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Series Code: JFAN
Program Code: JFAN000030A
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00:21 Hello, and welcome to Jesus for Asia Now.
00:24 I'm Natalie Wood, and I just want to share with you 00:26 what's been going on in our lives a little bit 00:30 because we hadn't had any new Jesus 00:32 for Asia shows for a while. 00:34 And that's because for two weeks this spring, 00:36 we were actually, actually this winter. 00:38 For two weeks this winter 00:40 we were in Thailand and Cambodia 00:41 and then in India shooting a show, 00:44 well, for young people by young people. 00:48 We were there as part of the crew. 00:50 So you'll have to stay tuned for mission track 00:53 that is coming soon. 00:54 It's being edited now and it is amazing, 00:57 the Lord has really blessed. 00:59 And also, then we went to a youth conference 01:02 in the Philippines, 01:03 and we'll be doing a show about that soon. 01:05 But we were gone for nearly a month doing that 01:07 and Jon was gone to India 01:09 for another couple of weeks after that, 01:11 so we've been gone a lot, traveling, 01:14 and that's why this is the first new Jesus 01:16 for Asia Now show for a while. 01:18 But I know that you will not be disappointed 01:20 with the stories that we'll share today 01:22 because it is a story of 01:24 how God is working to save the lost. 01:27 And I know you will be blessed 01:29 and challenged as well as encouraged 01:32 as we share with you the stories 01:34 from my friend Gayle Haberkam. 01:36 Welcome to the show, Gayle. Thank you, Natalie. 01:38 So happy to have you here. Happy to be here. 01:41 It's been a long time 01:42 since we've gone to sit down and do this, 01:45 but we want to start out 01:46 sharing the stories of the people 01:48 where you're working, and where is that? 01:51 I'm in BeYoTa and that's a small village of 01:53 about 30 houses of huts way deep into 01:57 the jungle of Thailand in the mountains. 02:00 In the mountains 02:01 and it's not just a little jungle village 02:04 by itself though, 02:06 there's a lot of other villages nearby 02:09 that also need your help. 02:11 Yes, we are surrounded by 50 villages 02:14 and because there is only two of us working there, 02:16 we are fortunately be able to keep up 02:18 with 10 villages around us. 02:20 Okay. 02:21 But then you said you've seen how many village 02:23 or representatives from how many villages? 02:25 Yes, in our clinic patients have come to us 02:27 from over 80 different villages from far away and... 02:31 So people have heard 02:33 that they can get help when they come to you. 02:35 Yes. Yes. 02:37 That's a blessing. Yes. 02:38 That's a real blessing. 02:39 And we've got a lot of pictures to share, 02:42 and so we want to just get started, 02:44 and let's start with this young lady on the screen. 02:46 This picture is a beautiful little girl. 02:50 Yes, the grandchildren will just get your heart right away 02:54 because they have nothing but they are happy 02:58 and they live in houses similar to this. 03:01 Some are little better, some much worse and... 03:03 And this house doesn't show all the pigs 03:06 and stuff underneath, 03:07 but all the animals live underneath 03:08 their houses usually. 03:10 Oh, yes, this one of course shows 03:11 all the cow dung under there 03:14 because the cows will resort to that at night. 03:17 And then most people have pigs 03:19 under their house and then the chickens, goats, 03:22 everything else can come and go through there. 03:24 So most villages... 03:25 So it's not very clean under their houses. 03:27 Are very dirty. 03:29 The whole village? The whole village. 03:32 Yeah, that's hard. Yes. 03:34 But I know you want to start out 03:36 by sharing a little bit about how they live 03:38 and so this is a picture of a kitchen. 03:41 Yes, in every house, the bamboo houses, 03:44 they have a cooking place inside 03:47 and sometimes it's in the center of the whole place, 03:50 sometimes it's off to the side. 03:51 But they cook over on open fire on the earth, 03:55 and there's a bamboo frame around, 03:56 and then everything gets black in the house 03:58 from all the smoke. 03:59 And when it's cold, 04:00 the people are kind of closed in 04:02 with all that smoke so you can imagine 04:04 they have problems with their lungs 04:06 and their health in general from breathing 04:08 that all the time, 04:09 but they will always cook like that inside. 04:13 Okay, except in this situation and we're showing 04:16 they're cooking something different. 04:18 Well, you need to know that my people in the jungle live 04:22 like they used to live 100 years ago in Burma. 04:25 They haven't advanced much at all 04:27 because there's been nobody to teach them 04:28 and so they eat everything that moves. 04:31 A few things they know are not edible 04:34 but they will eat certain spiders, 04:36 they eat certain flies, 04:37 they eat anything in the water that crawls. 04:40 And then this is a rat being roasted 04:42 and that is a big part of their diet is the rat 04:45 because they have little bamboo traps they make 04:48 and it's a big deal to catch several, 04:50 you'll see the little boys with ten of them 04:52 in the pocket all excited 04:54 because they caught the rats to eat. 04:56 Wow! Ew. I know. 05:00 And it is bamboo houses for the most part 05:02 and it is jungle, 05:04 so there's a lot of different deadly things there, right? 05:07 Right. Dangerous things. 05:08 As you can see the snakes are a big thing there, 05:11 we've stumbled over many of them 05:13 and they've come into our house. 05:15 And sometimes you go for a long time 05:16 without seeing them 05:18 and so you're not kind of thinking 05:20 and you get surprised by stumbling over a cobra. 05:23 Or when you walk into villages, 05:25 these green ones really camouflage themselves 05:28 and they can be on the bamboo fence 05:30 right next to you as you go by so it's... 05:33 And you don't know that they are there. 05:34 No, well, it's hard to see them sometimes 05:36 so they can surprise you. 05:37 But God protects you. God protects us. 05:39 Wow! That's wonderful. 05:42 This is what keeps us calm and unafraid. 05:45 Okay. 05:46 And this next creature I want to talk about 05:48 more people think of as just, 05:49 you know, an amazing large creature 05:51 with really great memory. 05:53 Yeah, me too I love all animals and at first, 05:56 the first four years that I was there, 05:58 I like the elephants because they do hard work. 06:00 They would pull in the post to build the houses, 06:02 and do all the heavy work, 06:04 and they're worth a lot of money out there, 06:06 the tame ones. 06:07 But in the last six years or five years, 06:11 the male elephants, the wild ones joined them 06:13 and it's free range so there is no fence no moat 06:16 to keep them out. 06:17 You can come across them any time 06:19 and it seems like that these creatures 06:22 once they kill somebody it gets in their blood and they charge. 06:26 Many, many times the villagers are terrorized by them 06:29 and it's true when they meet them face on, 06:32 if they come around a blind corner 06:33 on the motorbike 06:34 they'll drop that bike and run 06:36 and that elephant will charge them. 06:37 Sometimes they make it and sometimes they get killed. 06:41 And the worst part is that if they kill somebody, 06:45 the village people go bury them in the jungle 06:48 somewhere far away, 06:50 but the elephant waits for five days 06:52 till the body decomposes 06:53 and they'll go back and dig it up and eat it. 06:55 True story. 06:56 That's really scary 06:57 because we've always thought of them as vegetarians. 06:59 I know but it's, it really happens. 07:01 I don't know if it's that way in India or anywhere else 07:03 but that's what's happening right there. 07:06 This one we came across head on, 07:08 it's a male elephant. 07:09 The oils coming from the glands here which make it, 07:12 it's in heat it's very dangerous. 07:13 And our angel protected us 07:15 as we came around that blind corner in the truck 07:18 and no room to turn around 07:19 because the truck is just a toy to them too 07:21 and so we backed up, nowhere to turn, 07:24 and then the elephant turned into the jungle so. 07:27 Wow! God turned it. Tranquilized it. 07:30 I think so. I think so. 07:33 But we have a picture next of your clinic actually. 07:36 Yes, it's a major miracle, this is just, 07:39 it speaks of God all over the place 07:41 because we lived in the bamboo hut 07:43 for four years 07:45 and really it had hardly anything 07:46 but treated the patients in the middle, 07:48 the babies didn't wear diapers, the adults spit and poke it 07:50 through the cracks of the bamboo. 07:52 And I prayed for a small cement building, 07:55 just a small room somewhere else 07:57 where I could treat the sick 07:58 and I could keep the floor clean. 08:00 Yeah, you can mop the floor and... 08:02 Yes. 08:03 That Mrs. White says that God loves it 08:05 when we expect great things from Him 08:07 and when I'm praying for a little house, 08:09 God wanted to give me this. 08:11 It's a big story of miracles 08:13 that now we have a house on one side, 08:15 clinic on the other, a store room, 08:17 and even bathrooms that are inside. 08:19 What a blessing. 08:20 It's a blessing and you can sit at the desk 08:22 and write your records, the patient care records, 08:25 and you can do the procedures, 08:26 and you have a counter, even a sink. 08:28 That's so wonderful. Yeah. 08:30 And I got to go there with the mission track crew, 08:33 so I'm really excited to have been able to be there 08:36 and see for myself. 08:37 Yes, I'm so glad you did. 08:40 And patients came over there so that was neat too 08:43 to see you in action with your people. 08:45 Yeah, and sometimes you can't cook, 08:47 and sometimes you can't eat 08:48 but you can take care of the patients, 08:51 and they appreciate it. 08:53 And they know, they know that you love them 08:55 that they are priority to you. 08:57 Yes, and that's why they come from such great distances 08:59 because it's the love and it's coming from God. 09:03 And when we pray for the patients, 09:05 you know, so many times 09:07 we see it the patients get well. 09:09 It's not me. Yeah. 09:11 So this picture is of a group of people 09:12 that came from a long distance away. 09:14 Yes, they came two hours and there's more, 09:17 besides that they rented two trucks, 09:19 and they passed clinics, I don't know how many 09:21 and they could have gone to a hospital. 09:23 But they came and we said, 09:24 "Why did you do with it all that way." 09:26 They said, "Well, we heard you get better 09:27 when we come here and so we came." 09:29 And I say, it's not me, this is God 09:31 because we pray with the patients 09:33 and we can fit in a little bit of the gospel story 09:36 when we pray. 09:37 So you never know 09:38 who has been exposed to the truth. 09:41 Right. Right. 09:42 And what God will do in their lives 09:44 as a result of that little seed. 09:46 Yes. We just prayed for so many people. 09:49 Yeah, that's wonderful. 09:50 One guy even came and said, 09:52 "How come is it that when I see the doctor, 09:54 he gives me paracetamol, I don't get well, 09:56 but I come to you and get paracetamol 09:58 and I get well." 10:00 So because we pray. Such a neat thing. 10:02 Yeah, God. Yeah, that's so neat. 10:04 So you have a variety of different people, 10:06 or injuries, or sicknesses that you treat. 10:11 Yeah, most of the patients that come to us are sick 10:15 from three different causes, poor hygiene, poor nutrition, 10:18 and not drinking enough water. 10:20 So this patient you see 10:21 in the picture had kidney failure, 10:24 total kidney failure, 10:25 and they can't be on dialysis or get a kidney transplant, 10:28 they're just poor people in the jungle. 10:30 So they have to get a procedure done, 10:31 it's called parrot meal dialysis 10:33 and they have to irrigate their stomach 10:35 three or four times a day, 10:36 it takes all day, their life is just ended. 10:39 And just to stay alive 10:40 they have to keep doing that, so. 10:42 Yeah, the girl that has total kidney failure, 10:46 this is the house she lives in and the government tries 10:48 to take care of these people 10:51 when they go to the big hospital. 10:52 We had taken her there three times 10:54 and now she's ready to receive the fluid. 10:56 So they send the fluids, 10:58 it's in big bags of a liter and a half 11:00 and in boxes, very heavy but they send quite a few 11:04 and they have to stack up in their house 11:06 because this girl has to do this four times a day. 11:09 So that's a lot of fluid, and this house is falling down 11:12 and he can't even hold that kind of weight from the boxes. 11:15 So we were so happy to be helping her, 11:18 we built her a new house and it's new and strong 11:22 and she can keep those fluids in there 11:24 because we just feel so sorry for her went through a lot. 11:28 And it's a good lesson book 11:29 where if you can try to tell other people to drink 11:31 because they know the people, and what they're suffering from 11:34 and so, we pray that 11:35 that will help them to learn to drink. 11:37 They say they drink a lot 11:38 but they have little coconut shell cup, 11:41 and they dip it, and drink a few swallows, 11:43 throw the rest away. 11:44 And they do that two or three times a day, 11:46 they think they've drank a lot, 11:48 and they work in the sun in the rice gardens. 11:50 And it's hot there a lot of the year. 11:53 Yeah. Wow. 11:54 So patients come to me and say, "My heart is falling out, 11:58 can you do something to help me." 12:00 Or they say, "The blood is coming out from my legs 12:03 because I fell off an elephant ten years ago 12:05 and when it gets up to my chest, 12:07 it's going back and forth, 12:09 when it gets to my head, I'm really in trouble." 12:11 Or they say, "My brains are rotting out 12:13 or when I bend over, my brains are falling out." 12:16 They describe all this. 12:17 And you have to try to figure out what... 12:20 Yeah, what's really happening. 12:22 As they drink more water and vitamins we use a lot 12:26 because they are... 12:28 A lot of people are anemic. 12:30 Because their diet isn't very healthy. 12:33 They eat a lot of white rice whatever. 12:36 Whatever they can put with that. 12:37 And they have gardens 12:39 but the rice used to be pounded by hand, 12:42 really by foot 12:43 and so it had a lot of hull left on it was brown 12:46 and that was very good for you. 12:47 But now they have most of the bigger villages 12:50 have the rice plowed, it's set up with an attachment 12:53 that automatically, mechanically hulls it 12:56 so it comes out white. 12:58 So then that destroys all the vitamins and minerals, 13:01 so most of them, you know, vitamin B deficient and iron... 13:06 All the things that go with that. 13:07 Yeah. 13:08 Well, then we want to talk a little bit 13:10 about the religious environment there. 13:13 Yes, as you all know most of Thailand is Buddhist, 13:16 but my people that are living in the jungle 13:18 they have their form of devil worship 13:20 along with whatever Buddhist religion 13:23 they've heard about. 13:24 And so consequently have lots of superstitions, 13:27 and ceremonies, and fears about the devil 13:31 and these evil spirits 13:32 and also their own spirit in their heart. 13:35 They think if their spirit leaves them, 13:36 they get sick, 13:38 if it goes too far away, they die. 13:39 So they have ceremonies that they go through and chant 13:42 and use all kinds of things to call the spirits back. 13:46 Oftentimes you can't take a person to the hospital 13:48 when they're desperately ill because they've got to see 13:50 if this devil worship works first 13:53 and it takes maybe two or three days. 13:55 I'm still learning. And they might die before. 13:57 Yeah, they might die 13:58 or they take them from the hospital 13:59 because the time is wrong for them to be there. 14:01 They have to go and do their ceremony 14:03 with the whole family 14:04 so they've got to bring him back. 14:06 And so we fight with that a lot. 14:08 It's very, very difficult and very sad. 14:10 This man, I call this man a witch man 14:14 because it's not a witch doctor. 14:16 His job is not to help people get well 14:18 but to put curses on people and kill them. 14:20 So it's directly from the devil 14:22 and because the people, lot of them don't know God, 14:24 they don't know how bad the devil is. 14:25 But this man had visited a couple in a village 14:28 eating with them 14:30 and they often have people in their homes to eat. 14:32 The man and the wife had him for dinner, 14:34 afterwards he just gave his dirty plate to the wife, 14:37 and the Karen custom is you clean your own plate, 14:40 so it's kind of rude. 14:41 But the next time he visited, he left food on the plate 14:43 and just dumped it over there on the wife 14:45 and the husband said something to him, 14:47 "You don't do that." 14:48 And so the witch man went over and did this three times 14:51 on the man's, over the man's liver. 14:55 And very soon afterwards, the man got a lot of pain there 14:59 and this man knew that he'd been cursed 15:01 but he didn't tell anybody else. 15:03 I saw him in a few days later and I said to BletJhaw, 15:07 this man looks like he's dying. 15:10 And sure enough he went to a hospital and died. 15:14 And before he died he told his wife 15:17 to cut open his abdomen and after he had died, 15:21 so they brought him back and cut open his abdomen 15:24 and inside were tons of fish eggs 15:28 inside his abdomen. 15:29 So the wife and family got really mad at this witch man 15:33 and they hired a hit man from the refugee camp to come 15:36 and kill him. 15:37 And the next day that man came 15:38 and ate dinner with the witch man, 15:40 said, "You're supposed to die and I'm here to kill you." 15:43 And shortly after that man was dead, 15:45 and then we found out also that this same man 15:49 had put a curse on a man in another village. 15:51 I never understood how come 15:52 that man hung himself in the jungle 15:54 because he owned everything. 15:56 He had a truck, and according to the way 15:58 that people live in the jungle, everything was going for him. 16:00 He was very wealthy. 16:01 But he had gotten the curse of depression. 16:04 He'd gotten very depressed 16:05 and gone out to jungle and hung himself. 16:07 So I learned that's what it, why he did that... 16:10 So the evil spirits are real? Yeah. 16:12 Yes, they are blatant out there in the jungle. 16:17 But a text just forces itself into my mind. 16:21 If you want to look with me at Psalm 112:7, 16:25 it's short and easy to remember. 16:27 It says, "He shall not be afraid of evil tidings, 16:30 his heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord." 16:32 And so to me my message is to the people, 16:35 you know, we don't have to fear these things. 16:37 Curses cannot hurt you if you know the true God. 16:41 If you just can come and let us teach you, 16:44 we'll be happy to show you the way so. 16:46 It's sad to see them 16:47 so scared up a devil that has been already... 16:51 Defeated. Defeated by the Lord. 16:54 Yeah. Wow. 16:56 Well, I know that you and... 16:57 You have a helper. Yes. 17:00 And I want to say his name but I'll let you. 17:02 Okay. 17:04 The young man's name is BletJhaw. 17:06 He's 29 years old now, 17:09 and he has been with me the whole seven years 17:10 I've been in BeYoTa. 17:12 When everybody else comes and goes 17:14 and they're happy to go I think, 17:16 but he has stayed with me the whole time. 17:18 And I am so thankful 17:20 because he has the same heart as me, 17:22 the whole force of our life 17:25 and our work is to save the souls for heaven, 17:27 and so that comes first with us. 17:30 And I would rather just have one worker 17:32 than to have 50 workers 17:34 that are just there for adventure 17:36 or for any other reason 17:38 secondary to that main objective. 17:40 God can do great things. Yes. 17:42 And I'm so thankful for him and all his hard work. 17:48 We have three months of transportation, 17:50 one is walking with a backpack of medicine 17:52 and our schedule is 17:53 we go to another village three days a week, 17:55 so that we can treat the sick, 17:57 and then have worship with them and teach them about God. 18:01 And so walking is one transportation, 18:03 the motorbike, and then truck. 18:05 So here you are walking to a village? 18:07 And now this picture is in the village? 18:10 In the hut, taking her blood pressure there 18:12 looks like. 18:13 Yes, so the medicine that we've carried, 18:15 we spread out in somebody's house, 18:17 usually the same person every time. 18:18 The one that's the most interested in God, 18:20 and it serves as a clinic, 18:22 and people come sometimes so many. 18:25 Be very tired and hungry, and we treat all the sick, 18:28 and then the people in the house are so sweet. 18:31 They will cook some rice and chili, 18:34 maybe or some vegetable to eat next. 18:37 Okay. And then your favorite part. 18:40 Yeah, we have worship 18:42 and the people are so attracted to pictures. 18:44 It's true they paint a thousand words 18:47 in the minds of the people to learn about God 18:51 and our hardest work is to make it simple 18:53 so they understand it. 18:54 Because even in their Bible a simple verse 18:56 they might not understand 18:58 because it's written in the dialect, 19:00 in the tones of the border in the Burmese side. 19:03 These people are in the Thai mountains, 19:04 so they understand more Thai words mixed in 19:07 with different tones. 19:09 So we have to make the verses and everything very clear 19:12 and when they are so interested... 19:14 The picture rolls really helped them. 19:15 I love it. Yes, we have a lot of pictures. 19:17 I could still use more pictures but the people respond to them. 19:21 That's wonderful. 19:23 Now you talked about the motorbike, 19:24 but first we want to talk about the truck. 19:26 Right, the truck, 19:28 this picture is of the old truck 19:30 and when we built the clinic, 19:33 we hauled all the supplies in this small Mitsubishi truck 19:36 and it wasn't really made for heavy loads like that 19:39 on the terrible roads. 19:41 So it's four wheel drive went out for 19:43 probably five times 19:44 because last we couldn't even get it out of BeYoTa. 19:48 And so we didn't have a truck anymore 19:50 and we desperately needed a truck 19:53 and our money was gone too. 19:54 So when I came to America that year was some miracle. 19:58 It was on my heart to get a new truck. 20:00 I was praying really, earnestly for a new track 20:03 and we decided we needed a Toyota 20:04 because they sell well, 20:06 and if we got as new as we could afford. 20:08 If we could get new and put off road stuff on it, 20:11 then maybe it wouldn't break down so much 20:13 as that Mitsubishi cost loads of money to get it repaired. 20:16 I feel atomic the mechanic, he may sort so much. 20:20 So we prayed for a truck, came that year 20:22 and it was just amazing 20:24 how the Lord want to help the people 20:28 understand the need and the American people gave. 20:30 I preached 27 times 20:32 that year in 10 weeks and took seven states 20:36 and you were so helpful to me because I was able to... 20:40 You would go to 3ABN, 20:42 let it be known to everyone how thankful I am for 3ABN 20:47 because they stressed the need our needs, 20:51 number one for a truck and then the other things. 20:54 And through them I was finally able to purchase the truck. 20:59 This truck. Yeah. 21:00 This new truck, it looks so nice. 21:03 This truck is a 2014 truck that I got 21:06 at the end of November of 2014 brand new 21:09 off the showroom floor. 21:11 There's no time to explain 21:13 how miraculously we got a hold of that truck 21:16 by two strangers that helped us. 21:18 And a man that owned a body shop 21:21 who is a Buddhist and hates Christians, 21:22 persecutes Christians was contacted 21:25 about this missionary that needs a truck. 21:28 And what truck they had for me was six years old 21:31 and it was really way too high. 21:33 He said, "Well, don't do that. 21:34 Get her a new truck and use my dealer discount." 21:38 And so the Lord softened his heart. 21:39 So he helped you. 21:40 He's the one that helped me 21:42 get this right off the showroom floor 21:44 and now it's all outfitted with the wrench, 21:46 and it's raised, 21:49 and it's got the mud tires on it 21:51 and is very strong. 21:52 And we need every bit of strength 21:54 because it wasn't that clean ever again, 21:56 it got very dirty and right away 21:59 we needed the wrench 22:00 and we needed all this power we could get 22:02 to get through some of those steep places of mud. 22:06 When we went with you it was dry 22:09 and so it wasn't slick like you share about, 22:12 but I know we've got a video coming up 22:13 that will show how slick it is. 22:15 Yes. 22:16 The trees fall down easily 22:18 and you have to go into the village 22:20 and find some guys with the handsaws to cut them 22:23 so you can get through 22:24 or else you have to go back and do a huge detour. 22:28 And the truck is really useful 22:29 because you use it to take people to the hospital 22:31 which is what you're doing in this picture. 22:33 Oh, it's so useful and it just calms me 22:37 from having to spend that much kind of money 22:39 because right away we've saved almost nine lives. 22:42 I'm sure this time we're picking up a girl 22:45 that had gotten pinned 22:46 between a fallen tree and a stump on her chest. 22:49 And then we have another young man 22:50 that's demon possessed, a monk. 22:52 And we go into places 22:54 where you really don't need to be driving, 22:56 but this truck has taken us every time 22:58 because we pray as we go 22:59 and the angels have just pushed us uphills 23:02 that would be impossible, 23:04 other people are stuck down there at the bottom 23:06 and we may try seven or eight times but we can't, 23:10 the Lord sees us through when we need to go somewhere. 23:15 I love those stories. Yes. 23:17 We get attached to our vehicle to speak 23:19 as we've been through so much, 23:21 hence you sometimes just all grown within yourself 23:25 and say, oh, Lord, how much more this 23:27 can we take on this road to help. 23:30 Yeah, and I know that there was one 23:32 that you almost slid off of right 23:34 when you got this truck. 23:35 I didn't even include that picture 23:37 but the devil trying to pull it 23:38 push us right off a really steep cliff. 23:40 We struggled for almost those two hours 23:42 to try to get the truck out of that mess tilted towed. 23:46 And the angel just stopped the truck, 23:48 it was supposed to go over. 23:49 Now, it was sliding toward the edge. 23:51 Yeah, to see it, you would know it wouldn't have stopped. 23:54 Yeah, you showed it to us there. 23:55 You were there in person. 23:57 Yeah, that's an amazing corner. 23:59 I mean you stand at the bottom, 24:01 and the truck went by where we were standing there, 24:03 and it ended up way above our heads. 24:05 It's quite a, you know, quite a corner. 24:07 Pictures don't a justice. No. 24:08 In fact, I went... 24:09 Video has a hard time doing it just to see also, 24:12 but there's going to be some video 24:13 in the mission truck show. 24:14 Yeah, good. 24:16 When I saw it myself the next time with you, 24:18 I still couldn't believe it was that bad. 24:21 Yeah. But it is, yeah. Thankful to the Lord. 24:24 There are times when you can't take your truck 24:26 and so you take the motorbike. 24:27 And this next picture is showing... 24:29 What is this picture? 24:30 Our motorbike and when it starts raining, 24:34 we have to take the check out at the right time 24:36 or we don't get it out, we need it out there. 24:38 And then we start to drive the motorbike 24:40 and then when we can't do it anymore, we walk. 24:42 This is a dry time 24:43 and we like to take a lot of things to the villages. 24:45 This time we're bringing blankets, 24:47 mosquito nets and medicine to a village far away 24:51 and so, all that step plus two people we make it. 24:55 Sometimes going up the hill there's no seat belts, 24:58 there's nothing really to hang on to except... 24:59 Except you're holding on to a bag. 25:00 Down here, I've got this bag 25:02 and this backpack and going uphill, 25:04 I think I'm going to fall off but we made it that time. 25:07 God takes care of you. Yeah, yeah. 25:09 There's many places, on a motorbike 25:11 it's really dangerous for the truck the motorbike 25:14 and even when you're walking it's hard. 25:15 So every time we go out, we really pray 25:17 because the elephants and snakes 25:20 and then the way we travel and the Lord protects us. 25:23 This is very uneven 25:24 and then some of the narrow little paths 25:27 with the cliff on one side and the bank on the other. 25:30 Here we are coming in the rainy season 25:31 down a steep slope and just wanted to show you 25:34 that in the chain setter on the back tire 25:37 that really make a difference. 25:40 When you're sitting on the back 25:41 you're just like the tail wagging the dog 25:43 and so the chains help, 25:46 you still are in trouble sometimes. 25:49 It's still. Yeah. You can feel the improvement. 25:51 Yeah, and this next one is a video, 25:54 it's not of you guys, 25:55 but it's a video showing how slick that mud can get. 25:58 Yeah, this shows it a little better 25:59 we've been there and done that. 26:02 Yeah. 26:03 Yeah, this poor man, looks like he falls over, 26:07 he falls off and then he tries to get back up 26:09 but he can't get up. 26:10 Yeah, it's like that. 26:12 The mud is either, the road is hard 26:14 and just more slippery than ice 26:16 or else it's steep mud up to your knees. 26:19 So you got to try to, 26:21 you know, get from point A to point B 26:23 as best you can. 26:24 Wow. Okay. Sometimes not be graceful. 26:27 Well, I know you have a lot more stories, 26:29 which is why we have to stop now 26:31 because we're going to do another show with you. 26:34 So before we close though, 26:35 you had a couple of Ellen White quotes 26:38 you wanted to share that really have spoken into 26:40 your experience working for these beautiful people 26:43 and working to save the lost. 26:45 Yes, I am so inspired to work harder every year 26:49 because every mountain is covered 26:51 with villages that haven't heard. 26:53 And I just want to inspire everybody 26:54 to just save souls, 26:56 it's the only thing that we're... 26:58 The main thing should come number one, 27:00 and I wanted to hear this statement Mrs. White says 27:04 In Heavenly places. 27:06 "All heaven is interested in the work of saving the lost. 27:09 Angels watch with intense interest 27:11 to see who will leave the ninety and nine 27:13 and go out in tempest and storm and rain into the wild desert 27:18 to seek the lost sheep. 27:19 The lost are all around us, perishing and sadly neglected. 27:23 But they are of value to Christ." 27:26 And then in another place to sum it all up, 27:28 "It's of no use to talk of being Christians 27:31 if we leave unhelped those 27:33 who are perishing all around us." 27:37 And this is really come into your heart, 27:39 it's part of your heart now. 27:40 Yes, it's my main goal in my life. 27:42 Right. 27:45 If the Lord has inspired you 27:47 to get involved in Gayle's project, 27:50 you can give your tax-deductible love gift 27:52 to Jesus for Asia, 27:54 PO Box 1221, Collegedale, Tennessee 37315. 28:00 Call us at 423-413-7321 28:04 or check out our website at Jesus4asia.org. 28:08 May God richly bless you 28:10 until we see you again on Jesus for Asia Now. |
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