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Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000846S
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00:33 HELLO, AND WELCOME TO GOSPEL OUTREACH'S
00:35 "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS". 00:38 PUT ON YOUR SEATBELT WE ARE GOING INTO ONE OF 00:39 THEMOST DIFFICULT AREAS TODAY AS GOSPEL OUTREACH'S 00:42 MISSION IS TO REACH THE 10/40 ZONE. 00:45 THAT'S THE AREA ON YOUR GEOGRAPHICAL MAP WHERE THE 00:50 MOST NON-BELIEVING CHRISTIANS LIVE. 00:54 IN FACT, 97 PER CENT OF THE PEOPLE LIVE IN THE 00:57 10/40 WINDOW HAVE NEVER EVEN HEARD OF THE NAME OF 00:59 JESUS. 01:01 NOW, SOME OF THE MOST DIFFICULT PLACES ON THIS 01:03 PLANET WOULD BE LAOS, THE AREAS OF VIETNAM, UM CUBA 01:09 AND SAUDI ARABIA. 01:10 THERE ARE A FEW OTHER AREAS IN CHINA AS WELL. 01:13 WE'VE GOT A VETERAN WHO'S WORKING IN THE AREAS OF 01:16 THE MOST DIFFICULT PLACES ON THIS PLANET THAT 01:19 INCLUDES VIETNAM AND CAMBODIA. 01:23 GARY WAGNER THANK YOU VERY MUCH THIS IS YOUR FIRST 01:26 TIME WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH. 01:28 TELL US JUST A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT GOT YOU INTO 01:30 THIS AREA AND HOW COME YOU'RE INVOLVED WITH THE 01:33 GOSPEL WORKERS IN THIS AREA? 01:35 I'M PLEASED TO BE ABLE TO WORK IN THESE COUNTRIES 01:40 BECAUSE I'VE SERVED THERE BEFORE IN 1973 AND '74 I 01:46 WAS A STUDENT MISSIONARY IN CAMBODIA. 01:48 WOW. 01:49 WHERE I WAS THE DIRECTOR OF OUR ENGLISH LANGUAGE 01:50 SCHOOL AND THAT WAS THE ONLY WORK THAT THE CHURCH 01:54 HAD GOING IN THAT COUNTRY AT THE TIME. 01:57 AND DURING THE PROCESS OF THAT WE ALSO DEVELOPED 02:01 WORK TO DISTRIBUTE CLOTHING AND SOME FOOD TO 02:06 REFUGEES WHO WERE AFFECTED BY POL POT AND HIS KHMER 02:11 ROUGE UH HUH ARMIES SO WE DISTRIBUTED ALL OVER 02:14 THERE. 02:15 GARY, YOU LITERALLY WERE A FIRST PIONEER, A 02:18 MISSIONARY, AND AS A STUDENT MISSIONARY AT 02:20 THAT. 02:21 UH, BY GOD'S GRACE HE MADE IT HAPPEN AND HE MADE IT- 02:25 A LOT OF WONDERFUL THINGS HAPPENED BUT IT WASN'T 02:29 JUST WITH ME. 02:30 THERE WERE OTHERS WHO WERE THERE AS WELL. 02:31 YOU, SOMEHOW WERE IMPRESSED TO CHANGE YOUR 02:33 CAREER; YOU CAME BACK AND CHANGED YOU MAJOR IN 02:35 COLLEGE AND DECIDED TO GO INTO MINISTRY AND THEN YOU 02:38 ENDED UP RIGHT BACK OVER THERE AND YOU'VE BEEN TO 02:41 OTHER PLACES. 02:42 SHOW US SOME PICTURES AND GIVE US A LITTLE JOURNEY 02:43 AS WE GET UNDERWAY. 02:44 WELL, THE CHURCH IN CAMBODIA HAD BEEN TRYING 02:50 TO BE DEVELOPED BY THE DENOMINATION THROUGH ALL 02:54 OF THE 1900'S AND IT HAD STARTED AND THEN STOPPED 02:57 AND THEN STARTED AND STOPPED AND EACH TIME THAT 03:00 THE MEMBERS WHO HAD BEEN THERE SOMEHOW DISAPPEARED 03:03 WHETHER THEY DIED OR LEFT THE COUNTRY OR JUST WHAT? 03:06 BUT IN THE 1950'S AND 60'S RALPH WATTS AND BEATRICE, 03:11 HIS WIFE WERE THERE IN CAMBODIA AND THEY BUILT 03:15 THIS CHURCH THAT NO LONGER EXISTS BUT THEY BUILT IT 03:20 AND THEY BEGAN TO BUILD UP THE CHURCH BUT THEY WERE 03:24 FORCED TO LEAVE JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE HAD BEEN 03:26 FORCED BEFORE THEM. 03:28 AMAZING. 03:29 AH, YES BATTLES BETWEEN ONE IDEOLOGY AND ANOTHER. 03:35 UH HUH. 03:37 AND THEN UH, IN 1972 THE DENOMINATION DECIDED TO 03:40 OPEN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCHOOL IN PHNOM PENH AND 03:44 TRY THAT AS A NEW WAY TO REACH THE PEOPLE. 03:47 AND IT HAD BEEN GOING-IT STARTED BY ED MOORE WHO 03:51 HAD BEEN WORKING IN THE LANGUAGE SCHOOLS IN JAPAN 03:55 AND HE HAD SOME STUDENT MISSIONARIES WHO WERE 03:58 TEACHING AND BUT IT WAS TIME FOR THEM TO LEAVE. 04:01 I WAS INVITED TO COME DOWN THERE FROM UH, KOREA WHERE 04:06 I HAD BEEN TEACHING FOR THE -FOR MOST OF THE YEAR 04:09 AND I ARRIVED AND THEY DISAPPEARED AND WE BEGAN 04:15 AH, GETTING TO KNOW WHAT THE WORK WAS ALL ABOUT AND 04:19 WHAT THE PEOPLE WERE ALL ABOUT. 04:20 VERY INTERESTING I HAD A BROTHER WHO WAS A STUDENT 04:21 MISSIONARY FROM LA SIERRA IN PUSAN AND HE HELPED 04:25 START THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCHOOL RIGHT THERE. 04:27 THAT'S WHERE I TAUGHT WAS IN PUSAN. 04:29 THAT RIGHT? 04:30 YES. 04:31 WELL, NOW TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS PICTURE. 04:33 THIS IS THE LANGUAGE SCHOOL AH; IT WAS FORMERLY 04:40 THE CULTURE CENTER FOR THE SOVIET EMBASSY. 04:43 INTERESTING AND WE WERE RENTING IT AND IN THIS 04:47 LANGUAGE SCHOOL WE DID NOT-JUST ENGLISH CLASSES. 04:52 THIS IS A GROUP OF OUR STUDENTS THERE. 04:54 MOST OF OUR STUDENTS WERE YOUNG AND THEY WERE 04:57 ADMITTEDLY TRYING TO LEARN TO SPEAK THE LANGUAGE SO 04:59 THAT THEY COULD ESCAPE BECAUSE THEY KNEW WHAT WAS 05:00 GOING ON. 05:01 POL POT WAS WORKING IN ALL OF THE COUNTRYSIDE AND 05:03 EVERYBODY WAS CONCERNED. 05:15 AND THIS IS IN CAMBODIA? 05:16 YES. 05:17 NOW WHAT IS THE PREVAILING DENOMINATION THERE OR 05:19 RELIGION IF THERE IS ONE? 05:20 THE PREVAILING RELIGION IS BUDDHIST. 05:22 BUDDHIST AND IN MY FIRST BIBLE CLASS WHEN I GOT 05:25 THERE, I HAD 12 BUDDHIST MONKS. 05:28 THESE ARE A FEW OF THEM AND THEY WERE THERE TO 05:31 LEARN ENGLISH BUT THEY CAME TO THE BIBLE CLASS 05:33 BECAUSE IT WAS LESS EXPENSIVE. 05:35 AND THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE PULLING THE WOOL OVER OUR 05:38 EYES BUT ACTUALLY, THEY DIDN'T RECOGNIZE THAT THEY 05:44 WERE LEARNING ABOUT JESUS. 05:46 UH HUH. 05:47 BUT ONE OF THE YOUNG ME N IN THAT PICTURE AH, 05:50 ACCEPTED JESUS AND BECAME A SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST 05:53 CHRISTIAN. 05:54 BEAUTIFUL. 05:54 THE SECOND FROM THE RIGHT. 05:55 AND SO, WE'RE GOING TO FOLLOW HIS STORY THROUGH 06:02 TODAY AS WE TALK JUST A LITTLE BIT. 06:04 OK. 06:05 AH, HE STRUGGLED A GREAT DEAL BUT THE DEVIL WAS 06:10 FIGHTING TO KEEP HIM UM, BUT WHEN HE FINISHED HIS 06:14 STUDIES, HIS WORK AS A MONK, HE CAME BACK AND 06:21 STUDIED ON A REGULAR BASIS, WAS BAPTIZED. 06:25 THIS PICTURE SHOWS ONE OF THE BAPTISMS UH, AT THE 06:30 CHURCH. 06:31 THE CHURCH WASN'T USED FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN 06:33 BAPTISMS BECAUSE BY THIS TIME THE PRESIDENT'S 06:37 PALACE WAS BUILT RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET. 06:39 YOU'LL SEE A COUPLE, OH WOW, YOU MAY RECOGNIZE. 06:41 SO, THESE ARE ALL CANDIDATES FOR BAPTISM? 06:43 AH, ALL EXCEPT THE ONE ON THE FAR RIGHT, THE YOUNG 06:47 MAN IN THE BACK AND THE YOUNG LADY TWO PEOPLE IN 06:51 FRONT OF THEM AND YOU PROBABLY KNOW THEM. 06:53 AH, THE NAME WAS GANTIER AND IVIE -I REMEMBER 06:59 HEARING ABOUT THEM. 06:59 AND NOW HIS NAME IS G.T. 07:01 AND IVIE. 07:02 INTERESTING AND THAT WAS THE PLACE THE FIRST PLACE 07:05 THEY WORKED. 07:06 THEY WERE THERE TO STUDY THE LANGUAGE AND THEY WERE 07:09 SUPPOSED TO BE THERE FOR FIVE YEARS AND THEY AH 07:14 WERE LEARNING THE LANGUAGE AND STUDYING WITH SOME OF 07:16 THE STUDENTS WHO SPOKE THE LANGUAGE THEY ALREADY-NOW 07:18 HAS GOSPEL OUTREACH INTERSECTED WITH THESE 07:22 EARLY ATTEMPTS TO START BELIEVERS IN THESE AREAS? 07:27 IT WASN'T INVOLVED THERE AT ALL AT THE TIME. 07:30 WE'RE GOING TO FIND GOSPEL OUTREACH KIND OF TOWARD 07:32 THE END OF THIS AH, JOURNEY HERE BECAUSE NOW 07:38 GOSPEL OUTREACH HAS BEEN ABLE TO PICK UP WHERE SOME 07:43 OF THESE OTHER STORIES END UP IN CAMBODIA. 07:47 AH, AND THE REASON WE ARE SHOWING THESE IS BECAUSE 07:54 WE WANT PEOPLE TO RECOGNIZE THAT THE WORK IN 07:58 PLACES LIKE CAMBODIA IS ALWAYS AFFECTED BY THE 08:02 THINGS THAT HAPPENED YEARS AND DECADES AND EVEN 08:05 CENTURIES BEFORE THAT. 08:07 AND THE PEOPLE WHO WE HAVE WORKING IN THESE PLACES 08:10 UH, ARE PEOPLE WHOSE LIVES GOD HAS BEEN LEADING UH, 08:15 THROUGH ALL OF THEIR LIVES AND IT IS CERTAINLY THE 08:18 CASE HERE AS WE'LL SEE. 08:19 SO, ANOTHER THING THAT WE DID FROM THE LANGUAGE 08:25 SCHOOL WAS AH, WE WERE ABLE TO BEGIN TAKING FOOD 08:32 AND CLOTHING PRIMARILY CLOTHING, OUT TO THE 08:36 REFUGEES WHO AH, HAD BEEN FLEEING THEIR HOMES, THEIR 08:40 VILLAGES BECAUSE OF THE ATTACKS OF POL POT AND IN 08:46 THIS PARTICULAR PICTURE THERE WERE 10,000 REFUGEES 08:49 HERE AT THIS ONE PLACE AND SO, PART OF MY JOB AS 08:55 DIRECTOR OF THE LANGUAGE SCHOOL WAS TO ALSO LEAD 08:58 OUT IN THE REFUGEE ASSISTANCE. 09:00 SO, WE WENT TO THE VILLAGES WHERE THE PEOPLE 09:04 HAVE FLED TO UH, GETTING AWAY FROM THE KHMER ROUGE 09:08 AND WE PROVIDED SOME ASSISTANCE TO THEM THERE. 09:11 WELL WHAT KIND OF PROVISIONS WOULD YOU HAVE? 09:13 I MEAN, YOU'RE JUST SUCH A SMALL GROUP IS THERE SOME 09:16 OTHER ORGANIZATION THAT'S PROVIDING EITHER WATER OR 09:19 CLEAN PROVISIONS OF FOOD? 09:23 PRIMARILY, WHAT WE WERE PROVIDING WAS FOOD AND I 09:26 MEAN CLOTHING. 09:27 CLOTHING. 09:28 THESE CLOTHING WERE SENT IN, IN 100 POUND BALES AH, 09:32 BY SHIP BY S.A.W.S WHICH IS WHAT HAD BECOME 09:37 A.D.R.A. 09:38 AND WE TOOK THESE CLOTHES, WE AH, WORKED TOGETHER 09:45 WITH THE CAMBODIAN GOVERNMENT. 09:47 IN FACT, THEY OFTEN TOOK US OUT TO THE VILLAGES AND 09:51 THE MILITARY WAS ALWAYS WITH US BECAUSE UH, KHMER 09:55 ROUGE WAS ALWAYS NEARBY AND AT EACH PLACE WE DID 09:58 THE DISTRIBUTIONS AT A BUDDHIST TEMPLE. 10:02 AND HERE I WAS ABLE TO SPEAK TO THE PEOPLE AND 10:06 TELL THEM -SO, YOU ARE IN A TEMPLE HERE. 10:08 I'M SEEING SOME OF THE MONKS RIGH THERE IN THE 10:10 ORANGE GARB. 10:11 YES, AND I TELL THEM THAT THESE ITEMS ARE A GIFT OF 10:16 THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. 10:18 AH, WE WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT JESUS LOVES YOU AND 10:22 SO, WE'RE BRINGING THESE THINGS TO YOU. 10:25 WE KNOW THAT WE CAN'T HELP A LOT BUT WE WANT TO MAKE 10:30 YOUR LIFE JUST A LITTLE BIT EASIER. 10:31 WHAT'S THE REACTION OF THEM WHEN THEY ARE THE 10:33 RECIPIENT ENDS OF THESE GENEROUS GIFTS FROM PEOPLE 10:36 THAT DON'T EVEN KNOW THEM, THEY'VE NEVER BEEN THERE? 10:38 THE REACTION WAS AMAZING MANY TIMES SINCE I'VE 10:41 SPOKEN TO THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE WORKED AS DORCAS 10:44 LADIES HERE IN THE CHURCHES ACROSS NORTH 10:46 AMERICA AND I'VE SAID, YOU SHOULD SEE THE PARTIES 10:49 THAT THOSE PEOPLE HAD WITH THE GIFTS THAT YOU WOMEN 10:54 SPENT YOUR TIME ALL ALONE PREPARING AND PACKAGING 10:59 AND SENDING AND NEVER SEEING WHO RECEIVED THEM 11:02 AND IT WAS A CELEBRATION WHEN THEY RECEIVED THESE 11:07 SIMPLE GIFTS. 11:08 SO, WE ARE MOVING UP THROUGH THE DECADES WAY 11:11 BACK WHEN WE USED TO SEND MISSIONARIES TO TRY TO 11:13 LEARN THE LOCAL LANGUAGE, IT SOMETIMES TOOK FIVE, 11:16 TEN YEARS AND THEY REALLY DIDN'T GET THAT MUCH DONE 11:18 BUT THEY DID SOMETHINGS AND YOU WERE THERE AS PART 11:20 OF THAT INITIAL PART WITH RALPH WATTS ETC. WHAT ARE 11:23 THE NEXT PHASES AND HOW DID YOU FINALLY GET INTO 11:26 GOSPEL OUTREACH TO GET INDIGENOUS PEOPLE TRAINED 11:29 TO WORK IN THOSE AREAS? 11:30 WELL, WE HAVE JUST A LITTLE BIT TO GO BEFORE 11:32 THAT BECAUSE WHEN VIETNAM AND CAMBODIA FELL AH, 11:37 S.A.W.S WAS ABLE TO GO IN THE EARLY 1980'S, LATE '79 11:44 AND '80 TO BEGIN WORKING IN THE THAI BORDER WHERE 11:48 THE REFUGEES WERE STARTING TO COME INTO THAILAND. 11:51 AH, AFTER AWHILE I BECAME THE S.A.W.S DIRECTOR THERE 11:55 AND WE WERE WORKING IN AH, VILLAGES ALONG THE BORDER, 12:00 WE DEVELOPED BUSH HOSPITALS SUCH AS THIS ONE 12:03 AND AH HAD MEDICAL AH, VOLUNTEERS AND THERE 12:10 WERE-WE SEE THE YOUNG BUDDHIST MONK HERE AGAIN 12:14 ON THE FAR RIGHT. 12:15 HE, OH HE'S THE FORMER BUDDHIST MONK, YES. 12:18 HE BROUGHT HIS FAMILY-TWENTY PEOPLE- AH, 12:21 ALL THE WAY ACROSS CAMBODIA INTO A VILLAGE IN 12:25 CAMBODIA- IN THAILAND BUT WE COULDN'T HELP HIM IN 12:31 THAT VILLAGE BUT I ASKED HIM WOULD HE PLEASE GO 12:34 BACK INTO CAMBODIA AND COME BACK OUT IN ANOTHER 12:37 VILLAGE BECAUSE WE COULDN'T TAKE HIM ON THAI 12:39 ROADS THE U.N. 12:40 WOULDN'T ALLOW US TO DO THAT. 12:42 AND HE SAID YES. 12:44 SO, HE WENT TO THIS OTHER VILLAGE AH, WHERE A 12:48 PREDECESSOR, DICK HALL HAD ARRANGED TO HAVE THIS 12:53 LARGE BAMBOO AND THATCHED CHURCH BUILT. 12:57 AND HE BECAME THE PASTOR AT THAT LITTLE CHURCH, 13:01 WOW, AND HE DEVELOPED A LANGUAGE SCHOOL THERE JUST 13:04 LIKE HE HAD SEEN US DOING IN PHNOM PENH AND REFUGEES 13:07 WERE COMING FROM ALL OVER TO BE A PART OF THIS. 13:10 NOW WE ARE NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT A HANDFUL 13:12 -FAMILY HERE, FAMILY THERE, HOW MANY REFUGEES 13:15 ARE COMING ACROSS TO -OH, THERE WERE AH, HALF A 13:21 MILLION. 13:22 WOW, PEOPLE COMING ACROSS. 13:24 I DON'T KNOW THE EXACT NUMBERS. 13:26 WOW. 13:27 BUT UH, MANY OF THEM DECIDED TO COME TO THIS 13:31 PLACE BECAUSE THEY HEARD WHAT THEY COULD LEARN TO 13:33 HELP THEM GET OUT BUT HE ALSO TAUGHT THEM THE BIBLE 13:36 AND I WAS ABLE TO BE WITH HIM AT TIMES. 13:42 HE IS ON THE FAR-LEFT HERE. 13:44 HE BEGAN -EVERY PERSON YOU SEE IN THESE PICTURES 13:49 EXCEPT FOR SAMET, UH AND THAT'S HIS NAME, WERE 13:52 PEOPLE WHO LEARNED ABOUTJESUS AT THE CAMP AND 13:55 BEGAN LEADING OUT AND I WAS ABLE-WHEN I WENT -I 14:02 WAS THERE FOR THIS BAPTISM UH, THE MISSION PRESIDENT 14:05 FROMTHAILAND CAME AND BAPTIZED THIS GROUP. 14:08 THERE WERE NUMEROUS GROUPS OF PEOPLE BAPTIZED THERE 14:11 BECAUSE OF HIS WORK. 14:12 ARE SOME OF THESE REFUGEES? 14:13 THESE ARE ALL REFUGEES. 14:14 ALL REFUGEES. 14:15 NOW, WHEN I SHOWED THIS PICTURE EARLIER THIS YEAR 14:19 IN THE CAMBODIAN MISSION, I HEARD FROM BEHIND ME ONE 14:24 OF THE MISSION WORKERS SAY, I'M THERE, I'M THERE. 14:27 AND IN THIS PICTURE IS A YOUNG MAN AND I SAID, WHO 14:31 ARE YOU? 14:32 AND HE GAVE ME HIS NAME HANDERA AND HE IS NOW THE 14:34 EXECUTIVE SECRETARY OF THE CAMBODIAN MISSION. 14:37 AMAZING. 14:38 AMAZING STORY. 14:39 THIS BIG BAMBOO CHURCH YOU SHOWED JUST A MOMENT AGO, 14:41 UH HUH, MANY OF THE REFUGEES ARE COMING THERE 14:44 BECAUSE THEY WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN WHATEVER 14:48 YOU HAVE BECAUSE THERE IS SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT 14:49 YOUR FAITH. 14:50 YES, YES. 14:52 AND THEY KNEW THAT THEY COULD FIND THAT THERE 14:56 BECAUSE THE REPUTATION HAD GOTTEN OUT. 14:57 UH HUH. 14:58 SO, MANY OF THE EARLY PASTORS, THIS IS HANDERA, 15:02 MANY OF THE EARLY PASTORS IN THE CHURCH AFTER THIS 15:06 WHOLE THING WAS OVER WHEN CAMBODIA OPENED BACK UP 15:10 AGAIN AND PEOPLE STARTED GOING IN MANY IN FACT, 15:14 ALMOST ALL OF THE PASTORS FROM THE CHURCH IN 15:17 CAMBODIA THEN WERE BECAUSE OF THIS LITTLE VILLAGE AND 15:21 THIS YOUNG MAN. 15:22 AND HIS WORK. 15:23 SO, THE EXCITING THING ABOUT THIS PICTURE IS THE 15:25 WORK OF GOSPEL OUTREACH AND THE SEVENTH DAY 15:28 ADVENTIST MISSION MOVEMENT IS NOT TO JUST TO PUT 15:31 PEOPLE LIKE YOU OVER THERE, THAT'S RIGHT, FOR 15:33 YOU TO GO OVER THERE AND TRAIN SO THAT INDIGENOUS 15:36 PEOPLE CAN TAKE OVER WHEN WE ARE NO LONGER WELCOME. 15:39 IT'S FAR MORE IMPORTANT AND THAT'S ONE OF THE MAIN 15:42 REASONS WHY GOSPEL OUTREACH IS CRITICAL IN 15:46 COUNTRIES ALL ACROSS THE WORLD BECAUSE AH, WE CAN 15:49 TRAIN THESE YOUNG PEOPLE. 15:51 SOMETIMES THEY ARE NOT THAT YOUNG BUT, WE CAN 15:55 TRAIN THEM AND EQUIP THEM AND SEND THEM OUT INTO 16:01 VILLAGES AND THEY CAN BEGIN DOING THIS VERY WORK 16:03 AND GOD IS USING PEOPLE LIKE THIS I WOULD SAY, 16:07 I'VE SPENT 40 YEARS AS A PASTOR BUT AH, GOD USES 16:10 THESE PEOPLE JUST AS MUCH OR MORE AS HE DOES OUR 16:14 PASTORS. 16:15 THEY ARE A PART OF THE CULTURE, THEY KNOW THE 16:18 LANGUAGE, EXACTLY. 16:19 THE PEOPLE. 16:20 IT'S THEIR HOME. 16:22 EXACTLY. 16:23 TELL US ABOUT THE NEXT PICTURE. 16:25 AH, IN THE NEXT PICTURE WE HAVE AH, I VISITED A 16:32 CHURCH IN BATTAMBANG, CAMBODIA AND JUST FOR 16:36 INTEREST SAKE I ASKED THE CONGREGATION HOW MANY OF 16:40 YOUR WERE REFUGEES IN THE REFUGEE CAMPS AND LEARNED 16:43 ABOUT JESUS IN THESE REFUGEE CAMPS? 16:45 AND THIS IS THE NUMBER FROM THAT ONE 16:48 CONGREGATION. 16:49 WOW, WHO HAD BEEN REFUGEES IN THE CAMPS. 16:52 SO, INVESTING IN MISSIONS ESPECIALLY THROUGH GOSPEL 16:56 OUTREACH IS GOING TO RESULT IN THIS KIND OF 17:00 -EVERY PASTOR, EVERY INDIGENOUS WORKER HAS 17:03 DOZENS AND DOZENS OF FRUITS FOR THEIR LABORS. 17:06 ABSOLUTELY, ABSOLUTELY. 17:08 AND SO, UH THAT WORK HAS CONTINUED. 17:12 SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHEN THE WHOLE REFUGEE CAMP WAS 17:13 OVER, SOME OF THE PEOPLE WENT BACK INTO THE COUNTRY 17:14 OF CAMBODIA AND THEY BUILT A CHURCH TO WHERE NOW IT 17:16 HAS 3500 MEMBERS AND IT IS STRONG AND -3500 WOW! 17:17 WHEN WE-WHEN I ARRIVED THERE, THERE WAS ONE. 17:18 AND IT WASN'T BECAUSE OF ME BUT GOD IS WORKING AND 17:38 HE'S WORKING LIKE THAT EVERYWHERE. 17:41 ONE OF THE DARKEST MOST DIFFICULT AREAS IN THE 17:43 10/40 WINDOW IS WHERE GARY HAS BEEN WORKING. 17:46 WE WANT TO TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT WHAT 17:48 GOSPEL OUTREACH IS ALL ABOUT. 17:49 WATCH THIS ON THE SCREEN RIGHT NOW. 17:51 EARTH- VAST, BEAUTIFUL BUT TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AND YOU 17:58 CAN SEE THE PAIN OF A WORLD ON A COLLISION 18:04 COURSE WITH ITS OWN GREED. 18:07 HUMANITY. 18:08 WE NEED LOVE. 18:10 WE NEED HOPE. 18:12 WE NEED A SAVIOR. 18:16 MORE THAN ONE-THIRD OF THE WORLD'S SEVEN BILLION 18:19 PEOPLE STILL NEED TO HEAR ABOUT GOD'S LOVE AND HIS 18:23 PLAN TO SAVE US-ONE THIRD. 18:26 IN SUCH A BIG WORLD, IT'S EASY TO FEEL SMALL BUT YOU 18:32 CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 18:34 PARTNER WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH TO FUND BIBLE 18:37 WORKERS WHO ARE MISSIONARIES IN THEIR OWN 18:39 VILLAGES, TOWNS AND CITIES. 18:42 THEY SHARE THE LIFE CHANGING LOVE AND STORY OF 18:49 JESUS CHRIST. 18:50 THANK YOU FOR GIVING. 18:53 TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE SO THAT ALL THE 19:01 WORLD MAY KNOW JESUS. 19:04 AND YOU CAN FIND OUT A LOT MORE ABOUT GOSPEL OUTREACH 19:07 IF YOU'LL SEND FOR OUR LITTLE FREE BROCHURE 19:09 ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS . 19:11 YOU'LL SEE IT ON THE SCREEN AS THE CRAWL RUNS 19:13 AT THE END OF THE SHOW. 19:15 PLEASE, YOU CAN FIND OUT NOT ONLY WHERE AND HOW 19:17 SOME OF THESE PEOPLE ARE AND HEAR STORIES AND READ 19:20 STORIES THAT YOU CAN'T READ IN REGULAR MAGAZINES 19:22 OR EVEN THE CHURCH JOURNALS. 19:23 MIRACLES TAKING PLACE LIKE YOU'VE HEARD TODAY WITH 19:25 GARY. 19:26 SO, WRITE FOR THAT AND ALSO, WE NEED YOUR 19:28 SUPPORT. 19:29 WE REALLY DO. 19:30 THIS IS A FAITH BASED MINISTRY NO ONE ON THIS 19:33 STAFF IS PAID. 19:34 THERE IS NOTHING LIKE THIS ON PLANET EARTH. 19:37 IT'S A TOTALLY VOLUNTEER MINISTRY AND THEN YOUR 19:40 FINANCIAL SUPPORT GOES DIRECTLY TO THOSE GOSPEL 19:42 OUTREACH WORKERS -THE VOLUNTEERS THAT ARE 19:45 INDIGENOUS BEING TRAINED IN THESE VARIOUS COUNTRIES 19:48 SUCH AS OUR GUEST GARY, HERE TODAY IS TELLING US 19:52 OFF CAMERA HERE ABOUT ONE OF THE PEOPLE THAT WAS IN 19:54 ONE OF THOSE REFUGEE CAMPS IS NOW ONE OF THELEADERS 19:58 AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE MISSION IN CAMBODIA. 20:00 YES, I THINK IT IS THE NEXT PICTURE THAT WE HAVE 20:03 HERE SHOWING A YOUNG MAN WHOSE FAMILY, YES, CAME 20:08 ACROSS THE BORDER AND THE STORY OF HIS FAMILY THE 20:14 WAY THAT THEIR WIVES WERE CONTINUALLY THREATENED BUT 20:19 THEY CAME ACROSS THE BORDER AND WERE ABLE TO 20:20 GET INTO A CAMP IN THAILAND WHERE SOME OTHER 20:24 VOLUNTEERS WERE TEACHING THE BIBLE AND HE LEARNED 20:29 ABOUT JESUS AND HE MET ONE OF THE YOUNG LADIES WHO 20:33 WAS ALSO A REFUGEE IN THAT HOSPITAL IN THAT REFUGEE 20:38 CAMP WHO WAS PART OF OUR LANGUAGE SCHOOL PREVIOUSLY 20:41 AND HE WAS CONVICTED ABOUT THE TRUTH OF JESUS. 20:46 HE BECAME A CHRISTIAN AND HE ENDED UP COMING TO THE 20:51 STATES ATTENDING ONE OF OUR COLLEGES AND BECAME A 20:55 PASTOR AND NOW HE IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE CAMBODIAN 21:00 MISSION. 21:01 WOW. 21:02 LIM PING. 21:03 HE IS DOING A WONDERFUL JOB THERE AND LIM PING 21:07 TOOK ME AROUND THE COUNTRY TO MEET WITH THE BIBLE 21:10 WORKERS UH AND THEY ARE, THEY ARE STRUGGLING. 21:17 ITS AMAZING TO ME TO SEE HOW MUCH THE THOSE WAR 21:22 YEARS STILL AFFECT THE PEOPLE PARTICULARLY THE 21:26 OLDER FOLKS. 21:27 THEY THINK ABOUT IT ALL THE TIME AND I WAS ALSO 21:30 AMAZED HOW OFTEN WHEN I TOLD THEM THAT I HAD BEEN 21:33 THERE BEFORE THEY SAID, OH, WE REMEMBER THAT. 21:36 WE REMEMBER THAT ORGANIZATION IN THE CAMPS 21:39 AND THE THINGS THAT THEY WERE DOING. 21:40 WELL, WE HAVE TIME TO SAY JUST A WORD ABOUT VIETNAM. 21:43 THAT'S A MAJOR, MAJOR NAME IN AMERICAN HISTORY WITH 21:47 THE WAR AND SO FORTH ARE WE GOING TO GET TO THAT? 21:48 AH, THERE IS SOME TO TELL ABOUT VIETNAM. 21:54 LET ME JUST MENTION THIS. 21:56 A YOUNG LADY WHOM MANY PEOPLE IN THE STATES HAVE 21:58 HEARD OF, JUDY AITKEN WAS WORKING IN THESE CAMPS TO 22:02 AH, TO TEACH PEOPLE ABOUT JESUS AND SHE PROBABLY HAD 22:08 A LOT TO DO WITH THE MAN WHO IS NOW PRESIDENT AH 22:16 BEING BAPTIZED. 22:18 I WANT TO MAKE SURE I AM NOT TAKING CREDIT FOR THIS 22:21 BECAUSE THERE WERE SO MANY PEOPLE WHO WERE DOING IT 22:24 AND GOD OF COURSE, WAS THE ONE RESPONSIBLE. 22:26 SO, IN VIETNAM WE HAVE THREE BIBLE WORKERS AMONG 22:29 THE HMONG IN NORTHERN VIETNAM. 22:31 THAT'S A SPECIAL CULTURAL GROUP AND I'VE EVEN SPOKEN 22:34 TO A GROUP OF HMONG IN CALIFORNIA. 22:36 SO, THEY ARE REALLY FINDING DIFFICULTIES 22:40 FINDING A NEST, A SAFE PLACE. 22:42 YES, THEY ARE BECAUSE OF THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE 22:47 WAR BACK IN THE 60'S AND 70'S THEY ARE NOT HIGHLY 22:53 CONSIDERED. 22:54 ONE MIGHT SAY. 22:55 AH, AND WE CAN'T EVEN GO INTO VISIT THEM IN THEIR 23:00 HOMES SO THESE THREE BIBLE WORKERS HAD TO COME OUT TO 23:04 HANOI SO I COULD SPEAK WITH THEM AND EVEN THEN, I 23:07 HAD TO FILM THEM FROM BEHIND. 23:09 AH, BUT IT HELPS US TO SEE THAT THESE BIBLE WORKERS 23:16 AND THE ONES IN CAMBODIA ARE REALLY THEY ARE 23:21 RISKING THEIR LIVES TO BE ABLE TO SHARE THE GOSPEL 23:24 WITH OTHER PEOPLE. 23:25 NOW, YOU'RE THE SPIRITUAL UMBRELLA FOR THIS AREA 23:28 CAMBODIA AND VIETNAM. 23:30 HOW MANY GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS DO WE HAVE RIGHT 23:33 NOW IN CAMBODIA AND IN VIETNAM AND HOW MANY MORE 23:35 COULD WE USE? 23:36 WE HAVE THREE IN VIETNAM. 23:38 WE HAVE EIGHT IN CAMBODIA. 23:41 WE COULD USE DOZENS BECAUSE THESE ARE LARGE 23:44 COUNTRIES AND THERE ARE VILLAGES EVERYWHERE WHO 23:47 NEED SOMEBODY BRING THE GOSPEL IN TO THEM. 23:50 SO, WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO LOCATE THEM. 23:53 WE KNOW SOME WHO WE CAN BRING ON BOARD UH, THEY 23:58 DON'T GET PAID VERY MUCH BUT AS YOU SAID, 24:02 EVERYTHING THAT COMES INTO GOSPEL OUTREACH GOES TO 24:07 PAY THESE PEOPLE FIRST TO LEARN AND THEN TO GO OUT 24:11 INTO THE VILLAGES AND IT IS A SACRIFICIAL MINISTRY 24:14 FOR EVERYONE OF THEM. 24:15 AH, BUT -ACTUALLY DANGEROUS TOO, THOUGH TO 24:19 THEIR LIVES. 24:19 DANGEROUS IN MANY WAYS. 24:21 SOME OF THOSE IMPENETRABLE PARTS OF THEPLANT IN TERMS 24:25 OF GETTING THE GOSPEL OF JESUS. 24:27 AND THE DEVIL IS FIGHTING AGAINST THEM. 24:29 IT WAS ONLY THREE WEEKS AGO THAT A GROUP OF OUR 24:32 BIBLE WORKERS WERE IN A CAR IN CAMBODIA AND THE 24:35 CAR WAS RUN OFF THE ROAD AND DOWN THE HILL AND ONE 24:38 OF THE YOUNG LADIES WHO IS ALSO IN THE CAR WAS KILLED 24:42 BUT I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT THE DEVIL WAS TRYING TO 24:48 TARGET OUR BIBLE WORKERS. 24:50 YES. 24:51 WE NEED TO BE PRAYING FOR THEM AND WE NEED TO 24:54 SUPPORT TO PUT MANY MORE ON LINE. 24:58 IF YOU HAD A CHANCE TO TALK TO THE VIEWER TODAY 25:00 WHO IS SAYING, WELL YOU KNOW I LIVE IN CANADA, I 25:03 LIVE IN THE UNITED STATES, I'M IN AUSTRALIA, I'M IN 25:05 GREAT BRITAIN AND I'VE GOT A LITTLE BANK ACCOUNT I'VE 25:08 WONDERED WHAT TO DO WITH IT, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE 25:11 FUTURE IS GOING TO HOLD. 25:13 WE KNOW WHO HOLDS THE FUTURE. 25:14 THAT'S RIGHT. 25:15 BUT WE KNOW THAT WE'VE BEEN STRUCK, THIS PLANET 25:17 HAS LITERALLY PARALYLZED WITH PANDEMICS AND THINGS 25:19 WHICH JESUS SAID THAT WOULD HAPPEN IN THE VERY 25:21 LAST DAYS, UH HUH, WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO THOSE 25:23 INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE WONDERING IS THIS WORTH AN 25:25 INVESTMENT IN GOSPEL OUTREACH? 25:27 YOU KNOW, WHILE I WAS THERE WHAT I SAW WAS AH, 25:31 AT THAT TIME EVERYTHING WAS CLOSING DOWN IN 25:35 CAMBODIA AND VIETNAM UH, AND WE HAD NO WAY TO 25:40 FUNCTION THERE BUT THESE PEOPLE IN THEIR VILLAGES 25:44 CAN CONTINUE TO TEACH THE GOSPEL TO THE PEOPLE 25:48 AROUND THEM AND THEN IT SPREADS. 25:49 IT SPREADS LIKE WILDFIRE BECAUSE WE ARE TRAINING 25:53 THEM TO HELP THEIR FRIENDS, THEIR NEIGHBORS 25:58 AND TO SHARE THIS WONDERFUL MESSAGE AND SO 26:02 ITS TIME, ITS TIME FOR US TO BE PUTTING OUR MONEY 26:06 INTO SHARING THE GOSPEL AROUND THE WORLD AND 26:10 ESPECIALLY IN THE 10/40 WINDOW. 26:13 GARY WAGNER, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING WITH US 26:16 TODAY AND APPEALING TO OUR HEARTS. 26:17 MY HEART TOO ,THAT ONE OF THESE DAYS WE'LL BE 26:20 THROWING OUR MONEY TO THE MOLES AND THE BATS -WE 26:22 WON'T -WE WISH WE COULD INVEST IN THE KINGDOM OF 26:25 HEAVEN WHEREAS IF YOU INVEST NOW IN GOSPEL 26:28 OUTREACH ALL OF THE FUNDS GO TO THESE DIRECTLY INTO 26:32 THE POCKETS OF THESE INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE 26:34 DOZENS AND DOZENS OF BAPTISMS EVERY SINGLE 26:37 YEAR. 26:37 SOME OF THEM EVEN MORE. 26:39 ONE YOUNG MAN HAS BAPTIZED 123 SOULS IN THREE YEARS. 26:43 FANTASTIC. 26:43 PRAISE GOD. 26:44 SO, WHEN YOU ARE WATCHING THERE AT HOME FROM WEEK TO 26:47 WEEK PRAY THAT GOD WILL IMPRESS YOU HOW YOU CAN 26:49 GET INVOVLED. 26:50 NUMBER ONE PLEASE PRAY FOR THESE WORKERS. 26:52 THEY NEED YOUR PRAYERS AND PRAYER CHANGES THINGS. 26:55 SO, PRAY FOR THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS OVER 26:58 THERE IN CAMBODIA AND VIETNAM AND THEN GET 27:01 INVOVLED IF YOU CAN. 27:02 MAYBE YOU'D LIKE TO GO OVER OR ASSIST SOME PERSON 27:04 WHO WANTS TO GO OVER AS A MISSIONARY. 27:06 WE CAN USE THEIR HELP AND FINALLY THANKS AGAIN FOR 27:09 YOUR SUPPORT. 27:10 MAY HEAVEN SMILE DOWN ON YOU WITH ITS CHOICEST 27:12 BLESSINGS. 27:13 UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN HERE, THANKS FOR WATCHING 27:15 ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS AND GARY, THANKS FOR BEING OUR |
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