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00:22 Hello, and welcome to Jesus for Asia Now.
00:24 I'm Natalie Wood, and I'd like to welcome you
00:27 to the second part
00:29 of a special show about Indonesia.
00:32 Our guests are Ramon and Shandy Tengkano,
00:34 and they shared with us in the first part
00:36 about their personal testimony,
00:39 learning to walk in God's way, learning to live God's way,
00:45 and learning what's really important
00:46 in God's kingdom.
00:48 Welcome back to the show, Ramon and Shandy.
00:51 I just would like to encourage our viewers
00:52 to go and find that first part,
00:55 it will be on the Jesus for Asia website very soon,
00:57 or you might be able to see it again
00:59 when it airs again on 3ABN.
01:02 So in the first show,
01:03 we saw how the Lord had changed your lives.
01:07 And brought you back together as a family.
01:09 And how has He lead since then,
01:11 what's the work He's brought you into?
01:13 Well, God has opened ways for us to get to know
01:17 what kind of God He is through mission work,
01:22 ministry work which in our case
01:24 is a television ministry.
01:27 That's what we established in 2011, January, February.
01:33 And it's a lot of work because reaching Indonesia,
01:36 17000 islands with 256 million people,
01:40 population, 90% of whom are Muslim,
01:44 they have no idea what Christianity is all about.
01:46 If they know any Christianity,
01:48 it's the wrong kind of Christianity.
01:51 So we were, we became the first Adventist television
01:56 that took on the satellite.
01:59 At that time. Yeah, at that time.
02:00 Now we have Hope channel also that
02:03 started to be on air from mid 2014.
02:06 So we have two Adventist
02:08 televisions going over Indonesia.
02:09 That's good. Yeah.
02:11 And since then we're getting many calls, many texts,
02:14 you know, my requests to have books,
02:17 to have DVDs, and lessons.
02:21 And many invitations extended to us to come and visit them,
02:25 big churches, small churches, Adventist churches,
02:29 mostly even non Adventist churches calling us.
02:31 Wow. So people are watching.
02:34 Yeah, people are watching. Plenty of people are watching.
02:36 Even though that we're on the satellite,
02:39 which means people have to have the satellite dish
02:41 to catch our signal,
02:43 and the satellite dishes being fading away in big cities
02:48 because they're replacing with a cable television.
02:51 Like, you just plug in the wall,
02:53 monthly bills and everything.
02:55 But most, majority of Indonesian
03:00 don't have access to cable television monthly.
03:05 Cable television in Indonesia, they have like,
03:07 maximum two million viewers, two million subscribers.
03:11 But the usage for satellite dish
03:14 goes up to 18 something million according to data.
03:19 Wow.
03:20 So there's a lot more people living
03:21 outside the big cities,
03:23 you know, the mountains, islands, and far away places.
03:26 When they have television, they have to buy satellite dish
03:30 and that's what we are.
03:32 Yeah, so that's their only way to get anything.
03:34 That's right. Okay.
03:35 Otherwise they don't catch anything.
03:36 And then we also treat our viewers as our family.
03:40 Yeah, like a family.
03:41 So we go to their house spend time,
03:44 you know, spend night with them.
03:45 And they are very shocked because, you know,
03:47 one time we went to the family, remember, in the Kediri...
03:54 Yeah, that's East Java. East Java.
03:56 The father, the parents, the father especially,
03:59 he's a...
04:01 He's a Buddhist. He's a Buddhist.
04:02 And he never believed about Christianity
04:05 because he always says, Christian...
04:07 Hypocrites, he says.
04:08 Hypocrite, and then, you know, like, fancy people.
04:11 Yeah, fancy people, seeking people.
04:13 And then we came with our team, you know, spend time,
04:16 and then you know, sleep in their house,
04:20 and what did he say?
04:22 He said, "Well, this is different Christianity
04:25 because what I see in television
04:27 and I see you guys wake up in the morning,
04:29 you all look the same."
04:32 So he respects the value somehow, you know.
04:36 It doesn't mean that we look messy in the television
04:38 when...
04:39 And then if our, you know, our channel, something wrong
04:43 and then just get shut off,
04:47 and they starting to calling us.
04:49 Because they said like, "We cannot live without,
04:52 you know, without watching your television.
04:54 You have to do something." "Without your music..."
04:56 "Without your music, without all of the programs."
04:59 So, do you know, I don't know, you know, sometimes they use
05:02 our television to become like, what...
05:05 Their needs, you know. They're almost addicted to it.
05:08 Yes, yes, exactly, they cannot live without...
05:11 There's a one person
05:12 that's crazy, you know, mental illness.
05:15 And the family said like, "He cannot go the day
05:20 without watching, without having our television."
05:23 So if something is wrong with television,
05:24 he's become crazy.
05:26 This guy, apparently, we started,
05:29 we met them last January.
05:33 January.
05:34 And he apparently was the guy, he claimed that,
05:38 "I'm mentally ill."
05:42 But when we came to his area, he came up to us,
05:47 "Can you pray for me, I'm mentally ill.
05:48 But you know, I have to have your television
05:50 on all the time," because his mother says.
05:53 Okay, and we prayed for him.
05:54 And then took out his wallet or little bag,
05:58 and then he takes out like the receipt of bank transfers.
06:03 And then he was saying, "Do you see a small amount
06:06 that comes in every month for years?"
06:10 "Yes, I know there's small amount."
06:12 It's only like a dollar
06:13 and a half or two dollars every month.
06:16 So the guy brings cash money to the counter
06:20 to make the transfer to our television.
06:22 I'm like, "That's you?"
06:23 "Yes, it's been me, look at the receipt."
06:26 I'm like, "It's for people like that
06:28 that our television keeps going."
06:30 You know, I'm so touched,
06:32 somebody we would not expect to support our television.
06:36 And then there's another story of a guy that came to us,
06:43 to our church.
06:45 Oh, this guy, this guy started to watch
06:46 our television in 2012.
06:49 I met him last year finally.
06:51 Now he's a member of our church.
06:53 You know, in the beginning of our television,
06:54 we had no idea what we were doing.
06:56 We didn't have any quality.
06:58 We had no knowledge on how to make programs.
07:01 So it was just a big mess, messy television.
07:04 We were on the edges
07:05 because we pay the bill, satellite bill.
07:09 So this guy, in the church, that very church
07:12 he was making stories how he came to the church
07:15 because of our television.
07:16 He said, he started watching the television, he's like.
07:18 "What kind of television is this?
07:20 Who would spend so much money to be on the television
07:23 just to air unprepared programs like that."
07:28 So that's not his story.
07:30 But it gotten him sit down for hours,
07:33 you know, looking and laughing at this television.
07:37 "You know, these people are crazy."
07:39 "They don't know what they're doing."
07:40 "They don't know what they're doing..."
07:41 But then there's messages,
07:42 you know, and there's Bible verses...
07:44 That's going in. Yeah, that's right.
07:46 And then he's calling his family,
07:48 "Look at this crazy television."
07:49 So for a few days, the next day he would turn it on, he was...
07:53 And now the whole family...
07:54 And then now the whole family is in the church.
07:56 They're just getting baptized. God uses crazy television.
07:59 Yeah, last year he was like,
08:01 "Wow, you guys are something special," you know.
08:04 Wow.
08:05 And then one of the biggest highlights
08:07 we have in our television this past few years, in 2014
08:11 I think, we got invited, we got a call in from a viewer
08:15 who happened to be a pastor
08:18 in one of the big Pentecostal churches
08:20 in Indonesia, in the East of Indonesia.
08:23 Then he say, "Hey, are you guys willing
08:25 to come speak in our church?"
08:27 "Well, yeah, sure." "How much do you guys charge?"
08:29 I'm like, "We don't charge anything."
08:31 "Okay, well, if that's the case,
08:32 you would come."
08:34 And then we came.
08:35 And then there's a, that was a church with big hall
08:40 with apparently 700 pastors plus his wife,
08:44 their wives and their children attended.
08:46 Wow.
08:47 It's an annual meeting of the church workers,
08:51 and they invited me,
08:52 I'm not even a pastor, you know.
08:53 Oh, wow.
08:54 "You want me to speak with them?"
08:55 "Yes, speak with us.
08:57 I know as you have messages in television,
08:58 I think, you have a message for us."
09:00 "All right, Lord, give me words to say,"
09:02 because I was speaking
09:03 Wednesday, Thursday, Friday day until night.
09:06 Wow.
09:07 Because the year before they invited
09:09 one of the televangelist famous from America.
09:13 And they have to pay how much for that?
09:14 Oh, they paid like, $200,000 only for him to be there.
09:18 Very famous American televangelist.
09:21 And then I was there the next year.
09:23 So I get to speak about, you know, just 144,000,
09:26 you know, the latter rain message,
09:27 and of course, we're packaging
09:30 with our own testimonies, you know.
09:32 Right. And the third Elijah message.
09:35 We spoke about how to become healthy.
09:37 They all loved it, you know, without any,
09:40 we take away things that might shock them.
09:44 Right.
09:45 And then one of the pastors
09:47 who was actually a famous pastor,
09:50 I didn't realize he was there the whole three days.
09:52 And then he went back to his own home church
09:54 on this following Sunday,
09:56 and then he spoke to his church.
09:58 He said something like this, "Brothers and sisters,
10:02 if there's one group in this world
10:04 that are going to be prepared for the second coming of God,
10:08 do you know who that group is?
10:10 Do you know who that church is?"
10:12 The church members were like, "Who?"
10:13 He says, "Seventh-day Adventist Church.
10:16 I attend their meeting past three days, amazing.
10:19 So if there's any group that we need to learn from,
10:22 it's gonna be them." Wow.
10:24 How do we know about this,
10:25 because one of the members actually starts searching us.
10:28 A lady and her family, the member at
10:31 where the pastor was speaking, looked us up
10:35 and then she actually happens to be the viewer.
10:37 She became the church member in our church.
10:39 Wow.
10:41 And then the pastor said, "No, it's okay,
10:42 go there on the Sabbath,
10:44 and then come back here on Sunday,
10:46 teach us what they teach you."
10:48 Until now she's still doing it. Wow.
10:50 And then there's other story, the Hindu or Buddhist girl...
10:55 Oh! She has a dream.
10:57 No, she said, she wants to find happiness, right?
11:00 Yeah, she was praying to the Buddha statue.
11:02 She was always praying to the Buddha statue,
11:04 and then she always ask,
11:06 "Buddha, show me the way to the happiness."
11:10 Everyday, everyday, she's very dedicated Buddhist.
11:15 And then one night, she get a dream,
11:17 and the Buddha comes to her, you know...
11:20 Buddha.
11:21 The Buddha come to her, and the Buddha said like,
11:23 "The true happiness is Jesus."
11:26 And she's just like, "What?" "That's the God of Christians."
11:29 "That's the God of Christians, look at them, impossible."
11:33 And then she doesn't care.
11:35 She's just like, searching, of course, in...
11:38 Internet.
11:40 Internet. And then found us.
11:41 Jesus, when she's searching Jesus,
11:43 I don't know why she found us at CBN.
11:46 And she just searched all of the,
11:48 she just watched all of the series, programs,
11:52 and now she became our member.
11:54 It's just only because of that. Yeah.
11:56 So many viewers get dreams actually, yeah?
11:58 Yeah.
11:59 Get a dream from the Lord, and then, yeah,
12:01 now they've become our members because of the dream.
12:04 Yeah, so many exciting stories. Wow.
12:08 You have to give me two days to tell you the whole stories.
12:12 And then we have the other job also in our villages.
12:16 Yeah, we have.
12:17 We, of course, we're reaching out to the villages also.
12:19 We have a dental clinic,
12:21 we're serving the locals where we're,
12:24 we're up in the countryside.
12:25 Well, we come from a city life.
12:29 You know, we have people in secular world
12:32 that they need to be restart too,
12:34 you know, people in the upper class of the society...
12:38 That you knew before?
12:39 Yes, and we hung out with before.
12:41 So we were always wondering, "Lord, how do we talk to them?"
12:45 Because hanging out with them, drinking,
12:47 and partying with them, we had no message.
12:49 Yeah.
12:50 You know, in our neighborhoods, there are so many people
12:52 that are really important running the country,
12:54 you know, before our previous life.
12:57 But I had no message.
12:58 We meet down and sat down with them
12:59 in neighborhood meetings and everything,
13:02 but no message.
13:04 So God gave us ways to reach out to them.
13:09 Now we're really into exercising,
13:13 you know, a lot of exercise, running, cycling.
13:19 And these communities that we hang out with,
13:22 you know, these things, running and cycling,
13:24 speaking of even swimming, triathlon,
13:26 picking up really big time in our country.
13:30 Everybody is just searching to...
13:33 Become more healthy. Yeah.
13:35 Okay. So there we are.
13:37 In the beginning, we didn't know
13:38 what we were doing, you know, Lord...
13:40 Okay, we just thought it was gonna be for us.
13:43 And then we got to meet some people,
13:46 we got exposed to new friends,
13:48 you know, some of the people we met
13:50 in the society is just diplomats
13:52 and you know, just artists,
13:56 you know, rock star or the governors
14:02 actually also in the community.
14:04 So famous people, wealthy people.
14:06 Yeah, influential people. Influential people.
14:08 They got to know our lifestyle, they know, okay,
14:11 we're plant based, you know, we eat no meat.
14:15 They're asking us, "How do you do
14:17 with diets like that, lifestyle like that,
14:19 you know, you can keep up with what we do here."
14:21 You know, they are really fit people, individuals.
14:24 Really commit people too. We weren't really that fit.
14:28 We're okay now, but still far away
14:30 from where we want to be.
14:33 It's actually a challenge to us to keep up,
14:37 to prove that the Lord's way of living
14:42 is the best way to live.
14:44 Yeah, the community we're meeting right now
14:46 encourage us to promote our lifestyle,
14:49 our choices, our diet, the health message,
14:51 and we have so great, a new start, you know, concept.
14:55 They love it.
14:57 And Shandy is been chosen
15:00 to become the leader, the chairperson
15:02 for one of the largest cycling community
15:05 in Indonesia for women.
15:07 And then from that doors just opening,
15:10 people are coming to see us
15:11 to see our work up in the village.
15:13 You know, the social,
15:16 they call it social work that we do.
15:18 And they are asking us,
15:20 "Why are you making these choices?"
15:21 And then doors are opening. Yeah.
15:23 We're explaining them that,
15:24 you know, love is about serving other people,
15:27 and then that's what God wants us to do.
15:29 How to teach children too.
15:30 How to teach children, serving the community.
15:33 And then also alongside health, of course.
15:36 We even got invited to counsel marriage
15:40 because of this,
15:41 because we believe you got a message here.
15:43 So we're asked to counsel somebody's marriages,
15:47 you know, children education, what to do in life.
15:52 So things like that.
15:53 And what to do with money too.
15:55 Yeah, what to do with money.
15:56 We've actually inspired some of the people to,
15:57 okay, now maybe the key to happy life
16:00 is a simpler life.
16:01 Because they said like, "Oh, now I know
16:04 why you're so happy."
16:06 Because they, finally they know our previous life,
16:10 the story, now they know,
16:12 they get to see the true pictures,
16:14 right, the happiness
16:16 is when you share everything with others.
16:19 They're guessing.
16:20 We not come to them
16:22 and then try to explain everything.
16:24 No, they're just guessing to see our lifestyle,
16:27 and they tell like, you know, few of them,
16:31 you know, come to me and said, like,
16:35 "Yeah, you are happy person
16:37 because look at you," like that.
16:38 So they're asking us, you know,
16:40 "What do you make, where you are,
16:41 what do you make like a lifestyle center
16:45 or like a retreat center,"
16:49 because where our studio,
16:50 our studio is up in the mountain.
16:52 It's a nice weather.
16:55 So this is where people come and visit also,
16:57 you know, our friends from the world.
17:00 They come and visit, and they see us,
17:01 and then they ask us,
17:03 "What do you just make like a retreat center,
17:06 make something that where we can be coached,
17:08 you know, you can give us like talks..."
17:10 Because they said like this,
17:11 they want to learn to live like us
17:14 because they see that we are the persons who live
17:19 that we don't need money to live
17:22 because look at them,
17:23 we want to learn from you, all right.
17:25 And they said, and sometimes they say like,
17:28 "If we see Shandy and Ramon,
17:30 we think that why would we need the money so much?
17:33 Look at them, they can eat."
17:35 And then they even said like, this is our dining,
17:38 we used to serve our guests over there.
17:42 They even said like, "Shandy and Ramon,
17:43 they have a healthy restaurant over there."
17:45 Yeah, they think it's a restaurant.
17:47 They come, we give them food, really healthy food,
17:50 they like it, that's why,
17:51 "Hey, why don't you just make a..."
17:54 We would call it athletic center,
17:55 you know, they can come,
17:57 they can go hiking for two days,
17:58 you know, up in the mountain,
17:59 and then in the morning, we can coach them,
18:02 you know, health, about temperance,
18:04 about family, about relationship,
18:06 you know, about how to self-control.
18:09 They even say like, "Your place has a power,
18:13 every time I go here, I feel..."
18:17 Yeah, I feel relaxed.
18:18 "I feel relaxed, I feel peace."
18:21 Yeah, so that's why they're really,
18:24 you know, push us to make something
18:26 so they can stay with us, you know.
18:28 Yeah, they can come on weekends, on the weekdays.
18:31 And they say like, "Your place is like the..."
18:35 Like a healing place.
18:36 "Like the healing place for our brain and mental."
18:40 Wow.
18:41 So there's a lot of challenge, a lot of work.
18:43 A lot of work. Yeah.
18:44 So I just want to reiterate for our viewers sake.
18:48 You're not telling people, in order to be happy,
18:50 you have to get rid off everything like we did.
18:51 Oh, no, no, no.
18:53 People are seeing that in spite and in your case
18:57 because of getting rid off everything,
19:00 you're finding happiness.
19:01 Yes. Yeah.
19:03 But you always encourage people
19:04 to get to know God for themselves.
19:06 Of course. Of course.
19:07 I think, get to know...
19:09 Matthew 13:44, it says, you go to the field
19:12 and dig for treasure, and then automatically
19:15 you're gonna be able to sell it, enjoy it.
19:16 You're gonna know, yeah. Sell everything, yeah.
19:18 Yeah. You don't reverse the process.
19:20 Right.
19:21 The treasure doesn't come because of the outward changes.
19:26 Yeah.
19:27 Because some people,
19:28 they have the euphoria to go with the Lord.
19:31 They just sell everything, after that they just stop.
19:34 After that they regret.
19:36 No, we don't want to give that euphoria...
19:37 Right, it's a certain drastic decision.
19:39 Yes.
19:40 Yeah, we don't want to give that euphoria,
19:42 we want them to think clearly that this is the...
19:47 The choice.
19:48 The choice that they are making.
19:50 And I remember the first set, like...
19:55 Well, you have to calculate exactly.
19:57 Calculate exactly, and then for me
19:58 that is really meaningful
20:00 because some people just want to go with the Lord
20:03 because of the euphoria,
20:04 and when they hit crisis, they're gone.
20:07 Right.
20:09 And one thing certain is that,
20:11 you know, our family got re-strengthened
20:14 because of the journey that we're making together.
20:16 Our children, despite the fact that they grew up spoiled,
20:20 they had no idea what God is like, you know.
20:25 Now we're slowly, you know, walking them,
20:28 they're finding happy life with us.
20:30 This is our... These are our three children.
20:33 This is our idea of picnic. Looks like fun.
20:37 We don't go to Disney Land or anything.
20:40 This is our Disney Land.
20:42 That's so good for them though. Yeah.
20:44 They don't buy toys, they make toys.
20:45 They make toys.
20:47 But they're learning that love from God though.
20:49 Of course, yeah.
20:50 I mean, you were sharing a story of your son
20:52 that gave his slippers to one of the ladies passing by
20:56 because he saw the need
20:57 and he was willing to just give what he had.
21:00 Yes.
21:01 And that's so valuable
21:03 when they learn the value of others,
21:05 and that joy comes in service.
21:07 Yes, that's right.
21:09 He also has the, what we call bankel.
21:11 Yeah, like, a... Like, what they said?
21:13 Like a sharp fork to fix bicycles
21:15 for the villager's kids.
21:17 And they fix the villager's bicycles,
21:20 and then sometimes they give the money.
21:23 The villagers give the money. The villagers give the money.
21:25 But he's just, "No, this is free."
21:26 "No, no, we just want to give you money."
21:28 And they keep the money, so the money, they said like,
21:32 "We need to pay for the satellite,
21:34 we need to contribute for the satellite."
21:37 So, you know, that is their work, you know.
21:41 And yeah, they put the money to us.
21:44 Yeah. To pay the satellite bills.
21:45 And then another burden that we have is also for our church,
21:49 you know, because our church is missing up so much.
21:52 We think we are finishing the work
21:54 but we are not.
21:55 That's why we have the burden to reach out to young people,
21:58 you know, we'd like to...
21:59 Well, our place is becoming like
22:01 a retreat center for the young people.
22:03 We have what we call Power Camp.
22:05 You know, we host the young teenagers
22:08 up to like, 23, 24.
22:10 They come for a week, they go camping,
22:12 they go and help people,
22:13 they go surf because before we go out to...
22:17 Our hands just not big enough to reach out to the villagers,
22:20 you know, to the work.
22:21 We need to get the church people
22:22 to get involved.
22:24 Right.
22:25 Now this is actually the harder part,
22:26 you know, getting the young people to commit,
22:29 to do something.
22:30 So that's our, we are bridging between the need
22:34 and the frontline, and the workers
22:37 that are still in the church.
22:38 And then through the CD also,
22:40 we're been, what we call, uber mission?
22:42 Yeah, city mission. Yeah, that is not our plan.
22:46 But God gave us the job,
22:48 and, you know, I guess that this is what He wants
22:52 so we can cover everything in Indonesia.
22:54 And then when people are like, "Is it hard?"
22:56 "Yes, it's really hard."
22:57 It's really, really hard because sometimes I wish that
23:00 we have like 48 hours so we don't need to sleep
23:04 because, you know, the workers inside
23:06 the mission field is not...
23:08 There's not very many. There's not very many.
23:10 Because we need the workers who have the burdens,
23:14 we need the workers who wants to do everything to go,
23:18 you know, to go a long way.
23:20 Yeah.
23:21 Now we also need central influence
23:23 to be installed in Jakarta because every Sunday,
23:27 we go riding, this is just about,
23:31 maybe this is not even half of the women that you,
23:35 in the community that you live.
23:36 But we go cycling every Sunday, the men follow along through.
23:40 So every...
23:42 After we arrived, we would stop and they would ask us,
23:45 "Look, what do we drink after exercise,
23:46 what food do we eat?"
23:47 So we give them like a coaching,
23:49 you know, health clinic,
23:51 you know, while they are relaxing,
23:52 they want to eat something,
23:53 they want to have juice therapy, everything.
23:55 We always meet up after cycling to share.
23:59 You know, the funny thing is...
24:00 But we don't have a place in Jakarta big enough for that.
24:04 When we eat, you know, we hook up with them,
24:07 when we eat, they're just watching us.
24:09 And they say like, "Oh, Shandy and Ramon,
24:11 they eat broccoli."
24:12 So they take the broccoli.
24:13 "Shandy and Ramon, they eat spinach."
24:15 So they're just like, these people are very ready,
24:18 they just keep asking me like,
24:20 "Shandy, why don't you open the shop?
24:22 Why don't you bring, you know, the cart, the trunk,
24:25 so inside the trunk you can sell like,
24:27 healthy food for us,
24:29 and then you can give us smoothies, everything.
24:31 Why don't you do that?"
24:33 But I believe that, you know, we need to use faith for that,
24:37 you know, to cover everything.
24:39 That is the burden, you know, we wish...
24:42 I said to Ramon, you know,
24:44 "We wish we can do anything, you know..."
24:46 Right.
24:47 There's not a lot of you and you need help.
24:52 That's right. Yes.
24:53 The resources are limited.
24:55 I guess everywhere also same. Right.
24:58 And that's one thing that many times
25:00 here in North America,
25:01 we haven't seen that for ourselves.
25:04 We haven't gone to these countries
25:05 and so we don't know that there's so much work
25:07 to be done still in Indonesia, you know.
25:10 And so the call is great.
25:12 The harvest is great also, and the laborers are few.
25:17 And then we remember, like, my husband says that,
25:20 in Indonesia, we have island,
25:23 and then there's dedicate pastors,
25:26 senior pastor a lot in Indonesia,
25:29 you know, they have to have, like,
25:32 what, many churches to handle.
25:35 Ten, eleven churches. Ten, eleven.
25:36 And then they just go there
25:38 with a motorcycle, it takes like ten hours,
25:42 and then we can reach that just only with the airplane.
25:46 And you know, can you imagine the needs over there,
25:50 and I was like,
25:52 "God, I wish I can do anything to do that," you know.
25:55 The need is there, the people are so hungry,
25:58 they are waiting, you know, they even like,
26:02 "Do something, do something," but we cannot do anything.
26:05 Yeah, you're doing a lot already
26:07 and there's not a way to do more.
26:10 And we wish, like, me and my husband, like,
26:12 we wish, you know, God can send us like a plane
26:15 so we have aviation,
26:17 you know, like, we can search, go there
26:20 because, you know, to help others.
26:22 To move quickly, yeah. Yeah.
26:24 Help that pastor go more quickly
26:26 from church to church.
26:27 Even the missionary,
26:28 if something wrong with the family,
26:31 you know, they cannot go back because too far,
26:35 and it's not easy to, the transportation over there
26:39 is not very friendly for, yeah, for the mission maybe.
26:45 So that is the burden. Yeah.
26:50 Well, we really appreciate your coming today,
26:53 and joining us, and sharing what God has been doing.
26:55 Our pleasure.
26:56 And I know there are a lot more stories.
26:58 Yes.
26:59 Maybe next time you can share more stories.
27:01 Sure, sure.
27:04 What a powerful testimony of how God has taken people
27:07 that were very wealthy in the world's goods,
27:11 and has given them a wealth in service,
27:13 a joy in surrender that just comes
27:15 right out of them.
27:17 And He's leading them
27:18 into more and more service toward the wealthy people
27:21 as well as the poor people in Indonesia.
27:24 And He's sending them to share with people like us,
27:27 the stories of what He's doing in their lives
27:29 and through their lives.
27:30 And this ministry especially
27:33 to the wealthy people is very unusual,
27:35 and it's something that we're not
27:38 necessarily comfortable with
27:40 unless we've grown up with it or we've been in that life.
27:44 And if you would like
27:46 to be a part of this ministry in Indonesia,
27:48 please send your tax deductible love gift
27:51 to Jesus for Asia PO Box 1221, Collegedale, Tennessee 37315.
27:57 Call us at (423) 413-7321.
28:02 Or visit our website at Jesus4asia.org.
28:06 May God richly bless you
28:07 until we see you again next week
28:09 on Jesus for Asia Now.


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