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Series Code: JFAN
Program Code: JFAN000136S
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00:00 (uplifting instrumental music)
00:21 - Hello and welcome to "Jesus for Asia Now." 00:24 I'm Natalie Wood, and my husband Jon is joining me today 00:27 as we take a behind-the-scenes look 00:29 at two missionary families and we hear a miracle story. 00:34 Hello, love. 00:35 - Hi, darling, how are you? 00:36 - I'm doing okay. 00:37 - Awesome. 00:37 - I'm doing okay. 00:38 - [Jon Wood] Good. 00:40 - This is a neat look, 00:41 kind of behind the scenes at a couple of families. 00:43 - Yep. 00:44 - One was leaving the mission field. 00:45 - [Jon Wood] Yeah. 00:46 - And one was coming into a new position. 00:48 - Yes, taking his place. 00:50 - [Natalie Wood] Right. 00:51 - Yeah. 00:53 - And the behind the scenes part is, 00:54 well, do you wanna explain? 00:55 - Behind the scenes means that there are certain positions 00:58 that are supporting roles. 00:59 Their front line in many aspects, 01:02 but they don't look like it. 01:04 Like this position 01:05 is where he's mainly working on a computer, 01:10 or working with electronics, like cameras and stuff. 01:13 And so it doesn't look like a missionary. 01:16 It's the new modern missionary. 01:18 - Right. 01:19 - And also, they're working with administrative kinds 01:21 of paperwork, 01:22 signing visa applications and things like that. 01:25 - Right. 01:26 - And so maybe we'll back up a little bit. 01:28 Years ago, the missionaries could stay in Thailand 01:30 a lot more easily as far as visas and stuff go. 01:33 - Right. 01:34 - But then we sense God's call to set up 01:35 some kind of legal presence in Thailand. 01:39 An organization where we could hold property, 01:41 and we could have a board, 01:43 and we could manage it with a lot more security. 01:47 - Right. 01:48 - We started the process, it took over a year to get going, 01:51 but by the time it actually was approved 01:54 and started functioning, the laws had changed in Thailand. 01:57 So now all our missionaries would have to leave Thailand 02:01 unless they could get a work permit. 02:02 - And the foundation could give them a work permit. 02:05 - Exactly, 02:06 so it's almost like God knew what was gonna happen. 02:08 - Hmm, weird, right? 02:10 He always knows what's gonna happen. 02:12 - Absolutely, and so he provided that. 02:14 And so we needed a family that could be there, 02:17 and that could interact with the government, 02:20 interact with our Thai staff to just make sure 02:22 things were flowing well, and they could speak my language. 02:27 And so we established this foundation, I am the director. 02:30 We were very fortunate to have a family that we knew here 02:34 in America that had decided to go to Thailand. 02:37 And they were there working with that team 02:39 when the foundation was set up, 02:40 and they became an integral part of the establishment 02:44 and running of that foundation. 02:46 - So we met Daniel and Tesha Bair in 2009. 02:50 And at that point, they had no children. 02:52 - Right. 02:54 - The Lord started to grow upon them a burden for Thailand. 02:55 - Yes, they came to faith camp, and they just saw the needs, 02:59 and saw the opportunity, 03:00 and decided that they were gonna give up everything 03:03 and go over to Thailand. 03:04 - Right. 03:06 - So they started doing their fundraising. 03:07 They had a fundraising goal, and when they got halfway. 03:09 - They went. 03:11 (Jon laughs) 03:13 They figured God had provided that much, 03:14 He could provide the rest. 03:15 - [Jon Wood] Right. 03:17 - And He's been faithfully providing for them ever since. 03:18 - Yes. 03:20 - So when they moved to Thailand, it was in July of 2012, 03:22 and they had two toddlers at that time. 03:25 - Yes. 03:26 - Doing anything with children is always interesting. 03:28 - Right. 03:29 - But moving to a foreign country, 03:30 it can be quite challenging. 03:32 - [Jon Wood] Yeah. 03:33 - But God blessed them. 03:34 - [Jon Wood] Yes. 03:35 - And they enjoyed it, 03:36 and the kids enjoyed growing up there. 03:38 It was a really great experience for them. 03:41 - But now his parents are getting older. 03:43 They've got some things, 03:44 some health issues that they need to deal with. 03:46 And so they've requested that Daniel and Tesha to come home. 03:50 - Right, so they've decided, 03:51 I know it was a difficult decision for them. 03:54 - [Jon Wood] Yes. 03:55 - And they've told us that repeatedly. 03:56 - [Jon Wood] Yes. 03:57 - They still wish they were back in Thailand. 03:59 - Yes, that seems to be a common theme. 04:00 - So let's go ahead, we have a video. 04:02 - [Jon Wood] Okay. 04:04 - Let's go ahead and meet them. 04:04 - [Jon Wood] Great. 04:05 (upbeat pensive instrumental music) 04:11 - [Tesha Bair] The work in Thailand is definitely not done. 04:14 - There is no lack of a need. 04:19 The work is not in any ways close to being finished. 04:23 - There's so many more people that have not even heard. 04:29 (melancholic instrumental music) 04:35 We've been here about 10 years. 04:38 - We came to help out with Jesus for Asia's studio 04:43 that they had built here in Thailand. 04:44 My expected focus was to be technical support in that role. 04:48 And then as the years passed, 04:52 we recognized the need to support the translation work. 04:55 And then we were seeing the signs of the need legally 05:01 for visa issues, we established a foundation. 05:04 (melancholic instrumental music) 05:07 - [Tesha Bair] We're going back because. 05:10 - It's a situation of my mom and dad, 05:12 with my dad's Parkinson's, 05:15 and my mother discovering that she has glaucoma. 05:20 And they expressed, "Hey, I think we need you now." 05:23 Literally, if it weren't for the call 05:25 to honor father and mother 05:26 and this particular need they have, life stage. 05:30 And they're not able to come here, 05:31 because some people have said, "Why don't they do that?" 05:34 My mother's asthma is such that she can't function well 05:38 in this climate, the humid climate. 05:40 So on that part, it was like, 05:42 oh, I wish, but it just didn't possible. 05:45 (uplifting orchestral music) 05:48 There is no lack of a need. 05:51 The work is not in any ways close to being finished. 05:56 - There's so many more people that have not even heard, 06:02 other than in a movie, 06:04 Jesus' name being used in the improper way. 06:07 Or they might know that that's the Christian's God. 06:09 They don't know the power of God to change their lives. 06:13 And for those of us who do know power God to change lives, 06:18 that's a call. 06:19 You come and show people that God can make a difference 06:25 in their life too. 06:26 (uplifting orchestral music) 06:29 - [David Bair] People were trying 06:30 to discourage us of the risk. 06:32 "Oh, taking kids in the mission field is a risk." 06:35 I think Jonah felt that there was 06:36 some risk in going to Nineveh, 06:38 and his problems were greater in not going 06:41 where God asked him to go. 06:43 - If you have a call from God to go to the mission field, 06:46 you're more likely to lose your kid's faith by not going 06:49 and disobeying God. 06:50 But the spiritual health and mental health, 06:53 don't ignore that. 06:55 And if you need to back off a little bit on ministry 06:59 in order to take care of the kids, do it. 07:01 The little bit that you do in missions will not make 07:04 a difference. 07:06 Maybe I'm saying that too strongly, 07:07 but I think from my experience, it won't make a difference. 07:10 It won't make an impact if your kids are struggling at home. 07:14 So yeah, that you do need to prioritize your family 07:19 in taking care of them, making sure their needs are met. 07:23 But giving the kids a vision for helping others 07:27 is part of taking care of them. 07:29 (uplifting orchestral music) 07:31 For my kids, 07:33 it's been a blessing for whenever they've been able to see, 07:35 "Hey, some other little kid was able to use my dress." 07:38 And they're so happy. 07:40 "Or my toy", and they're so happy to receive that. 07:44 And look, and then they can compare their old dress, 07:48 which might be a little worn, to the even more muddy, 07:52 worn out, ripped clothes that the child is wearing that day. 07:58 - Biggest blessing has been, by far, learning that God, 08:04 God is our provider, and He doesn't even need us. 08:09 He can make the rocks and the angels do this work, 08:11 but His heart is so big, 08:13 He wants us to experience the joy of being a part 08:18 of bringing others to freedom in Christ. 08:22 And so it's just like, wow. (laughs) 08:26 (uplifting orchestral music) 08:37 - And so here's a family that was fulfilling a role, 08:40 and now they're having to be called back. 08:42 And so of course, this leaves a void in our foundation. 08:45 - [Natalie Wood] Yeah. 08:46 - And what are we gonna do about that? 08:48 - So we pray and then God, what does He do? 08:52 - Well, Daniel had an idea, 08:54 he'd been praying about it a lot more than I had 08:56 because he knew about the transition before I did. 08:58 - A long time before, right. 09:00 - Yeah, so he had been praying, 09:01 and sensed that the Lord was possibly suggesting 09:06 the Steck family. 09:07 - [Natalie Wood] Okay. 09:08 - Yes. 09:09 - So Harvey and Brenda had gone to Thailand in about 2011, 09:13 to serve at a different project, a school, 09:15 and be the principal there and work with the kids there. 09:18 So they had been in Thailand for quite some time. 09:21 - Yeah, so they were familiar with Thailand. 09:24 They were planning to stay long-term, 09:26 no plans at all about returning to the States. 09:29 And they were kind of between mission posts, 09:32 they were looking for something to do and be engaged with. 09:37 And when Daniel suggested Harvey as his replacement, 09:40 it really fit well because Harvey's had experience 09:43 with translation work, with publishing work, 09:46 and with video work as well. 09:48 - Right, and he's got such a heart 09:51 for the work to go forward. 09:53 And Brenda also, they both have just a heart of love 09:56 for the people and wanting the work to go forward. 09:59 - Yeah, and a very gentle way that they work with the Thai, 10:03 the local staff. 10:04 They don't come in with, 10:05 "Oh, our way is better than your way, 10:08 or I'm better than you 'cause I'm from America", 10:11 and stuff like that. 10:11 - They work, and they interact, 10:13 and they honor and respect the local staff, 10:16 which is so important. 10:17 And one unique thing about Harvey and Brenda Steck 10:20 is that they have a daughter that lives in Thailand. 10:23 - Right, they have two daughters, 10:25 but one of them currently is living in Thailand. 10:27 - [Jon Wood] Yes. 10:28 - And actually, that's who shot this video? 10:30 Jonathan and Hannah, Hannah is their daughter. 10:33 - Yeah, when the Steck family came over to Thailand, 10:36 Hannah was younger and unmarried. 10:38 - Right, and then she and Jonathan met each other 10:40 in the mission field. 10:42 - [Jon Wood] Yes. - And God made 10:42 this love grow. 10:44 - Yes. 10:45 - And then they got together and got married. 10:47 So it's just been really neat to see how God brought them 10:49 to each other in the mission field, 10:52 so they can serve Him together. 10:53 - Right. 10:54 - And it's neat also that Jonathan's parents 10:57 are in Thailand and Hannah's parents are in Thailand, 10:59 so they're serving alongside their parents. 11:02 - Yes. 11:03 - [Natalie Wood] And in the mission field. 11:05 - And it seems as though the mission spirit kind of flows 11:06 through families. 11:07 - [Natalie Wood] Right, it does. 11:08 - Yeah. 11:09 - Yeah, and young people sometimes lead, 11:11 like you did with the hills, 11:12 but sometimes it's a family decision, 11:15 or a parent's decision, 11:17 like it was Harvey and Brenda's decision. 11:19 But Hannah and Sharon went with them. 11:21 - So we have a video introducing Harvey and Brenda. 11:24 - Okay, let's watch that now. 11:25 - [Jon Wood] Okay. 11:27 (cheerful instrumental music) 11:34 - About 11 years ago, our family came here to Thailand. 11:37 We were invited by a missionary family 11:39 to serve at Sunshine Orchard 11:41 on the border of Burma, Myanmar. 11:45 And we served there for six years, 11:47 and then we were able to serve in different capacities, 11:50 helping different missionaries over the past five years, 11:53 until recently I was asked to serve here at Love for Asia. 11:57 (cheerful instrumental music) 12:00 Over the past five or six years, 12:02 Daniel Bair has served as assistant director. 12:06 And that position involves overseeing the finances 12:10 and administration of the ministry here. 12:14 Keeping frequent contact with Jesus for Asia in America, 12:18 and helping Jesus for Asia to have the pulse 12:22 of what's happening here in Thailand. 12:24 That person is also responsible 12:27 to help sign papers for visas, and work permits, 12:32 and other things involving the missionaries. 12:35 So at this point, Daniel Bair has been asked by his family 12:38 to go back to America and help them, 12:41 and I have been asked to take his place here. 12:45 (man sings in foreign language) 12:51 At Love for Asia, 12:52 we could divide our work into three categories. 12:55 A number of missionaries would find it very difficult 12:58 to be here in Thailand on a long-term basis 13:01 if we didn't help them to get work permits and visas. 13:07 And so that has been a very important aspect 13:09 of our work for several missionary families. 13:13 Another aspect of our work is to translate materials 13:16 into the Thai language and other hill tribe languages. 13:21 We also have a video department 13:23 that has really been growing lately, 13:26 and that department produces videos 13:29 in from sermon linked videos, 13:31 down to short videos that are put on social media sites 13:35 and on our YouTube channel. 13:37 (piano instrumental music) 13:42 Those of us who speak English take a lot for granted 13:45 in the materials that are available in our language. 13:48 But in Thailand and many other places, 13:52 there is a lot less available to the local people. 13:56 And so the work that Love for Asia is doing 14:00 in helping to translate materials 14:01 into the local language is, I believe, 14:05 a great contribution to the work here in Thailand. 14:08 Their video department also has a lot of potential 14:11 in being able to produce messages 14:14 that can be circulated through the media, 14:16 and can be there for people to see for a long time to come. 14:21 (piano instrumental music) 14:24 A lot of people may not understand 14:27 what potential there is in the work here. 14:30 It's not always that sensational a work, 14:33 but there is great opportunities for the translation work 14:42 and video work to bless people here in Thailand. 14:45 And I pray that God will impress people 14:51 to support this work, 14:53 because we have wonderful opportunities ahead of us 14:57 in getting important materials, 14:59 timely materials into the local languages. 15:04 And I'm excited about the future for our work here. 15:08 (man sings in foreign language) 15:29 - Yeah, it's really neat that now they can step in, 15:32 and God just orchestrated it. 15:34 There was somebody there, ready and willing 15:39 when the need came. 15:40 - Yeah, and it's a beautiful fit. 15:41 Lord brought them into it a really nice little house 15:44 that they could stay in. 15:46 - [Natalie Wood] Awesome. 15:47 - Just a two minute drive from the office. 15:49 - [Natalie Wood] That's good. 15:51 - And They're there every morning for staff worship, 15:52 and then work together throughout the day, 15:54 and it's a very good fit. 15:56 - [Natalie Wood] Awesome. 15:57 - So we're happy about that. 15:58 - Awesome, we did wanna mention the young man singing. 16:00 - Yes. 16:01 - Works for us. 16:02 - [Jon Wood] Yep. 16:04 - And he could have worked for a big music company, 16:06 but he chose to work for God. 16:08 - Yes. 16:09 - And so we're really grateful to God. 16:10 And part of the plan for the future, 16:13 for that studio and office, is to have another studio. 16:19 Lord willing. - A recording, yeah. 16:20 - A audio recording studio. - For music, yeah. 16:22 - Yeah, so that we can record him. 16:24 And Brother Gop also sings nicely. 16:27 He's the Thai leader of that team there working closely 16:30 with Harvey. 16:31 - Yeah. 16:32 - We're looking forward to being able to provide 16:34 this godly music that these gentlemen 16:37 are blessed with these talents. 16:39 - Right, there's really not a lot 16:40 of Christian music available in Thailand. 16:43 - Right. 16:45 - And so to have the professional talent at, 16:46 one person in a team is wonderful, 16:48 but we have two people in the team 16:50 that are professional level musicians. 16:53 And so it would be a really fantastic thing for the church 16:56 to be able to have a professional recording studio 16:59 where they can make music. 17:00 - Right, and other groups can come in and. 17:02 - Oh sure, yeah, so we're praying for that. 17:04 - So that's, yeah, that's in the future. 17:06 - Yeah, right. 17:07 So does the funding come in really well for the studio? 17:11 'Cause it's such a powerful tool in God's harvest, 17:14 it seems like there would be a lot of funding 17:16 for this kind of project. 17:17 - The funds actually do not come in very well 17:20 for the Love for Asia team, the media, any of our media, 17:26 pretty much, the funds don't come in very well. 17:28 But thankfully, we do have many donors 17:31 that give to the where needed most fund, 17:33 which enables us to pay for the Love for Asia team, 17:36 which also enables the missionaries to stay in Thailand. 17:40 - [Jon Wood] Exactly. 17:41 - So it's extremely important to keep that team going. 17:43 - Yes. 17:44 - So that's one of the beneficiaries 17:45 of the where needed most funds that people give. 17:47 - Yeah, and we know that God wants this, 17:49 because the miracles that He's performed 17:51 in enabling this to happen. 17:53 - Right. 17:54 - [Jon Wood] Yeah. 17:55 - Yes, we definitely know that it's God's will. 17:57 And one of the miracle stories of one of the missionaries 17:59 that is able to stay in Thailand because of the foundation 18:03 is Jason and Shoshana and their three children. 18:06 - Right. 18:07 - And they've got a tremendous miracle story 18:09 that we just kind of pieced together more recently. 18:11 - He was in an accident, okay. 18:13 - Right. 18:15 - But only recently did we find the rest of the story. 18:17 - So now we have a rest of the story, miracle story. 18:20 - Yes, it was rice planting time. 18:22 So Jason was quite a ways away, 18:26 few hundred meters from his house preparing his field 18:28 to plant rice. 18:30 And first he plowed it and then he had to rake it. 18:32 So it's a rake attachment 18:33 to the back of his rototiller type big machine, okay. 18:37 - [Natalie Wood] Okay. 18:38 - And you can see that the rake is steel spines 18:42 that stick out back behind the machine. 18:44 - [Natalie Wood] Okay. 18:45 - And so he was going along, did one field, 18:46 and then he was getting ready to transfer to the next field. 18:49 - [Natalie Wood] Okay. 18:50 - And he decided instead of taking it off, 18:52 it drives easier if he just leaves it on. 18:54 So he went down a bank, 18:56 and at the very end of that bank there's a drop off. 18:58 - [Natalie Wood] Oh. 18:59 - And so when it fell, it popped down like that, 19:02 and the engine stuck in the ground, 19:05 and it popped the tines up, and he fell on those tines. 19:09 - On the rake. 19:10 - [Jon Wood] On the rake. 19:11 - Mm. 19:12 - One tine went in here, 19:13 and the other one went in somewhere else, 19:14 but it didn't really hit anything vital. 19:16 But this one, we found out later, 19:18 it went through his kidney, 19:20 and so he started bleeding out internally. 19:23 - Mm. 19:24 - After that happened, he kind of pulled himself off of it 19:26 and he realized that, oh, this isn't good, 19:28 so he started walking back towards the house. 19:31 He could only get about halfway to the house, 19:32 and he called out for help and his wife heard him. 19:35 And she's like, 19:36 "Wow, he shouldn't be coming home this time of day. 19:40 And he sounds a little strange, his voice sounds strange." 19:42 So she went to see him, 19:44 and he had crumpled down on the ground there. 19:47 And they were getting ready to pray, 19:49 asked the Lord what they should do about this. 19:52 And the villagers gathered around, 19:53 they called the ambulance, and just in the rush of things, 19:56 they just went with that. 19:57 So they're in the ambulance. 19:58 They drove about an hour and a half to the hospital, 20:01 the local hospital. 20:03 That's when we got the message back in America. 20:06 'cause she called his mother, Lisa Sharon. 20:09 - Right. 20:10 - Who was licensed in America as an EMT; 20:12 emergency medical technician. 20:14 So she kind of knows the signs of trauma and things. 20:19 - Right. 20:21 - So she messaged everybody in America, and our team just-- 20:22 - Pray. 20:24 - Our team just, we came up with this saying, SDP; 20:26 stop, drop and pray. 20:28 - Right. 20:29 - When you get an emergency, first thing you do is you pray. 20:32 And so we started praying. 20:33 He got to the hospital, 20:35 and they saw the extent of his injury, and they says, 20:39 "We can't treat him here." 20:41 He has to go to the main hospital, 20:42 which is normally five and a half hours drive away. 20:46 So they put him in the ambulance, 20:48 that ambulance got there two and a half hours. 20:50 I have no clue how they drove that fast, I do not. 20:53 - Yeah, the angels must have carried them or something. 20:55 - [Jon Wood] Yeah. 20:56 - Because it's a windy road. 20:58 - [Jon Wood] Very windy. 20:59 - It's busy, there's trucks, and bikes, and-- 21:02 - [Jon Wood] Everything. 21:03 - Motorbikes. 21:04 - Yeah, I mean, it's just really hard to get there fast. 21:07 But the key point of that miracle we found out later. 21:11 At the time, we just knew that they did 21:13 a mad dash to the hospital. 21:16 - Right. 21:17 - And when they got there, 21:18 they figured that they were gonna have 21:19 to have massive transfusions of blood. 21:21 - Right. 21:22 - But the thing is that nobody has the type of blood 21:24 that Jason needed. 21:25 - Right. 21:26 - Okay, so we're looking all over, it's like, 21:28 are there any foreigners that are willing to donate blood? 21:31 - Right. 21:33 And this person was willing to donate, 21:35 and people we didn't even know just came out of the, 21:37 who knows where? 21:38 A Facebook post, they saw the post, and they came in, 21:40 and it's like, "I'm willing to donate." 21:42 One person came in at two o'clock in the morning, 21:44 "I'm willing to donate." 21:45 - Wow. 21:46 - Just an outpouring of. 21:48 But what was surprising is that there was no need 21:50 for the blood. 21:51 - Hmm. 21:52 - There's no need for the transfusion. 21:54 And this is what I found out just recently, a year later. 21:57 I was talking to Jason and Shoshana, he's fully recovered, 22:00 and they were telling me about what happened 22:02 in the ambulance. 22:03 - Right. 22:05 - Shoshana was riding with Jason in the ambulance. 22:07 She had talked to his mother, who had the EMT license. 22:10 - Right. 22:12 - And his mother said, "Is his stomach hard?" 22:14 And she said, "Yes." 22:15 And so his mother says, "He probably won't make it." 22:19 Because what that means is that he's bleeding out internally 22:21 into his body cavity, and that is creating pressure 22:27 and filling up his abdomen with blood. 22:30 - Yeah. 22:31 - Okay, on the way in the ambulance, 22:32 she's looking at these heart monitors, 22:35 and vital sign monitor things. 22:38 And the heart rate goes way up, 22:41 and the blood pressure just drops. 22:43 I mean, it just goes way low. 22:44 - [Natalie Wood] Hmm. 22:45 - And of course, when that happens, 22:47 that means your heart is pumping air, there's no more blood. 22:51 - It's trying to work really hard, but there's nothing. 22:53 - Yeah, exactly. 22:55 And so this is the point of faith that just blew me away. 23:02 It's so beautiful, and it's so natural. 23:04 She didn't even think of it as faith. 23:07 But his wife Shoshana looked at the monitors, and she says, 23:10 "You know what, these are not in control. 23:14 These do not dictate the reality, my God's in control. 23:18 And if God has anything for us to do still in his vineyard, 23:23 then God will save my husband." 23:25 And you know what happened? 23:28 Heart rate leveled out, blood pressure leveled out. 23:31 And when they got to the hospital, 23:33 you know how much blood he required? 23:35 - A little, tiny bit. 23:36 - Six CCs of blood, 23:39 that's it. - A little, tiny bit. 23:40 - And so they went in and operated. 23:42 The doctor looked around, and put him back together, 23:44 and sewed him up. 23:46 And she said that whenever he would come in 23:49 and look at them, he kind of had that look on his face like, 23:52 "Who are you, and what kind of people are you?" 23:55 It's like, "You shouldn't be alive, 23:57 you shouldn't be like this, something's weird." 24:01 And they had some more complications, 24:04 some obstruction or something, 24:05 and so he went in for a second surgery. 24:06 And they did an MRI, and in the MRI they could see 24:10 there was a wound on the front of his kidney 24:14 and a wound on the back of his kidney. 24:16 So the spine had gone all the way through 24:18 and out the back of his kidney. 24:20 - So they discovered a wound on both sides of the kidney. 24:23 - Yes. 24:24 - And when the kidney gets punctured? 24:25 - The kidney is the organ that filters your blood, 24:27 takes all the impurities out of it. 24:29 And so it is saturated with blood, 24:31 it's got lots of blood vessels in it. 24:33 And if you have a punctured kidney, or a wounded kidney, 24:37 that is very serious. 24:39 - [Natalie Wood] Yeah. 24:40 - You bleed out and then you die. 24:42 - Right. 24:43 And that's exactly what happened to Jason, 24:44 except God stepped in in that ambulance, 24:48 and healed things up and put his blood back into his veins. 24:53 (Natalie and Jon laugh) 24:56 - God is awesome. 24:57 - He is so awesome, He is so awesome. 25:00 And his wife, they just went through all that. 25:02 They were just praising God. 25:03 They were thankful to go to the hospital 25:05 because they got to meet people in the hospital 25:07 that didn't know Jesus, 25:08 that they were able to connect with and help. 25:10 And then only later, 25:12 she was telling me about all these things, and I'm like, 25:15 "Shoshana, he bled out in the ambulance." 25:18 And she's like, "Oh yeah, I guess he did, 25:21 never really thought about that." 25:23 God can do a miracles in such amazing ways 25:26 that you don't even notice. 25:27 - Right. 25:29 - But you can see why when I tell people 25:31 that have a medical background, 25:32 like doctors, or nurses, or EMTs, or anybody like that, 25:35 I'm gonna say, "This is what happened, 25:37 and only took six CCs of blood." 25:39 They're like. 25:40 - [Natalie Wood] "No." 25:41 - "What, what?" - "That's not possible." 25:42 - [Jon Wood] Yeah, it's not possible. 25:44 - Yeah. 25:45 - These are the little events, 25:46 these are the little happenings that when you study it, 25:49 it's mind blowing. 25:51 - Right. 25:52 - And this is why-- 25:53 - It's not little. 25:54 - No, and this is why we're so passionate 25:56 about staying there, because we see God working. 26:00 - [Natalie Wood] Right. 26:01 - And we see God saying, "Yeah, this is what I want." 26:05 And there is nothing that can stand in the way. 26:07 There's no danger. 26:09 - Right. 26:10 - When you're in the will of God doing His will, 26:13 there's really no danger. 26:14 And if you die, oh, bummer, 26:15 you sleep for a while and then you go to heaven. 26:18 - Yeah, you wake up and see Jesus. 26:20 - Exactly. 26:22 - Wow. 26:22 - Exactly. 26:23 - Well, God is good. 26:24 - [Jon Wood] So beautiful, so beautiful. 26:26 - Yeah. 26:27 - This is the beauty also of long-term missions. 26:29 - Right. 26:31 - You wouldn't be able to have this kind of experience 26:32 with a two week mission trip. 26:33 - [Natalie Wood] No. 26:34 - Now, two week mission trips are good 26:36 if they're oriented towards giving a vision 26:39 for a life of service. 26:40 - Right. 26:41 - Exactly, get that taste of like, 26:43 "Wow, I helped those people and that felt good." 26:46 - Right. 26:47 - "I should do that the rest of my life." 26:48 - Yeah. 26:49 - And guess what, all of heaven's gonna back you up. 26:52 - Yeah, God's got angels ready, 26:54 and He's got miracles up His sleeve. 26:56 - [Jon Wood] Yes. 26:57 - And miracles that you don't expect, but He is amazing. 27:01 - He's a great God. 27:02 And so we're excited about Love for Asia, 27:04 we're excited about Harvey playing that role. 27:07 And there's a lot of miracles that are happening 27:09 that we don't see yet. 27:11 - [Natalie Wood] Right. 27:12 - Broadcasting, when you broadcast, 27:13 just like you don't know when you're broadcasting 27:16 the Word of God, you don't know where it's going. 27:19 - [Natalie Wood] Right. 27:20 - You don't know what seeds are gonna be planted. 27:21 - Right. 27:22 - You have no clue-- 27:23 - What the harvest will be. 27:24 - Exactly, but you've gotta put that seed out there. 27:27 You gotta get it out there. 27:29 In any way possible to get that seed out there. 27:32 God says, "My word shall not return unto me void." 27:35 So we've gotta broadcast that seed, 27:38 get it out there and then see what God does. 27:41 (uplifting instrumental music) 27:43 - Well, I would like to invite you to be a part 27:45 of the Love for Asia team in Thailand. 27:48 Please contact us at Jesus for Asia, PO Box 1221, 27:52 Collegedale, Tennessee, 37315. 27:56 Call us at (423)-413-7321, 28:00 or visit our website at jesus4asia.org. 28:04 May God richly bless you 28:05 until we see you next time on "Jesus for Asia Now". 28:09 (uplifting instrumental music) |
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