languages and cultures, 15:36 you've got a lot of subtext going on, 56. 15:39 Now, are those 56 different language groups 15:42 or they all kind of speak in the same... 15:44 They're all different language groups, 15:45 but actually there are more than 56 languages 15:48 because amongst the Han Chinese 15:50 which is 90 some percent of the population 15:52 is Chinese group, we call them Han Chinese. 15:55 Every region has its own language. 15:58 So for example, in the south where... 16:00 Near Hong Kong, it's called Cantonese, 16:03 not Mandarin. 16:04 And that's different in Mandarin. 16:06 I speak Mandarin. 16:07 But when I'm around in shops, in Guangdong Province, 16:10 they're speaking Cantonese. 16:12 I don't understand anything. 16:13 So you cannot understand. No. 16:15 They don't understand each other. 16:16 No, if I open my mouth and I talk to them in Mandarin, 16:17 they will respond because Mandarin 16:19 is the general language everybody learns. 16:22 Oh, okay, okay. 16:23 The news, the schools, everything are in Mandarin 16:25 but they also have a secondary language. 16:27 Like kind of regional kind of thing 16:28 that's spoken a lot. 16:30 Yeah, that is different in every place. 16:31 Shanghainese, Chengdu hua, 16:32 Sichuan hua, Chongqing hua, 16:34 you know, Wenzhou hua, I could just go on and on, 16:37 all these different languages. 16:39 But praise the Lord, 16:40 the Lord knows every single one of those. 16:42 Amen, amen. 16:43 And He's working in them. 16:44 He's working in them already. 16:46 Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. 16:47 But as you said nothing will change the Lord, 16:50 it would be an impossible task, were it not for the Lord? 16:54 Exactly. Yeah. 16:55 And what I take courage in is that 16:57 while I am lying in bed at night 16:59 or while I am, you know, dealing with 17:02 whatever small problem I think is a large problem, 17:05 His spirit is working 17:07 in the hearts of millions of people 17:09 all across China. 17:10 And He's just calling us to be His servants to intersect 17:14 and bring the gospel to be that 17:16 those ministers of reconciliation 17:18 with the word of reconciliation to them. 17:20 So God is working, 17:21 now we have over 4,500 churches in China. 17:23 Yeah. 17:24 Over the last three years, we praise the Lord, 17:26 we've been able to start over 50 centers of influence. 17:30 Wow. 17:31 We call them service centers 17:32 because of it's just a little more sensitive 17:34 to the political situation 17:36 and over 500 baptisms had come through those centers. 17:39 And those centers are selling health food stores, 17:42 doing health ministry, doing massage therapy, 17:45 doing kindergarten, doing tutoring, 17:48 doing music schools, doing play groups 17:51 whatever it takes to connect, to create a platform, 17:55 to connect with all those millions of atheists 17:59 and non-Christians. 18:00 And that was going to be my next question 18:02 because the centers of influence are doing 18:04 kind of rubber meets the road kind of stuff. 18:06 That's very close to the people think that 18:08 that's very user-friendly for them. 18:09 That's right. That's exactly right. 18:11 Yeah. 18:12 And one of the things that we've done is that, 18:14 every single center of influence 18:15 in order to receive help, 18:18 okay, of whatever kind it is from us, 18:21 they have to have an embedded full-time 18:25 global mission pioneer team working in it. 18:28 So it's not just a "Business", 18:31 we have evangelists that are there, 18:33 and all they're thinking about is connecting with people. 18:37 You know, developing relationships 18:39 that then can build trust and create a platform 18:42 for sharing the message. 18:44 Yeah, now obviously you're not going in 18:45 with your guns blazing like the gospel wild west, 18:48 you can't do that. 18:49 But given the idea of centers of influence 18:54 and the kinds of friendship kind of things 18:56 you're trying to do, 18:57 preparatory to any exponential of the gospel. 18:59 That's right. 19:01 Is there resistance? Is that working? 19:02 It's not fast like pitching on big tent 19:04 and going to all the things you've done. 19:06 So obviously you're working in a different kind of way, 19:08 but given that modification in your gospel presentation, 19:12 are we getting results, are we seeing... 19:15 Absolutely. Yeah, yeah. 19:16 I just got a story from one of our pioneer teams 19:18 embedded in a center of influence. 19:21 And what they have done is they realize that 19:23 even down to the young adults 19:25 now people are concerned about health, 19:27 especially in China. 19:28 They're concerned about food safety. 19:30 They're concerned about pollution. 19:32 They're concerned about 19:33 just the rising incidence of cancer in China. 19:36 And they're very interested in health. 19:38 So they're coming to our center of influence. 19:40 But the story that they shared with me 19:43 was opposite. 19:44 The people, the pioneers, 19:46 and the workers in the center of influence 19:48 don't just wait for them to come there. 19:50 They take their health expo material 19:54 that we have received from Health Expo International, 19:58 we partnered with them, 19:59 their blood pressure cuffs, their body mass index, 20:03 and they go out on the street and they meet people. 20:06 Oh, wow. 20:08 And then they say, "Come to my store." 20:09 And we can... 20:11 And you know what, 20:12 they were telling a story of one of these people 20:13 that came in and was buying health food store, 20:15 health food material 20:16 and they started delivering it to them. 20:19 And they found out, "Wait a minute, 20:20 you're Christian, 20:22 " Bible studies ensued, and of course, 20:23 most of these centers of influence become churches. 20:26 We're trying to plant churches 20:27 on the second floor meeting room. 20:29 And they invite them there to have worship 20:32 and begin to grow in Jesus Christ. 20:33 Praise the Lord. 20:35 So like I said in the last three years alone, 20:36 we've had over 500 baptisms 20:39 just from these centers of influence. 20:41 And some of these have only been 20:42 or at least 20 of them have only been started a year ago. 20:44 So we're going to see this number grow. 20:46 Yeah, quick testimony, I won't take too much time. 20:49 I was in the Philippines this past year. 20:53 And they'd just opened a center of influence, 20:55 a health food store, restaurant actually. 20:57 Oh. 20:59 The best vegetarian food I think I've had in my life. 21:03 Is that right? 21:05 Really, really well done. 21:06 And then on the second floor, there's a meeting place 21:08 where they're doing studies. 21:09 And they were telling me, they had only been opened maybe 21:11 two or three months, 21:13 and that second floor was packed 21:14 three nights a week already, 21:16 and most of it was feeding from the restaurant. 21:18 From that restaurant. 21:19 From that restaurant downstairs, yeah. 21:21 That's just fantastic. 21:22 Yeah, so that idea really works... 21:23 Yes, it does. And produces great result. 21:25 It really does. We have not... 21:26 All of our centers have a principle 21:28 of not having high overhead. 21:30 We have not started restaurants 21:32 but many of our "Health Centers"... 21:33 Yes. 21:35 What I mean by that is you walk in 21:36 and they're selling soymilk, 21:39 they're selling bulk whole grains, 21:42 and brown rice, and many things of that nature. 21:46 But, you know, what they do in the morning 21:47 because the Chinese love their glass of soymilk 21:49 in the morning, hot soymilk, 21:52 and they love their baozis. 21:54 Baozis are steamed bread 21:56 and they often have vegetarian things inside. 21:59 In many of our centers of influence 22:01 that are doing health ministry will go out in early morning, 22:05 six in the morning, 22:06 set up their baozi, their steamed bread, 22:09 and their soymilk stand 22:11 and people come by 22:12 and pick up their "breakfast" there 22:14 and connect with our center that way. 22:15 Excellent, excellent. 22:17 Yeah, if you open your eyes and kind of see 22:18 what's going on, 22:20 the people will tell you how to serve them. 22:21 That's right. 22:22 And if you aware yourself that you can make some good friends 22:24 and good contacts. 22:25 So one of the things that is working a lot 22:27 and working very well in China 22:29 and I think in my humble opinion 22:31 and as somebody that's been involved 22:33 with church growth for many years, 22:34 church planting is one of the best church growth methods 22:37 we have. 22:38 And right now in China, we have, 22:40 not counting those 56 centers of influence, 22:43 we have also many, many church plants going with 22:47 Global Mission pioneers in an unentered areas 22:49 around the world. 22:51 Excellent, excellent. 22:52 And that is something we need to pray about. 22:54 That is such a fabulous idea. 22:57 The idea that you can meet people where they are, 23:01 and in meeting them where they are, 23:04 you can make friends, and in a place 23:07 where you cannot just live with the gospel, 23:10 you live with a cup of water or a cup of hot soymilk 23:14 or baozi... 23:16 Baus? Baozi. 23:18 Baozi. Baozi. 23:20 And you make friends from that and churches grow. 23:24 And in a part of the world where you've got 23:26 a totally different cultural milieu, 23:27 this is the kind of way I think to do it. 23:29 Yeah, and as you see here on this brochure, 23:33 and those who are watching later can download, 23:36 we have to use every method available. 23:40 We cannot just come to this challenge of China 23:43 with one way, okay? 23:45 Yes, yes. 23:46 Every Sabbath the doors are open, 23:48 and over 4,500 churches. 23:50 Every Sabbath, every church I go to, 23:53 C.A., there's a call given. 23:55 Amen. 23:56 And people come forward 23:58 and they are then taken to Bible study groups. 24:01 So that method is working. 24:03 We are also doing church planting. 24:05 We also have these platforms for health 24:08 and centers of influence. 24:10 We have many, many different health centers 24:13 that are like Newstart centers 24:15 that are run by local churches across China, 24:17 some of them are small, 24:19 some of them you wouldn't believe, 24:20 they have 40, 50 rooms multistory. 24:22 Wow. 24:23 And they have hundreds of people coming, 24:25 government officials coming. 24:27 And they openly pray, openly have devotions, 24:30 and they see differences in their lives. 24:33 But besides that we are also using technology. 24:37 You know, the internet, 24:39 and we are broadcasting our AWR Adventist World Radio programs 24:47 all across China from Guam. 24:49 But besides that we take those programs, 24:51 AWR does and puts some on a podcast platform. 24:55 Oh, yes. 24:56 Because I don't know if you realize this, 24:58 but there are more internet users in China 25:01 than all of the United States, and all of Europe combined. 25:04 The reason I know is because Moses, kind of, 25:07 shine the light on that just a few weeks ago 25:09 on a broadcast that we have, we're sitting to talk with him, 25:11 but you would not know 25:13 that you got such a saturation in China, 25:16 those folks are internet savvy, 25:17 and get lot of the information through the internet. 25:20 And most of it is from their hand phone. 25:22 You know, the smart phones. Yes. 25:24 Everybody I see has a smart phone in China. 25:27 And so what we've done is taken that podcast and every day, 25:31 C.A., we have 11 million downloads 25:34 of the podcast. 25:36 Wow, praise God. 25:37 Eleven million people are downloading 25:40 our AWR programming in China. 25:42 Yeah, that's download. Download, download. 25:43 That's a download. That's a download. 25:46 That's incredible. 25:47 Plus, we have multiple platforms 25:49 for distributing different kinds of internet programming. 25:52 And but, what I'm trying to say is that, 25:55 you know, we are living in a time 25:57 that I think God has created different 26:00 or given us different methods and tools to use. 26:03 Unfortunately, the devil uses those same tools. 26:05 Very true. 26:06 But we can use them also 26:08 and we need to be wise and use them 26:10 and where you have all of these tech users there in China, 26:14 we need to provide that information. 26:15 Praise the Lord. 26:17 We need to provide those platforms. 26:18 Yeah, that's why it's so cool when you come, man. 26:20 Because we wouldn't get all this stuff, 26:22 there are lot of things happening 26:23 in this part of the world that don't always leak out. 26:25 And let me ask you this because I have heard a rumor 26:27 that one of our largest church is actually is in China. 26:31 It is. 26:32 In the thousands of members, is that so? 26:34 That's very true. 26:36 In fact, as far as I know the largest physical building, 26:39 Adventist building we have is in China, 26:42 it will seat 3,500 that is the building itself. 26:46 And their membership in this case, 26:49 it's you have that church 26:51 which I think has a membership of like 2,500. 26:54 And but that church started with 14 with a family. 27:01 And this lady started this church of 14, 27:06 and it is now grown to that church of 2,500. 27:09 But not just that, they have 120 other churches 27:12 that have been started from that one church. 27:15 And so in essence, 27:17 they now have a whole conference of churches 27:19 with thousands to over 10,000, 27:21 I think it's like 12,000 members 27:22 in all these churches combined, 27:25 started with 14 people with a sister and a brother 27:29 and another sister and... 27:31 It's amazing what God is doing through these people. 27:34 Do we have a length of time from that 14 27:36 to what we've got now 10, 12... 27:37 Yes, I can tell you. That started in the mid '80s. 27:41 In the mid '80s to the late '80s. 27:42 I visited them in the early... 27:45 in about 2002 27:47 and they had already taken over on Sabbath, 27:50 the "Three Self Government Church" 27:52 that seated the 1000. 27:54 And I was taken there in the morning 27:56 because I was visiting different places in China 27:58 and we left the hotel 28:01 where we were staying at 8 o'clock in the morning, 28:02 we got there, 28:04 there was not a seat to be had, every seat was taken. 28:07 And there were at least 100 people outside 28:11 with the windows open outside sitting on buckets. 28:14 And I had this etched in my mind 28:16 with their Bibles on their knees. 28:18 Wow. 28:19 But let me just add the final context. 28:21 It was January 28:22 as if we were in Northern Minnesota. 28:25 Oh, oh. It was below freezing. 28:28 They were bundled up, there was no heat 28:30 but they were there all day eating the Word of God, 28:34 fellowshipping with each other. 28:37 And I remember getting there at 8:30 in the morning, 28:38 by the time we got there it was 8:30. 28:40 There was no seat. 28:41 Now they knew I was coming, and they knew we were coming 28:43 so they had saved us a few seats inside 28:45 where there's no heat by the way either. 28:47 But at least you were inside 28:49 where some body heat happening all around you. 28:50 Sure, sure. 28:51 And from there that afternoon, the pastor, the lady pastor, 28:56 her name is Hao Ya Jie, 28:57 took us to see the ten churches that have been planted then. 29:00 So let's do the calculation, that was about 2002, 29:03 so 15 years later there are another 110 churches. 29:06 Unreal. Praise God. And God is working. 29:09 And not too far from there in another city, 29:11 we have one mother church 29:12 that has over 300 churches associated with it. 29:16 You know, it's funny because when I think China, 29:20 I have in my mind this 29:22 constantly hot place all the time, 29:24 but Audrey was saying in the control room 29:26 that Beijing is up about latitude Washington DC, 29:29 that's chilly, man. 29:30 That's not... No, no, it is cold. 29:31 A lot of China is very cold. 29:34 I don't know if you've ever heard of a city 29:36 called Harbin where they have this famous ice festival, 29:38 they build an entire city out of ice. 29:40 Yeah, I have heard about that. And it's beautiful. 29:43 It stays cold enough to stay all winter. 29:45 All winter, yeah. 29:46 No, no, it's very, very cold in the north. 29:48 Wow, what a blessing. 29:49 And it's so neat to go to some of these churches 29:52 in the countryside in the north 29:54 where they stack up during the summer, 29:57 huge stacks of corn stock and used up corn cobs. 30:02 Because they heat their church with a big potbelly stove, 30:06 right in the middle of the church, 30:08 with a pipe going across the church out 30:12 and they just feed those corn stocks into there 30:15 all winter long though to warm their congregation. 30:19 Anyway, God is doing a neat thing. 30:21 He is. Now we've got something for us to pray. 30:22 But let me ask you this. 30:24 Is your movement in 30:25 and around China hindered at all, 30:28 they would have access to move pretty freely 30:29 as you go from place to place. 30:31 You know what, I can tell you is 30:32 God has done wonderful things in China. 30:34 The government has created an incredible environment 30:38 for economic growth. 30:41 According to one statistic I read, 30:44 the most people ever in the history of mankind 30:46 have been raised out of poverty 30:49 because of this governmental system 30:52 that they have since, since about '76 to now 30:55 you have got close to 400 million people, 30:58 500 million people that have come out of poverty. 31:01 So there's a lot of economic freedom, 31:03 there's a lot of openness that the government, 31:06 in the Constitution has freedom of religion. 31:08 So the churches, they try to register, 31:11 many of them are given registration. 31:13 They go to the... So there's a lot of freedom. 31:14 Yeah. 31:16 It's much different than it was before. 31:17 And even myself, I travel, I work with the government. 31:21 I work with the local people to tell me what I should do 31:24 and what I shouldn't do. 31:25 We want to respect the laws and so I've followed them. 31:28 And I meet regularly with different government officials, 31:30 we have a very cordial relationship. 31:32 Excellent, excellent, excellent. 31:33 I suspect though 31:35 because I've seen some national geographic stuff. 31:37 And it talks about the influx of Mercedes and BMW 31:40 that people are getting. 31:41 Oh, unbelievable. 31:43 Of course, so that means 31:44 that your big battle is secularism, right? 31:45 That's right. Yeah, that's right. 31:47 Because as they're moving up to economic ladder, 31:49 different kinds of gods are taking place. 31:51 You are so right. Yeah, yeah. 31:52 This is our greatest challenge. 31:54 And as it is here in United States 31:56 or Canada or Europe and in other, 31:59 you know, developed economies, 32:02 you're finding that in the big cities 32:05 where money is the central theme in God, 32:08 our membership... 32:10 And actually the active Christian membership is lower, 32:13 our membership is less in the big cities 32:15 than if you just go out into the suburbs 32:17 and into the countryside. 32:18 But we can't do that. 32:20 We are trying to target our cities. 32:23 We're trying to start churches in our cities 32:24 because that's where the people are. 32:27 More than 50 percent of the population of China are 32:28 in these mega cities. 32:30 In these mega cities, and they're mega, mega cities. 32:31 Listen, there is one, 32:33 the largest city has more population 32:35 than 49 of the states of the United States. 32:38 Isn't that something? Yeah. One city. 32:40 Only California has more people than that one city 32:43 and that's the largest city in China 32:45 and that's how in the West called Chongqing 32:48 and we only have about 200 members on Sabbath there... 32:50 Wow, wow. Out of 30 million people. 32:52 A lot of work to be done, 30 million people. 32:55 But God is not restrained by many or by few. 32:59 Or few. He will get it done. 33:01 Well said. Well said, and that is true. 33:04 So as we look at our list of what we're praying for. 33:07 We're praying for the lost in China and there are many 33:09 because we want them to come and to know Jesus. 33:11 That's right. Revival in the church. 33:14 Do you see is there a Laodiceanism slipping in 33:19 or the people pretty much still on fire? 33:22 You know what, I will be honest 33:23 and say that we see it's slipping in 33:26 especially in our large economic centers. 33:29 You know, we're rich and increased with good. 33:31 Yes. 33:32 And of course we have need of nothing. 33:34 That means that we just don't have 33:36 that hungering and thirsting after the things of God 33:38 and we find compromise setting in. 33:40 And we need revival. 33:44 Of course, there are still many areas 33:46 where people are just willing to do anything for the Lord. 33:49 And, but we need to pray for revival. 33:51 Please, pray for revival. 33:53 Pray that God will pour out His Holy Spirit 33:56 in latter day power. 33:59 So that the light, the fire 34:02 that's burning will become a forest fire 34:03 and take over all things... 34:04 Praise the Lord. 34:06 We're going to add one more then 34:07 maybe we'll take a starter and have a word of prayer. 34:08 Unity in the church, is that a particular problem in China? 34:11 It is a particular problem, 34:12 but we see tremendous strides forward 34:15 because China is a unique church 34:18 and that it is not organized traditionally like 34:20 we have here. 34:22 And so therefore, it is kind of fractured 34:24 under different leaders and different and... 34:26 But we see the Lord bringing the people together, 34:29 focusing on our mission. 34:30 But we do need the Holy Spirit 34:32 to bring greater unity in China. 34:37 Give me the noblest... 34:38 Add just one more. Sure. 34:40 The church in China, is it a young church, 34:41 is it a older church, 34:43 give me some sense of the age demographic? 34:45 You know, it's an interesting question. 34:48 It depends on where you go. 34:49 If you go into the countryside, 34:53 you will find it's mostly an elderly church 34:55 because all the youth have come to the cities 34:57 to look for work, the young adult. 34:59 You'll see elderly people and children 35:01 because the children are left there 35:03 with their grandparents while they go, 35:05 mom and dad go look for jobs. 35:06 But then when you come to the cities 35:08 in the largest churches or in the city churches 35:10 you'll see a mix, you'll see a mix there. 35:13 And so, but we see this challenge everywhere, 35:16 young people sometimes are distracted 35:19 with the things of this world. 35:21 And all if they could just recognize 35:23 the joy of finding Jesus in the days of their youth, 35:27 they would avoid so many pitfalls, 35:29 but we need to pray for our youth 35:30 and our children, and our children. 35:32 Yes, yes. 35:34 Well, let's stop just now and offer a word of prayer. 35:36 And as Bob has mentioned, you can download this 35:40 so you can have this for your own prayer time, 35:42 you can make a prayer list. 35:44 You can sort of bring this 35:45 to the Lord periodically doing your prayers. 35:47 We're going to pray just now. Amen. 35:48 Father God, we do praise You and thank You 35:50 that Your eye is on China 35:52 that You care so very much about this part of the world. 35:56 There are challenges there, unity, and the young people, 35:59 and secularism, and these kinds of things 36:02 that go with affluence 36:03 and with coming up out of poverty, 36:06 there is this trusting sometimes in things 36:09 and not in the Lord. 36:10 And so far we pray, in a very special way 36:12 that you would tear down these strongholds 36:15 that would insert yourself and the Holy Spirit 36:17 into the lives of those 36:18 who may be growing cold or who may be going weak 36:21 or the society that is want to follow the things of the world 36:25 and not care so much about Christ. 36:27 Father, override these things 36:29 with the power of your Holy Spirit, 36:31 we commend these to you 36:33 knowing that the God of all the earth will do just 36:35 and do right for them and by them, call them Lord 36:39 and lead them safely in journey, 36:40 we do pray and thank You in Jesus' name. 36:43 Amen. Amen. 36:44 Amen. Thank you so much, CA. 36:47 All right, growing Sabbath schools in China 36:49 and I suspect that is a growth area? 36:51 Yeah. 36:52 And as you look here the next one is small group 36:54 all across China. 36:56 There are lot of different small group ministries 36:58 taking place. 36:59 For example, on Sabbath afternoon many churches 37:01 divide into different area groups, 37:03 for example families, children, youth, 37:05 the culture in China, the Adventist culture is that 37:09 when you are an Adventist, 37:10 you go to church from morning till sundown. 37:13 They're there all day, they eat together 37:15 and then they do training in the afternoon, 37:17 you have the baptismal classes in the afternoons, 37:20 so there're lot of small groups going 37:21 and Sabbath schools, that's a whole another, 37:23 that's a whole another story. 37:25 We have been working very closely 37:26 with leaders in China 37:28 to develop the process and the habit of using 37:33 or unifying wonderful Sabbath School quarterlies. 37:36 So now we are translating those regularly. 37:38 And many of them are distributed, 37:41 of course, through the internet. 37:42 They download them and they print them 37:44 for their local congregations 37:45 or their group of hundred congregations. 37:48 Other ones, we have printed very nicely and distributed. 37:52 And so but what we want to see that take hold even more. 37:54 Right now we're printing 60-70,000 a quarter. 37:57 We would like to print 100,000, 200,000. 37:59 So let's pray for our Sabbath Schools. 38:02 And you see the next one here, C.A., was church planting. 38:06 Church planting. 38:07 You know, I'm a big believer 38:09 and the data on church growth points this out. 38:15 You know, you think about it. 38:16 If the early church were not a church planting church 38:19 and it just decided to hang out in Turkey and in Asia Minor, 38:22 what would happen? 38:23 We'd still be in Turkey and Asia Minor, I think. 38:25 You know, yeah, and if you go to Turkey right now, 38:26 there's hardly any churches. 38:28 Yes, yes. 38:29 You see God knows what He's doing 38:31 with His church planting. 38:32 It's good for the church. Yes. 38:33 And so we are very involved in church planting. 38:36 We encourage our churches. 38:37 And right now as I've mentioned to you earlier we have, 38:40 you know, dozens and dozens of teams 38:44 all across China 38:46 in unentered area planting churches. 38:47 And if you don't mind can I just share with you... 38:49 Oh, please do, please do. 38:50 Just a neat story from, 38:52 I just got it from one of our pioneer teams. 38:56 They sent in their quarterly report 38:58 and they said that, "This last quarter, 39:00 they had the joy of making two new friends." 39:03 Actually they're giving I think 23 Bible study, 39:06 so they have many friends that they're connecting. 39:07 But these are two new ones. 39:09 One was a gentleman by the name of Tin, 39:11 it's not really his name, but they called him Tin. 39:14 And Tin, they met him 39:17 at a time of crisis in his life, 39:20 his son had an accident, had a major surgery 39:23 and the doctor said, "He would not walk again." 39:25 Oh, wow. 39:26 And so they came around and supported him 39:29 and provided friendship and love 39:32 and began to introduce him to Jesus, 39:35 the one that gives eternal comfort. 39:37 And before long, 39:39 he had accepted Jesus his personal savior 39:41 and then before long he's like, 39:42 "Well, please come to my house and have Bible studies." 39:45 So now they're visiting their son 39:47 who is still in the hospital. 39:49 They're having Bible studies with Tin and his family, 39:52 and that's exciting to them. 39:55 And he is opening his home for Bible studies in the community. 39:58 Praise the Lord. 39:59 Then the second one is a lady who is paralyzed. 40:03 It sounds like it's because of a stroke or something, 40:05 she's paralyzed in the home. 40:06 So they have started visiting her, 40:09 tending to her needs, loving her. 40:12 And you know what? 40:14 She says, "This kind of love is blowing me away. 40:18 Tell me why you love me so." 40:20 And I'm just paraphrasing their report, 40:22 they said, they said, "It's because of Jesus." 40:27 And they said, "When we come to meet you, 40:30 it's Jesus coming to meet you." 40:31 And they gave her a Bible study on the gospel, 40:33 she accepted Jesus Christ. 40:34 Praise the Lord. 40:36 And now she says, now listen, 40:37 "I need you to come and give a Bible study 40:39 to my whole family." 40:40 And they sent pictures of the pioneers sitting there 40:44 with the whole family giving Bible studies 40:46 and at the end of the report, C.A., 40:49 they said, "We are so excited, 40:52 right before we wrote this report, 40:55 this sister invited us into her home 40:58 to destroy the two family altars 41:01 that they have, their idols, 41:03 and take them out and burn them." 41:05 Amen. Amen. 41:07 That is good news. 41:08 This is all because of church planting. 41:09 Yeah. 41:11 And we need to pray for these church planters 41:12 who are facing difficult times, 41:14 some times of facing political challenges, 41:18 we just need to pray for them. 41:22 That's the thing. In fact, let's pray right now. 41:24 Sure. 41:25 Gracious Father, we come to You again. 41:27 We know the challenges that the church planters face, 41:30 the challenges that come to all those involved 41:33 in frontline evangelism. 41:34 They are the specific 41:36 and special objects of Satan's hatred and attack. 41:39 But we know that 41:41 they can be more than conquerors 41:42 through Jesus Christ. 41:43 And that greater is he that is in them 41:45 then he that is in the world. 41:46 That's for sure. 41:47 And so Father, we commend them to You 41:49 and ask You to surround them. 41:50 Keep them safe in their comings, their goings. 41:52 Bless the work of their hands 41:54 and may they be crowned with success, Father. 41:58 So that the work can go forward and we thank You Father, 42:00 and praise You in Jesus' name, amen. 42:02 Amen. Amen. Amen. 42:05 I love it all. 42:06 I just want to encourage the viewers, please, 42:09 download this and pray for China daily. 42:12 There is power in prayer. 42:14 There is a quote that we have on this booklet here 42:16 regarding prayer, C.A., that I really, really like, 42:19 it says, "A chain of earnest praying believers 42:23 should encircle the world. 42:25 Let all pray in humility. 42:28 Let those who cannot leave home, 42:29 gather and their children and unite in learning 42:32 to pray together in response 42:34 to the prayers of God's people 42:36 angels are sent with heavenly blessings." 42:39 This is in Ellen White's Book, Reflecting Christ, page 121. 42:42 Amen. 42:43 So prayer is real, I believe it. 42:47 "Anybody that has gone out knows that 42:49 there is power in prayer." 42:51 Now, your next one is "Pray for Public Evangelism." 42:55 Is there a measure of public evangelism 42:57 that you can do? 42:58 I know you can't do whole scale big city wise, 43:00 kind of things that we're accustomed to in the west, 43:02 but you can do something like that? 43:03 Let me just tell you, my friend. 43:05 God is doing amazing things. 43:07 There is not a culture of public evangelism 43:09 because it was impossible for 40, 50 years. 43:14 But now that many of our churches 43:15 owned their own apartment church, 43:17 their house church, or their own building, 43:19 they can do so. 43:21 And so we have brought over, the last couple of years 43:24 we brought evangelists, Doug Batchelor came 43:27 and held meeting in Wuxi, 200 were baptized. 43:29 Praise God. 43:30 Mark Finley came last October and many... 43:34 I think it was close to 180 some were baptized. 43:37 We're modeling it, okay? We're modeling it. 43:41 And so what has happened now is that 43:43 our own people are going out and preaching now. 43:46 I'm plugging in ShareHim here. 43:49 ShareHim has developed materials in Chinese. 43:51 Oh, wow. 43:52 For the Chinese with an Asian view in mind. 43:55 And we have distributed these. 43:57 New Beginnings has done the same thing 43:59 all across China. 44:00 So we are distributing material. 44:02 Our goal this year, 44:03 and I'm a little bit nervous to say this over the air, 44:06 but I need your prayers. 44:08 Let me just say that 44:09 we are planning hundreds of campaigns this year 44:13 across China. 44:15 One such example took place by one of our union leaders 44:19 went to a Chinese Church, 44:21 held Chinese evangelist meetings, 44:24 no foreign, this is all local bread, everything. 44:28 And 63 people gave their life to the Lord 44:31 including 100 year old lady 44:34 who also insisted on going to the seaside 44:37 and being baptized in the sea with the other 62 people. 44:39 Bless her heart. 44:40 So what I'm trying to say is that God is going to work. 44:43 We have seen the numbers of baptism 44:45 increasing year after year. 44:48 This last year, we had over 16,000 baptisms in China. 44:51 Amen. 44:52 We hope to see that exponentially increase 44:55 as we start doing public evangelism. 44:57 So praying for public evangelism 45:00 is a real need. 45:01 Please, join us in praying for public evangelism 45:05 all across China. 45:08 That's what we need desperately. 45:10 That is fabulous, fabulous. 45:13 Is there an ongoing threat, Bob, 45:16 to religious freedom even now? 45:17 You know, I believe that God is opening those doors 45:20 and He is. 45:21 We see it. 45:23 How we can openly have evangelism in our churches. 45:25 We can have pastors who are trained. 45:29 God is doing wonderful things. 45:30 But we like in any place even in our own country here, 45:33 we need to continue to pray for religious freedom. 45:35 And we also need to pray 45:37 that God continues to bless the religious education 45:40 and theological education that is happening 45:42 in various modalities in China 45:45 so that the church can be strengthened theologically 45:49 to rebuff all these strange winds of doctrine 45:52 that can come. 45:54 And you know, if that happens around the world, 45:56 the devil doesn't matter how he gets us, 45:58 he loves getting us from within. 46:00 Right, right, right. 46:01 And so, we need to pray 46:03 for our religious education as well. 46:06 And so do you mind, let me pray for these three last things... 46:09 Please do. If you don't mind. 46:11 Father in heaven, 46:12 we've been talking about public evangelism 46:14 and, Father, you know, the plans that we have 46:17 but, dear God, please guide us. 46:21 May they be Your plans blessed by Your Holy Spirit 46:25 as we preach this Three Angels' Message 46:28 to the people all across China. 46:30 Lord, this work cannot be finished 46:32 until it is finished everywhere, 46:35 be it in China or be it in Cicero, Indiana. 46:38 Amen. Or be it in Chicago. 46:40 Lord, it's got to be done. 46:42 And I pray, dear God, 46:43 that You will use Your faithful members in China 46:45 to proclaim this message, 46:48 this end time message to the people of China 46:51 who are hungering for it. 46:53 Protect the meetings, 46:54 bring the people who are hungry, 46:56 who you've been working with to these public meetings 46:58 and may they be sensitive 47:00 to the promptings of your Holy Spirit. 47:02 We pray for the continued work of education, theological, 47:07 and religious education across China. 47:09 Continue to keep the doors open 47:11 for the proclamation of Your message, 47:13 we pray in the powerful name of Jesus, amen. 47:16 Amen. Amen. 47:20 Religious freedom is... 47:22 The hands are kind of off for now... 47:24 The Lord is working. We still have lots of ability. 47:28 Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. 47:29 Praise the Lord 47:33 Theological education, 47:35 our guys that are working there, 47:37 they're the frontline mission people, 47:38 the global mission people, the mission pioneer people, 47:40 they're getting the training outside 47:42 and coming in? 47:43 Well, no, we're doing all the training inside. 47:46 And we do training inside, we have different modalities, 47:48 of course, local church seminars, 47:50 our union is very involved 47:52 and going all over doing training and seminars. 47:55 We use the internet platforms to deliver classes. 48:00 We have an entire distance education school 48:04 called Chinese Adventist Seminary 48:05 with over 1,000 students getting a one year degree 48:09 in pastoral ministry, 48:10 two year degree in pastoral ministry, 48:11 four year accredited degree in pastoral ministry, 48:14 all delivered through the internet, 48:17 different modalities, face to face classes. 48:18 Okay. 48:20 So we need to keep praying for that as well. 48:21 And if you don't mind 48:23 just write down there little further, 48:25 it says media and internet ministries... 48:26 I'm looking out. 48:27 These are connected, you know, these are connected. 48:29 We need to pray for that. 48:32 You know, we have a Chinese Hope TV 48:36 that goes 24/7 in the Chinese language 48:39 that is used broadcast through the cell phone 48:41 and through the internet, and through the satellite. 48:45 Anyway, what I'm trying to say is we need to use every method 48:48 and we pray that God will bring people 48:50 to listen that are seeking truth. 48:55 Let me ask you, 48:56 I'm looking at pray for family ministries, 48:58 give me some sense, Bob, and our time looking 49:00 at the clock is not our friend here, 49:02 of the stability or instability of the average Chinese home? 49:06 You know, comparatively speaking, 49:08 it's very stable compared to the west and other places 49:12 but that is changing because of secularism, materialism, 49:17 the demands of the workforce, and the desire for more, 49:21 we're seeing more and more problems 49:23 in the family. 49:24 And so we're praying for family. 49:26 We have family ministry leadership, 49:27 training going on, counseling. 49:29 We need to pray for our families. 49:31 The devil knows, C.A., that if he can get a family, 49:34 he's silenced the witness. 49:36 Very true, very true. Very, very true. 49:39 It's good to know that there are so many friends 49:42 at the Adventist Church 49:43 can be of value to this part of the world field. 49:49 We're praying for protection and the presence of His angels. 49:52 Amen and amen. Amen. 49:54 And for a latter rain outpouring 49:57 of the Holy Spirit... 49:58 Amen to that too. Yeah. 50:00 Yes. And governmental leaders. 50:02 We need to pray for our government leaders, 50:03 and they're God's children too. 50:05 And we want them to come to know Jesus Christ. 50:07 Let me ask this, Bob, do you get a chance 50:09 to interface much with, certainly not country leaders, 50:13 but local leaders, police, mayors, 50:15 those kind of town's people who kind of... 50:17 Oftentimes, political leaders 50:18 I don't get to interface with as much 50:20 but I do get with religious leaders. 50:23 In other words religious bureau 50:24 which are secular that oversee religion, 50:26 I interface with them. 50:28 And just a reminder, all of this again, C.A., 50:31 all of this list that we've been praying 50:32 including governmental leaders can be found 50:35 on our website at KGrowth.org. 50:37 They can download this pamphlet. 50:39 And it becomes a way for our people 50:42 that are watching, your viewers, 50:43 to pray for China. 50:45 We covet your prayers, 50:49 we just covet your support in every which way. 50:51 Fabulous. 50:52 Pray... 50:53 I like this idea because this gives you really a prayer list. 50:57 And this is something... 50:58 If you have a color print, it's really, really pretty. 51:00 And if you don't, well, you can still pray for it. 51:03 Yeah, but you can see it online in color for sure. 51:05 And it tells you what to pray for. 51:07 And it also shows you some of the areas of ministry 51:09 that might could use some financial support as well. 51:12 Yeah, we've talked about the necessity of prayer 51:16 and, of course, that is very, very important. 51:18 But we should not forget 51:19 that this work does take your finances. 51:23 And one of the reasons that they come is that 51:24 we can expose you to the kinds of things 51:26 that are being done 51:28 and obviously great work is being done, 51:29 but it's going to take money to help 51:31 because this is an area, 51:32 we talk about the 10/40 window and other kinds of things, 51:34 but here is an area that really needs your prayers 51:37 and your financial support. 51:38 And giving can be given through KGrowth.org as well. 51:41 Amen, amen. Thank you. 51:42 We want to go to an address roll just now. 51:44 Should you want to make contact for support 51:47 to get little more information here how, here is 51:50 how you can do precisely that. 51:55 If you would like to know more about this ministry 51:56 or how you can support it. 51:58 You can do so by writing 51:59 to Chinese Union C/O Outpost Centers International, 52:04 5132 Layton Lane, Apison, Tennessee 37302. 52:10 That's Chinese Union C/O Outpost Centers International, 52:15 5132 Layton Lane, Apison, TN 37302. 52:21 You can also visit them online at KGrowth.org, 52:26 that's the letter K then growth.org. 52:31 Contact them today. They'd love to hear from you. |
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