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00:00 WELCOME TO "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS".
00:01 I'M JULIE SANDERS-KEYMER AND IT IS A TOUR OF 00:03 COUNTRIES HERE AS WE GIVE REPORTS IN THE 10/40 00:07 WINDOW, THAT LARGE EXPANSE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE 00:12 GLO BE FROM WHERE WE ARE RECORDING HERE TODAY. 00:16 IT'S FROM WEST AFRICA AND ALL THE WAY THROUGH SO 00:20 MANY COUNTRIES AND WE'RE GOING TO BE HIGHLIGHTING A 00:25 COUPLE OF COUNTRIES ON THE EASTERN PART OF THIS 10/40 00:29 WINDOW AND I WANT TO WELCOME GARY WAGNER TO 00:33 "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS". 00:34 WELCOME, GARY. 00:35 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 00:36 NICE TO BE HERE. 00:39 IT IS GREAT TO HAVE YOU AND GARY, WE'RE EXCITED 00:54 THAT YOU ARE PARTNERING HERE WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH 01:06 AND THAT YOU ARE A NEW REGIONAL DIRECTOR AND 01:09 SHARE WITH OUR VIEWERS THE TERRITORY THAT YOU ARE 01:12 WORKING IN. 01:13 I'M SERVING IN CAMBODIA AND VIETNAM. 01:16 WONDERFUL, AND KEITH HEINRICH HAS HAD THAT 01:19 TERRITORY PREVIOUSLY AND YOU ARE TAKING THE REINS 01:22 NOW AND IT IS A SPECIAL PLACE IN YOUR HEART AS 01:25 WELL AND WHY IS THAT? 01:27 I SERVED IN CAMBODIA IN 1973 AND 74 AND IN OUR 01:33 ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCHOOL THERE AND DURING THAT 01:36 PERIOD OF TIME I WAS EVACUATED TO SAIGON TO 01:40 WORK A LITTLE BIT IN THE AH, THE HOSPITAL IN 01:43 SAIGON. 01:45 WOW! 01:46 WHAT AN INTERESTING TIME FOR YOU TO BE THERE. 01:47 WERE YOU SERVING AS A STUDENT MISSIONARY? 01:49 YES, I WAS A STUDENT MISSIONARY AND IT WAS 01:51 DURING THE TIME OF THE BUILDUP OF POL POT AND THE 01:54 KHMER ROUGE. 01:55 WOW, WHAT AN INTERESTING TIME. 01:58 SO, NOW ALL THESE YEARS LATER YOU ARE NOW WORKING 02:01 WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH AND GIVE US A LITTLE OF YOUR 02:04 BACKGROUND, GARY. 02:05 I'M A RETIRED PASTOR. 02:08 I'VE SERVED IN THE MISSION FIELD-EIGHT DIFFERENT 02:11 COUNTRIES AND IN QUITE A FEW PLACES HERE IN NORTH 02:16 AMERICA AS WELL. 02:17 AND I'MJUST HAPPY TO BE ABLE TO SERVE WITH GOSPEL 02:22 OUTREACH. 02:23 IT GIVES ME AN OPPORTUNITY TO STAY IN THE WORK AND TO 02:27 ENJOY WATCHING GOD WORKING. 02:28 WELL, FANTASTIC. 02:29 SO, WHAT OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE YOU SERVED IN? 02:31 I SERVED IN KOREA, THAILAND, IN THE MARSHALL 02:35 ISLANDS, THE TRUK ISLANDS AND CONGO. 02:38 OH WOW! 02:39 YOU'VE BEEN KIND OF ALL OVER THE PLACE. 02:41 WELL, PRAISE THE LORD. 02:42 WELL, GIVE US A LITTLE BIT OF THE HISTORY HERE TODAY. 02:45 YOU ARE GOING TO SHARE WITH US A LITTLE BIT OF 02:47 THE WORK IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD AND GIVE US SOME 02:50 DATES AND SOME INFORMATION. 02:52 I WAS FASCINATED WHEN I WAS THERE TO LEARN HOW GOD 02:56 HAD BEEN LEADING TO TRY TO GET THE WORK ESTABLISHED 03:00 IN THE COUNTRY OF CAMBODIA BECAUSE WHEN I ARRIVED 03:04 THERE WAS ONE BAPTIZED MEMBER IN THE COUNTRY AND 03:07 HE HAD BEEN BAPTIZED THE MONTH BEFORE. 03:09 THAT'S IN THE 70'S? 03:10 THAT'S IN '73 AND SO IT SEEMED AS THOUGH NOT MUCH 03:15 HAD BEEN HAPPENING BUT IN REALITY, THERE IS A LOT 03:17 THAT HAD BEEN GOING ON AND IT STARTED BACK IN 1921 03:23 WHEN PASTOR TAN KUE UW WAS SENT INTO PHNOM PENH THE 03:28 CAPITOL OF CAMBODIA TO BE THE FIRST LITERATURE 03:31 EVANGELIST AND THINGS WERE VERY DIFFICULT. 03:35 HE FOUND A LOT OF OPPOSITION AND HE WASN'T 03:40 ABLE TO STAY VERY LONG. 03:42 IN 1921? 03:43 YES. 03:44 1921, WOW. 03:45 SO, THE CHURCH REALLY IN A WAY DISAPPEARED AFTER HIS 03:50 DEPARTURE AND IT WASN'T UNTIL THEN IN 1938 THAT 03:55 ANOTHER ATTEMPT WAS MADE. 03:58 FRED PICKETT AND RANKIN WENTLAND APPLIED TO BE 04:02 ABLE TO GO TO CAMBODIA TO SERVE AND THEY WERE NOT 04:08 GREETED WARMLY BUT WERE ABLE TO START WORKING 04:13 ALONG THE BORDER. 04:14 BASICALLY, THEY WERE INSIDE VIETNAM TRYING TO 04:15 WORK IN CAMBODIA AND THAT UH, WAS ALSO VERY 04:17 DIFFICULT BECAUSE PASTOR PICKETT IN THE YEAR THAT 04:28 HE ARRIVED THERE BECAME ILL AND DIED. 04:30 OH DEAR. 04:31 AND THEN PASTOR WENTLAND WAS FORCED OUT OF THE 04:37 COUNTRY IN 1940 AND HE WENT TO VIETNAM TO SERVE 04:41 THERE. 04:41 SO, FORCED OUT BECAUSE OF WHY? 04:42 WAS BECAUSE OF POLITICAL SITUATION OR BEING A 04:43 BUDDHIST COUNTRY? 04:44 DO YOU KNOW, GARY? 04:45 PROBABLY PART OF BOTH, BUT THE SECOND WORLD WAR WAS 04:46 BREWING. 04:47 THAT WAS MY NEXT-THAT WAS MY THIRD QUESTION AND SO 04:48 HE ACTUALLY WORKED FOR TEN YEARS IN VIETNAM WITHOUT 04:49 ANY CONTACT WITH THE CHURCH BECAUSE THEY 04:51 COULDN'T GET A HOLD OF HIM AND HE JUST CONTINUED 05:06 WORKING THERE. 05:09 WELL, AND THIS IS INTERESING BECAUSE YOU ARE 05:13 TALKING ABOUT THESE DATES AND I'M THINKING ABOUT 05:15 ABRAM LARUE WHO WENT TO HONG KONG AND SO THINGS 05:19 PROGRESSED THERE AND THEN IT IS INTERESTING TO HEAR 05:22 THESE GAPS OF WHAT'S HAPPENED IN THE WORK IN 05:25 CAMBODIA AND VIETNAM. 05:26 YES. 05:27 UH, THEN IN 1938 AGAIN ANOTHER PASTOR ROBERT BENZ 05:35 AND HIS WIFE MARTHA WERE SENT IN AND THEY HAD 05:40 DIFFICULTIES AS WELL BUT MARTHA, HIS WIFE, ALSO GOT 05:45 ILL IN THE FIRST YEAR SHE WAS THERE AND SHE PASSED 05:48 AWAY. 05:49 OH DEAR! 05:50 AND THEY HAD A DAUGHTER, UH HUH, AND HER LAST WORDS 05:53 WERE "I'M HAPPY TO GIVE MY LIFE FOR THE LORD JESUS 05:58 BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SERVE WITH MY FAMILY WHO ARE IN 06:02 THIS COUNTRY". 06:03 SO, UH THE WORK HAS BEEN-IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT 06:09 TO GET A FOOTHOLD IN CAMBODIA UH, AFTER THAT, 06:14 THINGS DIED DOWN AGAIN AND THE CHURCH DISAPPEARED 06:19 AGAIN. 06:21 IT WASN'T THEN UNTIL 1955 THAT A COLPORTEUR TRAN 06:27 TRAN BEGAN GIVING BIBLE STUDIES. 06:29 TRAN TRAN, I LIKE THAT. 06:32 THAT'S A NAME I SHOULD BE ABLE TO REMEMBER. 06:34 THAT'S A GOOD NAME - TRAN TRAN. 06:35 AT LEAST THE SECOND NAME IF I CAN GET THE FIRST 06:38 NAME. 06:39 EXACTLY. 06:40 UM, AND HE WENT IN AND STARTED UH, GIVING BIBLE 06:44 STUDIES AND HE BAPTIZED -WE ARE NOT SURE THE 06:48 NUMBER BUT MAYBE AS MANY AS NINE, NINE PEOPLE. 06:50 NINE PEOPLE. 06:51 AND I WANT TO PAUSE THERE BECAUSE IT OUR WESTERN 06:55 CULTURE WE THINK OH, JUST NINE PEOPLE? 06:57 BUT HAVING LIVED IN A BUDDHIST COUNTRY, BUDDHISM 07:00 IS YOUR FAMILY, IT IS YOUR RELIGION, IT IS YOUR 07:04 CULTURE, IT IS YOUR LIFE, IT IS YOUR EVERYTHING AND 07:08 FOR THESE PEOPLE TO MAKE A SWITCH, GARY-IT TAKES A 07:12 LONGTIME FOR MANY OF THESE PEOPLE. 07:15 IT DOES TAKE A LONG TIME. 07:16 YES, AND OBVIOUSLY THE LORD CAN WORK AND THINGS 07:19 CAN BE SHORTER THROUGH THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT 07:23 BUT FOR SOME PEOPLE THIS IS A MAJOR SWITCH, YOU 07:26 KNOW. 07:26 YES, IT IS. 07:27 AND ALSO, TO THINK OF THESE DEAR PEOPLE, YOU 07:29 KNOW, WE THINK ABOUT GETTING ON AN AIRPLANE AND 07:32 YOU KNOW IN A MATTER OF 24 HOURS, I ALWAYS SAY THIS, 07:34 IN A MATTER OF 24 HOURS IT IS AMAZING WHERE YOU CAN 07:36 FIND YOURSELF IN THE WORLD. 07:38 YES. 07:39 BUT THESE PEOPLE GOING OUT IN 1921, 1938 I MEAN THESE 07:42 PEOPLE WERE ON SHIPS. 07:44 YES, THEY WERE. 07:45 TO GET TO THESE PLACES AND SO THIS WAS A MAJOR LIFE 07:47 COMMITMENT TO THE LORD OF GOING OVER SEAS. 07:51 YES. 07:52 WELL, IT WAS THEN IN 1957 THAT PASTOR RALPH NEAL AND 07:57 HIS WIFE BEATRICE WERE ABLE TO GET INTO THE 08:01 COUNTRY AND THEY BEGAN WORKING. 08:04 THEY UH, THEY BUILT A CHURCH AND THEY BEGAN 08:10 WRITING BOOKS AND TRANSLATING THE BOOKS. 08:13 UH, PASTOR NEAL IS STILL LIVING TODAY. 08:16 OH, HE IS? 08:18 HE LIVES IN CHATTANOOGA. 08:20 OK, IN TENNESSEE. 08:21 YES, AND SO I'VE BEEN ABLE TO VISIT WITH HIM SOME 08:24 ABOUT THE WORK THAT HE DID. 08:26 THAT'S FANTASTIC AND I WAS ABLE TO TAKE OVER COPIES 08:31 OF A COUPLE OF BOOKS THAT HE AND HIS WIFE WROTE, UH 08:34 HUH, TO SEE IF WE COULD GET THEM REPUBLISHED BUT 08:36 WE WERE ABLE TO FIND COPIES THERE. 08:39 SO, THEIR WORK CONTINUES IN CAMBODIA. 08:42 AND THAT FIRST PICTURE YOU SHOWED OF THAT BUILDING, 08:44 WHAT WAS THAT? 08:45 THAT WAS ANGKOR WAT. 08:47 THAT'S WHAT I WAS GOING TO ASK YOU IF THAT'S WHAT 08:48 THAT WAS. 08:49 YES. 08:50 UH, I WASN'T ABLE TO GET THERE TO VISIT WHEN I WAS 08:53 THERE IN THE '70'S BECAUSE THE KMER ROUGE HELD THAT 08:59 AT THE TIME. 09:01 OK. 09:02 MAYBE SOMEONE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT ANGKOR WAT IS? 09:04 COULD YOU SHARE? 09:05 ANGKOR WAT IS THE LARGEST RELIGIOUS STRUCTURE IN THE 09:09 WORLD AND IT WAS BUILT IN THE 12TH CENTURY AND IT 09:13 HAS IN ITS EARLY YEARS TRANSITIONED BETWEEN 09:20 HINDUISM AND BUDDHISM. 09:23 OH, I DIDN'T KNOW THAT. 09:24 YES, AND RIGHT NOW, OF COURSE, IT IS A VERY 09:29 IMPORTANT SITE FOR THE BUDDHISTS BECAUSE THEY 09:32 HOLD IT AND IT IS FASCINATING TO BE ABLE TO 09:36 TOUR IT AND SEE- AND IT IS HUGE, ISN'T IT? 09:39 ABSOLUTLEY HUGE. 09:40 AND REALLY TO SPEAK OF THAT ONE TEMPLE IS 09:44 INSUFFICIENT TO TELL THE STORY BECAUSE THERE ARE 09:49 MANY TEMPLES THAT ARE SOMEWHAT LIKE THAT IN THE 09:53 SURROUNDING AREA WHERE ANGKOR WAT IS BECAUSE IT 09:56 WAS-ANGKOR WAS MORE THAN JUST A PLACE IT WAS 10:01 HEADQUARTERS FOR THE UH MIGHTY EMPIRE OF ANGKOR. 10:07 SO, THERE WERE A LOT OF TEMPLES THERE. 10:10 INTERESTING. 10:11 UH, SO I'M PRIVILEGED TO HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SEE IT 10:16 EARLIER THIS YEAR FOR THE FIRST TIME AND I'M HOPING 10:21 TO BE ABLE TO GO BACK AGAIN. 10:23 SURE. 10:24 YOU CAN'T SEE IT ALL AT ONE TIME. 10:26 AND I HEAR THERE-IS IT TRUE THAT THERE ARE A LOT 10:28 OF MONKEYS THAT RUN AROUND THERE? 10:29 WELL, I DIDN'T SEE THE MONKEYS. 10:31 THEY MAY BE THERE AT DIFFERENT TIMES BUT MAYBE 10:35 COVID WAS KEEPING THEM AWAY. 10:37 YES. 10:38 MAYBE NOW THAT'S A FUNNY JOKE. 10:39 WELL, KEEP GOING HERE GARY. 10:43 BUT PASTOR NEAL, AS I SAID, BUILT A CHURCH AND 10:50 THE CHURCH AH, SERVED WELL. 10:54 IN FACT, FOR QUITE SOME TIME BUT MOST OF THE TIME 10:59 THAT IT EXISTED IT WAS EMPTY BECAUSE HE ALSO WAS 11:04 FORCED OUT UH IN THE 60'S HE WAS FORCED TO LEAVE 11:14 AGAIN. 11:16 AS THE VIETNAM WAR WAS PROGRESSING OR WAS 11:18 THIS-THERE WERE JUST STRUGGLES AND 11:21 DIFFICULTIES. 11:22 THE VIETNAM WAR MAY HAVE HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH 11:23 IT, AH, THAT PART I DON'T KNOW THE REASON WHY. 11:29 BUT THEN IN 1972, THE CHURCH DECIDED TO TRY A 11:33 NEW VENTURE AND THEY SENT ED MOORE INTO PHNOM PENH 11:40 AND HE STARTED AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCHOOL. 11:43 HIS TEACHERS THAT HE USED WERE STUDENT MISSIONARIES 11:46 FROM WALLA WALLA AND PUC AND I THINK ONE FROM 11:51 SOUTHERN. 11:52 OK. 11:53 AND THEY WENT IN AND DID A GOOD JOB. 11:56 THEY GOT THE SCHOOL GOING AND PUT IT UNDER A GOOD 12:00 FOOTING AND THAT'S WHEN I WAS BROUGHT INTO THE 12:04 PICTURE THEN IN 1973. 12:06 OK. 12:08 AND WHAT SCHOOL WERE YOU ATTENDINGAT THE TIME? 12:10 I HAD BEEN ATTENDING UNION COLLEGE, OK, AND I HAD 12:11 GONE AS A STUDENT MISSIONARY TO KOREA, TO 12:17 THE LANGUAGE SCHOOLS THERE AND THEY ASKED ME TO MOVE 12:20 DOWN TO CAMBODIA TO DIRECT THE SCHOOL. 12:22 SO, YOU WERE AN E.S.L. 12:24 PROFESSIONAL. 12:25 BY THE TIME I GOT THERE -ENGLISH AS SECOND 12:27 LANGUAGE- IF THERE IS SUCH A THING THEN I GUESS I WAS 12:30 IT. 12:31 AH, BUT IT WAS QUITE A DIFFICULT CHOICE-DECISION. 12:37 WHY? 12:38 TO MAKE TO GO FROM KOREA TO CAMBODIA. 12:41 FIRST OF ALL, TO SPEND A SECOND YEAR AWAY FROM 12:43 HOME, SURE, AWAY FROM SCHOOL AND AWAY FROM 12:46 FAMILY BUT SECOND BECAUSE I KNEW THE WAR THAT WAS 12:50 RAGING. 12:50 YES, WHAT A TIME TO BE THERE GARY. 12:52 SO, WHEN I ARRIVED I FOUND THAT ONE CHURCH MEMBER HE 12:58 WAS WORKING AT THE LANGUAGE SCHOOL AND I 13:01 SHOULDN'T SAY I FOUND HIM BUT -YOU MET HIM- I MET 13:05 HIM UH HUH AND ED AND THE REST OF HIS STAFF UH, LEFT 13:11 WITHIN A FEW DAYS AFTER MY ARRIVAL AND A FEW NEW 13:15 STUDENT MISSIONARIES ARRIVED THAT WOULD BE 13:17 WORKING WITH ME AND WE JUST WENT RIGHT AHEAD WITH 13:22 THE LANGUAGE SCHOOL. 13:23 THERE WAS ONE MORE YOUNG COUPLE THAT WAS THERE WHO 13:27 ARRIVED A WEEK BEFORE I DID. 13:28 UH, ROONGUN TEAL AND HIS WIFE IVIE WERE-THEY JUST 13:34 GRADUATED FROM SCHOOL IN SINGAPORE. 13:37 I LIKE THAT UU IN THE THROAT. 13:41 AND THEY GOT MARRIED AND THEY CAME TO PHNOM PENH 13:44 FOR THEIR AH, HONEYMOON, SEE, AND TO START STUDYING 13:49 THE LANGUAGE AND TO -THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE THERE 13:54 FOR FIVE YEARS. 13:56 SO, THEY WERE THERE AND WE WERE CONDUCTING THE 14:01 LANGUAGE SCHOOL AND BUT IT WAS DURING THE 14 MONTHS I 14:06 WAS THERE, BECAUSE OF THE WAR, BECAUSE OF THE KHMER 14:11 ROUGE UH THE EMBASSY TOLD ME ON FIVE DIFFERENT 14:18 OCCASIONS THAT WE NEEDED TO EVACUATE AND TAKE OUR 14:21 PEOPLE OUT BECAUSE IT WASN'T SAFE BECAUSE OF THE 14:24 MOVEMENTS OF THE KHMER ROUGE. 14:25 WOW, SO FIVE TIMES DID YOU STAY OR FIVE TIMES DID YOU 14:26 GO? 14:27 I WENT ONCE, OK. 14:28 AND THAT WAS TO SAIGON AND WORKED AT THE THIRD FIELD 14:36 HOSPITAL THAT THE US MILITARY HAD GIVEN TO THE 14:43 CHURCH THERE WHEN THEY MOVED OUT OF IT. 14:46 YOUR PARENTS ARE PRAYING FOR YOU THE WHOLE TIME. 14:48 SURE. 14:52 THEY MAY NOT HAVE KNOWN EVERYTHING THAT WAS 14:54 HAPPENING. 14:55 YES, PROBABLY NOT SINCE THAT WAS BEFORE EMAIL, 14:58 RIGHT? 14:59 YES, IN FACT WHEN I WAS SUPPOSED TO-WHEN I WAS 15:03 TOLD BY THE EMBASSY TO EVACUATE I HAD TO CALL THE 15:07 OFFICE IN SINGAPORE TO SEE WHAT THEY FELT WITH THAT 15:11 INFORMATION AND IT TOOK THREE DAYS TO GET THE 15:13 PHONE CALL THROUGH AND AFTER THAT, WHEN I FINALLY 15:17 GOT THROUGH THE RESPONSE WAS, WELL, YOU'RE THE ONE 15:21 SCENE YOU MAKE THE DECISION. 15:23 SO, IT TOOK THREE DAYS TO GET THE CALL THROUGH. 15:25 YES. 15:26 WELL, I REMEMBER LIVING OVERSEAS AND PRAYING THAT 15:28 THE PHONE WOULD WORK BUT IT NEVER TOOK THREE DAYS 15:30 BUT WOW. 15:31 WELL, GARY THANK YOU FOR SHARING WITH US AND IF YOU 15:33 ARE JUST ENJOYING THIS STORY THAT GARY IS SHARING 15:36 ABOUT CAMBODIA AND HOW GOD IS WORKING-IT IS JUST 15:39 GETTING GOING PEOPLE. 15:40 SO, WE JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR PARTNERING 15:42 WITH US. 15:43 THANK YOU FOR YOUR DONATIONS AND HERE IS SOME 15:45 INFORMATION FOR YOU. 15:49 GOSPEL OUTREACH IS SHARING JESUS WITH THOUSANDS OF 15:52 UNREACHED PEOPLE IN THE 10/40 WINDOW. 15:55 MORE THAN 25 YEARS AGO, FRANK STANYER AND EDGAR 15:59 PANGOLINAN SAW THE HUGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN THE 16:03 PHILIPPINES WHO STILL NEEDED TO HEAR ABOUT 16:05 JESUS. 16:07 THESE TWO LAYMEN FELT THE LORD CALLING THEM TO SHARE 16:10 THE GOSPEL IN THE PHILIPPINES. 16:12 TO GENERATE AND RAISE FUNDS THE TWO MEN STARTED 16:15 GOSPEL OUTREACH TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR LOCAL BIBLE 16:18 WORKERS THROUGH A VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION. 16:21 SOON FRANK AND EDGAR REALIZED THAT BILLIONS OF 16:24 PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF THE PHILIPPINES ALSO NEEDED TO 16:27 HEAR THE NAME OF JESUS AND LEARN ABOUT HIS PLAN OF 16:30 SALVATION. 16:31 NINETY-SEVEN PER CENT OF THE UNREACHED PEOPLE IN 16:35 THE WORLD LIVE IN THE AREA FROM 10/40 DEGREES NORTH 16:38 OF THE EQUATOR, FROM WEST AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST, 16:43 INDIA, CHINA TO JAPAN WHICH IS KNOWN AS THE 16:47 10/40 WINDOW. 16:49 FRANK AND EDGAR EXPANDED THEIR SCOPE TO ALSO 16:52 SUPPORT BIBLE WORKERS IN THESE COUNTRIES BY WORKING 16:55 THROUGH THE CHURCH AND PARTNERING WITH MISSION 16:57 ORGANIZATIONS. 16:59 CURRENTLY, GOSPEL OUTREACH SUPPORTERS FUND MORE THAN 17:02 2000 BIBLE WORKERS IN MORE THAN 50 COUNTRIES. 17:06 GOD IS DOING MIRACLES IN THE 10/40 WINDOW. 17:10 GOD IS DOING MIRACLES IN THE 10/40 WINDOW. 17:12 GOD IS DOING MIRACLES WITH US WHERE WE LIVE IN THE 17:15 COUNTRIES THAT WE LIVE IN AND GOD IS DOING MIRACLES 17:19 AND WE ARE HEARING ABOUT WHAT GOD HAS DONE AND IS 17:22 DOING IN THE COUNTRIES OF CAMBODIA AND VIETNAM WITH 17:25 GARY WAGNER. 17:26 YES, WELL THE WORK OF THE LANGUAGE SCHOOL BECAME 17:31 MORE THAN JUST TEACHING ENGLISH. 17:32 UH, IT ALWAYS IS. 17:35 OF COURSE. 17:36 WE ALSO CONDUCTED EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS AND 17:40 BIBLE CLASSES AND THEN WE GOT INVOLVED WITH UH 17:46 -THAT'S PASTOR NEAL THERE? 17:47 THAT'S PASTOR NEAL, WHO WE SPOKE OF EARLIER AND A 17:49 COUPLE OF PEOPLE HE BAPTIZED, UH HUH, AND I'M 17:53 BEHIND ON MY-KEEP GOING IT IS ALL GOOD. 17:55 SO, THIS IS THE LANGUAGE SCHOOL, UH HUH, WHERE WE 18:00 WORKED. 18:01 THEN ONE OF OUR STUDENTS -THIS IS THE YOUNG MAN WHO 18:08 WAS THE FIRST BAPTIZED MEMBER. 18:09 TRAN TRAN? 18:09 NO, OK. 18:10 TAK SAKARIA AND HE LEFT WITH US ON OUR FIRST 18:17 EVACUATION SO THAT WE COULD SEND HIM TO STUDY TO 18:20 BECOME A PASTOR. 18:21 WONDERFUL. 18:22 AH, OUR STUDENT MISSIONARIES HAD 18:28 INTERESTING MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION. 18:30 MOST OF THE TIME WE WALKED BUT TOWARD THE END OF THE 18:34 TIME WE DID GET BICYCLES AND- I HAD A BIKE WHEN I 18:39 WAS A STUDENT MISSIONARY AND WE JOKED WITHOUR BIKES 18:41 BECAUSE I THOUGHT I WAS DRIVING A JAGUAR SO THAT 18:44 WE HAD A MODEL OF A CAR FOR OUR RAMSHACKLE BIKES. 18:49 MY FIRST BIBLE CLASS WAS A CLASS WITH 12 BUDDHIST 18:52 MONKS. 18:53 INTERESTING. 18:54 AND SOME OF THEM WERE MORE INTERESTED THAN OTHERS. 18:59 THEY ACTUALLY JUST WANTED TO STUDY THE ENGLISH BUT 19:02 YOU SEE THE SECOND FROM THE RIGHT, HIS NAME LAM 19:04 SAMAT. 19:05 I NOTICED HIM- HE IS SMILING A LITTLE BIT. 19:09 YES, AND HE ACTUALLY ACCEPTED CHRIST AND WAS 19:12 BAPTIED. 19:13 HE DID? 19:14 YES, AND WE'LL SEE HIM MORE IN THE FUTURE, OK, 19:18 BUT STUDENTS OUR STUDENTS WERE MOSTLY YOUNG AND 19:23 MANY, MANY OF THEM WERE INTERESTED IN JESUS 19:26 BECAUSE THEY WERE RECOGNIZING THAT BUDDHISM 19:30 JUST WASN'T TEACHING THEM TO PREPARE THEM FOR LIFE 19:35 IN THESE CONDITIONS AND THEY WERE, THEY WERE VERY 19:40 INTERESTED. 19:41 SO, DURING THAT 14 MONTHS THE LORD WAS ABLE TO GIVE 19:45 US 23 SOULS WHO WERE BAPTIZED AND ONE OF 19:49 THEM-THIS IS ONE OF THE BAPTISM GROUPS. 19:51 UH HUH. 19:52 WITH G. 19:53 TEAL AND HIS WIFE IVIE THERE ON THE RIGHT SIDE. 19:57 G TEAL HE IS A FUNNY MAN. 20:01 YES, HE HAS A GOOD SENSE OF HUMOR. 20:03 RIGHT. 20:04 HE HAS A VERY GOOD SENSE OF HUMOR. 20:07 AND HE IS A VERY GOOD FRIEND. 20:11 SO, IT IS NICE TO BE ABLE TO LOOK BACK AT THE 20:16 BEGINNINGS, YES, OF THE ADVENTIST CHURCH BECAUSE 20:20 THE OTHER THING THAT WAS HAPPENING THROUGH THE WORK 20:23 THERE. 20:24 THIS IS SAMET BEING BAPTIZED UH, BY PASTOR 20:28 HELTON FISCHER. 20:29 PASTOR FISCHER WAS ACTUALLY IN CHARGE OF OUR 20:32 WORKIN CAMBODIA BUT HE LIVED IN VIETNAM AND WE 20:35 SAW HIM FOR A FEW DAYS EVERY MONTH. 20:36 UH HUH. 20:37 AND WE NEEDED SOMEBODY TO COME IN AND DO BAPTISMS. 20:38 YES. 20:39 BUT WE ALWAYS APPRECIATED HIS VISITS. 20:40 BUT THE OTHER THING THAT WAS HAPPENING OF COURSE, 20:42 WAS THE WAR. 20:45 AND POL POT WAS DESTROYING VILLAGE AFTER VILLAGE. 20:54 PEOPLE WOULD BE FORCED TO EVACUATE JUST ON A MOMENTS 20:57 NOTICE. 20:58 SOME OF THEM HAD OXCARTS LIKE THESE TO BE ABLE TO 21:00 PUT THEIR THINGS IN BUT MOST OF THEM JUST SIMPLY 21:03 HAD TO GRAB WHAT THEY COULD AND RUN. 21:06 SO, THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST WORLD SERVICE 21:08 BEGAN DISTRIBUTING CLOTHES AND SOME FOOD TO THE 21:13 REFUGEES IN THE VILLAGES WHERE THEY WERE GOING AND 21:17 THAT BECAME THE WORK OF THE LANGUAGE SCHOOL 21:19 BECAUSE IT WAS THE ONLY WORK THAT THE CHURCH HAD 21:21 GOING THERE. 21:23 SO, WE WERE ABLE TO VISIT MANY VILLAGES AND CAMPS 21:28 THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY OF CAMBODIA. 21:31 THE MILITARY WAS ALWAYS THERE WITH US WHEN WE WENT 21:34 BECAUSE THE KHMER ROUGE WERE ALWAYS CLOSE BY AND 21:38 THAT WAS THE BEGINNING. 21:42 OUR CHURCH MEMBERS WHO HAD BEEN BAPTIZED IN THE 21:46 LANGUAGE SCHOOL BECAME PART OF OUR SEVENTH DAY 21:48 ADVENTIST WORLD SERVICE WHICH IS WHAT BECAME ADRA 21:52 LATER-ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT RELIEF AGENCY, 21:54 YES. 21:55 AND SO, WE HAD A NICE UNIFORM TO WEAR AND SO 22:00 MANY OF THEM WORE A UNIFORM AND WENT OUT AND 22:03 WORKED WITH US TO DISTRIBUTE CLOTHES IN THE 22:05 REFUGEE CAMPS-IN THE REFUGEE CAMPS. 22:07 THEY WEREN'T CAMPS AS MUCH AS JUST THE VILLAGES THAT 22:10 THEY FLED TO. 22:11 OH. 22:11 AT THE TIME. 22:12 OK. 22:13 THIS WAS BEFORE CAMPS EXISTED. 22:18 WE WOULD GO TO THE BUDDHIST PAGODAS AND I 22:24 WOULD HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO TELL THE PEOPLE THESE 22:28 ARE THE GIFTS OF PEOPLE IN AMERICA AND THEY ARE GIVEN 22:33 TO YOU BECAUSE WE WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT JESUS LOVES 22:36 YOU AND IT WAS A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY. 22:41 IN FACT, WE LEARNED LATER THAT THE MEDIA THERE WAS 22:46 FOLLOWING IT AND THEY WERE EVEN DOING A NEWSREEL OF 22:50 OUR DISTRIBUTIONS AND SHOWING THEM AT THE MOVIE 22:52 THEATRES IN THE TOWN. 22:53 REALLY? 22:54 SO, WE FOUND PEOPLE WHO KNEW ABOUT THE WORK OF THE 23:00 CHURCH AND OTHER PEOPLE WHO KNEW ABOUT THE WORK IN 23:04 THE LANGUAGE SCHOOLS SO IN 1974 WHEN '75 WHEN VIETNAM 23:15 FELL, AH CAMBODIA FELL AS WELL AND FROM THEN UNTIL 23:20 1979 OR '80 IT WAS JUST DARK. 23:26 YES.NOT MUCH. 23:27 WE KNEW THAT OUR CHURCH MEMBERS WERE ALL TARGETS 23:33 UH, BECAUSE ANYONE WHO HAD A FOREIGN RELIGION, ANYONE 23:41 WHO HAD AN EDUCATION OF HIGH SCHOOL OR HIGHER, 23:46 ANYONE WHO WORE GLASSES OR HAD DENTAL WORK, ANYBODY 23:50 WHO HAD FRIENDS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES WERE ON THE LIST 23:55 TO BE EXECUTED. 23:57 EXECUTED? 23:58 EXECUTED. 23:59 EXECUTED FOR WEARING GLASSES? 24:00 YES, BECAUSE THEY WERE CONSIDERED TO BE EDUCATED, 24:05 YES, UPPER ECHELON, AND THESE WERE THE PEOPLE WHO 24:09 WOULD BE ABLE TO DEVELOP AN OPPOSITION-AGAINST THE 24:13 GOVERNMENT. 24:15 IT WAS HARDLY CALLED A GOVERNMENT. 24:17 CAMBODIAN COMMUNISM IS CONSIDERED TO HAVE BEEN 24:21 THE MOST, THE MOST PURE EFFORT UH, TO BUILD UP A 24:28 TRUE COMMUNIST COUNTRY AND WHAT THAT MEANS IS THEY 24:33 DESTROYED EVERYBODY WHO MIGHT HAVE HAD ANY 24:35 OPPORTUNITY TO LEAD AN OPPOSITION TO THEM. 24:38 WHAT DIFFICULT TIMES. 24:40 SO, DURING THOSE FIVE YEARS, AH THE POPULATION 24:46 OF THE COUNTRY WAS REDUCED BY AT LEAST HALF AND 24:50 POSSIBLY MORE. 24:51 THE NUMBERS ARE REALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW. 24:54 DON'T KNOW FOR SURE. 24:55 AND PEOPLE DIED IN TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE WAYS 25:00 BUT THEN IN 1980 WE BEGAN RECOGNIZING THAT THEY WERE 25:06 COMING ACROSS INTO THAILAND AND THAT IN 25:08 ITSELF WAS A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH AND MANY OF 25:13 THEM DIED TRYING TO GET ACROSS INTO THAILAND AND 25:17 THE CHURCH BEGAN WORKING IN THE REFUGEE CAMPS AND 25:21 THE VILLAGES ALONG THE BORDER AND SO S.A.W.S. 25:25 SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST WORLD SERVICE DEVELOPED 25:28 THIS WORK AND I WAS ABLE TO COME BACK AS A DIRECTOR 25:34 OF S.A.W.S. 25:35 IN 1981 AND I -ONE OF THINGS THAT I LEARNED FROM 25:42 THE MAN WHO I TOOK OVER FROM WAS THAT IN ONE 25:51 VILLAGE WE HAD A BAMBOO AND THATCH CHURCH THAT WAS 25:57 BEING BUILT AND SO IN OTHER VILLAGES WE HAD 26:02 OTHER ADVENTISTS WHO WERE TEACHING THE BIBLE TO THE 26:06 PEOPLE AND SO FROM THAT SAMET WHOM YOU MET 26:12 EARLIER, BECAME THE PASTOR OF THAT LITTLE CHURCH, 26:15 WOW, IN THE VILLAGE, WOW, AND HIS STORY IS AMAZING 26:18 BUT WE DON'T HAVE TIME. 26:19 NO, THAT'S FOR ANOTHER TIME, MY FRIEND. 26:21 AND AS A RESULT OF THE WORK THAT THE OTHER 26:22 ORGANIZATIONS AS WELL AS S.A.W.S. 26:23 WAS DOING AND THE PRESENT-DAY CHURCH WAS 26:25 BUILT FROM THAT BEGINNING AND NOW NUMBERS ABOUT 26:26 3500; 3500 FROM THE ONE PERSON THAT WE HAD IN 26:27 1921, YES, NOW WE HAVE 3000 AND WE NEED MORE. 26:29 WE NEED MORE. 26:30 WE NEED MORE TO KNOW JESUS AND THAT'S THE WORK OF THE 26:31 BIBLE WORKERS AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS BUT GOSPEL 26:50 OUTREACH IS TAKING A LEADING ROLE IN TRYING TO 26:55 TEACH THE BIBLE IN THE VILLAGES AND CONTINUE TO 26:58 DO THAT WORK THAT GOD HAS BEEN BLESSING. 27:01 WELL, GARY THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS WALK DOWN 27:03 HISTORY LANE. 27:04 I THINK IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT. 27:05 I LEARNED SO MANY NEW THINGS BECAUSE WE HAVE SO 27:07 MANY COUNTRIES IN THE 10/40 WINDOW AND IT IS 27:09 WONDERFUL TO HEAR ABOUT HOW GOD IS CONTINUING TO 27:12 BLESS AND THE BELIEVERS WHO HAVE STAYED STRONG. 27:14 SO, GARY THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US AND IF 27:16 YOU'VE BEEN ENCOURAGED HERE, THERE ARE SO MANY 27:18 MORE WAYS HOW GOD HAS BEEN WORKING IN THIS AREA. 27:21 WE WANT TO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR LOVE AND 27:23 YOUR SUPPORT OF THE LORD AND OF GOSPEL OUTREACH. 27:26 ON BEHALF OF "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" AND GOSPEL 27:28 OUTREACH, I'M JULIE SANDERS KEYMER AND MAY THE |
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