As you're well aware,
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we're living in
unprecedented times.
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Join us now for
Today 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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Thank you for joining us
as you do each and every day.
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This is going to be
a great program today.
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It is, you know why?
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Well, the Lord's going to
be here for one, am I right?
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The Holy Spirit
is going to be here.
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Yes, and we have one of
our favorite people here.
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We do, in the whole
world Sister Julia Outkina,
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all the way from
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
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And, Julia, it's a privilege
to have you here today.
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Yeah.
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I feel so good to be back here.
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We haven't been here
for two and a half years
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because of these difficult times
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that we're living in.
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And to be back,
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it just feels as Danny
when he comes to Russia,
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he says, "I'm back home.
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I'm back to my Russian home."
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And this is how
I feel coming here.
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I'm back to my American home.
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And as we were just
reminiscing with Danny it is...
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Soon it'll be
about half of our lives
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that we know one another.
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Had been knowing each
other, that's amazing, isn't it?
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Yeah. It's beautiful.
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Well, Yvonne, now you
haven't known Julia as long.
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But between you and
Julia and her mother,
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you guys really
click as they say.
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For sure. Right?
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For sure.
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First of all, I've
heard so much about you
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from Danny
because he talks about
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just what you've done,
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what the Lord has done
through you in 3ABN Russia.
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And then I met your mom
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and I just fell in love with her
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the moment I met her.
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Like we just had
a heart connection
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and now she's my mom, Ichika.
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Yes, and you are
her Yvonne Ichika.
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She's a
darling. I love your mom.
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Yeah, my mom has
very, very special feelings
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towards Yvonne.
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And, you know, all our lives
are witnessing about the Lord,
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so they had this
special connection.
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And then when my mom
got sick, really sick,
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and I shared with you and Yvonne
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and then Yvonne wrote a letter
of encouragement and so on.
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And then she sent me
just immediately another one
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and she said, "Julia,
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I'm prompted by the Lord,
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that you teach your mom
how to pray in Jesus name."
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And, you know, of
course me being a Christian
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for almost 30 years, of
course, I pray in Jesus' name,
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but somehow because my
mom, she's a wonderful person.
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But she has a certain kind
of resistance or something,
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like I feel,
"Oh, do I speak to her
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just dare to
pray in Jesus' name?"
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But then when Yvonne
wrote that, I thought,
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"This is a prompting from above
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and I shouldn't be ashamed
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of asking my mom to
pray in Jesus' name."
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And I did and I said that Yvonne
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that your favorite Yvonne Ichika
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suggests that we
pray in Jesus' name.
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And you know, and since then,
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it has warmed my heart
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just to know with
the heavenly happiness.
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That now my mom
when we pray together,
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she prays in Jesus' name.
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Oh!
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Praise the
Lord. Praise the Lord.
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That's incredible.
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That's wonderful.
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Well, as many of the
folk know, and many of you,
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maybe you don't,
Elder John Carter
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asked 3ABN to go with him
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to a city
called Nizhny Novgorod,
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formerly Gorky.
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And I'd heard a Gorky,
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but in Russia I've
never been to Russia.
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I've been to Romania,
but I've never been there.
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And he said, "You
know, God has opened doors.
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We've rented this
huge sports center,
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and we're going to
hold meetings there.
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We have no idea
what kind of response,
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would you want
to bring your crew?"
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Now, at that time
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we were just
talking about earlier.
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Julia, we were
in our eighth year
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because this was like 1991,
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when he talked
to me to go in '92.
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And, of course, we were,
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actually went on
air in about '86.
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So it wasn't that long
after we were on the air
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but I said,
"Absolutely, we want to go.
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We want to be a part of this."
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And then what
we saw was a series
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of miracles
through Elder Carter,
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through the Russian people.
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I mean, it's been
an amazing opportunity
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and then 3ABN had
the opportunity to build
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what Elder Carter says
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is the largest
Protestant facility
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in all the ex-Soviet Union.
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And it's huge.
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We could really never
configure the square feet.
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I've tried, and I'm a carpenter
and it's hard to do it,
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so big and
counting the basements.
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But we figured
250,000, maybe more,
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I don't know, but
it's a huge facility.
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God gave us a
property, eight acres property,
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this facility
back when literally,
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you couldn't own,
foreigners couldn't own.
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But there was a
young governor there,
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34 years old,
named Boris Nemtsov
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and so we ended up...
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That he said, we're going
to make this very democratic.
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We're going to
let foreigners come in
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and invest and do businesses.
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And so then we found out
through a little bit later
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Sister Julia Outkina,
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professor of
English, Dr. Outkina,
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and there in Nizhny Novgorod
had been coming to the meetings
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just to hear the
language spoken by,
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you know, westerners or
people other than Russians.
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And so then it was, I guess,
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late in the
several weeks of meetings,
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but it was late before you
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really gave your
heart to Jesus, right?
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Oh, yeah.
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I just came there
to listen to English
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because I had never heard anyone
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whose mother tongue is English
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because my
teachers were Russian too.
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And so I went there
to listen to English,
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and when Pastor Carter
started inviting the audience
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to raise their hands
if there is some need,
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if there is a need for a prayer,
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I said to myself,
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"Oh, no, I'm
never raising my hand."
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Then he started inviting
people to stand up for a prayer.
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I never stood up for a prayer.
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And then the first two baptisms
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took place in June 1992,
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and then, just before
the third one on Thursday,
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I thought they
will leave so soon
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and I will not hear
anything about God anymore.
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And then the Lord had it
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that Pastor John spoke about,
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"Don't you know that your bodies
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are a temple of
the Holy Spirit?"
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And he didn't say they will
be a temple of the Holy Spirit
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when you become good
or when you sin no more.
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He didn't say that.
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He just said
what the Bible says,
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"Don't you know that
your bodies are a temple
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of the Holy Spirit?"
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And that was a
moment of my conversion.
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I just thought I am
good enough the way I am
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because no one knows
myself better than me.
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And I know how much
imperfection there is,
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and how many like wrong things
in my personality there are.
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And then the Lord says,
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"I want your
body to be my temple,
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the temple of My Holy Spirit."
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That was just a moment
when I was just so happy.
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It was kind of
a physical feeling
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just the light
going from up through me.
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And there was no literal light.
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It was just how
this impressed me,
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this thought, and
I just, I know that
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that was the
moment of my conversion.
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And I thought if I'm
good for God, then I'm good.
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And by the way,
as Danny mentioned,
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my brother was the governor
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of this region.
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I was married.
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I had a son.
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I was a PhD in Linguistics,
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so seemingly fulfilled
from every aspect of life
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with the most low self-esteem.
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I mean, just
didn't appreciate anything
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about myself and just...
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And then that very moment,
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you know, I became
good, good for myself.
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Yes.
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Isn't that amazing?
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And I mean, my self-esteem,
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it doesn't exist anymore
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because I'm in the
Lord and I'm good for Him.
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So it doesn't,
anything else doesn't matter.
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So I'm not worried about...
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I praise the Lord,
I never have it over,
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but I never have it
under either, it's just...
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It's right with the Lord.
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You realize your value,
that you have value to God.
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And that's, I think,
what made the difference.
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When you found out
that the Holy Spirit
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that your body is the
temple of the Holy Spirit,
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and then you felt
that light, you know...
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And it's interesting because
when God created the earth,
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He said, "Let there be light."
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And that's what He does in
our spiritual lives as well.
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He shines the
light on our dark places,
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and so you felt that,
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that Holy Spirit
come into you, I believe.
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And so, praise the
Lord, that's so beautiful.
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Then how did you make
known you wanted to be baptized?
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You know... That's
an interesting story.
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Danny prompts me to remember it.
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Okay, I will and, of course,
I have never forgotten it.
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You know, I listened to
Pastor Carter's sermons,
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and he preached
about many things,
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including Sabbath, of
course, and it was fine with me.
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I thought, "If the
Lord's Day is Sabbath,
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then it's my day
with the Lord, too."
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I didn't have a
problem with that.
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But as far as food, like...
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Well, I was not sure and so...
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But still, I didn't
have a resistance really.
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And so one day I
went to a marketplace
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and I bought a certain products,
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and I contaminated my finger.
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And it started pestering.
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Well, it
started inflaming and...
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So I had it all bandaged.
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And since I was kind of...
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Well, Sabbath was fine with me
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because it was fine
with the Lord but still,
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well, to be honest,
I did that on Sabbath.
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So I bought those
things on the Sabbath,
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and then I went
to the marketplace,
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and then my
finger started inflaming.
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And then my
brother had this group
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of American preacher,
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Pastor John
Carter, American media,
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Danny Shelton,
and his 3ABN team.
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He had them
invited to his office
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because Russian
Orthodox Church was unhappy
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that Protestant
people have come to Russia
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to bring their own
religion as they said.
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And my brother
wanted them together
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and so they were all
in my brother's office.
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And I just...
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It's the Lord. He prompted me.
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You know things were
so simple at the time.
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I could come to
my brother's office
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and no one would even ask me
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where I'm going and who am I.
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And so I came there.
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I looked from his back room
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into what was happening there
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and I thought,
"Oh, they're all here."
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And then the meeting went on,
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I don't know if
Danny will want to speak
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more about that meeting.
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But then when
the meeting was over
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and I went to the
front door to meet them
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and I told them the
story about my conversion that,
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you know, you
preached to me about Sabbath.
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I thought Sabbath
is okay with the Lord.
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I mean, Sabbath
is the Lord's Day.
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It's okay with me.
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Nevertheless, I
went shopping on Sabbath
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and see what
happened, my finger inflamed.
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And Pastor Carter was
there and Danny was there,
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so this is how I really,
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personally met
you the first time.
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And the church leadership,
when did you meet them?
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And the church leadership,
it was another miracle
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because when I
filled out my baptismal vows
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as they do in Russia,
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that I agree with
all these beliefs.
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And then at the end, it said,
00:13:55.20\00:13:57.53
"How can you be
helpful to church?
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Leave us your
contact information."
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And I said, "I can translate,"
00:14:02.30\00:14:03.97
because that was all
a translation program.
00:14:04.01\00:14:09.58
I wrote, "I can translate."
00:14:09.61\00:14:11.21
I left my phone number.
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And then there was a meeting
00:14:13.45\00:14:15.38
between Danny and
the local conference,
00:14:15.42\00:14:18.35
and this was when Danny already
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through an amazing
leading of the Holy Spirit
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made sure that this building
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is bought for
3ABN Russia facility.
00:14:27.66\00:14:31.37
It's just a big miracle.
00:14:31.40\00:14:34.67
And, Danny,
00:14:34.70\00:14:36.04
it was a
non-finished construction.
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It stood there for
15 years non-finished
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because the metal
plant that owned it,
00:14:40.71\00:14:43.18
it couldn't
finish the construction.
00:14:43.21\00:14:45.75
And so then Danny needed...
00:14:45.78\00:14:51.35
Danny wanted
good quality building
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and he wanted
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his cousin's husband,
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John Canter to be a
supervisor of construction.
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And he knew that John
Canter would need a translator
00:15:05.97\00:15:10.47
and so the Lord made
it so that the translator
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who was supposed to be there
00:15:13.91\00:15:15.84
for that meeting
with the conference...
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John Canter was not
there yet, but there was plan,
00:15:17.88\00:15:21.05
the meeting with the
conference and no translator.
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That translator couldn't
come and then they find this,
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my number, and they called me.
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And I said, "Oh yes, I'll come."
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And so I came to translate.
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And just at that meeting,
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Danny was
impressed that I could be
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of help to 3ABN Russia.
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It was amazing
because, as she said,
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what's the odds
of her being there?
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We baptized 2532 people.
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And for them to
look through all this
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and even see that she
was not only a translator,
00:15:54.98\00:15:57.99
but a PhD in Linguistics,
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and then to call her
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because I'm only
there for certain times,
00:16:02.26\00:16:04.83
and then to be at that meeting.
00:16:04.86\00:16:07.26
And as she was translating,
00:16:07.30\00:16:10.47
I just looked at her
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and it was like
the Lord told me,
00:16:12.20\00:16:13.60
she's the person
that basically...
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You build 3ABN Russia around,
00:16:18.31\00:16:20.94
of course, the
Lord and His principles,
00:16:20.98\00:16:24.85
but she's the
person to be in charge
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and it was sure with me.
00:16:27.85\00:16:30.89
And so what I had
found in some other countries
00:16:30.92\00:16:33.72
as we'd gone into
different countries,
00:16:33.76\00:16:35.46
some I won't name, but
it's hard to find people,
00:16:35.49\00:16:38.76
especially that were
living under communism,
00:16:38.79\00:16:41.30
who, their motto
was, we pretend to work
00:16:41.33\00:16:44.60
and the government
pretends to pay us,
00:16:44.63\00:16:47.44
to find people who
were what we would call
00:16:47.47\00:16:50.47
and this side is on us
because they justified,
00:16:50.51\00:16:53.01
well, hey, this money
I've, you know whatever.
00:16:53.04\00:16:56.54
But as soon as I saw
Julia, I knew I could trust her.
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And so I knew
and then I found out,
00:17:01.08\00:17:03.42
of course, about her
brother being the governor,
00:17:03.45\00:17:06.55
and was at the meetings,
and that's where I'd met you.
00:17:06.59\00:17:10.26
And so it was
just an amazing event.
00:17:10.29\00:17:12.59
The Lord put this together
00:17:12.63\00:17:13.96
and then finding
this huge building,
00:17:14.00\00:17:17.10
which again another miracle.
00:17:17.13\00:17:19.07
I didn't know this
till two or three years ago.
00:17:19.10\00:17:21.20
But we were headed to
the conference officials
00:17:21.24\00:17:23.67
to show me some big
building and where we were,
00:17:23.71\00:17:27.14
it was flooding over the curbs
00:17:27.18\00:17:29.84
and the car stalled right
in the middle of the road.
00:17:29.88\00:17:31.75
So we got out, to
get out of the water
00:17:31.78\00:17:33.95
and I saw through a
bunch of big trees building
00:17:33.98\00:17:36.85
and I thought, "That's
where they were taking me."
00:17:36.89\00:17:38.62
So I took off and headed around
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and looked at this huge facility
00:17:41.26\00:17:42.92
and I said, "I love it.
00:17:42.96\00:17:45.06
Let's buy this
and we'll work on it.
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We'll build it."
00:17:46.90\00:17:48.23
And they didn't
even tell me at the time
00:17:48.26\00:17:49.86
that's not
really where we intend
00:17:49.90\00:17:52.47
to show you but,
00:17:52.50\00:17:53.84
you know, the Lord blessed
00:17:53.87\00:17:55.20
and it's a
fabulous facility there.
00:17:55.24\00:17:57.21
And thank you,
all of you at home
00:17:57.24\00:17:59.04
for your prayers and
your financial support
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because
tremendous amounts of people
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giving from small
amounts to large amounts,
00:18:06.11\00:18:09.08
you know, got
3ABN Russia started
00:18:09.12\00:18:11.99
but they keep it growing.
00:18:12.02\00:18:13.59
And so that's today we
want to give you an opportunity
00:18:13.62\00:18:16.32
to support 3ABN Russia
00:18:16.36\00:18:18.53
but, Julia, of course...
00:18:18.56\00:18:19.89
Oh, go ahead.
00:18:19.93\00:18:21.26
Oh, no, I was going to say
we have a free gift for you.
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If you do support 3ABN Russia,
Julia and her team brought...
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A little Matryoshka. A little...
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Well, these are
little key chains.
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Almost like Matryoshkas
except they don't come apart.
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These are little key chains,
00:18:35.18\00:18:36.64
and they're free for
you with any size donation,
00:18:36.68\00:18:40.15
you're going to get it
00:18:40.18\00:18:41.52
in this cute little Russian bag.
00:18:41.55\00:18:44.55
And so they brought 200 of these
00:18:44.59\00:18:48.09
so first come first serve.
00:18:48.12\00:18:50.19
But please call in or write,
00:18:50.23\00:18:55.13
you can call (618) 627-4651.
00:18:55.16\00:18:59.77
And make your
donation to 3ABN Russia
00:18:59.80\00:19:02.44
because they
have a special project
00:19:02.47\00:19:04.91
that they're working on.
00:19:04.94\00:19:06.27
Okay.
00:19:06.31\00:19:07.64
We'll talk about
that in a few minutes.
00:19:07.68\00:19:09.04
So we're giving
you the background,
00:19:09.08\00:19:11.38
every bit of what happened
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and what's
happened over the years
00:19:13.28\00:19:14.62
was already preordained.
00:19:14.65\00:19:16.92
The Lord had this in mind
00:19:16.95\00:19:18.82
from the
foundation of the world.
00:19:18.85\00:19:20.76
And for all the people,
00:19:20.79\00:19:22.72
for Julia and not
knowing all the background
00:19:22.76\00:19:25.66
and for her
brother to be right there
00:19:25.69\00:19:27.80
in that position that he was.
00:19:27.83\00:19:31.37
When we first met him, he
was not happy we were there.
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After he got to
know us and to see us
00:19:34.80\00:19:37.44
and speaking to Elder Carter,
00:19:37.47\00:19:39.34
then he said, "You know
what, we have a bigger enemy,"
00:19:39.37\00:19:41.94
talking to church leaders then,
00:19:41.98\00:19:43.81
"we have a bigger
enemy than each other.
00:19:43.85\00:19:46.01
We don't want
communism to come back,
00:19:46.05\00:19:47.85
so we're going to allow
these Adventists to stay here.
00:19:47.88\00:19:49.85
We're going to allow..."
00:19:49.88\00:19:51.25
And so it was an open door
00:19:51.29\00:19:54.62
for people to come to Russia.
00:19:54.66\00:19:58.56
And he had, I
think, 52 million people
00:19:58.59\00:20:01.10
they said at the
time in his constituency.
00:20:01.13\00:20:03.47
If you look at
all the cities around,
00:20:03.50\00:20:05.10
I don't know there's a
lot of people, millions
00:20:05.13\00:20:06.94
because Nizhny is what?
00:20:06.97\00:20:08.30
Three and a
half or four million.
00:20:08.34\00:20:09.67
It's huge.
00:20:09.70\00:20:11.64
I just can't believe how God...
00:20:11.67\00:20:13.51
Well, I can believe
it but I'm just saying
00:20:13.54\00:20:15.51
everything was orchestrated.
00:20:15.54\00:20:17.71
The way you met her, the
way you met the governor,
00:20:17.75\00:20:20.92
you know, the baptisms,
00:20:20.95\00:20:22.45
the way you
found the building...
00:20:22.48\00:20:24.85
You couldn't have drawn
up a plan and say, "Okay,
00:20:24.89\00:20:27.82
I'm getting John Canter there."
00:20:27.86\00:20:29.19
Yes.
00:20:29.22\00:20:30.56
And, you know, he's Canadian
00:20:30.59\00:20:31.93
that married to my
cousin, Janice Shelton
00:20:31.96\00:20:35.66
and then was in
construction for years,
00:20:35.70\00:20:37.57
Adventist school teacher.
00:20:37.60\00:20:39.27
And yet I knew John
and hadn't really realized
00:20:39.30\00:20:42.77
he's from
Czechoslovakia, his parents.
00:20:42.80\00:20:46.98
Yes, which is kind
of close, isn't it?
00:20:47.01\00:20:49.14
Yeah, and he had
some understanding
00:20:49.18\00:20:50.88
of the language.
00:20:50.91\00:20:52.25
Not a lot but he
picked up Russian, amazing.
00:20:52.28\00:20:54.68
I mean, I left him there,
00:20:54.72\00:20:56.22
just basically left
here, "John, here you go."
00:20:56.25\00:20:59.19
And then they come
back a few months later,
00:20:59.22\00:21:00.82
and he's speaking
to everybody getting...
00:21:00.86\00:21:03.49
and I'm like, "What happened?
00:21:03.53\00:21:04.86
You've learned this."
00:21:04.89\00:21:06.23
But a man who was
driven and he said,
00:21:06.26\00:21:08.46
"Now I know who I was basically,
00:21:08.50\00:21:10.87
why I was created to be."
00:21:10.90\00:21:12.23
Wow.
00:21:12.27\00:21:13.60
All the things he
had done was to work.
00:21:13.64\00:21:14.97
So he and Julia worked together
00:21:15.00\00:21:16.34
and she followed him
around in the cold weather.
00:21:16.37\00:21:19.27
And I remember she had
her little bag of stuff.
00:21:19.31\00:21:21.18
She'd get out goodies
00:21:21.21\00:21:22.54
because John didn't like to stop
00:21:22.58\00:21:23.91
and it was freezing outside,
working in the wintertime.
00:21:23.95\00:21:27.78
But I mean, a
tremendous amount of effort
00:21:27.82\00:21:29.85
that everybody put
in and then we hired
00:21:29.88\00:21:32.39
probably a little over
100 Russian workers there too
00:21:32.42\00:21:35.82
to help build this facility.
00:21:35.86\00:21:37.83
And it took a
while but thank you
00:21:37.86\00:21:39.63
for, again, for your
love and prayers and support.
00:21:39.66\00:21:42.36
But I want to go up now,
00:21:42.40\00:21:44.10
we've told enough
about the history of Julia,
00:21:44.13\00:21:46.20
so Julia then, when the building
00:21:46.23\00:21:48.47
got where it could be...
00:21:48.50\00:21:49.87
You know, we could
get in it and use it.
00:21:49.90\00:21:52.47
I asked her, of course,
to be the Russian director.
00:21:52.51\00:21:55.14
And she, of
course, didn't feel she...
00:21:55.18\00:21:58.08
Maybe that was, you know, I
don't know if I can do that.
00:21:58.11\00:22:00.58
So I had to explain to
her, which I do to most people.
00:22:00.62\00:22:02.98
I don't know I can
do what I'm doing there
00:22:03.02\00:22:04.59
but we just do it.
00:22:04.62\00:22:05.95
In other words,
the Lord opens up doors
00:22:05.99\00:22:07.52
for she willingly did it
and has done an incredible job.
00:22:07.56\00:22:11.03
First of all, I love you like
the sister you are in the Lord.
00:22:11.06\00:22:15.23
And I've told
people this publicly
00:22:15.26\00:22:17.80
if I could count the people
00:22:17.83\00:22:19.53
who I've had the
most impact in my life
00:22:19.57\00:22:22.04
and I have the most respect for
00:22:22.07\00:22:23.91
and they gave me
just five one hand
00:22:23.94\00:22:25.74
with four fingers and a thumb
00:22:25.77\00:22:28.18
of who I respect
and love the most.
00:22:28.21\00:22:30.08
She would be right
at the top of that list
00:22:30.11\00:22:32.45
because I've watched her
00:22:32.48\00:22:34.25
that what she has
done for the cause of God
00:22:34.28\00:22:36.89
and what she's been
willing to sacrifice her time,
00:22:36.92\00:22:39.79
you know, her energy.
00:22:39.82\00:22:41.16
Everything in her life has
been dedicated not for herself
00:22:41.19\00:22:45.49
but for getting the
gospel to the world.
00:22:45.53\00:22:48.30
And I should be upset at her
00:22:48.33\00:22:50.20
because I gave
her a raise one time
00:22:50.23\00:22:52.93
and I found out
she was splitting
00:22:52.97\00:22:54.30
that among the other workers.
00:22:54.34\00:22:56.00
Then Mollie said,
well, I wasn't supposed to...
00:22:56.04\00:22:57.67
She wasn't supposed to tell me
00:22:57.71\00:22:59.04
but somehow I found out
00:22:59.07\00:23:00.41
we used to give her
clothes to take back
00:23:00.44\00:23:02.31
because she was
going to be on TV.
00:23:02.34\00:23:03.91
I'd go over there
and I'd see her workers
00:23:03.95\00:23:05.55
wearing these clothes.
00:23:05.58\00:23:06.92
I mean, that's the
way Julia has always been.
00:23:06.95\00:23:10.49
But, Julia, thank you
so much for what you do
00:23:10.52\00:23:13.69
and what you have
done all of these years.
00:23:13.72\00:23:15.72
And God has blessed
you with so many gifts,
00:23:15.76\00:23:17.93
so many talents
and your leadership
00:23:17.96\00:23:20.30
is incredible.
00:23:20.33\00:23:21.73
And you're like
all of us, I'm sure,
00:23:21.76\00:23:23.73
you know, so I don't
want to embarrass you,
00:23:23.77\00:23:25.40
but I mean, by
bragging on you too much.
00:23:25.43\00:23:27.77
But we're
uplifting the Jesus in you
00:23:27.80\00:23:30.04
because we all have
failures and shortcomings.
00:23:30.07\00:23:32.04
We all sin.
00:23:32.07\00:23:33.41
We all make mistakes, but
God has honored your faith,
00:23:33.44\00:23:36.41
and your willingness
to go forward in a country
00:23:36.44\00:23:39.35
at that time with communism.
00:23:39.38\00:23:41.35
I'm not going to
say it was fallen,
00:23:41.38\00:23:42.85
it was still falling,
because a lot of the people
00:23:42.88\00:23:45.45
still had that mentality
00:23:45.49\00:23:47.46
and you couldn't just
do what you wanted to do.
00:23:47.49\00:23:49.89
I mean, it was very,
very tough to work with.
00:23:49.92\00:23:52.53
But now it's gone from a dream
to a reality and approximately
00:23:52.56\00:23:57.63
how many people can hear
00:23:57.67\00:24:01.00
programming in
the Russian language
00:24:01.04\00:24:02.90
in the ex-Soviet
Union and around the world?
00:24:02.94\00:24:05.91
Well, first of all,
Danny, like you say that,
00:24:05.94\00:24:10.81
on your four
fingers and the thumb,
00:24:10.85\00:24:16.05
the same way about 3ABN
00:24:16.08\00:24:18.39
and the way you have
run it through the years,
00:24:18.42\00:24:21.26
and the way Greg
and Jill run it now
00:24:21.29\00:24:23.76
as president and vice president,
00:24:23.79\00:24:26.03
because life is difficult,
00:24:26.06\00:24:28.06
and there have been so
many shaky moments in life.
00:24:28.10\00:24:31.97
And I just looked up to
you and I looked up to you all.
00:24:32.00\00:24:36.20
I looked up to
3ABN and I thought,
00:24:36.24\00:24:39.01
"This is an amazing
ministry ordained by God.
00:24:39.04\00:24:41.84
This is worth living for.
00:24:41.88\00:24:43.98
This is worth serving.
00:24:44.01\00:24:46.05
And this is worth
helping in every way
00:24:46.08\00:24:51.49
to promote the
gospel to my people,
00:24:51.52\00:24:53.42
to the Russian
speaking people of the world.
00:24:53.46\00:24:55.72
And again, it's not
me, I know this for sure.
00:24:55.76\00:24:58.86
Today, you know, I was praying,
00:24:58.89\00:25:00.93
I was just looking
at the beautiful nature
00:25:00.96\00:25:04.03
that you have here
in Southern Illinois,
00:25:04.07\00:25:06.37
the beautiful weather.
00:25:06.40\00:25:07.74
It's very beautiful for me now.
00:25:07.77\00:25:09.40
And I just said,
"Lord, thank you so much
00:25:09.44\00:25:12.61
that in spite of
all of my shortcomings,
00:25:12.64\00:25:15.58
and all of my big
mistakes and small mistakes,
00:25:15.61\00:25:20.98
You have flourished...
00:25:21.02\00:25:23.45
You have nurtured
00:25:23.49\00:25:24.82
and You have expanded
the Ministry of 3ABN Russia
00:25:24.85\00:25:27.96
so that it can do its purpose
for which You have created it
00:25:27.99\00:25:32.99
and for which so many
people around the world,
00:25:33.03\00:25:35.80
so many viewers
of 3ABN support it.
00:25:35.83\00:25:39.43
That it goes into all the world,
00:25:39.47\00:25:41.40
that it brings the good
news of salvation to the people.
00:25:41.44\00:25:45.01
So well, there's 300 million
00:25:45.04\00:25:50.21
Russian speaking
people in the world
00:25:50.25\00:25:52.48
and our internet
can reach all of them
00:25:52.51\00:25:56.12
so potentially all the people.
00:25:56.15\00:25:59.05
In Russia, there's about
120 million people living
00:25:59.09\00:26:03.93
and 3ABN has for us
00:26:03.96\00:26:08.43
because you
subsidize it, you paid for it,
00:26:08.46\00:26:11.93
two satellites over Russia
00:26:11.97\00:26:14.67
that cover the whole country
00:26:14.70\00:26:17.57
of Russia.
00:26:17.61\00:26:20.94
In cable stations and all that.
00:26:20.98\00:26:22.91
Yes, and I have the
information here that
00:26:22.94\00:26:26.58
at this time 547 cable companies
00:26:26.61\00:26:31.69
rebroadcast our signal
from those two satellites
00:26:31.72\00:26:35.86
around the clock.
00:26:35.89\00:26:37.23
That's amazing.
00:26:37.26\00:26:38.59
Wow, praise the Lord.
00:26:38.63\00:26:39.96
Yes.
00:26:40.00\00:26:41.33
Yeah, the amount of cities
covered is over 3,600 cities.
00:26:41.36\00:26:45.87
So we are not
00:26:45.90\00:26:48.34
on the huge cable companies
00:26:48.37\00:26:52.81
but we are on small ones
and small ones cover a lot,
00:26:52.84\00:26:56.61
yeah, and they reach more
00:26:56.64\00:26:59.31
because in small places
there's less distraction,
00:26:59.35\00:27:03.45
and they are
willing to have our programs
00:27:03.49\00:27:06.35
when they watch
the samples they say,
00:27:06.39\00:27:08.16
"Oh such good content.
00:27:08.19\00:27:09.76
We don't know of anyone else
who creates such great content
00:27:09.79\00:27:13.50
that makes the society healthy,
that makes a person healthy,
00:27:13.53\00:27:18.63
that makes families healthy."
00:27:18.67\00:27:21.87
Not enough just in
the physical meaning
00:27:21.90\00:27:24.04
of the world of
the word physical too
00:27:24.07\00:27:26.88
but also mental, also spiritual,
00:27:26.91\00:27:30.95
so how important is that?
00:27:30.98\00:27:33.38
And during these
years, almost 29 now,
00:27:33.42\00:27:37.45
we have over
13,000 video programs
00:27:37.49\00:27:42.09
in 156 series of programs
that we have on the air.
00:27:42.12\00:27:46.66
All in the Russian language.
00:27:46.70\00:27:48.03
All in the Russian language
00:27:48.06\00:27:50.07
and we have over
11,000 radio programs
00:27:50.10\00:27:54.77
in 114 series.
00:27:54.80\00:27:57.41
And we have all
kinds of programming
00:27:57.44\00:28:00.61
and it's just
amazing how the Lord
00:28:00.64\00:28:03.28
gives the
talents to His ministry.
00:28:03.31\00:28:05.98
It is His ministry.
00:28:06.01\00:28:07.58
And I came there,
as Danny mentioned,
00:28:07.62\00:28:11.19
with no administrative talents.
00:28:11.22\00:28:13.86
I don't consider
myself a born administrator,
00:28:13.89\00:28:17.93
not for sure.
00:28:17.96\00:28:19.53
But he gave, he
gives the vision,
00:28:19.56\00:28:22.36
he gives the capabilities
and then some people come very,
00:28:22.40\00:28:28.00
like, modest in
their capabilities.
00:28:28.04\00:28:32.44
And then all of a
sudden such talents
00:28:32.47\00:28:34.48
are revealed in them
00:28:34.51\00:28:35.84
because this is
what the ministry needs.
00:28:35.88\00:28:37.48
Yes.
00:28:37.51\00:28:38.85
And, well, in my opinion,
00:28:38.88\00:28:41.15
sometimes when they think
that these are their talents,
00:28:41.18\00:28:44.79
and they think that they...
00:28:44.82\00:28:46.15
You know, they can achieve
much more in other places.
00:28:46.19\00:28:48.82
And they go, and I look at
what they produce and I think,
00:28:48.86\00:28:54.13
"Oh, where's your talent?
00:28:54.16\00:28:56.26
I mean, where has it gone?"
00:28:56.30\00:28:57.63
Where did it go?
00:28:57.67\00:28:59.00
Yeah, where did it go?
00:28:59.03\00:29:00.90
So, praise the
Lord for 3ABN Russia.
00:29:00.94\00:29:05.11
We actually, I think we
have a video role, right?
00:29:05.14\00:29:06.94
Yes.
00:29:06.98\00:29:08.31
And maybe we could show it
and it'll tell us a lot more
00:29:08.34\00:29:10.38
then we want to
talk to the folk at home
00:29:10.41\00:29:12.48
about an opportunity to support.
00:29:12.51\00:29:14.52
Yeah.
00:29:14.55\00:29:15.88
Today, 3ABN Russia
extensively produces
00:29:51.95\00:29:54.72
and distributes
Bible-based life saving programs
00:29:54.76\00:29:57.89
for the Russian
speaking people of the world.
00:29:57.93\00:30:00.60
The number of which is
about 300 million people,
00:30:00.63\00:30:04.17
but let us go back
to the very beginning.
00:30:04.20\00:30:08.97
It is all started
on November 15th, 1984,
00:30:09.00\00:30:13.71
in the United
States, as Danny Shelton
00:30:13.74\00:30:16.34
contemplated the
messages of different churches.
00:30:16.38\00:30:19.45
He had a distinct
thought in his mind.
00:30:19.48\00:30:22.22
I want you to build
a television station
00:30:22.25\00:30:25.05
that will reach the world
00:30:25.09\00:30:26.92
with the undiluted
three angels' messages
00:30:26.96\00:30:29.36
that would
counteract the counterfeit.
00:30:29.39\00:30:31.79
Even though it
seemed impossible,
00:30:31.83\00:30:33.70
God provided for everything
in the best possible way
00:30:33.73\00:30:37.67
because Danny
accepted the Lord's calling
00:30:37.70\00:30:40.04
and entrusted its
fulfillment completely
00:30:40.07\00:30:42.77
into the Lord's hands.
00:30:42.80\00:30:44.57
Everything that happened
00:30:44.61\00:30:45.94
after that was
nothing but a miracle.
00:30:45.97\00:30:49.51
After eight years
from the foundation
00:30:49.54\00:30:51.91
of Three Angels
Broadcasting Network,
00:30:51.95\00:30:54.22
in 1992, Pastor
John Carter and 3ABN team
00:30:54.25\00:30:58.05
came to Nizhny Novgorod
00:30:58.09\00:30:59.42
for a big evangelistic campaign.
00:30:59.45\00:31:01.69
As a result, three
massive baptisms took place.
00:31:01.72\00:31:05.13
Over 2,500 people
entered the waters
00:31:05.16\00:31:08.13
of the Great Russian River Volga
00:31:08.16\00:31:10.40
to enter a covenant with God.
00:31:10.43\00:31:12.80
This evangelistic series
was covered by quite a number
00:31:12.83\00:31:16.07
of Nizhny Novgorod's mass media.
00:31:16.10\00:31:18.37
Articles
appeared in the newspapers
00:31:18.41\00:31:20.61
containing positive reviews
and words of appreciation.
00:31:20.64\00:31:25.58
The miracles didn't end there.
00:31:25.61\00:31:27.55
Danny Shelton was able to raise
00:31:27.58\00:31:29.28
all the necessary funds
00:31:29.32\00:31:30.69
to build 3ABN
Russia Evangelism Center
00:31:30.72\00:31:33.66
that now houses 3ABN
Russia production studios,
00:31:33.69\00:31:37.06
the local
conference headquarters,
00:31:37.09\00:31:39.16
the biggest
church, a Christian school
00:31:39.19\00:31:41.76
and ABC store and many more.
00:31:41.80\00:31:45.00
In the 1992, Julia
Outkina was invited
00:31:45.03\00:31:48.37
to work at 3ABN Russia
00:31:48.40\00:31:50.21
as a translator for John Canter,
00:31:50.24\00:31:52.34
the construction
supervisor from 3ABN.
00:31:52.37\00:31:55.54
At the same time,
she became the host
00:31:55.58\00:31:57.88
and editor of programs,
00:31:57.91\00:31:59.48
and then the Executive
Director of 3ABN Russia.
00:31:59.51\00:32:03.02
The first programs of
the face-to-face series
00:32:03.05\00:32:06.05
were filmed with a little
00:32:06.09\00:32:07.82
high-eight home video camera.
00:32:07.86\00:32:09.82
But nevertheless, when
aired by our first broadcaster,
00:32:09.86\00:32:13.46
a local TV station, CTNN.
00:32:13.50\00:32:15.80
They received a great response
00:32:15.83\00:32:17.70
from the viewers up
to 1000 letters a week.
00:32:17.73\00:32:21.80
How quickly the time passes?
00:32:21.84\00:32:23.71
It seems that it
was just yesterday.
00:32:23.74\00:32:26.94
For 37 years of 3ABN
and 29 years of 3ABN Russia,
00:32:26.98\00:32:32.81
the Lord has been guiding,
00:32:32.85\00:32:34.38
promoting and protecting
this amazing ministry.
00:32:34.42\00:32:38.25
Nowadays, millions of
people can potentially
00:32:38.29\00:32:41.32
watch 3ABN
Russia's channel every day.
00:32:41.36\00:32:44.83
We do receive
letters and comments
00:32:44.86\00:32:46.76
from our dear viewers,
00:32:46.80\00:32:48.20
which show how God
touches their hearts
00:32:48.23\00:32:50.97
through our programming.
00:32:51.00\00:32:53.20
I often watch 3ABN
Russia YouTube channel
00:32:53.23\00:32:56.27
and my daughter
listens to Three Angels radio
00:32:56.30\00:32:59.47
at every spare moment.
00:32:59.51\00:33:01.84
The benefit we get is enormous.
00:33:01.88\00:33:04.15
Thank you very much.
00:33:04.18\00:33:06.38
We had an amazing time
making the programs together.
00:33:06.41\00:33:10.32
I will remember
being on your programs
00:33:10.35\00:33:12.79
as God's blessing
as long as I live.
00:33:12.82\00:33:15.99
The Lord arranged everything
so that these programs
00:33:16.02\00:33:19.46
have already thousands of views,
00:33:19.49\00:33:21.83
praise Him.
00:33:21.86\00:33:23.43
The crew made a video
about our rustic center
00:33:23.47\00:33:26.67
for children with disabilities.
00:33:26.70\00:33:29.00
And by the grace of
God and thanks to a charity
00:33:29.04\00:33:32.01
concert organized by
3ABN Russia last year,
00:33:32.04\00:33:35.71
we can continue to help children
00:33:35.74\00:33:37.81
with special needs.
00:33:37.85\00:33:39.38
So working with
The Three Angels team
00:33:39.41\00:33:42.05
has left a deep
impression on me.
00:33:42.08\00:33:45.45
A very interesting
video about the Bible.
00:33:45.49\00:33:48.42
So much information
and different opinions.
00:33:48.46\00:33:51.59
The Bible is one
of the most commented
00:33:51.63\00:33:54.06
and quoted books in the world.
00:33:54.10\00:33:56.70
Each time I open the Bible,
00:33:56.73\00:33:58.67
I find something new for myself
00:33:58.70\00:34:01.14
including parallels
with the modern age.
00:34:01.17\00:34:04.41
Each time it is
a real revelation.
00:34:04.44\00:34:07.64
In the Bible, there
are prophecies and truth,
00:34:07.68\00:34:10.71
blessings and advice for lives.
00:34:10.75\00:34:14.42
God blesses every
employee of 3ABN Russia.
00:34:14.45\00:34:18.29
He gives us ideas,
00:34:18.32\00:34:19.72
spiritual gifts
and skills that help us
00:34:19.75\00:34:22.29
make quality
programs for His glory.
00:34:22.32\00:34:25.09
He sends us speakers
and guests of His choice.
00:34:25.13\00:34:28.46
God's light cannot be hidden.
00:34:28.50\00:34:30.70
It is so powerful
00:34:30.73\00:34:32.20
that no darkness can consume it.
00:34:32.23\00:34:35.00
The Lord
supports every one of us.
00:34:35.04\00:34:37.61
We feel it every day.
00:34:37.64\00:34:39.81
In 1992, what is
happening in Russia today
00:34:39.84\00:34:43.41
would seem
completely impossible.
00:34:43.45\00:34:45.55
At the moment more
than 540 cable operators
00:34:45.58\00:34:49.62
broadcast program in
3,600 cities of Russia.
00:34:49.65\00:34:53.89
There is active
and steady growth
00:34:53.92\00:34:55.56
of subscribers on
YouTube and our social networks.
00:34:55.59\00:34:59.83
For all of these we are awed
at the Lord's might and power.
00:34:59.86\00:35:04.97
We always remember with
a special warms the times
00:35:05.00\00:35:08.40
when 3ABN team
visits 3ABN Russia.
00:35:08.44\00:35:11.84
When you visit
00:35:11.87\00:35:13.21
it seems as if you
always have been here with us.
00:35:13.24\00:35:16.68
All the warm smiles and
heartfelt conversations,
00:35:16.71\00:35:20.32
all the exchange of
spiritual experience
00:35:20.35\00:35:22.75
and professional
opinions are priceless.
00:35:22.78\00:35:25.89
We always recall your visits
00:35:25.92\00:35:27.89
to our 25th and 27th anniversary
00:35:27.92\00:35:31.59
with the warmest feelings.
00:35:31.63\00:35:33.96
Together we've held
wonderful church services.
00:35:34.00\00:35:37.57
Praise the Lord
and rejoice in Him.
00:35:37.60\00:35:40.34
Blessing and being
blessed by God's love
00:35:40.37\00:35:42.80
and the testimony of
His power around the world.
00:35:42.84\00:35:46.88
We pray for the Lord's
richest blessings upon you,
00:35:46.91\00:35:49.88
dear 3ABN team, upon
all the sponsors of 3ABN
00:35:49.91\00:35:54.22
and the family of yours.
00:35:54.25\00:35:56.35
The Holy Spirit
moves your hearts
00:35:56.38\00:35:58.65
and your hands
making you God's messengers
00:35:58.69\00:36:01.86
on earth at these end times.
00:36:01.89\00:36:04.29
Praise the Lord for
these 37 years of 3ABN.
00:36:04.33\00:36:08.40
Happy Anniversary, 3ABN.
00:36:08.43\00:36:12.10
Oh, praise the Lord.
00:36:17.34\00:36:19.07
That was good. Praise the Lord.
00:36:19.11\00:36:20.44
That was so great.
00:36:20.48\00:36:21.81
Thank you. Thank you very much.
00:36:21.84\00:36:23.18
Praise the Lord for
the 37 years of 3ABN.
00:36:23.21\00:36:24.55
You make a big
difference in the world.
00:36:24.58\00:36:27.02
3ABN makes a big
difference in the world.
00:36:27.05\00:36:29.38
It's not only Russia.
00:36:29.42\00:36:30.99
It is in Cuba, I don't know,
00:36:31.02\00:36:34.92
everywhere around the world.
00:36:34.96\00:36:37.16
What an amazing
ministry run by simple people,
00:36:37.19\00:36:41.03
supported by simple people.
00:36:41.06\00:36:43.16
It's just, you
know, the dedication,
00:36:43.20\00:36:45.27
the willingness
to serve the Lord.
00:36:45.30\00:36:47.14
So a big thank you on
behalf of the Russian people.
00:36:47.17\00:36:51.27
Oh, well, you too all of you.
00:36:51.31\00:36:53.04
And again for
those of you at home,
00:36:53.07\00:36:54.48
without you none of
this would be possible.
00:36:54.51\00:36:56.95
I mean, it's amazing for
me to look at that building
00:36:56.98\00:36:59.95
when we first saw it to
where now of the studios
00:36:59.98\00:37:03.69
and all the
work that's been done
00:37:03.72\00:37:05.29
and all the cable stations
00:37:05.32\00:37:07.09
and the millions
and millions of people
00:37:07.12\00:37:08.92
being reached and
literally thousands of people
00:37:08.96\00:37:11.53
who have come to know
Jesus and been baptized
00:37:11.56\00:37:14.13
in the Adventist Church,
00:37:14.16\00:37:16.20
you know, and
accept Christianity.
00:37:16.23\00:37:17.67
It's just amazing.
00:37:17.70\00:37:19.03
You know
00:37:19.07\00:37:20.40
hundreds of
thousands probably letters
00:37:20.44\00:37:21.77
that you've gotten
over the years for 30 years.
00:37:21.80\00:37:24.27
I remember we
used to get Bibles.
00:37:24.31\00:37:26.21
You've given amount by
the thousands and thousands
00:37:26.24\00:37:29.08
and I mean, it's
incredible the work
00:37:29.11\00:37:30.98
that they do
00:37:31.01\00:37:32.35
in this great country of Russia.
00:37:32.38\00:37:34.32
I love Russia.
00:37:34.35\00:37:35.68
I know I grew up, and
Julia and I in the Cold War era,
00:37:35.72\00:37:39.85
you know, back
in the 50s and 60s,
00:37:39.89\00:37:42.59
when I thought about Russia,
00:37:42.62\00:37:44.49
I thought about an enemy,
00:37:44.53\00:37:46.23
and I'm sure she
probably thought the same thing.
00:37:46.26\00:37:48.16
When you think of
America you think of the enemy.
00:37:48.20\00:37:51.13
You go over and you
meet the people and you say,
00:37:51.17\00:37:52.93
"Hey, we're all God's children."
00:37:52.97\00:37:54.30
That's right.
We're all God's children.
00:37:54.34\00:37:55.74
It doesn't make any difference
00:37:55.77\00:37:57.11
what our
governments are thinking
00:37:57.14\00:37:58.47
or how they're acting.
00:37:58.51\00:37:59.84
These are people that have a
right to know about the Lord.
00:37:59.87\00:38:02.94
These are people
00:38:02.98\00:38:04.31
that if we can
share the gospel with
00:38:04.35\00:38:06.25
and where we've never been able
to because of the Iron Curtain,
00:38:06.28\00:38:09.68
East Germany and all of that
00:38:09.72\00:38:11.99
and Russia and get behind
that was an impossibility.
00:38:12.02\00:38:15.76
Till God said,
00:38:15.79\00:38:17.13
"You made it
impossibility, I haven't."
00:38:17.16\00:38:19.26
That's right.
00:38:19.29\00:38:20.63
All you got to do is go forward
00:38:20.66\00:38:22.00
and blessing of
God is on the go.
00:38:22.03\00:38:24.13
And all of a sudden,
way goes Iron Curtain
00:38:24.17\00:38:27.07
and all of a sudden the message
00:38:27.10\00:38:28.84
is going
through with great power
00:38:28.87\00:38:30.91
and so it's incredible to watch.
00:38:30.94\00:38:33.11
What we want to do, Julia,
00:38:33.14\00:38:34.48
I know that you
have a lot of needs
00:38:34.51\00:38:36.54
and it's true that we
subsidize a lot most of that
00:38:36.58\00:38:42.42
though Russia has
changed tremendously,
00:38:42.45\00:38:44.42
when we first went there.
00:38:44.45\00:38:45.79
We never saw fruit.
00:38:45.82\00:38:47.16
We didn't see grocery stores.
00:38:47.19\00:38:48.52
We didn't see any malls.
00:38:48.56\00:38:49.96
We didn't see
anything in those years.
00:38:49.99\00:38:52.76
Today, Russia...
00:38:52.79\00:38:54.66
You don't know
if you're in America
00:38:54.70\00:38:56.16
or Germany or wherever,
00:38:56.20\00:38:57.53
there's great malls,
00:38:57.57\00:38:58.90
there's great
restaurants everywhere,
00:38:58.93\00:39:00.60
there are businesses
00:39:00.64\00:39:02.24
and people's
lifestyles have changed.
00:39:02.27\00:39:04.01
But still yet
the amount of money
00:39:04.04\00:39:05.97
they make compared to say
00:39:06.01\00:39:07.48
here in America is
much, much smaller.
00:39:07.51\00:39:10.08
I know several hundreds a month.
00:39:10.11\00:39:11.71
I don't know where we're...
00:39:11.75\00:39:13.31
So right now the
money wise, we still,
00:39:13.35\00:39:17.62
our money goes a
long ways in Russia
00:39:17.65\00:39:20.36
because I'm not
sure what the ruble
00:39:20.39\00:39:21.72
to the dollar ratio is.
00:39:21.76\00:39:24.79
But when we give to Russia,
00:39:24.83\00:39:27.76
it really, your money
is like it's multiplying.
00:39:27.80\00:39:30.80
You get more
buying for your buck.
00:39:30.83\00:39:32.17
You do.
00:39:32.20\00:39:33.54
If I can use...
00:39:33.57\00:39:34.90
If you can use that
term, then I'll go with it.
00:39:34.94\00:39:36.27
That's fine.
00:39:36.30\00:39:37.64
So there are some needs
that we have that would make...
00:39:37.67\00:39:41.08
which we now do.
00:39:41.11\00:39:42.44
So tell us a little bit about
00:39:42.48\00:39:43.81
what some of the
production needs you have?
00:39:43.85\00:39:45.68
Okay.
00:39:45.71\00:39:47.05
Coming back to
what you have just said,
00:39:47.08\00:39:49.05
when you first came to Russia,
bananas were a rarity there.
00:39:49.08\00:39:54.12
It was just a rare thing.
00:39:54.16\00:39:56.56
So you invited
us to a restaurant
00:39:56.59\00:39:59.59
and it was my family
and some other workers
00:39:59.63\00:40:05.33
and you ordered bananas there,
00:40:05.37\00:40:08.80
which was a luxury to order.
00:40:08.84\00:40:10.87
And then some from your,
00:40:10.91\00:40:13.01
from the American
ladies they just started
00:40:13.04\00:40:16.21
you know, they peel the banana
00:40:16.24\00:40:18.01
and then they started
removing those little threads.
00:40:18.05\00:40:21.28
I looked at that and I
thought, "What a waste?"
00:40:21.32\00:40:24.22
Eat it all.
00:40:28.56\00:40:29.96
Yes, eat it all.
00:40:29.99\00:40:33.09
Now, of course, Russia
is better off in many ways.
00:40:33.13\00:40:38.27
And, yeah, the wage
00:40:38.30\00:40:42.77
maybe about $500 a month now
00:40:42.80\00:40:46.47
whereas in those times
00:40:46.51\00:40:48.31
it was about $15 a month,
00:40:48.34\00:40:52.88
so a lot of change.
00:40:52.91\00:40:58.12
And the cost of
sustaining 3ABN Russia
00:40:58.15\00:41:03.06
and of maintaining
it, of expanding it,
00:41:03.09\00:41:05.66
it is high too
00:41:05.69\00:41:07.53
because all the
equipment is bought
00:41:07.56\00:41:11.47
from the
manufacturers of the world level
00:41:11.50\00:41:16.44
because they don't
produce it locally.
00:41:16.47\00:41:21.28
So our big need
00:41:21.31\00:41:25.35
is satellite fee every month.
00:41:25.38\00:41:29.82
Well, it is for
two Russian satellites.
00:41:29.85\00:41:33.25
Do you want me to
give them the numbers?
00:41:33.29\00:41:36.62
You can or not.
00:41:36.66\00:41:37.99
There's a number of
things to go through.
00:41:38.03\00:41:39.36
Yeah.
00:41:39.39\00:41:40.73
Okay, so there is
satellite fee every month.
00:41:40.76\00:41:44.07
Then praise the Lord, you
know all this massive production
00:41:44.10\00:41:48.10
that we do we have been doing
only with one control room.
00:41:48.14\00:41:52.47
We have a big studio downstairs.
00:41:52.51\00:41:54.38
We have a small studio upstairs
00:41:54.41\00:41:56.31
and we have a studio
in the big sanctuary,
00:41:56.34\00:41:58.65
but the set of the
equipment is the same.
00:41:58.68\00:42:01.25
So we just carry
the same equipment,
00:42:01.28\00:42:03.18
the same cameras,
the same control panels
00:42:03.22\00:42:06.35
from one place to another.
00:42:06.39\00:42:08.09
Now, thank you 3ABN
00:42:08.12\00:42:09.76
that we are getting equipment
for another control room.
00:42:09.79\00:42:15.33
We built it with our own hands.
00:42:15.36\00:42:17.47
We didn't hire any contractors.
00:42:17.50\00:42:19.77
We did it never
stopping our production process
00:42:19.80\00:42:22.84
just in between
00:42:22.87\00:42:25.37
and we need
00:42:25.41\00:42:29.08
quite a bit of
money to finish it.
00:42:29.11\00:42:31.45
So there's still
need to finish it
00:42:31.48\00:42:34.92
from the point of
view of equipment,
00:42:34.95\00:42:36.82
so we need more
equipment about the same amount
00:42:36.85\00:42:39.69
as we have already got from you.
00:42:39.72\00:42:42.76
And then our big dream
is to have an LED panel.
00:42:42.79\00:42:48.40
LED panel makes
such a big difference
00:42:48.43\00:42:51.40
because you don't
have to construct the sets
00:42:51.43\00:42:54.17
because it shows a picture.
00:42:54.20\00:42:58.34
Then the sets
become very diverse
00:42:58.37\00:43:00.74
because it's all
done on a computer.
00:43:00.78\00:43:03.41
You don't have
to remove the sets,
00:43:03.45\00:43:05.21
to put up the sets.
00:43:05.25\00:43:06.68
So our big request
00:43:06.72\00:43:09.85
to those who are
able to support us now,
00:43:09.88\00:43:13.52
very big request
is to participate
00:43:13.56\00:43:17.59
in an LED panel for Russia.
00:43:17.63\00:43:21.23
So for backgrounds like
there are folks at camp meeting
00:43:21.26\00:43:24.60
when you see the sets,
00:43:24.63\00:43:27.14
whether it be
for Christmas sets,
00:43:27.17\00:43:28.90
Thanksgiving sets, all of those,
00:43:28.94\00:43:30.81
those are no longer hand built.
00:43:30.84\00:43:32.87
We build a frame,
00:43:32.91\00:43:34.41
but then these lights
behind it to put together
00:43:34.44\00:43:37.18
they're in like
two-foot by two-foot squares.
00:43:37.21\00:43:40.12
When you can
feed those by computer
00:43:40.15\00:43:44.02
and you can put
beautiful backgrounds
00:43:44.05\00:43:46.62
without having to
build and tear down
00:43:46.65\00:43:48.92
and store and bring back.
00:43:48.96\00:43:51.03
It makes a huge difference
and we've been using them
00:43:51.06\00:43:53.80
for the last several years here.
00:43:53.83\00:43:55.16
And it's
incredible the amount of labor
00:43:55.20\00:43:57.40
that they say
they pay for themselves
00:43:57.43\00:43:58.87
just in the
labor of tearing down
00:43:58.90\00:44:01.30
because we can
have one beautiful set
00:44:01.34\00:44:04.04
and then within
maybe 10 minutes later
00:44:04.07\00:44:05.94
if we really choose
and don't worry about
00:44:05.97\00:44:07.64
what's in front so much,
00:44:07.68\00:44:09.08
we can change the background
00:44:09.11\00:44:10.45
and have something
absolutely beautiful
00:44:10.48\00:44:12.45
and looking good.
00:44:12.48\00:44:13.82
I mean, you're going
to look through windows
00:44:13.85\00:44:15.28
and see birds flying
00:44:15.32\00:44:16.65
and leave some of
our programs doing,
00:44:16.69\00:44:18.42
those are LED lights.
00:44:18.45\00:44:20.02
I mean, it's just
amazing how that works.
00:44:20.06\00:44:22.29
But we could do
those enough for you
00:44:22.32\00:44:25.09
for what between $50
and $60,000 in Russia
00:44:25.13\00:44:28.60
and I mean, to me
that's incredible.
00:44:28.63\00:44:31.67
So we're going to ask you,
00:44:31.70\00:44:33.03
some of you at home
watching this program,
00:44:33.07\00:44:35.27
if you want to support
00:44:35.30\00:44:38.04
we're going to give you
address in just a little bit
00:44:38.07\00:44:40.34
that you can send donations.
00:44:40.38\00:44:42.24
There'll be tax
deductible here to 3ABN.
00:44:42.28\00:44:45.08
We forward 100%
00:44:45.11\00:44:47.25
over there in order to purchase
this equipment that they need.
00:44:47.28\00:44:51.55
So not only the
production equipment
00:44:51.59\00:44:53.56
but these great
LED background sets.
00:44:53.59\00:44:56.76
You'll see them
if you turn on Fox,
00:44:56.79\00:44:58.63
if you turn on CNN news,
00:44:58.66\00:45:00.06
or whatever now you'll
see all these sets behind,
00:45:00.10\00:45:03.73
and it's no longer building.
00:45:03.77\00:45:05.10
These are all beautifully done
00:45:05.13\00:45:06.80
and, I mean, work
digitally with the computers
00:45:06.84\00:45:09.57
and, I mean,
it's really amazing.
00:45:09.60\00:45:10.97
So what we'd like
for you to do is pray
00:45:11.01\00:45:14.11
and ask the Holy Spirit
what he would have you to do.
00:45:14.14\00:45:16.64
There may be somebody there
who can give the whole $50,000.
00:45:16.68\00:45:19.35
Some of you might give $100,000,
00:45:19.38\00:45:21.25
some may give $10.
00:45:21.28\00:45:22.88
You may give $20
00:45:22.92\00:45:24.25
because we have the
continual 40 plus thousand
00:45:24.29\00:45:27.39
or so a month to
keep the Russia going,
00:45:27.42\00:45:31.16
the 3ABN Russia there
00:45:31.19\00:45:33.60
as well as the
growth of constantly growing
00:45:33.63\00:45:36.97
and reaching out to
more and more people.
00:45:37.00\00:45:38.83
So it's
tremendous amounts of money
00:45:38.87\00:45:41.34
but you through the Holy Spirit
00:45:41.37\00:45:43.17
you have provided
it all of these years.
00:45:43.20\00:45:45.41
But in these
particular things the sets,
00:45:45.44\00:45:48.08
we really want
to get those going
00:45:48.11\00:45:49.78
and they'll pay for
themselves in labor cost alone.
00:45:49.81\00:45:53.68
And I think it'd be great as far
00:45:53.72\00:45:55.38
as when cable stations in Russia
00:45:55.42\00:45:57.65
see the sets and see
the quality that you have,
00:45:57.69\00:46:01.26
their eyes are drawn to that
00:46:01.29\00:46:02.62
even maybe before
the content and say,
00:46:02.66\00:46:04.56
"Wow, this looks like a
really professional setup."
00:46:04.59\00:46:07.20
And it is by the way.
00:46:07.23\00:46:08.56
Yes, yes.
00:46:08.60\00:46:09.93
And so if you are
impressed by the Holy Spirit
00:46:09.96\00:46:13.77
to send something in
support of 3ABN Russia,
00:46:13.80\00:46:17.17
you can get a free
gift of a Russian keychain,
00:46:17.21\00:46:20.91
Russian doll keychain.
00:46:20.94\00:46:22.58
And for gift of
any size donation
00:46:22.61\00:46:25.21
of any size,
00:46:25.25\00:46:26.58
you get the keychain
00:46:26.61\00:46:27.95
sent to you in this
pretty little Russian bag.
00:46:27.98\00:46:31.62
It is, and so if you call
00:46:31.65\00:46:34.26
(618) 627-4651
00:46:34.29\00:46:38.69
during non-Sabbath hours,
00:46:38.73\00:46:41.36
and just call in anytime
between Monday and Thursday.
00:46:41.40\00:46:45.03
Right. Yeah.
00:46:45.07\00:46:47.27
When we look at the world,
00:46:47.30\00:46:49.57
and there's so
much problems right now,
00:46:49.60\00:46:51.37
nation against nation,
00:46:51.41\00:46:52.74
you know, and
people against people,
00:46:52.77\00:46:55.04
even within our own countries.
00:46:55.08\00:46:56.71
But when we look at that,
00:46:56.75\00:46:58.78
we realize we're
still all just one.
00:46:58.81\00:47:01.28
We're brothers and sisters,
you know, that are here by...
00:47:01.32\00:47:05.82
God created us in His image
and the devil has separated us
00:47:05.85\00:47:09.96
in so many areas,
but you know what?
00:47:09.99\00:47:12.39
Jesus brings us back together
00:47:12.43\00:47:14.16
so to much is
given much is required.
00:47:14.20\00:47:17.20
If God has blessed you
00:47:17.23\00:47:18.57
and you can support 3ABN Russia,
00:47:18.60\00:47:21.57
then please do so.
00:47:21.60\00:47:23.17
And so, to me, Yvonne,
00:47:23.20\00:47:27.51
I've never ceased to be amazed
00:47:27.54\00:47:29.08
that year after
year 3ABN Russia,
00:47:29.11\00:47:32.18
whether it's Australia,
00:47:32.21\00:47:33.55
whether it's New
Guinea or Philippines
00:47:33.58\00:47:34.92
or wherever we're working,
00:47:34.95\00:47:36.72
God somehow provides
through these people.
00:47:36.75\00:47:39.52
So we don't beg
00:47:39.55\00:47:40.99
and we don't have
these begging tongs
00:47:41.02\00:47:42.39
but we let people know the needs
00:47:42.42\00:47:44.76
and then they're able to
let the Holy Spirit tell them
00:47:44.79\00:47:47.56
what they should give
and what they should do.
00:47:47.60\00:47:50.00
So I'm saying this
today confidently knowing
00:47:50.03\00:47:54.47
that God's going to
supply there His needs,
00:47:54.50\00:47:57.44
our needs, 3ABN
Russia's needs through you
00:47:57.47\00:48:00.84
and through each of us.
00:48:00.88\00:48:02.21
We support too.
00:48:02.24\00:48:03.58
Yvonne and me, we support.
00:48:03.61\00:48:04.95
We don't just talk about it.
00:48:04.98\00:48:06.31
We make sure we give to projects
00:48:06.35\00:48:08.42
around the world
that 3ABN's involved with
00:48:08.45\00:48:11.32
and we give to projects
we're not involved with it,
00:48:11.35\00:48:13.52
to other
ministries, actually, are doing
00:48:13.56\00:48:15.76
because we're
all in this together
00:48:15.79\00:48:17.76
and that's to get the undiluted
three angels' messages,
00:48:17.79\00:48:20.30
one that would
counteract the counterfeit
00:48:20.33\00:48:22.46
into all the world.
00:48:22.50\00:48:23.83
Julia, we have a
few more minutes.
00:48:23.87\00:48:25.77
Maybe we'll give
you a little bit of time
00:48:25.80\00:48:27.34
to talk to the
folk at home or say
00:48:27.37\00:48:28.87
whatever is on your heart here.
00:48:28.90\00:48:31.61
You know what has
been on my heart recently.
00:48:31.64\00:48:34.61
The Lord allows the whole world
00:48:34.64\00:48:38.15
to understand more and
more how deteriorating it is.
00:48:38.18\00:48:44.12
It now as Greg says,
00:48:44.15\00:48:45.79
in an open to
our flagship program,
00:48:45.82\00:48:49.66
that we are living
in unprecedented times,
00:48:49.69\00:48:53.09
which is true
00:48:53.13\00:48:55.56
and more and more people realize
00:48:55.60\00:48:58.30
how bad things are
00:48:58.33\00:48:59.93
and how still worse
and worse they become.
00:48:59.97\00:49:03.00
At the same time, I didn't know,
00:49:03.04\00:49:05.44
I believe that it
is a keen observation
00:49:05.47\00:49:07.74
that God's people are
protected from everywhere.
00:49:07.78\00:49:12.45
And all those signs of end times
00:49:12.48\00:49:14.78
that are mentioned in
Matthew 24, in Luke 21,
00:49:14.82\00:49:19.39
those signs concerning
00:49:19.42\00:49:20.76
God's people are
not fulfilling yet.
00:49:20.79\00:49:23.76
We are not being put into jail.
00:49:23.79\00:49:25.69
We are not persecuted.
00:49:25.73\00:49:27.33
We are not
betrayed by our close ones.
00:49:27.36\00:49:30.47
And this tells me that
the Lord shows the world
00:49:30.50\00:49:33.60
how worse and worse it becomes.
00:49:33.64\00:49:35.80
People realize they
need in God more and more,
00:49:35.84\00:49:39.14
and God protect
His people to satisfy
00:49:39.17\00:49:42.91
the hunger and
thirst of the world in Him,
00:49:42.94\00:49:47.02
in Himself.
00:49:47.05\00:49:48.38
This is why we're
under His divine protection
00:49:48.42\00:49:50.99
and are just...
00:49:51.02\00:49:53.76
We have broad opportunities now.
00:49:53.79\00:49:56.83
So this is my
thought that isn't it amazing
00:49:56.86\00:50:02.16
while everything
else is falling apart,
00:50:02.20\00:50:04.47
becomes just, you
know, more strange,
00:50:04.50\00:50:08.70
more difficult to put up
00:50:08.74\00:50:12.67
with in so many ways.
00:50:12.71\00:50:14.94
When you watch mass media,
00:50:14.98\00:50:16.75
when you think
about your children
00:50:16.78\00:50:18.11
and about your grandchildren
00:50:18.15\00:50:19.48
and at the same time,
00:50:19.51\00:50:20.92
the Lord protects
His people to go ahead
00:50:20.95\00:50:23.35
and to bring His
message to the world.
00:50:23.39\00:50:26.19
That's why it's so important
to stick to the Word of God
00:50:26.22\00:50:28.89
and not be blown by
every wind of doctrine
00:50:28.92\00:50:31.69
because right now, the
devil has gotten so bold.
00:50:31.73\00:50:35.56
He's shown himself
to the whole world.
00:50:35.60\00:50:37.83
Thing that's happening every day
00:50:37.87\00:50:39.20
and you're watching on TV,
00:50:39.23\00:50:40.57
I don't care if it's the news.
00:50:40.60\00:50:41.94
I don't care if
it's TV programs.
00:50:41.97\00:50:43.57
If you hear all the politicians
on either side of the aisle,
00:50:43.61\00:50:47.24
things are like you say...
00:50:47.28\00:50:48.81
I must be what you say
the other night is like
00:50:48.84\00:50:50.95
twilight zone or something.
00:50:50.98\00:50:52.38
Yeah, you feel like
you're in the twilight zone.
00:50:52.41\00:50:54.02
Yeah, some of the stuff
that's been said and done
00:50:54.05\00:50:56.18
and we're not going to it.
00:50:56.22\00:50:57.55
We're just
saying there in general.
00:50:57.59\00:50:59.15
The devil is bold. You know why?
00:50:59.19\00:51:01.02
Because so many of us
00:51:01.06\00:51:02.52
are not
studying the Word of God.
00:51:02.56\00:51:04.29
We're not
sticking to the principles.
00:51:04.33\00:51:05.86
That's why it says,
"Study to show thyself
00:51:05.89\00:51:08.06
approved unto God,"
00:51:08.10\00:51:09.50
because we have to know
00:51:09.53\00:51:11.87
that where we stand
to be on the side of God
00:51:11.90\00:51:15.17
and we can't just be
blown by every wind of doctrine.
00:51:15.20\00:51:17.47
And that's why 3ABN
radio, television, internet,
00:51:17.51\00:51:21.78
all around the world, Russia,
00:51:21.81\00:51:23.71
you know, all of the
channels that we have
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and all of our
networks and literally right now
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we have an opportunity
00:51:29.12\00:51:30.45
to do more than
we've ever done before
00:51:30.49\00:51:31.92
because everybody is
looking for something solid,
00:51:31.95\00:51:35.39
something that makes sense,
because there's so much chaos.
00:51:35.42\00:51:38.83
There's so much unrest,
00:51:38.86\00:51:40.26
and they're
looking to find peace.
00:51:40.30\00:51:42.26
Everybody wants to
find peace and happiness.
00:51:42.30\00:51:44.33
Well, guess what?
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You're only going to do it
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through the Lord Jesus
Christ and Him crucified.
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So that's why we
thank you so much
00:51:48.74\00:51:51.04
for your support
00:51:51.07\00:51:52.41
because we can continue
to give the same message
00:51:52.44\00:51:54.84
that we've always given.
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The world can go
here, can go there,
00:51:56.24\00:51:58.08
all around but you know what?
00:51:58.11\00:51:59.45
The message is, Jesus loves us.
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He died for us.
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He made a plan
of salvation for us.
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He's coming back very
soon in the clouds of glory.
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And all we have to do
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is claim the free
gift of salvation,
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confess our sins, He's faithful
00:52:10.63\00:52:12.16
and just to
forgive us from our sins,
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cleanse us from
all unrighteousness
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and then go and tell
what He's done for us.
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Our own personal testimonies
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are greatest asset that we have.
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That's all we need to
have, and God will do the rest.
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So on that I'm
going to quit preaching
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because our time
is just about gone.
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But, Julia,
what an opportunities
00:52:30.75\00:52:32.45
to work together
so we want you...
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We're going to go to a newsbreak
00:52:34.78\00:52:37.39
and then maybe an address role
00:52:37.42\00:52:38.75
because we definitely
want to get the address
00:52:38.79\00:52:40.79
and how you can support
00:52:40.82\00:52:42.29
in this particular
project 3ABN Russia.
00:52:42.32\00:52:46.49
If the Holy Spirit impresses you
00:52:46.53\00:52:48.20
to support 3ABN's
worldwide ministry,
00:52:48.23\00:52:51.03
you can do so in
a variety of ways.
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You can write to
3ABN, PO Box 220,
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West Frankfort, Illinois 62896.
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Again, that's 3ABN PO Box 220,
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West Frankfort, Illinois 62896.
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You can call us
at (618) 627-4651.
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That's (618) 627-4651.
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You can also visit us
online for live programs,
00:53:16.62\00:53:19.86
schedules and more at 3abn.tv
00:53:19.89\00:53:24.00
That's 3abn.tv
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