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Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000786A
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00:01 ONE MISSION. 00:03 THE GREAT COMMISSION. 00:06 TO REACH EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD IN THE 10/40 00:17 WINDOW WITH GOOD NEWS. 00:21 JESUS CHRIST LOVES YOU. 00:26 GOSPEL OUTREACH PRESENTS "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS". 00:33 HELLO FRIEND, AND WELCOME TO "ADVENTURES IN 00:35 MISSIONS". 00:36 PUT ON YOUR SEATBELT. 00:38 I'M LONNIE MELASHENKO YOUR HOST. 00:39 WE'RE SO GLAD YOU'VE JOINED US BUT WE'RE GOING 00:41 TO TAKE YOU ACROSS THE SEAS TO A PLACE THAT IS 00:44 ALMOST FABLE BUT WE'RE SO GLAD TO HAVE A VERY 00:48 SPECIAL GUEST THAT REPRESENTS SOME OF 00:49 WORKERS, GOSPEL WORKERS IN THAILAND AND WHAT USED TO 00:54 BE KNOWN AS BURMA. 00:55 DAVID BELL, WHAT WAS BURMA IT IS NOW NAMED WHAT? 01:00 IT IS NOW NAMED MYANMAR. 01:01 MYANMAR, UH HUH. 01:03 THAT'S A NEW ONE AND I YOU KNOW, I USED TO GROW UP 01:06 WITH CALCUTTA, BOMBAY BUT THOSE HAVE ALL CHANGED 01:09 BECAUSE THEY ARE TAKING AWAY THE BRITISH 01:10 INFLUENCE. 01:11 UH HUH, GIVING IT LOCAL. 01:13 SO, WHAT IS THE PREVAILING UM, DENOMINATIONAL 01:17 BACKGROUND. 01:18 THIS IS PART OF THE 10/40 WINDOW. 01:20 IT IS BUDDHISM AND IT HAS BEEN BUDDHISM FOR MANY, 01:22 MANY YEARS. 01:23 WELL, TALK TO US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT BUDDHISM. 01:24 ONCE IN AWHILE AMERICANS AND CANADIANS THEY KNOW 01:25 THE NEIGHBORS HAVE LITTLE BUDDHIST SHRINES AND SO 01:30 FORTH BUT THEY DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT IT. 01:39 BUDDHISM STARTED A LONG TIME AGO. 01:41 ACTUALLY, ACCORDING TO MY FIGURES IT -HE LIVED ABOUT 01:45 THE TIME OF DANIEL AND HE JUST HAD-HE WAS SOMEBODY 01:54 THAT HAD A GIFT FROM GOD, I BELIEVE, AND HE JUST 01:59 TAUGHT HIS PEOPLE TO BE KIND, TO BE LOVING, NOT TO 02:03 KILL, AND VERY GENTLE TYPE. 02:07 AND THIS WAS IN THE GREAT COUNTRY OF INDIA. 02:10 AND THIS WAS IN INDIA, YES. 02:11 SO, HE, ALTHOUGH HE WAS A CONTEMPORARY WITH THE 02:13 PROPHET DANIEL, THEY MET OR EVEN KNOW ABOUT EACH 02:16 OTHER. 02:17 NO THAT I KNOW OF. 02:17 THAT'S INTERESTING. 02:18 SO, WHAT HAPPENED AS A RESULT OF HIS INFLUENCE 02:21 WITH HIS TEACHINGS AND HIS GENTLE WAYS WITH -DID HE 02:23 HAVE SOME FOLLOWERS? 02:26 WE DON'T KNOW HOW MANY FOLLOWERS HE HAD BUT 02:29 PROBABLY WASN'T THAT MANY MAYBE TWENTY OR THIRTY. 02:33 OH REALLY? 02:34 WE ARE TALKING HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS, MILLIONS 02:36 TODAY. 02:37 EXACTLY. 02:39 AND BUT IT NEVER GOT TO THAT FAR DURING HIS 02:43 LIFETIME FROM WHAT I'VE READ AND HE BUT HE TAUGHT 02:48 THESE THINGS TO HIS STUDENTS BECAUSE IT WAS 02:53 VERY MUCH LIKE, YOU KNOW, JESUS DID IN HIS DAY. 02:56 HE WAS-HE GATHERED HIS FOLLOWERS THEN THEY CAME 03:00 TO HIM, LISTENED TO HIM AND SO IT WAS THE SAME 03:03 WITH GAUTAMA BUDDHA. 03:05 THERE'S BEEN MANY BUDDHISTS SINCE THEN BUT 03:10 GAUTAMA IS THE FIRST ONE THAT THEY REVERE. 03:14 OVER THE DECADES AND OVER THE CENTURIES EVENTUALLY 03:18 THIS BECAME MORE OF A FORMALIZED FAITH. 03:21 RIGHT. 03:22 AND BUT HE NEVER INTENDED IT TO GO THAT FAR. 03:26 HE INTENDED THAT IT WOULD STAY SMALL. 03:29 HE TOLD HIS PEOPLE HE SAID, DO NOT WORSHIP ME. 03:34 DO NOT MAKE IDOLS TO ME BECAUSE SOME DAY IN THE 03:38 FUTURE THERE IS GOING TO COME A MAN THAT WILL HAVE 03:42 ALL THE TRUTHS. 03:44 REALLLY? 03:45 THAT IS SOMETHING YOU DON'T HEAR ABOUT VERY 03:47 MUCH. 03:48 NO. 03:49 SO, THIS MAN WHO WOULD COME WOULD BE DRESSED IN 03:51 WHITE OR SOMETHING? 03:52 AND HE WOULD BE DRESSED IN WHITE AND HE WOULD GIVE 03:56 ALL THE TRUTH THAT EVERYBODY WOULD NEED. 03:59 HOW INTERESTING. 04:01 DID THE LATER HIERARCHY OF BUDDHISM APPRECIATE THAT 04:04 INSIGHT? 04:05 NO. 04:06 THEY DIDN'T AND WE DON'T-I'M NOT SURE EXACTLY 04:09 HOW IT HAPPENED BUT I THINK FOR MANY YEARS IT 04:13 STAYED SMALL IN VERY SMALL AND SO THAT NOBODY ELSE 04:21 JOINED THE GROUP BUT I THINK IT WAS A POLITICAL 04:25 MOVE, REALLY BY SOMEBODY THAT THOUGHT IF WE COULD 04:29 TAKE ANOTHER RELIGIOUS GROUP AND INJECT IT WITH 04:35 SOME POWER THEN WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO OVERCOME THIS 04:38 PROBLEM THAT'S IN. 04:40 IRONICALLY, THE BUDDHISTS HAVE NOT ONLY CREATED 04:44 IDOLS AND TEMPLES AND PAGODAS, THEY WORSHIP 04:48 BUDDHA. 04:49 THEY WORSHIP BUDDHA DOING EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF 04:52 WHAT HE'D TOLD THEM TO DO- TO STUDY AND LET THE 04:58 SPIRIT TEACH YOU. 05:02 SO, ARE BUDDHISTS VERY RELIGIOUS AND SACREDLY SO 05:05 TODAY OR DO YOU HAVE ANY KIND OF A 05:08 LAODECIA-LUKEWARM ONES? 05:10 YOU KNOW I THINK THE LAODICEAN MESSAGE IN 05:15 REVELATION IS FOR ALL RELIGIONS TODAY. 05:19 IT'S BUDDHISM BECAUSE THERE ARE BUDDHISTS THAT 05:22 ARE STRONG AND THERE ARE BUDDHISTS THAT ARE WEAK 05:26 AND SO IT'S JUST A FAMILY TRADITION THAT THEY'VE 05:28 GROWN UP WITH AND THEY MAY NOT HAVE THEIR HEART IN 05:32 IT. 05:32 THAT'S RIGHT. 05:33 SO, DO YOU SEE ANY SCRIPTURES OR THE BOOK OF 05:35 PSALMS THAT MIGHT HAVE A LITTLE LESSON FOR US THAT 05:38 TELLS US HOW WE CAN REACH THEM AND MAKE AN IMPACT? 05:40 WELL, THE TEXT THAT I AM-THAT HAS BEEN AN 05:45 INSPIRATION TO ME IS PSALM 138:5 WHICH SAYS, "YES, 05:53 THEY SHALL SING IN THE WAYS OF THE LORD FOR GREAT 05:58 IS THE GLORY OF THE LORD." 06:01 THAT'S INSIGHTFUL. 06:02 THEY MEANING THOSE WHO ARE NON-ISRAELIS, THEY IS THE 06:09 GREATER PART OF GODS PANOPLY OF PEOPLE. 06:12 THEY ARE OUT THERE IN THE 10/40 WINDOW. 06:14 READ THAT AGAIN BECAUSE THIS SAYS, "THEY SHALL, 06:19 THEY SHALL SING IN THE WAYS OF THE LORD FOR GREAT 06:23 IS THE GLORY OF THE LORD." 06:25 WELL, YOU KNOW GOSPEL OUTREACH HAS ITS GREAT 06:28 COMMISSION LIKE PAUL ALWAYS SAID, I MY FAVORITE 06:32 THING IS IF I CAN PREACH TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER 06:34 EVER HEARD THE NAME OF JESUS. 06:36 THAT'S OUR MISSION. 06:37 IN FACT, HOW DO YOU-WHAT IS THIS 10/40 WINDOW? 06:39 SOME OF OUR PEOPLE WATCHING NOT HAVE CLUE 06:41 WHAT THE 10/40 WINDOW IS. 06:42 IT IS AN AREA ON THE GLOBE IF YOU LOOK 40 DEGREES 06:48 ABOVE THE EQUATOR AND 10 DEGREES BELOW THE EQUATOR 06:51 THAT'S 10/40 AND AS YOU GO ALL THE WAY AROUND THE 06:56 WORLD YOU WILL SEE THAT THOSE ARE THE COUNTRIES 06:59 THAT ARE THE MOST HIGHLY POPULATED AND THEY ARE 07:03 ALSO THE ONES THAT ARE THE MOST NEEDY OF THE GOSPEL. 07:09 THEY ARE THE LARGELY THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER EVEN 07:11 HEARD THE NAME OF JESUS AND THAT'S 97 PER CENT 07:14 PLUS IN SOME AREAS. 07:17 BUDDHISTS, HINDUS, ZOASTRIANS, ALL KINDS OF 07:21 CULTURES THAT WE'RE NOT THAT FAMILIAR WITH IN THE 07:23 "CHRISTIAN" NATION OF NORTH AMERICA, CANADA, 07:26 UNITED STATES, SOUTH AMERICA. 07:29 THE 10/40 WINDOW IS THE THRUST OF WHAT THIS 07:32 "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" IS ALL ABOUT AND WHERE YOU 07:34 HAVE BEEN INVOLVED. 07:36 TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOME OF THE PEOPLE AND 07:38 -SHOW US A PICTURE OF SOME OF THINGS THAT WE ARE 07:41 TALKING ABOUT TODAY. 07:43 WHERE IS THAILAND? 07:44 OK, WE SAW THAILAND -A MAPJUST A MINUTE AGO YES, 07:49 AND THAT'S BASICALLY THE COUNTRY AND IF YOU CAN 07:54 REMEMBER THIS PICTURE, WHEN I SHOW YOU THE 07:56 PICTURE OF MYANMAR, YOU'LL SEE THAT THEY ARE ALMOST 07:59 IDENTICAL. 08:00 THEY HAVE A GLOB OF LAND UP AT THE TOP AND THIS 08:04 LONG STRIP AT THE BOTTOM. 08:06 THIS IS THAILAND AND SO WHERE I LIVED FOR 12 YEARS 08:13 IN THAILAND WAS UP IN THAT GREEN SPOT AT THE TOP OF 08:16 THE MAP AND WE SERVED THERE FOR TWELVE YEARS. 08:21 THAT'S SOMEWHERE NORTHWEST OF JAPAN AND TOWARD INDIA 08:26 AND SOUTHWEST. 08:27 SOUTHWEST OF JAPAN YES. 08:31 YES, SO IS IT COLD, IS IT HOT? 08:34 DOES IT HAVE DIFFERENT TEMPERATURES? 08:35 IT'S REALLY WAS VERY PLEASANT BECAUSE WE WERE 08:40 IN THE HILLS. 08:41 IT'S A HILLY AREA UP THE TOP THERE. 08:44 DOWN IN THE CENTRAL PART IT GOT VERY HOT BUT THIS 08:50 PICTURE THAT FLASHED ON THE SCREEN WAS A PICTURE 08:53 OF THE SCHOOL WHERE I WAS ADMINISTRATOR FOR SOME 08:57 TIME AND I JUST WANTED TO SHOW YOU WHERE MY-WHAT WAS 09:00 THE NAME AND IT'S A CHRISTIAN SCHOOL? 09:03 IT IS A CHRISTIAN SCHOOL -CHIANGMAI ADVENTIST 09:05 ACADEMY. 09:06 AND IS IT TWELVE GRADES? 09:07 IT IS TWELVE GRADES: ONE TO TWELVE AND -DORM 09:11 STUDENTS OR HOW DO THE PEOPLE OR ARE THEY VILLAGE 09:14 STUDENTS? 09:15 THEY ARE BOTH VILLAGE BUT MOSTLY DORM. 09:18 IS THIS KIND OF A MISSION SCHOOL THEN? 09:20 IS IT CONSISTING OF A LOT OF BUDDHISTS AND DIFFERENT 09:23 DENOMINATIONS? 09:24 YES, WHEN WE FIRST GOT THERE, THERE WAS ABOUT 400 09:27 STUDENTS AND THEN WE KEPT GROWING AND GROWING AND 09:34 WE'RE AT 850 WHEN WE FINISHED. 09:37 WOW. 09:39 WHAT WOULD ATTRACT A BUDDHIST TO SEND THEIR 09:42 CHILD TO A CHRISTIAN SCHOOL? 09:45 THEY WERE ATTRACTED BY THE FACT THAT THE SCHOOL CARED 09:50 FOR THECHILDREN, FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE. 09:52 THEY WERE -THEY TAUGHT THEM VALUES THAT WERE NOT 09:57 TAUGHT SO MUCH IN THE PUBLIC SYSTEM. 09:59 SO, THERE IS A PUBLIC-SCHOOL SYSTEM? 10:01 YES, THERE IS. 10:02 EDUCATION IS REQUIRED. 10:03 EDUCATION IS ENCOURAGED. 10:05 I DON'T KNOW THAT IT WAS- IS IT COSTLY FOR THESE 10:10 STUDENTS TO COME TO THESE SCHOOLS? 10:13 HOW DO THEY AFFORD TO PAY? 10:14 THEY- MOST OF THE STUDENTS ARE FROM PEOPLE THAT WORK. 10:22 THEY ARE NOT FARMERS FOR STUFF BUT THEY WORK AND 10:26 ARE ABLE TO PAY BUT WE HAD ALWAYS HAD A FUND FOR 10:32 THOSE STUDENTS WHO COULDN'T AFFORD TO COME 10:35 BECAUSE WE FELT THAT THERE IS NO REASON WHY A STUDENT 10:40 SHOULD BE DENIED EDUCATION BECAUSE OF MONEY. 10:43 I'M PRETTY EXCITED ABOUT WHAT YOUJUST SAID FROM THE 10:45 TIME YOU STARTED THERE WITH JUST SEVERAL HUNDRED 10:47 NOW IT IS OVER 800 THAT TELLS ME THAT THERE IS AN 10:51 INFLUENCE TO HAVE MISSIONS OUT THERE WHERE PEOPLE 10:55 DON'T KNOW ABOUT JESUS. 10:56 YES. 10:58 RIGHT NOW, THE SCHOOL IS AT 1000. 11:01 TELL US ABOUT SOME OF THESE OTHER PICTURES 11:03 COMING UP. 11:04 OK, THIS IS THE CHURCH AND WHEN WE STARTED WORKING AT 11:09 THE ACADEMY -THE CHURCH WAS A LITTLE WOODEN 11:14 BUILDING. 11:15 IT WAS A TWO-STORY BUILDING AND AS YOU WALKED 11:19 ACROSS THE FLOOR, THE FLOOR WOVE UP AND DOWN AND 11:24 IT WAS SO HOT IN THE SUMMERTIME AND COLD IN THE 11:27 WINTER. 11:28 IT DOES GET COLD IN THE NORTH PART OF THAILAND 11:31 BECAUSE IT IS HIGHER ALTITUDE BUT ANYWAY, THIS 11:35 ONE WAS ESPECIALLY BUILT BY THE SMITH FAMILY IN 11:41 REMEMBRANCE OF THEIR FATHER AND SO WE TREASURE 11:46 IT VERY HIGHLY. 11:47 I HAVE A CONNECTION WITH THAT BECAUSE THE SON OF 11:51 PASTOR SMITH, PASTOR SMITH BY THE WAY, ON THE EARLY 11:55 BLACK AND WHITE HOLLLYWOOD MOVIES THE "LITTLE 11:57 RASCALS" HE WAS WALDO. 11:59 THE ONE WITH THE BIG GLASSES, THE PROFESSORS. 12:01 UNFORTUNATELY HE WAS KILLED IN A TERRIBLE 12:03 ACCIDENT NEAR REDLANDS, CALIFORNIA BY A HIT AND 12:05 RUN DRIVER SO THE FAMILY WENT OVER AND BUILT THIS 12:08 CHURCH IN HIS MEMORY BECAUSE THEY'D BEEN 12:10 MISSIONARIES OVER THERE. 12:10 YES. 12:11 HE HAD BEEN THE PRESIDENT, I THINK, OF THE MISSION. 12:14 INTERESTING, WELL DAVID SMITH WAS MY WRITER IN THE 12:16 VOICE OF PROPHECY BROADCAST FOR SUNDAY 12:18 PROGRAM. 12:19 SO, THIS WAS BUILT IN THEIR MEMORY AND THIS WAS 12:21 DONE WHILE YOU WERE THERE? 12:23 IT WAS. 12:23 YES. 12:24 HOW MANY MEMBERS, HOW MANY PEOPLE WOULD IT SEAT? 12:27 IT SEATS 600. 12:29 600 SO YOU HAVE TO HAVE TWO SERVICES WITH 800 12:32 PEOPLE? 12:33 WELL, THE DAY STUDENTS WOULDN'T COME ON SABBATH 12:37 SO IT WOULD ONLY BE THE DORM STUDENTS. 12:39 WELL, NOW YOU'VE GOT A LOT OF PICTURES AND I WANT TO 12:41 GET THROUGH SOME OF THE STORY LEST WE RUN OUT OF 12:44 TIME. 12:45 TELL US MORE ABOUT SOME OF THESE PHOTOS. 12:46 OK. 12:47 THIS IS- MOST OF OUR ADVENTIST BELIEVERS IN 12:48 THAILAND AND MOST OF OUR GOSPEL WORKERS ARE WORKING 12:51 IN THE WHAT WE CALL THE HILL TRIBES AND THIS AN 12:58 AKHA VILLAGE WHICH IS UP IN THE NORTH. 13:02 IT IS NOT TOO FAR FROM CHIANGAI ACADEMY AND THESE 13:06 LITTLE VILLAGES ARE SCATTERED ALL OVER IN THE 13:08 MOUNTAIN REGIONS. 13:09 EACH ONE HAS THEIR OWN RELIGION AND THEIR OWN 13:13 WELL, THEY ARE ALL KIND OF ANIMISTS BUT THEN THEIR 13:16 OWN LANGUAGE -EXPLAIN THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE FOR OUR 13:18 VIEWERS. 13:19 AN ANIMIST BELIEVES WHAT? 13:21 AN ANIMIST BELIEVES THAT THERE IS THE GODS ARE IN 13:26 THE TREES, IN THE ANIMALS, AND STUFF LIKE THAT SO YOU 13:30 WANT TO PLEASE THE GODS. 13:31 AND YOU ALSO THEN WORSHIP THOSE GODS. 13:34 YOU WORSHIP THE GODS. 13:34 SO, THERE IS POLYTHEISTIC FAITH. 13:38 YES. 13:39 NOW THOSE PICTURES SHOW RATHER PRIMITIVE THATCHED 13:42 HOUSES SO THE PEOPLE OF BURMA ARE NOT LIVING ON 13:45 PARK AVENUE IN CENTRAL NEW YORK. 13:48 NO, IN THAILAND THESE - THIS IS THE KAREN VILLAGE 13:54 AND -KAREN VILLAS NOW THAT KAREN IS A VERY UNIQUE 13:59 PART OF CULTURE WHICH IS ALL BY THEMSELVES. 14:03 ALL BY THEMSELVES. 14:04 THEY HAVE THEIR OWN LANGUAGE AND THEIR OWN 14:07 -THERE ARE A LOT OF ANIMISTS BUT THE KAREN 14:12 PEOPLE ARE MORE- SEEM SUSCEPTIBLE TO 14:16 CHRISTIANITY. 14:18 WHY WOULD THAT BE? 14:19 UM, I THINK THE INFLUENCE WAS FROM ERIC B. 14:23 HARE. 14:24 REALLY? 14:26 HE IS A SHIRTTAIL RELATIVE OF A COUSIN OF MINE-PENNY 14:29 HARE AND A BUNCH OF THE KARENS JUST HAD A HUGE 14:32 REUNION AT ANDREWS UNIVERSITY A COUPLE YEARS 14:34 AGO IN HONOR OF ERIC B. 14:36 HARE. 14:37 YES, HE WAS A GREAT STORYTELLER. 14:38 YES, HE WAS, EVERYBODY LOVED HIM. 14:40 SO, TELL US SOME MORE. 14:45 OK, SO THIS IS ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS OF THAILAND. 14:46 THIS IS THE GRAND PALACE WHICH IS THE TEMPLE OF THE 14:48 EMERALD BUDDHA AND I THOUGHT WHEN I GET INTO 14:49 THAT TEMPLE WHICH IS KIND OF JUST TO THE RIGHT OF 14:50 THE WHITE PAGODA THING, I THOUGHT OH, IT'S GOING TO 14:52 BE A HUGE BUDDHA BUT IT IS ONLY ABOUT THIS HIGH BUT 14:53 IT IS SOLID GREEN EMERALD AND YOU KNOW, IT'S . 14:54 THEY ARE REALLY BIG IN THAILAND INTO TEMPLES AND 14:56 ARCHITECTURE. 14:56 VERY BIG IN TEMPLES. 14:57 OH, LOOK AT THAT. 14:58 THIS IS THE ACTUAL TEMPLE INSIDE THE WALLS AND 14:59 YOU'LL NOTICE LITTLE TWISTY THINGS ON THE 15:39 ARCHITECTURE BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE THAT THE DEMONS 15:43 CAN ONLY GO IN STRAIGHT LINES. 15:46 THEY CAN'T TRAVEL, THEY CAN'T TURN CORNERS AND SO 15:49 THEY'VE PUT TWISTS AND LITTLE CURVATURES ON ALL 15:53 OF THEIR BUILDINGS. 15:54 FASCINATING, DAVID I'LL BET YOU HALF OF OUR 15:56 VIEWERS HAVE NEVER HEARD THAT. 15:59 THE DEMONS DO NOT DO OTHER THAN GO IN STRAIGHT LINES. 16:04 STRAIGHT. 16:05 WOW. 16:06 SO, THE MORE ORNAMENTED TWISTING THE MORE THEY ARE 16:10 GOING TO DERAIL THE DEMONS. 16:12 YES, YOU CAN DERAIL THE DEMONS AND SEND THEM OFF. 16:14 OK. 16:15 WELL, LISTEN WE'VE BEEN IN THAILAND LET'S SEE IF WE 16:16 CAN MOVE ALONG AND GET. 16:18 OH, I HAVE TO SHOW YOU, OK, THIS ONE. 16:20 THIS IS THE RECLINING BUDDHA. 16:22 INTERESTING. 16:26 IT IS HUGE BECAUSE YOU CAN'T GET IT IN YOUR 16:30 PICTURE FRAME OF A CAMERA. 16:32 INTERESTING. 16:33 SO, IT'S TAKEN KIND OF LONG BUT-OK, THIS IS NOW 16:39 MYANMAR. 16:40 CAN YOU SEE THE-HOW MYANMAR AND THAILAND ARE 16:45 THE SAME SHAPE? 16:46 SIMILAR. 16:47 YES, THEY ARE. 16:49 THEY BOTH HAVE THAT STRING DOWN THE SIDE, UH HUH, AND 16:51 MYANMAR THAT STRING DOWN THE SIDE IS RIGHT ALONG 16:52 SIDE THE STRING DOWN THE SIDE OF THAILAND AND SO 16:53 THEY BOTH SHARE THAT PENNINSULA AND THEN 17:02 MALAYSIA JUST ENDS IT OFF. 17:08 BUT A THAI PERSON IS GOING TO BE PRETTY PROUD OF HIS 17:12 HERITAGE. 17:13 HE DOESN'T WANT TO SAY THAT I'M FROM BURMA OR 17:16 MYANMAR. 17:16 OH, THEY ARE VERY PROUD PEOPLE. 17:19 YES. 17:19 INTERESTING. 17:20 VERY GENTLE-SO UNIQUE APPROACHES NEED TO BE DONE 17:23 WITH OUT INDIGENOUS GOSPEL WORKERS AT THESE 17:25 LOCATIONS. 17:26 UH HUH, EXACTLY. 17:28 WHAT ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT SEEM TO 17:30 ATTRACT THEM IN PARTICULAR? 17:33 I THINK I HAVE A STORY ABOUT ONE OF OUR GOSPEL 17:41 WORKERS, OH, PLEASE, THAT'S IN MYANMAR. 17:45 THIS IS WHERE I WANT TO PUT ON MY SEATBELT BECAUSE 17:47 MIRACLES ARE STILL HAPPENING. 17:49 THEY ARE STILL HAPPENING. 17:51 THIS IS TAONG AND HE IS A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER IN 17:55 SOUTHERN THAILAND OR SOUTHERN MYANMAR AND NOT 17:59 IN THE STRIP AT THE BOTTOM BUT RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE 18:03 AND HE HAS BEEN A GOSPEL WORKER OR HE HAS BEEN AN 18:08 ADVENTIST FOR A FEW YEARS NOW. 18:10 HE WAS HAD BEEN A BAPTIST AND THEN IN 2003 HE, WELL 18:19 NO, IN 2003 HE BECAME AN ADVENTIST. 18:22 HE WAS MARRIED AND HAD A WIFE BUT HIS WIFE GOT VERY 18:26 ILL AND SO SHE WAS STRUGGLING THROUGH THIS 18:31 ILLNESS FOR THREE YEARS AND IT DIDN'T SEEM LIKE 18:35 ANYTHING WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. 18:37 DURING THIS TIME, THERE WAS A CANVASER WHO'D CAME 18:41 BY AND SOLD THEIR FAMILY SOME ADVENTIST BOOKS AND 18:49 THEY READ ALL OF THESE BOOKS AND HE WAS VERY 18:53 IMPRESSED AND SO HE DECIDED THAT HE WOULD 18:57 BECOME AN ADVENTIST. 18:59 BUT HE DIDN'T, HE COULDN'T CATCH THE SABBATH. 19:04 HE JUST COULDN'T FEEL THAT THAT WAS IMPORTANT ENOUGH 19:08 AND SO HE DIDN'T BECOME-WASN'T BAPTIZED YET 19:13 BUT AS HE PRAYED AND TALKED TO THE LORD HE 19:18 SAID, YOU KNOW MAYBE IF I PRAYED THEN GOD WOULD HEAL 19:25 MY WIFE AND THEN SHE WOULD AND THEN WE WOULD KEEP THE 19:31 SABBATH. 19:32 SO, HE MADE THIS A CONDITION AND SO HE PRAYED 19:35 TO THE LORD AND THEN SOMEBODY TOLD HIM, YOU 19:40 KNOW, TRY THIS MEDICATION. 19:43 IT SHOULD WORK. 19:48 OH, WHAT'S THE MEDICATION? 19:49 WELL, YOU HAVE TO DRINK YOUR URINE AND IT WILL 19:54 CURE THE DISEASE. 19:57 AND SO, SHE DID AND SHE WAS PARTLY CURED -80 PER 20:03 CENT. 20:04 AMAZING. 20:04 YES. 20:06 THESE FORMS OF MEDICINE WE ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH OVER 20:08 THESE ANCIENT CULTURES SHE GOT 80 PER CENT HEALED 20:11 FROM HER PROBLEM. 20:12 RIGHT. 20:14 WELL, SO THEN HE TRIED TO CONVINCE HER -WELL, YOU 20:17 ARE 80 PER CENT HEALED, YOU KNOW, NOW WILL YOU 20:20 WORSHIP ON SABBATH. 20:22 AND SHE SAID, NO, I WON'T. 20:24 SO, HE DECIDED HE WOULDN'T STAY AROUND SO HE JUST 20:30 LEFT HER. 20:31 SHE WAS STAYING-THEY WERE STAYINGWITH HER PARENTS 20:33 AND THEY ARGUED ALL THE TIME ABOUT THE SABBATH AND 20:36 SO HE TOOK IT UP. 20:38 HE WENT UP AND LIVED WITH THE PASTOR, AN ADVENTIST 20:41 PASTOR AND HIS FAMILY, AND WHILE THEY WERE UP THERE, 20:45 HE STUDIED WITH THE PASTOR MORE AND MORE AND HE 20:50 BECAME MORE AND MORE CONVINCED. 20:51 I NEED TO KEEP THE SABBATH AND SO HE WENT TO -SO ONE 20:57 DAY HIS WIFE SENT HIM A LETTER AND SAID, PLEASE 21:02 COME HOME AND SO HE WROTE BACK AND SAID, WELL, I 21:07 WILL COME HOME ONLY IF YOU PROMISE THAT YOU WILL KEEP 21:10 THE SABBATH. 21:12 AND SHE WROTE BACK AND SHE SAID, WELL, I MIGHT. 21:17 AND SO, SHE THOUGHT OK, THAT'S GOOD ENOUGH. 21:19 WELL, SO HE MOVED BACK BUT HE ALSO-THE PASTOR AND HIS 21:25 WIFE AND CHILDREN ALSO MOVED BACK WITH HIM. 21:28 AND SO, THEY HAD A GOOD VISIT AND BUT HE-SHE STILL 21:37 WOULD NOT BECOME- KEEP SABBATH. 21:41 THEN ONE DAY, THE LITTLE BOY THAT BELONGED TO THE 21:44 PASTOR, HE GOT LOST. 21:49 HE WENT WALKING OFF IN THE JUNGLE AND SO EVERYBODY 21:51 WENT SEARCHING FOR HIM TO TRY AND FIND OUT WHERE IS 21:54 THIS BOY? 21:55 AND EVERYBODY WAS SEARCHING AND SEARCHING 21:56 AND THE- DAVE'S WIFE SAID, YOU KNOW, SHE WAS JUST 21:57 LAYING IN BED BECAUSE SHE WAS STILL NOT FULLY CURED. 21:58 AND SO, SHE JUST SAID, WELL, WHAT AM I DOING HERE 22:00 IN BED? 22:01 I SHOULD BE GETTING UP AND I SHOULD BE SEARCHING FOR 22:02 THIS CHILD TOO. 22:03 AND SO JUST ON HER OWN INTIATIVE SHE JUST GOT UP 22:04 AND STARTED WALKING. 22:05 SHE HADN'T WALKED FOR MONTHS. 22:06 A MIRACLE WAS HAPPENING IN HER THAT SHE WAS GETTING 22:07 INVOLVED, REACHING OUT, DOING SOMETHING. 22:15 GOD TOOK THAT AND HEALED HER. 22:33 AND HEALED HER. 22:33 DID THEY FIND THE LITTLE BOY? 22:35 AND THEY FOUND THE LITTLE BOY AND SHE SAID, I GUESS 22:40 I NEED TO KEEP THE SABBATH TOO WITH YOU. 22:42 WOW. 22:44 AND SO, SHE-GOD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS DOESN'T HE? 22:47 MYSTERIOUS WAYS. 22:48 WONDERS TO PERFORM. 22:49 I JUST GET CHOKED UP THAT IS A MARVELOUS STORY, 22:53 DAVE. 22:54 YES, AND NOW HE IS GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER. 22:58 HE DOES SOME WORK AROUND HOME. 23:00 SO, HE AND HIS WIFE ARE PART OF YOUR SUPERVISED 23:04 GROUP OVER THERE IN THESE TWO COUNTRIES AND HE IS 23:07 ONE OF THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS. 23:09 ONE OF THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS. 23:10 HE HAS SINCE 2004 I THINK IT IS, HE HAS RAISED UP 23:16 TWO CHURCHES. 23:20 ONE OF THEM HAS 100 MEMBERS AND THE OTHER ONE 23:22 HAS 80. 23:23 PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW AND THAT 23:26 SCRIPTURE IS COMING TRUE ISN'T IT? 23:27 AND THE SCRIPTURE IS COMING TRUE-IT JUST AMAZES 23:31 ME ALL THE TIME THAT THE WAYS OF THE LORD ARE GREAT 23:35 AND GLORIOUS. 23:37 HE DOES THINGS IN A MOST AMAZING WAY. 23:39 THEY SHALL SING. 23:41 AND THEY SHALL SING, YES. 23:43 BEAUTIFUL. 23:44 THEY SHALL SING IN THE WAYS OF THE LORD FOR GREAT 23:47 IS THE GLORY OF THE LORD. 23:49 WE WANT TO TELL OUR VIEWERS A LITTLE BIT ABOUT 23:51 GOSPEL OUTREACH. 23:53 ITS BECAUSE OF YOU THAT WE EXIST. 23:56 WE CANNOT DO THIS WITHOUT YOU AND ESPECIALLY YOUR 23:59 PRAYERS. 24:00 WE NEED YOUR PRAYERS. 24:01 PRAYER IS AMAZING. 24:02 WE'RE DISCOVERING THROUGH SCIENCE EVEN BLIND STUDIES 24:05 SHOW THAT PRAYER MAKES A DIFFERENCE. 24:07 PLEASE PRAY FOR THIS PARTICULAR MISSIONARY. 24:11 PRAY FOR DAVID BELL AND HIS LEADERSHIP WITH THESE 24:14 INDIGENOUS GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS. 24:16 YOU CAN'T DO MORE FOR THEM THAN THEY WOULD KNOW THAT 24:19 YOU ARE PRAYING. 24:20 SOMETHING HAPPENS IN THE MINDS OF THE PEOPLE 24:22 ACCORDING TO BLIND RESEARCH WHEN YOU PRAY AND 24:25 THEY MAY NOT RECOGNIZE YOU ARE PRAYING FOR THEM BUT 24:27 GOD IS GOING TO TAKE IT-THAT'S THE POWER OF 24:29 PRAYER. 24:30 AND SECONDLY, WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU INVOLVED 24:32 AS A SUPPORTER. 24:33 WE HAVE A VERY SPECIAL LITTLE MAGAZINE THAT WE 24:35 PROMOTE CALLED ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS. 24:38 THIS IS FREE. 24:40 YOU CAN FIND OUT WHERE TO WATCH THE TELECASTS; WHERE 24:42 TO WRITE IN IF YOU'D LIKE TO BE A FINANCIAL 24:45 SUPPORTER. 24:46 JUST IMAGINE FOR $150 A MONTH IT IS NOT A 24:49 SALARY-THESE PEOPLE CAN'T AFFORD -THEY HAVE TO DO 24:52 OTHER THINGS TO GET THEIR FOOD AND THEIR CLOTHES BUT 24:55 THIS PARTICULAR MISSIONARY HE USES THE $150 A MONTH 24:58 TO PAY FOR THE GASOLINE ON HIS MOTORCYCLE SO HE CAN 25:01 GET TO ALL THE DIFFERENT LOCATIONS. 25:02 EXACTLY. 25:03 BUT YOU CAN WRITE FOR THIS. 25:05 IT IS FREE AND THERE ARE SEVERAL LOCATIONS NOT ONLY 25:08 HERE IN THE UNITED STATES. 25:09 WE HAVE A LOCATION IN COLONGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA 25:12 ALSO IN BRAZIL -ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT 25:14 INFORMATION PIECES WILL COME TO YOU IF YOU 25:16 SUBSCRIBE TO ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS . 25:18 GO ON LINE TO OUR ON LINE IT IS WWW.GOAIM.ORG 25:22 25:29 BEING HERE TODAY. 25:30 ONE LITTLE QUICK FINAL STORY JUST TAKE A MINUTE 25:32 TO KIND OF GIVE THE SECOND STORY IN SUMMARY-READER'S 25:34 DIGEST VERSION. 25:36 READER'S DIGEST VERSION -KIM MU IS HARD TO DO IN 25:41 ONE MINUTE BUT I'LL GET IT STARTED ANYWAY. 25:45 AND THAT- KIM WAS A BUDDHIST. 25:48 HE RAISED BUDDHIST. 25:50 HE HAD NO OTHER CONNECTION WITH ANY OTHER CHRISTIAN. 25:53 HE WORKED IN THE ARMY AND HE WAS A MEDICAL WORKER IN 26:02 THE ARMY. 26:03 A HEAVY DRINKER AND A DEVOUT BUDDHIST. 26:07 HE MARRIED. 26:10 HE IS A KAREN MAN AND HE MARRIED A KAREN LADY. 26:14 THEY WERE TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF KARENS AND BUT 26:19 BOTH BUDDHISTS EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE KAREN. 26:21 AND THEY RAISED SOME CHILDREN AND BUT AS 26:27 BUDDHIST HE NEVER BECAME REALLY SATISFIED WITH 26:32 BUDDHISM BECAUSE THEULTIMATE THING OF 26:35 BUDDHISM IS TO HAVE -TO GET INTO THE STATE OF 26:39 NIRVANA WHICH IS THE STATE OF NOTHINGNESS. 26:43 AND HE SAID, THIS IS NOT RIGHT. 26:46 I CAN'T BE -THAT'S NO AIM IN LIFE IS TO BE A 26:53 NOTHING. 26:54 AND SO, HE JUST WAITED FOR IT. 26:58 WHAT HAPPENED? 26:59 HE BECAME ONE OF OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS. 27:01 HE IS NOW ONE OF OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS IN 27:05 MYANMAR AND HE IS HAVING SUCCESS? 27:08 YES, HE IS HAVING GREAT SUCCESS. 27:12 WONDERFUL. 27:13 WELL, I WANT TO THANK DAVID BELL FOR BEING ON 27:15 OUR TELECAST TODAY. 27:15 WE HAVE TO CLOSE OUR SHOW. 27:17 THANK YOU FOR WATCHING. 27:18 YOU CAN UNFASTEN YOUR SEATBELT UNTIL THE NEXT 27:21 TIME WE SEE YOU HERE ON "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS". 27:23 I' M LONNIE MELASHENKO, YOUR HOST. 28:03 [CLOSING MUSIC]. |
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