As you're well aware,
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we're living in
unprecedented times.
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Join us now for
today's special program.
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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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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 and welcome to
another 3ABN Today program.
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I'm Jill Morikone
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and we're so excited
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that you have
taken time from your day
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to sit down with us
or if you're in your car,
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you're
listening to this program.
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One of my favorite
things about the Today program
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is that we get to
feature ministries,
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what God is doing in
and through people's lives,
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not just here in
the United States,
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but around the world.
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The ministry we
are featuring today
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is near and dear to
our heart here at 3ABN.
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I'm speaking of ASAP Ministries,
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and they have an
incredible ministry
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particularly
focused on the 10/40 Window,
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impacting the lives of
the poor, the persecuted,
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and the unreached people groups.
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So I'm excited
about this program
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and I know the
Lord is going to use it
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to not only touch
you with the stories,
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but to touch us to motivate us
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to get involved in reaching out
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and helping other people
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as well as supporting
this incredible ministry.
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I want to introduce
our special guests today.
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We have Julia O'Carey,
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and she is the Executive
Director of ASAP Ministries.
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Julia, it's just
a joy to have you
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back here at 3ABN again.
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It's wonderful to be here.
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We just love 3ABN
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and are so grateful
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for your
ministry here too, Jill.
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Amen.
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We always love it
when you can come, Julia,
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and you can
share what God is doing
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in and through the ministry.
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So we're
looking forward to that.
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And I'm hoping,
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I'm going to
pronounce her name right.
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We have Pastor Lisa Isensee.
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And she is the
Mission Advancement Officer
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for ASAP Ministries.
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And, Pastor Lisa,
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it's a joy to have you here too.
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Thank you. It's
so good to be here.
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God is doing so
much around the world.
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We were commenting
about how exciting it is
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that there's so many
ministries God is using
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to finish His work.
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It's very, very neat.
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And you came to 3ABN years ago,
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we were just talking
before we started the program.
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This was with Tiny Tots.
How many years ago was that?
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I think 10. I think 10.
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Wow.
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Yeah, so that was good memories
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with Aunty Linda,
Miss Brenda, Miss Cinda.
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Miss Cinda.
That's right. Absolutely.
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With your kids, right? Yeah.
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We have five children.
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And it was our,
two of our middle ones
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that were in that
programming at that time.
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That's very special. Absolutely.
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So, Julia, tell
us just a little bit,
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what is ASAP Ministries?
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I know we featured
your ministry before,
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but what if someone's watching
the first time and they say,
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what does that stand for?
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And what is this
ministry all about?
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Sure.
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ASAP Ministries is for Advocates
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for Southeast
Asians and the Persecuted.
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And so what we're all about
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is to multiply
disciples Christ's way.
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And the way we do that
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is we empower and
train local people
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to be missionaries to the poor,
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the persecuted
unreached refugees.
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And we do that
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just by God's
grace and His power.
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And so we have church planting,
that's our main emphasis.
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And we have schools and
different holistic projects
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like wells and other
things just to reach the people
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so they see Christ in action.
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Amen.
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Now you focus specifically
on the 10/40 Window.
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But what is the 10.40 Window?
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Someone says what
countries does that represent?
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What's that represent?
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So if you look at the globe,
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it's between
the 10 degrees north
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and 40 degrees north,
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the latitude
lines is approximately
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where the 10/40 Window is.
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It's also sometimes
called the resistant band,
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because that's the area
where it's largely Muslim,
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Hindu and Buddhist.
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And just a number of,
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you know, number of
countries and areas where it's,
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where people
don't know about Jesus.
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Wow.
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What an incredible ministry.
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Now this was
founded by your mom, right?
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Tell us about that?
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Yes, Judy Akin, my
mother founded this.
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Actually it goes
back even beyond that,
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because when I was a child,
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my family worked in
Thailand in the refugee camps.
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You know, in the early 80s,
when Pol Pot was in Cambodia,
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and refugees from
Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam
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were all flooding into Thailand.
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So that's where it all started.
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And during that time
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over 10,000 people were baptized
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in the refugee camps.
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It was such a miracle. Yeah.
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And so then from that,
all those war-torn countries,
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people had to go back
after the war was over,
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but there was no
official structure to help them.
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And so my mom worked with
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the Adventist
system in the church,
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to start church plants
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and to establish the
work in those countries.
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And it's just grown
and grown by God's grace.
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So what was it like as a child,
growing up seeing the need,
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seeing the poverty,
seeing the war-torn countries?
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How did that impact you
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and influence
your life in mission?
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I don't think I'd be
doing what I'm doing now,
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if I hadn't had
those experiences,
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that it was such a
joy to learn how to serve.
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And when children can
get involved in ministry,
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and go and help and do whatever
little things that we can,
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it changes something
deep inside our hearts.
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And so, it just
puts this bug in my heart
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to share the
gospel with the world.
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It gives a different worldview,
a different perspective.
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Like, they're my brothers
and sisters, or my friends.
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I don't see any difference,
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even though they may
eat something different
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or speak something
different in a different way.
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But, yeah, it did impact a lot.
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Okay.
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So I know we're going to get
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into what ASAP
Ministries is doing.
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And specifically,
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you have a lot of videos
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and pictures and other things,
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projects that
you're involved in.
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But tell me just a bit
about your family, Julia,
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and then we'll go
to you, Pastor Lisa.
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Yeah, sure.
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I'm married to AJ
and he's a counselor.
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And I have two daughters,
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an 18-year-old
and a 13-year-old,
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and we live in the country.
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And it's just such a blessing.
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Love my family.
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Amen.
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Country living is a blessing
and family is a gift from God.
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Yes.
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What about you, Pastor Lisa?
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Tell us a bit about your story?
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My husband is Richard
Isensee and he's an engineer.
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And we have five children.
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And it's...
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I feel so blessed
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because when I
was, when we were first,
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coming back to Wisconsin,
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I was pregnant
with our first child,
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and I thought, I'm just
going to be home with our kids.
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And God just kind of took us
on a little different journey.
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Instead, we went
into church planting
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and I was able to
work part time in that,
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but then also
homeschool our five children.
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So it's really been a blessing.
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And in fact, our,
all five of our kids
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have been on at
least one mission trip
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with ASAP but
some of them four now.
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So...
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They're great missionaries.
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They're incredible missionaries.
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Amen.
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It is
incredible for our children
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to have that
experience, it changes them.
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I would just highly
recommend if you have children,
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and you want them to be
passionate about other people
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and about missions,
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that you would have them
be part of a mission trip.
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Amen.
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It's beautiful thing, so.
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That's beautiful.
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So God calls us
all to be involved
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in mission work.
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In fact, our scripture for today
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is Luke10:2,
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"Then He said,
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" Jesus speaking to them,
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"the harvest truly is great,
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but the laborers are few,
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therefore pray the
Lord of the harvest
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to send out
laborers into His harvest."
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And that's what ASAP
Ministries is all about.
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And that's what
we're encouraging you today
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to pray the Lord of the harvest
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that He would
send forth laborers,
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and that labor can be
you, and it can be me,
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it can be all of us.
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So before we go any further,
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we're going to
go to a special song
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and then we'll come back
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and really unpack
what the ministry is doing.
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The song is brought to us
today by Message of Mercy.
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I love their
music, group of woman,
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and this song is
entitled "Total Praise."
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Lord,
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I will lift
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Mine eyes to the hills
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Knowing my help
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Is coming from You
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Your peace You give me
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In time of the storm
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You are the
source Of my strength
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You are the strength Of my life
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I lift my hands
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In total praise to You
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Amen,
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Amen
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Amen,
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Amen
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Amen, Amen
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Amen,
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Amen
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Amen,
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Amen
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Thank you so
much Message of Mercy
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"Total Praise."
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I love that song.
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If you are just joining us,
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our special guest
today is no stranger
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if you've watched 3ABN
for any length of time.
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This is ASAP Ministries.
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And we're so
blessed to have them here
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talking about the impact
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that you and I can make
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that ASAP Ministries makes
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through the power and
anointing of the Holy Spirit
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on the lives of the
poor and the persecuted
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and the unreached people groups,
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especially in the 10.40 Window.
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We have Julia O'Carey,
who is Executive Director,
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and just very
glad to have you here.
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And we have Pastor Lisa Isensee,
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who is the Mission
Advancement Officer.
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I'm to be here.
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It's a privilege to
have both of you here.
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So let's talk just a
moment about ASAP Ministries.
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I think we have
an opening picture
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kind of setting the
stage for this ministry.
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So what our ministry does
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really focuses on the suffering,
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the persecuted the poor,
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these types of people
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who don't get a lot
of care and attention.
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And so the verse that
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we have is what we
do for the suffering
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we do for Jesus.
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And so you'll see,
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as we talk about
different projects
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of how we're actually
accomplishing our ministry
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by reaching those poor
people who really need the help.
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Amen.
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One of the things
we're very excited about,
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if you can go on
to the next picture,
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is that we have over
600 Ethnic Missionaries
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working in different countries.
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Some of them close countries
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that we don't even mention
which countries they are,
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and the exciting thing
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and we started our
program with Luke 10:2
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is that there are
so many more places,
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so many more places
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that could be reached for Jesus,
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so many more ethnic missionaries
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that you could be supporting.
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And it's, you know,
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it's not, it's not
like here in the States
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where to have a
full-time worker,
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it would be thousands
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and thousands of
dollars every year.
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But for $90 or
$100, $130 a month,
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a full-time person
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can be working for
Jesus in these countries.
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So it's something that
many people can be involved in,
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regardless of what
your budget might be.
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So let me get that straight.
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You said for $90 or $100?
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Or $130
depending on the country,
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there's different, you know.
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You can sponsor
an ethnic missionary?
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Yes.
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So they're church
planters, Bible workers,
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medical missionaries, teachers,
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because we're
trying to reach them
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in different ways.
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And so we have
different types of workers
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and we train them up,
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we equip them.
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And we send them out to
these unreached villages
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that where people have
never heard about Jesus,
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never heard about the gospel.
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Lisa. Go ahead.
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There's one of our
hard-working board members said,
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I love it because
when I go to bed at night,
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I know that I am
supporting people
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that are working
while I'm sleeping.
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They're working for
Jesus while I'm sleeping.
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I love that.
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So tell me what is
an ethnic missionary?
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What does that even mean?
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So ethnic missionary means
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that there are people
who are from that area
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that know the
language, know the culture,
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that are there to stay,
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that are connected
with the community.
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So they're very effective,
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because they can reach areas
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where I could never go,
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because either
there's communism,
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or there's language
barriers or political barriers.
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So it's really wonderful
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to be able to train these people
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and not all of them have
like a high college education,
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but they have faith
and they love the Lord.
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And they're
passionate about what they do
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and they're effective.
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We see so many results.
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Amen.
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That's amazing. So
there's 600 of these?
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Yes.
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Over 600 and many, many
more that we could have.
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Yeah.
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Amen.
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That's incredible.
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And the way that we
try to reach people,
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because there's so
much culture and prejudice
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against
Christianity in these countries
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is by meeting the real needs.
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So the next slide
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just kind of shows a
little bit about that.
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We try to find ways to
connect with the people,
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what do they need? Do
they need clean water?
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Do they need health?
Do they need education?
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And so, one example is
the Ahlin Training Center.
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The Ahlin Training Center
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is a medical missionary
training center in Myanmar
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that we just established.
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And that center is
training up our missionaries,
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even if they're church planters
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or whatever they are to
be medical missionaries,
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because medical missionary work
is the right arm of the gospel.
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Absolutely.
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And so, if we want to
show the next picture,
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this just shows a little story.
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There was this young
man who became Adventist,
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and he, unfortunately,
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was so persecuted by his family
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because of his faith
and he had so much stress,
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he couldn't focus on his exams
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and he got hopeless,
even though he found Jesus,
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he thought I can't,
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I can't be a
Christian in my country,
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it's too hard.
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And so he decided
to commit suicide,
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and he drank poison,
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and he almost died.
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But the medical
missionary center leader,
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Dr. Triley and her team
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worked to
rehabilitate him and help him,
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his organs have healed,
he's gaining weight now.
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And we prayed for him
and God answered our prayer
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and rescued this man.
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So Lord spared his life?
The Lord spared his life.
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And because of that witness,
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his father
who's a Buddhist monk,
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you can see a
picture of him here,
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his heart is open.
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And this picture is him
getting fomentation treatments
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for his back
problems at the center.
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This is just a week ago.
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So this is the young man
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who had tried to commit suicide.
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It's his father.
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His father that was so opposed.
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So there's so much power
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in reaching out
to their real needs.
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God is using the center
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and many other projects
through the 10/40 Window.
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That's incredible.
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Praise the Lord
for how He works.
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I love to hear mission stories,
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and stories of miracles
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that God
performs and that He does.
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Let's shift a moment
and talk about the schools.
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I know ASAP Ministries
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has an incredible
outreach to young people,
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and specifically at-risk youth.
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So talk to us about that?
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Yeah, so we are so excited
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because we see how
God can use schools
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to church plant,
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to impact and to
bring people to the gospel
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because when
kids who are Buddhist,
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hear about Jesus
and hear those stories
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actually
changes their worldview.
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And I have a little slide
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just so that you
know that we have
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over 80 schools
for at-risk children.
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And so these are the children,
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Jill, that are poor,
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that are in the
most worse situation.
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When I say at-risk,
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they're at-risk
for being trafficked,
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for work or sexual trafficking,
they're at-risk of abuse,
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they're in war zones.
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Let me give you
just a couple examples.
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Just a few weeks ago,
00:18:43.59\00:18:45.52
in one area
where we have a school
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right on the border
between Thailand and Myanmar,
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a soldier went up to a lady
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right near the school, and said,
00:18:52.89\00:18:55.03
"Give me that plastic bag."
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And she said, "No, I
have my fruit in it."
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And he shot her
three times, dead.
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This is the type of
environment that they live in.
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It's just heartbreaking.
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And then in the
schools in Cambodia,
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these kids are
at-risk of being trafficked.
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And let me give
you an example of that.
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I was teaching the
teachers because I'm a teacher,
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I have my Masters in education.
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So that's one of my joys
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is to go over and get
to teach these teachers.
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Amen. Yeah.
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And one of the teachers told me
00:19:28.13\00:19:30.07
that she was
teaching about careers,
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and just a normal thing
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and she was asking the children,
00:19:34.64\00:19:36.04
what do you want to
be when you grow up?
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And one little
girl that's rather new,
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raised her hand and she said,
00:19:42.04\00:19:43.55
"I want to be a prostitute."
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And the teacher
just was shocked.
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And she said,
00:19:47.48\00:19:48.82
"Why do you want
to be a prostitute?"
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And she said,
00:19:50.22\00:19:51.55
"Well, my aunty says
that I can have nice dresses."
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And that's her worldview.
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But then after
education and teaching her,
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now she wants to be a nurse
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because she wants
to help heal people.
00:20:02.96\00:20:05.37
And so that's the difference
00:20:05.40\00:20:06.74
that these schools are
making for these children
00:20:06.77\00:20:08.54
who have no opportunity
and who are really at-risk.
00:20:08.57\00:20:12.84
And so, it's just a joy
00:20:12.87\00:20:15.08
to be able to see the
changes and the difference.
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And we have a little video
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that shows the change in
one of our student's lives
00:20:19.71\00:20:23.25
and what he's doing now.
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Okay. Let's take
a look at that now.
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Wi Wang Fu dropped out of school
00:20:35.63\00:20:37.67
at the age of six when
his father died of AIDS.
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His mother was also infected
and struggled to find work.
00:20:41.40\00:20:46.84
When Fu finally
returned to school,
00:20:46.88\00:20:49.01
he couldn't read or write,
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and he struggled to
concentrate on his studies.
00:20:50.68\00:20:54.08
But through the
care of his teachers
00:20:54.12\00:20:55.85
at the Cambodian
Adventist Elementary School,
00:20:55.88\00:20:58.55
his grades
improved dramatically.
00:20:58.59\00:21:03.36
He also discovered
a talent for music,
00:21:03.39\00:21:05.69
and a love for Jesus.
00:21:05.73\00:21:07.56
And three years ago,
00:21:07.60\00:21:09.60
both Fu and his
mother were baptized.
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He once was a struggling student
00:21:14.54\00:21:16.37
but today, he teaches
second grade at the school
00:21:16.40\00:21:19.44
where his life
story changed forever.
00:21:19.47\00:21:23.58
It is the joy of
ASAP teachers like Fu
00:21:23.61\00:21:26.45
to help students
00:21:26.48\00:21:27.82
who are going
through difficult times.
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But many students and teachers
00:21:30.79\00:21:32.55
are still awaiting
the faithful prayers
00:21:32.59\00:21:35.12
and support of a donor like you.
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Will you become part
of their story today?
00:21:37.63\00:21:40.70
Because Jesus is coming soon.
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Now more than
ever, mission matters.
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Amen.
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What an impactful story.
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You know, when I go
there year after year,
00:21:56.51\00:22:00.35
and I see these
little kids grow up,
00:22:00.38\00:22:02.45
and I remember Fu,
00:22:02.48\00:22:03.82
and how naughty he
was as a little boy
00:22:03.85\00:22:06.59
and then now I see him
just being used by God.
00:22:06.62\00:22:11.39
And it just
really touches my heart.
00:22:11.43\00:22:14.16
Each of these
children are important.
00:22:14.20\00:22:16.26
A second-grade teacher now
reaching out ministering just.
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Tell me how you
first began the schools.
00:22:22.24\00:22:26.51
How were they initiated?
00:22:26.54\00:22:27.88
I know they're all for at-risk
00:22:27.91\00:22:29.31
children like Fu
or like that story,
00:22:29.34\00:22:32.15
you told of the girl
00:22:32.18\00:22:33.52
who said she wants to grow up
00:22:33.55\00:22:34.88
and be a prostitute.
00:22:34.92\00:22:36.45
And then the Lord
got a hold of her heart
00:22:36.48\00:22:38.89
and showed her, her value
00:22:38.92\00:22:40.26
and now she wants to be a nurse.
00:22:40.29\00:22:41.62
But tell me how
you started the school?
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Well, we saw when we
had the church plants that
00:22:43.56\00:22:46.70
there were these
children in the slums
00:22:46.73\00:22:48.80
that were rummaging around
00:22:48.83\00:22:50.23
and trying to find
things in the garbage dumps
00:22:50.27\00:22:54.37
to recycle just
to have enough to eat
00:22:54.40\00:22:58.04
and live on in and we thought,
00:22:58.07\00:22:59.44
wow, they're
not going to school.
00:22:59.47\00:23:00.84
They don't even
have enough money
00:23:00.88\00:23:02.21
to go to the government schools
00:23:02.24\00:23:04.11
because they don't have money
for a uniform or bags, shoes.
00:23:04.15\00:23:09.62
Yeah.
00:23:09.65\00:23:10.99
And so, I went out
there in these garbage dumps,
00:23:11.02\00:23:13.49
and it broke my heart
00:23:13.52\00:23:14.86
to see these kids
like rummaging around.
00:23:14.89\00:23:17.13
And so we thought
00:23:17.16\00:23:18.49
we have to do
something for them.
00:23:18.53\00:23:20.10
And so we started a school
00:23:20.13\00:23:22.20
and we called it the
Feed and Read School.
00:23:22.23\00:23:24.33
And we had hot,
healthy meals for them
00:23:24.37\00:23:28.20
because when we didn't do that,
00:23:28.24\00:23:30.11
they wouldn't come
00:23:30.14\00:23:31.47
because they
didn't have the food.
00:23:31.51\00:23:34.48
And so that's how we started
00:23:34.51\00:23:35.91
and we've seen how God has grown
00:23:35.94\00:23:37.51
and developed these
schools in such beautiful ways.
00:23:37.55\00:23:40.42
Now, some of the children,
00:23:40.45\00:23:41.82
they no longer dig in the dumps.
00:23:41.85\00:23:43.42
Some of them are even
literature evangelists
00:23:43.45\00:23:45.35
with their parents and they go
and sell God's Word to people.
00:23:45.39\00:23:48.82
Yeah, it's beautiful. Amen.
00:23:48.86\00:23:50.19
And now there's 80 plus schools?
00:23:50.23\00:23:51.56
Yes.
00:23:51.59\00:23:52.93
Thousands of children,
00:23:52.96\00:23:54.30
you know, thousands of students.
00:23:54.33\00:23:55.66
Yeah. Amen.
00:23:55.70\00:23:57.03
Even just in
some of our schools,
00:23:57.07\00:23:58.40
they'll be thousands,
00:23:58.43\00:23:59.77
you know, like, it's a
number, number of young people.
00:23:59.80\00:24:02.34
Yeah.
00:24:02.37\00:24:03.71
And what I love
about these schools
00:24:03.74\00:24:05.27
is that we're very
intentional on discipleship.
00:24:05.31\00:24:09.01
And so the next little
video you're going to see
00:24:09.04\00:24:12.45
is of a young man
who became Adventist,
00:24:12.48\00:24:15.85
but he's really struggled
00:24:15.88\00:24:17.75
because they're in a culture
00:24:17.79\00:24:19.95
that just works against them
00:24:19.99\00:24:23.06
being Adventist, all the family.
00:24:23.09\00:24:25.69
But yet with the discipleship,
00:24:25.73\00:24:28.16
with the principal praying
and they meet in small groups,
00:24:28.20\00:24:32.80
they study the Word,
00:24:32.83\00:24:34.17
they do united prayer
00:24:34.20\00:24:35.67
and it's so
consistent in their lives
00:24:35.70\00:24:38.31
that they build up that faith
so that they can be strong.
00:24:38.34\00:24:41.38
And so I want you
to meet Chhai Den.
00:24:41.41\00:24:43.78
It's just a short
little story of his decision.
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Amen.
00:24:46.45\00:24:47.78
Let's go to that now.
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Chhai Den attends the
Takong Adventist School
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in northwestern Cambodia.
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Although he was
raised in a Buddhist family,
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he started to believe in
God through the Bible classes
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and discipleship
small groups at the school.
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The school's
principal Pastor Sam Makura
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noticed a
spiritual transformation
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taking place in
the young man's life.
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But then,
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Chhai Den's older
brother passed away.
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Traditionally, in
the Cambodian family,
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whenever one
family member passes away,
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the remaining boy in the family
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must become a
monk for three days.
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Chhai Den's father
insisted that he become a monk.
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He agreed to do it
and went to the temple.
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He shaved his head
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and dressed in
the saffron robes.
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I know the culture and
I knew that was expected.
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So I prayed hard for
Chhai Den the whole day.
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That evening, he left the temple
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and came to our
small group meeting.
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During united prayer,
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he expressed true
repentance for his decision
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and promise God
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to never turn
back to Buddhism again.
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I teach him that as a Christian,
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he needs to be diligent
and respectful to his parents.
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Since he has put
that into practice
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and worked hard for his parents,
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their love for
him has increased.
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Today, they allow him to
come to the church freely,
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and they tell me
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that their son
made the right decision
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to become a Christian.
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Chhai Den was one of
the 17 students and parents
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baptized recently at
the Takong Adventist School.
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We praise God
for their decisions.
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And for sponsors like you,
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whose generous gifts
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provide teachers
stipends and school fees
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for students like Chhai Den.
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ASAP Ministries
supports more than 70 schools
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serving impoverished
and unreached communities
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in Southeast Asia
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and elsewhere in
the 10/40 Window.
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Would you consider
becoming a sponsor today
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to bring Christian
education and the gospel message
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to these
precious children of God?
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Because Jesus is coming soon.
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Now more than
ever, mission matters.
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Amen.
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I love to see his
little face Chhai Den,
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and to see how God enabled
him to stand up for Jesus
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and then how his
parents turned around.
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What a beautiful story.
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What do you use
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for the curriculum
in the schools there?
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Well, we use the
government curriculum,
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but then we
supplement it with the Bible.
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And so we translated
my Bible first curriculum
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and it's beautiful.
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We put in some
pictures of Asian fruit
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instead of American
fruit and things like that.
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But we love that curriculum,
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because it takes them
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through the Bible
stories very clearly,
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and it includes
Spirit of Prophecy as well.
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And we also did a curriculum
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called Growing Safe
Rooted in God's love.
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And that's specifically focusing
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on how to keep them safe
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from abuse and trafficking
and things like that,
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and how to get
their identity in Christ.
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And it's a beautiful curriculum
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that Adventist worked
on and it goes through.
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And when we were doing that,
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we thought, you know,
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we want something
to supplement this.
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And so I have
something I want to show you.
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Yay!
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We have... Please
go and tell us through.
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Yes.
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We have these
cuddly mega voices,
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and you're wondering,
what in the world is that?
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Well, in the pocket
here of the animals,
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of the little stuffed
animal, we have a mega voice.
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And on this mega voice
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is the Bible
recorded in their language
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plus the stories
and the memory verses
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and songs from the curriculum,
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so that it can
wash over their minds
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when they go
home and go to sleep.
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And so we have enough of these
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for all the
students in Cambodia.
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We've raised enough
money, but we need more,
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because we have
thousands of kids.
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And I want to make
sure I get this right.
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We have 3,174
students in Myanmar
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and the border
between Thailand and Myanmar
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that we don't
have these for yet.
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And it's $35 for one of these.
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And so that comes to a total
of $111,000 for this project,
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but we really believe
these children are worth it.
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And what a difference
this can make for them
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in making them feel
safe, making them sleep better.
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Can I have one?
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I want to hold little tight.
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Okay,
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so this would be the
Bible in their language?
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Yes.
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This would also have songs
in their language, curriculum.
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Bible curriculum
in their language.
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So when they go
to sleep at night,
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maybe their home isn't
safe, maybe they're afraid,
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they can cuddle,
and they can listen...
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To God's Word.
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To who they are in God. Yeah.
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What's neat, too,
if you think about it,
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$35 to invest in a young person
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for their spiritual growth
is an incredible investment.
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Somebody might say, you
know, at my child's birthday,
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I want to give money for
this, or at Christmas time,
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this is something that
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that a school could do is
to raise money for these or,
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you know, many different ways.
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Because even the kids,
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they're going to
see this and say,
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"Boy, I would like that."
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And I...
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What you need to realize too,
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most of the children
that may be listening,
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they might have
lots of stuffed animals.
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But in there, you
know, in these places,
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they might not have any toys.
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My daughter was
there on a mission trip
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and she came back
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and she had brought
things to this school
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and done some
different activities with them.
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But then she was
interviewing the students.
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And she said,
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"Have you had any
answered prayers?"
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And the little child said,
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you know, was
holding this stuffed animal
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that had just
been given to them,
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yes, yes. You know what?
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She said, what
he said, she said,
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I prayed that God
would give me one toy.
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And, you know, they had.
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So this is just
an incredible thing
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that schools and church's
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families could be involved
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in to raise that
$111, 000 or something.
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So we want to
encourage you at home,
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we will put up
contact information
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for ASAP Ministries at
the end of the program.
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But for $35 you can
sponsor one of these for a child
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and for 111,000,
what was the exact amount?
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111,000.
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$111,000,
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you can do that specifically
for that entire region
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for all the
students in Myanmar...
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And Thailand. And Thailand.
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And I know earlier, Pastor Lisa,
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you talked about
the ethnic missionaries
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and how for $90 or
100 or was it 120, 130?
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130 I think is the amount.
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130, you could
sponsor an ethnic missionary.
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So what an incredible
opportunity you have at home.
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You might be saying,
I can't travel overseas,
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and I can't do that
but you can get involved.
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And you can help spread Jesus
to those who are marginalized,
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to those who are impacted
to the poor and the oppressed.
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So let's switch
gears a little bit.
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We've been
talking about the schools
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and the curriculum
and the incredible impact
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that ASAP Ministries
has with the schools.
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Talk to us, Pastor Lisa,
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about the work
for the persecuted
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in these closed countries?
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Well, one of the
things that I want to share
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as we're transitioning
into our closed countries,
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is oftentimes
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education and church
planting go hand in hand.
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For instance, last
year I was in Myanmar,
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and I was talking
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with one of our
ethnic missionaries.
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And he was
sharing how his dream is,
00:33:10.19\00:33:12.35
as a pastor to be
a church planter to,
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to go into areas
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that have never
heard the Word of God
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and to share it with them.
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But he said, you know,
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even though I'm
trained as a pastor,
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I decided that
what I needed to do
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is I needed to
go into a village.
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And I would go
into that village,
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and I would say,
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I can come and I can
be a teacher for you.
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So he went into an area
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that was very
close to Christianity.
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And he came, he said,
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"Please gather all
the elders together."
00:33:41.95\00:33:44.69
And he knew they
needed the school.
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In fact, they
had never had someone
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with more than sixth
grade education as the teacher.
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And so, he, they
brought all the elders together
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in one of the huts
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and they started
talking and he said,
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"I'm willing to
come and be your teacher.
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I will come, you
won't even have to pay me,
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but you need to know
that I will share Jesus.
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I will tell Bible stories.
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I will sing Christian songs."
00:34:09.11\00:34:11.58
And, you know,
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the elders kind of
look back and they said,
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"We don't, you
know, we don't like that.
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We don't like Christians.
We don't like Christianity.
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We certainly don't want a
Christian teaching our kids."
00:34:17.39\00:34:20.32
And then
somebody across this home,
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this hut said,
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"Well, I'm just curious,
what education do you have?"
00:34:25.59\00:34:28.83
And he said,
00:34:28.86\00:34:30.20
"Well, I'm a college graduate."
00:34:30.23\00:34:32.10
You know, they all just
kind of sat back and said,
00:34:32.13\00:34:34.04
oh, you know.
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'Cause they were, a lot of
them were only sixth graders.
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Oh, that was the highest
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their teacher had
ever had in their village.
00:34:38.47\00:34:41.71
And so they looked
at each other and this,
00:34:41.74\00:34:44.11
and one influential elder said,
00:34:44.15\00:34:47.55
"We need to do this for
the sake of our children."
00:34:47.58\00:34:51.12
And so, in this village
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children are coming
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from two other
villages to this school.
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He teaches in the morning,
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in the afternoon and
then he takes little break.
00:34:58.83\00:35:00.96
And then he
teaches the teenagers
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that have now had to
go off into the fields
00:35:03.43\00:35:05.23
and be working in the evening.
00:35:05.27\00:35:08.20
And he said,
"Please pray for me.
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Please pray for me
00:35:10.34\00:35:11.67
because my dream is to
plant at least three churches
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in this area
where I'm teaching."
00:35:15.34\00:35:17.75
So here's just one of
our ethnic missionaries
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that's making an
incredible difference for Jesus.
00:35:19.98\00:35:22.82
It's so exciting
what God is doing.
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We have some other stories like
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that and if you can
go to the next picture.
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One of, I was
there a couple years ago,
00:35:30.86\00:35:34.03
and we were in partnership
with another ministry Oonjai,
00:35:34.06\00:35:37.93
and we had gone into a city
00:35:37.97\00:35:42.64
where we were doing an
eyeglass clinic with Oonjai.
00:35:42.67\00:35:45.37
ASAP and Oonjai were
partnering together on this.
00:35:45.41\00:35:49.08
And here,
00:35:49.11\00:35:50.45
all these people were
coming that were refugees.
00:35:50.48\00:35:53.11
And they were, you know,
00:35:53.15\00:35:54.48
it's illegal for
them to be there.
00:35:54.52\00:35:56.32
But most of them in
this particular group
00:35:56.35\00:35:58.49
that we were ministering to,
have had to flee their country.
00:35:58.52\00:36:03.09
I sat there and
interviewed people,
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and I just was crying
after almost every interview,
00:36:04.76\00:36:08.00
because when they
became Christians,
00:36:08.03\00:36:10.60
their neighbors and
their own family members
00:36:10.63\00:36:12.77
were threatening to kill them.
00:36:12.80\00:36:15.07
And so, these
families had to do something,
00:36:15.10\00:36:17.31
they had to go somewhere.
00:36:17.34\00:36:19.01
And so they would
flee to the closest place
00:36:19.04\00:36:21.84
or the place that
they could get in quickest,
00:36:21.88\00:36:24.25
but then they couldn't get,
00:36:24.28\00:36:26.88
you know, papers there,
00:36:26.92\00:36:28.95
partly because
they were Christian.
00:36:28.98\00:36:31.32
And so they were just sharing
some of what was going on.
00:36:31.35\00:36:34.69
And I talked to one young man,
00:36:34.72\00:36:36.06
his mom would not
even do a side shot
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where it was just a silhouette,
00:36:39.29\00:36:40.63
like a black silhouette,
00:36:40.66\00:36:42.00
because she said
someone in our country
00:36:42.03\00:36:43.37
might recognize us and
figure out where we were.
00:36:43.40\00:36:47.04
And, but she said,
00:36:47.07\00:36:48.40
I think it's okay for
him to be interviewed,
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you know, just
that black silhouette.
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Because she said,
00:36:52.77\00:36:54.11
"It's, you know,
it's been four years,
00:36:54.14\00:36:56.14
three, four years
since we've been there.
00:36:56.18\00:36:58.51
I don't think
they'll recognize him."
00:36:58.55\00:37:00.82
And so they, they said,
00:37:00.85\00:37:05.32
he started to tell me his story.
00:37:05.35\00:37:07.69
And he shared about here
00:37:07.72\00:37:09.12
right then his father
00:37:09.16\00:37:10.49
was in the internally
in the detention center
00:37:10.53\00:37:15.10
for illegal
immigrants in this country.
00:37:15.13\00:37:18.23
And this is nothing like,
00:37:18.27\00:37:20.67
you know, if you
think of a prison,
00:37:20.70\00:37:22.04
and then you
think 10 times worse,
00:37:22.07\00:37:24.21
that there's not room
to lie down and sleep.
00:37:24.24\00:37:26.54
So they take turns sleeping
for a few hours at a time.
00:37:26.57\00:37:30.55
They don't have enough money.
00:37:30.58\00:37:32.35
So many things like this,
00:37:32.38\00:37:33.98
you know, just awful.
00:37:34.02\00:37:35.35
Do they work
them during the day?
00:37:35.38\00:37:36.72
Is it like a work
camp? I don't think so.
00:37:36.75\00:37:38.09
They're just stuck there
00:37:38.12\00:37:39.45
and you know, just basically,
00:37:39.49\00:37:41.19
it seemed like
shoulder to shoulder
00:37:41.22\00:37:43.09
as they talked about it.
00:37:43.12\00:37:44.46
And...
00:37:44.49\00:37:45.83
And how long had
his father been there?
00:37:45.86\00:37:47.20
I think he had been
in prison for a year,
00:37:47.23\00:37:50.17
in this
detention camp for a year.
00:37:50.20\00:37:53.10
And, you know,
00:37:53.13\00:37:54.50
I'm hearing all of
these very sorrowful things.
00:37:54.54\00:37:57.67
And I said to him,
00:37:57.71\00:37:59.04
"Tell me,
00:37:59.07\00:38:00.44
what do you see
Jesus doing in your future?
00:38:00.48\00:38:02.84
You know, what,
tell me about what,
00:38:02.88\00:38:05.25
what you are hoping for?"
00:38:05.28\00:38:07.05
And he had already
told me he was so excited
00:38:07.08\00:38:08.75
because he didn't realize
00:38:08.78\00:38:10.12
he was coming to a
Seventh-day Adventist outreach.
00:38:10.15\00:38:12.39
And when he heard that,
00:38:12.42\00:38:13.76
he said, my dad,
00:38:13.79\00:38:15.49
we know we're
Seventh-day Adventists,
00:38:15.52\00:38:16.89
my dad's a
Seventh-day Adventist pastor.
00:38:16.93\00:38:19.49
And, so here at the
end of this interview,
00:38:19.53\00:38:21.43
I'm asking him,
00:38:21.46\00:38:22.80
"Tell me, what
hopes do you have,
00:38:22.83\00:38:24.27
what plans?"
00:38:24.30\00:38:25.63
And he got tears in his eyes,
00:38:25.67\00:38:27.00
and they'll make me get
tears in my eyes right now.
00:38:27.04\00:38:28.77
But he said, "I
want to be a pastor.
00:38:28.80\00:38:31.17
I want to be a Seventh-day
Adventist pastor like my dad."
00:38:31.21\00:38:34.38
Here his dad is in prison,
because he's a Christian,
00:38:34.41\00:38:37.55
because he's a Christian pastor.
00:38:37.58\00:38:39.98
And he said, "This
is what I want to do.
00:38:40.02\00:38:41.58
I want to be a
Seventh-day Adventist pastor."
00:38:41.62\00:38:44.82
So beautiful, God is
working in these places.
00:38:44.85\00:38:47.79
We call them our
GWIDOP countries.
00:38:47.82\00:38:50.56
You know, God's work in
dangerous oppressive places.
00:38:50.59\00:38:54.46
Oh, I love that.
00:38:54.50\00:38:55.90
GWIDOP, so God's work in
dangerous oppressive places.
00:38:55.93\00:39:00.24
Now we've had to change
00:39:00.27\00:39:01.74
how we work with these countries
00:39:01.77\00:39:04.01
even because it is dangerous.
00:39:04.04\00:39:05.91
Sometimes we cannot even go in
00:39:05.94\00:39:07.94
and get the pictures
and get the interviews
00:39:07.98\00:39:09.71
that we would like to.
00:39:09.74\00:39:11.08
You know, we still work
on getting those interviews,
00:39:11.11\00:39:13.52
but what you can
do is you can sponsor,
00:39:13.55\00:39:15.78
you can be a GWIDOP
sponsor and for $100 a month,
00:39:15.82\00:39:20.59
you can
effectively be sponsoring
00:39:20.62\00:39:22.92
one of these workers
00:39:22.96\00:39:24.36
for Jesus or a
different projects
00:39:24.39\00:39:26.43
in these closed countries
00:39:26.46\00:39:27.80
where we don't even say
the names of these countries
00:39:27.83\00:39:30.57
because it's dangerous for
the people who are in them.
00:39:30.60\00:39:32.87
Sometimes we have
to blur their faces.
00:39:32.90\00:39:35.97
So it can really make
an incredible difference.
00:39:36.00\00:39:38.37
If you go to the next picture,
00:39:38.41\00:39:39.81
I want to share a
story of a friend of mine.
00:39:39.84\00:39:43.95
I'm going to call him Pastor B
00:39:43.98\00:39:45.95
and Pastor B is
in a closed country.
00:39:45.98\00:39:47.98
If you go on, these are,
00:39:48.02\00:39:49.75
actually another friend
of mine in a closed country
00:39:49.78\00:39:52.49
but if you go to this one,
00:39:52.52\00:39:53.86
Pastor B is the youth
director in his country
00:39:53.89\00:39:56.93
and also works
with ASAP Ministries
00:39:56.96\00:39:59.76
and his father has
an incredible legacy.
00:39:59.79\00:40:04.43
He was an amazing
man of faith for God.
00:40:04.47\00:40:07.74
In fact, thousands
came into the church
00:40:07.77\00:40:13.14
and became Christians
because of his ministry.
00:40:13.17\00:40:16.34
And I had, the first person
00:40:16.38\00:40:18.81
that I interviewed
quite a few years ago
00:40:18.85\00:40:21.08
now was his father.
00:40:21.12\00:40:23.49
And he told me about
how he had been in prison
00:40:23.52\00:40:26.59
for a total of less than,
well, less than five years,
00:40:26.62\00:40:29.69
almost five years
that he had been in prison.
00:40:29.72\00:40:32.29
One of the times was
four and a half years.
00:40:32.33\00:40:35.00
Well, this last time
that I was in Southeast Asia,
00:40:35.03\00:40:38.97
I was talking to Pastor B.
00:40:39.00\00:40:40.87
And I said, "Pastor B,
tell me about your childhood,
00:40:40.90\00:40:45.57
because what was it like for you
00:40:45.61\00:40:47.84
when you were a child,
00:40:47.88\00:40:49.38
and your dad was in prison
00:40:49.41\00:40:51.38
for four and a half years
just for being a Christian,
00:40:51.41\00:40:54.82
and, and sharing his faith."
00:40:54.85\00:40:56.75
And he started to
share these stories
00:40:56.79\00:40:59.79
that were just incredible.
00:40:59.82\00:41:01.16
In fact, last
night, I spoke with him
00:41:01.19\00:41:02.62
and heard a little bit more.
00:41:02.66\00:41:05.13
He was five years old,
if you can imagine this.
00:41:05.16\00:41:09.33
He was five years old
when his dad was put in prison.
00:41:09.36\00:41:14.67
And it was his family here.
His mom is with three kids.
00:41:14.70\00:41:18.91
How is she
supposed to support them?
00:41:18.94\00:41:20.28
Of course.
00:41:20.31\00:41:21.64
You know, she's
trying to figure it out.
00:41:21.68\00:41:23.18
And she was able to
get word to his uncle.
00:41:23.21\00:41:25.88
And his uncle who
was not a Christian said,
00:41:25.91\00:41:28.68
"Yes, you come to our village."
00:41:28.72\00:41:30.95
And so he brought
them to their village.
00:41:30.99\00:41:32.49
Here they're in a village,
00:41:32.52\00:41:33.86
they are the only Christians
in this entire village.
00:41:33.89\00:41:37.56
In fact, they
only became Christians,
00:41:37.59\00:41:39.53
because for a little while
they were in a refugee camp.
00:41:39.56\00:41:42.93
And so, he shared about how,
00:41:42.96\00:41:46.74
you know, the other
parents told the children,
00:41:46.77\00:41:50.04
"You see him,
00:41:50.07\00:41:51.41
don't be friends with him,
00:41:51.44\00:41:52.87
because his father is a convict,
00:41:52.91\00:41:54.68
he's in prison.
00:41:54.71\00:41:56.51
He'll be a bad influence on you,
00:41:56.54\00:41:58.05
don't be friends with him."
00:41:58.08\00:41:59.75
Can you imagine
growing up like that,
00:41:59.78\00:42:01.15
growing up under that oppression
00:42:01.18\00:42:02.68
and that
ridicule and that sadness
00:42:02.72\00:42:05.69
having your dad gone?
00:42:05.72\00:42:07.06
Sometimes we
think of the persecution
00:42:07.09\00:42:09.09
that the adults face,
00:42:09.12\00:42:10.53
but it's the children
too in these close countries.
00:42:10.56\00:42:12.83
That's right.
00:42:12.86\00:42:14.20
And so, he shared about
how he would go to school
00:42:14.23\00:42:16.30
and the teacher
would be so mean to him,
00:42:16.33\00:42:19.13
said it was so hard to learn.
00:42:19.17\00:42:21.44
But when he would
sneak out in the afternoon
00:42:21.47\00:42:24.17
after or before school
00:42:24.21\00:42:25.71
was even out because he knew
if we're going to eat tonight,
00:42:25.74\00:42:28.44
my family needs help.
00:42:28.48\00:42:30.38
And so at 5, 6,
7, 8, 9 years old,
00:42:30.41\00:42:34.08
maybe even till he was 10,
00:42:34.12\00:42:36.08
he would go out into the woods
and he would pick fiddleheads,
00:42:36.12\00:42:39.59
the ferns as they
were just coming up,
00:42:39.62\00:42:41.42
and you would pick other
things that he knew were edible
00:42:41.46\00:42:43.93
and bring them back.
00:42:43.96\00:42:45.29
And he take his like
half gallon engine oil,
00:42:45.33\00:42:50.60
pails, cans,
00:42:50.63\00:42:51.97
and he would bring them a
kilometer down to the river
00:42:52.00\00:42:55.00
to get water.
00:42:55.04\00:42:56.37
And three times every day
00:42:56.40\00:42:57.74
he would bring
that back for his family
00:42:57.77\00:42:59.41
to have enough water
to eat and to clean up
00:42:59.44\00:43:01.41
with and to cook with.
00:43:01.44\00:43:03.71
And he's just a little kid?
00:43:03.75\00:43:05.08
He's just a little kid.
00:43:05.11\00:43:06.45
He's just a little kid.
00:43:06.48\00:43:07.82
His mom, you know, was
taking the baby on her hip
00:43:07.85\00:43:09.82
out into the fields to
work on her little bit of forest
00:43:09.85\00:43:13.29
that she had
cleared out to be a rice,
00:43:13.32\00:43:15.79
rice paddy and to grow corn.
00:43:15.82\00:43:18.23
And so incredible,
00:43:18.26\00:43:19.66
because he shared last night
00:43:19.69\00:43:21.03
I had never heard
this story before.
00:43:21.06\00:43:22.86
He said, "You know,
00:43:22.90\00:43:24.23
God took care of
us during those years.
00:43:24.27\00:43:27.10
In fact, my uncle
would tell my mom,
00:43:27.14\00:43:29.24
you need to
divorce your husband,
00:43:29.27\00:43:31.61
and there's
another man in this village
00:43:31.64\00:43:33.17
who wants to marry you."
00:43:33.21\00:43:34.58
She said, "No, I'll be
faithful to my husband.
00:43:34.61\00:43:36.64
I'll be faithful to God.
00:43:36.68\00:43:38.78
And God will be faithful to us."
00:43:38.81\00:43:40.35
I'm sure is what
she was thinking.
00:43:40.38\00:43:42.72
And she would go out there
and she would grow her crops.
00:43:42.75\00:43:45.55
Well, he shared about how,
00:43:45.59\00:43:47.12
at the end of the
year before their harvest,
00:43:47.16\00:43:50.03
they would be,
00:43:50.06\00:43:52.03
all of the
villagers would be out of rice
00:43:52.06\00:43:54.86
except for their family.
00:43:54.90\00:43:56.97
Yay!
00:43:57.00\00:43:58.33
And he said, you
know, we would just cut,
00:43:58.37\00:44:00.50
we would say it must be God.
00:44:00.54\00:44:02.30
Because here's one
woman feeding four people,
00:44:02.34\00:44:05.91
and then you know,
00:44:05.94\00:44:07.28
there's these other families
00:44:07.31\00:44:08.64
where they have teenagers
00:44:08.68\00:44:10.01
that are out there
working to much bigger fields.
00:44:10.05\00:44:12.31
And yet God took care of them.
00:44:12.35\00:44:13.85
He shared about
00:44:13.88\00:44:15.22
how a huge
problem in this jungle,
00:44:15.25\00:44:16.79
it was way off the beaten track.
00:44:16.82\00:44:18.69
And a huge
problem was in the barns
00:44:18.72\00:44:20.99
where they would store the food
00:44:21.02\00:44:24.79
with rats and the mice
would come in and just,
00:44:24.83\00:44:27.53
you know, eat
and eat on my food.
00:44:27.56\00:44:29.06
In fact, it was a weekly chore
00:44:29.10\00:44:30.87
that the children
would chase the rats
00:44:30.90\00:44:32.60
and the mice away.
00:44:32.63\00:44:33.97
He said, "We never ever
saw mice or rats in our barn.
00:44:34.00\00:44:39.87
They just didn't come.
00:44:39.91\00:44:42.71
They just didn't come."
00:44:42.74\00:44:44.21
And it, you know
it makes me think
00:44:44.25\00:44:45.95
of Malachi Chapter 3 that says,
00:44:45.98\00:44:49.22
"I will rebuke the
devourer for your sakes,
00:44:49.25\00:44:53.22
so that he will not destroy
the fruit of your ground."
00:44:53.25\00:44:55.86
Nor shall the vine fall
00:44:55.89\00:44:57.23
to bear fruit for
you in the field...
00:44:57.26\00:44:58.89
"Fail to bear fruit
for you in the field, "
00:44:58.93\00:45:00.33
says the Lord of hosts.
00:45:00.36\00:45:01.70
It's so beautiful.
00:45:01.73\00:45:03.06
I can just see,
00:45:03.10\00:45:04.43
maybe even an
angel that just was like,
00:45:04.47\00:45:05.80
I'm in this barn.
00:45:05.83\00:45:09.24
So God is
working in amazing ways.
00:45:09.27\00:45:12.41
Just to finish up his story,
00:45:12.44\00:45:15.08
he said, "I have
something to tell you
00:45:15.11\00:45:16.78
that you do not know."
00:45:16.81\00:45:18.15
He's just telling
me this last night.
00:45:18.18\00:45:19.88
He said, "I
took a group of youth
00:45:19.91\00:45:22.42
to my old village
just this summer."
00:45:22.45\00:45:26.02
And he said,
00:45:26.05\00:45:27.39
"When we got there,
00:45:27.42\00:45:28.76
I wanted to see
00:45:28.79\00:45:30.13
because there was two
people that had been his friend,
00:45:30.16\00:45:32.39
one was his cousin,
00:45:32.43\00:45:33.90
and another little neighbor boy
00:45:33.93\00:45:35.43
whose family must have
had a little more openness
00:45:35.46\00:45:37.50
in their hearts.
00:45:37.53\00:45:38.93
Because there was just
this little neighbor boy
00:45:38.97\00:45:40.70
that was his friend.
00:45:40.74\00:45:42.50
And he went into that village,
00:45:42.54\00:45:46.78
and came to find out
00:45:46.81\00:45:49.11
that there are now six families
00:45:49.14\00:45:51.11
that are
Christian in his village.
00:45:51.15\00:45:53.85
And the one who is
leading them is his friend.
00:45:53.88\00:45:58.02
God is so good. Amen.
00:45:58.05\00:45:59.72
So God is working...
What an incredible story.
00:45:59.75\00:46:03.39
We could sit all day
here and listen to stories.
00:46:03.43\00:46:06.26
I wish we had more time
00:46:06.29\00:46:07.66
but before we go
to the address roll
00:46:07.70\00:46:09.73
for ASAP Ministries,
00:46:09.76\00:46:11.17
which we will put
up in just a moment.
00:46:11.20\00:46:12.97
Talk to us,
remind us one more time
00:46:13.00\00:46:15.70
how much it takes to
sponsor an ethic missionary?
00:46:15.74\00:46:18.74
How much it will be for
the little stuffed animal
00:46:18.77\00:46:21.61
with and how much to
sponsor a child or school?
00:46:21.64\00:46:24.45
So talk to us about that?
00:46:24.48\00:46:26.21
It's $30 a month
00:46:26.25\00:46:27.98
to sponsor a child
in one of these schools.
00:46:28.02\00:46:30.75
And you can go on our website
and actually choose your child.
00:46:30.79\00:46:34.86
And we have a
sponsorship program.
00:46:34.89\00:46:37.46
And it depends on
what type of worker,
00:46:37.49\00:46:40.43
it usually ranges
around $130 a month
00:46:40.46\00:46:43.83
to sponsor a worker and
it depends on which country
00:46:43.87\00:46:46.67
they're at as well.
00:46:46.70\00:46:48.04
We have lots of
other projects you can go.
00:46:48.07\00:46:50.27
We have an online
gift catalog there.
00:46:50.31\00:46:52.47
And, you know,
00:46:52.51\00:46:53.84
we see how God has
worked miracles in providing,
00:46:53.88\00:46:56.88
and this year we
need another miracle.
00:46:56.91\00:46:59.38
So we're looking to God,
00:46:59.41\00:47:00.75
and so pray for us
00:47:00.78\00:47:02.12
that God will work miracles
00:47:02.15\00:47:03.49
to provide for
these precious children.
00:47:03.52\00:47:05.12
Amen. Amen.
00:47:05.15\00:47:06.59
So it's $30 to sponsor a child.
00:47:06.62\00:47:10.86
Go to ASAPs website,
00:47:10.89\00:47:12.49
we want to
encourage you to do that.
00:47:12.53\00:47:14.66
We believe in what God is doing
00:47:14.70\00:47:16.97
in and through
the ministry of ASAP.
00:47:17.00\00:47:20.14
We believe in the
stories of change lives
00:47:20.17\00:47:22.34
and the missionaries
00:47:22.37\00:47:23.71
who are going
forward under persecution,
00:47:23.74\00:47:26.47
under difficult experiences,
00:47:26.51\00:47:29.44
under even torture or
detainment or imprisonment,
00:47:29.48\00:47:32.88
but still the
gospel is going forward.
00:47:32.91\00:47:36.12
So what we want to do right now
00:47:36.15\00:47:38.02
is to put up the
contact information
00:47:38.05\00:47:39.95
for ASAP Ministries.
00:47:39.99\00:47:42.36
Encourage you to dig deep,
to donate, to sponsor, to pray,
00:47:42.39\00:47:48.30
to do whatever God calls you
00:47:48.33\00:47:50.17
to do to support
this incredible ministry.
00:47:50.20\00:47:54.87
For more information
about ASAP Ministries,
00:47:54.90\00:47:57.37
please visit their
website at AsapMinistries.org.
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That's AsapMinistries.org.
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You may also call
them at 269-471-3026.
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That's 269-471-3026.
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In addition you
can write to them
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at PO Box 84, Berrien
Springs, Michigan 49103.
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That's PO Box 84,
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Berrien Springs, Michigan 49103.
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