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00:34 HI, I'M JULIE HERE AT HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH WITH
00:37 "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" AND DO YOU LIKE NEW 00:39 POSSIBILITIES? 00:40 I DO. 00:41 AND OUR SAVIOR JESUS GIVES US NEW DAYS, NEW 00:43 POSSIBILITIES AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO SHARE 00:45 HIM, TO KNOW HIM AND TO LEARN MORE OF HIM SO WE 00:49 CAN SHARE HIS LOVE AROUND THE WORLD AND WE'RE 00:52 TALKING ABOUT THAT TODAY HERE ON "ADVENTURES IN 00:54 MISSIONS" WITH GARY WAGNER. 00:56 GARY, WELCOME TO "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS". 00:58 THANK YOU, IT IS JUST VERY NICE TO BE HERE. 01:01 WELL, IT'S WONDERFUL TO HAVE YOU HERE AND WE ARE 01:03 GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT NEW POSSIBILITIES IN YOUR 01:07 TERRITORY AND FOR THE VIEWERS WHY DON'T YOU 01:09 SHARE YOUR VAST TERRITORY IN THIS 10/40 WINDOW. 01:13 AH, I'M THE REGIONAL DIRECTOR FOR MUCH OF 01:18 SOUTHEAST ASIA. 01:20 IT INCLUDES VIETNAM, CAMBODIA AND THAILAND AND 01:24 INDONESIA AND PAPUA INDONESIA. 01:27 IT ALSO INCLUDES AH, MYANMAR WHICH WE HAVE HAD 01:32 TO KIND OF PUT ON HOLD FOR THE TIME BEING BECAUSE 01:36 (THE FORMER BURMA) BECAUSE OF SITUATIONS IN THE 01:40 COUNTRY NOT RELATED TO OUR WORKERS THERE BUT AH IT'S 01:44 JUST IMPOSSIBLE FOR THEM TO BE ABLE TO WORK. 01:47 SO, THAT IN ITSELF NEEDS SOME PRAYER. 01:49 YES. 01:50 OH ABSOLUTELY. 01:51 AND WE'VE COME OFF OF THIS WE'RE GOING THROUGH THIS 01:54 KIND OF TIME WARP THAT WE'VE ALL BEEN IN BUT THE 01:58 LORD HAS BLESSED EVEN DESPITE THE FACT THAT WE 02:02 HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO TRAVEL AND MEET WITH OUR 02:04 PEOPLE BUT WHY DON'T YOU GIVE US AN UPDATE ON WHAT 02:07 IS HAPPENING AND THE NEW POSSIBILITIES? 02:09 WELL, I WAS ABLE TO GO THERE THIS YEAR. 02:11 RECENTLY, YES. 02:12 I WENT IN MARCH, APRIL AND MAY IT WAS AN AMAZING 02:18 TRIP. 02:20 COVID WAS AN ISSUE FOR THE WHOLE TRIP BUT EVERY 02:24 COUNTRY I LEFT AND EVERY COUNTRY I ENTERED INTO 02:27 THERE WERE THINGS HAVING TO DO WITH COVID THAT HAD 02:31 HOOPS THAT HAD TO BE JUMPED THROUGH AND SOME OF 02:33 THEM I WAS REALLY WORRIED ABOUT BUT GOD WORKED EVERY 02:36 ONE OF THEM OUT. 02:38 HE IS AMAZING. 02:39 YES, HE IS IN ALL THE DETAILS EVEN. 02:41 YES. 02:43 AND I'LL SAY THAT FOR OUR WORK IN SOUTHEAST ASIA AH, 02:47 IT HAS BEEN GOING FOR AWHILE NOW BUT FOR A TIME 02:52 BEFORE I STARTED WORKING WITH IT THERE WASN'T A 02:55 GREAT DEAL HAPPENING AND I DON'T BLAME ANYBODY FOR 02:59 THAT. 03:01 WE HAD A LOT OF TURNOVER IN THE ADMINISTRATIONS AT 03:06 THE MISSIONS, THE UNIONS, RIGHT, THE CONFERENCES AT 03:08 EACH PLACE IN EACH COUNTRY AND SOMETIMES 03:13 COMMUNICATION WASN'T MADE TO BE ABLE TO TRAIN THE 03:17 NEW PEOPLE TO KNOW WHAT THEY SHOULD BE DOING AND 03:20 WE ALSO HAD TURNOVER IN OUR OWN GOSPEL OUTREACH 03:24 PERSONNEL, WE DID, AND SO UM THROUGHOUT SOUTHEAST 03:27 ASIA THERE WAS SOME AH, JUST KIND OF PUT ON HOLD 03:33 YOU MIGHT SAY. 03:34 SO, THAT'S ONE OF THE MAIN THINGS THAT WE'VE BEEN 03:37 WORKING ON THERE IS TO GET THEM BACK UP TO SPEED AND 03:43 SOUTHEAST ASIA IS REALLY ONE OF MY MOST FAVORITE 03:46 PARTS OF THE WORLD. 03:47 WELL, AND IT'S A SPECIAL PLACE TO YOU FOR MANY 03:48 REASONS. 03:49 YES, IT IS. 03:50 I SERVED THERE IN 1973,74 AND AGAIN IN '81 AND '82 03:56 AND AH IT'S THE PLACE, IT'S THE PLACE WHERE GOD 04:02 CALLED ME TO MINISTRY. 04:04 SO, I'M JUST THRILLED TO BE ABLE TO CONTINUE TO 04:06 SERVE THERE. 04:07 AND THAT HAS A SPECIAL PLACE IN MY HEART BECAUSE 04:09 I WAS ALSO THERE AS A STUDENT MISSIONARY AND 04:11 TRAVELED EXTENSIVELY IN THE FORMER FAR EASTERN 04:14 DIVISION AND SO MANY OF THESE PLACES THAT YOU ARE 04:17 TALKING WITH I HAVE BEEN AND SO I HAVE MY OWN 04:19 MENTAL PICTURE, UH HUH, OF WHAT IT WAS WHEN I WAS 04:22 THERE AND GARY, SO MANY PEOPLE WHO STILL NEED TO 04:25 KNOW ABOUT JESUS. 04:26 MILLIONS AND MILLIONS AND MILLIONS AND MILLIONS. 04:28 AND BILLIONS WHEN YOU THINK OF THE LARGER 04:30 COUNTRY, YES, YES, IN THE 10/40 WINDOW. 04:31 YES. 04:32 GO AHEAD. 04:33 IT'S JUST A FASCINATING PLACE TO BE ABLE TO GO TO 04:34 AND SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA AT ALL ABOUT WHO 04:43 JESUS IS. 04:47 WELL, ISN'T THIS INTERESTING BECAUSE YET, 04:50 AS UM, CHRISTMAS IS HEARD ABOUT AROUND THE WORLD, UH 04:54 HUH, UM THE GIFTS AND SANTA AND ALL OF THIS AND 04:58 WHEN I WAS IN THE PHILIPINES I WAS THERE IN 05:00 SEPTEMBER AND IT WAS FASCINATING TO ME BECAUSE 05:02 THEY ALREADY HAD CHRISTMAS TREES OUT AND THEY SAID 05:05 WHEN THE MONTH COMES AROUND WHEN IT HAS EMBER 05:08 IN IT, SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER THEY ARE ALREADY HEADED 05:12 TOWARD CHRISTMAS AND YET WE'VE EVEN HAD HERE IN THE 05:15 STATES WHERE WE HAVE EVEN AT COSTCO WE HAVE 05:18 CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS UP EARLY. 05:20 BUT IT IS FASCINATING TO ME THAT THE STORY OF EVEN 05:24 CHRISTMAS IS BEING, YOU KNOW, THE NATIVITY OF 05:26 JESUS BEING BORN AND ALL OF THAT, THAT IS KIND OF 05:29 NOT GETTING COMMUNICATED. 05:31 IT IS NOT. 05:32 IT'S NOT WE'VE GOT ALL OF THE SANTA AND ALL OF THAT 05:35 AND SO, EVEN THESE COUNTRIES THAT MIGHT KNOW 05:37 ABOUT CHRISTMAS THEY ARE MISSING THE CHRIST OF 05:40 CHRISTMAS. 05:41 YES. 05:41 SO. 05:42 YES, LOTS TO DO. 05:43 WELL, WHY DON'T WE GET STARTED YOU HAVE SOME 05:46 STORIES TO SHARE, VIDEOS, PHOTOS, ALL SORTS OF 05:49 THINGS AND WHY DON'T WE START OUT IN WEST 05:51 INDONESIA. 05:52 YES, WESTERN INDONESIA WE HAVE A WESTERN INDONESIA 05:55 UNION THERE AND IT INCLUDES HUNDREDS OF 06:03 ISLANDS IN THE WESTERN PART. 06:05 IT'S A HUGE PLACE. 06:07 NOW INDONESIA HAS I THINK 290 MILLION PEOPLE. 06:12 IT'S THE LARGEST MUSLIM COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. 06:16 NINETY PERCENT ARE MUSLIM. 06:18 WHICH IS FASCINATING AND EVERY TIME YOU'RE HERE WE 06:20 TALK ABOUT THAT BECAUSE I THINK ABOUT OTHER 06:22 COUNTRIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND LET'S, YOU KNOW, 06:24 FILL IN THE BLANK ON MANY OF THOSE THAT I THINK ARE 06:27 MORE HEAVILY POPULATED WITH MUSLIMS BUT IT'S NOT. 06:29 IT'S NOT. 06:30 IT IS INDONESIA. 06:31 THAT'S RIGHT. 06:31 THAT'S RIGHT. 06:32 THAT'S ALWAYS BEEN INTERESTING TO ME AS WELL. 06:34 YES. 06:35 MOST AMERICANS DON'T KNOW THAT AND FRANKLY, I DIDN'T 06:38 EITHER NOT TOO LONG AGO. 06:40 SO, IT'S A COUNTRY WHERE WE NEED TO WORK. 06:45 NOW, THE MUSLIMS IN THEIR OWN RELIGIOUS FAITH 06:49 BELIEVE IN JESUS. 06:50 THEY DO. 06:51 THEY BELIEVE THAT JESUS WAS A PROPHET. 06:54 THEY BELIEVE THAT HE'S COMING AGAIN AND SO WE 06:59 HAVE A LOT OF SIMILARITIES AND SO IT IS EASY FOR US 07:02 TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEM BY TALKING 07:05 TOGETHER ABOUT ISA MASIH. 07:07 YES, YES. 07:08 AND YOU KNOW, ISN'T THAT A BEAUTIFUL NAME TO HEAR? 07:13 IN ANY LANGUAGE AND SO YES. 07:15 SO, WHY DON'T WE GET STARTED ABOUT SOME OF YOUR 07:18 PHOTOS HERE, GARY. 07:19 WE HAVE SOME PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN WORKING THERE 07:22 FOR SOMETIME WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH AND WHAT THEY DO 07:26 IS THEY WORK JUST TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS. 07:32 THEY ARE NOT TRYING TO CONVERT ANYBODY. 07:35 THEY ARE BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS AND IT'S 07:38 INTERESTING THAT BY WORKING WITH THEM BEING 07:41 SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS THERE IS MUCH MORE BETWEEN 07:45 THE TWO FAITHS THAT IS SIMILAR THAN THERE IS WITH 07:49 OTHER CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS. 07:51 WELL, EVEN IN DIETARY UM, OBSERVANCES UM, BETWEEN 07:56 MUSLIMS AND SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHRISTIANS, YOU 07:58 KNOW. 07:59 THERE IS A COMMONALITY THERE. 08:01 YES, AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MAKES IT SO 08:03 EASY WHEN THEY SEE THAT THEY CAN EAT WITH US, YES, 08:08 AND EATING IS AN IMPORTANT OF THE CULTURE. 08:13 OH, IT IS BIG. 08:14 YES, AS WE CAN SEE LOOKS LIKE YOU ARE HAVING A 08:17 MEETING BUT THERE IS ALSO SOME FOOD THERE. 08:20 THAT'S RIGHT. 08:21 AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I FOCUSED ON 08:23 WHILE I WAS IN INDONESIA THIS YEAR SINCE I HAD 08:24 NEVER BEEN THERE I WANTED TO GET TO KNOW THE 08:25 CULTURE. 08:26 I WANTED TO GET TO KNOW THE PEOPLE AND EACH 08:30 OPPORTUNITY I HAD, I SAT DOWN AND ATE WITH THEM AND 08:33 AS YOU CAN SEE, YOU DON'T SIT AT THE TABLE, YOU SIT 08:36 ON THE FLOOR. 08:37 YOU SIT ON THE FLOOR AND I'M GRATEFUL TO GOD THAT 08:40 I'M STILL ABLE TO SIT ON THE FLOOR AND TO GET UP. 08:45 AND GETTING UP, I WAS JUST GOING-I'VE HAD BILATERAL 08:49 KNEE SURGERY SO I'M JUST THINKING ABOUT THAT-THE 08:53 GETTING UP PART. 08:54 WELL, THESE THINGS HAVE BEEN HAPPENING NOW FOR 08:58 SOME TIME AND RELATIONSHIPS HAVE BEEN 09:01 BEING BUILT BETWEEN CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS. 09:04 I LOVE THIS PHOTO FOR SO MANY REASONS. 09:07 YES. 09:08 LET'S LOOK AT THIS. 09:09 OK, SO YOU HAVE THE MUSLIM WOMAN IN THE PINK AND THEN 09:12 YOU HAVE THE CHRISTIAN WOMAN WHO I SHOULD I USE 09:15 THE WORD IRONICALLY HAS A MASK ON DUE TO COVID, YES, 09:19 AND SO, YET THEY ARE KIND OF ON THE SAME PAGE THERE, 09:23 GARY. 09:23 YES, THEY ARE. 09:24 YES, THEY ARE. 09:26 AND I'M A CHRISTIAN. 09:27 I LOVE BOTH MUSLIMS AND I LOVE CHRISTIANS. 09:30 ISN'T THAT SOMETHING? 09:32 IT IS SOMETHING THAT IS RARE FOR THE WAY WE THINK 09:35 ABOUT, YES, THE MUSLIM FAITH. 09:38 WOW. 09:39 SO, I KNOW YOU HAD RETREATS FOR MUSLIMS AND 09:44 CHRISTIANS TO COME TOGETHER AND I KNOW THAT'S 09:46 BEEN A REAL INTERESTING BONDING TIME TOGETHER. 09:49 YES. 09:50 AND THAT PICTURE JUST PERSONIFIES THAT. 09:52 YES. 09:53 AND THOSE ARE SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE ATTENDED 09:54 THAT UM, THE -OUR PEOPLE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH 10:00 TRUST BUILDING TO THE PLACE WHERE THEY EVEN HAVE 10:05 UH, A RETREAT. 10:07 IN FACT, THEY HOST A NUMBER OF RETREATS AROUND 10:12 WEST INDONESIA AND THIS IS CALLED A TRUST BUILDING 10:15 CAMP WHERE YOU GET AN EQUAL GROUP OF CHRISTIANS 10:20 AND MUSLIMS TOGETHER AND YOU SIT DOWN WITH THEM AND 10:23 AH, YOU BEGIN TO LEARN FIRST ABOUT YOURSELF; WHAT 10:28 IT IS IN YOU THAT CAUSES YOU TO LIKE OR DISLIKE 10:35 PEOPLE AND THEN START LOOKING AT SPECIFICS 10:38 BETWEEN THE TWO FAITHS. 10:40 YES. 10:41 BECAUSE I THINK WHAT HAPPENS IS WE HAVE SOMEONE 10:44 WHO TELLS US ABOUT SOMEBODY OR SOME BELIEF 10:46 SYSTEM OR SOMETHING AND WE DON'T KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT IT 10:49 BUT WE MAKE A JUDGMENT CALL ON THEM. 10:51 YES, WE DO. 10:52 JUST OUT OF LACK OF KNOWLEDGE BASED ON 10:54 SOMEBODY ELSE'S OPINION. 10:56 SO, TO ME, HAVING SOMETHING LIKE THIS WHERE 10:58 EVERYTHING IS ON THE TABLE WHERE YOU'RE ALL TALKING 11:00 TOGETHER WHAT A BEAUTIFUL THING BECAUSE EVERYBODY'S 11:02 COMING TOGETHER TO TALK TOGETHER AND YOU'RE NOT 11:03 MAKING A JUDGMENT CALL. 11:05 IT IS, IT IS A WONDERFUL THING. 11:06 I TOLD MY PEOPLE THAT I WANTED TO ATTEND THAT 11:11 EVENT, RIGHT, NOT AS AN EXPERT OF ANYTHING, RIGHT, 11:15 NOT AS A PASTOR CERTAINLY, BUT JUST AS A PARTICIPANT. 11:20 GOOD. 11:21 SO, YOU KNOW ONE OF THE THINGS I DO IN MINISTRY 11:23 HERE IN THE STATES, I'M CHAPLAIN AT UNIVERSITY OF 11:27 TENNESSEE IN CHATANOOGA AND SO ENJOY BEING WITH 11:39 COLLEGE STUDENTS AND SO ALMOST ALL OF THE YOUNG 11:41 PEOPLE, MOST ALL THE PEOPLE WHO WERE ATTENDING 11:42 THERE WERE COLLEGE AGE. 11:43 SO, WE HAD A GREAT TIME. 11:44 YOU WERE WITH YOUR PEOPLE, GARY. 11:45 YES, AND IT WAS GREAT FUN AND I DIDN'T INTRODUCE 11:49 MYSELF AS PASTOR OR CHAPLAIN OR DOCTOR OR 11:54 ANYTHING, JUST AS GARY WAGNER AND SO AS MUCH AS 11:58 POSSIBLE I WANTED TO BE ON THE SAME LEVEL. 12:01 NOW THERE WERE THINGS THAT KEPT ME FROM BEING ON 12:03 EXACTLY THE SAME LEVEL, SOME THINGS ARE HARD TO 12:06 CHANGE. 12:06 THAT'S HAPPENING TO ALL OF US. 12:08 BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, I WANT TO SAY SOMETHING THERE 12:09 BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S SO IMPORTANT. 12:11 I HAVE HEARD UM, ACTORS FOR EXAMPLE, WHO ARE 12:15 PROBABLY WELL KNOWN AROUND THE WORLD FOR THEIR ACTING 12:19 AND BEING A FAMOUS PERSON. 12:21 SEVERAL OF THEM I HAVE HEARD, ALWAYS INTRODUCE 12:24 THEMSELVES. 12:25 THEY DO NOT TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE FACT THAT PEOPLE 12:27 PROBABLY ALREADY KNOW WHO THEY ARE. 12:29 BY YOU COMING UP AND SAYING, HEY, I'M GARY, YOU 12:32 KNOW, THAT'S -YOU'RE GARY. 12:33 ALRIGHT, THEN YOU KNOW, WE HEAR THE REST OF YOUR 12:36 RESUME OR YOUR CV LATER BUT YOU'RE GARY, YES, AND 12:40 THAT'S FANTASTIC. 12:41 THAT WAS JESUS DID. 12:43 HE JUST SHOWED UP. 12:43 THAT'S WHAT JESUS DID. 12:45 WE REALLY DON'T NEED THOSE TITLES. 12:47 NO, OR YES JUST INTRODUCE YOURSELF. 12:49 THEY DON'T HELP US BUILD RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER 12:55 PEOPLE ON A CHRISTIAN LEVEL THEY ONLY HELP PUT 12:57 OURSELVES ABOVE OTHER PEOPLE AND YES, NOT 13:01 NECESSARY. 13:02 I HAVE A FRIEND AND HE IS A NEUROSURGEON AND THE 13:04 FIRST TIME I MET HIM HE'S A FATHER OF A FRIEND OF 13:06 MINE AND I SAID WELL, HELLO, DR. KEN AND USED 13:09 THE LAST NAME AND HE SAYS, WELL, DON'T CALL ME DOCTOR 13:12 JUST CALL ME KEN. 13:14 WELL, THE NEXT TIME I SAID WELL, HELLO DOCTOR AND HE 13:17 SAID YOU HAVEN'T HEARD ME. 13:19 MY NAME IS KEN BUT IT PUTS EVERYBODY AT A LEVEL TO 13:23 TALK SO. 13:23 YES. 13:24 GOOD, OK. 13:25 SO, RETREATS. 13:26 SO, AT THE RETREAT WE EAT TOGETHER AH, THERE ARE A 13:33 NUMBER OF ROOMS AND THERE WERE THREE OF US IN ONE 13:37 ROOM KIND OF LIKE A MOTEL ROOM AND WE LEARNED ABOUT 13:43 EACH OTHER'S RELIGION. 13:45 WE WERE EVEN ABLE TO ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT WE DIDN'T 13:48 UNDERSTAND ABOUT THEIR RELIGION AND THEM US AND 13:53 GIVE REASONS WHY WE DO THINGS THAT WE DO AND THAT 13:56 WAS AN AMAZING FREEING THING BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T 14:01 ASHAMED OF WHAT THEY DID BUT AND WE GOT TO GET THE 14:05 ANSWER FROM SOMEBODY WHO WASN'T TRYING TO PUSH IT, 14:09 TO FORCE US, RIGHT, AND THEY GOT THEIR ANSWERS 14:11 FROM SOMEBODY WHO WASN'T PUSHING THEM TRYING TO 14:14 CHANGE THEM. 14:15 DID YOU HAVE A FACILITATOR WHO WAS FACILITATING THE 14:17 CONVERSATIONS? 14:18 OH YES, IN FACT ONE OF OUR SUPERVISORS THERE IS ONE 14:23 OF THE LEADERS OF ONE OF THESE TRUST BUILDING CAMPS 14:26 SO THERE IS A MUSLIM LEADER AND A CHRISTIAN 14:32 LEADER. 14:32 UH HUH AND THEY WORK TOGETHER TO PLAN 14:34 EVERYTHING. 14:35 THEY MAKE SURE THAT THERE ARE EQUAL NUMBERS OF EACH 14:38 FAITH WHO ARE PRESENT AND THEY PLAN IT ALL OUT. 14:41 THEY HAVE PUT THIS THING TOGETHER OVER SEVERAL 14:44 YEARS AND UH, HAVE DEVELOPED IT TO REALLY A 14:48 VERY FINE LEVEL. 14:50 GOOD. 14:51 TO THE PLACE THAT AFTER I CAME BACK, I HAVE NOW 14:54 INTRODUCED IT TO PUBLIC CAMPUS MINISTRIES, 14:56 ADVENTIST PUBLIC CAMPUS MINISTRIES HERE IN THE 14:59 U.S. 15:00 THAT WAS GOING TO BE MY NEXT QUESTION WHY NOT TAKE 15:02 THAT HERE AND EVERYWHERE AND HAVE PEOPLE DO THAT. 15:05 OK, GOOD. 15:06 GOOD. 15:07 SO, WEST INDONESIA AND THEN YOU HAVE OTHER 15:10 TERRITORIES TOO. 15:12 WELL, AH WE'RE ALSO BUILDING OUR OWN 15:16 RELATIONSHIP WITH EAST INDONESIAN UNION AS WELL. 15:19 WE HAVE VERY LITTLE WORK THERE AND BOTH OF THESE 15:22 UNIONS WE DON'T, AS FAR AS WE KNOW, HAVE MEMORANDUMS 15:26 OF UNDERSTANDING SO THAT WE CAN WORK IN THEM. 15:29 SO, THAT'S WHAT WE ARE WORKING ON RIGHT NOW IS 15:33 NEGOTIATING THOSE MEMORANDUMS OF 15:35 UNDERSTANDING SO THAT THEY KNOW THAT WE'RE THERE AND 15:39 WHAT WE'RE DOING. 15:40 WE HAVE PERMISSION FROM THEM TO WORK. 15:42 THE INTERESTING THING THIS HAS DONE IS THAT BETWEEN 15:45 THESE TWO UNIONS THERE ARE TWENTY-ONE CONFERENCES AND 15:48 MISSIONS. 15:49 WOW. 15:50 TWENTY-ONE AND SO WE'RE LOOKING RIGHT NOW AT 15:55 STARTING IN EACH OF THOSE CONFERENCES AND MISSIONS 15:57 WITH TEN BIBLE WORKERS EACH. 16:00 THAT'S 210 NEW BIBLE WORKERS. 16:04 GOOD, BUT IN MY MIND I'M LIKE, GARY, WE NEED MORE. 16:08 WELL, YES -I'M THANKFUL FOR THEM I'M JUST SAYING- 16:12 WE WANT TO ADD TO THAT. 16:15 YOU KNOW YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT THE VILLAGE HEALTH 16:18 WORKERS. 16:19 WE WANT TO ADD TO THAT VILLAGE HEALTH WORKERS AS 16:22 WELL, RIGHT. 16:23 SO, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WHEN I GOT HERE TO OUR 16:26 MEETINGS TALKING TO PEOPLE OF OUR BOARD AND I SAID 16:31 HOW MANY PEOPLE WE WANT TO BRING ON AND HOW MUCH IT 16:34 WAS GOING TO COST AND THEY DIDN'T BAT AN EYE. 16:37 NOW, I WAS ELATED. 16:40 GOOD. 16:41 I WAS ELATED. 16:44 WELL, AND THAT'S BECAUSE WE NEED TO SAY THANK YOU, 16:46 ABSOLUTLEY, BECAUSE DONORS ARE GIVING AND SO WHEN 16:49 THERE IS A NEED THEN WE HAVE THE FUNDING THEN TO 16:52 HELP SO. 16:53 ABSOLUTELY, BUT WE CAN'T JUST START AND THEN STOP 16:57 AGAIN. 16:58 NO, WE CAN'T. 16:59 WE HAVE TO KEEP GOING. 17:00 WE DO HAVE TO KEEP GOING AND IF YOU ARE EXCITED 17:02 ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE HEARING HERE, AS GARY SHARES ABOUT 17:05 WHAT'S HAPPENING IN INDONESIA WE WANT TO SAY 17:08 THANK YOU TO YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND PLEASE THINK 17:10 ABOUT SOMEONE ELSE YOU CAN SHARE WITH ABOUT GOSPEL 17:13 OUTREACH AND WHAT THE LORD IS DOING AND WE THANK YOU. 17:18 WHY HASN'T JESUS COME? 17:20 IT'S BECAUSE WE HAVE A JOB TO DO ONE THAT HIS RETURN 17:23 DEPENDS ON. 17:24 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT CHRIST WILL COME AFTER THE 17:27 GOSPEL HAS BEEN PREACHED IN ALL THE WORLD. 17:30 THE WORLD'S POPULATION EXCEEDS 7 BILLION BUT 3 17:34 BILLION PEOPLE STILL NEED TO HEAR ABOUT JESUS' LOVE. 17:37 NINETY- SEVEN PERCENT OF THE UNREACHED PEOPLE LIVE 17:40 IN THE AREA FROM 10 TO 40 DEGREES NORTH OF THE 17:43 EQUATOR. 17:44 GOSPEL OUTREACH HAS A UNIQUE APPROACH WITH THE 17:47 SUPPORT OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU WE SPONSOR LOCAL GOSPEL 17:51 WORKERS IN MORE THAN FIFTY COUNTRIES. 17:53 BECAUSE THEY KNOW THE LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND 17:55 RELIGIONS OF THEIR NEIGHBORS THEY FACE FEWER 17:58 CHALLENGES THAT FOREIGN MISSIONARIES WOULD. 18:00 TOGETHER WITH YOU WE FUND MORE THAN 2000 BIBLE 18:04 WORKERS BUT MORE ARE NEEDED. 18:06 LET'S REACH THE UNREACHED WITH THE SAVING POWER OF 18:11 GOD'S LOVE. 18:12 JOIN US. 18:13 SPONSOR A BIBLE WORKER. 18:16 DONATE. 18:17 PRAY. 18:18 GOD'S LOVE, THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT AND 18:20 TOGETHER WE NEED TO ACCEPT THAT AND THEN WE NEED TO 18:23 SHARE WHAT GOD HAS DONE AND ENCOURAGE OTHER PEOPLE 18:26 TO ACCEPT JESUS BECAUSE HE IS COMING SOON. 18:29 TODAY WE ARE HERE WITH GARY WAGNER. 18:31 THANK YOU, GARY, FOR BEING HERE AND YOU ARE TAKING US 18:33 ON A TRIP TO SOUTHEAST ASIA AND YOUR GIVING SUCH 18:36 A GREAT REPORT OF WHAT THE LORD'S DOING. 18:39 AND IT IS AMAZING TO SEE WHAT THE LORD IS DOING. 18:42 YES. 18:43 AH, I 'D LIKE TO TAKE YOU NEXT TO PAPUA INDONESIA. 18:48 PAPUA INDONESIA IS ON THE SAME -IT'S HALF OF THE 18:51 ISLAND THAT'S CALLED NEW GUINEA AND WE KNOW THAT 18:54 THERE IS A COUNTRY OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA BUT THIS 18:56 IS PAPUA INDONESIA. 18:58 YES. 18:59 SO, IT'S A PART OF THE EAST INDONESIA UNION AND 19:02 IT'S ONE PLACE IN EAST INDONESIA WHERE WE HAVE 19:06 HAD SOME WORK GOING FOR AWHILE. 19:08 WE WORK THERE WITH ADVENTIST AVIATION OF 19:10 INDONESIA AND SO, IN THAT COUNTRY THERE ARE A NUMBER 19:16 OF VILLAGES THAT WE HAVE BEEN TO AND AS WE'VE 19:22 SPOKEN ABOUT IN ANOTHER REPORT THAT YOU MAY HEAR, 19:26 WHEN WE GO TO THESE VILLAGES IN PAPUA WE HAVE 19:32 TO GO BY PLANE AND IT'S DIFFICULT TO GET THERE AND 19:37 IT JUST SHOWS THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING THERE 19:39 BECAUSE THE GOSPEL HAS NOT REACHED MOST OF THESE 19:42 PEOPLE. 19:43 THESE PEOPLE ARE REMOTE AH, THIS VILLAGE WHERE THE 19:45 SCHOOL IS GOING IT TAKES FIVE DAYS TO HIKE OUT OF 19:48 THERE YOU HAVE SAID, THAT'S RIGHT. 19:49 AND I JUST WANT TO STRESS THE CHANGE OF TEMPERTURE, 19:53 CLIMATE, THE TERRAIN AS A PILOT I GET ALL OF THIS 19:57 AND WHAT ADVENTIST AVIATION DOES, WHAT GARY 20:00 ROBERTS AND HIS TEAM AND HIS DAD BEFORE THEM, IT IS 20:04 JUST IT IS A MIRACLE. 20:06 YES, IT IS. 20:07 WHAT THEY DO AND HOW THEY REACH THESE PEOPLE AND IT 20:09 IS EXCITING AND I JUST LOVE IT EVERY TIME WE TALK 20:12 ABOUT IT. 20:14 WELL, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO COME OVER AND VISIT US. 20:16 OH, I WOULD LOVE THAT. 20:17 I WOULD LOVE THAT. 20:18 SO, WHEN WE GET TO THESE VILLAGES AH, WE -OUR 20:22 PEOPLE THERE SPEND THE TIME THAT THEY NEED TO 20:27 WITH THEM. 20:29 THEY BECOME REAL PROFESSIONALS. 20:32 YES. 20:33 NOT JUST PROFESSIONALS BUT THEY ARE SUCH COMMITED 20:36 CHRISTIANS THAT I'M JUST SO PLEASED TO BE IN THEIR 20:40 PRESENCE. 20:41 THEY ARE HEROES TO ME. 20:43 FABULOUS. 20:44 BUT THANK YOU FOR EXPLAINING THE DIFFERENCE 20:46 BETWEEN PAPUA INDONESIA AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA 20:49 BECAUSE SOMETIMES WE DO GET A LITTLE CONFUSED WITH 20:52 THAT. 20:53 AH, WHILE I WAS THERE IN ONE OF THESE VILLAGES THAT 20:58 WE VISITED THERE WAS A SCHOOL OPERATED BY 21:01 SOMEONE, NOT US, THAT HAD DONE SOMETHING-THE 21:05 TEACHERS IN THE SCHOOL HAD DONE SOMETHING THAT 21:08 SOMEBODY FROM A VILLAGE NEARBY DIDN'T LIKE AND 21:12 THEY CAME AND KILLED EIGHT OF THE TEACHERS. 21:15 SO, WE'RE EVEN THOUGH WE MAY NOT BE IN A SITUATION 21:19 WHERE CANNIBALISM IS AN ISSUE, JUST THIS YEAR 21:27 TEACHERS BEING KILLED BECAUSE THEY DID SOMETHING 21:29 IN THE SCHOOL ROOM THAT PEOPLE IN ANOTHER VILLAGE 21:33 DIDN'T LIKE SO, WE STILL NEED TREMENDOUS PRAYER FOR 21:39 OUR PEOPLE WHO ARE WORKING IN THESE PLACES. 21:41 WELL YES, AND ESPECIALLY AS WE START THE NEW SCHOOL 21:44 WITH THE FOUR TEACHERS AND ALL OF THAT. 21:45 UH HUH. 21:46 ABSOLUTELY. 21:47 YES, SO AH, THE REASON WE HAVE TEACHERS IN THESE 21:54 PLACES IS BECAUSE IT IS THE ONLY WAY WE CAN HAVE 21:59 ACCESS TO THE VILLAGES. 22:02 WE TEACH IN THE SCHOOL THEN THE TEACHERS ARE ABLE 22:06 TO GO TO THE HOMES OF THE STUDENTS AND THEN TO THE 22:10 HOMES OF THE FRIENDS OF THOSE PEOPLE AND TEACH 22:15 THEM TO READ AND WRITE SO THAT THEY CAN LEARN TO 22:17 READ THE BIBLE. 22:19 IT'S WONDERFUL HOW GOD MAKES AN INROAD IN THESE 22:22 OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE TO LEARN MORE AND THE 22:24 VILLAGERS HAVE A NEED. 22:25 THEIR KIDS NEED TO BE EDUCATED AND SO WHAT AN 22:26 OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO COME IN, THE GOSPEL OUTREACH 22:28 WORKERS, AND GET TO KNOW THEM. 22:29 YES, AND NATURALLY OUR WORKERS GET TO LOVE THE 22:30 PEOPLE AND THE PEOPLE GET TO LOVE THEM AND WE'RE 22:44 LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING OVER A LONG TERM, WE MAY 22:48 NOT HAVE A LONG TERM BEFORE JESUS COMES AND 22:50 THAT WOULD BE GOOD TOO, BUT WE'RE LOOKING TO BE 22:54 ABLE TO SEE OVER THE LONG TERM JUST WHAT KIND OF 22:56 CHANGES HAPPEN IN THESE PEOPLE'S LIVES. 22:59 YES, ABSOLUTELY, ABSOLUTELY. 23:01 WELL, YOU HAVE JUST A DIVERSE AREA AND IS THIS 23:04 STILL INDONESIA HERE? 23:05 YES, IT IS STILL IN PAPUA. 23:07 OK. 23:08 AH, THIS IS THE REGISTRATION AT THE SCHOOL 23:09 WHERE THE CHILDREN WERE GETTING READY TO COME. 23:12 OK. 23:13 AND IT IS A VILLAGE EVENT IT LOOKS LIKE. 23:17 OUR TEACHERS ARRIVED AND THE WHOLE VILLAGE CAME OUT 23:19 TO SEE THEM. 23:20 WONDERFUL. 23:21 WONDERFUL AND THERE IS THE ADVENTIST AVIATION PLANE 23:23 RIGHT THERE AND MORE PEOPLE TO PRAY FOR. 23:26 LOOK AT THOSE TWO TEACHERS RIGHT THERE, THEY ARE A 23:28 HUSBAND AND WIFE TEAM. 23:29 YES. 23:30 AND IF YOU ARE WONDERING MAYBE YOU ARE AWAKE AT 23:32 NIGHT AND YOU ARE WONDERING WHO TO PRAY FOR, 23:34 PRAY FOR THESE TWO RIGHT HERE. 23:35 ABSOLUTELY. 23:36 ABSOLUTELY. 23:37 THESE FOLKS WERE MARRIED JUST A COUPLE OF WEEKS 23:40 BEFORE THEY WENT TO THIS VILLAGE. 23:42 HONEYMOON IN THE VILLAGE AS TEACHERS. 23:44 I LOVE IT, GARY. 23:45 I LOVE IT. 23:46 I LOVE IT. 23:47 WELL, YOU'VE CERTAINLY GIVEN US A LOT TO THINK 23:49 AND PRAY ABOUT HERE AND WHAT ARE SOME NEEDS AS WE 23:53 ARE CLOSING HERE FOR YOUR TERRITORIES? 23:55 MAYBE SOMEONE IS WATCHING AND GONE, WOW, I LEARNED A 23:58 LOT, I'M ENCOURAGED. 24:00 WHAT CAN I DO? 24:01 WELL, THE BIG THING IS AS WE ADD VIETNAM, CAMBODIA 24:06 AND THAILAND TO THIS AS WELL TO RECOGNIZE THAT 24:09 EVEN THOUGH THERE HAS BEEN SOME WORK GOING ON THERE 24:12 IN THE PAST, WE NOW HAVE THE POSSIBILITIES, THE 24:17 VERY REAL POSSIBILITIES OF JUST EXPANDING THIS WORK 24:20 IN REMARKABLE WAYS AND ANYTIME YOU DO THAT, THE 24:24 DEVIL GETS UPSET. 24:25 SO, WE HAVE TO HAVE PRAYER. 24:27 EACH OF OUR WORKERS NEEDS PRAYER. 24:29 GOSPEL OUTREACH AS A WHOLE NEEDS PRAYER BECAUSE WHEN 24:34 WE START THIS KIND OF EXPANSION OF THE WORK WE 24:39 WANT TO BE SURE IT CAN CONTINUE SO WE LOOK TO OUR 24:43 WONDERFUL DONORS TO BE ABLE TO HELP WITH THAT AND 24:47 WE APPRECIATE SO MUCH WHAT THEY'VE ALREADY BEEN DOING 24:49 FOR SO LONG. 24:50 YES, ABSOLUTELY AND YOUR SCRIPTURE IS LUKE 10:2 "HE 24:55 TOLD THEM THE HARVEST IS PLENTIFUL BUT THE WORKERS 24:58 ARE FEW. 24:59 ASK THE LORD OF THE HARVEST, THEREFORE, TO 25:01 SEND OUT WORKERS INTO HIS HARVEST FIELD." 25:05 AND THAT'S WHAT WE'VE DONE AND THAT'S WHAT WE ARE 25:07 ASKING OUR FRIENDS TO HELP US TO DO. 25:09 AND IT SAYS, ASK IT DOESN'T SAY AND WORRY 25:13 ABOUT IT. 25:13 NO. 25:14 IT SAYS ASK AND THEN IN PHILIPPIANS IT SAYS TO 25:17 GIVE ALL OF OUR CARES TO THE LORD AND THANK HIM AND 25:20 THANK HIM FOR HOW HE'S GOING TO ANSWER AND THEN 25:22 IT SAYS THE LORD IS NEAR JUST LIKE WHAT WE ARE 25:24 SAYING, YES, THAT JESUS IS COMING AGAIN. 25:27 WELL GARY, AS WE WRAP THIS UP I JUST WANT TO SAY 25:29 THANK YOU AND PLEASE GIVE US A REPORT THOUGH. 25:32 I WANT TO KNOW HOW THAT COUPLE IS DOING OF THE 25:35 FOUR TEACHERS UP THERE IN THAT VILLAGE SO, WHEN YOU 25:37 GO BACK WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING ABOUT THEM. 25:40 THANK YOU FOR A CHANCE TO TELL YOU ABOUT THEM. 25:41 YES, ABSOLUTELY. 25:42 AND WE WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR PARTNERING WITH US 25:45 HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH. 25:46 I HOPE THAT YOU'VE BEEN ENCOURAGED. 25:48 SOMETIMES WHEN WE LISTEN TO THE NEWS AND SEE THINGS 25:50 WE'RE LIKE OH, I DON'T KNOW HOW THIS IS ALL GOING 25:52 TO HAPPEN. 25:53 WELL, GREAT NEWS IS THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY 25:54 ABOUT IT. 25:55 WE JUST HAVE TO GO AND TELL AND IT IS ALL UP TO 25:57 THE GOOD LORD. 25:58 SO, WE WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO SHARE ABOUT GOSPEL 26:00 OUTREACH. 26:01 WE WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS, YOUR 26:03 SUPPORT AND MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU TODAY. |
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