Jesus 4 Asia Now

What is 'Jesus for Asia'?

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Participants: Jon & Natalie Wood

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00:21 Hi, and welcome to Jesus for Asia Now.
00:23 We want to spend a little time today
00:25 just sharing with you what Jesus for Asia is,
00:29 who we are and what we do.
00:30 Hi, Dear.
00:31 Hi, Darling, how are you doing?
00:33 Doing fine.
00:34 What is Jesus For Asia?
00:35 Oh, why don't you tell me?
00:37 Okay.
00:38 Well, Jesus For Asia is made up of people
00:41 that desire to see God's work go forward
00:43 and that involves two visions.
00:46 It's a twofold vision.
00:47 One is to reach the unreached,
00:49 of which there are still a lot of people out there
00:51 that have no access to the gospel.
00:53 It is like almost 7,000 languages of the gospel
00:56 in the world today.
00:57 And our church even though,
00:58 it's in almost every country of the world,
01:00 still it's only a 900 languages,
01:03 924 was the last count.
01:05 And so there's almost 6,000 languages still left.
01:08 But 6,000 languages doesn't seem like that
01:11 a larger amount when you think of our church
01:13 having 17 million people.
01:15 So it's something that's possible...
01:16 We should be able to do something.
01:17 Yes, but the thing is that,
01:19 I think that a lot of times we're not as engaged
01:22 as we could be with the great commission.
01:24 And so our vision is to bring people
01:27 into the great commission.
01:28 And so, that's the twofold vision.
01:30 Bringing the gospel to the unreached,
01:32 but reengaging North America with missions because we...
01:36 over the last 70 years,
01:38 kind of like had a little falling away
01:40 from doing missions.
01:41 Okay, so the mission of Jesus for Asia
01:43 then is encapsulated in that twofold vision?
01:46 Right.
01:47 We first started out in India with the idea of...
01:51 Instead of us going as missionaries,
01:53 'cause I really would like to go in as missionary.
01:55 But I figured that we could be more effective
01:58 if we enable the local missionary in India,
02:01 'cause just for a plane ticket for me is like $1,500.
02:05 And so you bring our whole family involved
02:07 and that's $6,000 just going.
02:09 And we don't know the language, and we don't know the culture,
02:11 and we probably offend people left and right.
02:14 Exactly.
02:15 But if we hire somebody local, that's $60 a month.
02:20 And so our plane ticket for our family going over
02:22 would sponsor one person to work for God
02:25 for almost 10 years.
02:27 And so, we figured that we would be more effective
02:30 in enabling them to do the work.
02:32 And so, now we have about 220 Bible workers,
02:36 national Bible workers in India.
02:38 Okay. Yeah.
02:39 So we want to talk about the projects,
02:41 but we also want to say that we've expanded beyond India
02:45 and we'll share that as we go.
02:47 But also the fact that
02:50 there are so many unreached people,
02:52 and there are so many languages that have no work in them yet.
02:55 And even languages that have no portion of the scripture.
02:58 There's nearly 2,000 that have no witness,
03:01 no portion of the scripture...
03:02 No missionary, no Christian. Yeah.
03:05 So the need for work overseas is huge.
03:08 It's huge, the need far outweighs the resources,
03:11 far outstrips the resources.
03:13 So there is a huge need,
03:15 probably 40 percent of the world
03:17 still has no access to the gospel,
03:19 which is representing about 2.5 to 3 billion people
03:24 depending on how you measure that,
03:26 but those are the unreached.
03:28 Some countries in the world that we consider reached,
03:31 North America.
03:32 Yeah, not everyone's a Christian,
03:34 there's still more work to do,
03:35 still lot more witnessing to do.
03:37 But everybody pretty much has access if they wanted to.
03:41 They drive past churches, they go to a bookstore.
03:43 You can get a Bible in a Dollar Store now.
03:46 They are available.
03:47 We've got how many satellite programs and channel
03:49 that are Christian?
03:50 You can go to a hotel and find a Gideon Bible
03:52 in your language.
03:53 But there's a lot of languages, lot of people groups
03:56 that don't have any of that.
03:57 Anything.
03:58 That's where our burden is
03:59 because Jesus says in Revelation
04:01 that this gospel will be preached to all nations,
04:04 kindred, tongue and people.
04:05 In fact, He talks about every nation, kindred, tongue
04:08 and people having a representative in heaven.
04:10 And so right now that's tongue.
04:13 Okay, just even tongues of 7,000 languages,
04:16 we're still only in 924, 6,000 left.
04:20 And lot of those last languages are very difficult
04:23 because it's hard geographically,
04:25 politically, culturally, maybe physically,
04:28 lot of those are up in the mountains.
04:30 Let's say for instance, Western Papua New Guinea.
04:33 The island of New Guinea,
04:34 which is used to be called Irian Jaya.
04:36 It's like 500 languages just there.
04:39 We had no work in 511 of them.
04:42 Last summer, one more was reached.
04:44 So now we have no work in 510 of them.
04:48 It sounds like a huge challenge.
04:49 Yeah. Well, let's go on to our project overview.
04:52 And, you know, some of these projects,
04:54 we're direct project managers so to speak of.
04:57 Yes.
04:58 And we provide financial support.
05:00 We're the only source in America
05:01 for advertising these projects
05:03 or trying to seek to share the need
05:06 for these different projects, some of them.
05:08 And then others, we're just like a financial support.
05:11 They have other people that are project managers,
05:14 they do their advertising,
05:15 they do whatever trying to share...
05:16 Awareness raising.
05:17 Awareness raising, that's the word
05:18 I was looking for.
05:19 And we provide the financial services for them.
05:21 Yeah, so we take the funds from the donors
05:23 and pass them through.
05:24 Because Jesus For Asia's 501c3.
05:27 So people can donate
05:28 and get their tax deductible receipt and...
05:30 Right.
05:31 So, but we don't charge these projects overhead from those.
05:33 Right. No.
05:35 You know, any actual straight bank fee
05:38 that comes and goes against that,
05:40 but otherwise we don't charge anything.
05:42 Right.
05:43 Which the Lord is taking care of us
05:44 and He has blessed.
05:45 There's a lot of need and we can't go forward
05:47 in some of the other areas.
05:49 Right. Yeah. So, anyway.
05:50 So like for instance, we were into originally
05:52 a sending organization.
05:53 Right.
05:54 But people have come to us and said we want to go.
05:57 What does it take? Yeah.
05:58 We've been rejected by this organization
06:00 or we've been told we're too old or,
06:02 you know, how do we go?
06:04 Or some of them were our friends
06:06 that were working with us in some of our camp meetings
06:09 that got inspired and they just said, we want to go.
06:11 What does it take to go?
06:12 And we're like, okay, well, plane ticket.
06:15 Yeah.
06:16 Some of them went on a vision trip
06:18 and never, never could live in America again.
06:21 Right.
06:22 So let's start with the Bible workers in India.
06:23 Okay.
06:25 Our major ministry in India is we have over 200 Bible workers.
06:28 They are national Bible workers that already know the language,
06:31 already know the culture.
06:33 And for $60 a month,
06:35 you can sponsor a fulltime Bible worker.
06:37 And they are very effective,
06:39 they are very efficient and they are lovely.
06:41 And we're gonna do a whole show
06:43 on just how they work and how they function.
06:44 Okay. We also have four evening schools.
06:47 Yes, for $7 a month, you can sponsor a child
06:51 that will give them a free meal,
06:54 nutritious meal and education.
06:56 And this includes...
06:58 And they have a worship time. Yes.
07:00 And they learn memory verse and everything.
07:01 Yeah, that's exciting.
07:03 And since this started,
07:05 we have probably served over 250, 000 meals.
07:08 And this combats the two biggest problems
07:11 with young people in India,
07:13 that is malnutrition and education.
07:16 And it also provides them a opportunity for growth
07:19 and it's just a beautiful thing.
07:21 I love our evening schools. Yeah.
07:22 And then we have an orphanage that is in process of moving
07:26 to a new location that the board provided.
07:28 Out in the country.
07:29 We've had 11 children there. Yeah.
07:31 And now we're going to have 13
07:33 because we're adopting two more into the orphanage.
07:35 And there's room for more
07:36 as it grows with this new facility.
07:37 As of Lord leads.
07:39 We've also worked a little bit.
07:41 Our director there has worked a little bit with media.
07:43 Media is so powerful in India.
07:46 Everybody has a television.
07:47 Even the last government that was voted in,
07:49 in southern India, they said, if you vote for us,
07:52 we will give you a free TV.
07:53 So now almost everyone has a TV.
07:55 He did a guest appearance on a TV show
07:59 and he had like 80 people call
08:02 asking for prayer on the phone
08:04 as a result of that one show,
08:05 half hour show, Sunday morning it's like 6.30.
08:08 So there's so many opportunities there.
08:10 We haven't been able to take advantage of them
08:12 because of a lack of funds,
08:13 but what a powerful ministry that could be.
08:16 Yeah, there's another
08:17 couple of projects there in India
08:19 and one is Health and Life for India
08:21 with Carlton and Scott which is a pseudonym.
08:23 Not their real names because they are in an area
08:25 that's little bit hostile to what they are doing.
08:27 They just move there. Right.
08:28 They have already done some Bible worker training,
08:30 which is a beginning.
08:31 Yeah, they do Bible worker training
08:32 as Bible study.
08:33 They also do medical missionary training.
08:35 Yes.
08:36 Some to these, so that it's a complete package
08:38 that they are giving to the workers.
08:39 Right.
08:40 Then we also have the young lady,
08:42 we're calling Anne.
08:43 While she was visiting there in India,
08:45 one of our evening schools,
08:46 she realized the need for widows.
08:47 Yes.
08:48 So she actually started a widow sewing school as well.
08:51 Because these widows, they don't have
08:53 very many options.
08:54 They can never get remarried and they end up like begging,
08:57 'cause very few of them have any kind of education.
09:01 So some people sponsored
09:03 the purchase of some sewing machines
09:05 and there's somebody there that's training them
09:07 how to sew,
09:08 so that they can support themselves and their children.
09:10 Yeah.
09:11 So that's kind of an encapsulation
09:13 very brief of India.
09:15 Yes. And then we have...
09:16 In Thailand, we have a number of projects.
09:18 Yes.
09:19 One of them is our All Asia Studio Team.
09:21 Yes.
09:22 Because in Thailand, it's another country in Asia
09:26 that has a tremendous capacity for watching television.
09:31 They don't read much,
09:32 but they watch a lot of television.
09:34 And so, we've got a team there that's translating videos
09:38 and DVDs and stuff into the local languages,
09:41 so that they can get fed in the medium
09:43 that they are used to.
09:44 That's a powerful team, wonderful team.
09:46 Yeah, and working there with them right now
09:47 and directing them is Daniel and Tesha Bair.
09:50 Yes. So that's the neat project.
09:52 Yeah.
09:53 Overall they are working together.
09:54 They got four people working there
09:56 that are providing the salaries for...
09:57 Stipends for, yeah.
09:58 In Thai, Karen and Hmong languages,
10:01 those three languages that we're targeting first.
10:04 There is like 78 languages in Thailand,
10:06 but we're starting out with these four.
10:08 So that's exciting. Yeah.
10:10 So we're doing media in Thailand a bit,
10:12 and then we also have a burden for publishing in Thailand.
10:15 Yes.
10:16 Right now, we're trying to raise funds for which book?
10:18 The Desire of Ages. Okay.
10:20 It cost about $50,000 to relay out and publish
10:25 10,000 copies of The Desire of Ages,
10:27 it's a big thick book.
10:29 This book has been out of print in the Thai language
10:31 which for almost 20 years.
10:33 Can you imagine being without The Desire of Ages
10:36 in your church?
10:37 Even your pastor doesn't have The Desire of Ages.
10:39 What a concept? That's a huge need.
10:41 And the division has provided some funding,
10:44 the union has provided some funding,
10:46 and the local mission has provided some funding,
10:48 but they are very short funded
10:49 because of the decline in giving
10:51 to foreign missions over the last 70 years.
10:53 And the decline is so much that they can't keep up.
10:56 Okay. Then we have the Sharon Family Project.
10:59 Sharon family's, they have four boys.
11:02 The parents are in Northwest Thailand
11:05 and they are working with the Karen people group
11:07 that are up in the mountains there.
11:09 Some of them are coming over from Burma
11:11 because of the Civil War
11:12 that's been going on for 60 years,
11:13 that's letting up now, so that's really good.
11:15 But they are doing a training school
11:17 and they are in the jungle.
11:18 They have to get there by boat or motorbike
11:21 across the difficult dirt roads and mud roads.
11:23 And then hike through the jungle.
11:24 So they are in the jungle and they built their own house
11:26 out of bamboo,
11:27 and they are setting up a training school,
11:29 where young people would come and learn
11:30 what it means to walk with Christ.
11:32 They are also teaching English and Maths
11:34 and some of those other things there.
11:36 Yeah, and their youngest son
11:37 is in the south western part of highland,
11:40 and he's doing a school also,
11:42 teaching English and teaching the Bible study
11:44 and all these kinds of things.
11:45 How to walk with Christ?
11:46 Another son of course is over in Cambodia.
11:49 And the fourth son, which is the oldest
11:51 is actually in Burma.
11:53 And he's been studying there.
11:54 Studying there at one of the seminaries.
11:55 Yeah, and then we have a young lady working with them,
11:58 that's been working in Cambodia, Sarah Van.
12:01 He recently moved to work with the Sharon.
12:03 So she's teaching there in their school.
12:05 Yeah. That's the Sharon family.
12:06 So you can go to sharonfamily.org.
12:08 You can also find them on our website,
12:10 jesusforasia.org.
12:12 And you can look under Thailand...
12:14 Under Thailand, you will see a list of different projects.
12:15 Right.
12:16 Then we have a family, actually three families
12:19 that run a couple of different projects.
12:21 One of them is the Children's Home.
12:23 Yes. And that's Adam's family.
12:25 Paul and Lena Adams and their children.
12:27 Yeah, wonderful ministry, beautiful ministry.
12:29 They got the orphanage in their own home.
12:31 They are taking care of children
12:32 that they basically adopted for life.
12:34 They have also headed up a ministry called
12:36 Karen Outreach,
12:37 which now there's more families working with them,
12:41 the Steck Family, Harvey and Brenda
12:43 and their girls and then also the Meyer family,
12:46 Kelly and Denise Meyer
12:48 are working there with them now.
12:49 And they have a school there and a training school and...
12:54 Yeah, it's a trade school.
12:55 They have got about 250 kids there.
12:57 It's a day and a boarding school elementary,
13:00 they are trying to move into academy.
13:03 Okay, then we have Gayle Haberkam.
13:04 Yeah, she's in her 60s
13:06 and she's up in the mountain villages
13:08 and she hikes in there.
13:09 I think at one time, she had to hike two hours
13:11 to get to a place where she could call out
13:13 on her cell phone.
13:14 Yeah.
13:15 And she went there temporary
13:17 and she fell in love with the people
13:19 and now she's opened a clinic that services up to 50 villages
13:22 up in the mountains that have no access
13:24 or very difficult access to medical care.
13:26 Yeah. Good care. Yeah.
13:28 So and they also are teaching them about Jesus
13:30 and praying with them.
13:31 Yeah. It's beautiful.
13:32 We also are working with Bible workers in Thailand.
13:35 And then we have couple of different projects in Bangkok
13:38 and that's called Bangkok Outreach.
13:39 Bangkok Outreach is a group of people,
13:41 friends that have gone over there,
13:43 inspired by the need in Bangkok.
13:45 You know, 51 percent of the people in the world
13:47 live in cities.
13:48 Yeah, so Brian and Jessica Atwell
13:50 recently went with their young son Asher.
13:52 Yes. He's a cutie pie.
13:54 Anyway, they also had shared
13:56 the need with a couple of friends of theirs,
13:58 who were also Bible workers in the northwest.
14:00 And they actually went first
14:03 and got there before the Atwell's.
14:04 So they are all working there in Bangkok and studying Thai
14:08 and trying to learn their way
14:09 around the culture and everything.
14:10 Yes.
14:11 So, also we have another project in Thailand,
14:14 Love and Care Project...
14:16 Yes. With Rodney and Phimpha.
14:17 Yes. And they are located...
14:19 They are east of Bangkok, located in the country.
14:22 And they take care of anyone that has a need.
14:26 And so they have like 17 kids living at,
14:28 what they call a Timothy House.
14:30 And they take care of those kids.
14:31 They like adopt them.
14:33 And these kids have been abused,
14:35 they have really amazing stories,
14:37 but they bring them here and then Phimpha and Rodney,
14:40 they just love them, take them as their own kids.
14:42 Make sure Jesus is with them.
14:43 And they have a lot of people around the country
14:45 that they help as well.
14:46 It's a wonderful ministry that we are associated with.
14:49 And then in the Philippines, moving to the Philippines now.
14:51 Yes
14:52 We have a couple of different things going on,
14:54 one is GoBeDo Missions.
14:55 Where is that located?
14:56 That's in the Southern Island of Mindanao.
14:59 And this is the guy that, in one of our camp meetings
15:03 and the theme for that camp meeting was
15:05 ''Claim your Inheritance''
15:06 and that was based on Isaiah 54:3 that says,
15:08 'Thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles.'
15:11 Our inheritance is the Gentiles,
15:13 so he says I claim Southern Philippines
15:15 as my inheritance
15:17 and since then, he's gone there,
15:19 set up this ministry called GoBeDo Missions
15:22 and in the last few years
15:23 they've baptized several hundred people
15:26 and they're solid Christians.
15:27 They have a team of about 15 or 20 Bible workers
15:30 that go up in these mountains
15:32 and they work really hard to reach
15:34 unreached people groups.
15:36 There had been no work among them
15:37 before they started doing this work
15:39 and so that's exciting.
15:40 Yeah. That's awesome
15:41 And then in the central area we have...
15:44 The West Central Visayas.
15:45 Iloilo. Yeah.
15:47 The Philippines is made up of 7,500 islands.
15:50 Not all of them are inhabited
15:51 but this is the West Central Island of Panay.
15:55 A little city called...
15:56 Well, it's a big city for us but in the Philippines
15:59 it's a little city, it's called Iloilo.
16:01 And we went over there in 2008 and we did some training
16:05 and brought some computers and some cameras
16:07 and they got going with broadcasting
16:10 so they're taping shows,
16:12 they got their little studio that they built
16:14 and they've actually been broadcasting on satellite
16:16 for quite a number of years.
16:17 That's an exciting program.
16:19 And we also have some Bible workers...
16:21 Yeah, I was gonna say it, that same church,
16:24 they had a disaster actually, it was...
16:26 We'll have to tell the story in a different episode,
16:28 but that church realized the need for Bible workers.
16:31 And so we've been sponsoring.
16:32 They had a request for like 2,800 Bible studies.
16:34 Yeah.
16:35 So we've been sponsoring Bible workers there
16:37 for a number of years.
16:38 Then we also want to talk about Cambodia.
16:41 And we have some friends that are in ministry there,
16:44 named Tim and Wendy Maddocks.
16:46 And their ministry is called...
16:47 The Salt Ministries
16:48 Saltmin.org Yes.
16:50 We'll not only provide financial services for them
16:52 but we also are inspired by them.
16:54 Oh, yes.
16:55 They're one of the reasons why we're doing
16:57 what we're doing because we saw
16:58 how God moved in their life.
17:00 And we said we want that same experience in our life
17:03 and so we started camping out on Mathew 6:33, which is...
17:07 "Seek ye first the kingdom of God,
17:08 and his righteousness,
17:09 and all these things shall be added unto you.
17:11 Exactly.
17:12 And we saw that lived out in his life.
17:14 So now he's come over and spoken
17:16 in number of our faith camps.
17:18 Tremendous, wonderful friends. Yeah.
17:20 Well, they have quite a number of different projects there.
17:23 They have an orphanage. They got like 45 acres.
17:26 With eight homes. Yeah.
17:27 And they have a school with 12th grade.
17:29 Hundred and fifty kids. Yeah.
17:30 And they have a media centre with a giant studio.
17:32 A studio.
17:33 It's quite an involved ministry
17:35 and so we'll spend a little time on that one
17:37 in a different episode.
17:38 And then, also we have a young lady
17:39 that's actually there working with the Maddocks.
17:42 Her name is Laura Calkins and that's where Sarah been,
17:44 he was until she went to Thailand.
17:46 And that's where one of the Sharon sons.
17:48 That's my next one on the list, Andrew and his wife Ken,
17:51 who is Cambodian.
17:52 Yes. They're teaching there.
17:54 She's actually finishing her student studies there.
17:57 And they're planning to start a new program like Tim's
18:00 in a different section of Cambodia.
18:02 There's a lot of need in Cambodia too.
18:03 Huge need. Huge need.
18:05 Okay, that kind of covers one area of the vision.
18:07 Okay.
18:08 That was to reach the unreached with the gospel.
18:12 And then we have the other part of the vision,
18:14 which is to reengage North America with missions.
18:17 Yeah.
18:18 And you've just completed a project for the office
18:20 of Adventist Mission at the General Conference,
18:22 which is part of this.
18:25 It's completed now but we want to mention it anyway.
18:27 Yeah. And you mentioned it earlier.
18:29 What is that?
18:30 It's called, ''I Want This City."
18:31 And it's a series of half hour shows.
18:33 They're 13 half hour shows
18:35 where I follow a church planting pastor
18:37 around Bangkok to show the affect
18:40 of the decline in giving to foreign missions.
18:43 What that looks like on the frontlines.
18:45 And we see him crying because he can't go into areas.
18:48 We see him dealing with having to close a church plant
18:51 because there's no funds.
18:52 Yeah, and we see the joy at the baptism,
18:55 and we see some of the ways that life is different
18:57 for missionaries and some of the challenges.
19:00 Yeah. We see his heart. Yeah.
19:01 The heart of Christ
19:02 that gives him a heart for the people.
19:04 And it's exciting. I mean, it's a wonderful show.
19:07 But with that, the reason for that is because
19:10 we started seeing that there is not much interest
19:13 in foreign missions
19:14 or not much awareness of foreign missions.
19:16 And this is because it's not promoted.
19:18 We don't know about it very much
19:20 and so we're seeing a trend overall in the church
19:24 that we're kind of disengaging from foreign missions.
19:28 A lot of people think that
19:29 the work is going forward very well,
19:31 when in actuality in lot of places,
19:32 it is kind of imploding.
19:34 It's kind of dying away.
19:35 That's why we have no Desire of Ages in Thailand.
19:38 We used to, we don't now.
19:39 And so, this is the purpose I think God brought us into
19:42 because we were really enjoying taking the gospel
19:45 to places where it's never been.
19:47 But engaging North America, God's heart is for His church.
19:51 To be involved for their own sakes,
19:53 for character development, and for their own joy, the joy,
19:57 I mean, it's a feast.
19:59 Gospel work,
20:00 and taking the gospel to the nations is a feast.
20:02 It's a spiritual feast to see people's eyes light up
20:06 when they receive the gospel.
20:08 It just does so much,
20:09 it feeds our own spiritual life.
20:11 And it fed Jesus.
20:12 That's what He said
20:13 when He was talking with the widow.
20:15 The woman at the well.
20:16 Yeah. Yes.
20:17 The food I have that you know not of.
20:18 He was eating based on giving her the gospel.
20:21 Right.
20:22 So we want to share that great opportunity.
20:25 Right. Okay.
20:26 So then, the last part of...
20:28 The second part of this is recovering...
20:29 Well, we've done camp meetings also,
20:31 that's been part of what we've been doing.
20:32 These camp meetings are very special,
20:34 they're called faith camps,
20:35 because it requires faith to follow the Lord.
20:38 But the focus is on missions and a lot of our workers
20:42 that came to help in these meetings are now overseas.
20:45 Yeah, they said, it's dangerous to be staff at faith camp.
20:48 You might end up going. Yeah.
20:50 So...
20:51 So the other part that we're doing
20:53 and that's more long term and more 24/7 is Mission TV.
20:57 Can you briefly encapsulate Mission TV for us?
21:00 Mission TV is 24/7 mission stories,
21:03 foreign mission,
21:04 because there are some countries
21:06 and people groups and languages,
21:07 there are no missionaries,
21:08 there's no Christians, there's nothing.
21:10 So our focus is on foreign missions and it's 24/7.
21:14 It's a streaming channel right now on missiontv.com.
21:17 Our dream and hope is to have it on a satellite
21:20 where more people can get to it,
21:22 and view it in their homes 24 hours a day,
21:24 7 days a week.
21:26 And we show different ministries like AWR,
21:29 Adventist Mission.
21:30 Gospel Outreach.
21:31 All these wonderful ministries like ASAP
21:33 that are doing wonderful ministries overseas
21:36 and they're showing their work.
21:37 And we want our channel dedicated to their work
21:40 and those types of things.
21:42 So that's the channel. Okay.
21:43 Now we do have projects in several other countries
21:46 that we're not going to mention today
21:47 because of the nature of those countries
21:49 in being closed countries.
21:51 But there are projects in other places
21:53 that we can't talk openly about,
21:55 but they're just as important.
21:56 And Jesus for Asia, the way we get our funding
21:58 for administrative cost, how do we do that
22:00 because you're the accountant.
22:02 Yeah, the funding for administrative cost
22:04 comes by donation.
22:05 We don't hold anything from...
22:07 So if somebody donated to Bible workers?
22:10 No, it goes to Bible workers.
22:12 No funding for administration comes from that?
22:14 No. We made a commitment a long time ago.
22:16 All these other projects that people donate money to,
22:19 none of that goes to administrative.
22:21 No. So then, how do we function?
22:23 How does Jesus for Asia function?
22:24 By the grace of God we function.
22:27 If people say where-needed-most or they say general fund,
22:32 or Jesus for Asia and they just leave it blank,
22:34 whatever, then those are used for
22:36 paying administrative cost
22:38 and that includes some of these other projects
22:40 that we've mentioned
22:41 because some of these don't have their own funding.
22:43 You know, they don't get enough funding
22:46 or they get a little bit but not enough.
22:48 So if somebody donates to administrative,
22:50 a large percentage of that actually goes to a project.
22:52 Yes.
22:54 And even if it doesn't go to a project,
22:55 it sponsors something that's a project cost.
22:59 Right. Like financial services. Exactly.
23:01 Like we have a bookkeeper and we pay her a small stipend
23:05 and it pays those.
23:06 And if she wasn't here,
23:08 then it would be much harder for us
23:09 to get the money out into the field.
23:11 So those kinds of things are very important
23:14 and also the Mission TV, most of the crew,
23:17 most of the Jesus for Asia crew,
23:18 the small stipends are paid out of that fund also.
23:21 It's an important thing and it's not all buying paper
23:24 or sending out newsletters or something like that,
23:27 the unrestricted is what is called in accounting world.
23:30 The where-needed-most type of funds cover a lot of things,
23:35 both here and overseas, and here for overseas,
23:39 and here for North America,
23:41 for the ministry in North America.
23:43 So it's important to have those as well.
23:45 So all these projects, honey,
23:48 we must've been in ministry for a long time.
23:50 No. We started in 2005, in February of 2005.
23:54 God has accomplished all this in just nine years.
23:56 Yes.
23:58 And so, we must be really special people.
24:00 No, we're not special, but God is special.
24:02 God is special.
24:03 And when God shows you a picture of
24:05 what you need to be doing for Him in His work,
24:07 and you go forward,
24:09 He opens the doors, He provides,
24:11 and then suddenly you're like, wow.
24:13 We do a show like this
24:14 and we have to list everything to do the show,
24:16 and it reminds us of how much He's done.
24:18 How much He's accomplishing through Jesus for Asia,
24:21 but sometimes we just, we just see the big picture
24:24 and we don't focus on all the different list.
24:26 And that of course is the subject of another show,
24:29 as how God has led.
24:30 Right.
24:31 And the beautiful thing is He can lead anybody.
24:33 Right.
24:34 And a lot of the missionaries that are over there,
24:35 finding that out, that's what's exciting.
24:37 This is the feast of the harvest.
24:39 And I'm really happy to be a part of it.
24:42 Yeah. It's a blessing and a privilege.
24:44 And so this is the feast that God has called us to.
24:47 And He is calling everyone to this feast
24:49 and there's so much joy.
24:50 And this is what drives us is that we have discovered
24:53 so much joy in doing God's work.
24:56 One of the greatest thrills that I have, and I've had cars,
24:59 I've driven fast, I've skied fast,
25:02 I've done all those stuff,
25:03 but one of the greatest thrills for me
25:04 is seeing a young person or an old person
25:07 accept Jesus Christ to be baptized.
25:09 The light comes on in their eye,
25:11 that's better than driving the fastest sports car.
25:13 And the blessing of doing the mission work
25:16 that we've experienced is for our marriage, for our kids,
25:19 gives them purpose, gives them vision
25:22 and it gives them hope
25:23 to cling on and make sacrifices.
25:25 And it's such a blessing for us
25:27 that we want more of this blessing for others.
25:30 Right.
25:31 We want others to experience this blessing as well
25:33 and so we're encouraging you to get involved.
25:36 Bring missions, bring the needs of the world into your home,
25:40 into your own mind and into your children's mind
25:44 by books, by Mission TV,
25:46 all these different ways that God has.
25:48 Sometimes it's kind of hard to find the right things,
25:50 but as we get more involved with God's mission,
25:53 we draw closer to His heart,
25:55 and we experience more of His blessings.
25:57 And His blessings are peace, joy, love,
25:59 longsuffering and patience, and all these things,
26:02 and trials to develop our patience,
26:05 and to develop our love, and to develop our joy.
26:08 And so God is calling every single Christian
26:10 to the feast of the harvest.
26:12 Come and be a part of taking the gospel
26:14 to the unreached, to the world.
26:16 There are so many ways you can get involved,
26:18 by your prayers first of all, that's the most important,
26:21 by your financial gifts,
26:23 this is what God is calling us to do,
26:24 this is what God is using to prepare us
26:27 and call us out of Laodiceanism
26:29 which is rich, and increased with goods.
26:31 That's why he set up this arrangement
26:33 of seeing the needs,
26:35 and by, maybe even going, going overseas.
26:39 Just earnestly inquire of God, what He wants us to do.
26:43 And in that obedience is tremendous blessing.
26:46 And in doing so, experiencing growth in His grace
26:49 and it's so exciting.
26:50 I've been so blessed in doing this.
26:52 If Jesus for Asia was to shut down today,
26:54 I'd just say, thank you Lord.
26:56 Thank you for these nine years.
26:57 But I don't believe God, that's God's plan.
26:59 No.
27:00 I believe God's plan is to keep growing
27:02 and keep reaching people.
27:04 There's still so much work to be done
27:06 and I believe with all my heart that if we all get involved,
27:09 God could finish this work.
27:11 He's waiting for us to do that.
27:13 Here at Jesus for Asia, we praise God
27:15 for what He has accomplished
27:17 in these last 10 years of ministry.
27:19 And it's all been made possible by the generous support
27:22 of people like you who love to see the gospel proclaimed
27:26 to the unreached of the world.
27:29 We're right now poised for explosive growth,
27:32 as calls from Asia continue to pour in for help,
27:36 for more Bible workers, Bibles, help for orphans,
27:40 evangelistic materials and missionaries.
27:43 Won't you please consider partnering with us
27:47 to communicate His love
27:49 to a people who are dying without Him,
27:52 who have never heard the name of Jesus.
27:55 You may send your tax deductible gift
27:57 to Jesus for Asia, PO Box 1221,
28:00 Collegedale, Tennessee 37315.
28:04 Or you can call us at (423) 413-7321.
28:10 You can also find us on the web at Jesus4asia.org
28:14 May God richly bless you
28:16 as you join in the feast of the harvest.


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