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00:33 WELCOME TO "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS".
00:35 IT IS ALWAYS A JOY TO BE ABLE TO INVITE YOU FOR 00:39 ANOTHER STORY FROM THOSE WHO ARE WORKING WITH THE 00:43 FRONT LINE. 00:44 WORKING WITH THOSE WHO ACTUALLY TOUCH THE LIVES 00:47 OF OTHERS ALL AROUND THE 10/40 WINDOW. 00:51 I THINK THERE IS OVER 2000 OF THESE YOUNG PEOPLE, 00:55 MIDDLE AGED PEOPLE, HUSBANDS, WIVES. 00:58 THERE IS SO MANY OF THEM OUT THERE WHO HAVE FELT 01:00 GOD'S CALLING TO BE THERE ON THE FRONT LINES FOR THE 01:06 KINGDOM OF GOD- IT'S ETERNAL AND TODAY DAVID 01:11 STREIFLING, THANK YOU, WELCOME, THANK YOU. 01:15 WE'RE GLAD YOU ARE HERE. 01:16 DAVID COMES TO US-HIS HOME IS IN CANADA, RIGHT, BUT 01:21 HE'S JUST BEEN OH, HOW SHOULD WE PUT THIS? 01:26 HE'S BEEN REACHING OUT TO THE PHILIPPINES IN A 01:30 UNIQUE WAY. 01:32 WE'RE REACHING OUT TO THE PHILIPPINES FROM COLLEGE 01:35 PLACE, WASHINGTON. 01:36 THERE YOU GO. 01:37 FROM COLLEGE PLACE, WASHINGTON THERE IS AN 01:39 ADVENTURE GOING ON HERE. 01:40 AN ADVENTURE IN MISSION THAT HAS NOT BEEN DONE 01:43 BEFORE AND THAT'S WHEN I GIVE YOU INVITATIONS TO 01:49 JOIN US BECOME DONORS TO "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" 01:53 TO GOSPEL OUTREACH, THIS IS PART OF THE STORY THAT 01:56 YOU ARE INVESTING IN. 01:57 AH, THEY GOT YOU HERE AND BUT YOU CAME WITH A VERY 02:02 SPECIAL MOTIVE BECAUSE THE PANDEMIC AND THE SHUTDOWNS 02:07 AND THE TRAVEL BANS HAVE MADE IT DIFFICULT TO DO 02:11 WHAT A DIRECTOR DOES. 02:12 AND RIGHT NOW, YOU ARE A DIRECTOR FOR A PART OF THE 02:14 REGION IN THE PHILIPPINES, ARE YOU NOT? 02:16 THE WHOLE PHILIPPINES. 02:16 THE WHOLE PHILIPPINES. 02:17 YES, RIGHT. 02:18 YOU'VE BEEN THAT WAY FOR WHAT, THREE YEARS? 02:19 RIGHT. 02:20 THREE YEARS BUT AS WE'RE RECORDING THIS THE TWO 02:21 PAST YEARS HAVE NOT SEEN YOU VERY OFTEN WITH YOUR 02:33 FEET ON THE GROUND IN THE PHILIPPINES HAVE THEY? 02:35 NO, NO I GUESS THAT'S WHERE THE STORY STARTS 02:38 BECAUSE WE HAD SCHEDULED TICKETS, THE TICKETS WERE 02:42 IN HAND TO TRAVEL TO THE PHILIPPINES IN MARCH OF 02:45 2020. 02:46 THAT WAS THREE YEARS-FEELS LIKE THREE YEARS AGO. 02:49 IT DOES. 02:51 AND WHAT IT REALLY MEANS IS THAT WE'VE MISSED THREE 02:53 YEARS WITH THEM AND WE WERE PLANNING TO GO. 02:55 PAT GUSTIN HAD BEEN -HAD MADE A COMMITMENT TO GO 02:59 WITH US. 03:00 WE WERE GOING TO DO SOME TRAINING OF OUR WORKERS 03:02 THERE IN WHAT WE CALL "DISCOVERY BIBLE STUDY 03:06 METHODS", YES, AND I THINK YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH IT. 03:09 THAT OF COURSE, IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT REALLY 03:11 DREW ME INTO GOSPEL OUTREACH BECAUSE I THOUGHT 03:15 THIS IS WHAT WE NEED TO BE DOING. 03:17 AND WE'RE GOING TO TALK A LOT ABOUT THAT 03:18 METHODOLOGY, AREN'T WE? 03:20 RIGHT, RIGHT. 03:20 THAT'S GOOD. 03:21 SO, YOU WERE PLANNING TO GO, YOU HAD YOUR TICKETS 03:24 AND THEN BY THE END OF FEBRUARY, JUST DAYS BEFORE 03:27 WE WERE READY TO LEAVE THE TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS WERE 03:30 MOUNTING AND WE RECOGNIZED THE IMPOSSIBILITY; WELL IT 03:35 MIGHT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE TO GET THERE BUT WE 03:36 RECOGNIZED THAT BY 30 DAYS OUT WE WOULD BE VERY 03:40 LIKELY STRANDED THERE AND THE DECISION WAS MADE TO 03:42 CANCEL IT. 03:43 WE WERE HOPING TO DO IT THEN AGAIN IN THE FALL OF 03:46 2020. 03:47 THAT DIDN'T WORK. 03:48 WE WERE HOPING TO DO IT AGAIN IN THE SPRING OF 03:49 2021 AND IN THE FALL OF 2021 LAST FALL, AND BY 03:54 LAST FALL WE HAD AGREED THAT IF WE COULDN'T DO IT, 03:58 UH HUH, IN PERSON WE WOULD THEN DO SOMETHING, RIGHT, 04:03 BY ZOOM. 04:04 SOMETHING IS BETTER THAN NOTHING. 04:06 THAT'S WHAT OUR LEAD FACILITATOR, PAT GUSTIN 04:09 SAID. 04:10 SHE WAS GOING TO TRAIN US-ME AND MY PARTNER MY 04:14 ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, WHO IS NOW KEN REED, AS WELL. 04:19 SHE WAS GOING TO TRAIN US. 04:20 SO, WE'VE BEEN STUDENTS IN A STUDENT TEACHER PROGRAM 04:24 WHILE WE'RE TRAINING IN THE PHILIPPINES. 04:25 AND IT IS NOT JUST THE FACT THAT YOU WERE GOING 04:28 TO DO IT BY ZOOM, GOD HAS BROUGHT THE SKILL SETS 04:35 TOGETHER HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH TO MAKE THAT 04:38 POSSIBLE. 04:39 AARON RITTENHOUR HAS BEEN, RIGHT, ORGANIZING ALL OF 04:43 THE TECHNOLOGICAL SIDE OF THIS, RIGHT, AND AS WE ARE 04:46 RECORDING THIS YOU ARE STILL IN THE MIDDLE OF 04:49 THIS PROCESS AREN'T YOU? 04:50 WE'RE TWO DAYS FROM FINISHING THE THIRD WEEK. 04:53 OK. 04:54 TWO DAYS. 04:55 OK SO TONIGHT AND TOMORROW NIGHT WHICH OF COURSE, 04:57 WILL CORRESPOND TO SABBATH FOR THEM. 04:59 OUR FRIDAY NIGHT IS THEIR SABBATH, OK, SO WE HAVE 05:01 OUR SABBATH PROGRAM ON FRIDAY NIGHT WITH THEM. 05:04 WELL, I BELIEVE THAT WE CAN TAKE THIS AND SHOW 05:08 PEOPLE, SHOW YOU, THE VIEWER, A LITTLE BIT OF 05:11 WHAT IT MEANT TO PUT TOGETHER THIS TRAINING 05:14 SESSION FROM WASHINGTON STATE ALL THE WAY TO THE 05:18 PHILIPPINES. 05:19 I THINK WE HAVE A PICTURE HERE, THERE IT IS. 05:21 TELL US ABOUT THAT. 05:22 WELL, THAT'S THE SETUP, KINDNESS OF AARON 05:25 RITTENHOUR, WHO SET UP IN THE LARGE ROOM JUST NEXT 05:28 TO WHERE WE ARE MEETING HERE RIGHT NOW AND HE, I 05:31 THINK HE HAS THREE, WHEN IT IS RUNNING, THREE 05:34 DIFFERENT ZOOM ACCOUNTS THAT HE IS USING AT LEAST 05:37 FOUR DIFFERENT COMPUTERS. 05:39 THERE IS AT LEAST THREE DIFFERENT CAMERAS IN THERE 05:40 AND HE'S COORDINATING EVERYTHING AND BEING SURE 05:45 THAT IT WORKS SMOOTHLY FOR US. 05:47 WHICH IT DOES, SURPRISINGLY MOST OF THE 05:49 TIME. 05:50 WE'VE HAD A FEW TENSE MOMENTS, UH HUH, BUT IT'S 05:51 BEEN PRETTY SUCCESSFUL. 05:53 THAT'S REALLY AMAZING. 05:54 THAT'S WHY THEY DIDN'T ASK ME TO DO THAT. 05:56 AARON HAS SO MANY SKILL SETS THAT I DON'T HAVE AND 06:00 IT'S WONDERFUL THAT GOD HAS BROUGHT THAT TOGETHER 06:03 HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH SO YOU COULD DO SOMETHING 06:06 LIKE THIS. 06:07 WELL YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE IS A BLESSING, WHEN WE DON'T 06:09 HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT TECHNOLOGY I THINK WE CAN 06:12 FOCUS MORE ON WHAT IT IS THAT WE WANT TO PRESENT 06:14 AND, ON THE SKILLS, WE WANT, THE CAPABILITIES WE 06:18 WANT TO SEE DEVELOPED IN THE PARTICIPANTS THAT ARE 06:22 HALF A WORLD AWAY. 06:23 AND SO, WHAT HAPPENS AT THE OTHER END? 06:25 WHAT HAPPENS IN THE PHILIPPINES? 06:27 HOW DO YOU WORK OUT THIS THE TIME ZONE DIFFERENCE? 06:30 THE TIME ZONE IS AN INTERESING THING BECAUSE 06:34 THERE'S OBVIOUSLY A MAJOR PROBLEM. 06:36 THAT'S PART OF THE REASON I DIDN'T WANT TO DO IT 06:38 FROM NOVA SCOTIA BECAUSE WHEN WE ARE IN NOVA SCOTIA 06:41 8 A.M. 06:41 IS 8 P.M. 06:42 AND VICE VERSA. 06:43 UH HUH. 06:44 BUT WHEN WE CAME TO COLLEGE PLACE, WE WERE 06:46 ABLE TO FIND A FIVE HOUR WINDOW THAT DIDN'T PUNISH 06:49 THEM TOO BADLY. 06:50 THEY JOIN US AT 7:30 IN THE MORNING UNTIL 12:30 IN 06:54 THE AFTERNOON FIVE HOUR BLOCK AND CORRESPONDS WITH 06:57 4:30 HERE TO 9:30 IN THE EVENING. 07:00 OK. 07:01 SO, THAT'S WHY WE ARE GONE TOMORROW EVENING FOR THEIR 07:04 SABBATH MORNING PROGRAM. 07:05 SURE. 07:06 WELL, LET'S LOOK AT ONE OF THOSE PICTURES OF ONE OF 07:09 THE BACKGROUND OR MAYBE IN THE PHILIPPINES-THERE IT 07:11 IS. 07:12 THERE IS THE FIRST GROUP. 07:13 WHAT WE ACTUALLY DID WE ORGANIZED THREE DIFFERENT 07:17 GROUPS BECAUSE OUR NUMBER OF WORKERS HAS INCREASED 07:19 AND IDEALLY, WE WANTED ABOUT 50 PEOPLE IN A 07:22 GROUP. 07:22 UH HUH. 07:23 OK, WE HAD 58 IN TWO OF THEM AND 54 IN ONE OF 07:26 THEM. 07:27 THAT WERE ACTUALLY PARTICIPANTS. 07:29 AND THERE IS THE GROUP THAT WE TRAINED DURING THE 07:31 FIRST WEEK. 07:33 MONDAY NIGHT TO FRIDAY NIGHT. 07:35 THAT'S A NICE-LOOKING GROUP? 07:36 DO THEY ALL KNOW EACH OTHER? 07:40 NO. 07:40 NO, NOT REALLY. 07:42 YOU KNOW, THAT'S ONE OF THE BENEFITS OF WHAT WE 07:44 HAVE DONE. 07:46 OUR GOAL WAS TO CREATE A RETREAT BECAUSE SO MANY 07:49 TIMES MANY OF THESE WORKERS ARE WHAT I CALL 07:52 FRONTLINE WORKERS. 07:53 UH HUH. 07:54 THEY MAY BE IN A REMOTE VILLAGE. 07:55 THEY MAY BE, THEY MAY BE IN ANOTHER FRONTLINE WHERE 07:59 THEY KNOW ONE OR TWO PEOPLE BUT BY THE TIME WE 08:03 GET THE WORKERS FROM TWO OR THREE CONFERENCES OR 08:05 MISSIONS TOGETHER AND EVEN SOME OF THEIR OWN FROM 08:08 THEIR OWN MISSION THEY DON'T KNOW, THERE IS A LOT 08:11 OF WHAT I CALL, "SHOP TALK", THAT GOES ON OVER 08:14 MEALS, THE HOURS THEY ARE EXERCISING TOGETHER, EVEN 08:18 DURING BREAKS THEY ARE VISITING, THEY ARE RUBBING 08:20 SHOULDERS, THEY ARE DISCOVERING THAT THERE IS 08:22 SOMEONE ELSE WHO SHARES THE SAME BURDEN THEY DO 08:25 UNDER SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES AND THE 08:28 OPPORTUNITY TO PRAY TOGETHER, THAT'S BUILT 08:30 INTO OUR PROGRAM BUT THAT'S NOT ALL THE PRAYING 08:33 THEY CAN DO I CAN TELL YOU THAT. 08:35 THE PROGRAM THOUGH, IS FOCUSING ON STORY, ISN'T 08:38 IT? 08:38 RIGHT. 08:39 PAT GUSTIN HAS BEEN INTRODUCING THIS IDEA OF 08:42 HOW TO, HOW TO SHARE THE STORIES OF THE GOSPEL, THE 08:46 STORIES OF THE BIBLE, RIGHT, AND THESE PEOPLE 08:49 ARE LEARNING THOSE STORIES. 08:52 LET'S LOOK AT ANOTHER PICTURE HERE. 08:54 WHAT ARE THEY DOING THERE IN THAT PICTURE? 08:57 TO UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ALMOST NEED TO UNDERSTAND 08:59 THE WAY WE ORGANIZED THE GROUPS. 09:01 WE KIND OF INVENTED QUICKLY WITH THE FIRST 09:03 GROUP AND IT WORKED SO WELL WE'VE KEPT DOING IT. 09:06 WE ORGANIZED THEM BY TABLES WHICH IS A SMALL 09:09 GROUP USUALLY EIGHT PEOPLE, MAYBE SEVEN-SEVEN 09:12 IS THE IDEAL NUMBER AND MAYBE FIVE OR SIX BUT 09:17 TYPICALLY WE WILL GIVE THEM AN ASSIGNMENT TO 09:19 DISCUSS TOGETHER FOR A FEW MINUTES. 09:21 SOMETIMES IT'S IS ONE MINUTE, SOMETIMES IT CAN 09:23 BE AS LONG AS 10 OR 15 MINUTES. 09:25 YES. 09:26 DEPENDING ON THE NATURE OF THE ASSIGNMENT AND THEN WE 09:28 ASK THEM TO RESPOND TO US THROUGH A CENTRALLY 09:31 LOCATED MICROPHONE. 09:32 THEY COME TO THE MICROPHONE AND WE CAN 09:35 INTERACT WITH THEM ONE ON ONE AND OF COURSE, THE 09:38 WHOLE GROUP WE SEE IS ABLE-WE SEE THE WHOLE 09:40 GROUP AT ONE TIME AND THEY ARE ABLE TO SEE US AND SEE 09:42 OUR POWERPOINTS ON THEIR SCREEN AND SO IT WORKED 09:45 TOGETHER VERY WELL. 09:52 NOT ONLY DO YOU SEE GROUPS LIKE THIS BUT SOMETIMES 09:54 YOU SEE THEM IN PRAYER TOGETHER TOO, YOU KNOW. 09:57 SURE. 09:58 WE HAVE LIKE DANIEL, PRAYER MORNING, NOON AND 10:02 NIGHT SO WE HAVE THE FIRST PRAYER WHEN WE FIRST START 10:05 AND THE LAST PRAYER WHEN WE END AND THEN THE LOCAL 10:07 HOSTS ORGANIZES THE THIRD PRAYER AS PART OF THEIR 10:10 EVENING MEETING. 10:11 AND NOT ONLY DO THEY GET TRAINING, THEY GET TO 10:14 WORSHIP TOGETHER DON'T THEY? 10:16 THAT IS A PRECIOUS EXPERIENCE. 10:18 THAT IS REALLY A PRECIOUS EXPERIENCE. 10:21 AND YET, THEY ARE SO ISOLATED OUT THERE TO 10:23 ACTUALLY TO BE TOGETHER TO SENSE THAT THEY ARE PART 10:26 OF SOMETHING BIGGER THAN ONE LITTLE PLACE. 10:29 THAT IS AN AWESOME BENEFIT AND THAT'S WHY 10:32 THEORETICALY WE COULD HAVE JOINED FROM 100 DIFFERENT 10:35 SITES. 10:36 ZOOM HAS THAT CAPABILITY BUT WE WANTED THEM TO HAVE 10:38 THIS EXPERIENCE, THIS RETREAT, THIS REFRESHMENT, 10:41 THIS REVITALIZATION THAT'S WHY WE WANTED THEM TO COME 10:44 TOGETHER. 10:45 I THINK WE'RE ABOUT TO LEAD INTO A LITTLE PROMO 10:50 THAT WE ALWAYS INCLUDE IN "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" 10:53 AS WE REACH OUT TO YOU WHO ARE CONSIDERING WHETHER 10:57 GOD IS CALLING YOU TO BE INVOLVED OR WHETHER YOU 11:00 CAN BE A PART WITH YOUR FINANCES OR YOUR 11:03 VOLUNTEERING, YOU KNOW HOW YOU CAN REACH US. 11:06 YOU CAN ALWAYS REACH US AT COLLEGE PLACE. 11:09 THERE IS THE TELEPHONE NUMBER THAT'S ON YOUR 11:11 SCREEN. 11:12 YOU'LL SEE THAT. 11:13 THERE IS THE WEB ADDRESS. 11:16 YOU CAN BE A PART AND I WANT YOU TO LISTEN 11:19 CAREFULLY. 11:20 BUT BEFORE WE GO TO THE PROMO, WE WANT TO SHOW YOU 11:23 A LITTLE VIDEO CLIP OF A WORSHIP SESSION TOGETHER 11:27 AND TWO YOUNG PEOPLE WITH WONDERFUL VOICES ARE 11:31 LEADING THEM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT LANGUAGE IT IS, I 11:33 DON'T KNOW THE LANGUAGE EITHER, I KNOW IT IS NOT 11:35 ENGLISH BUT THEY ARE SINGING-THAT'S A HUSBAND 11:38 AND WIFE TEAM, HUSBAND AND WIFE. 11:39 THEY ARE IN NORTHEST MINDANAO WHERE THEY ARE 11:41 WORKING RIGHT ALONG THE COAST. 11:42 HIS GUITAR AND HIS BOAT ARE HIS TOOLS. 11:44 THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE BEEN THERE YOU MIGHT RECOGNIZE 11:46 THE LANGUAGE BUT LET'S SHOW THAT CLIP RIGHT NOW 11:50 OF THIS WORSHIP SESSION TOGETHER. 11:51 (SINGING ON VIDEO). 13:07 ISN'T THAT AN AMAZING SIGHT? 13:09 YOU'VE BEEN THERE. 13:10 YOU'VE HAD TIMES WHEN WORSHIP WAS SWEET AND THE 13:14 MUSIC WAS A BLESSING THAT IS THE KIND OF TIME THAT 13:18 WE ALL NEED. 13:19 THESE WORKERS THAT YOU SPONSOR. 13:23 SOME OF YOU ARE ALREADY DONATING FUNDS FOR THIS. 13:28 THIS IS A BLESSING FOR THEM AND I'M SO GLAD YOU 13:30 COULD SEE IT. 13:31 A LITTLE GLIMPSE OF IT. 13:32 LET'S LOOK AT THAT PROMO NOW. 13:35 WHY HASN'T JESUS COME? 13:37 IT'S BECAUSE WE HAVE A JOB TO DO ONE THAT HIS RETURN 13:41 DEPENDS ON. 13:42 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT CHRIST WILL COME AFTER THE 13:44 GOSPEL HAS BEEN PREACHED IN ALL THE WORLD. 13:48 THE WORLD'S POPULATION EXCEEDS 7 BILLION BUT 3 13:51 BILLION PEOPLE STILL NEED TO HEAR ABOUT JESUS' LOVE. 13:55 NINETY- SEVEN PERCENT OF THE UNREACHED PEOPLE LIVE 13:58 IN THE AREA FROM 10 TO 40 DEGREES NORTH OF THE 14:01 EQUATOR. 14:02 GOSPEL OUTREACH HAS A UNIQUE APPROACH WITH THE 14:05 SUPPORT OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU WE SPONSOR LOCAL GOSPEL 14:08 WORKERS IN MORE THAN FIFTY COUNTRIES. 14:10 BECAUSE THEY KNOW THE LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND 14:13 RELIGIONS OF THEIR NEIGHBORS THEY FACE FEWER 14:15 CHALLENGES THAT FOREIGN MISSIONARIES WOULD. 14:17 TOGETHER WITH YOU WE FUND MORE THAN 2000 BIBLE 14:22 WORKERS BUT MORE ARE NEEDED. 14:23 LET'S REACH THE UNREACHED WITH THE SAVING POWER OF 14:29 GOD'S LOVE. 14:30 JOIN US. 14:31 SPONSOR A BIBLE WORKER. 14:34 DONATE. 14:34 PRAY. 14:35 I'M SO GLAD TO WELCOME YOU BACK TO "ADVENTURES IN 14:38 MISSIONS". 14:40 WE ARE SO BLESSED TO HAVE THIS TEAM THAT WORKS 14:44 TOGETHER WITH YOU OUT THERE WHO ARE WATCHING 14:46 WHAT A JOY TO SEE THE THRILL, THE FACES THAT 14:51 LIGHT UP WITH THE VALUE OF KNOWING A LIVING, RISEN 14:56 SAVIOR. 14:57 I INVITE YOU AGAIN, IF YOU ARE NOT A PART, CONSIDER 15:01 IT. 15:02 GOD MAYBE CALLING YOU. 15:03 LISTEN TO HIS VOICE. 15:05 YOU KNOW, THIS WHOLE TRAINING SESSION THAT 15:09 DAVID AND KEN LEAD AND OTHERS, THERE IS ONE MORE. 15:16 WHAT'S THE OTHER NAME? 15:17 RUTH BOYD, DR. RUTH BOYD FROM ANDREWS UNIVERSITY. 15:20 THANK YOU. 15:21 THESE FOUR HAVE BEEN DOING, FOCUSING ON STORY 15:26 AND THE IDEA OF MEMORIZING STORIES FROM THE BIBLE SO 15:31 YOU CAN SHARE THEM WITH OTHERS IN A VERY WINSOME 15:34 WAY THAT THEY CAN REMEMBER. 15:35 UH, DO YOU WANT DO ANYTHING MORE TO TELL THEM 15:39 OF HOW THAT FEELS? 15:40 WHAT ATTRACTED YOU TO IT? 15:43 I FELT THAT THE STORYTELLING WAS WHAT I 15:45 CALL THE MISSING LINK. 15:47 YOU KNOW, WE'RE PRETTY GOOD AT MAKING FRIENDS 15:50 WITH PEOPLE, UH HUH, BUT WE NEED A TRANSITION WHEN 15:53 WE CAN TAKE THE FRIENDSHIP WITH ME LIKE JOHN THE 15:57 BAPTIST, HE MUST INCREASE BUT I MUST DECREASE. 16:00 UH HUH. 16:01 WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO LEAD PEOPLE FROM BEING MY 16:02 FRIEND TO BEING THE FRIEND OF MY FRIEND THAT'S THE 16:06 SAVING RELATIONSHIP. 16:07 AMEN. 16:08 AND THAT'S DONE WITH STORIES FOR A REASON AND 16:12 WE'RE GOING TO SHOW A VIDEO CLIP RIGHT NOW. 16:15 THIS IS ONE THAT WAS I THINK, PRODUCED OR ADAPTED 16:19 BY PAT GUSTIN. 16:20 RIGHT, RIGHT. 16:21 AND SHE'S OUR LEAD TRAINER AND I THINK SHE IS A 16:25 MASTER STORYTELLER AND THERE IS A COUPLE REASONS 16:26 THAT WE CAN TALK ABOUT AFTER WE WATCH THE STORY. 16:28 OK. 16:29 I WANT YOU TO SEE THIS MOTIVATION FOR LEARNING 16:35 STORIES. 16:36 ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A MONKEY AND THIS MONKEY 16:39 LIVED WAY UP IN A TREE AND THE TREE WAS OVER A NICE 16:44 STREAM. 16:45 AND EVERY DAY THE MONKEY WOULD SIT UP IN HIS TREE 16:47 AND HE WOULD LOOK AND HE'D WATCH THE WATER THEN HE'D 16:49 WATCH THE FISH. 16:50 THE FISH WOULD SWIM BY BACK AND FORTH AND HE 16:53 LOVED TO WATCH THE FISH. 16:55 AND SO, UP IN HIS TREE HE WOULD WATCH THEM AND THEN 16:58 ONE DAY A TERRIBLE STORM CAME AND THIS STORM WAS 17:06 WAVES WERE ROLLING BACK AND FORTH AND IT WAS 17:10 SPLASHING OVER THE BANK AND HE LOOKED DOWN AND THE 17:13 FISH WAS JUST STRUGGLING TO MOVE AND HE WAS SO 17:17 WORRIED ABOUT THE POOR FISH AND SO, AT GREAT 17:21 PERIL TO HIS LIFE, HE GRABBED A HOLD OF A BRANCH 17:24 WITH HIS, WITH HIS ONE ARM AND HIS TAIL AND HE 17:27 REACHED WAY, WAY DOWN OVER THE STREAM AND FINALLY AND 17:30 IN A VERY DANGEROUS MOMENT, HE GRASPED THE 17:36 FISH AND HE TOOK IT OUT OF THE WATER SAFELY AND LAID 17:41 IT ON THE BEACH AND HE FELT SO HAPPY. 17:46 HE FELT SO GOOD THAT HE HAD SAVED THE FISH AND THE 17:50 FISH FLOPPED AROUND FOR A MINUTE OR TWO AND THEN IT 17:53 GOT VERY SILENT AND HE THOUGHT OH, THE FISH IS 17:58 PEACEFUL AND HAPPY NOW AND I'M SO GLAD I COULD SAVE 18:02 IT. 18:03 OF COURSE, WHAT HE DIDN'T REALIZE BECAUSE HE WAS A 18:05 MONKEY IS THAT HE'D ACTUALLY KILLED THE FISH. 18:09 THE POOR FISH DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO LIVE ON LAND. 18:11 HE UNDERSTOOD MONKEY CULTURE BUT HE DID NOT 18:16 UNDERSTAND FISH CULTURE. 18:18 AND SO AS A RESULT WHEN HE TRIED TO SAVE THE FISH, HE 18:25 ACTUALLY KILLED IT AND UNFORTUNATELY, SOMETIMES 18:29 WE AS MISSIONARIES, WE COME FROM ONE CULTURE, OUR 18:32 CULTURE, AND WE WANT TO HELP SOMEONE FROM A VERY 18:35 DIFFERENT CULTURE AND IF WE DON'T UNDERSTAND IT 18:40 INSTEAD OF SAVING AND HELPING PEOPLE WE MAY 18:43 ACTUALLY HURT THEM AND EVEN MORE OR LESS DESTROY 18:47 THEM. 18:48 THAT'S AN AMAZING THING, ISN'T IT? 18:51 INADVERTENTLY, INADVERTENTLY WE CAN TAKE 18:57 THE GOOD NEWS AND IT CAN BECOME DEADLY. 19:00 THAT'S THE LESSON OF THAT STORY BUT REMEMBER I SAID 19:03 THERE WERE TWO REASONS I WANTED THEM TO SEE AN 19:05 ENTHUSIASTIC STORY TELLER BECAUSE A GOOD STORYTELLER 19:10 HAS A WAY OF MAKING THE STORY STICK IN YOUR 19:12 MEMORY. 19:12 YES. 19:14 NOW YOU CAN APPLY THAT TO BIBLE STORIES TOO, BECAUSE 19:15 BIBLE STORIES CAN BE MONOTONE OR BIBLE STORIES 19:18 CAN BE MADE TO LIVE EVEN USING THE EXACT WORDS OF 19:22 WHATEVER LANGUAGE YOU SPEAK. 19:25 THAT IS A FACT, THE WAY IT IS REMEMBERED AND SHARED 19:30 TELLS A LOT BUT IF I UNDERSTAND FROM PAT'S 19:33 PRESENTATION, ONE OF THE REASONS YOU WERE TEACHING 19:37 THIS STORYTELLING TECHNIQUE TO THOSE GOSPEL 19:40 WORKERS IS BECAUSE THEY NEED A WAY TO REACH PEOPLE 19:44 WHO ARE NOT ALREADY BELIEVERS. 19:46 THEY DON'T ALREADY HAVE A BIBLE BACKGROUND 19:48 SOMETIMES. 19:49 IS THAT TRUE? 19:50 THAT'S PROBABLY THE REAL STRENGTH OF THIS SYSTEM 19:54 BECAUSE THE WAY WE LEARN, THE WAY CULTURE IS THERE 19:58 IS A CORE PART THAT WE CALL CORE VALUES, WE CALL 20:02 IT I GUESS IT IS CORE VALUES, THINGS THAT ARE SO 20:05 MUCH INGRAINED IN OUR TRAINING AND IN OUR LIVING 20:07 THAT WE AREN'T EVEN AWARE THAT WE USE THEM, THAT 20:10 THEY ARE PART OF US. 20:11 AH. 20:12 IT IS LIKE THE LAW OF GRAVITY, YOU KNOW, WE LIVE 20:14 WITH IT EVERYDAY. 20:15 WE UNDERSTAND IT. 20:16 IT CONTROLS WHAT WE DO BUT WE DON'T REALIZE IT AND IF 20:20 WE HAVE AN ANIMIST WORLD VIEW, FOR EXAMPLE, RIGHT, 20:23 THEY HAVE NO CONCEPT OF THE LOVE OF JESUS. 20:26 THEY LIVE IN FEAR OF SPIRITS. 20:28 YES. 20:29 YOU KNOW, AND THAT CAN-IF ALL WE DO IS WHAT WE MIGHT 20:35 CALL VALUE ADDED, TEACH THEM SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST 20:38 CHRISTIAN DOCTRINES, BUT WE HAVEN'T INTRODUCED THEM 20:40 TO JESUS AND PUT FAITH IN THE BIBLE, WE ARE IN BIG 20:43 TROUBLE, WE'RE IN BIG TROUBLE AND THEY ARE TOO. 20:45 AND THEY ARE LIKE THAT FISH IF THEY FINALLY THEY 20:48 ARE LIKE THAT FISH WE'VE TAKEN THEM OUT OF THEIR 20:50 ELEMENT BUT WE HAVEN'T GIVEN THEM ANYTHING ELSE 20:52 AND GOOD STORIES, GOOD BIBLE STORIES CAN CHANGE 20:56 THAT WORLD VIEW AND CAN HELP US TO REALIZE THAT 21:00 GOD IS THE STRONGEST SPIRIT AND THOSE OTHER 21:02 SPIRITS ARE ALL SUBSERVIENT. 21:04 MANY OF US ARE USED TO SWIMMING, AS IT WERE, IN 21:08 THOSE STORIES OF THE BIBLE. 21:10 THAT'S FOR SOME OF US WHO GREW UP IN THAT, LIKE YOU 21:13 SAY, WE ARE UNAWARE HOW INFLUENTIAL THEY ARE. 21:16 THIS IS A WAY TO INTRODUCE THOSE STORIES THAT HAVE 21:19 BLESSED US TO THEM. 21:21 RIGHT, RIGHT. 21:22 OH, WOW. 21:24 NOW, WHEN YOU WERE TEACHING THIS IS IT NOT 21:28 TRUE THAT THIS TAKES A MOMENT OF PRACTICE BY 21:31 THESE PEOPLE. 21:32 ARE THOSE TABLES OR THOSE GROUPS AROUND THOSE TABLES 21:35 IS THAT WHERE PRACTICE? 21:36 THEY DO GET THAT PRACTICE. 21:38 WE HAVE THEM SHARE THEIR BIBLE STORY THAT THEY HAVE 21:40 MEMORIZED ON SABBATH MORNING. 21:42 NOW WORLD VIEW IS THE WORD I WAS TRYING TO THINK OF A 21:44 MINUTE AGO, OK, WHEN I SAID CORE. 21:46 IT IS THE WORLD VIEW THAT WE WANT TO CHANGE. 21:48 IT IS VERY BASIC. 21:49 I THINK WE HAVE A VIDEO OF THAT DON'T WE? 21:50 I THINK WE DO. 21:51 STORYTELLING AT ONE OF THE TABLES. 21:52 WE DO. 21:53 LET'S TRY THAT. 21:54 (VIDEO PLAYING) THE STORY THIS MORNING IS FOUND IN 22:06 LUKE 17:11-18. 22:09 JESUS HEALS THE LEPERS. 22:15 ISN'T THAT WONDERFUL THAT THEY CAN DO THIS IN 22:22 ENGLISH THEMSELVES WHEN IT'S NECESSARY, BUT THEY 22:25 CAN ALSO DO IT IN THE LOCAL LANGUAGES. 22:27 RIGHT. 22:28 RIGHT? 22:29 AND THE WHOLE BIT ABOUT ASKING THEM, TEACHING 22:34 THEM, THEY LOVE THIS. 22:37 I KNOW WE DON'T HAVE A HUGE AMOUNT OF TIME LEFT 22:39 BUT TELL US ANOTHER STORY ABOUT THAT TRAINING 22:42 PROCESS. 22:43 WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO WATCH THEM ABSORB THESE IDEAS? 22:49 ONE OF THE THINGS FOR SURE, WE GROUPED THEM BY 22:51 LANGUAGE EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE TALKING TO US IN 22:53 ENGLISH, EACH TABLE IS WORKING IN ITS LOCAL 22:55 LANGUAGE MEMORIZING IN THEIR LOCAL LANGUAGE. 22:58 YOU KNOW, AND I WAS WONDERING HOW THEY WOULD 23:01 FEEL AT THE END. 23:02 YOU KNOW, AND SO I ASKED THEM FOUR QUESTIONS AND 23:06 MAYBE THIS IS THE TIME TO SHOW THAT VIDEO? 23:08 IS IT? 23:09 WELL, WE'RE VERY CLOSE TO THAT, YES. 23:13 IF YOU DIVIDED THIS INTO SEVERAL WEEKS, YOU SAID, 23:16 RIGHT, AND THIS WE'RE ALMOST DOWN TO THE THIRD 23:17 WEEK HOW LONG WERE THEY ACTUALLY IN TRAINING? 23:18 WE WOULD HAVE SPENT AT LEAST 15 HOURS WITH THEM 23:20 ON -NO 25 HOURS, 25 HOURS IN TRAINING YES. 23:21 WELL, LET'S DO SEE THEIR RESPONSE. 23:22 LET'S WATCH THAT. 23:23 THIS IS AT THE END OF THE SECOND WEEK, I THINK, THE 23:27 SECOND WEEK WITH GROUP WE DID IN THE SECOND WEEK. 23:38 OK. 23:40 THE FIRST QUESTION: HAVE YOU LEARNED ANYTHING THIS 23:42 WEEK? 23:43 IF YOU HAVE, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HANDS. 23:47 LOOK AT THAT, LOOK AT THAT. 23:48 I THINK IT IS A WONDERFUL WORK. 23:50 THEY ARE VERY POLITE. 23:51 THE NEXT QUESTION: WILL YOU BE ABLE TO USE WHAT 23:56 YOU HAVE LEARNED? 23:57 DO YOU THINK YOU'LL BE ABLE TO USE IT WHEN YOU 23:58 GET HOME AGAIN? 24:00 LOOK AT THAT. 24:00 LOOK AT THAT, PAT. 24:01 THAT IS A PRACTICAL ANSWER. 24:04 ONE MORE QUESTION. 24:05 BEFORE I ASK IT THOUGH, IT HAD BEEN OUR HOPE WHEN WE 24:07 PLANNED TO BRING YOU TOGETHER IN GROUPS THAT 24:10 SOME OF YOU WOULD HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF MEETING 24:13 ANOTHER PERSON WHO WAS WORKING IN A SIMILAR 24:15 POSITION THAT YOU'D NEVER MET BEFORE. 24:17 HAVE YOU MADE A NEW FRIEND DURING THIS WEEK? 24:19 ANYBODY MADE A NEW FRIEND? 24:21 LOOK AT THAT. 24:22 WOW. 24:23 I THINK IT'S BEEN WORTHWHILE. 24:25 AND THE LAST QUESTION, PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT 24:27 QUESTION: HAS YOUR FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST GROWN 24:32 DURING THIS WEEK? 24:33 IF IT HAS PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND. 24:35 AMEN. 24:36 OH, ISN'T THAT WONDERFUL. 24:37 PRAISE THE LORD FOR THAT. 24:40 YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO LET YOU WATCH THEIR OWN 24:44 EXPERIENCE-THEIR TESTIMONY. 24:46 LISTEN TO THIS FINAL VIDEO FROM THE FIRST GROUP, FROM 24:51 THE FIRST GROUP. 24:52 (VIDEO PLAYING) I THANK MY GOD AND EVERY REMEMBRANCE 24:54 OF YOU. 24:56 ALWAYS IN EVERY PRAYER OF MY MAKING REQUESTS OF YOU 25:00 WITH JOY. 25:02 JOY FOR YOUR FELLOWSHIP IN THE GOSPEL FROM THE FIRST 25:06 DAY UNTIL NOW AND IT WAS IN THE SAME METHOD THAT HE 25:10 WROTE TO THEM WHEN HE SAID, REJOICE IN THE LORD 25:14 ALWAYS. 25:16 AGAIN, I WILL SAY REJOICE. 25:20 (MUSIC PLAYING). 27:02 IT IS AMAZING ISN'T IT? 27:10 JUST WATCHING THAT MOVES ME TO TEARS. 27:14 GOD WAS THERE. 27:16 HE WAS BLESSING THEM. 27:18 HE KNOWS ALL THEIR LANGUAGES. 27:19 HE KNOWS THE PEOPLE THEY ARE GOING TO REACH. 27:21 DAVID, THANK YOU FOR COMING AND SHARING THE 27:24 STORY. 27:26 THANK YOU FOR THE PRIVILEGE. 27:27 IT'S AN EXCITING THING TO HAVE AN ADVENTURE IN 27:29 MISSIONS. 27:31 GOD BLESS YOU ALL. 27:33 (CLOSING MUSIC). |
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