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Series Code: JFAN
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00:22 Hello, and welcome to Jesus for Asia Now.
00:24 I'm Natalie Wood, and I'd like to welcome you 00:27 to the second part 00:29 of a special show about Indonesia. 00:32 Our guests are Ramon and Shandy Tengkano, 00:34 and they shared with us in the first part 00:36 about their personal testimony, 00:39 learning to walk in God's way, learning to live God's way, 00:45 and learning what's really important 00:46 in God's kingdom. 00:48 Welcome back to the show, Ramon and Shandy. 00:51 I just would like to encourage our viewers 00:52 to go and find that first part, 00:55 it will be on the Jesus for Asia website very soon, 00:57 or you might be able to see it again 00:59 when it airs again on 3ABN. 01:02 So in the first show, 01:03 we saw how the Lord had changed your lives. 01:07 And brought you back together as a family. 01:09 And how has He lead since then, 01:11 what's the work He's brought you into? 01:13 Well, God has opened ways for us to get to know 01:17 what kind of God He is through mission work, 01:22 ministry work which in our case 01:24 is a television ministry. 01:27 That's what we established in 2011, January, February. 01:33 And it's a lot of work because reaching Indonesia, 01:36 17000 islands with 256 million people, 01:40 population, 90% of whom are Muslim, 01:44 they have no idea what Christianity is all about. 01:46 If they know any Christianity, 01:48 it's the wrong kind of Christianity. 01:51 So we were, we became the first Adventist television 01:56 that took on the satellite. 01:59 At that time. Yeah, at that time. 02:00 Now we have Hope channel also that 02:03 started to be on air from mid 2014. 02:06 So we have two Adventist 02:08 televisions going over Indonesia. 02:09 That's good. Yeah. 02:11 And since then we're getting many calls, many texts, 02:14 you know, my requests to have books, 02:17 to have DVDs, and lessons. 02:21 And many invitations extended to us to come and visit them, 02:25 big churches, small churches, Adventist churches, 02:29 mostly even non Adventist churches calling us. 02:31 Wow. So people are watching. 02:34 Yeah, people are watching. Plenty of people are watching. 02:36 Even though that we're on the satellite, 02:39 which means people have to have the satellite dish 02:41 to catch our signal, 02:43 and the satellite dishes being fading away in big cities 02:48 because they're replacing with a cable television. 02:51 Like, you just plug in the wall, 02:53 monthly bills and everything. 02:55 But most, majority of Indonesian 03:00 don't have access to cable television monthly. 03:05 Cable television in Indonesia, they have like, 03:07 maximum two million viewers, two million subscribers. 03:11 But the usage for satellite dish 03:14 goes up to 18 something million according to data. 03:19 Wow. 03:20 So there's a lot more people living 03:21 outside the big cities, 03:23 you know, the mountains, islands, and far away places. 03:26 When they have television, they have to buy satellite dish 03:30 and that's what we are. 03:32 Yeah, so that's their only way to get anything. 03:34 That's right. Okay. 03:35 Otherwise they don't catch anything. 03:36 And then we also treat our viewers as our family. 03:40 Yeah, like a family. 03:41 So we go to their house spend time, 03:44 you know, spend night with them. 03:45 And they are very shocked because, you know, 03:47 one time we went to the family, remember, in the Kediri... 03:54 Yeah, that's East Java. East Java. 03:56 The father, the parents, the father especially, 03:59 he's a... 04:01 He's a Buddhist. He's a Buddhist. 04:02 And he never believed about Christianity 04:05 because he always says, Christian... 04:07 Hypocrites, he says. 04:08 Hypocrite, and then, you know, like, fancy people. 04:11 Yeah, fancy people, seeking people. 04:13 And then we came with our team, you know, spend time, 04:16 and then you know, sleep in their house, 04:20 and what did he say? 04:22 He said, "Well, this is different Christianity 04:25 because what I see in television 04:27 and I see you guys wake up in the morning, 04:29 you all look the same." 04:32 So he respects the value somehow, you know. 04:36 It doesn't mean that we look messy in the television 04:38 when... 04:39 And then if our, you know, our channel, something wrong 04:43 and then just get shut off, 04:47 and they starting to calling us. 04:49 Because they said like, "We cannot live without, 04:52 you know, without watching your television. 04:54 You have to do something." "Without your music..." 04:56 "Without your music, without all of the programs." 04:59 So, do you know, I don't know, you know, sometimes they use 05:02 our television to become like, what... 05:05 Their needs, you know. They're almost addicted to it. 05:08 Yes, yes, exactly, they cannot live without... 05:11 There's a one person 05:12 that's crazy, you know, mental illness. 05:15 And the family said like, "He cannot go the day 05:20 without watching, without having our television." 05:23 So if something is wrong with television, 05:24 he's become crazy. 05:26 This guy, apparently, we started, 05:29 we met them last January. 05:33 January. 05:34 And he apparently was the guy, he claimed that, 05:38 "I'm mentally ill." 05:42 But when we came to his area, he came up to us, 05:47 "Can you pray for me, I'm mentally ill. 05:48 But you know, I have to have your television 05:50 on all the time," because his mother says. 05:53 Okay, and we prayed for him. 05:54 And then took out his wallet or little bag, 05:58 and then he takes out like the receipt of bank transfers. 06:03 And then he was saying, "Do you see a small amount 06:06 that comes in every month for years?" 06:10 "Yes, I know there's small amount." 06:12 It's only like a dollar 06:13 and a half or two dollars every month. 06:16 So the guy brings cash money to the counter 06:20 to make the transfer to our television. 06:22 I'm like, "That's you?" 06:23 "Yes, it's been me, look at the receipt." 06:26 I'm like, "It's for people like that 06:28 that our television keeps going." 06:30 You know, I'm so touched, 06:32 somebody we would not expect to support our television. 06:36 And then there's another story of a guy that came to us, 06:43 to our church. 06:45 Oh, this guy, this guy started to watch 06:46 our television in 2012. 06:49 I met him last year finally. 06:51 Now he's a member of our church. 06:53 You know, in the beginning of our television, 06:54 we had no idea what we were doing. 06:56 We didn't have any quality. 06:58 We had no knowledge on how to make programs. 07:01 So it was just a big mess, messy television. 07:04 We were on the edges 07:05 because we pay the bill, satellite bill. 07:09 So this guy, in the church, that very church 07:12 he was making stories how he came to the church 07:15 because of our television. 07:16 He said, he started watching the television, he's like. 07:18 "What kind of television is this? 07:20 Who would spend so much money to be on the television 07:23 just to air unprepared programs like that." 07:28 So that's not his story. 07:30 But it gotten him sit down for hours, 07:33 you know, looking and laughing at this television. 07:37 "You know, these people are crazy." 07:39 "They don't know what they're doing." 07:40 "They don't know what they're doing..." 07:41 But then there's messages, 07:42 you know, and there's Bible verses... 07:44 That's going in. Yeah, that's right. 07:46 And then he's calling his family, 07:48 "Look at this crazy television." 07:49 So for a few days, the next day he would turn it on, he was... 07:53 And now the whole family... 07:54 And then now the whole family is in the church. 07:56 They're just getting baptized. God uses crazy television. 07:59 Yeah, last year he was like, 08:01 "Wow, you guys are something special," you know. 08:04 Wow. 08:05 And then one of the biggest highlights 08:07 we have in our television this past few years, in 2014 08:11 I think, we got invited, we got a call in from a viewer 08:15 who happened to be a pastor 08:18 in one of the big Pentecostal churches 08:20 in Indonesia, in the East of Indonesia. 08:23 Then he say, "Hey, are you guys willing 08:25 to come speak in our church?" 08:27 "Well, yeah, sure." "How much do you guys charge?" 08:29 I'm like, "We don't charge anything." 08:31 "Okay, well, if that's the case, 08:32 you would come." 08:34 And then we came. 08:35 And then there's a, that was a church with big hall 08:40 with apparently 700 pastors plus his wife, 08:44 their wives and their children attended. 08:46 Wow. 08:47 It's an annual meeting of the church workers, 08:51 and they invited me, 08:52 I'm not even a pastor, you know. 08:53 Oh, wow. 08:54 "You want me to speak with them?" 08:55 "Yes, speak with us. 08:57 I know as you have messages in television, 08:58 I think, you have a message for us." 09:00 "All right, Lord, give me words to say," 09:02 because I was speaking 09:03 Wednesday, Thursday, Friday day until night. 09:06 Wow. 09:07 Because the year before they invited 09:09 one of the televangelist famous from America. 09:13 And they have to pay how much for that? 09:14 Oh, they paid like, $200,000 only for him to be there. 09:18 Very famous American televangelist. 09:21 And then I was there the next year. 09:23 So I get to speak about, you know, just 144,000, 09:26 you know, the latter rain message, 09:27 and of course, we're packaging 09:30 with our own testimonies, you know. 09:32 Right. And the third Elijah message. 09:35 We spoke about how to become healthy. 09:37 They all loved it, you know, without any, 09:40 we take away things that might shock them. 09:44 Right. 09:45 And then one of the pastors 09:47 who was actually a famous pastor, 09:50 I didn't realize he was there the whole three days. 09:52 And then he went back to his own home church 09:54 on this following Sunday, 09:56 and then he spoke to his church. 09:58 He said something like this, "Brothers and sisters, 10:02 if there's one group in this world 10:04 that are going to be prepared for the second coming of God, 10:08 do you know who that group is? 10:10 Do you know who that church is?" 10:12 The church members were like, "Who?" 10:13 He says, "Seventh-day Adventist Church. 10:16 I attend their meeting past three days, amazing. 10:19 So if there's any group that we need to learn from, 10:22 it's gonna be them." Wow. 10:24 How do we know about this, 10:25 because one of the members actually starts searching us. 10:28 A lady and her family, the member at 10:31 where the pastor was speaking, looked us up 10:35 and then she actually happens to be the viewer. 10:37 She became the church member in our church. 10:39 Wow. 10:41 And then the pastor said, "No, it's okay, 10:42 go there on the Sabbath, 10:44 and then come back here on Sunday, 10:46 teach us what they teach you." 10:48 Until now she's still doing it. Wow. 10:50 And then there's other story, the Hindu or Buddhist girl... 10:55 Oh! She has a dream. 10:57 No, she said, she wants to find happiness, right? 11:00 Yeah, she was praying to the Buddha statue. 11:02 She was always praying to the Buddha statue, 11:04 and then she always ask, 11:06 "Buddha, show me the way to the happiness." 11:10 Everyday, everyday, she's very dedicated Buddhist. 11:15 And then one night, she get a dream, 11:17 and the Buddha comes to her, you know... 11:20 Buddha. 11:21 The Buddha come to her, and the Buddha said like, 11:23 "The true happiness is Jesus." 11:26 And she's just like, "What?" "That's the God of Christians." 11:29 "That's the God of Christians, look at them, impossible." 11:33 And then she doesn't care. 11:35 She's just like, searching, of course, in... 11:38 Internet. 11:40 Internet. And then found us. 11:41 Jesus, when she's searching Jesus, 11:43 I don't know why she found us at CBN. 11:46 And she just searched all of the, 11:48 she just watched all of the series, programs, 11:52 and now she became our member. 11:54 It's just only because of that. Yeah. 11:56 So many viewers get dreams actually, yeah? 11:58 Yeah. 11:59 Get a dream from the Lord, and then, yeah, 12:01 now they've become our members because of the dream. 12:04 Yeah, so many exciting stories. Wow. 12:08 You have to give me two days to tell you the whole stories. 12:12 And then we have the other job also in our villages. 12:16 Yeah, we have. 12:17 We, of course, we're reaching out to the villages also. 12:19 We have a dental clinic, 12:21 we're serving the locals where we're, 12:24 we're up in the countryside. 12:25 Well, we come from a city life. 12:29 You know, we have people in secular world 12:32 that they need to be restart too, 12:34 you know, people in the upper class of the society... 12:38 That you knew before? 12:39 Yes, and we hung out with before. 12:41 So we were always wondering, "Lord, how do we talk to them?" 12:45 Because hanging out with them, drinking, 12:47 and partying with them, we had no message. 12:49 Yeah. 12:50 You know, in our neighborhoods, there are so many people 12:52 that are really important running the country, 12:54 you know, before our previous life. 12:57 But I had no message. 12:58 We meet down and sat down with them 12:59 in neighborhood meetings and everything, 13:02 but no message. 13:04 So God gave us ways to reach out to them. 13:09 Now we're really into exercising, 13:13 you know, a lot of exercise, running, cycling. 13:19 And these communities that we hang out with, 13:22 you know, these things, running and cycling, 13:24 speaking of even swimming, triathlon, 13:26 picking up really big time in our country. 13:30 Everybody is just searching to... 13:33 Become more healthy. Yeah. 13:35 Okay. So there we are. 13:37 In the beginning, we didn't know 13:38 what we were doing, you know, Lord... 13:40 Okay, we just thought it was gonna be for us. 13:43 And then we got to meet some people, 13:46 we got exposed to new friends, 13:48 you know, some of the people we met 13:50 in the society is just diplomats 13:52 and you know, just artists, 13:56 you know, rock star or the governors 14:02 actually also in the community. 14:04 So famous people, wealthy people. 14:06 Yeah, influential people. Influential people. 14:08 They got to know our lifestyle, they know, okay, 14:11 we're plant based, you know, we eat no meat. 14:15 They're asking us, "How do you do 14:17 with diets like that, lifestyle like that, 14:19 you know, you can keep up with what we do here." 14:21 You know, they are really fit people, individuals. 14:24 Really commit people too. We weren't really that fit. 14:28 We're okay now, but still far away 14:30 from where we want to be. 14:33 It's actually a challenge to us to keep up, 14:37 to prove that the Lord's way of living 14:42 is the best way to live. 14:44 Yeah, the community we're meeting right now 14:46 encourage us to promote our lifestyle, 14:49 our choices, our diet, the health message, 14:51 and we have so great, a new start, you know, concept. 14:55 They love it. 14:57 And Shandy is been chosen 15:00 to become the leader, the chairperson 15:02 for one of the largest cycling community 15:05 in Indonesia for women. 15:07 And then from that doors just opening, 15:10 people are coming to see us 15:11 to see our work up in the village. 15:13 You know, the social, 15:16 they call it social work that we do. 15:18 And they are asking us, 15:20 "Why are you making these choices?" 15:21 And then doors are opening. Yeah. 15:23 We're explaining them that, 15:24 you know, love is about serving other people, 15:27 and then that's what God wants us to do. 15:29 How to teach children too. 15:30 How to teach children, serving the community. 15:33 And then also alongside health, of course. 15:36 We even got invited to counsel marriage 15:40 because of this, 15:41 because we believe you got a message here. 15:43 So we're asked to counsel somebody's marriages, 15:47 you know, children education, what to do in life. 15:52 So things like that. 15:53 And what to do with money too. 15:55 Yeah, what to do with money. 15:56 We've actually inspired some of the people to, 15:57 okay, now maybe the key to happy life 16:00 is a simpler life. 16:01 Because they said like, "Oh, now I know 16:04 why you're so happy." 16:06 Because they, finally they know our previous life, 16:10 the story, now they know, 16:12 they get to see the true pictures, 16:14 right, the happiness 16:16 is when you share everything with others. 16:19 They're guessing. 16:20 We not come to them 16:22 and then try to explain everything. 16:24 No, they're just guessing to see our lifestyle, 16:27 and they tell like, you know, few of them, 16:31 you know, come to me and said, like, 16:35 "Yeah, you are happy person 16:37 because look at you," like that. 16:38 So they're asking us, you know, 16:40 "What do you make, where you are, 16:41 what do you make like a lifestyle center 16:45 or like a retreat center," 16:49 because where our studio, 16:50 our studio is up in the mountain. 16:52 It's a nice weather. 16:55 So this is where people come and visit also, 16:57 you know, our friends from the world. 17:00 They come and visit, and they see us, 17:01 and then they ask us, 17:03 "What do you just make like a retreat center, 17:06 make something that where we can be coached, 17:08 you know, you can give us like talks..." 17:10 Because they said like this, 17:11 they want to learn to live like us 17:14 because they see that we are the persons who live 17:19 that we don't need money to live 17:22 because look at them, 17:23 we want to learn from you, all right. 17:25 And they said, and sometimes they say like, 17:28 "If we see Shandy and Ramon, 17:30 we think that why would we need the money so much? 17:33 Look at them, they can eat." 17:35 And then they even said like, this is our dining, 17:38 we used to serve our guests over there. 17:42 They even said like, "Shandy and Ramon, 17:43 they have a healthy restaurant over there." 17:45 Yeah, they think it's a restaurant. 17:47 They come, we give them food, really healthy food, 17:50 they like it, that's why, 17:51 "Hey, why don't you just make a..." 17:54 We would call it athletic center, 17:55 you know, they can come, 17:57 they can go hiking for two days, 17:58 you know, up in the mountain, 17:59 and then in the morning, we can coach them, 18:02 you know, health, about temperance, 18:04 about family, about relationship, 18:06 you know, about how to self-control. 18:09 They even say like, "Your place has a power, 18:13 every time I go here, I feel..." 18:17 Yeah, I feel relaxed. 18:18 "I feel relaxed, I feel peace." 18:21 Yeah, so that's why they're really, 18:24 you know, push us to make something 18:26 so they can stay with us, you know. 18:28 Yeah, they can come on weekends, on the weekdays. 18:31 And they say like, "Your place is like the..." 18:35 Like a healing place. 18:36 "Like the healing place for our brain and mental." 18:40 Wow. 18:41 So there's a lot of challenge, a lot of work. 18:43 A lot of work. Yeah. 18:44 So I just want to reiterate for our viewers sake. 18:48 You're not telling people, in order to be happy, 18:50 you have to get rid off everything like we did. 18:51 Oh, no, no, no. 18:53 People are seeing that in spite and in your case 18:57 because of getting rid off everything, 19:00 you're finding happiness. 19:01 Yes. Yeah. 19:03 But you always encourage people 19:04 to get to know God for themselves. 19:06 Of course. Of course. 19:07 I think, get to know... 19:09 Matthew 13:44, it says, you go to the field 19:12 and dig for treasure, and then automatically 19:15 you're gonna be able to sell it, enjoy it. 19:16 You're gonna know, yeah. Sell everything, yeah. 19:18 Yeah. You don't reverse the process. 19:20 Right. 19:21 The treasure doesn't come because of the outward changes. 19:26 Yeah. 19:27 Because some people, 19:28 they have the euphoria to go with the Lord. 19:31 They just sell everything, after that they just stop. 19:34 After that they regret. 19:36 No, we don't want to give that euphoria... 19:37 Right, it's a certain drastic decision. 19:39 Yes. 19:40 Yeah, we don't want to give that euphoria, 19:42 we want them to think clearly that this is the... 19:47 The choice. 19:48 The choice that they are making. 19:50 And I remember the first set, like... 19:55 Well, you have to calculate exactly. 19:57 Calculate exactly, and then for me 19:58 that is really meaningful 20:00 because some people just want to go with the Lord 20:03 because of the euphoria, 20:04 and when they hit crisis, they're gone. 20:07 Right. 20:09 And one thing certain is that, 20:11 you know, our family got re-strengthened 20:14 because of the journey that we're making together. 20:16 Our children, despite the fact that they grew up spoiled, 20:20 they had no idea what God is like, you know. 20:25 Now we're slowly, you know, walking them, 20:28 they're finding happy life with us. 20:30 This is our... These are our three children. 20:33 This is our idea of picnic. Looks like fun. 20:37 We don't go to Disney Land or anything. 20:40 This is our Disney Land. 20:42 That's so good for them though. Yeah. 20:44 They don't buy toys, they make toys. 20:45 They make toys. 20:47 But they're learning that love from God though. 20:49 Of course, yeah. 20:50 I mean, you were sharing a story of your son 20:52 that gave his slippers to one of the ladies passing by 20:56 because he saw the need 20:57 and he was willing to just give what he had. 21:00 Yes. 21:01 And that's so valuable 21:03 when they learn the value of others, 21:05 and that joy comes in service. 21:07 Yes, that's right. 21:09 He also has the, what we call bankel. 21:11 Yeah, like, a... Like, what they said? 21:13 Like a sharp fork to fix bicycles 21:15 for the villager's kids. 21:17 And they fix the villager's bicycles, 21:20 and then sometimes they give the money. 21:23 The villagers give the money. The villagers give the money. 21:25 But he's just, "No, this is free." 21:26 "No, no, we just want to give you money." 21:28 And they keep the money, so the money, they said like, 21:32 "We need to pay for the satellite, 21:34 we need to contribute for the satellite." 21:37 So, you know, that is their work, you know. 21:41 And yeah, they put the money to us. 21:44 Yeah. To pay the satellite bills. 21:45 And then another burden that we have is also for our church, 21:49 you know, because our church is missing up so much. 21:52 We think we are finishing the work 21:54 but we are not. 21:55 That's why we have the burden to reach out to young people, 21:58 you know, we'd like to... 21:59 Well, our place is becoming like 22:01 a retreat center for the young people. 22:03 We have what we call Power Camp. 22:05 You know, we host the young teenagers 22:08 up to like, 23, 24. 22:10 They come for a week, they go camping, 22:12 they go and help people, 22:13 they go surf because before we go out to... 22:17 Our hands just not big enough to reach out to the villagers, 22:20 you know, to the work. 22:21 We need to get the church people 22:22 to get involved. 22:24 Right. 22:25 Now this is actually the harder part, 22:26 you know, getting the young people to commit, 22:29 to do something. 22:30 So that's our, we are bridging between the need 22:34 and the frontline, and the workers 22:37 that are still in the church. 22:38 And then through the CD also, 22:40 we're been, what we call, uber mission? 22:42 Yeah, city mission. Yeah, that is not our plan. 22:46 But God gave us the job, 22:48 and, you know, I guess that this is what He wants 22:52 so we can cover everything in Indonesia. 22:54 And then when people are like, "Is it hard?" 22:56 "Yes, it's really hard." 22:57 It's really, really hard because sometimes I wish that 23:00 we have like 48 hours so we don't need to sleep 23:04 because, you know, the workers inside 23:06 the mission field is not... 23:08 There's not very many. There's not very many. 23:10 Because we need the workers who have the burdens, 23:14 we need the workers who wants to do everything to go, 23:18 you know, to go a long way. 23:20 Yeah. 23:21 Now we also need central influence 23:23 to be installed in Jakarta because every Sunday, 23:27 we go riding, this is just about, 23:31 maybe this is not even half of the women that you, 23:35 in the community that you live. 23:36 But we go cycling every Sunday, the men follow along through. 23:40 So every... 23:42 After we arrived, we would stop and they would ask us, 23:45 "Look, what do we drink after exercise, 23:46 what food do we eat?" 23:47 So we give them like a coaching, 23:49 you know, health clinic, 23:51 you know, while they are relaxing, 23:52 they want to eat something, 23:53 they want to have juice therapy, everything. 23:55 We always meet up after cycling to share. 23:59 You know, the funny thing is... 24:00 But we don't have a place in Jakarta big enough for that. 24:04 When we eat, you know, we hook up with them, 24:07 when we eat, they're just watching us. 24:09 And they say like, "Oh, Shandy and Ramon, 24:11 they eat broccoli." 24:12 So they take the broccoli. 24:13 "Shandy and Ramon, they eat spinach." 24:15 So they're just like, these people are very ready, 24:18 they just keep asking me like, 24:20 "Shandy, why don't you open the shop? 24:22 Why don't you bring, you know, the cart, the trunk, 24:25 so inside the trunk you can sell like, 24:27 healthy food for us, 24:29 and then you can give us smoothies, everything. 24:31 Why don't you do that?" 24:33 But I believe that, you know, we need to use faith for that, 24:37 you know, to cover everything. 24:39 That is the burden, you know, we wish... 24:42 I said to Ramon, you know, 24:44 "We wish we can do anything, you know..." 24:46 Right. 24:47 There's not a lot of you and you need help. 24:52 That's right. Yes. 24:53 The resources are limited. 24:55 I guess everywhere also same. Right. 24:58 And that's one thing that many times 25:00 here in North America, 25:01 we haven't seen that for ourselves. 25:04 We haven't gone to these countries 25:05 and so we don't know that there's so much work 25:07 to be done still in Indonesia, you know. 25:10 And so the call is great. 25:12 The harvest is great also, and the laborers are few. 25:17 And then we remember, like, my husband says that, 25:20 in Indonesia, we have island, 25:23 and then there's dedicate pastors, 25:26 senior pastor a lot in Indonesia, 25:29 you know, they have to have, like, 25:32 what, many churches to handle. 25:35 Ten, eleven churches. Ten, eleven. 25:36 And then they just go there 25:38 with a motorcycle, it takes like ten hours, 25:42 and then we can reach that just only with the airplane. 25:46 And you know, can you imagine the needs over there, 25:50 and I was like, 25:52 "God, I wish I can do anything to do that," you know. 25:55 The need is there, the people are so hungry, 25:58 they are waiting, you know, they even like, 26:02 "Do something, do something," but we cannot do anything. 26:05 Yeah, you're doing a lot already 26:07 and there's not a way to do more. 26:10 And we wish, like, me and my husband, like, 26:12 we wish, you know, God can send us like a plane 26:15 so we have aviation, 26:17 you know, like, we can search, go there 26:20 because, you know, to help others. 26:22 To move quickly, yeah. Yeah. 26:24 Help that pastor go more quickly 26:26 from church to church. 26:27 Even the missionary, 26:28 if something wrong with the family, 26:31 you know, they cannot go back because too far, 26:35 and it's not easy to, the transportation over there 26:39 is not very friendly for, yeah, for the mission maybe. 26:45 So that is the burden. Yeah. 26:50 Well, we really appreciate your coming today, 26:53 and joining us, and sharing what God has been doing. 26:55 Our pleasure. 26:56 And I know there are a lot more stories. 26:58 Yes. 26:59 Maybe next time you can share more stories. 27:01 Sure, sure. 27:04 What a powerful testimony of how God has taken people 27:07 that were very wealthy in the world's goods, 27:11 and has given them a wealth in service, 27:13 a joy in surrender that just comes 27:15 right out of them. 27:17 And He's leading them 27:18 into more and more service toward the wealthy people 27:21 as well as the poor people in Indonesia. 27:24 And He's sending them to share with people like us, 27:27 the stories of what He's doing in their lives 27:29 and through their lives. 27:30 And this ministry especially 27:33 to the wealthy people is very unusual, 27:35 and it's something that we're not 27:38 necessarily comfortable with 27:40 unless we've grown up with it or we've been in that life. 27:44 And if you would like 27:46 to be a part of this ministry in Indonesia, 27:48 please send your tax deductible love gift 27:51 to Jesus for Asia PO Box 1221, Collegedale, Tennessee 37315. 27:57 Call us at (423) 413-7321. 28:02 Or visit our website at Jesus4asia.org. 28:06 May God richly bless you 28:07 until we see you again next week 28:09 on Jesus for Asia Now. |
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