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Series Code: JFAN
Program Code: JFAN000007A
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00:22 Hello, and welcome to Jesus for Asia Now.
00:24 Today, I've got one of our 00:26 Jesus for Asia missionaries with me 00:28 and she works in Thailand. 00:29 Her name is Gayle Haberkam. Welcome, Gayle. 00:32 Thank you. 00:33 We're so glad that you can be with us. 00:34 Now where in Thailand exactly are you working? 00:38 I'm working in an isolated mountain jungle area 00:41 in Northwest Thailand. 00:43 And what people group are you primarily working with? 00:45 The Karen. You said isolated. 00:47 Yes, it's really a long way out in the jungle. 00:52 Okay. 00:53 And many villages surround us. 00:55 What's the first picture that you want to start with? 00:57 Well, first of all I want to tell you 01:00 how we knew the Lord want us to go there 01:03 with three big reasons. 01:04 We had no money, but somebody donated us a truck. 01:08 Okay. 01:09 And so that was a big indication 01:10 God wants us somewhere. 01:12 And then a young Karen worker wanted to work with us. 01:15 He felt God calling him to work with us 01:17 and that's our key to the Karen people 01:19 for interpretation and help to understand the culture. 01:23 And the third reason was we found out all around us 01:27 are 50 villages 01:28 and a lot of them do not know God. 01:30 So we really felt God calling us to that location. 01:34 What is your entering wedge? 01:35 What do you do to show them 01:36 that you care and therefore God cares? 01:39 Well, to me medicine is the leading key 01:41 that leads them to Christ and so I'm a nurse. 01:44 And so, I had with me a small box of medicine. 01:47 But when I moved there, we had hardly anything. 01:49 My two boys, the Karen person and myself took us 10 minutes 01:54 to move into our house because that's all we had. 01:56 That's all you had. 01:57 And I know the story, you've shared this story 01:59 I think on our previous show 02:00 of how you ended up in Thailand. 02:02 I don't know if you want to share briefly that right now, 02:05 but I know it's a powerful story 02:07 of God's leading. 02:08 Yes, God just pulled us right out of what we were doing. 02:11 And we knew for sure it was God's will 02:13 because we were gonna go to Thailand the year before, 02:16 but that fell through. 02:18 And so the next year, we just forgot about that 02:21 when somebody called and wanted us to relieve 02:23 some missionaries on the border while they are going for Laos. 02:26 So we would take care of a school there 02:28 on the border just for three months. 02:30 Just for three months? 02:31 But we fell in love with the Karen people 02:33 and understood their oppression. 02:35 And the difficulties that they face, 02:38 just dramatic past. 02:39 And we fell so much in love with them, 02:41 we wanted to spend our lives to help and work with them. 02:44 So three months became a lifetime? 02:46 Yes. Okay. 02:48 Well, let's look at the next picture. 02:50 This is my kitchen. 02:51 When I first moved in, 02:53 I had really absolutely nothing. 02:55 And we cooked outside. 02:57 My son was better at that than me. 03:00 I was a disaster. 03:01 Sometimes the rocks would fall on the pot, would tip over. 03:03 Right when it was about to be finished, 03:05 but he did better than me and... 03:08 For some time we did that. 03:10 But I noticed that every single day 03:14 I would give whatever I had. 03:15 I give food, I give clothes, soap 03:18 and then what little bit of medical supplies I had. 03:21 I had what I needed to do something 03:23 for every person that came. 03:24 And as I gave like that, the Lord gave to me. 03:28 And so, gradually step by step, we really got into the supplies 03:32 that we needed to give to the people there 03:34 and our supplies grew. 03:36 And the more we gave, the more we received. 03:39 Yeah, so as you helped the people, 03:41 you have exactly what you need to help each person 03:43 and beyond that the Lord keeps providing, 03:45 That's right. 03:46 keeps providing so you can help more. 03:47 And finally I gave my last coat away 03:49 and the cold season was coming 03:50 and I thought, oh, I don't have another coat. 03:52 And it was just the next week, my sister was worried about me 03:56 in the mountains and the cold 03:57 and she mailed me a nice jacket. 03:59 God cares about every single particular. 04:02 Yeah, everything, everything. 04:04 All right. Well, let's continue. 04:05 This is quite a different look from the previous look. 04:09 Yes, we are skipping about almost four years 04:12 of work in biota. 04:13 It's just two people now working, 04:16 my helper and me and the Lord really blessed. 04:19 We thought, we shouldn't take care of all these patients 04:21 in the center of our home. 04:22 And so, we need to build another 04:25 little small square just set enough 04:27 to treat patients in there. 04:29 But somehow that's not God's plan. 04:30 And so as we thought about it, we had to change our location 04:34 three times. 04:35 And the last time, we were gonna put our house 04:37 in a little clinic, separate, but the mountain is so steep, 04:40 there's no way to put anything. 04:42 And miraculously a bulldozer came from the government 04:45 to fix the road 04:46 which hasn't happened since we've been there. 04:48 And our villagers got them to come and do this area. 04:52 And the day before the builder came, 04:54 he flattened out that place and we decided, 04:56 we have to put the two together, 04:58 the house and the clinic. 04:59 And so the plans just developed 05:01 and then we don't know about blueprints, 05:03 but now that we're here, it's perfect for our needs. 05:05 We live on one side and the clinic 05:07 and storeroom on the other side. 05:09 Even we have solar, if you can see these panels on the side. 05:12 We used to have to take our nebulizer treatment 05:15 for pneumonia and asthma patients 05:17 to a village house, 05:18 so we could give them a breathing treatment. 05:20 So somebody donated us right when we finished that, 05:24 enough money to get that state of the art solar system 05:26 and we do all our own treatments. 05:28 Yeah, and so now you could have refrigeration 05:30 for some of the medicines. 05:32 Yes, we have a small refrigerator 05:34 and lights and fans in there. 05:35 Oh, that's good. 05:36 Well, let's look at the... Oh, there's the truck. 05:38 Yes, I want to tell you about this truck. 05:40 It has been a faithful, wonderful truck 05:42 in that building that you saw. 05:44 It carried every bit of the material 05:45 to build that building. 05:47 The roads are terrible 05:48 and it's greater than a 20 percent grade, 05:51 that get a little better every year, 05:53 but even now people from America 05:55 they come are very scared. 05:56 And it's very bad, 05:57 it doesn't even look like a road sometimes. 05:59 And so to carry a heavy load all the time in that truck, 06:02 which is a small truck, 06:04 I'm told it's not meant to do heavy work like that. 06:06 It's done very well. It's worn out. 06:09 But now it's worn out. 06:11 We've changed the four wheel drive four times 06:12 and it's not working now. 06:14 And the front wheels won't even go around, so it stays there. 06:18 Even in the rainy season we can't take it out. 06:20 So you can't even get rid of it? 06:22 Right. 06:23 Because you can't get it out of the mountains. 06:24 It seems like it's just worn out. 06:26 Now tell me, to get to your village by truck, 06:29 how long does it take in the dry season? 06:32 Okay, in the dry season it was 4.5 hours. 06:35 But each year the monks are putting pavement down 06:38 on the main highway side. 06:40 And their goal is to get it all the way to a pagoda 06:42 which is half-way in. 06:44 So now, each year it's gotten better 06:46 because there's more concrete. 06:48 And even though it's still very steep. 06:49 Sometimes on the concrete part 06:50 I wonder how we made it, when it wasn't concrete. 06:53 Yeah. 06:54 Because it's kind of scary with... 06:55 It's still very steep. 06:56 Trucks that aren't working right have crashed. 06:59 It's been bad. 07:00 So you don't want anything to go wrong 07:01 with your truck on those places. 07:03 But now it's a little quicker, 07:04 probably 2.5 or 3 hours we can make it, 07:07 if we don't have to stop for the wild elephants. 07:09 And that's becoming a bigger problem. 07:10 It's a big problem. 07:12 And they charge the vehicles. 07:13 Yes, up to a year ago it wasn't a problem, 07:16 but some wild elephants broke loose. 07:18 And there's female elephants that have been trained 07:20 all around us and they all got together, 07:22 so there was about 18. 07:24 And so then it was like a stampede 07:26 and people are terrorized 07:28 because people have been killed and others wounded. 07:31 And as you come around a blind corner, 07:32 you don't know what to expect. 07:34 Wow. You can hear them sometimes. 07:36 If you're coming home at night, 07:37 you can hear the elephant sound trumpeting. 07:39 So that's dry season? Yes. 07:41 So what about rainy season in a truck? 07:44 Well, rainy season, the truck doesn't go anywhere. 07:46 It cannot go. 07:48 Even when four-wheel drive's working right? 07:49 Oh, yes. Even when... 07:50 It won't go at all, so... 07:52 Because the roads are just slick. 07:55 Yeah, they are total mud and steep drop offs. 07:58 It's all the mountain, very steep 08:00 and it might get very thick. 08:02 Through the rainy season, then you take a motorbike. 08:05 We walk, we walk. 08:06 You walk. Okay. 08:07 How long does it take you to walk? 08:08 Three days a week we walk to villages. 08:12 We have a schedule, so that people know 08:14 when we're not gonna be home for them 08:16 and we go to other villages. 08:17 And most of the villages are an hour and half away, 08:19 some two hours. 08:21 By hiking. One way. 08:22 And so we carry the medicine on our back and we go 08:24 and hope we have enough 08:26 and treat the patients and come back. 08:28 But to get out of biota to the main highway. 08:32 How long does that take? We walk 6.5 hours. 08:34 Six and half hours. 08:35 And we bring hardly anything with us 08:37 because we don't want too much on our backs. 08:38 To carry it for 6.5 hours. 08:40 And God's wonderful miracle to us, 08:42 the children of Israel didn't, their shoes didn't wear out, 08:44 but for me my shoes wore out, but my feet never wore out. 08:47 I never had a crack or a sore place on my feet all through, 08:52 all the rainy seasons and we walk, walk, walk. 08:54 Through that much mud, 08:56 you're likely to get sores on your feet and leeches and... 08:58 Oh, everybody does. We're in the mud all the time. 09:01 Our feet are always wet and muddy. 09:04 So the three times a week that you go to other villages, 09:06 you walk always or do you sometimes 09:09 have a motorbike you can take or? 09:10 Yes, we have a motorbike we can take 09:12 and when the roads are dry enough. 09:14 Some of the villages have better roads going to them, 09:16 so motorbike can make it in. 09:17 So we don't walk quite as many now as we used to. 09:20 But the motorbike is great 09:21 because then you can stuff all the medicine and take more 09:24 'cause children need different kinds of things 09:26 and it's usually liquids. 09:28 So it's heavier and IVs, we never bring 09:31 unless there's an emergency and then we do. 09:33 And you said you have 50 villages around you. 09:35 How many do you actually go to? 09:36 Karen Biota there's ten. 09:38 Biota and WaSuTa are closely... Really close together. 09:39 There is ten. 09:41 So we figure that every village that we could go to, 09:44 we could reach ten more villages. 09:45 So I've gone, I know God's working on this plan 09:49 is to have more team workers 09:50 that we can split and start another clinic 09:53 and area and reach ten more villages. 09:56 Now explain this picture to us. 09:58 He's got something quite interesting behind his ear. 10:00 Yes. 10:01 These poor people, they kind of, 10:04 have dependent on opium 10:06 to bring them some money, it's terribly illegal. 10:08 They get shot for it. 10:09 Soldiers come in every year 10:11 to try to arrest people or shoot them, 10:14 but yet they are addicted to opium. 10:16 This man, he's got 10:17 a full syringe of opium behind his ear 10:20 and they can't keep track of their homes, 10:22 they can't grow their rice gardens. 10:24 Many get depressed and kill themselves. 10:26 They are so addicted. 10:28 It's our biggest problem to free them 10:31 from that habit and to help them. 10:33 Here's where opium takes you. 10:34 This man is Dupey. It was a miracle. 10:37 I was there in biota at the time this happened. 10:40 We were supposed to go to another village, 10:42 but somebody came to our house and said, 10:45 somebody has shot themselves and they lie dead. 10:47 And so I thought, what do I need, 10:50 just probably a stethoscope, maybe nebulizer for cough. 10:53 But we went and the guy was alive 10:55 and he had a blood pressure and he was breathing. 10:58 So I go, we need to just take him to the hospital. 11:01 We barely got him to the hospital in time 11:03 and we prayed for him. 11:05 We prayed night and day for him. 11:07 So he had shot himself as a result of depression 11:11 associated with taking opium? 11:12 Opium. 11:13 I don't know the kind of gun, 11:15 but the doctor removed nine bullets 11:17 from his head and this part of his skull is gone. 11:21 And he said, the man is lucky to be alive 11:23 but he won't be able to work for a year. 11:26 And he came back and was working in six months. 11:28 And the guy had heard his little girl screaming 11:32 after he shot himself. 11:33 His youngest daughter loved him the most. 11:35 And he remembered hearing the little girl cry like that 11:38 and he thought she would die. 11:39 And he was so scared, he said, 11:40 I'll never do opium again if I live. 11:42 Oh. 11:44 And so now he is back and now he is so thankful for his life. 11:48 And we go every Monday night and we do Bible studies 11:51 and surrounding villagers come. 11:53 And the good news is that 11:54 many of them want to join the church 11:56 and be baptized and they are leaning now. 11:58 Wow. 11:59 But he needs your prayers because everybody does opium 12:01 and it's still a treat. 12:02 Okay. We have quite a picture here. 12:05 Now who is that in the picture? 12:06 Well, that's me 12:07 and I've got the backpack of medicine on my pack, 12:10 I'm walking to villages in the rain, 12:12 it doesn't necessarily have to be that hard, 12:14 but water is coming from every direction 12:16 because in the rainy season it doesn't just rain, 12:19 it's like Olympic size swimming pool 12:21 opened out on your head, it really pours. 12:23 And so mountains slide down. 12:26 And this particular place, 12:28 this is how we have to go Nelaug another village 12:30 and the mountain slide had just gotten into this small stream 12:34 which turn into a river and it's all quicksand. 12:36 Oh. 12:37 So it's a real challenge and it's a very flimsy bridge 12:40 we have to go to get across it. 12:42 And actually it got worse later, 12:44 but I didn't know it, but Blega, my co-worker 12:48 took a video when I crossed this one. 12:49 That board underneath there's a tree and it's loose. 12:53 It's just there because the water pressure is 12:55 pushing it against those little post. 12:57 Yeah. Those post that they have... 12:58 So let's watch the video. 13:04 Wow. 13:08 We're down. 13:12 He crossed it easier than I do, but he always does. 13:15 Yeah. 13:17 You're so surefooted. 13:18 Can I step right here, okay? 13:19 I think so. 13:23 Oop, you stepped off the log. 13:25 Yeah, it popped out. Yeah, see. 13:27 That place is a little difficult 13:29 because one girl got her foot off of it 13:32 and her leg went in and she couldn't hardly get it back 13:34 and she lost her shoe. 13:36 And after this it got worse. 13:37 But God rewards. 13:39 Yes, and I would climb any mountain. 13:40 I would be covered with leeches many times 13:43 to be able to reach these people. 13:44 This is the one reward of all of that 13:47 it makes everything so worthwhile. 13:50 This man's name is Chadrey and he has rectal cancer. 13:54 And I found that out when I took him to a hospital, 13:56 but nothing could be done about it right away. 14:00 He went back home and then he had a blocked bowel. 14:03 And I knew it, 14:04 I had to get him out but I was alone. 14:06 And he was in an emergency because a blocked bowel, 14:09 I mean the stomach is regurgitated, 14:11 it's a real emergency. 14:12 But we had to walk out in the rain. 14:14 We had to walk two hours up a mountain, him sick. 14:18 When we got to the top finally after two hours, 14:20 I looked at my feet and the leeches were 14:22 all waving up in the air like hairs all over my feet. 14:25 Oh. It's quite interesting. 14:27 And then we got him to the hospital, 14:29 but I had to go to four different hospitals 14:31 before I could get him to have help. 14:33 And then they didn't think it was an emergency 14:35 and wanted to send me to another hospital. 14:36 Finally, the doctor said, well, I've taken x-ray 14:38 and if it's an emergency, of course he will stay, 14:40 but otherwise you have to go. 14:42 And I'm praying, he took the x-ray and couldn't read it, 14:45 called somebody else and they said, 14:46 this is an emergency, 14:47 we've got to take him to surgery right away. 14:49 And so they took him and he's still alive, 14:52 although he hasn't got all the cancer removed. 14:54 But we're praying for him and you can see him here, 14:56 this is a recent photo 14:58 and that was two and half years ago. 15:00 So he's still there and he is so interested in God. 15:04 He's had us remove all the devil strings 15:07 that they tie around themselves to serve the devil. 15:09 They stopped worshiping the devil. 15:11 They had us take out all of the idols 15:13 and everything, they had us put a Bible. 15:15 They can't read but they had us put a Bible in there. 15:18 And he said, yesterday we worshiped the devil, 15:20 but today we worship God. 15:22 Praise the Lord. He listens to the worship. 15:25 It's hard for the people to understand the Karen Bible 15:28 because they have a different accent 15:30 and dialect from the border and so we have to explain. 15:34 But one time we talked about heaven and he said, 15:36 "How will I know the way 15:37 if I don't know how to get there 15:39 to check that heaven? 15:40 Wow. 15:41 So that makes it all worth it, all the leeches? 15:42 It's so good. 15:43 And he's influential in his village 15:45 because five other families who want to worship God too. 15:47 In fact some of them are trying to keep the Sabbath, 15:50 but they don't know how. 15:52 And they want us to build a church and a school 15:55 and they want me there to take care of their health, 15:57 but we can't do anything unless we get another team of workers 16:01 and the ability to do that. 16:03 But we go as often as we can and we have worship with them. 16:06 And praise the Lord, that's awesome. 16:07 Yes. This is our worship group at one day with them. 16:10 All the children? 16:11 Yes, the children are special. This is another village. 16:14 This lady that has... 16:15 is holding the baby next to me. 16:17 Her name is Sheepa 16:19 and three years ago she was dying 16:21 and we didn't know it. 16:23 We were gonna go to another village that day, 16:25 but the Lord always puts us where we need to be, 16:28 when we need to be there. 16:29 And our plans totally changed and we went to her village, 16:32 and we had to go back and get the truck, 16:34 and it was hard to get to her, 16:36 but we got her to the hospital in time. 16:37 She stayed in hospital three weeks 16:39 and then came back well. 16:41 And so she loves us now. 16:44 And the lady on the other side of me is her mother. 16:47 And this whole family wants to worship God. 16:50 And the next picture is my most favorite moment 16:54 that I have out there. 16:56 She had us cut the devil strings 16:58 off of her and all her children. 17:00 They tie them around the ankles, the waist, 17:02 the wrists and the neck. 17:04 And people out there actually worship the devil. 17:07 So now she is trying to learn about God 17:10 and slowly and simply we teach them. 17:13 Her mother also almost died just recently. 17:16 Same thing and it was a big miracle 17:18 because I couldn't bring about just one IV 17:21 and I had some medicine 17:22 but, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea for days 17:25 and that can kill you in one day, 17:27 the type she had. 17:28 But I gave her all I could give her 17:30 and started on IV and prayed for her. 17:33 And by the time we treated the patients in the village, 17:36 and ate and then had worship with them. 17:39 She came out to hear worship 17:40 and she hadn't walked for several days. 17:42 And then when we left on the motorcycle, 17:44 she came out all smiling. 17:46 Her stomach doesn't hurt anymore. 17:47 Praise the Lord. 17:48 So I prayed for these dear people. 17:49 They learned very slowly, but God understands that. 17:52 Yes, He does. 17:53 He brings healing. 17:55 Time after time I know it's not me 17:57 and it's not normal for them 17:58 to get well that fast, the Lord does it. 18:00 That's neat. So what's this picture? 18:02 That is our worship group at her house, 18:03 just recently we met with those people. 18:06 Their clothes are all over in one place, 18:08 that's how they get their clothes. 18:10 Every season it's harsh for these people. 18:12 The hot weather is very hot 18:15 and the cold weather is very cold 18:17 and the children are always sick. 18:19 The rainy season is of course the worst 18:21 with pneumonias and asthmas. 18:23 You know, that's how they live and this is an example. 18:25 This is Vimo. 18:26 When he was born, he and his mother were both in trouble, 18:29 but the Lord saved them out of that. 18:31 But now this baby has asthma and it's very bad. 18:34 He was blue the first time they brought him to me. 18:36 And so I really, really gave him everything that I had 18:40 and the breathing treatment. 18:41 And so gradually I've tried to give him more nutrition 18:45 and vitamins and supplements and he's gained weight 18:48 and his asthma is getting less and less. 18:51 And they know what to do at the first sign of a cold 18:54 or a problem. 18:55 And they are the part of the group 18:56 that worshipped with us. 18:57 And the next picture shows you how good he looks. 19:00 Oh, what a cutie. 19:02 Yeah, he's one of the favorites. 19:03 His mother also had mastitis worst 19:05 than I've ever seen it before. 19:07 I had to leave one antibiotic and use two others 19:10 that another doctor had suggested to me 19:12 because it was so bad. 19:14 And now she's well. 19:16 She just got over that here in this picture. 19:18 That's a beautiful family. Wow. 19:20 That's wonderful. 19:21 You know, here's another older lady. 19:23 Yes, I thought I would briefly tell the story 19:26 of a wonderful miracle that God worked for the elderly 19:31 because He cares for the young and the old. 19:34 And this young man in the red shirt 19:37 came to me one night and I was all alone in biota, 19:40 and he said, his grandmother was sick 19:43 and could I go see her. 19:44 Well, it was raining. 19:45 This is this rainy season. 19:46 And it's raining really hard and I think, 19:49 I don't want to do that 19:50 and I don't have an interpreter. 19:51 And, so this is kind of hard. But I said, well, what's wrong? 19:54 And he said, well, she swallowed a piece of meat 19:56 and it got lodged in her throat and she can't get rid of it. 20:00 Well, how long has it been? 20:01 Well, it's been three full days. 20:02 Oh. 20:04 So now, I'm really uncomfortable with this 20:05 because this is an emergency. 20:07 If it doesn't go down on its own in 24 hours, 20:10 they should seek medical help immediately. 20:13 Well, it's the rainy season. 20:14 Even if it were dry that lady wouldn't go 20:16 because she is scared of motorcycles and trucks, 20:19 never been on them, 20:20 but they want me to go that night. 20:22 I have the night to pray about it. 20:24 And so, as I'm praying I thought, 20:26 I want to go to the school next door, 20:28 sometimes they have internet. 20:30 And sometimes, usually my computer 20:32 doesn't pick up on that internet. 20:34 And it's very, very hard to get internet that far out, 20:37 but I went to the school and I got on internet. 20:40 And so I emailed my sister and I asked her, 20:42 if she could please pray for this lady and for me 20:44 because it's way beyond my capabilities. 20:47 These people go to gastroenterologist. 20:50 They have sections and they have cameras 20:53 and special instruments 20:54 and even then the esophagus could tear 20:57 and the person would bleed to death 20:58 even in a hospital. 21:00 Otherwise they can push it down, 21:01 but they have to push it to the left 21:02 or it will block the trachea. 21:04 And to have a blocked trachea 21:05 is worse than a blocked esophagus. 21:07 And this lady hasn't eaten or drunk 21:09 anything for three days. 21:10 And the next day I go, that will be the fourth day. 21:12 So Lean, I told my sister please pray. 21:15 And Sunday morning that young man and his brother, 21:18 these two young men came to get me 21:20 and it was raining. 21:21 But as soon as we started walking, 21:23 it stopped raining. 21:24 Wow. 21:25 And so we walked all the way there 21:26 and we see this lady well. 21:29 I had collected a few things 21:31 that I thought in my simple mind might help. 21:34 I had a tongue retractor, I got that. 21:36 Then I had a bayonet forcep, which is a long forcep maybe, 21:40 I could maybe get hold of something 21:42 I didn't know, and I had olive oil 21:45 because I thought if she tried to swallow that, 21:46 it might lubricate things and I had a shot for nausea. 21:50 And I think if I give that, 21:51 it's supposed to relax the GI tract. 21:53 So maybe this will relax. 21:55 So I brought that stuff and I walk into this place 21:57 and all the villagers come. 21:59 I had called Blega, my helper 'cause he is gone right now. 22:03 And I say, could you tell this young man 22:05 that this is really serious 22:06 and she could really die from bleeding 22:08 or because I can't remove it or the trachea. 22:11 And he said, oh, they all know, she's old, 22:13 she's supposed to die anyway. 22:15 Wow. 22:16 And so I go in there and people crowd all around. 22:20 And I say, I'm gonna pray because I cannot do this, 22:24 but God can do everything. 22:26 And if He wants to, He will take this out. 22:30 And so I prayed, but I can't pray in Karen, 22:32 but when I finish, 22:33 I can tell them what I prayed about. 22:35 So that's why I told them. 22:36 Then I gave her the shot. 22:38 I made her try to swallow some olive oil. 22:40 I waited 20 minutes for the shot to take effect 22:43 and then I had my retractor and I went in 22:46 and I pulled the tongue back 22:47 and I had my glasses on my face and headlamp on my head 22:53 and I pulled the tongue and I've got the bayonets in, 22:56 I'm going in there and she chokes of course. 22:58 Second time, same thing. 23:00 Go in there, get ready looking, light, and she chokes. 23:05 Okay. 23:06 So then the third time, I did again the same thing 23:09 and she chokes it really, really hard 23:12 and this piece of meat, which is pork nevertheless 23:15 popped right out of her throat. 23:17 Wow. 23:18 And she got rid of it and here they are all so happy. 23:21 And everybody is thanking me and thanking me, I said, 23:24 it's not me you know, God did that. 23:27 You're right. 23:28 So that village needed the encouragement to see, 23:30 we serve a mighty God and He cares for the elderly 23:33 and He cares for me that doesn't know much, 23:37 and He does it all. 23:38 Praise the Lord. That's an awesome story. 23:40 It's a good story. 23:41 Sometimes people come from a long ways away. 23:45 These people, this one day came, 23:47 they are in trucks, two truckloads of patients. 23:50 They passed two clinics to come to me 23:53 and my interpreter asked them. 23:55 "Why did you come here?" 23:56 You know the doctor is there and everything and they say, 23:59 "Well, no, we've heard that people get better 24:01 when they come here." 24:02 Praise the Lord. 24:03 And sometimes people will say, I don't understand, 24:06 my doctor has given me paracetamol, 24:08 it didn't help at all. 24:09 But you give me paracetamol and I'm well. 24:11 So here's this truckload of people 24:13 and I'm just amazed 24:15 because they come and they lay down. 24:17 This lady was terribly sick. 24:19 And the next picture is a man that just really sick. 24:24 And another one just like him 24:25 with the towel tied on his head, 24:26 people laying on the grass, children with fevers, 24:29 stuff that I can't really diagnose without blood work 24:33 and diagnostic procedures. 24:35 So the man was laid out, 24:37 he's got problems with his kidneys, 24:39 with his blood pressure, dehydrated malnourished, 24:42 his bowels, so many things. 24:45 And the other lady had her scarf tied on her face 24:48 and when she let it go, 24:49 she has huge sore across her lip. 24:51 It could have been cancer, but it definitely was 24:53 because she was allergic to pork, 24:55 but couldn't stop eating pork. 24:57 Oh, wow. 24:58 So basically I taught them the eight natural remedies 25:01 and all day we work with these people 25:03 and treated each one as best we could. 25:06 Wow. 25:07 Most of the time in biota, we didn't have electricity 25:10 and we worked with candles. 25:12 Candles were everyday life for us. 25:14 And when patients came, 25:16 this is how we had our medicine in these jars 25:18 and had candles and headlights. 25:20 And I thought of saying that a missionary said one time, 25:25 I heard his words. 25:26 It says, my life is but a candle. 25:28 And I'd rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness, 25:31 than in a land flooded with light. 25:33 And so I just decided in my mind this year that, 25:38 I want my candle to burnout in a land filled with darkness 25:41 and I want to be able to reach these people for God, 25:44 everyone of them. 25:45 I'm so thankful for the work He's given me to do. 25:49 I know you have some financial needs also. 25:51 Why don't we just briefly summarize those? 25:53 I know, you've mentioned the truck. 25:55 So what's the prize of a new? $35,000. 25:58 But you need that out there 'cause... 25:59 We need it so bad. 26:01 So, then what's the next thing besides the vehicle? 26:04 Well, the next thing is my retirement visa. 26:07 You have to have a certain amount of money 26:09 in the bank to be retired there. 26:11 But there's another way I can be retired 26:13 there is to prove I get $2,500 per month. 26:17 And if I prove that just through the US embassy 26:20 by raising my hand to say, it's true. 26:22 Then I can be retired there too. 26:24 And that way, all that money isn't just sitting there 26:26 not used for God's work. 26:28 Right. So that people can help by donating monthly. 26:32 That's what helps me so much. 26:34 Whatever the Lord impresses them with. 26:36 If it's consistent, then I can buy the medicine, 26:39 I can buy the food, I can fuel the truck, 26:41 I can keep it updated with repairs. 26:44 I can just keep giving like I'm giving. 26:48 And then when the Lord provides additional team members 26:50 and you start to build another clinic. 26:52 What's the estimated cost of another clinic? 26:54 Cheaper than the truck, probably 20,000. 26:57 Okay. 26:58 And that's really a nice building. 27:00 We spent less than that on that last building. 27:02 We always think we're gonna do something smaller 27:04 and more simple, so that's the plan. 27:06 And I'd like to start building it now 27:07 because I have faith to know that 27:09 the Lord will send us the workers 27:11 and they can take their positions quickly. 27:14 Right. 27:15 So if people want to donate, 27:17 they donate through Jesus for Asia. 27:18 All I want to express is that we serve a mighty God. 27:22 Well, thank you so much for joining us today. 27:24 Okay. Thank you. 27:25 And I'd like to thank our viewers 27:27 also for joining us. 27:28 And I want to challenge you to get involved. 27:30 Pray for Gayle for her work, for her team. 27:33 Pray for additional team members 27:34 for where she is 27:35 because there are so many un-reached people there. 27:38 Pray for the funds that she needs for her truck 27:41 and pray about what God wants you to do 27:43 to be involved besides just praying 27:45 because He has a place for you, He has a plan for you. 27:48 Maybe He wants you to give to help Gayle. 27:50 Maybe He wants you to be part of the team. 27:52 Maybe He's got a different plan for you, 27:55 but pray and ask God and He will show you. 27:57 May God bless you until we see you again. 28:00 You may send your tax-deductible gift 28:02 to Jesus for Asia, 28:04 PO Box 1221, Collegedale, Tennessee 37315. 28:10 Or you can call us at 423-413-7321. 28:15 But you can also find us on the web at Jesus4asia.org. |
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