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00:21 Hello, and welcome to Jesus for Asia Now.
00:24 I'm Natalie Wood, and I just want to share with you
00:26 what's been going on in our lives a little bit
00:30 because we hadn't had any new Jesus
00:32 for Asia shows for a while.
00:34 And that's because for two weeks this spring,
00:36 we were actually, actually this winter.
00:38 For two weeks this winter
00:40 we were in Thailand and Cambodia
00:41 and then in India shooting a show,
00:44 well, for young people by young people.
00:48 We were there as part of the crew.
00:50 So you'll have to stay tuned for mission track
00:53 that is coming soon.
00:54 It's being edited now and it is amazing,
00:57 the Lord has really blessed.
00:59 And also, then we went to a youth conference
01:02 in the Philippines,
01:03 and we'll be doing a show about that soon.
01:05 But we were gone for nearly a month doing that
01:07 and Jon was gone to India
01:09 for another couple of weeks after that,
01:11 so we've been gone a lot, traveling,
01:14 and that's why this is the first new Jesus
01:16 for Asia Now show for a while.
01:18 But I know that you will not be disappointed
01:20 with the stories that we'll share today
01:22 because it is a story of
01:24 how God is working to save the lost.
01:27 And I know you will be blessed
01:29 and challenged as well as encouraged
01:32 as we share with you the stories
01:34 from my friend Gayle Haberkam.
01:36 Welcome to the show, Gayle. Thank you, Natalie.
01:38 So happy to have you here. Happy to be here.
01:41 It's been a long time
01:42 since we've gone to sit down and do this,
01:45 but we want to start out
01:46 sharing the stories of the people
01:48 where you're working, and where is that?
01:51 I'm in BeYoTa and that's a small village of
01:53 about 30 houses of huts way deep into
01:57 the jungle of Thailand in the mountains.
02:00 In the mountains
02:01 and it's not just a little jungle village
02:04 by itself though,
02:06 there's a lot of other villages nearby
02:09 that also need your help.
02:11 Yes, we are surrounded by 50 villages
02:14 and because there is only two of us working there,
02:16 we are fortunately be able to keep up
02:18 with 10 villages around us.
02:20 Okay.
02:21 But then you said you've seen how many village
02:23 or representatives from how many villages?
02:25 Yes, in our clinic patients have come to us
02:27 from over 80 different villages from far away and...
02:31 So people have heard
02:33 that they can get help when they come to you.
02:35 Yes. Yes.
02:37 That's a blessing. Yes.
02:38 That's a real blessing.
02:39 And we've got a lot of pictures to share,
02:42 and so we want to just get started,
02:44 and let's start with this young lady on the screen.
02:46 This picture is a beautiful little girl.
02:50 Yes, the grandchildren will just get your heart right away
02:54 because they have nothing but they are happy
02:58 and they live in houses similar to this.
03:01 Some are little better, some much worse and...
03:03 And this house doesn't show all the pigs
03:06 and stuff underneath,
03:07 but all the animals live underneath
03:08 their houses usually.
03:10 Oh, yes, this one of course shows
03:11 all the cow dung under there
03:14 because the cows will resort to that at night.
03:17 And then most people have pigs
03:19 under their house and then the chickens, goats,
03:22 everything else can come and go through there.
03:24 So most villages...
03:25 So it's not very clean under their houses.
03:27 Are very dirty.
03:29 The whole village? The whole village.
03:32 Yeah, that's hard. Yes.
03:34 But I know you want to start out
03:36 by sharing a little bit about how they live
03:38 and so this is a picture of a kitchen.
03:41 Yes, in every house, the bamboo houses,
03:44 they have a cooking place inside
03:47 and sometimes it's in the center of the whole place,
03:50 sometimes it's off to the side.
03:51 But they cook over on open fire on the earth,
03:55 and there's a bamboo frame around,
03:56 and then everything gets black in the house
03:58 from all the smoke.
03:59 And when it's cold,
04:00 the people are kind of closed in
04:02 with all that smoke so you can imagine
04:04 they have problems with their lungs
04:06 and their health in general from breathing
04:08 that all the time,
04:09 but they will always cook like that inside.
04:13 Okay, except in this situation and we're showing
04:16 they're cooking something different.
04:18 Well, you need to know that my people in the jungle live
04:22 like they used to live 100 years ago in Burma.
04:25 They haven't advanced much at all
04:27 because there's been nobody to teach them
04:28 and so they eat everything that moves.
04:31 A few things they know are not edible
04:34 but they will eat certain spiders,
04:36 they eat certain flies,
04:37 they eat anything in the water that crawls.
04:40 And then this is a rat being roasted
04:42 and that is a big part of their diet is the rat
04:45 because they have little bamboo traps they make
04:48 and it's a big deal to catch several,
04:50 you'll see the little boys with ten of them
04:52 in the pocket all excited
04:54 because they caught the rats to eat.
04:56 Wow! Ew. I know.
05:00 And it is bamboo houses for the most part
05:02 and it is jungle,
05:04 so there's a lot of different deadly things there, right?
05:07 Right. Dangerous things.
05:08 As you can see the snakes are a big thing there,
05:11 we've stumbled over many of them
05:13 and they've come into our house.
05:15 And sometimes you go for a long time
05:16 without seeing them
05:18 and so you're not kind of thinking
05:20 and you get surprised by stumbling over a cobra.
05:23 Or when you walk into villages,
05:25 these green ones really camouflage themselves
05:28 and they can be on the bamboo fence
05:30 right next to you as you go by so it's...
05:33 And you don't know that they are there.
05:34 No, well, it's hard to see them sometimes
05:36 so they can surprise you.
05:37 But God protects you. God protects us.
05:39 Wow! That's wonderful.
05:42 This is what keeps us calm and unafraid.
05:45 Okay.
05:46 And this next creature I want to talk about
05:48 more people think of as just,
05:49 you know, an amazing large creature
05:51 with really great memory.
05:53 Yeah, me too I love all animals and at first,
05:56 the first four years that I was there,
05:58 I like the elephants because they do hard work.
06:00 They would pull in the post to build the houses,
06:02 and do all the heavy work,
06:04 and they're worth a lot of money out there,
06:06 the tame ones.
06:07 But in the last six years or five years,
06:11 the male elephants, the wild ones joined them
06:13 and it's free range so there is no fence no moat
06:16 to keep them out.
06:17 You can come across them any time
06:19 and it seems like that these creatures
06:22 once they kill somebody it gets in their blood and they charge.
06:26 Many, many times the villagers are terrorized by them
06:29 and it's true when they meet them face on,
06:32 if they come around a blind corner
06:33 on the motorbike
06:34 they'll drop that bike and run
06:36 and that elephant will charge them.
06:37 Sometimes they make it and sometimes they get killed.
06:41 And the worst part is that if they kill somebody,
06:45 the village people go bury them in the jungle
06:48 somewhere far away,
06:50 but the elephant waits for five days
06:52 till the body decomposes
06:53 and they'll go back and dig it up and eat it.
06:55 True story.
06:56 That's really scary
06:57 because we've always thought of them as vegetarians.
06:59 I know but it's, it really happens.
07:01 I don't know if it's that way in India or anywhere else
07:03 but that's what's happening right there.
07:06 This one we came across head on,
07:08 it's a male elephant.
07:09 The oils coming from the glands here which make it,
07:12 it's in heat it's very dangerous.
07:13 And our angel protected us
07:15 as we came around that blind corner in the truck
07:18 and no room to turn around
07:19 because the truck is just a toy to them too
07:21 and so we backed up, nowhere to turn,
07:24 and then the elephant turned into the jungle so.
07:27 Wow! God turned it. Tranquilized it.
07:30 I think so. I think so.
07:33 But we have a picture next of your clinic actually.
07:36 Yes, it's a major miracle, this is just,
07:39 it speaks of God all over the place
07:41 because we lived in the bamboo hut
07:43 for four years
07:45 and really it had hardly anything
07:46 but treated the patients in the middle,
07:48 the babies didn't wear diapers, the adults spit and poke it
07:50 through the cracks of the bamboo.
07:52 And I prayed for a small cement building,
07:55 just a small room somewhere else
07:57 where I could treat the sick
07:58 and I could keep the floor clean.
08:00 Yeah, you can mop the floor and...
08:02 Yes.
08:03 That Mrs. White says that God loves it
08:05 when we expect great things from Him
08:07 and when I'm praying for a little house,
08:09 God wanted to give me this.
08:11 It's a big story of miracles
08:13 that now we have a house on one side,
08:15 clinic on the other, a store room,
08:17 and even bathrooms that are inside.
08:19 What a blessing.
08:20 It's a blessing and you can sit at the desk
08:22 and write your records, the patient care records,
08:25 and you can do the procedures,
08:26 and you have a counter, even a sink.
08:28 That's so wonderful. Yeah.
08:30 And I got to go there with the mission track crew,
08:33 so I'm really excited to have been able to be there
08:36 and see for myself.
08:37 Yes, I'm so glad you did.
08:40 And patients came over there so that was neat too
08:43 to see you in action with your people.
08:45 Yeah, and sometimes you can't cook,
08:47 and sometimes you can't eat
08:48 but you can take care of the patients,
08:51 and they appreciate it.
08:53 And they know, they know that you love them
08:55 that they are priority to you.
08:57 Yes, and that's why they come from such great distances
08:59 because it's the love and it's coming from God.
09:03 And when we pray for the patients,
09:05 you know, so many times
09:07 we see it the patients get well.
09:09 It's not me. Yeah.
09:11 So this picture is of a group of people
09:12 that came from a long distance away.
09:14 Yes, they came two hours and there's more,
09:17 besides that they rented two trucks,
09:19 and they passed clinics, I don't know how many
09:21 and they could have gone to a hospital.
09:23 But they came and we said,
09:24 "Why did you do with it all that way."
09:26 They said, "Well, we heard you get better
09:27 when we come here and so we came."
09:29 And I say, it's not me, this is God
09:31 because we pray with the patients
09:33 and we can fit in a little bit of the gospel story
09:36 when we pray.
09:37 So you never know
09:38 who has been exposed to the truth.
09:41 Right. Right.
09:42 And what God will do in their lives
09:44 as a result of that little seed.
09:46 Yes. We just prayed for so many people.
09:49 Yeah, that's wonderful.
09:50 One guy even came and said,
09:52 "How come is it that when I see the doctor,
09:54 he gives me paracetamol, I don't get well,
09:56 but I come to you and get paracetamol
09:58 and I get well."
10:00 So because we pray. Such a neat thing.
10:02 Yeah, God. Yeah, that's so neat.
10:04 So you have a variety of different people,
10:06 or injuries, or sicknesses that you treat.
10:11 Yeah, most of the patients that come to us are sick
10:15 from three different causes, poor hygiene, poor nutrition,
10:18 and not drinking enough water.
10:20 So this patient you see
10:21 in the picture had kidney failure,
10:24 total kidney failure,
10:25 and they can't be on dialysis or get a kidney transplant,
10:28 they're just poor people in the jungle.
10:30 So they have to get a procedure done,
10:31 it's called parrot meal dialysis
10:33 and they have to irrigate their stomach
10:35 three or four times a day,
10:36 it takes all day, their life is just ended.
10:39 And just to stay alive
10:40 they have to keep doing that, so.
10:42 Yeah, the girl that has total kidney failure,
10:46 this is the house she lives in and the government tries
10:48 to take care of these people
10:51 when they go to the big hospital.
10:52 We had taken her there three times
10:54 and now she's ready to receive the fluid.
10:56 So they send the fluids,
10:58 it's in big bags of a liter and a half
11:00 and in boxes, very heavy but they send quite a few
11:04 and they have to stack up in their house
11:06 because this girl has to do this four times a day.
11:09 So that's a lot of fluid, and this house is falling down
11:12 and he can't even hold that kind of weight from the boxes.
11:15 So we were so happy to be helping her,
11:18 we built her a new house and it's new and strong
11:22 and she can keep those fluids in there
11:24 because we just feel so sorry for her went through a lot.
11:28 And it's a good lesson book
11:29 where if you can try to tell other people to drink
11:31 because they know the people, and what they're suffering from
11:34 and so, we pray that
11:35 that will help them to learn to drink.
11:37 They say they drink a lot
11:38 but they have little coconut shell cup,
11:41 and they dip it, and drink a few swallows,
11:43 throw the rest away.
11:44 And they do that two or three times a day,
11:46 they think they've drank a lot,
11:48 and they work in the sun in the rice gardens.
11:50 And it's hot there a lot of the year.
11:53 Yeah. Wow.
11:54 So patients come to me and say, "My heart is falling out,
11:58 can you do something to help me."
12:00 Or they say, "The blood is coming out from my legs
12:03 because I fell off an elephant ten years ago
12:05 and when it gets up to my chest,
12:07 it's going back and forth,
12:09 when it gets to my head, I'm really in trouble."
12:11 Or they say, "My brains are rotting out
12:13 or when I bend over, my brains are falling out."
12:16 They describe all this.
12:17 And you have to try to figure out what...
12:20 Yeah, what's really happening.
12:22 As they drink more water and vitamins we use a lot
12:26 because they are...
12:28 A lot of people are anemic.
12:30 Because their diet isn't very healthy.
12:33 They eat a lot of white rice whatever.
12:36 Whatever they can put with that.
12:37 And they have gardens
12:39 but the rice used to be pounded by hand,
12:42 really by foot
12:43 and so it had a lot of hull left on it was brown
12:46 and that was very good for you.
12:47 But now they have most of the bigger villages
12:50 have the rice plowed, it's set up with an attachment
12:53 that automatically, mechanically hulls it
12:56 so it comes out white.
12:58 So then that destroys all the vitamins and minerals,
13:01 so most of them, you know, vitamin B deficient and iron...
13:06 All the things that go with that.
13:07 Yeah.
13:08 Well, then we want to talk a little bit
13:10 about the religious environment there.
13:13 Yes, as you all know most of Thailand is Buddhist,
13:16 but my people that are living in the jungle
13:18 they have their form of devil worship
13:20 along with whatever Buddhist religion
13:23 they've heard about.
13:24 And so consequently have lots of superstitions,
13:27 and ceremonies, and fears about the devil
13:31 and these evil spirits
13:32 and also their own spirit in their heart.
13:35 They think if their spirit leaves them,
13:36 they get sick,
13:38 if it goes too far away, they die.
13:39 So they have ceremonies that they go through and chant
13:42 and use all kinds of things to call the spirits back.
13:46 Oftentimes you can't take a person to the hospital
13:48 when they're desperately ill because they've got to see
13:50 if this devil worship works first
13:53 and it takes maybe two or three days.
13:55 I'm still learning. And they might die before.
13:57 Yeah, they might die
13:58 or they take them from the hospital
13:59 because the time is wrong for them to be there.
14:01 They have to go and do their ceremony
14:03 with the whole family
14:04 so they've got to bring him back.
14:06 And so we fight with that a lot.
14:08 It's very, very difficult and very sad.
14:10 This man, I call this man a witch man
14:14 because it's not a witch doctor.
14:16 His job is not to help people get well
14:18 but to put curses on people and kill them.
14:20 So it's directly from the devil
14:22 and because the people, lot of them don't know God,
14:24 they don't know how bad the devil is.
14:25 But this man had visited a couple in a village
14:28 eating with them
14:30 and they often have people in their homes to eat.
14:32 The man and the wife had him for dinner,
14:34 afterwards he just gave his dirty plate to the wife,
14:37 and the Karen custom is you clean your own plate,
14:40 so it's kind of rude.
14:41 But the next time he visited, he left food on the plate
14:43 and just dumped it over there on the wife
14:45 and the husband said something to him,
14:47 "You don't do that."
14:48 And so the witch man went over and did this three times
14:51 on the man's, over the man's liver.
14:55 And very soon afterwards, the man got a lot of pain there
14:59 and this man knew that he'd been cursed
15:01 but he didn't tell anybody else.
15:03 I saw him in a few days later and I said to BletJhaw,
15:07 this man looks like he's dying.
15:10 And sure enough he went to a hospital and died.
15:14 And before he died he told his wife
15:17 to cut open his abdomen and after he had died,
15:21 so they brought him back and cut open his abdomen
15:24 and inside were tons of fish eggs
15:28 inside his abdomen.
15:29 So the wife and family got really mad at this witch man
15:33 and they hired a hit man from the refugee camp to come
15:36 and kill him.
15:37 And the next day that man came
15:38 and ate dinner with the witch man,
15:40 said, "You're supposed to die and I'm here to kill you."
15:43 And shortly after that man was dead,
15:45 and then we found out also that this same man
15:49 had put a curse on a man in another village.
15:51 I never understood how come
15:52 that man hung himself in the jungle
15:54 because he owned everything.
15:56 He had a truck, and according to the way
15:58 that people live in the jungle, everything was going for him.
16:00 He was very wealthy.
16:01 But he had gotten the curse of depression.
16:04 He'd gotten very depressed
16:05 and gone out to jungle and hung himself.
16:07 So I learned that's what it, why he did that...
16:10 So the evil spirits are real? Yeah.
16:12 Yes, they are blatant out there in the jungle.
16:17 But a text just forces itself into my mind.
16:21 If you want to look with me at Psalm 112:7,
16:25 it's short and easy to remember.
16:27 It says, "He shall not be afraid of evil tidings,
16:30 his heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord."
16:32 And so to me my message is to the people,
16:35 you know, we don't have to fear these things.
16:37 Curses cannot hurt you if you know the true God.
16:41 If you just can come and let us teach you,
16:44 we'll be happy to show you the way so.
16:46 It's sad to see them
16:47 so scared up a devil that has been already...
16:51 Defeated. Defeated by the Lord.
16:54 Yeah. Wow.
16:56 Well, I know that you and...
16:57 You have a helper. Yes.
17:00 And I want to say his name but I'll let you.
17:02 Okay.
17:04 The young man's name is BletJhaw.
17:06 He's 29 years old now,
17:09 and he has been with me the whole seven years
17:10 I've been in BeYoTa.
17:12 When everybody else comes and goes
17:14 and they're happy to go I think,
17:16 but he has stayed with me the whole time.
17:18 And I am so thankful
17:20 because he has the same heart as me,
17:22 the whole force of our life
17:25 and our work is to save the souls for heaven,
17:27 and so that comes first with us.
17:30 And I would rather just have one worker
17:32 than to have 50 workers
17:34 that are just there for adventure
17:36 or for any other reason
17:38 secondary to that main objective.
17:40 God can do great things. Yes.
17:42 And I'm so thankful for him and all his hard work.
17:48 We have three months of transportation,
17:50 one is walking with a backpack of medicine
17:52 and our schedule is
17:53 we go to another village three days a week,
17:55 so that we can treat the sick,
17:57 and then have worship with them and teach them about God.
18:01 And so walking is one transportation,
18:03 the motorbike, and then truck.
18:05 So here you are walking to a village?
18:07 And now this picture is in the village?
18:10 In the hut, taking her blood pressure there
18:12 looks like.
18:13 Yes, so the medicine that we've carried,
18:15 we spread out in somebody's house,
18:17 usually the same person every time.
18:18 The one that's the most interested in God,
18:20 and it serves as a clinic,
18:22 and people come sometimes so many.
18:25 Be very tired and hungry, and we treat all the sick,
18:28 and then the people in the house are so sweet.
18:31 They will cook some rice and chili,
18:34 maybe or some vegetable to eat next.
18:37 Okay. And then your favorite part.
18:40 Yeah, we have worship
18:42 and the people are so attracted to pictures.
18:44 It's true they paint a thousand words
18:47 in the minds of the people to learn about God
18:51 and our hardest work is to make it simple
18:53 so they understand it.
18:54 Because even in their Bible a simple verse
18:56 they might not understand
18:58 because it's written in the dialect,
19:00 in the tones of the border in the Burmese side.
19:03 These people are in the Thai mountains,
19:04 so they understand more Thai words mixed in
19:07 with different tones.
19:09 So we have to make the verses and everything very clear
19:12 and when they are so interested...
19:14 The picture rolls really helped them.
19:15 I love it. Yes, we have a lot of pictures.
19:17 I could still use more pictures but the people respond to them.
19:21 That's wonderful.
19:23 Now you talked about the motorbike,
19:24 but first we want to talk about the truck.
19:26 Right, the truck,
19:28 this picture is of the old truck
19:30 and when we built the clinic,
19:33 we hauled all the supplies in this small Mitsubishi truck
19:36 and it wasn't really made for heavy loads like that
19:39 on the terrible roads.
19:41 So it's four wheel drive went out for
19:43 probably five times
19:44 because last we couldn't even get it out of BeYoTa.
19:48 And so we didn't have a truck anymore
19:50 and we desperately needed a truck
19:53 and our money was gone too.
19:54 So when I came to America that year was some miracle.
19:58 It was on my heart to get a new truck.
20:00 I was praying really, earnestly for a new track
20:03 and we decided we needed a Toyota
20:04 because they sell well,
20:06 and if we got as new as we could afford.
20:08 If we could get new and put off road stuff on it,
20:11 then maybe it wouldn't break down so much
20:13 as that Mitsubishi cost loads of money to get it repaired.
20:16 I feel atomic the mechanic, he may sort so much.
20:20 So we prayed for a truck, came that year
20:22 and it was just amazing
20:24 how the Lord want to help the people
20:28 understand the need and the American people gave.
20:30 I preached 27 times
20:32 that year in 10 weeks and took seven states
20:36 and you were so helpful to me because I was able to...
20:40 You would go to 3ABN,
20:42 let it be known to everyone how thankful I am for 3ABN
20:47 because they stressed the need our needs,
20:51 number one for a truck and then the other things.
20:54 And through them I was finally able to purchase the truck.
20:59 This truck. Yeah.
21:00 This new truck, it looks so nice.
21:03 This truck is a 2014 truck that I got
21:06 at the end of November of 2014 brand new
21:09 off the showroom floor.
21:11 There's no time to explain
21:13 how miraculously we got a hold of that truck
21:16 by two strangers that helped us.
21:18 And a man that owned a body shop
21:21 who is a Buddhist and hates Christians,
21:22 persecutes Christians was contacted
21:25 about this missionary that needs a truck.
21:28 And what truck they had for me was six years old
21:31 and it was really way too high.
21:33 He said, "Well, don't do that.
21:34 Get her a new truck and use my dealer discount."
21:38 And so the Lord softened his heart.
21:39 So he helped you.
21:40 He's the one that helped me
21:42 get this right off the showroom floor
21:44 and now it's all outfitted with the wrench,
21:46 and it's raised,
21:49 and it's got the mud tires on it
21:51 and is very strong.
21:52 And we need every bit of strength
21:54 because it wasn't that clean ever again,
21:56 it got very dirty and right away
21:59 we needed the wrench
22:00 and we needed all this power we could get
22:02 to get through some of those steep places of mud.
22:06 When we went with you it was dry
22:09 and so it wasn't slick like you share about,
22:12 but I know we've got a video coming up
22:13 that will show how slick it is.
22:15 Yes.
22:16 The trees fall down easily
22:18 and you have to go into the village
22:20 and find some guys with the handsaws to cut them
22:23 so you can get through
22:24 or else you have to go back and do a huge detour.
22:28 And the truck is really useful
22:29 because you use it to take people to the hospital
22:31 which is what you're doing in this picture.
22:33 Oh, it's so useful and it just calms me
22:37 from having to spend that much kind of money
22:39 because right away we've saved almost nine lives.
22:42 I'm sure this time we're picking up a girl
22:45 that had gotten pinned
22:46 between a fallen tree and a stump on her chest.
22:49 And then we have another young man
22:50 that's demon possessed, a monk.
22:52 And we go into places
22:54 where you really don't need to be driving,
22:56 but this truck has taken us every time
22:58 because we pray as we go
22:59 and the angels have just pushed us uphills
23:02 that would be impossible,
23:04 other people are stuck down there at the bottom
23:06 and we may try seven or eight times but we can't,
23:10 the Lord sees us through when we need to go somewhere.
23:15 I love those stories. Yes.
23:17 We get attached to our vehicle to speak
23:19 as we've been through so much,
23:21 hence you sometimes just all grown within yourself
23:25 and say, oh, Lord, how much more this
23:27 can we take on this road to help.
23:30 Yeah, and I know that there was one
23:32 that you almost slid off of right
23:34 when you got this truck.
23:35 I didn't even include that picture
23:37 but the devil trying to pull it
23:38 push us right off a really steep cliff.
23:40 We struggled for almost those two hours
23:42 to try to get the truck out of that mess tilted towed.
23:46 And the angel just stopped the truck,
23:48 it was supposed to go over.
23:49 Now, it was sliding toward the edge.
23:51 Yeah, to see it, you would know it wouldn't have stopped.
23:54 Yeah, you showed it to us there.
23:55 You were there in person.
23:57 Yeah, that's an amazing corner.
23:59 I mean you stand at the bottom,
24:01 and the truck went by where we were standing there,
24:03 and it ended up way above our heads.
24:05 It's quite a, you know, quite a corner.
24:07 Pictures don't a justice. No.
24:08 In fact, I went...
24:09 Video has a hard time doing it just to see also,
24:12 but there's going to be some video
24:13 in the mission truck show.
24:14 Yeah, good.
24:16 When I saw it myself the next time with you,
24:18 I still couldn't believe it was that bad.
24:21 Yeah. But it is, yeah. Thankful to the Lord.
24:24 There are times when you can't take your truck
24:26 and so you take the motorbike.
24:27 And this next picture is showing...
24:29 What is this picture?
24:30 Our motorbike and when it starts raining,
24:34 we have to take the check out at the right time
24:36 or we don't get it out, we need it out there.
24:38 And then we start to drive the motorbike
24:40 and then when we can't do it anymore, we walk.
24:42 This is a dry time
24:43 and we like to take a lot of things to the villages.
24:45 This time we're bringing blankets,
24:47 mosquito nets and medicine to a village far away
24:51 and so, all that step plus two people we make it.
24:55 Sometimes going up the hill there's no seat belts,
24:58 there's nothing really to hang on to except...
24:59 Except you're holding on to a bag.
25:00 Down here, I've got this bag
25:02 and this backpack and going uphill,
25:04 I think I'm going to fall off but we made it that time.
25:07 God takes care of you. Yeah, yeah.
25:09 There's many places, on a motorbike
25:11 it's really dangerous for the truck the motorbike
25:14 and even when you're walking it's hard.
25:15 So every time we go out, we really pray
25:17 because the elephants and snakes
25:20 and then the way we travel and the Lord protects us.
25:23 This is very uneven
25:24 and then some of the narrow little paths
25:27 with the cliff on one side and the bank on the other.
25:30 Here we are coming in the rainy season
25:31 down a steep slope and just wanted to show you
25:34 that in the chain setter on the back tire
25:37 that really make a difference.
25:40 When you're sitting on the back
25:41 you're just like the tail wagging the dog
25:43 and so the chains help,
25:46 you still are in trouble sometimes.
25:49 It's still. Yeah. You can feel the improvement.
25:51 Yeah, and this next one is a video,
25:54 it's not of you guys,
25:55 but it's a video showing how slick that mud can get.
25:58 Yeah, this shows it a little better
25:59 we've been there and done that.
26:02 Yeah.
26:03 Yeah, this poor man, looks like he falls over,
26:07 he falls off and then he tries to get back up
26:09 but he can't get up.
26:10 Yeah, it's like that.
26:12 The mud is either, the road is hard
26:14 and just more slippery than ice
26:16 or else it's steep mud up to your knees.
26:19 So you got to try to,
26:21 you know, get from point A to point B
26:23 as best you can.
26:24 Wow. Okay. Sometimes not be graceful.
26:27 Well, I know you have a lot more stories,
26:29 which is why we have to stop now
26:31 because we're going to do another show with you.
26:34 So before we close though,
26:35 you had a couple of Ellen White quotes
26:38 you wanted to share that really have spoken into
26:40 your experience working for these beautiful people
26:43 and working to save the lost.
26:45 Yes, I am so inspired to work harder every year
26:49 because every mountain is covered
26:51 with villages that haven't heard.
26:53 And I just want to inspire everybody
26:54 to just save souls,
26:56 it's the only thing that we're...
26:58 The main thing should come number one,
27:00 and I wanted to hear this statement Mrs. White says
27:04 In Heavenly places.
27:06 "All heaven is interested in the work of saving the lost.
27:09 Angels watch with intense interest
27:11 to see who will leave the ninety and nine
27:13 and go out in tempest and storm and rain into the wild desert
27:18 to seek the lost sheep.
27:19 The lost are all around us, perishing and sadly neglected.
27:23 But they are of value to Christ."
27:26 And then in another place to sum it all up,
27:28 "It's of no use to talk of being Christians
27:31 if we leave unhelped those
27:33 who are perishing all around us."
27:37 And this is really come into your heart,
27:39 it's part of your heart now.
27:40 Yes, it's my main goal in my life.
27:42 Right.
27:45 If the Lord has inspired you
27:47 to get involved in Gayle's project,
27:50 you can give your tax-deductible love gift
27:52 to Jesus for Asia,
27:54 PO Box 1221, Collegedale, Tennessee 37315.
28:00 Call us at 423-413-7321
28:04 or check out our website at Jesus4asia.org.
28:08 May God richly bless you
28:10 until we see you again on Jesus for Asia Now.


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