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00:32 HI, I'M JULIE.
00:34 WELCOME TO "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" HERE AT GOSPEL 00:36 OUTREACH AND THIS 10/40 WINDOW THAT WE TALK ABOUT 00:39 HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH IS NEAR AND DEAR TO OUR 00:42 HEARTS AND WE KNOW IT IS NEAR AND DEAR TO YOUR 00:44 HEARTS TOO BECAUSE YOU WANT THE PEOPLE OF THIS 00:46 PARTICULAR AREA OF THE WORLD TO KNOW ABOUT JESUS, 00:49 HIS FORGIVENESS AND HIS GRACE AND THE FACT THAT HE 00:52 IS COMING AGAIN SOON. 00:53 SO, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PARTNERING WITH US AND 00:56 THERE IS A WONDERFUL COUNTRY IN THE 10/40 00:58 WINDOW AND MANY OF US KNOW ABOUT IT BECAUSE A BIG 01:01 HUGE TALL MOUNTAIN THAT'S THERE BUT NOT ONLY IS MT. 01:04 EVEREST IN NEPAL RIGHT THERE BUT THERE ARE ALSO 01:06 SO MANY PEOPLE WHO NEED TO KNOW ABOUT JESUS. 01:08 AND TODAY, WE ARE TALKING WITH MISTY AND TOM 01:11 BISCHOFF WHO ARE-WE ARE EXCITED TO HAVE BOTH OF 01:15 YOU HERE AS ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS FOR NEPAL. 01:18 SO, WELCOME TO BOTH OF YOU. 01:19 THANK YOU. 01:20 THANK YOU. 01:21 GLAD TO BE HERE. 01:22 SO, YOU WERE WORKING WITH PASTOR CHARLES SHULTZ AND 01:24 SO MISTY AND TOM WHY DON'T YOU JUMP IN AND SHARE HOW 01:27 YOU GOT INVOLVED AND TELL US ABOUT YOUR INTEREST IN 01:30 NEPAL. 01:31 WELL, CHARLES WAS OUR PASTOR FOR MANY YEARS AND 01:34 HE INVITED US TO GO OVER THERE IN 2008 AND SO WE 01:35 WENT THERE ANOTHER TIME IN 2014 SO, AND THEN THIS 01:37 YEAR HE INVITED US TO GO BACK AND DO SOME 01:38 INTERVIEWS. 01:39 WONDERFUL. 01:40 AND MISTY, WHAT'S IT BEEN LIKE FOR YOU TO BE 01:42 INVOLVED WITH THIS? 01:45 IT'S WONDERFUL. 01:47 THERE IS THIS COUNTRY FULL OF BRIGHT PEOPLE. 01:49 THEY ARE EAGER TO LEARN AND EAGER TO SHARE AND 01:58 IT'S JUST BEEN WONDERFUL GETTING TO KNOW THEM. 02:01 SO, TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT UM, BOTH OF YOU, UM 02:03 WHERE DO YOU LIVE? 02:04 MISTY, WHAT DO YOU DO FOR WORK? 02:06 I'M A NURSE AND I WORK IN CRESCENT CITY. 02:10 WE LIVE NEAR CRESCENT CITY WHICH IS THE FAR NORTHWEST 02:14 CORNER OF CALIFORNIA, NEAR THE REDWOODS. 02:16 OH YES. 02:17 BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL AND TOM? 02:18 AH, I'M A RETIRED CRNA, A NURSE ANESTHETIST, AND I'M 02:19 ENJOYING OUR RETIREMENT AND TRAVELING SOME HERE 02:20 AND THERE. 02:21 AND HELPING HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH, YES. 02:25 WELL, THANK YOU TO BOTH OF YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR WORK. 02:32 SO, WE HAVE SOME GREAT THINGS TO SHARE ABOUT 02:35 NEPAL AND IT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR US AT GOSPEL 02:38 OUTRACH THAT WE GO AND VISIT THE GOSPEL OUTREACH 02:41 WORKERS AND MAYBE BOTH OF YOU COULD KIND OF REMIND 02:45 OUR VIEWERS OF WHAT'S HAPPENING IN NEPAL. 02:47 WHAT SOME OF THE THINGS WE'RE DEALING WITH; SOME 02:49 CHALLENGES THERE AND JUST HELP US KNOW WHAT IS GOING 02:52 ON. 02:52 YES, SOME OF THE CHALLENGES FOR OUR 02:55 WORKERS: THEY ARE VERY REMOTE AND THERE HARD TO 03:01 TRAVEL AND SOME OF THEM WALK LONG DISTANCES AND WE 03:05 TRY TO PROVIDE MOTORCYCLES OR TRANSPORTATION WHEN WE 03:08 CAN. 03:09 AND THE DIFFERENT MATERIALS THEY NEED TO 03:13 GIVE THE BIBLE STUDIES. 03:15 AND SO, WE JUST LIKE GO OVER THERE AND SEE HOW 03:18 THEY ARE DOING. 03:20 TALK ABOUT HE ROADS AND SOME OF THESE CHALLENGES A 03:22 LITTLE BIT MORE. 03:23 YES, IN DETAIL. 03:23 PAINT THE PICTURE, WOULD YOU MISTY? 03:25 WE UM, WE TRAVELED IN A BOLERO WHICH IS KIND OF A 03:28 JEEP LIKE VEHICLE AFTER FLYING THERE AND UM, THE 03:34 AREA WE WENT TO IS THE LOWLAND AREA OF NEPAL. 03:38 NEPAL HAS SEVERAL-THEY HAVE THE MOUNTAINS, THE 03:41 FOOTHILLS AND THE LOW AREA NEW INDIA AND THAT'S 03:44 MAINLY WHERE WE FOCUSED ON THIS TRIP. 03:46 SO, THE BOLERO CARRIED US OVER BUMPY RIVER BARS 03:50 WHERE INFRASTRUCTURE IS GOING IN, IN NEPAL BUT IN 03:54 PLACE YET. 03:55 AND UM, SO IT WAS CHALLENGING. 03:58 LOTS OF HOURS SPENT IN THAT BOLERO. 04:00 YES, AND YOU WHAT YOU BROUGHT OUT TOM ABOUT THE 04:03 GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS TRYING TO MEET PEOPLES' 04:06 NEEDS AND JUST GETTING FROM POINT A TO POINT B IS 04:08 HARD. 04:09 IT IS ONE THING HERE IN OUR WESTERN WORLD WHERE WE 04:11 GET INTO OUR NICE AIR-CONDITIONED CAR, UH 04:14 HUH, WITH SHOCKS. 04:16 LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SHOCK ABSORBERS IN A 04:18 CAR. 04:19 YES. 04:20 AND YET YOU GO TO MANY OF THESE PLACLES BUMPING 04:22 ALONG AND YOU KNOW, IT'S HARD. 04:24 YES. 04:25 IT'S HARD AND QUITE A CHALLENGE FOR THEM BECAUSE 04:28 FOR US TO CARRY OUT OUR INTERVIEWS MANY OF THEM 04:31 WOULD COME AND MEET WITH US AND THEY WOULD TRAVEL A 04:34 LONG WAYS BY FOOT AND BICYCLE AND BUS. 04:36 IF IN THE CITY AREAS AND TO COME TOGETHER FOR THEIR 04:41 INTERVIEWS AND ENCOURAGEMENT FROM US. 04:44 SO, THE MAJOR RELIGION OH YES, GO AHEAD HERE TOM. 04:47 SO, THIS IS OUR ARRIVAL THIS YEAR AND THE FELLOW 04:50 ON THE RIGHT IS UMESH. 04:51 HE IS THE GOSPEL OUTREACH DIRECTOR FOR NEPAL. 04:54 PASTOR UMESH. 04:55 AND HE'S, I GUESS HE'S A SUPERVISOR AND PASTOR 05:00 SHULTZ IS THE DIRECTOR AND HE MET US AT THE AIRPORT 05:02 AND WE HAD A WARM WELCOME BY HIM. 05:05 YES. 05:05 I'VE INTERVIEWED HIM. 05:06 I'VE ACTUALLY MET HIM AND SO, YES, IT'S A JOY TO-AND 05:08 HE MESSAGES ME AND SO ITS KIND OF NEAT, YES, TO HAVE 05:09 THIS. 05:10 BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, FOR US AND THAT'S ONE THING THAT 05:11 WE WANT TO DO HERE AT "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" 05:12 IS TO EXPLAIN HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO HAVE 05:22 OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS HAVE A CONNECTION 05:25 WITH US. 05:26 AND TO BE ABLE TO MEET, YOU KNOW, IT'S ONE THING 05:28 IN THE LAST 2 YEAR TIMEWARP THAT WE'VE HAD TO 05:31 BE ON ZOOM BUT THE IMPORTANCE NOW TO BE 05:33 ACTUALLY BE THERE AND MEETING WITH THEM. 05:35 RIGHT. 05:36 RIGHT. 05:37 SO, WHAT ARE SOME OF THE RELIGIOUS CHALLENGES THAT 05:39 ARE -THAT WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH IN NEPAL? 05:42 WELL, YOU HAVE YOU KNOW, THE HINDU RELIGION HAS 05:44 MANY DIFFERENT GODS SO, JESUS IS ANOTHER GOD FOR 05:48 THEM AND IT IS IMPORTANT TO SHOW THEM, YOU KNOW, 05:52 HOW DIFFERENT HE IS AND WHAT HE CAN DO IN THEIR 05:55 LIVES AND ONE OF THE BEST WAYS IS TO MEET THEIR 05:56 HEALTH NEEDS. 05:57 AND PRAY FOR THEM AND TRY TO ENTER INTO THEIR 05:58 SUFFERING AND HELP THEM OUT. 05:59 BECAUSE WHEN THEY DO HAVE ALL THESE REMOTE AREAS 06:00 IT'S NOT LIKE RIGHT HERE WE ARE SITTING WHERE THERE 06:04 ARE A NUMBER OF PHARMACIES THAT, RIGHT, IN LITERALLY 06:10 5-7 MINUTES YOU CAN COULD BE THERE BUT AS MEDICAL 06:16 PROFESSIONALS WHAT'S THIS LIKE FOR YOU FOLKS TO SEE 06:19 THE NEED? 06:20 GO AHEAD. 06:23 SO, THE NEEDS ARE WITH OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS 06:30 OFTEN PRAYER FOR A HEALTH NEED IS ONE OF THE 06:34 ENTERING WEDGES. 06:35 THEY WILL BE CONTACTED BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT 06:37 ALLOWED TO HOLD EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS IN 06:40 THE COUNTRY THEN IF OUR GOSPEL WORKERS BECOME 06:45 KNOWN AS PRAYING PEOPLE AND WHEN SOMEONE IS ILL 06:48 AND DOESN'T RESPOND OR CAN'T HAVE ACCESS TO WHAT 06:52 THEY NEED, THEY'LL BE RESOURCED FOR PRAYER AND 06:56 SO WE GOT MANY REPORTS FOR ANSWERS TO PRAYER BUT JUST 07:00 IN DISTANCE AND LOGISTICS ARE INCREDIBLE AS FAR AS 07:03 THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE U.S. 07:05 AND THERE. 07:07 SO, WE'LL GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE THERE AND THIS IS 07:10 AH, THE FIRST PLACE WE WERE TAKEN. 07:13 IT IS CALLED ADVENTIST NEW VILLAGE AND WE INTERVIEWED 07:18 SEVENTEEN GOSPEL WORKERS THERE. 07:20 THEY CAME FROM VARIOUS PLACES. 07:21 MANY OF THEM TRAVELED A LONG DISTANCE TO GET THERE 07:24 AND SO WE INTERVIEWED THESE PEOPLE AND TOOK 07:27 NOTES AND ASKED THEM THEIR NEEDS AND THIS ONE FELLOW, 07:31 YOU PROBABLY REMEMBER HIS NAME, BON. 07:32 BON BON. 07:34 HE WAS REALLY EXCITED TO SHARE WHAT HE HAS DONE. 07:37 UH HUH. 07:38 AND THEY DO THEY ALSO HAVE OTHER JOBS AS WELL OR IS 07:42 THIS THEIR MAIN JOB? 07:44 BEING A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER? 07:46 IT VARIES, I THINK, SOME OF THEM IT'S THE MAIN JOB 07:48 AND OTHER PEOPLE THEY HAVE JOBS TO DO. 07:51 I THINK MOST OF THEM, IT'S THEIR JOB. 07:53 SO, WHAT ARE YOU HEARING THAT SOME OF THEIR NEEDS 07:55 ARE, MISTY? 07:56 WHAT ARE THEY SHARING IN THESE INTERVIEWS THAT 07:58 YOU'VE HAD WITH THEM? 07:59 VERY CONSISTENTLY THEY NEED MATERIALS LIKE 08:02 BIBLES, BOOKS. 08:04 THOSE ARE TWO THINGS THAT I HEARD OVER AND OVER. 08:07 UM, ALSO THE TRANSPORTATION -THE 08:10 DIFFICULTIES OF TRANSPORTATION. 08:11 I KNOW GOSPEL OUTREACH A FEW YEARS AGO HAD A PUSH 08:14 AND THEY BROUGHT IN BICYCLES TO HELP WITH 08:16 VISITING PEOPLE, UH HUH, AND JUST TO MAKE IT 08:19 QUICKER TO GET FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER. 08:22 UM, THERE ARE SOME THAT USE MOTORCYCLES THAT HELP 08:25 THEM GET UP INTO THE MOUNTAINOUS AREAS WHERE 08:27 THERE AREN'T REALLY A ROAD BUT TRAILS MORE LIKE.YES. 08:30 UM, AND UM, ALSO VBS MATERIALS. 08:35 THINGS FOR CHILDREN WAS SOME OF THINGS REQUESTED. 08:39 LIKE VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL THINGS LIKE THAT AND YOU 08:41 KNOW, ITS AMAZING WE CAN GO TO WALMART AND BUY A 08:44 BIBLE YES, AND YET WE HAVE ONLINE CHRISTIAN BOOK 08:48 STORES AND THERE'S ONE JUST DOWN THE STREET HERE. 08:51 IF WE NEED SOMETHING, BOOM, YOU GET IT BUT IT IS 08:54 A WHOLE OTHER NEED. 08:55 YES, IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD. 08:58 SO, AH THESE ARE SOME OF THE OTHER WORKERS THAT WE 09:01 INTERVIEWED. 09:02 IT IS THE SAME VILLAGE, I THINK AND IT SHOWS ONE OF 09:08 THE WORKERS, YES, UH HUH. 09:09 THIS IS THE ADVENTIST NEW VILLAGE WHICH WAS THE 09:12 FIRST SITE AND INTERESTINGLY I LIKED THE 09:14 IDEA THAT WE ARE REALLY NETWORKING WITH OTHER 09:17 ENTITIES BECAUSE THERE IS A CHURCH AT THIS AREA, 09:21 THERE IS ALSO THE AWR BUILDING AND THAT'S WHERE 09:24 WE HELD OUR INTERVIEWS. 09:25 THAT'S ADVENTIST WORLD RADIO. 09:27 YES, ADVENTIST WORLD RADIO. 09:28 GOOD. 09:29 UH HUH. 09:31 THIS IS THE VEHICLE THAT WE WERE DRIVEN OVER A 09:34 THOUSAND MILES IN. 09:35 WOW. 09:35 TO DIFFERENT PLACES. 09:37 WE WENT PROBABLY APPROXIMATELY TO SEVEN 09:40 DIFFERENT CITIES AND OUTLYING AREAS AND SOME OF 09:44 THE ROADS WERE GOOD SOME OF THEM WERE BUMPY AND SO 09:47 WE HAD A GREAT EXPERIENCE IN THIS, I THINK IT'S A 09:50 BOLERO IS WHAT THEY CALL IT. 09:51 YES. 09:52 SO, THAT WAS OUR TRANSPORTATION THAT WE 09:54 WERE IN. 09:54 WE BONDED WITH. 09:55 WE ALSO HAD A TRANSLATOR WITH US TOO. 09:58 THE WHOLE TIME. 09:59 AND DO PEOPLE SPEAK ENGLISH A LOT IN NEPAL? 10:01 I MEAN, SOME. 10:02 THE YOUNGER PEOPLE KNOW IT. 10:04 THE YOUNGER PEOPLE MORE. 10:05 SOCIAL MEDIA, YOU KNOW AND ALL OF THAT. 10:07 THAT'S RIGHT. 10:08 SOME OF OUR TRANSLATORS WERE TEENAGERS. 10:09 OH INTERESTING. 10:10 THE PASTOR'S DAUGHTERS YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT PEOPLE 10:13 WERE RESOURCED TO TRANSLATE FOR US. 10:15 YES. 10:16 THESE ARE SOME OF THE SIGHTS YOU SEE WHEN YOU 10:19 TRAVELED. 10:19 YES. 10:20 THE LADIES IN THEIR BEAUTIFUL SARIS. 10:23 YES. 10:24 AND IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THEY ARE DOING, WHAT WORK 10:27 THEY ARE DOING THEY ARE DRESSED BEAUTIFULLY. 10:28 I CAN'T IMAGINE THE WEIGHT OF THAT, MISTY? 10:31 IF YOU AND I WERE WALKING AROUND. 10:33 YES, AND THESE ARE SOME OF THE SIGHTS YOU SEE A LOT 10:38 OF COLORFUL COSTUMES, COWS IN THE ROAD THAT YOU HAVE 10:42 WAIT FOR THEM TO GET OUT OF YOUR WAY BUT A VERY 10:48 INTERESTING COUNTRY. 10:49 LOTS OF DIFFERENT CONTRASTS. 10:51 SO, AS A FOREIGNER HOW ARE YOU RECEIVED IN THESE VERY 10:56 REMOTE PLACES? 10:57 VERY WARMLY, I THINK, YES. 10:59 THEY LIKE TO SEE US. 11:02 TALK TO US. 11:03 VERY NICE, VERY -THE PASTORS WIVES WERE VERY 11:07 ENGAGING, VERY GRACIOUS. 11:09 THEY FED US. 11:11 WE ATE A LOT AND IT WAS WONDERFUL FOOD. 11:14 YES, OH IT IS VERY, VERY SPECIAL. 11:15 WELL, WE WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO BOTH OF YOU FOR 11:17 BEING HERE WITH US AND WE WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO 11:21 GET INVOLVED IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO, UM, SHARE WHAT 11:24 YOU HAVE WITH THE PEOPLE OF NEPAL AND WE WANT TO 11:26 SAY THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR DONATIONS AND YOUR 11:28 SUPPORT. 11:29 YOU CAN GO TO OUR WEBSITE WHICH IS GOAIM.ORG AND IF 11:32 YOU WANT TO SIGN UP TO GIVE A CERTAIN AMOUNT 11:34 EVERY MONTH WE WANT TO SAY THANK YOU. 11:36 ALSO, YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA, ON FACEBOOK, 11:40 ON INSTAGRAM AND WE TRY AND MAKE SURE WE'VE GOT 11:42 CURRENT UP TO DATE INFORMATION THERE FOR YOU 11:46 ABOUT MEETINGS, EVENTS AND WEEKENDS AND SOME GREAT 11:48 STORIES THAT YOU WILL SEE OF WHAT THE LORD IS DOING 11:50 IN THE 10/40 WINDOW GOSPEL OUTREACH IS ALL VOLUNTEER 11:53 ORGANIZATION FULLY DEDICATED TO EXTENDING THE 12:00 INTERNATIONAL MINISTRY AND OUTREACH OF THE SEVENTH 12:04 DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH IN DEVELOPING AREAS OF THE 12:07 WORLD WITH A VERY SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE 10/40 12:10 WINDOW. 12:11 MATTHEW 24:14 EXPLICITLY STATES THAT THE GOSPEL 12:15 WILL BE PREACHED IN ALL THE WORLD BEFORE JESUS 12:19 RETURNS. 12:20 THE WORLD POPULATION IS SEVEN BILLION. 12:23 BY FAR, THE LARGEST CONCENTRATION OF UNREACHED 12:27 PEOPLE IS FOUND IN THE 10/40 WINDOW. 12:30 OF THE 2.84 BILLION UNREACHED PEOPLE OF THE 12:36 WORLD 97 PER CENT LIVE IN THIS 10/40 WINDOW. 12:40 THIS IS A CHALLENGING REGION. 12:43 ISLAM, HINDUISM AND BUDDHISM ARE THE DOMINANT 12:48 RELIGIONS. 12:49 MANY OF THE COUNTRIES HAVE MULTIPLE LANGUAGES AND 12:52 DIALECTS. 12:53 POVERTY AND ILLITERACY ARE WAYS OF LIFE FOR THE 12:57 MAJORITY. 12:58 MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS ARE SEARCHING. 13:00 THEY NEED HOPE. 13:02 AN IMPORTANT KEY TO SPREADING THE GOSPEL IN 13:05 THIS AREA IS TO USE INDIGENOUS WORKERS. 13:10 THEY ALREADY KNOW THE LANGUAGE, THE RELIGION, 13:13 THE CULTURE OF THEIR PEOPLE. 13:15 BLESSED BY THE SPIRIT THEY ARE ABLE TO HELP WIN A 13:19 PERSON FOR JESUS FOR LESS THAN $6 IN MANY AREAS. 13:24 FOR TWENTY YEARS, GOSPEL OUTREACH HAS FOCUSED ON 13:29 BUILDING AWARENESS OF THE NEED IN THE 10/40 WINDOW. 13:32 IN ADDITION TO RAISING FUNDS TO SUPPORT 13:35 INDIGENOUS WORKERS, GOSPEL OUTREACH CANADA AND GOSPEL 13:40 OUTREACH BRAZIL HAVE JOINED IN THIS METHOD OF 13:43 TELLING THE WORLD ABOUT JESUS. 13:46 APPROXIMATELY 22OO WORKERS ARE SPONSORED THROUGH 13:51 GOSPEL OUTREACH AND ITS SISTER ORGANIZATIONS. 13:54 THE WORKERS ARE HIRED AND TRAINED BY ADVENTIST 13:59 MISSION OFFICES AND CAN BE FUNDED FOR AN AVERAGE OF 14:02 $150 PER MONTH. 14:04 THE MISSION OF GOSPEL OUTREACH IS TO CONTINUE 14:08 WORKING WITH THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH BY 14:11 SPONSORING WORKERS WHO WILL INTRODUCE PEOPLE TO 14:15 JESUS IN THE 10/40 WINDOW WITH A GOAL OF ONE MILLION 14:19 NEW BAPTISMS OVER THE NEXT THREE YEARS. 14:31 AND I WANT TO REMIND US ALL THAT WE ARE ALL GOSPEL 14:33 OUTREACH WORKERS NO MATTER WHERE WE ARE SO PLEASE DO 14:37 HOLD THE DOOR FOR SOMEBODY. 14:38 SMILE. 14:39 SAY HELLO TO YOUR NEIGHBOR AND KNOW THAT'S A WAY THAT 14:42 WE CAN ALL SHARE JESUS. 14:45 WE WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU ABOUT GOTV MISSIONS. 14:47 IT'S A FANTASTIC APP. 14:49 IT'S A ONE STOP SHOP FOR ALL SORTS OF FANTASTIC 14:52 ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE FOCUSED ON MISSIONS AND SO 14:55 GO TO YOUR APP STORE WHERE YOU DOWNLOAD APPS. 14:58 YOU CAN ALSO FIND IT ON ROKU AND IT HAS ULTIMATE 15:01 MISSIONS, GOSPEL OUTREACH, ALL SORTS OF FANTASTIC 15:04 OTHER ORGANIZATIONS THERE SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE 15:06 THAT YOU ARE FINDING OUT WHAT ALL IS GOING ON 15:09 THERE. 15:10 SO, TODAY WE ARE TALKING WITH MISTY AND TOM 15:11 BISCHOFF HERE ABOUT THE BEAUTIFUL, WONDERFUL 15:13 COUNTRY OF NEPAL AND WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT YOUR 15:17 MEETINGS WITH THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS AND 15:19 TRAVEL, TOM IS SOMETHING THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT. 15:22 YES. 15:23 SO, YOU'VE GOT A VIDEO HERE TO SHARE WITH US. 15:26 THIS IS SOME OF THE ROADS WE WENT ON. 15:28 THEY ARE BEING CONSTRUCTED. 15:30 SOME OF THEM AREN'T CONSTRUCTED. 15:32 THEY GET WASHED OUT. 15:33 THEY GET REPAIRED BUT THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE BUMPY 15:36 ROADS THAT WE WENT TO SOME OF THE CHURCHES. 15:37 YES. 15:38 I WANT TO ADD HERE FROM THAT VIDEO YOU CAN SEE A 15:41 MASK. 15:42 SO, WE WENT TO NEPAL EARLY THIS SPRING THIS YEAR AND 15:47 SO WE WERE STILL USING MASKS AND HAD SOME TRAVEL 15:51 RESTRICTIONS INITIALLY BECAUSE OF THE COVID 19. 15:55 YES, AND HOW HAS COVID AFFECTED NEPAL AS FAR AS 15:59 UM, YOU KNOW, ARE THINGS OPENING BACK UP AGAIN? 16:03 ARE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS FEELING LIKE THEY 16:05 CAN VISIT UM PEOPLE IN THEIR HOMES? 16:08 YES, THEY CAN. 16:10 THEY CAN NOW. 16:10 IT IS OPENING UP. 16:12 UM, BUT SIMILAR TO THE REST OF THE WORLD THEY HAD 16:15 THE SERIOUS LOCKDOWN JUST LIKE WE DID. 16:18 AND SOME CHALLENGES BUT ALSO, THEY REPORTED 16:21 OPPORTUNITIES, YES, BECAUSE OF IT. 16:22 YES. 16:23 AND THAT'S THE COOL THING IS, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY 16:26 WITH THE SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL YOU KNOW, PETER AND 16:28 JOHN WERE PUT IN PRISON. 16:29 THEY WENT RIGHT BACK OUT. 16:31 RIGHT. 16:32 PREACHING AND I THINK IT'S CAUSED ALL OF US TO BE A 16:34 LITTLE MORE CREATIVE. 16:36 UH HUH. 16:37 BECAUSE WITH ZOOM AND WHO WANTS TO BE LOOKING AT 16:39 ZOOM SCREENS ALL THE TIME HOWEVER, IT WORKED RIGHT? 16:42 YES, YES. 16:43 SO, AS WE LOOK TO THE FUTURE IN NEPAL OF SHARING 16:46 JESUS, WHAT ARE SOME HIGHLIGHTS, WHAT ARE SOME 16:49 THINGS THAT YOU FOLKS ARE THINKING ABOUT? 16:51 WELL, I KNOW THAT THE YOUNG PEOPLE ARE REALLY 16:53 EXCITED ABOUT SHARING THE GOSPEL. 16:54 AND THEY HAVE ENTHUSIASM AND THEY JUST, WHEN WE 16:59 WERE THERE THEY ARE JUST ASKING US, YOU KNOW, WHAT 17:00 CAN WE DO MORE? 17:00 WHAT CAN WE DO MORE? 17:01 SO, ARE THEY SEARCHING, YOU KNOW. 17:03 ARE YOUNG PEOPLE SEARCHING FOR SOMETHING? 17:04 THEY ARE, THEY ARE AND THE YOUNG PEOPLE THAT ARE IN 17:05 OUR CHURCH CURRENTLY ARE EAGER TO SHARE AND EAGER 17:07 TO HAVE NEW SPEAKERS BROUGHT IN AND FRESH 17:08 CONTENT. 17:09 THAT WAS ONE REQUEST THAT WE DID HEAR. 17:10 WELL, AND YOU KNOW WE HEAR SO MANY OF THESE RELIGIONS 17:11 WHERE IT IS A FEAR BASED, I HAVE TO DO THIS AND I 17:13 HAVE TO DO THAT. 17:14 YES, AND TO ME THE LIBERATING FACT OF THE YOU 17:36 KNOW, GOD'S LIVING. 17:37 YES, YES. 17:38 HE IS NOT IN SOME YES OF COURSE HE IS EVERYWHERE 17:41 BUT AS THE ANIMISTS BELIEVE HE IS IN THE TREE 17:44 OR WHATEVER AND WE HAVE TO DO THIS AND ALL OF THAT 17:46 YOU KNOW. 17:47 UH HUH. 17:48 I FOUND NEPAL TO BE A VERY RELIGIOUS COUNTRY. 17:50 IT WAS SURPRISINGLY SO HAVING BEEN. 17:54 YES, AND SO THEY WILL HAVE THESE LITTLE WORSHIPS AND 17:57 THESE LITTLE SHRINES WHERE THEY ARE BURNING LITTLE 17:58 CANDLES AND THEY'LL DO THAT DAILY AND PUT THE 18:00 LITTLE MARK SHOWING THAT THEY HAD WORSHIPED. 18:01 SO, THEY ARE EAGER, EAGER TO LEARN OF THE LIVING 18:02 GOD. 18:03 YES, PRAISE THE LORD. 18:11 SO, TOM WHAT'S HERE? 18:12 THIS IS ANOTHER INTERVIEW WE DID WITH A FELLOW AND 18:15 YOU CAN SEE THAT MISTY'S WEARING A MASK AND OUR 18:18 HELPER IS THERE BUT A LOT OF THE PEOPLE IN COUNTRY 18:22 WEREN'T WEARING MASKS. 18:23 BUT WE WERE REALLY HAPPY TO SEE THESE PEOPLE IN THE 18:26 COUNTRY HOW EXCITED THEY WERE. 18:28 WELL, AND TO HAVE THE CONNECTION AGAIN. 18:30 RIGHT. 18:31 UH HUH. 18:32 YES. 18:33 SO, AS WE THINK MORE ABOUT NEPAL WHAT ARE SOME OF THE 18:36 STORIES AND ARE THERE SPECIFIC PEOPLE THAT YOU 18:39 WANT TO SHARE? 18:40 YES, THIS IS A PRAYER TEAM THAT WE PUT TOGETHER AT 18:44 THIS ONE CHURCH AND UH, I THINK WE'RE GOING TO A 18:50 STORY. 18:51 YES, WELL I'LL TELL JUST A LITTLE BIT ABOUT-THE 18:53 LITTLE GAL SHE, HER NAME VISHNU AND SHE IS WEARING 18:55 THAT SCARF AND WE ARE JOINING IN PRAYER FOR HER 18:56 CHURCH WHICH WAS ACROSS A NATIONAL FOREST ON THE 18:57 OTHER SIDE OF CHITWAN AND SHE ALONE, HER HUSBAND WAS 18:59 AWAY WORKING, BUT SHE'S THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER 19:00 THERE. 19:01 HER AND HER TWO SONS UM, ARE CARRYING ON THAT 19:02 CHURCH. 19:03 WOW. 19:04 AND THAT CHURCH IS ONE OF THE ONES THAT SUSTAINED 19:05 DAMAGE FROM THE EARTHQUAKES SOME YEARS 19:07 BACK. 19:08 YES. 19:08 THEIR WELL DOESN'T WORK. 19:10 THERE ARE CRACKS IN THE BUILDING SO THERE ARE 19:12 NEEDS THERE. 19:13 AND AMAZINGLY, SHE IS CARRYING ON THE WORK ON 19:16 HER OWN. 19:17 WOW. 19:18 AND SHES JUST A TINY LITTLE GAL. 19:19 AND I REMEMBER THOSE PICTURES FROM PASTOR 19:22 CHARLES SHULTZ THAT HE SHARED THAT CAME ACTUALLY 19:25 FROM THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS, RIGHT. 19:34 AND PASTOR UMESH OF ROADS AND EVERYTHING. 19:44 IT IS ONE THING TO SEE IT ON THE NEWS BUT WHEN YOU 19:46 ACTUALLY GET THEM FROM ACTUAL PEOPLE. 19:48 OK. 19:49 WELL, WE NEED TO PRAYFOR HER. 19:49 YES. 19:50 AND SO, YOU HAVE ANOTHER STORY TO SAY, I DO. 19:55 SO, UM ONE FUN STORY WAS, A GAL NAMED KOVITA SHE 20:01 CAME FOR HER INTERVIEW AND SHE IS A YOUNG GOSPEL 20:04 OUTREACH WORKER IN HER MAYBE LATE 20'S. 20:07 SHE LIVES WITH HER ADVENTIST FAMILY, SISTER, 20:10 SEVERAL BROTHERS AND A MOTHER AND SHE REPORTED 20:14 UM, A LOCKDOWN STORY THAT I THOUGHT WAS REALLY 20:17 INTERESTING. 20:18 SO, SHE REPORTED A GENTLEMAN HAD CONNECTED 20:23 WITH HER SISTER IN A BUSINESS AND HE WAS 20:26 WANTING, HE WAS MOVING TO THE AREA AND HE WAS A 20:29 BUDDHIST. 20:30 A YOUNG MAN, HE WANTED TO OPEN A SMALL BUSINESS. 20:34 SO, HE WAS CONNECTING WITH THE SISTER AND THEN THE 20:38 LOCKDOWN WAS IMPOSED. 20:40 HE STAYED IN HIS SMALL RENTED AREA FOR ABOUT 20:43 MONTH ALL BY HIMSELF, WOW, AND JUST SURVIVING ON 20:47 RESOURCES WHATEVER WAS RIGHT THERE, UM, BUT WAS 20:51 HAVING CONTACT, TECHNOLOGY CONTACT WITH THE FAMILY, 20:55 KOVITA'S FAMILY AND HE ENDED UP SNEAKING THROUGH 20:59 THE CITY A SEVEN HOUR ON FOOT JOURNEY DUCKING 21:03 BEHIND THE WALLS BECAUSE ITS LOCKED DOWN AND IF YOU 21:07 WERE CAUGHT OUTSIDE YOU WERE IN TROUBLE. 21:10 RIGHT. 21:11 BUT HE MADE HIS WAY TO THEIR HOME AND AT THEIR 21:15 HOME THEY WERE HAVING THE ZOOM MEETINGS, THE GOSPEL 21:19 OUTREACH WORKERS, KOVITA AND HER FAMILY WERE 21:21 JOINING AS WELL HAVING THE ZOOM MEETINGS. 21:23 THEY WERE HAVING FAMILY WORSHIP AND AS HE STAYED 21:27 LIKE FOR TWO MONTHS, WITH THAT FAMILY HE WAS 21:30 CONVERTED. 21:31 AND THEY REPORTED THAT HE WAS SINGING SONGS BETTER 21:35 THAN THEY WERE. 21:36 HE WAS FASCINATED WITH THE BIBLE AND IT WAS JUST THIS 21:39 OPPORTUNITY THAT REALLY WOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED 21:41 WITHOUT THIS COVID 19 LOCKDOWN AND ALL AND HE 21:46 WAS BAPTIZED AND HE IS AN ACTIVE MEMBER. 21:51 YES. 21:52 WELL, PRAISE THE LORD AND I LOVE THE FACT THAT 21:53 PEOPLE BEING FASCINATED BY THE BIBLE AND THE LORD. 21:56 YES. 21:57 AND SPEAKING OF BIBLES, CAN WE GET BIBLES FOR IN 22:00 NEPALI FOR THESE PEOPLE? 22:01 YES. 22:02 THEY ARE AVAILABLE, YES. 22:03 PRICEWISE WHAT ARE THEY? 22:05 I DON'T KNOW. 22:07 THEY ARE AFFORDABLE TO US BUT A LOT OF -YOU KNOW, 22:11 NEPAL IS A VERY POOR COUNTRY AND NOT EVERYONE 22:14 HAS THE RESOURCES BUT THAT'S SOMETHING WE ARE 22:17 DOING AT GOSPEL OUTREACH. 22:18 RIGHT, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THE PERSON IS 22:20 LITERATE, THAT THEY CAN READ, THAT THEY GIVE THE 22:22 BIBLE TO SO THEY CAN READ IT. 22:23 YES. 22:24 TRUE. 22:25 THAT'S LIKE MEGAVOICE, WITH OUR TALKING BIBLES 22:27 THAT THOSE COME IN. 22:28 BEAUTIFUL. 22:29 SO, WE HAVE SOME -YES, GO AHEAD TOM. 22:31 AH, THIS IS MISTY -THIS IS A VERY POOR VILLAGE, 22:32 GALIBARI AND THEY ARE SOME OF THE POOREST PEOPLE WE 22:33 SAW ON THE TRIP AND WE WENT THERE TO INTERVIEW 22:35 ONE OF THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS AND THE VILLAGERS 22:36 JUST FLOCK AROUND. 22:37 THEY WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON. 22:38 YES. 22:39 AND SO, WE TAKE, WE HAD BOUGHT SOME TREATS AND 22:40 THIS IS MISTY HANDING OUT SOME TREATS TO THE LITTLE 22:41 KIDS THERE. 22:42 AND YOU KNOW WHAT? 22:45 MY THING IS STICKERS. 22:47 STICKERS, KIDS THEY ARE SMALL AND YOU KNOW, NOT 22:52 SOMETHING THAT'S SWEET BUT KIDS LOVE STICKERS AND 22:59 THEY PUT THEM ON THEIR HANDS AND THEIR SHIRT A 23:03 SMILEY FACE OF WHATEVER AND YOU KNOW THAT'S A 23:10 CONNECTION. 23:11 SO, NEEDS WHAT ARE SOME NEEDS THAT YOU FOLKS HAVE? 23:15 THAT PARTICULAR AREA HAS A LOT OF NEEDS. 23:18 THEY NEED A GOOD WELL. 23:20 THEY-THE PASTOR KARTIK, UM, LIVES AMONGST THE 23:24 PEOPLE IN THESE LITTLE MUD HUTS AND UM HIS HOUSE 23:28 NEEDS REPAIR. 23:29 HE NEEDED INTERNET SERVICE EVEN SO THAT HE COULD JOIN 23:30 THE ZOOM MEETINGS AND I THINK, HE NEEDED BATHROOM 23:31 FACILITIES TOO. 23:32 OK, VERY, VERY BASIC. 23:32 SOME OF IT IS VERY BASIC. 23:33 YES. 23:34 WELL, AND AS HEALTH PROFESSIONALS YOU FOLKS 23:35 ARE PROBABLY LOOKING AT THIS AND GOING OH. 23:36 YES. 23:37 WE ARE SO BLESSED. 23:38 SO, YOU HAVE SOME VIDEO OF SOME SINGING SO WHY DON'T 23:39 YOU TELL US ABOUT THIS VIDEO WITH THE SINGING. 23:40 WELL, IT'S- I GOT TO FIND OUT WHICH VIDEO. 23:59 THERE ARE SEVERAL OF THEM THAT WE TOOK, YES, SO, UH 24:04 THIS IS A CHURCH WE WENT TO AND IT WAS ACTUALLY A 24:07 PENTECOSTAL CHURCH AND THE TWO BROTHERS THAT RUN IT 24:12 THEY GOT ALL THE LITTLE KIDS TOGETHER IN THE 24:14 VILLAGE AND WE GOT THEM SINGING AND I THINK THEY 24:20 ARE VERY INTERESTED IN THE ADVENTIST MESSAGE AND I 24:23 THINK THEY ARE GETTING READY TO DO SOME BIBLE 24:25 STUDIES WITH THEM. 24:26 WELL, WONDERFUL. 24:27 AND THIS IS ANOTHER PICTURE OF THE NETWORKING 24:30 THAT GOSPEL OUTREACH DOES WITH OTHER ENTITIES. 24:34 SO, THESE TWO BROTHERS THAT PASTOR THE CHURCH, 24:37 YOUNG MEN, THEY WERE LISTENING TO AWR AND THEY 24:38 HAD CONTACTED UM, PASTOR UMESH AND THEN THIS WAS A 24:40 LITTLE SIDE TRIP WE TOOK AND WORSHIPED. 24:41 WE HAD A LITTLE WORSHIP WITH THEM AND THEY WERE 24:42 EAGER. 24:44 WE PRAYED AT THEIR HOME AND JUST THE IDEA THAT A 24:49 WHOLE CHURCH COULD BE CONVERTED BROUGHT INTO UM, 24:59 YOU KNOW, A FULLNESS OF BELIEF IS REALLY 25:02 BEAUTIFUL. 25:04 AWR- ADVENTIST WORLD RADIO UNBELIEVABLE AND WHAT A 25:07 STORY HERE AND TO HAVE THAT CONNECTION. 25:09 YES. 25:10 SO, THERE WAS A SCRIPTURE IN ROMANS 10:13 THAT YOU 25:13 SHARED THAT WAS IMPORTANT. 25:15 "FOR EVERYONE WHO CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL 25:18 BE SAVED. 25:19 HOW THEN CAN THEY CALL ON THE ONE THEY HAVE NOT 25:22 BELIEVED IN AND HOW CAN THEY BELIEVE IN THE ONE OF 25:24 WHOM THEY HAVE NOT HEARD? 25:26 AND HOW CAN THEY HEAR WITHOUT SOMEONE PREACHING 25:29 IT TO THEM?" 25:30 YES. 25:31 THAT'S OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS. 25:33 THE BEAUTIFUL PLAN HAVING CULTURALLY SAVVY 25:37 INDIGENOUS PEOPLE SHARING WITH THEIR OWN PEOPLE. 25:41 IT IS BRILLIANT. 25:42 IT WAS OVER 50 WORKERS THAT WE INTERVIEWED AND 25:47 THEY ARE DOING A GREAT WORK THERE. 25:49 WE ENCOURAGED AND PRAYED WITH WHAT A PRIVILEGE TO 25:51 PRAY WITH THESE PEOPLE. 25:53 WELL, MISTY AND TOM THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE 25:55 AND GOD BLESS YOU AND PLEASE GREET THE AH, 25:57 GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS, OK, NEXT TIME YOU TALK TO 25:59 THEM. 25:59 OK. 26:00 WE WILL. 26:01 THANK YOU. 26:02 AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING A PARTNER HERE AT 26:03 GOSPEL OUTREACH. 26:04 YOU'VE HEARD THE EXCITING THINGS ABOUT HOW GOD IS 26:05 USING RADIO AND BIBLES AND NETWORKING TOGETHER AND 26:09 MEETING ON ZOOM AND FACE TO FACE IN NEPAL. 26:11 SO, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS, YOUR SUPPORT AND 26:14 FOR UM, FOR LOVING JESUS AS WELL AND SHARING HIM 26:17 WITH SOMEONE ELSE TODAY. 26:18 ON BEHALF OF GOSPEL OUTREACH, I'M JULIE MAY 26:20 THE LORD BLESS YOU TODAY. |
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