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Series Code: JFAN
Program Code: JFAN000004A
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00:21 Hello, and welcome to Jesus for Asia Now.
00:24 I'm Natalie Wood, and I have Jon Wood 00:25 here with me on the show. 00:26 Hi, Darling. 00:27 We have a great show in store today, don't we dear? 00:29 That's awesome, 00:30 actually this is one of my favorite projects. 00:33 I mean, I love all the projects equally 00:34 but this one is one that 00:38 has been with me for a long time 00:39 as far as that vision and a dream. 00:41 Okay, so we are talking about Thailand... 00:43 Thailand, yes. This time. Okay. 00:46 Now what was our ministry name when we first started? 00:49 We started out as Jesus for India. 00:52 India, and we are talking about Thailand today, 00:53 so what happened? 00:55 Well, 2006 or '07 we realized that, 00:59 you know, even in, let say for instance in Thailand, 01:03 there are fewer even know the gospel is there 01:05 in some developed country. 01:06 There is actually fewer Christians in Thailand 01:08 per capita than there is in India. 01:11 In India it's about 2.5 percent Christian, 01:13 Thailand is about 0.7 percent Christian. 01:17 Okay, so it's very unreached. Yes. 01:19 And there is a lot of unreached areas in Thailand. 01:23 Anyway, so we had been traveling through Thailand 01:25 on our way to India in different places, 01:27 and a lot of missionaries think of Thailand 01:29 as a really great recovery place 01:31 or recreational place, a time to kind of rewind 01:34 after you've done ministry in more remote 01:37 or challenging kind of countries. 01:38 And so, we had been going through Thailand quite a bit. 01:41 I had my conversion experience in Thailand back in 1996. 01:45 Actually Cambodia and Thailand, 01:47 so Southeast Asia had a real soft spot in my heart. 01:51 And the first time you were overseas 01:54 was in Thailand and Burma. 01:55 We went to Thailand and Myanmar, yeah. 01:57 Yeah, and so, we had been traveling through 01:59 and we started learning more statistics about Thailand, 02:01 about the progress of the gospel in Thailand. 02:03 We started thinking, my goodness, 02:05 there's a lot of work that needs to be done here. 02:08 Right, so in 2007 02:10 we took a group through Thailand into India. 02:13 And this is a group picture that we have on the screen. 02:16 And I want to point out our kids. 02:19 This is our first time that we took James 02:21 who is in the plaid shorts 02:23 there on the right in the front, 02:25 and then Mary Ann, I am holding Mary Ann 02:27 in the back on the right in the pink shirt, pink outfit. 02:30 Yes, they were four and six at that time. 02:32 You know, I've been traveling over there 02:33 and I was like, how do I involve our kids in ministry, 02:38 and what age do they have to be 02:40 before they start getting involved with ministry. 02:42 And we figured four and six is a good time to start 02:46 because they can remember that. 02:48 Yeah, they start to be able to remember. 02:50 That's good. Yeah. 02:51 So we have a few more pictures of that trip. 02:53 Yes, this is not something you would find in America. 02:57 No, especially not, back two without helmets. 03:00 Yeah, exactly. In fact, Mary Ann was... 03:01 Yeah, she was stuck between us 03:03 and she got so warmed, she fell asleep. 03:05 Sometimes. 03:07 James would be in front saying, "Daddy, go faster." 03:10 Yeah, and that poor little bike 03:11 could barely make up the hills so I'm, 03:13 "You want me to push." 03:16 Right, but we rented that little motorbike 03:17 for like $5 a day. 03:18 Yeah. 03:19 And drove all over the place, had a great time. 03:22 So that's how they remember, the kids remember, 03:25 that's how we viewed Thailand. 03:26 This is very similar to the shirt that I'm wearing. 03:29 You can see that's a... 03:31 It's not a Thai outfit, they are Karen outfits. 03:35 Karen is a people group 03:36 with that lives in Thailand and Burma, 03:39 and this is where Eric B. 03:41 Hare... 03:42 Those of our viewers 03:43 that know about Eric B. Hare, grew up, 03:45 I grew up reading his books and hearing his stories, 03:50 his amazing story telling capability. 03:52 We had a little 45 records, 03:54 you know, the big hole in the middle, 03:56 and we put those on and listen about 03:58 The Big Yellow Truck and the Naughty Chick, 04:00 Pip, Pip the Naughty Chick, and all those kind of stuff, 04:03 so that was the people group that he ministered to. 04:06 Okay, and then this is another part of that same trip. 04:09 Yes. 04:10 We got to go and feed the elephants. 04:12 Yep. 04:14 And that was something 04:15 that was really a fun thing for children to do. 04:17 Yeah, and there is Mary Ann sitting next to the monkey. 04:19 In Thailand they have 04:21 little three wheel motorbike taxi kind of things 04:24 and they're called tuk-tuks. 04:25 Yeah, they make that tuk-tuk. Why is that? 04:27 They make that sound. 04:28 They got a two-cycle engine there, so... 04:30 Tuk-tuk, tuk-tuk. 04:32 You know, and so you can... 04:34 If you look very closely, 04:35 you can see James riding in there 04:37 through the front window. 04:38 We have fun when we go to Thailand, 04:40 try to see how many people we can put in one of those. 04:42 Yeah. 04:43 Let's talk about some of the statistics of Thailand. 04:45 How many people groups live in Thailand? 04:47 Well, there is like 110 people groups in Thailand. 04:51 And I've heard like 78 languages, 04:54 about 110 people groups. 04:56 So, Thailand, the majority of course is Thai, 05:00 but there is a lot of minorities. 05:02 Southeast Asia has a lot of little tribes here and there 05:05 and there is a lot of them in Thailand. 05:08 Okay. 05:08 Okay, so then, when we were in Thailand, 05:10 we started to have a burden for the people there. 05:14 We started to see that they had need also, 05:17 wasn't just India. 05:19 And so, Lord opened the way for us to be Jesus for Asia. 05:21 Right, and we fell in love with the Thai people. 05:23 They are just sweet people, and very friendly, 05:26 and welcoming to foreigners and tourists. 05:31 So we enjoyed it there, but we started to have a burden 05:33 because, you know, 05:35 even though there is 12,000 Adventists in Thailand, 05:40 only 1,200 of those are actually Thai. 05:43 We start learning this kind of statistics 05:45 and most of them are foreigners 05:48 and so, we're like, well, 05:49 what can we do for these people how can we help. 05:50 And we started learning 05:51 that there is great need or lack of resources 05:55 for the Thai people in the Thai language. 05:59 And we have a clip of, you know, Pastor Doug, 06:01 who kind of introduced us to the great poverty 06:04 or dearth of material resources 06:07 for introducing the Thai people to Jesus. 06:11 Okay, let's play that clip at this time. 06:12 Okay. 06:13 We're here actually in the office of the Adventist, 06:17 the Voice of Prophecy, 06:19 but I wanted just have you take look. 06:24 Her we have photocopies of lessons 06:29 that are... 06:32 What I've been told, they're over 60 years old. 06:36 And you can see here that... 06:40 The truth is there 06:42 but even at my second and third grade level of Thai, 06:47 some of these words I can't even read 06:50 what letter this is. 06:50 You know, what is that, 06:51 what is that letter right there, 06:52 it's a blob of ink. 06:55 And it just... 06:56 It just breaks my heart because... 07:02 Even at my former church, in our district. 07:06 Our local church literature rack was bigger 07:10 and was more, had more stock than what... 07:15 Than what we have here at the mission. 07:18 It was more well stocked than 07:20 what we had here at the headquarters 07:23 to serve an entire nation, 07:25 and there we're just trying to serve 07:28 one or two cities of 50,000 07:30 and seven nations of 65 million. 07:33 That's very heartbreaking. 07:34 Oh, really is. 07:36 And we realized we had to do something. 07:37 Absolutely. 07:39 So there is a need for printed materials, 07:41 and there is a need for video and audio materials. 07:43 That's correct. 07:44 And so we started 07:46 training a local team or looking for a local team 07:49 to help with translation and things like that. 07:52 It's like how do we do this. 07:53 I didn't know anybody in and everybody I talked to said, 07:57 there is nobody in the church that knows media, 08:01 who knows video production, television production, 08:03 and so, started from just ground level. 08:06 It's like what do we do. 08:08 And, but the vision was to provide these resources 08:12 for Bible workers, for the church members, 08:15 for the churches, you know. 08:17 But a lot of churches don't have a weekly pastor 08:19 because there is district pastors, 08:21 and so, what do they do on a Sabbath morning 08:23 when the pastor can't come. 08:25 A lot of times they just won't meet. 08:28 And so, all these resources that they needed DVDs, 08:31 getting on satellite broadcast throughout the whole country, 08:34 so church nurturing as well as evangelism. 08:37 So, we started getting together a team? 08:40 Yeah, so over the years, 08:42 we've worked really hard, prayed really hard, 08:44 and God has assembled finally a wonderful team 08:47 that's working really well together. 08:49 They had been working together for the last year or so. 08:51 Okay, and we want to introduce them to our viewers. 08:53 Yeah. 08:54 So we have a picture here of our team in Thailand. 08:57 Yeah. 08:58 We have Daniel Bair and his family on the far left, 09:01 and then we have Wanida and Bawbaw, 09:05 and Gop and Framme and their son on the far right, 09:07 the little girl on the far 09:08 right belongs to the Bair's as well. 09:10 Since this picture was taken, 09:11 there's a third child added to the Bair family so. 09:15 Right, so it's really, it's a new team. 09:17 Yeah. Yeah. 09:19 So here they are meeting together 09:20 to have worship in the morning and pray together 09:24 and then they go to their various tasks. 09:26 Now, what kind of tasks they're doing? 09:28 I guess we're gonna introduce the team, 09:29 so maybe we should let them tell what they're doing. 09:32 Yeah, but, right now we're in a rented house. 09:35 So the team is working in a house 09:38 and they go out to the villages 09:40 or to an event to record the event, 09:42 and then they come in 09:43 and they work inside their office base there. 09:48 One of the rooms is converted into an office. 09:50 But this is how they film out there in location. 09:54 This is in a Hmong village, 09:55 one of the people groups o out there. 09:57 And you can see, they're setting up for a sermon. 09:59 They're making him up, setting up the cameras. 10:01 Then the preacher preaches his sermon 10:05 to the people and while he is preaching, 10:07 we're recording it on all three cameras. 10:09 And then after we capture that video, we go back to, 10:12 they go back to the office and they edit the video, 10:15 they produce the DVD out of that. 10:19 Label it in a completely different language 10:22 that I have no idea what they say 10:23 but I'm guessing that's Hmong. 10:26 I'm sure that's Hmong but anyway I wouldn't know 10:27 but, then they go out and take those DVDs 10:30 and they have a gift now to give people. 10:33 Gift giving is a big deal in their society. 10:36 And so, they go to door-to-door, 10:37 they knock on the door, would you like something. 10:38 So now the people that receive the gift then, 10:41 they can either watch it or they can just set it aside 10:45 and maybe they'll watch it in the future, 10:47 but they can watch now a sermon anytime during the week, 10:50 whether they know how to read or not. 10:52 And often they will gather their family together, 10:53 gather their neighbors together and they'll sit down there 10:57 and watch this gospel presentation. 10:59 Okay. And that's very powerful. 11:00 In fact, one of the villages 11:02 in the Hmong tribe there, out of 300 families, 11:09 they have 300 families in this one village, 11:10 295 are now SDA. 11:14 Because of the DVDs. 11:16 A big influence in that was the DVDs 11:17 because they can watch the sermons during the week. 11:21 And they could share those during the week 11:23 and get together, 11:24 and it had a huge impact on that village. 11:26 So that's part of the vision for this team 11:28 is to record the local language speakers 11:32 whichever native language it is, 11:35 edit it and make it available. 11:36 Yes, for distribution. Right. 11:38 So another part of what they're doing 11:41 is trying to help with the printed translation 11:43 that we heard about Pastor Doug sharing. 11:46 So that's part of what they're doing, 11:48 but let's meet them. 11:50 They're going to introduce themselves, 11:51 and we'll be able to see a little more about them. 11:54 Okay. 11:55 My name is Daniel Bair. 11:57 I've been in Thailand over three and half years, 12:00 it will be four years this summer. 12:02 I'm working as the director for Jesus for Asia's media team 12:06 at the All Asia studio here. 12:08 So that's Daniel, and then, 12:12 he has a little interesting take on 12:13 why he is such a believer in this media. 12:18 Okay, so let's listen to that now. 12:20 Okay. 12:21 If you come to my door and I'm not really interested. 12:24 Thai people are polite, 12:26 but they still might not want you there. 12:29 If you say, can I come and tell you about Jesus. 12:32 It's a little bit threatening to have that confrontation. 12:36 But if you say, can I share DVD with you. 12:39 They can in the privacy of their own 12:42 or if they turn on the TV broadcast, 12:45 there is not the threat there that they have to hear you. 12:47 They have the opportunity and the interest then 12:50 that in their own leisure without feeling compelled 12:54 that they have accept it, 12:56 they can now experience and listen to it. 12:58 They can go where people can't go. 13:00 They can go through barriers and doors sometimes 13:02 where hearts may be shut or minds may be shut. 13:04 They might initially say Christian, I don't want that. 13:08 So media as an avenue of evangelism, 13:14 in some ways it's going to reach people 13:16 that standard methods will not. 13:18 So he is kind of explaining there, 13:20 why it works so well. 13:21 Right, yeah. 13:22 And they have been there for, 13:22 like he said three and half years 13:23 and they're really committed, 13:26 they're committed for long term. 13:27 So we have, that's an American family. 13:31 And then we also have some local team members. 13:33 This is our first one 13:35 and this is Gob, the audio engineer. 13:36 Yeah. 13:46 My name is Gop. My full name is Sitisak. 13:50 I'm an audio engineer here and also a video editor. 13:57 I've served here in ministry about almost three years. 14:08 Jack is one of my friends. He is a businessman. 14:10 His life is a little bit of a struggle. 14:12 And one day I gave him the link of the video. 14:18 And when he checked it out, he texted me that, 14:21 "Man, I can't stop watching this, 14:23 I love this, do you have "more?" 14:25 I said, yeah, we're uploading maybe, 14:29 sorry for our internet connection here, 14:30 it's too slow, 14:31 it takes us one night for one video to upload. 14:35 Every time I upload the video. 14:38 I tell him and he will suddenly watch it 14:41 and he will send a comment, 14:43 "Oh, I love this, I can't stop watching this. 14:47 I watch it over and over again. 14:47 It's given me many lessons in my life. 14:49 And that's from him personally. 14:53 But when I went to church, I asked his wife, 14:55 do you see some change in your husband? 14:58 And she said, yes, a lot. 15:00 He's now more focused and, you know, 15:04 the video all that, maybe you sent to him. 15:06 He watched it every night before he go to bed. 15:09 And that, yeah, it brings smile to us, 15:13 and to everyone that in our team 15:15 that I shared this and they were, yes. 15:18 God is wow, powerful. 15:20 And He can change people life through the media. 15:31 That's exciting. 15:32 That is, that's a powerful testimony. 15:34 Yes, and God will pour out all of heaven 15:37 to save one sinner. 15:38 And so, that's why this work is so powerful 15:40 and because it goes behind, 15:43 it goes outside of like the weekly timeframe. 15:48 People can watch it anytime... 15:49 Yeah. And be blessed. 15:51 And it's making a difference. Yes. 15:53 So awesome. 15:54 So, we want to meet the next team member 15:56 who is Gob's wife. 15:57 Her name is Framme, and she's got a testimony 16:00 that we're gonna see right after this. 16:02 Yeah, she has a little testimony 16:03 that we can see why she stays and believe. 16:06 This isn't just a job for her, for them. 16:09 It's something they believe in and that's exciting. 16:14 My name is Framme. 16:16 I've worked here for almost two years. 16:19 I work here as a translator and sometime editor. 16:25 I see many people 16:27 that they love to listen to the sermon 16:31 because they have only once a week to go to church 16:36 and listen to the sermon in the church. 16:39 But now we have posting on YouTube. 16:42 They have DVD and CD, so many people love that, 16:47 love to have that and they can listen 16:48 to many, many times that they want to listen to. 16:53 My name is Baw Baw. 16:56 I've worked here one year and nine months already. 17:02 I mostly translate Thai to Karen. 17:05 I also sometimes do the Karen video editing. 17:14 My name is Wanida. 17:17 I worked here almost three year. 17:21 I edit video, 17:23 and burn DVD/CD's. 17:28 Sometimes I translate, 17:30 sometimes I do the Hmong Bible, 17:34 sometimes I do the Great Controversy in Hmong. 17:39 I don't know what I do, I do many things. 17:43 I thank God that, He called us together here. 17:49 I'm very happy and I see that 17:52 God working through our team especially to Hmong people. 17:56 Now, I work about, it's usually Hmong 18:01 and so I see that 18:03 the Hmong people Seventh-day Adventists, 18:06 we never had DVD/CD sermons like this before. 18:11 We had, but just a little bit 18:13 but now, at All Asia Studio 18:17 we create a lot of Hmong products 18:20 and I think Hmong people really enjoy these. 18:24 And so they also can learn many things 18:28 from the Bible from the sermon, from the testimony 18:31 and I see that God working through our team 18:35 very, very powerfully to work through these. 18:39 I don't know about other people but from my heart 18:42 I feel that, and I see that. 18:45 Okay, so we've been working together as a team 18:47 for several years, but in Thailand as foreigners 18:50 you cannot own property, okay. 18:53 So it's very tenuous 18:54 as far as ownership and doing anything, 18:56 more than just renting. 18:58 And so, about over a year ago, 19:00 we decided to move forward by faith 19:02 and setting a foundation. 19:04 And a foundation is very respected in Thailand, 19:07 but it's like a 501c3 nonprofit organization 19:10 corporation here in America. 19:12 And allows us to work legally, 19:15 allows us to own property and allows us to provide... 19:18 To have employees and... 19:20 Yes, and provide like a visa. Work visa or something. 19:23 Yeah, to foreigners, 19:24 and so this give us more credibility 19:27 and more visibility as well. 19:29 And so, we applied over a year ago 19:31 and here is a video showing the happy team 19:37 that is holding the official paper 19:39 that we're a foundation. 19:45 Love for Asia foundation paper work, 19:47 we've just received this week ago. 19:51 We're really excited about this. 19:52 This is Jesus for Asia's identity in Thailand. 19:56 We praise God that he has provided 19:59 for everything we need and also leading us every place 20:03 and to meet every person 20:05 that helped us get this foundation paper. 20:10 Today we're thankful that God has granted us the blessing 20:13 to have this foundation here. 20:15 We're looking forward to the future God has. 20:18 Praise God. 20:24 That's such a blessing. I know. 20:26 I know it's awesome. And it's a miracle. 20:28 Yes. 20:30 Very happy about that. 20:32 So the next thing we want to talk about 20:34 is the new things that God is doing 20:35 because we have the All Asia Studio team 20:38 and the love for Asia Foundation now. 20:41 And we have a new opportunity 20:43 that the Lord has recently opened up to our team there. 20:45 Yes, so this is how God works, okay. 20:47 At the time that we're putting our team together, 20:50 God had brought somebody 20:51 and put a burden on somebody's heart 20:53 from Australia to also share the gospel 20:57 with Thai people in television media 21:00 'cause he saw, you know, there is millions of people 21:04 that still have no access to the gospel. 21:05 How are we gonna reach them? 21:07 By handing out pamphlets or going door-to-door knocking. 21:10 We need media. 21:12 Media is mass media for a reason 21:14 'cause it reaches the masses, 21:15 and there are masses of people out there 21:17 that have no access to the gospel right now. 21:19 And so, he came to Thailand years ago 21:21 and built a studio, a nice beautiful studio, 21:25 so here he is now with the studio and no team. 21:28 Okay, so this picture that we're looking at right now 21:31 is that studio. 21:32 Yes, this is the studio that he built. 21:35 And you can see its four stories. 21:36 The top floor is the studio and control room. 21:38 The other floors are living areas 21:40 and classrooms and things like that. 21:42 But here he has a studio and no team, 21:45 and we have a team and no studio. 21:46 Okay, we have some real short clips 21:49 of the studio itself. 21:50 So let's take you inside to the studio. 21:52 Here you see a green screen right there. 21:54 We can put different backgrounds 21:56 in the background. 21:57 We have a preaching set, and then over here 22:00 we have like a interview set 22:03 where we can do interviews and stuff. 22:05 And when I saw that, 22:08 I said, we need an interview show here, 22:10 a talk show, okay, about health in Thai... 22:15 Or the other languages. 22:16 And the quality of cameras, the quality of the set 22:18 and everything, we need to do this national, 22:22 so we need to go on the national television channel 22:24 with the health show. 22:28 And it's like the Lord just hit me with this burden. 22:29 It's like, Lord, you know, how we're gonna do this. 22:31 Our team, we've trained them ourselves, 22:34 but they don't have this kind of experience 22:37 and so I was like, Lord, how we're gonna put together 22:38 a show like this that's going to reach 22:41 the Thai without video, without anybody 22:43 having that kind of experience. 22:44 Right. 22:46 And then... 22:47 We got to show you the control room before we... 22:49 I share what God has done, 22:51 we got to show you the control room. 22:52 Okay, here is the control room. 22:54 Yeah, as we walk in, you can see on the right, 22:56 we got a couple computers there, 22:57 we got a switcher, we got a nice audio booth, 23:01 and then you can see through this window into the studio, 23:03 so it's all set up and ready to go. 23:05 I said, Lord, we need someone 23:07 that can take this team or a new team 23:10 and really do an excellent quality show. 23:12 Lord, but I don't know anybody like that. 23:14 So I started to think back, in the previous Sabbath 23:17 I had gone with one of our missionaries, 23:18 Josh Bauder who is part of Bangkok Outreach 23:22 to a slum there that we had visited 23:24 like five years ago and done a short documentary 23:26 of a rice giveaway with Pastor Doug Venn. 23:29 And we had gone with him 23:30 and they asked me to preach there, 23:32 so I preached at the church now. 23:35 There didn't used to be a church, 23:35 but now there is a church there, 23:36 a bunch of people meeting. 23:38 They asked me to preach so I shared the gospel 23:40 as I knew it. 23:41 And then afterwards, two young ladies from Brazil 23:44 I think came and they talked, talking to me 23:46 and found out what kind of ministry we had. 23:48 They says, we have a friend that's looking for a new job 23:51 and she has a bachelor's in journalism 23:55 and a bachelor's in television or marketing and advertising. 23:57 But she's also worked many years 24:00 in Hope Channel, Brazil. 24:01 Okay. 24:02 So I'm like, wow, have her send us her resume 24:07 and so then, after we saw this, 24:08 I started looking through my spammers 24:10 which is like my email control. 24:12 Spam control. Yeah. 24:13 And I found her address, her email 24:16 and I found her resume, 24:17 and she had produced multiple shows 24:20 that had gone on national television. 24:22 Okay. 24:23 And I was like, okay. So, she is qualified. 24:25 She is qualified, I'm like, but, how can I meet you 24:29 'cause I was coming, you now, very limited time in Thailand, 24:31 was going to spend one day, one afternoon in Bangkok, 24:33 and then we're gonna fly home, and she says, 24:37 "But I live like eight hours out of Bangkok." 24:41 And I says, "But I'm gonna be here 24:42 this particular Tuesday afternoon. 24:44 She says, "Well, I'm just gonna, 24:46 by chance I'm gonna happen to be in Bangkok that day, 24:50 just that one day. 24:52 Yeah, she had an appointment or something, 24:54 she had to go to Bangkok that day. 24:56 Yeah, gonna go visit friends. That was a God thing. 24:58 So then we met and it looks like 25:01 God is bringing a team together. 25:02 Then another, there is one other Adventist 25:04 young lady that has spend the last few years 25:08 getting training in this broadcast, 25:12 and she has agreed, we thought she was gonna... 25:14 She thought she was gonna wait another year, 25:16 but we started praying. 25:18 And she has agreed to come and join our team. 25:19 And then we have two other people 25:20 that are coming and joining our team as well. 25:23 So now, God is expanding our team to do this vision, 25:26 to provide a weekly show 25:28 for a national channel in Thailand. 25:31 And I'm nervous because our expenses 25:33 are gonna go way up, but I'm excited 25:35 because I see God's fingerprints all over this. 25:38 Yes, and if God ask us to do that, He will provide. 25:41 That's right. Absolutely. 25:43 That's right. I believe that. 25:44 Yeah, so this is how God has led us through this years 25:47 starting with the vision and now the vision is growing, 25:52 and we're just excited. 25:53 And so, we're inviting you to come and be a part of this. 25:55 See how God works by faith, 25:57 and see this gospel go to many people in Thailand. 26:00 That's gonna be a show about health, 26:02 but in health you have physical health, 26:04 diet health, marriage health, 26:08 spiritual health, all these different aspects 26:11 so we can weave the principles of God in His government, 26:14 in His desire to restore His people into the show. 26:17 I'm really excited about it. Wow. 26:20 Well, praise the Lord. It sounds awesome. 26:22 I look forward to seeing the results 26:24 and hearing the stories. 26:25 You know many times in media we don't hear the stories. 26:28 Every now and then, we hear a little story, 26:31 so we look forward to hearing the ones we do here. 26:32 Yeah, that's the hard part because it takes a lot of work, 26:36 and then we send it out there and then we just hope and pray, 26:39 but we're looking forward to seeing the results. 26:41 Right, yes. Praise the Lord. 26:42 And, you know, we would like to invite our viewers. 26:45 If you would like to be involved 26:47 in the work of the All Asia Studio team 26:49 and the love for Asia Foundation, 26:51 we want to share with you a few of the needs. 26:53 We need financial support for the staff 26:54 because each one does receive a small stipend. 26:58 We need media production equipment. 26:59 Their Mac computers and video cameras are becoming very old 27:03 because we were able to provide them 27:04 number of years ago, and some of them have broken, 27:08 and the Lord provided a replacement, 27:09 one replacement last summer by miracle. 27:13 But they need replacements much more frequently, 27:16 with humidity, the equipment doesn't last well. 27:18 We also need volunteers with media production skills 27:22 to help train the team as well as assisting in the work there. 27:25 We also need volunteers willing to learn media production, 27:28 so they can have a servant's heart 27:30 and be part of the work there too. 27:32 Our greatest need though is the need for prayer, 27:34 the need for the connection with the Holy Spirit 27:37 and God's presence in this ministry, 27:39 so we covet your prayers. 27:41 And also, I want to ask 27:42 that you would please prayerfully consider 27:44 how the Lord would have you be involved 27:46 with this opportunity to be a part of fulfilling 27:49 the great commission. 27:50 You can send your tax deductible love gift 27:53 to Jesus for Asia, 27:54 PO Box 1221, Collegedale, Tennessee 37315. 27:59 Call us at 423-413-7321. 28:02 Or check out our website at Jesus4asia.org. 28:07 May God bless you, until we see you again. |
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