I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello, friends, welcome to 3ABN.
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My name is John Lomacang.
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If you're a part of our
family, you already know that.
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But if you're
not, I would encourage
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you to stay tuned
to this channel today.
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Mark it however you
can because we believe
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that this channel
has been ordained by God
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to help people to grow
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as we get ready for
the coming of our Lord.
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And today is a program
I know will challenge you.
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We talk about missions.
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How can the Lord use
you to reach someone else
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and prepare them for
the coming of the Lord?
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So stay tuned.
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This program is going to
be exciting, we have video,
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we have pictures,
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and you'll see how God
unfolds in the hearts and lives,
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a mission that in
most cases many of us
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had no idea would come
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but the Lord always
sees farther than we do.
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Thank you for your prayers
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and your financial
support of this network.
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As we continue
doing the Lord's will,
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your support makes
a large difference,
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and we thank you once again.
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Now before we
introduce our guests,
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we have a song by
Scott Michael Bennett
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which I believe lays
the foundation wonderfully.
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You know the gospel says,
Let your light will shine,
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and when the
light of God reaches
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to the farthest
points of the globe,
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Jesus will come.
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Let's lay the foundation
with this wonderful song
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entitled "Go Light Your World."
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There is a candle in every soul
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Some brightly
burning, some dark and cold
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There is a Spirit
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Who brings a fire
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Ignites a candle
and makes His home
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Carry your candle,
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Run to the darkness
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Seek out the
hopeless, confused and torn
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And hold out your
candle for all to see it
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Take your candle,
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And go light your world
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Take your candle,
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And go light your world
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Frustrated brother,
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See how he's tried
to Light his own candle
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Some other way
See now your sister,
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She's been robbed and lied to
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She still holds a candle
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Without a flame
So carry your candle,
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Run to the darkness
Seek out the lonely,
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The tired and worn
And hold out your candle
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For all to see
it Take your candle,
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And go light your
world Take your candle,
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And go light your world
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We are a family
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Whose hearts are blazing
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So let's raise our
candles, light up the sky
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Praying to our Father,
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In the name of Jesus
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Make us a beacon
in the darkest night
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Carry your candle,
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Run to the darkness
seek out the hopeless,
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Deceived and poor
Hold out your candle
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For all to see
it Take your candle,
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Go light your
world Take your candle,
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Go light your world
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Take your candle,
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Go light your world
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Go light your world
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Go light your world
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Thank you so much, Scott,
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for that song "Go
Light Your World."
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It's so
appropriate for the topic
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we're talking about today
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because the world
is amazing as it is.
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And as advanced as the world is,
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it's really in so many
ways still a very dark world.
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Our guests today have
accepted the challenge
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and the power from the Lord
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to take that candle
and go light the world
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that the Lord has sent them to.
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I'll let them
tell you where that is.
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But right now, let's meet
Jonathan and Natalie Wood.
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Jonathan, good to have you here.
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Good to see you. You are...
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You have some history with 3ABN.
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Yes. I used to work here.
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Okay. And we had
our first son here.
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Okay. Our only son.
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Okay. Yes.
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Then God called us
away to other work.
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But while we were here,
the candle that lit in us
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was seeing
someone live by faith.
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Wow, wow.
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And seeing the God will
provide based on His word alone,
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we always read that word,
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but never knew anybody
that really believed it.
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And working here, we saw
faith in action and an entire...
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My paycheck came from His faith.
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Wow! That's true.
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If I could say it this
way, the seed that carried,
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that lit the
candle in you, obviously,
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the light comes from
the Lord, we know that.
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But we all know 3ABN
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is a continual
reminder of faith.
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Yes.
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Because there's no way
that something could exist
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as long as this
has without the faith
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to recognize
that the next month,
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the next month,
God will provide.
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Yes.
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And to your right, I
would say is your better half.
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Absolutely. Natalie,
good to have you here.
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Good to be here. Thank you. Yes.
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And you're also
part of the 3ABN family?
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Yes.
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We were meeting
with some of the staff
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earlier today.
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And they said,
"I've known Natalie,
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we've traveled together.
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I was there when
she had her child."
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And now God has taken you both.
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Tell our
listeners and our viewers.
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I'll start with you, John.
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Tell us what you're involved
in right now both of you?
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We started Jesus...
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Or actually the Lord
started Jesus for Asia,
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a ministry that focuses on Asia,
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which actually contains more
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than half of the
entire world's population
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lives in Asia.
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And we've been
doing that now since 2005,
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full-time focused on that.
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You know, when you said that,
a lot of people don't realize
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that there's a part of the world
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that is like trying
to break into a vault.
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You know, only the
Lord knows the combination.
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But He needs people
that are willing to go
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because I think years ago,
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they used to call
the 680 quarter or 640,
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I think that's the terminology.
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Where in that area,
there are Muslims, Indian...
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Different religions
that Jesus is so left out.
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Right.
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And there's a
challenge to go there.
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And in 2005, the Lord ignite,
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put that candle and
both of you to start
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the ministry
called Jesus for Asia.
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Yeah. Well, it started in 2001.
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When we went with
Danny and 3ABN team...
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Okay.
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To India,
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and I saw 40,000
people sitting on the ground
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listening to an
evangelistic series.
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And I realized that
there are people out
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there that would accept Jesus
and would want to accept Jesus
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if somebody would tell them.
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And so I came home thinking,
"How can I get involved?
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How can I...
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If it was up to
me, what would I do?
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How can I be the most..."
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And it's like, I
started to realize,
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and it's like, this
thing came together,
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it's like, I want an
ambition started to grow,
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to see as many people
in the kingdom of heaven
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before I die.
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Wow.
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And so we started wrestling
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with that for
three or four years,
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really wrestled with it.
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The Lord came,
brought it together in 2005.
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When He started this thing,
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we quit our job
together and moved.
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We didn't know, we
didn't have any money.
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We had a little bit of debt.
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We didn't know
where we're going to live.
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We just knew if God is
calling, He would provide.
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That's right.
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And we stepped out in
faith, resigned our job,
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and here we are 14 years later.
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And God is still
providing and growing.
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He's still providing. Yeah.
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And, Natalie,
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I mean, how was that
when you both sat down
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and thought you
could never learn to fly
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if you're going to just
stay in the tree branches.
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Right.
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Well, God was making it obvious
that He had started this thing,
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and that He was in charge.
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And it came to a point
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where it was like this
needs full time attention.
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This can't be a part-time thing.
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The people over there
need full-time help from here.
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And so it was obvious
that it was God's will.
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Wow!
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And so how many
regions or areas of India
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because, see, India's huge...
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I've been to India,
I've been to southern India,
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northern India.
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And when you go
to India, I tell you,
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immediately overwhelmed.
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I have not been any place
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that I've seen more motorcycles.
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More motorbikes, I
could use that phrase
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'cause we say
motorcycles, we think of,
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you know, Harley's
and big 650s and 450s,
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we're talking putt-putt.
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And more like a
scooter. Like scooter.
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But they're everywhere. Right.
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And sometimes, family of
four or five are on one bike,
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the woman is sitting on one side
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and the kids on
the other, and husband.
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Yes.
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But when you
descended into that sea,
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take us back to the moment
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when you both for the first time
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in your ministry
that God called you to?
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What was it like your
first time going to India?
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Not with Danny, in the
Jesus for Asia ministry
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if you remember that?
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Our first time
was actually in 1999.
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And her first time...
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That was before the ministry
and before you went with Danny.
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Yes.
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Her first time,
overseas, was before that,
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the year before that,
and we went on vacation.
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But it was
vacation with a mission
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because I want to
introduce her to missions,
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but I didn't want
to put pressure on her.
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And so we went as a vacation
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but we hung out at an orphanage.
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So she got the feel of what
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it's like to be
outside of America
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in a non-pressure environment,
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fell in love with the people.
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And now it's no longer
we're going to do this.
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This is no longer statistic,
it's like friends over there.
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People have amazing faces.
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Second time was in India.
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Say that again,
Natalie, that was...
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People have names and
faces, they have stories.
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God knows their
stories, why don't we, you know.
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That's very important.
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The first time we
went actually together
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as the ministry
was actually in 2007.
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He had been each
year before that.
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But we went in 2007,
and we took our children,
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our daughter was
four at the time,
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and our son was six at the time,
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and we did an
evangelistic series.
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And it was just a
beautiful opportunity
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to minister
together as a family.
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And to meet the
people in the little village,
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we were working in face
to face and to talk to them
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and learn about their lives.
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Yeah.
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That's important because
so many times in America,
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when we talk about missions,
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you hear a lot
about missions coming up,
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Christmas in January,
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I mean, a lot of
ministries are raising funds,
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which is a good cause.
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But a lot of times, you
know, you get a postcard
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with a picture on it
and your March of Dimes
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or whatever the case may be.
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And they say $10
goes to this village,
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you know, 50% of
that goes to this area.
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And you feel a
sense of connection.
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Like I've done my,
you know, daily does.
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But then when
you hit the ground,
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and the dirt on your feet
is the same dirt on their feet.
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And you're looking
into each other's eyes,
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and you have to actually
touch a hand of a person.
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It takes on a different
meaning altogether, doesn't it?
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Yes. Yeah, it's huge.
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When we show up in the evening
to do the evangelistic series,
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all the kids that come
running out, "James, James."
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James was six at the time.
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And one evening,
I'll never forget it,
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he's in that little
church surrounded by 50 kids
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and he leans up
against the wall, and he says,
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"Dad, this is what I want to
do with the rest of my life."
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And so that mission spirit
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has been a real
blessing to our family.
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He's given us purpose,
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the reason for
doing a lot of things
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that normally we would,
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you know, maybe not want to do,
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and given us a
goal to shoot for.
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Yeah.
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You know, we have that question
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going back to what you said
about giving names and faces.
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We have a lot of people ask us,
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"Well, isn't it better for me
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to send my money over
there than to go myself?"
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And we say, yeah, your
money can do a lot over there.
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But if you go and you meet them,
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and you see and
you hear their stories,
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then you come back
and you advocate for them,
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who better to talk about
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what's going on over
there or who these people are
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than someone
that's seen it firsthand.
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That's right.
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And so you can
advocate for them,
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and God can send more money.
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But if you advocate for
them, then more people can know
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that there's a need out there.
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Right, because you've
had that personal experience.
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Right.
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Now when my wife and I,
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we've been blessed to be able
to travel to different places.
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We've been to India, as I said.
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And you're right,
you walk into a town
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where normally
people wouldn't go.
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But then, you
know, you've touched
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the lives of
people that are there.
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So they allow you to come in.
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Whereas other
people will be suspect.
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If somebody just
landed and went there,
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they'll be very suspicious,
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but because you've
touched their lives,
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they give you access
to their hearts in a way
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that other people
don't have access.
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It takes time to build
that kind of, doesn't it?
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Yeah.
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We did that evangelistic
series in six different villages
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in India back in 2007.
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But the key was that
we didn't just leave,
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we hired, and Jesus for Asia...
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the heart of our ministry
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is we enable the
local missionary.
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So we placed Bible
workers in those villages.
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And they've been
there ever since.
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So we just went
back there this year.
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And this place is just growing.
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And so we want to do it again.
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I mean, whole churches
are coming into the faith,
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their story after story.
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It's just
amazing to see the growth
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when you have consistent workers
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there over the long haul.
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And people that were bapt...
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Sorry, people that were baptized
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during that series
have become Bible workers.
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That's right.
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And they have
brought other people in
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who have become Bible workers.
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And so it's
like our Bible worker
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workforce is growing
because they've seen the joy
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that our Bible
workers are experiencing
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from sharing with them
as well as other people.
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You know, one candle
lights two candles lights
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four candles
lights eight candles,
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and the
exponential growth is amazing
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when that light
continues to spread.
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Yes. And that's
the thing about it.
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You have a number
of projects there.
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Tell me a little bit about
the national Bible workers.
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We have a couple of,
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I think three
pictures we'll show
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but just lay some foundation
before we go to the pictures.
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We started out with the idea
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of enabling the
local missionary.
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Recently...
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I mean, after that,
some of our friend says,
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"Hey, you know, we want
to be involved with this.
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You're having so much fun.
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We want a part of it, too."
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But still, we have about
300 Bible workers in India.
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Another few, 20 or
so in the Philippines,
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Thailand, Cambodia,
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and now we're starting
to move into Bangladesh.
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Amen.
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But we could hire thousands.
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There's so many
people out there,
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and they are amazing.
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Not just that they're there,
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they don't have to have a
plane ticket to get there,
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they already know the
language, they already know...
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You know, all that's there.
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But I want to tell you
some of the stories of like,
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this is James.
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We'll call him James.
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Okay. Okay.
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And he was preaching
in his church one day,
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and he saw a lady come
in and she sat in the back.
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She's very embarrassed.
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And jump in
anytime, darling. But...
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She cried the whole time. Yeah.
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He gave a sermon and
she cried the whole time.
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And at the end, he
called her forward,
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but she was embarrassed.
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But anyway, his
wife helped and found out
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she had elephantiasis.
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Now elephantiasis
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is where your legs
swells up really big
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because of some kind of...
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It's a parasite.
It's caused by a parasite.
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And it's incurable,
completely incurable.
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I mean... Irreversible.
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Yeah, they can manage
it, but they can't cure it.
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And so he called her forward.
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He says, "I'm
going to pray for you.
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I'm going to come to
your house and pray for you.
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And next week,
you're going to testify
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in this church
of God's healing."
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I mean, a massive
statement of faith.
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So he prayed for her,
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went to the
house, all kinds of...
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It was an evil curse there.
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So he took care of that, prayed.
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That night, she had a
dream where she saw Jesus
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shining come to her.
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And she was so excited.
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She went to his
house that very night,
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middle of the night,
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and her leg was
completely healed.
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So that following Sabbath,
she stood up in the church
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and testified of
God's complete healing.
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She had a... The leg was so bad.
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She had a wound in her leg
that of a size of a finger,
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you could put your finger
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and worms came out
smelled like rotting flesh.
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It was terrible situation.
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God healed all that.
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Wow!
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Okay.
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So that's the
kind of part we were.
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Can we say praise the Lord?
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Oh, absolutely. Big time.
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This shouldn't
surprise us as Christians.
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But sometimes, we tend to
think that that's archaic,
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it doesn't
happen in modern times.
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But you know
what, the Lord knows
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how to reach
people where they are.
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Absolutely. And it'll take...
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In that one act,
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it eliminated 36
sermons because that person
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immediately experienced
the power of God in her life.
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And the person who
made that statement,
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the Lord encouraged him to
do that, so that God can say...
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I mean, so many
stories of people
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go into places where we think,
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"Well, how many sermons
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we have to
preach to reach them?"
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And the Lord does it
in situations like that.
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Yes. That's a powerful...
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That's a
powerful testament. Yeah.
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What else do we have here?
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The next Bible
worker, you'll see,
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she was a Pentecost.
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She is the wife of a
former Pentecostal preacher.
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They're powerful.
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I mean, they're in an
area that is very strong,
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antichristian.
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And the people are doing
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all kinds of, we
call them Pooja...
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Evil spells.
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Yeah, evil spells
to get them to leave.
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So one day, she was
up on top of a mountain.
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And she heard a
voice very loudly saying,
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"You are not allowed to be here.
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You must leave,
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stop preaching
Jesus in this area.
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This area does
not belong to you."
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A voice, audible, nobody around.
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And she looks around.
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She says, "Satan,
I know that's you.
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I do not work for you.
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I work for Jesus, and
He's stronger than you.
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You have no authority over me.
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Leave."
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Three times that happened.
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And then this demon
took shape, took form.
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She could see him materialize.
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As of human, like a human.
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And was coming at her,
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like he was
going to threaten her,
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she was going to do her harm.
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And she says,
"Lord, please save me."
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And immediately,
she was whisked away,
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just like Philip
in the New Testament,
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the Acts, she was whisked
away to the bottom of the hill.
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She was back in her hometown.
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And she went back to her church
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and she knelt
down and she prayed,
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"Lord, if that was
you that carried me away,
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do something
miraculous in this village
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so that this village
knows that you are powerful."
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Wow!
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So that there will be
a living witness of you.
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A living witness.
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That's right.
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So she immediately got a call
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from somebody
that said, "This..."
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Somebody from that village.
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Yeah, this man
who was against them,
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just had an accident,
severed his spinal cord.
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"Can you come and pray for him?"
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So she went there, she
prayed for him, she left.
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And after she left,
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this old man
walked into the hospital
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through down the
ward, came into his room,
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put his hand
right under his neck,
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and he couldn't feel anything.
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The doctor says
this man's going to die
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or he'll never walk again.
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Because it's
been cut right here.
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And put his hand
on and prayed for him.
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And when he left,
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he felt this shock go
through his whole body,
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and he stood up.
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And that day, he
walked out of the hospital.
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Living witness.
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And he is a living witness.
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Wow! Wow!
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And these are the
ways that the Lord reaches,
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like you said, if this was
you that whisked me away, Lord,
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do something
powerful for this village,
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so that the living witness...
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That's what Acts
1:8 is all about.
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"You shall be witnesses to me."
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Yes. Yeah.
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And this is our Bible worker.
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They make $90 a month.
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Anybody can sponsor a
Bible worker like this,
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and we get to serve them.
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You know, my wife and I,
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we stay in the home
office here in America.
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And we get this...
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These are the
people that we serve.
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How much did you say?
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$90 a month. Wow!
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It's like $3 a day.
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And this is the kind of people
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that are taking the
gospel into dark areas.
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And not just taking the gospel
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but they are living
witnesses of the power of God.
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So they're not
communicating something
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that they don't
have experience of,
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they're communicating...
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It's like if somebody says,
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the best witness is a person
who has witnessed something.
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Right.
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You have another
picture of a person here.
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Yes, now this Bible worker,
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beautiful lady,
such a spirit of joy.
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We learned of
an outcast village.
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They are so poor
that in the rainy season,
00:23:14.69\00:23:18.49
they bring a
stone into their house
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and sit up on the stone
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because their floor becomes mud.
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They don't have a proper floor.
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Yeah, their
walls are made of mud.
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The roof of their house is like,
00:23:27.64\00:23:30.01
it's kind of
broken tarp and sticks,
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and sometimes palm fronds
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if they can get some
but it leaks like crazy.
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And some of their houses
are just barely wide enough
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for two people to lie
down next to each other.
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Yeah. Wow.
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And so we're trying to do
some work in this village.
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But they were
afraid of outsiders
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'cause outsiders
always take advantage of them
00:23:47.69\00:23:49.26
and treat them poorly.
00:23:49.29\00:23:50.63
So this lady went to
that village every day
00:23:50.66\00:23:52.73
and cooked food for them
00:23:52.76\00:23:54.10
and gave it to
them free of charge,
00:23:54.13\00:23:55.86
even when they
wouldn't talk to her.
00:23:55.90\00:23:57.27
She'd just leave it there.
They would not talk to her.
00:23:57.30\00:23:59.17
For three long months,
she did this every day,
00:23:59.20\00:24:02.34
until they started to soften up,
00:24:02.37\00:24:04.04
and they started to trust her.
00:24:04.11\00:24:06.07
And now we were able to
put an evening school there,
00:24:06.11\00:24:08.58
which teaches their children
because these children...
00:24:08.61\00:24:12.21
Oh, we saw a 16-year-old girl,
00:24:12.25\00:24:14.92
she was on her third pregnancy
00:24:14.95\00:24:17.39
because when they turn
13, they get married off,
00:24:17.42\00:24:19.45
and they start having kids.
00:24:19.49\00:24:21.19
And the teacher there,
he is from that village,
00:24:21.22\00:24:23.93
and he was just crying.
00:24:23.96\00:24:25.29
He was so happy that we
were in there teaching the kids
00:24:25.33\00:24:27.03
because, he says, now these kids
00:24:27.10\00:24:28.93
have an
opportunity other than just,
00:24:28.96\00:24:32.03
you know, before
they had no option.
00:24:32.07\00:24:33.64
Right.
00:24:33.67\00:24:35.00
Just go and collect
firewood and sell firewood,
00:24:35.04\00:24:37.11
that's how they'd
earn their living.
00:24:37.14\00:24:38.81
And so this just
brings us so much joy
00:24:38.84\00:24:42.48
to see these Bible workers
00:24:42.51\00:24:44.05
with that kind of
tenacity going after souls.
00:24:44.08\00:24:46.35
Consistency until
the trust is built.
00:24:46.38\00:24:48.35
Yeah.
00:24:48.38\00:24:49.72
And then a center
is built there now,
00:24:49.75\00:24:51.89
where they could
reach out to the community.
00:24:51.92\00:24:53.36
And, you know, when
you think about the ages,
00:24:53.39\00:24:55.59
you're so right.
00:24:55.62\00:24:56.96
I don't know...
00:24:57.03\00:24:58.36
I don't know,
when you go to India,
00:24:58.39\00:24:59.73
and my wife and
I have been there.
00:24:59.76\00:25:02.36
And you look around,
00:25:02.40\00:25:03.77
one of the first questions
that pop into your mind is,
00:25:03.80\00:25:05.93
"Lord, how are You going
to reach all these people?"
00:25:05.97\00:25:08.80
But it's good to go back
00:25:08.84\00:25:10.44
and talk about
what you mentioned.
00:25:10.51\00:25:12.61
The people that
are on the ground,
00:25:12.64\00:25:13.98
there are people on the ground
00:25:14.01\00:25:15.34
that are part of
this expanding ministry...
00:25:15.38\00:25:17.08
Yes. Jesus for Asia.
00:25:17.15\00:25:19.21
And collectively
with other ministries,
00:25:19.25\00:25:21.12
we know, a lot of
Adventist ministries
00:25:21.15\00:25:23.59
that are in Asia held
with other ministries,
00:25:23.62\00:25:26.25
you know, many
hands make light work.
00:25:26.29\00:25:28.86
And Lord is
wrapping the Christmas tree
00:25:28.89\00:25:31.49
as it were with the
light of the gospel,
00:25:31.53\00:25:33.40
and then plugging the power in
00:25:33.43\00:25:35.13
so that we could see the
gospels going everywhere.
00:25:35.16\00:25:37.17
Yeah, and we're
praying for revival in missions
00:25:37.20\00:25:39.07
because even
though it sounds like
00:25:39.10\00:25:40.44
a lot of things are
happening out there,
00:25:40.47\00:25:41.80
when you're there,
00:25:41.84\00:25:43.17
and I've got a slide
later on to show you.
00:25:43.20\00:25:45.17
There's very little happening,
very little happening,
00:25:45.21\00:25:49.11
which can seem overwhelming.
00:25:49.14\00:25:51.31
But if there's a
true revival in missions,
00:25:51.35\00:25:53.72
this could get done very soon.
00:25:53.75\00:25:55.58
There was an incident
we talked about a church.
00:25:55.62\00:25:58.65
And we're going
to look at this video
00:25:58.69\00:26:00.56
in just a minute here.
00:26:00.59\00:26:02.36
Lead us up to it
00:26:02.39\00:26:03.73
because something
amazing is happening
00:26:03.76\00:26:06.59
where something
tragic once took place.
00:26:06.63\00:26:08.50
Right.
00:26:08.53\00:26:09.86
So what happens is
like with our Bible workers,
00:26:09.90\00:26:12.53
they can knock on doors,
00:26:12.57\00:26:14.14
but what about the millions,
00:26:14.17\00:26:17.21
like you say that how
are we going to reach them.
00:26:17.24\00:26:19.91
And as 3ABN knows,
00:26:19.94\00:26:22.34
the best way really is to use
the current publishing press,
00:26:22.38\00:26:26.38
you know, the television.
00:26:26.41\00:26:28.78
And so our director in India
has been begging us for years,
00:26:28.82\00:26:32.19
"Please can we
start a TV channel
00:26:32.22\00:26:34.19
and start a program."
00:26:34.26\00:26:36.19
I've been putting it off
00:26:36.22\00:26:37.56
'cause I still have
faith challenges, you know.
00:26:37.63\00:26:40.23
And so finally, we said,
a little over a year ago,
00:26:40.30\00:26:42.53
he said, go ahead
and start something.
00:26:42.56\00:26:44.27
And so he started something.
00:26:44.30\00:26:46.50
And within a year,
we've had 13 Bible studies.
00:26:46.53\00:26:49.37
Currently they've got...
00:26:49.40\00:26:50.74
Baptisms. Sorry. Baptisms.
00:26:50.81\00:26:52.61
Currently, we have 170 to 190
weekly Bible studies going on.
00:26:52.64\00:26:57.55
Amen.
00:26:57.58\00:26:58.91
People call in
00:26:58.95\00:27:00.28
and our Bible workers
then go and visit them.
00:27:00.32\00:27:02.95
And in this video that
we have, the family that...
00:27:02.98\00:27:06.52
Our first family
that got baptized,
00:27:06.55\00:27:08.09
which was like a week or
two after this show began,
00:27:08.12\00:27:11.73
they're in an area
where there is no Bible.
00:27:11.76\00:27:13.60
There's no Bible
worker. There's no pastor.
00:27:13.63\00:27:15.23
There's no Adventist
Church. There's nothing.
00:27:15.26\00:27:17.57
But they heard on the TV,
and they saw the phone number
00:27:17.60\00:27:20.34
and they called in and
the Bible worker answered,
00:27:20.37\00:27:23.20
started Bible study,
started praying for them,
00:27:23.24\00:27:25.31
miracles happened in their life,
00:27:25.34\00:27:27.08
and now the whole family
is Seventh-day Adventists.
00:27:27.11\00:27:29.18
Okay, well, let's look at
that that's in this video.
00:27:29.21\00:27:30.95
Hello, praise the lord.
00:27:54.57\00:27:57.74
When she gets the
call, this is a rough note.
00:27:57.77\00:28:00.68
She'll write it
on this notebook.
00:28:00.71\00:28:03.08
And once after writing it,
00:28:03.11\00:28:05.25
she'll put it in this notebook.
00:28:05.28\00:28:08.95
This is the date, time,
00:28:08.98\00:28:10.49
when they've called, the person,
00:28:10.52\00:28:13.05
the phone number,
from where they've called,
00:28:13.09\00:28:16.73
and what is the request.
00:28:16.76\00:28:20.20
We just traveled across
the northern half of the state
00:28:20.23\00:28:23.37
of Tamil Nadu.
00:28:23.40\00:28:24.73
And what's amazing to me is that
00:28:24.77\00:28:27.04
almost every
single church we go into,
00:28:27.07\00:28:29.37
especially on
Sabbath, somebody is there
00:28:29.40\00:28:32.21
because of the
television ministry.
00:28:32.24\00:28:35.04
They heard about the Sabbath
00:28:35.08\00:28:36.48
through the television ministry,
00:28:36.51\00:28:37.85
they heard about God
00:28:37.88\00:28:39.38
through the television ministry.
00:28:39.41\00:28:40.85
And so it's been a
real eye-opener to me
00:28:40.92\00:28:44.99
to see how effective
this ministry has become.
00:28:45.02\00:28:49.32
To this program,
00:28:49.36\00:28:50.73
God has given this
beautiful whole family.
00:28:50.76\00:28:54.66
Today, the head of
this house, he took baptism.
00:28:54.70\00:28:58.80
People came and asked
her "What is happening?
00:28:58.83\00:29:01.17
We can see a lot of
changes in your family,
00:29:01.20\00:29:03.64
changes in your physical health,
00:29:03.71\00:29:05.84
your husband has
given up drinking.
00:29:05.87\00:29:08.41
He has given up
smoking, chewing tobacco.
00:29:08.44\00:29:11.68
What is happening?"
00:29:11.71\00:29:13.05
And she said, "I have accepted
00:29:13.08\00:29:14.95
the true Jesus Christ
as my personal savior.
00:29:14.98\00:29:18.35
He's leading us.
00:29:18.39\00:29:19.72
He's giving us this strength."
00:29:19.75\00:29:21.76
These people started asking her,
00:29:21.79\00:29:24.23
"Would you please
give us the number
00:29:24.26\00:29:26.33
where you're calling
and asking for prayer?
00:29:26.36\00:29:28.56
We too want them to pray for us
00:29:28.60\00:29:31.47
because we are also in problem."
00:29:31.50\00:29:32.93
We're partnering in
this television project
00:29:37.44\00:29:39.64
with the local church,
00:29:39.67\00:29:41.01
and they have donated
the roof of the church
00:29:41.04\00:29:44.75
for us to build a TV studio.
00:29:44.78\00:29:46.82
So we don't have to buy land,
00:29:46.85\00:29:48.35
which is very
expensive in the city.
00:29:48.38\00:29:50.72
So you can just start building
on the top of this church.
00:29:50.79\00:29:53.56
And this is
only going to cost me
00:29:53.59\00:29:55.62
$15,000 plus equipment.
00:29:55.66\00:29:58.19
And so it's an
amazing opportunity
00:29:58.23\00:30:00.30
to build a studio
for less than $20,000.
00:30:00.33\00:30:04.27
So these people
have taken baptism.
00:30:04.30\00:30:07.47
They are going to
church, attending churches.
00:30:07.54\00:30:09.94
I just want to encourage you
to be a part of this ministry
00:30:10.01\00:30:13.58
that brings
souls into the truth.
00:30:13.61\00:30:16.48
It goes into their living
room, on their Television.
00:30:16.51\00:30:19.31
It's something that
comes in and gives them hope,
00:30:19.35\00:30:22.05
and it changes their
lives for the better,
00:30:22.08\00:30:24.99
and it's so
exciting to be part of this.
00:30:25.02\00:30:26.76
Please remember this
ministry in your prayers
00:30:26.79\00:30:29.59
'cause it's
making a huge impact.
00:30:29.62\00:30:31.36
That's amazing, a
studio being built
00:30:43.41\00:30:46.34
to expand the gospel
00:30:46.37\00:30:47.71
that is going
forth in that community.
00:30:47.74\00:30:49.98
Yeah.
00:30:50.05\00:30:51.38
That's amazing.
00:30:51.41\00:30:52.75
And that's in
the Tamil language.
00:30:52.78\00:30:54.12
Okay.
00:30:54.15\00:30:55.48
There's like 26
official languages in India.
00:30:55.52\00:30:56.85
Not counting
the dialects. Right.
00:30:56.89\00:30:58.85
A spin off from that. Yeah.
00:30:58.89\00:31:00.39
So this is only reaching
maybe 80 million people.
00:31:00.46\00:31:04.03
Only. That's all.
00:31:04.06\00:31:05.46
Wow!
00:31:05.49\00:31:06.83
Well, what do you
think about India?
00:31:06.90\00:31:08.23
There's a lot of people
there, a lot of people there.
00:31:08.26\00:31:10.30
But the Lord is doing it
as kids years ago used to say,
00:31:10.37\00:31:13.74
"How do you eat an elephant?"
00:31:13.77\00:31:15.44
One bite at a
time. One bite at a time.
00:31:15.47\00:31:17.34
For the gospel has to
be taken systematically
00:31:17.41\00:31:20.38
and methodically
00:31:20.41\00:31:21.74
and have to be done
constructed in a beautiful way.
00:31:21.78\00:31:24.25
Yes. We got some pictures.
00:31:24.28\00:31:25.61
I want you to
walk us through those
00:31:25.65\00:31:27.02
as we bring them up.
00:31:27.05\00:31:28.38
Tell us...
00:31:28.42\00:31:29.75
And for those who are
listening on the radio,
00:31:29.78\00:31:31.12
my wife works for radio,
00:31:31.15\00:31:32.49
describe it in such a
way that they could envision
00:31:32.52\00:31:33.86
what we're talking about here.
00:31:33.89\00:31:35.22
Okay, sure. Let's bring that up.
00:31:35.26\00:31:36.59
Yeah, okay. So
this is a little church.
00:31:36.62\00:31:38.06
We're in Mumbai, India, okay?
00:31:38.09\00:31:39.93
Mumbai is a city of
about 20 million people,
00:31:40.00\00:31:41.96
the entire metropolitan area.
00:31:42.00\00:31:44.07
Downtown has about 12 million.
00:31:44.10\00:31:45.97
They have one church
for that 12 million people.
00:31:46.00\00:31:49.47
The rest of our church
is in the slum districts.
00:31:49.50\00:31:52.21
This right here
is a little tiny,
00:31:52.24\00:31:53.88
you can already see that
it doesn't look like a church.
00:31:53.91\00:31:56.85
It's nestled
between two buildings
00:31:56.88\00:31:59.01
that are two-story.
00:31:59.05\00:32:00.42
This is a one-story building.
00:32:00.45\00:32:01.78
And they had been
bursting at the seams for years.
00:32:01.82\00:32:05.02
They've been praying for
$8,000 to build a second floor.
00:32:05.05\00:32:08.72
And you can build a second floor
00:32:08.76\00:32:10.23
bigger than the first floor,
00:32:10.26\00:32:11.59
you just overhang the sidewalk
and you overhang out back.
00:32:11.63\00:32:14.40
And they hadn't been
able to raise this $8,000
00:32:14.43\00:32:18.67
in six years.
00:32:18.70\00:32:21.00
$8,000 is like nothing for us.
00:32:21.04\00:32:23.64
Right. For a church building.
00:32:23.71\00:32:25.54
And so that shows you
how poor that community,
00:32:25.57\00:32:28.61
that church is in that city,
00:32:28.64\00:32:31.28
even though it's a wealthy city,
00:32:31.31\00:32:33.01
the church itself is very poor.
00:32:33.05\00:32:35.22
And so we raised the
$8,000 and gave it to them.
00:32:35.25\00:32:39.35
And they built a second
floor, and it was a big deal.
00:32:39.39\00:32:42.52
This next picture is
the second floor finished.
00:32:42.56\00:32:44.83
Yeah. Okay.
00:32:44.86\00:32:46.19
So this is the community.
00:32:46.23\00:32:47.60
You can see over
the left there is the...
00:32:47.63\00:32:49.26
The stairs...
00:32:49.30\00:32:50.67
The stairs going up.
00:32:50.70\00:32:52.03
Okay, I see it
overhanging. It's over.
00:32:52.07\00:32:53.54
So that's the second
floor, and it was a big deal.
00:32:53.57\00:32:56.40
The next slide will show
you, they had a big celebration,
00:32:56.44\00:33:00.28
celebrating this
massive influx of funds
00:33:00.31\00:33:03.95
to build the second floor.
00:33:03.98\00:33:05.31
This is an established church.
00:33:05.35\00:33:07.98
This church has been
there for over 20 years.
00:33:08.02\00:33:09.72
It's one of the
main churches in Mumbai.
00:33:09.75\00:33:11.49
Wow! Look at the change.
00:33:11.52\00:33:12.85
Look at the difference
of the people that are able.
00:33:12.89\00:33:14.79
Now when you talk about
getting packed in there,
00:33:14.82\00:33:16.83
at least they have more
space now to pack them in there.
00:33:16.86\00:33:18.59
Yeah, exactly.
00:33:18.63\00:33:20.00
Wow. So that's exciting.
00:33:20.03\00:33:21.36
That's one of the things
that gives us so much joy
00:33:21.40\00:33:23.37
is to find places that
00:33:23.40\00:33:25.57
with just a little bit
of help make such an impact,
00:33:25.60\00:33:28.74
such a difference.
00:33:28.77\00:33:30.11
It does.
00:33:30.14\00:33:31.47
And that's what
keeps us going, you know.
00:33:31.51\00:33:33.78
In the past, we used to say,
well, we got to go and do this.
00:33:33.81\00:33:35.98
And really, it's like...
00:33:36.01\00:33:37.35
Now it's like,
00:33:37.38\00:33:39.01
we're joy chasers, we chase joy.
00:33:39.05\00:33:40.75
I like that.
00:33:40.82\00:33:42.15
You know, like in Hebrews 12:2,
00:33:42.18\00:33:43.52
"For the joy that
was set before Him,
00:33:43.55\00:33:45.02
Christ endured the cross."
00:33:45.05\00:33:47.29
It's like, there's
pain and suffering,
00:33:47.36\00:33:48.96
but the joy is so much better.
00:33:48.99\00:33:50.43
The pain is temporary.
00:33:50.46\00:33:51.96
Right. But the joy is eternal.
00:33:51.99\00:33:53.40
Exactly.
00:33:53.43\00:33:54.93
That's a very good approach too.
00:33:54.96\00:33:56.30
And you get to
enjoy it now. Right.
00:33:56.33\00:33:58.20
It's a joy that gives now
00:33:58.23\00:33:59.83
but a joy that
will never pass away.
00:33:59.87\00:34:01.77
Exactly.
00:34:01.80\00:34:03.41
Because it's not
connected to materialistic.
00:34:03.44\00:34:05.07
Right. Exactly.
00:34:05.11\00:34:06.44
It's connected to the spiritual,
00:34:06.47\00:34:08.01
which doesn't have any end.
00:34:08.04\00:34:09.38
And when you see the
lights in people's eyes
00:34:09.41\00:34:11.55
go from fear and superstition,
to joy and peace in Jesus,
00:34:11.58\00:34:15.32
those lights come
on, it's nothing like it.
00:34:15.35\00:34:19.09
You know, the passion
that I'm seeing in both of you,
00:34:19.12\00:34:21.56
and the passion that
keeps a person going,
00:34:21.59\00:34:23.73
you go to villages where,
00:34:23.76\00:34:25.09
I remember years
ago going to a village
00:34:25.13\00:34:26.46
where we look
back at the church,
00:34:26.49\00:34:28.50
and we just held
up with blue tarp
00:34:28.53\00:34:30.20
and just sticks from trees
00:34:30.27\00:34:32.40
that were just all
in different directions,
00:34:32.43\00:34:34.57
not a single
straight piece of wood.
00:34:34.60\00:34:38.04
But then it gets
replaced with 18 buildings
00:34:38.07\00:34:41.08
in a full church.
00:34:41.11\00:34:43.04
And the vision and
the prayer of the people
00:34:43.08\00:34:45.05
that were in
that region would say,
00:34:45.08\00:34:47.95
first, it went from
"What kind of God do you serve
00:34:47.98\00:34:50.52
that will keep you
in this little hut?"
00:34:50.59\00:34:52.55
And then to "Is
this the God you serve?"
00:34:52.59\00:34:55.79
So when you see
these things happen,
00:34:55.82\00:34:57.86
you could see the Lord is
working out in amazing ways
00:34:57.89\00:35:01.43
how the gospel is
going forth in that region.
00:35:01.46\00:35:03.47
Take us to the next
picture and tell us what we see.
00:35:03.50\00:35:05.37
Okay, so this picture is
maybe a little confusing,
00:35:05.40\00:35:09.27
but it's just green
00:35:09.30\00:35:10.64
with a bunch of
little dots on it,
00:35:10.71\00:35:12.04
and this is a
satellite image of a swath
00:35:12.07\00:35:16.21
of God's vineyard in
northern India, okay?
00:35:16.24\00:35:19.78
Each of those dots
00:35:19.81\00:35:21.42
represents a city or a town.
00:35:21.45\00:35:25.92
Each of those little dots? Yeah.
00:35:25.95\00:35:27.66
So we're looking at...
00:35:27.69\00:35:29.02
It almost looks like, you
know, media strikes, tiny...
00:35:29.06\00:35:31.26
I should say...
00:35:31.29\00:35:32.93
Yeah, they're like a star field.
00:35:32.96\00:35:34.30
Like a star field.
00:35:34.33\00:35:35.70
Those are cities.
00:35:35.73\00:35:37.07
Each one of those dots is a town
00:35:37.10\00:35:38.67
or a city or a village.
00:35:38.70\00:35:40.44
And in this particular swath,
00:35:40.47\00:35:43.27
there is not a single
Seventh-day Adventist Church,
00:35:43.30\00:35:46.78
pastor, missionary,
00:35:46.81\00:35:49.01
Bible worker, or member.
00:35:49.04\00:35:52.48
This is completely
an un-entered area.
00:35:52.51\00:35:55.55
Wow.
00:35:55.58\00:35:56.92
And there's massive swaths.
00:35:56.99\00:35:59.45
There's massive areas
where there's no work at all.
00:35:59.49\00:36:02.99
In fact,
00:36:03.02\00:36:04.36
there's entire
countries in the world.
00:36:04.39\00:36:06.70
In fact, I visited one
country just this year,
00:36:06.73\00:36:09.23
I was the only
Adventist for the three days
00:36:09.26\00:36:12.17
I was there in
the entire country.
00:36:12.20\00:36:15.10
So massive opportunity.
00:36:15.14\00:36:18.27
And I used to
think of that as like,
00:36:18.31\00:36:19.81
how in the world
are we ever going to...
00:36:19.84\00:36:21.34
You know, it's like,
00:36:21.38\00:36:22.71
it's like a buffet
because even Jesus,
00:36:22.74\00:36:24.98
you know, with the woman...
00:36:25.01\00:36:26.58
It's like His meat was
to do His Father's will,
00:36:26.61\00:36:29.32
sharing Christ
with others fed him.
00:36:29.35\00:36:32.05
Okay.
00:36:32.09\00:36:33.46
And so taking the
gospel to the world
00:36:33.49\00:36:35.86
feeds us spiritually.
00:36:35.89\00:36:38.49
Like you said at the
beginning, it's for our growth.
00:36:38.53\00:36:40.50
That's right.
00:36:40.53\00:36:41.86
Christ has given us this work
for our growth, for our joy.
00:36:41.90\00:36:44.60
And now I look at
all these opportunities,
00:36:44.63\00:36:46.60
there's 6,000 unreached
people groups in the world,
00:36:46.63\00:36:49.20
in which no
Christianity of any religion
00:36:49.24\00:36:51.71
has been preached.
00:36:51.74\00:36:54.21
Now it's like,
"Wow, thank You, God,
00:36:54.28\00:36:56.58
for preserving all
these opportunities for us
00:36:56.61\00:37:00.02
to get engaged with
Your work in this time."
00:37:00.05\00:37:04.45
Let's go to the next
picture and let's see...
00:37:04.49\00:37:06.62
I mean, I'm just...
00:37:06.65\00:37:08.72
When I saw that
picture of all those dots,
00:37:08.76\00:37:11.26
I was thinking to myself,
00:37:11.29\00:37:12.76
"Oh, that's all
the places you've been.
00:37:12.79\00:37:14.90
That's all the places
that you haven't been.
00:37:14.93\00:37:17.07
That's just one
swath." One small area.
00:37:17.10\00:37:19.37
That's all the
places nobody's been.
00:37:19.40\00:37:20.87
Nobody's been.
00:37:20.94\00:37:22.27
And even though the
gospels being beamed,
00:37:22.30\00:37:26.17
there needs to be
people on the ground
00:37:26.21\00:37:28.04
that are getting that
one to one, that touch.
00:37:28.08\00:37:30.35
And there needs to be
something in their language
00:37:30.38\00:37:33.01
because the
majority of the people
00:37:33.05\00:37:35.05
in the world
don't speak English.
00:37:35.08\00:37:37.22
They don't speak
any other language.
00:37:37.29\00:37:39.15
And so we've been talking
00:37:39.19\00:37:40.56
with the
president of that section
00:37:40.59\00:37:42.19
to try to work something out,
00:37:42.22\00:37:44.39
where we can put
something of the gospel
00:37:44.43\00:37:46.90
into the airwaves,
00:37:46.93\00:37:48.33
in that state in that language.
00:37:48.36\00:37:50.97
We also want to
project Bible workers in there.
00:37:51.00\00:37:53.44
And there are people
that are willing to go,
00:37:53.47\00:37:55.07
willing to sacrifice their lives
00:37:55.10\00:37:57.31
to go take the
gospel into those places
00:37:57.34\00:38:00.08
if we had the funding to send.
00:38:00.11\00:38:02.64
Yeah, I talked about
a church being rebuilt.
00:38:02.68\00:38:05.91
I want to go to that video
00:38:05.95\00:38:07.62
because this was
an amazing story.
00:38:07.65\00:38:10.19
I wanna watch the
video, then we come back,
00:38:10.22\00:38:12.02
and we kind of give
some more credibility,
00:38:12.05\00:38:13.96
not credibility but
some more background to it.
00:38:13.99\00:38:15.92
Okay. Okay.
00:38:15.96\00:38:17.33
We are standing in a village
00:38:27.34\00:38:28.97
that about 10 years ago
suffered a lot of violence.
00:38:29.00\00:38:32.17
This is a mainly Christian area.
00:38:32.21\00:38:34.54
We have an
Adventist Church, right here.
00:38:34.58\00:38:37.18
In 2008, four of our members,
00:38:45.62\00:38:48.86
including one pastor was killed,
00:38:48.89\00:38:51.56
and this church was destroyed.
00:38:51.59\00:38:54.46
We are now praying
for God to do a miracle.
00:39:11.48\00:39:16.02
The people around here
00:39:16.05\00:39:17.42
are wanting to
have their church back.
00:39:17.49\00:39:20.66
They're still believing in God.
00:39:20.69\00:39:22.06
They're asking,
desperately asking for prayer,
00:39:22.09\00:39:25.23
even as we visit here.
00:39:25.26\00:39:27.40
Please come and
pray for my family,
00:39:27.43\00:39:29.13
pray for my mother,
pray for my daughter.
00:39:29.16\00:39:32.23
All these things
are happening here.
00:39:32.27\00:39:35.27
There's an urgency that
something needs to be done.
00:39:35.30\00:39:39.51
It's an opportunity,
many opportunities here,
00:39:39.54\00:39:42.54
big opportunity
to glorify God's name
00:39:42.58\00:39:45.71
in this little village.
00:39:45.75\00:39:47.42
So please pray
about this little village
00:39:53.59\00:39:56.19
in Orissa,
00:39:56.22\00:39:57.56
may not mean a lot
in the world scale,
00:39:57.63\00:40:00.10
but in heaven scale,
00:40:00.13\00:40:02.33
one soul is worth
more than the entire world.
00:40:02.36\00:40:04.40
Now tell us a little
bit about that church?
00:40:22.85\00:40:24.69
Yes. This church is...
00:40:24.72\00:40:27.46
It's really emotional for me.
00:40:27.49\00:40:29.69
It's really heavy.
00:40:29.72\00:40:31.19
Because little
over 11 years ago,
00:40:31.23\00:40:34.36
there was rioting.
00:40:34.40\00:40:37.07
Somebody, a religious leader,
00:40:37.10\00:40:39.20
Hindu leader was murdered.
00:40:39.23\00:40:41.17
And even though a
local group claimed that
00:40:41.20\00:40:46.78
it got blamed on the Christians.
00:40:46.81\00:40:48.24
So there was a lot of rioting,
00:40:48.28\00:40:49.61
over 5,000
Christians were killed.
00:40:49.64\00:40:52.28
And four of
them were Adventists,
00:40:52.31\00:40:54.78
one of them was a pastor.
00:40:54.82\00:40:56.48
And a lot of our...
00:40:56.52\00:40:58.89
They would come
to the Adventists
00:40:58.92\00:41:00.96
and say, "Will you
renounce Jesus Christ?"
00:41:00.99\00:41:02.92
And if they said no,
they would kill them.
00:41:02.96\00:41:05.36
A lot of the church
members escaped into the jungle
00:41:05.39\00:41:08.53
and live for over
a week in the jungle.
00:41:08.56\00:41:11.30
There's scorpions
00:41:11.33\00:41:12.67
and all kinds of
wild animals out there
00:41:12.70\00:41:14.04
and the Lord protected them.
00:41:14.07\00:41:15.40
This church has
been sitting like that
00:41:15.44\00:41:17.61
in that community
for the last 11 years,
00:41:17.64\00:41:20.88
as a testament to this event.
00:41:20.91\00:41:25.31
And can you imagine
what that would feel like,
00:41:25.35\00:41:27.55
walking down the street
00:41:27.62\00:41:28.95
and seeing your
church in that condition,
00:41:28.98\00:41:30.92
thinking for all these
years, this is what their God,
00:41:30.99\00:41:34.26
you know, it's like their
God is stronger than our God.
00:41:34.29\00:41:36.73
And so being there
when you talk to the people,
00:41:36.76\00:41:40.10
I mean, there's still believers
and still so many believers.
00:41:40.13\00:41:44.37
They were begging me,
"Please come pray in my house,
00:41:44.40\00:41:47.24
come pray for my mom,
come pray for my kids, please."
00:41:47.27\00:41:49.77
And they are like insistent.
00:41:49.80\00:41:51.14
When you see that,
00:41:56.18\00:41:57.55
and you come back
home, it's a little...
00:41:57.58\00:42:00.05
It changes you.
00:42:00.12\00:42:02.45
And the church is
going to be rebuilt?
00:42:02.48\00:42:04.52
We are praying.
00:42:04.55\00:42:06.96
There's also a typhoon
that came through recently
00:42:06.99\00:42:10.83
and damaged a lot of churches.
00:42:10.86\00:42:12.56
So there's 13 churches
that need to be rebuilt.
00:42:12.59\00:42:15.26
Now there's two that
were destroyed in the riots
00:42:15.30\00:42:17.60
that's similar to this.
00:42:17.63\00:42:19.13
Now this one,
and then another one,
00:42:19.17\00:42:21.34
and then 11 more
that were destroyed
00:42:21.37\00:42:23.17
by that typhoon and
other circumstances.
00:42:23.20\00:42:25.27
And to rebuild all 13,
00:42:25.31\00:42:28.08
less than $30,000.
00:42:28.11\00:42:29.91
Wow! Yeah.
00:42:29.94\00:42:31.45
Say that again.
00:42:31.48\00:42:32.81
To rebuild all 13 churches
will cost less than $30,000,
00:42:32.85\00:42:37.49
including this one.
00:42:37.52\00:42:38.89
Including that one
that was destroyed.
00:42:38.92\00:42:40.46
Yes.
00:42:40.49\00:42:41.82
That was
intentionally destroyed.
00:42:41.86\00:42:43.19
Yeah.
00:42:43.22\00:42:44.56
Well, you know, Natalie,
00:42:44.59\00:42:46.26
I mean, you're
part of this journey.
00:42:46.29\00:42:48.86
Fill in some of that
from your perspective,
00:42:48.90\00:42:51.37
because you...
00:42:51.40\00:42:52.73
Was it you that left teaching?
00:42:52.77\00:42:54.50
That was Jon.
00:42:54.54\00:42:55.87
Oh, Jon left teaching.
00:42:55.90\00:42:57.41
I was at home mom at the time.
00:42:57.44\00:43:00.18
And, yeah, it's just been
an amazing journey to see,
00:43:00.21\00:43:03.55
it's very humbling to see
00:43:03.58\00:43:05.18
when we hear the
stories of the workers,
00:43:05.21\00:43:07.05
and we see what can
happen in the field,
00:43:07.12\00:43:09.62
when things can be rebuilt
and encourages the local church
00:43:09.65\00:43:12.52
so much that we as a church
00:43:12.55\00:43:15.39
and an
international worldwide church
00:43:15.42\00:43:17.96
care about them that much.
00:43:17.99\00:43:19.33
It just really touches my heart,
00:43:19.36\00:43:21.10
it's such a blessing.
00:43:21.13\00:43:22.46
It's been such a blessing to me.
00:43:22.50\00:43:23.87
And it gives us all a
reason to connect with God.
00:43:23.90\00:43:26.94
You know, when
we think about it,
00:43:26.97\00:43:28.30
sometimes, it's easy to say,
00:43:28.34\00:43:30.21
"Why are we going
all the way to India?
00:43:30.24\00:43:32.84
Why are we
putting all this hassle?"
00:43:32.87\00:43:34.54
But as you said earlier,
00:43:34.58\00:43:36.11
when your eyes connect
00:43:36.14\00:43:37.55
and you get a face
and a name connected,
00:43:37.58\00:43:40.32
and you're
standing in the same space,
00:43:40.35\00:43:43.05
and you see the lives
being transformed and change.
00:43:43.08\00:43:46.05
And in spite of the opposition
00:43:46.09\00:43:48.02
because if I would say,
00:43:48.06\00:43:50.13
if it wasn't a threat
to the kingdom of darkness,
00:43:50.16\00:43:54.96
there wouldn't be no opposition.
00:43:55.00\00:43:56.46
Now, one of our missionaries,
00:43:56.50\00:43:57.83
her favorite thing to say is
00:43:57.87\00:43:59.30
if you don't meet
the devil head on,
00:43:59.33\00:44:01.37
that means you're
going the same direction.
00:44:01.40\00:44:03.41
Whoo! Say that one more time.
00:44:03.44\00:44:05.61
I'm gonna use that.
00:44:05.64\00:44:06.98
If you don't meet
the devil head on,
00:44:07.01\00:44:08.81
it means you're
going the same direction.
00:44:08.84\00:44:10.55
That means you're
going the same direction.
00:44:10.58\00:44:11.91
That's a powerful
thought. That's right.
00:44:11.95\00:44:14.45
When you meet him head on,
00:44:14.48\00:44:15.82
that means you're
going in opposite directions.
00:44:15.85\00:44:17.65
This kind of contention,
00:44:17.69\00:44:19.02
but I want to
make this statement
00:44:19.05\00:44:20.39
before we go to the
last three pictures.
00:44:20.46\00:44:22.39
You know, the Bible says,
00:44:22.42\00:44:23.76
the gates of hell
00:44:23.83\00:44:25.16
shall not prevail
against the church.
00:44:25.19\00:44:26.53
That's not the
church being on the defense,
00:44:26.56\00:44:28.73
that's the church
being on the offense.
00:44:28.76\00:44:30.27
The gates of hell
is being pushed back
00:44:30.30\00:44:32.23
and the church is going forward.
00:44:32.27\00:44:33.64
Praise God for that.
Gates are stationary.
00:44:33.67\00:44:35.50
The gates are stationary.
00:44:35.54\00:44:36.91
The church is
pushing those gates down,
00:44:36.94\00:44:38.64
one soul, one life at a time.
00:44:38.67\00:44:40.88
And that's what you're doing
00:44:40.91\00:44:42.24
with the Jesus
for Asia ministry.
00:44:42.28\00:44:44.58
We have three more
pictures in the time remaining.
00:44:44.61\00:44:46.41
Explain to our
viewers and listeners
00:44:46.45\00:44:48.02
what we're watching.
00:44:48.05\00:44:49.38
Now before we move to that,
00:44:49.42\00:44:50.79
just to kind of
put in perspective,
00:44:50.82\00:44:52.15
there was a time
when I was in India,
00:44:52.19\00:44:54.49
and I saw six Indian ladies
00:44:54.52\00:44:58.46
getting ready to be baptized.
00:44:58.49\00:45:01.56
And I was like, Lord,
they're in cheap sarees,
00:45:01.60\00:45:03.80
they're not very
beautiful, they're old.
00:45:03.87\00:45:06.43
Is it worth all that effort?
00:45:06.47\00:45:08.94
And I'm kind of selfish,
00:45:08.97\00:45:10.74
you know, and the Holy
Spirit flashed in my mind,
00:45:10.81\00:45:13.98
what are they going to look like
00:45:14.01\00:45:15.34
when they're
standing on the sea of glass
00:45:15.38\00:45:17.05
and Jesus is
handing them the crown.
00:45:17.08\00:45:19.68
Is it going to be worth it then?
00:45:19.71\00:45:21.28
In a billion years from now,
00:45:21.32\00:45:22.85
maybe one of them
00:45:22.88\00:45:24.45
will become the
heavenly choir director.
00:45:24.49\00:45:26.76
And here in the 10,000th row,
00:45:26.79\00:45:29.36
and she's up there
00:45:29.39\00:45:30.73
and lifts her glowing
hand to start the choir.
00:45:30.76\00:45:34.43
Will you say was it worth it?
00:45:34.46\00:45:37.83
We have to see everything
in the light of eternity.
00:45:37.87\00:45:39.50
Yes.
00:45:39.53\00:45:40.87
We can't see it
in the temporal life
00:45:40.94\00:45:42.27
because everything
fades in this Earth.
00:45:42.30\00:45:43.71
Everything has a beginning
and everything has an ending.
00:45:43.74\00:45:46.27
But the ending for the Christian
00:45:46.31\00:45:47.64
is just a temporary rest
00:45:47.68\00:45:49.11
before the long unending joy,
00:45:49.14\00:45:51.88
chasing the joy that
will never fade away.
00:45:51.91\00:45:54.88
Absolutely.
Praise the Lord for that.
00:45:54.92\00:45:57.12
So like I was saying earlier,
00:45:57.19\00:46:00.16
we were enabling ministry
00:46:00.19\00:46:01.62
working with the
local missionaries,
00:46:01.66\00:46:02.99
we still are.
00:46:03.02\00:46:04.36
But some of our friends started
to see how much fun it was,
00:46:04.39\00:46:06.70
how much joy it was.
00:46:06.73\00:46:08.06
So they said "What does it
take to become a missionary?"
00:46:08.10\00:46:10.07
And we said...
00:46:10.10\00:46:11.50
A plane ticket. A plane ticket.
00:46:11.53\00:46:13.57
Yeah. That's right.
00:46:13.64\00:46:14.97
And so, many of them have gone,
00:46:15.00\00:46:16.47
and they work
with Jesus for Asia.
00:46:16.50\00:46:18.34
And here are some
of the missionaries
00:46:18.37\00:46:20.28
that we have over there.
00:46:20.31\00:46:21.64
Okay, let's look
at these pictures
00:46:21.68\00:46:23.01
and see that.
00:46:23.04\00:46:24.38
This is Brian
and Jessica Atwell.
00:46:24.41\00:46:25.88
Okay.
00:46:25.91\00:46:27.25
And they left America
with a knowledge of a need.
00:46:27.32\00:46:32.22
And they moved to
Bangkok, Thailand.
00:46:32.25\00:46:34.92
Yes. They learned the language.
00:46:34.96\00:46:37.06
And they've gone way beyond
00:46:37.13\00:46:39.06
what I ever
thought was possible.
00:46:39.09\00:46:40.43
Wow!
00:46:40.50\00:46:41.83
Let's see what
the next picture is.
00:46:41.86\00:46:44.37
Okay, we missed a picture.
00:46:44.40\00:46:46.17
But they started
out with a dream.
00:46:46.20\00:46:49.10
And the Lord led them
00:46:49.14\00:46:50.51
to a 15,000 square
foot five-story building.
00:46:50.54\00:46:54.18
Wow!
00:46:54.21\00:46:55.54
And at the top floor,
they put in a climbing wall.
00:46:55.58\00:46:59.38
They're going to
put in a restaurant,
00:46:59.41\00:47:00.75
and a fruit smoothie shop
00:47:00.82\00:47:02.15
because they're
located 500 feet,
00:47:02.18\00:47:03.59
there's the climbing wall.
00:47:03.62\00:47:04.95
Yep.
00:47:04.99\00:47:06.32
They're located at
500 feet from a university
00:47:06.35\00:47:07.69
with over half a
million students,
00:47:07.72\00:47:10.03
530,000 students
go to that university.
00:47:10.06\00:47:13.19
Right.
00:47:13.23\00:47:14.56
And they're in the
middle of a housing area
00:47:14.60\00:47:16.77
for the university.
00:47:16.80\00:47:18.13
So you use the tools available
00:47:18.17\00:47:20.64
to be able to gain access
00:47:20.67\00:47:22.50
to the interest
to sell the gospel.
00:47:22.54\00:47:25.04
Many years ago,
00:47:25.07\00:47:26.81
one of our former
conference presidents,
00:47:26.88\00:47:29.78
he was North American
Division president a while ago,
00:47:29.81\00:47:32.55
Dan Snyder,
00:47:32.58\00:47:33.92
I remember, I never forgot
what he said to his daughter.
00:47:33.95\00:47:36.18
He asked her,
00:47:36.22\00:47:37.59
"What are you
doing for the summer?"
00:47:37.62\00:47:38.95
And she says,
00:47:38.99\00:47:41.46
"I'm training
people how to ride horses."
00:47:41.49\00:47:43.56
He said, "No, no, no,
that's not what you're doing.
00:47:43.63\00:47:47.00
You're sharing Jesus with them,
00:47:47.03\00:47:48.73
while you're training
them how to ride a horse."
00:47:48.76\00:47:52.00
He said, "Don't ever do anything
00:47:52.03\00:47:53.54
without sharing Jesus."
00:47:53.57\00:47:55.37
And that's what
you're talking about.
00:47:55.40\00:47:56.74
The climbing wall is not
the end in and of itself,
00:47:56.81\00:47:59.24
it's a facilitating tool
00:47:59.27\00:48:01.04
to reach
somebody with the gospel.
00:48:01.08\00:48:02.44
Right.
00:48:02.48\00:48:03.85
And the most amazing
thing was it wasn't their idea.
00:48:03.88\00:48:06.31
And there's no way
they could have done it.
00:48:06.35\00:48:08.12
There's no way they would
have come up with the idea.
00:48:08.15\00:48:10.09
It was all God.
00:48:10.12\00:48:11.45
They get all the glory,
00:48:11.49\00:48:12.99
all the praise,
and it's amazing.
00:48:13.02\00:48:14.72
Yeah.
00:48:14.76\00:48:16.09
What are some of the
forward looking projects
00:48:16.12\00:48:17.46
or some of the needs
that you have that could
00:48:17.53\00:48:18.96
'cause you talk
about the churches,
00:48:18.99\00:48:20.50
some of the costs that
are related to rebuilding,
00:48:20.53\00:48:22.76
that $30,000
for the 13 churches,
00:48:22.80\00:48:25.30
the $8,000.
00:48:25.33\00:48:27.44
Just kind of revisit
that and give us a summary.
00:48:27.47\00:48:30.61
Okay.
00:48:30.64\00:48:31.97
Well, as you might imagine,
00:48:32.01\00:48:34.08
our biggest prayer is
for more Bible workers
00:48:34.11\00:48:36.61
to move them into new areas.
00:48:36.64\00:48:38.35
That's unlimited.
00:48:38.38\00:48:40.15
I mean, we can hire
1,000 Bible workers tomorrow.
00:48:40.22\00:48:43.15
We get requests every day,
00:48:43.18\00:48:44.69
"Can we please have some
Jesus for Asia Bible workers?"
00:48:44.72\00:48:47.29
From new fields and
from different areas.
00:48:47.36\00:48:49.19
That's always there.
00:48:49.22\00:48:51.66
The studio, the
church has to be rebuilt,
00:48:51.69\00:48:55.73
that's through
the church directly.
00:48:55.76\00:48:57.60
And there's many
other areas as well.
00:48:57.63\00:49:00.94
Moving into new
areas, new television areas,
00:49:00.97\00:49:04.14
we have over 50 projects.
00:49:04.21\00:49:07.08
And whatever gets the job done,
00:49:07.11\00:49:08.51
whatever brings as many people
into the kingdom as possible,
00:49:08.54\00:49:10.85
we want to be part of that.
00:49:10.88\00:49:12.21
Right.
00:49:12.25\00:49:13.58
So the funds coming
in will be allocated
00:49:13.62\00:49:14.95
to the needs as they
arise and even as they exist.
00:49:14.98\00:49:16.79
Absolutely.
00:49:16.82\00:49:18.15
And I've seen so many
people in the pictures
00:49:18.19\00:49:22.19
that you've shown
that these amazing outfits,
00:49:22.22\00:49:26.36
you know, you go over to India,
and they like bright colors.
00:49:26.39\00:49:29.43
Yeah.
00:49:29.46\00:49:30.80
But it shows that
there's a cheer in their spirit.
00:49:30.87\00:49:35.10
Their bright
colors, they're letting,
00:49:35.14\00:49:36.57
their glowing as it
were in the society.
00:49:36.60\00:49:39.21
But there's a greater glow
00:49:39.24\00:49:40.88
that accompanies that
when they find the gospel.
00:49:40.91\00:49:43.01
Oh, yes. That comes from inside.
00:49:43.04\00:49:44.55
Comes from inside.
00:49:44.58\00:49:45.91
And do you do
programs for children?
00:49:45.95\00:49:49.12
We have our evening schools.
00:49:49.15\00:49:51.05
We feed about...
00:49:51.09\00:49:52.79
We have 10 evening schools.
00:49:52.82\00:49:54.16
We feed about
400 kids every night.
00:49:54.19\00:49:57.86
And I... That is so...
00:49:57.89\00:50:00.20
It's just...
00:50:00.23\00:50:01.56
It's amazing.
00:50:01.60\00:50:02.93
Have your children...
00:50:02.96\00:50:04.30
How has this
impacted your children?
00:50:04.33\00:50:07.87
They love mission.
00:50:07.90\00:50:09.70
They realize the need out there.
00:50:09.74\00:50:11.97
They want to do
whatever they can
00:50:12.01\00:50:13.58
to be in God's service,
00:50:13.61\00:50:15.34
wherever He asks.
00:50:15.38\00:50:17.18
They've done a
show called Mission Trek
00:50:17.25\00:50:18.71
which is now airing on 3ABN.
00:50:18.75\00:50:20.35
I'm excited about
that. Mission Trek.
00:50:20.42\00:50:22.52
MissionTrek.net
00:50:22.55\00:50:23.89
if people want to go
and look it up and find out.
00:50:23.92\00:50:26.19
It's to
encourage... Is that trek?
00:50:26.22\00:50:27.66
Trek, yes. Okay. MissionTrek.com
00:50:27.69\00:50:30.53
Dot-net. Dot-net.
00:50:30.56\00:50:31.89
Okay. Yes.
00:50:31.93\00:50:33.26
So to encourage young people
00:50:33.29\00:50:34.63
to get involved in whatever way
00:50:34.66\00:50:36.10
God might need them to.
00:50:36.13\00:50:37.57
And they just follow
00:50:37.60\00:50:38.93
the young ladies
around Thailand and Cambodia
00:50:38.97\00:50:41.50
and interview other missionaries
00:50:41.54\00:50:43.20
and see what they do,
see what their life is like.
00:50:43.24\00:50:45.01
You know, the needs are many,
00:50:45.04\00:50:46.37
and we could
talk about the needs
00:50:46.41\00:50:47.74
for a number of hours.
00:50:47.78\00:50:49.11
We have limitless time
to talk about the needs
00:50:49.14\00:50:50.98
but our time
here is not limitless.
00:50:51.01\00:50:53.05
But I want to make
sure those who are watching
00:50:53.08\00:50:54.42
and listening to the
program will get an opportunity
00:50:54.45\00:50:56.58
to connect with
Jon and Natalie Wood.
00:50:56.62\00:50:59.22
But Jonathan and Natalie Wood,
when they said Natalie Wood,
00:50:59.25\00:51:01.52
I said "Natalie
Wood is here today?"
00:51:01.56\00:51:03.66
She's here today,
00:51:03.73\00:51:05.16
the new Natalie
Wood and Jonathan.
00:51:05.19\00:51:08.13
They are reaching
out in amazing ways,
00:51:08.16\00:51:11.03
Jesus for Asia,
00:51:11.07\00:51:12.67
and a door has
been opened recently
00:51:12.70\00:51:14.14
to go in to Bangladesh.
00:51:14.17\00:51:15.50
Yes.
00:51:15.54\00:51:16.87
And so if you'd like to
participate financially,
00:51:16.91\00:51:18.74
if you'd like
to be a missionary,
00:51:18.77\00:51:20.31
you might say, "I want to go."
00:51:20.38\00:51:22.54
What does it take
to be a missionary?
00:51:22.58\00:51:23.95
A plane ticket.
00:51:23.98\00:51:25.31
Here is the information
that you're going to need
00:51:25.35\00:51:27.85
to connect with Jon and Natalie,
00:51:27.88\00:51:30.12
and find out how
you can participate
00:51:30.19\00:51:31.75
in getting the world ready
for the coming of the Lord.
00:51:31.79\00:51:37.06
Jesus for Asia
00:51:37.13\00:51:38.46
takes the good
news of Jesus Christ
00:51:38.49\00:51:40.53
and His love for humanity
to the uttermost parts of Asia,
00:51:40.60\00:51:44.07
reaching out to the
lost and calling the church
00:51:44.10\00:51:46.84
to partner with
Christ in His work.
00:51:46.87\00:51:49.54
If you would like to
support their Bible workers,
00:51:49.57\00:51:52.07
evening schools, television
and radio translation,
00:51:52.11\00:51:55.54
foreign missionaries,
and church building,
00:51:55.58\00:51:57.98
please visit Jesus4Asia.org.
00:51:58.01\00:52:01.02
You may also call
them at 423-413-7321
00:52:01.05\00:52:06.29
or write to Jesus for Asia,
00:52:06.32\00:52:08.62
Post Office Box 1221,
Collegedale, Tennessee, 37315.
00:52:08.66\00:52:14.56