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Series Code: JFAN
Program Code: JFAN000055A
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00:21 - Hello and welcome to Jesus for Asia Now. 00:23 I'm Natalie Wood and today I've got a special guest with me 00:26 that's working in Asia, and he's got some amazing stories 00:30 about what God is doing there. 00:32 So I'd like you to welcome with me elder Eugene Prewitt, 00:35 welcome to the show Eugene. - Thank you Natalie. 00:37 - So glad you could be here. 00:38 - I'm glad to be here too, 00:40 even though we're not in Asia at the moment. 00:41 - No, we're not, but that's okay 00:43 'cause we have stories from Asia, right? 00:45 Now you and your lovely wife Heidi are working, 00:48 where are you working and what are you doing? 00:50 - So we're planted in Southeast Asia, 00:52 which is a term for Myanmar, and Thailand, Malaysia, 00:57 Brunei, Indonesia, Lao, Cambodia, Vietnam, 01:01 we're in that region, 01:03 central there and training missionaries. 01:06 - Okay, so you have a training center there? 01:08 - We do. - Okay, so Eugene, 01:10 do you have any stories for us today? 01:12 - I'm always full of stories, 01:13 and let me just tell you one that was interesting to me. 01:16 I live at a health center on a mountain full of monkeys. 01:20 We have an orchard there, we planted 2,000 01:22 banana trees recently, and one day in that cafeteria 01:25 I was watching a troop of monkeys moving across the ground. 01:29 You know, when monkeys move on the ground 01:31 they go single file, kinda equal distant from each other, 01:34 and they were moving from our banana orchard 01:36 right to the jungle, so you know 01:38 that they have full bellies, right? 01:40 So I'm watching them there, I'm eating, they're done eating, 01:43 and I saw one that was behind all the rest. 01:46 He was slow, he wasn't paying attention, 01:48 he reminds you of those five foolish virgins in Matthew 25. 01:52 And there came a point when most of the monkeys 01:54 were up in the tree, and he was still only half way 01:57 to the jungle when one of our big dogs 02:00 came around the corner of our health center. 02:02 His name is Jackie, it's a he with a girl's name. 02:05 Jackie is a black dog that loves to chew monkeys, 02:09 and when he saw the monkey on the ground he began to run. 02:14 He was so excited, he wasn't barking, he wasn't growling, 02:17 and that poor monkey wasn't payin' attention, 02:19 so it didn't know it was happening. 02:21 By the time the monkey saw Jackie it was too late, 02:25 and that dog just bit into that monkey. 02:30 Well, I thought I was gonna see a monkey die, 02:32 and that's when I saw something interesting. 02:35 I saw Jackie look up in the jungle tree in front of him, 02:40 and when he did that I looked up too. 02:42 And what I saw there was every monkey in that tree 02:47 was coming down quickly, 02:49 and as soon as Jackie saw them coming 02:51 he let go of that monkey, he turned and he ran away. 02:56 I've thought about that so many times Natalie. 02:58 I've thought, the monkeys, they have it together 03:01 better than we do. 03:03 Just think about local churches. 03:04 Let's say that someone in that church 03:05 ends up getting pregnant, or making a big mistake, 03:09 or something goes wrong there. 03:13 I imagine those monkeys in that tree, 03:16 imagine if they were just sitting there, 03:17 saying uh oh, look, the dog is coming. 03:21 That monkey is so slow, what's wrong with him? 03:25 Why isn't he up here? 03:26 I'm so glad we're in the tree, 03:28 it's safe up here in the tree, 03:29 I don't wanna look, it's gonna be bad. 03:32 You know, if the monkeys had talked that way, 03:34 certainly that monkey that made the mistake would've died. 03:38 And I've thought about us, that here we are, 03:41 members of Christ's body, and when someone makes a mistake 03:45 it's so easy for us to talk to each other in the tree. 03:48 Did you hear about, did you see, 03:50 do you know what's goin' on? 03:52 I can't believe the mistake that he made, 03:54 how could he do that, what was she thinking? 03:57 But that doesn't save a monkey. 03:59 If we would get out of our tree, 04:00 I think that we could be missionaries 04:02 right here in our local churches, 04:03 just as we are missionaries there in Southeast Asia. 04:05 - Mmm, that's a powerful picture, 04:09 to care for our fellow men like that, yeah, wow. 04:13 - I was walking in Indonesia a few weeks ago. 04:15 That's not where our training center is, 04:17 but we're opening a new branch there. 04:19 And so I was walking there 04:21 when a motorcycle stopped beside me. 04:24 And my wife Heidi was with me, 04:25 we walk together early in the morning. 04:27 The man was named Alub, he is still named Alub, 04:30 and he asked me where are you going? 04:34 Asia doesn't have as much privacy as North America, 04:36 and people seem to feel like they deserve to know 04:40 whatever it is you might have that you could tell them. 04:42 And so I didn't have any secrets, 04:44 but I also wasn't headin' anywhere, 04:45 I was walking for exercise, I said we're goin' that way, 04:47 he said where? 04:50 That way, and he asked us to stop at his house, we did, 04:53 and this is what I discovered. 04:56 I found that seven years ago, Alub was a searching man. 05:01 He became very dissatisfied with Islam, 05:06 that was the religion of his parents. 05:09 He became irritated because a mosque was built, 05:11 and it encroached on his property, 05:14 and he felt like that was thievery, 05:15 and it just bothered him so much. 05:17 And when he began searching to find the truth, 05:21 he first visited a Protestant church, 05:25 and then a Catholic church, and then a Hindu temple. 05:29 And then finally, well it was a Buddhist temple 05:31 because the Hindu temple, he ended at the Hindu temple 05:34 because that's when he had some interaction 05:36 that was supernatural. 05:37 And so today Alub, at least three weeks ago 05:41 he self-identified as a Hindu. 05:43 And this is what I was thinking, Natalie. 05:45 I was thinking what a tragedy 05:47 that seven years ago we weren't there. 05:50 If we had been there seven years ago, 05:53 God would've led Alub to us. 05:56 We would've had light for him, 05:57 we coulda solved that perplexity that bothered him so much, 06:01 but now it's gonna be an uphill struggle, 06:02 because he's had seven years of supernatural experiences 06:06 with spiritualism, and his daughter, 06:08 she's kinda stuck between two, you know? 06:11 She goes to the mosque on Friday with her mom, 06:13 and then goes to the Hindu temple with her dad 06:15 whenever they're having festivals. 06:17 And I asked her, what do you think? 06:20 Do you think your dad's right, or your mom's right, 06:21 or is it confusing? 06:23 She said to me, she said it's confusing. 06:26 And Natalie, what I did was I sat down with her, 06:28 and later with her dad, and I went through Daniel 2, 06:32 Daniel 7, Daniel 8, Daniel 9, and I showed her evidence 06:37 that the Bible is a source of light and truth. 06:41 They were so thankful. 06:42 Alub said to me, God arranged for you to meet me. 06:47 And I'm sure of that, but why seven years late? 06:51 So what I'm trying to do, I'm trying to establish 06:54 little training centers all over Southeast Asia. 06:57 We've been training missionaries now 06:58 to go and start those, one will be starting in January, 07:01 another started three months ago. 07:03 We're looking to do one in Thailand 07:05 maybe in the next 12 months. 07:06 This is what we're aiming at, 07:07 to get these little schools everywhere 07:09 to be lights in their community. 07:10 - Mmhm, to get trained people out there 07:13 to meet people like Alub. 07:15 - When you talk about trained people, 07:17 let me just preach at you for a minute, if you don't mind. 07:19 - [Natalie] Okay. 07:21 - I know that there was a time in my life 07:23 when I envisioned North American Adventist 07:26 as being the educated ones. 07:28 We know about the sanctuary, 07:29 we know about the day of atonement, 07:31 we know about 1844, you know, 07:33 we know about Ellen White, and we have her books, 07:36 they fill up one-and-a-half shelves in our bookshelf. 07:41 And I thought about people in a lot of other places 07:43 as kind of a step below in terms of knowledge of doctrine. 07:48 Not our students in our mission training program. 07:51 They know more than our theologians, 07:53 they can sit down and give a Bible study 07:55 on the mark of the beast and the seal of God 07:57 using just a Bible, and prove their point well. 08:01 These are young people who understand, really, 08:04 what's going on, and when they're doing mission work 08:07 they're not just trying to bring people up from Hinduism 08:10 to knowing that the seventh day is a worship day, 08:13 they're aiming for the full message, 08:15 they want them to know the three messages, 08:17 the three angels' messages well enough to teach them 08:20 to themselves become teachers. 08:22 That's what training is doing in Southeast Asia. 08:24 - Oh, praise the Lord, and introducing them to Jesus, 08:28 who's the reason for all the doctrines, 08:30 and the reason for all the knowledge. 08:32 - Jesus has made room for himself in Asia. 08:35 You know, Buddhists respect Jesus, 08:37 and Hindus respect Jesus, and Muslims respect Jesus. 08:41 What they don't know is power. 08:43 So it's interesting, both Buddhism and Islam, 08:47 those are the two major religions 08:49 in the areas where I work, Buddhism and Islam. 08:51 Both of those religions would say you're better off 08:54 not to smoke, and yet when you travel around those regions 08:58 and you see the men, the men, 09:01 almost to a man sometimes, are smoking. 09:05 Think about that, the religion says don't, 09:08 but the people do. 09:10 So when I sat down with Alub for example 09:12 and with someone else in his community, I used that point. 09:15 I said listen, our religions on the surface 09:19 looks somewhat similar. 09:21 Jesus says it's best not to smoke, 09:23 Muhammad says you shouldn't smoke, 09:25 Buddha says you shouldn't smoke, 09:27 that they look somewhat similar. 09:28 But a big difference is our religion has power in it, 09:33 that's why these students you're meeting, they don't smoke. 09:38 They've quit, the ones that used to, there's power there. 09:41 Alub told me he was gonna try using this religion, 09:44 he was gonna try Jesus because Hinduism 09:47 wasn't doing it for him, least not that one thing, 09:50 victory over sin, yeah. 09:52 Jesus has given us not just theories 09:55 that compete with theories, 09:57 but he's given us power and love 10:00 that has no just competition. 10:02 There really isn't anything like it. 10:05 And where it has a chance to show itself, 10:07 there's power there. 10:09 Forgive me Natalie for talking too much-- 10:11 - No, that's alright, that's alright, 10:14 it's a interesting education, it's good to apply 10:18 and see the differences in culture, 10:20 and see the differences in the religions. 10:22 - Can I tell you about some of the things 10:23 that we're trying to do? 10:24 Because I've been telling you stories. 10:27 The largest country in Southeast Asia by far is Indonesia. 10:31 If you take the populations of the other countries 10:33 and put them together, it's gonna be similar to Indonesia 10:36 by itself, and the way it works in Southeast Asia 10:41 is they have a pretty free travel between those countries, 10:44 but usually it comes with a 30 day visit. 10:48 30 or 60, and that's not long enough 10:51 for the kind of education that we need to do 10:53 in our day and age, so we really need schools 10:56 in all these places. 10:57 We've found a piece of property 10:59 in the island called Sulawesi. 11:01 We've purchased that property, 11:03 and now we need to build a campus there for a new school. 11:06 We need to build staff houses, they cost about $25,000 each. 11:10 That same house here in Chattanooga area 11:12 would probably cost $130,000. 11:15 Same quality, although there they're not using so much wood, 11:18 because why would you use wood 11:19 when there's so much rain and termites? 11:21 But anyway, good, quality, solid buildings. 11:23 We need to build dorms for like 30 to 35 students per dorm, 11:27 that's about $150,000. 11:29 We need to raise that kind of money, 11:32 and we're gonna be opening that maybe 11:34 as early as this January in the, 11:38 it's not the, I almost said the garage, 11:40 but it's not a garage, it's the downstairs 11:42 of someone who has a home there. 11:44 But we don't wanna stay in a facility 11:47 that's for five people, we want to be able 11:49 to have enough room for 30, 60, 90 students. 11:52 Then we wanna start also something 11:54 for the Thai people of Thailand, 11:57 that when people are doing mission work in Thailand, 11:59 and there's a lot of mission work going on in Thailand, 12:02 but a lot of that mission work is for non-Thai people. 12:07 The Karen people for example there 12:09 along the border with Myanmar. 12:11 And there are a lot of Adventists in Thailand 12:13 but most of them are Filipinos, 12:15 so we want to do something to teach Thai people 12:18 to work with Thai people, 12:20 to raise up that kind of courageous missionary activity 12:23 that we're doing right now. 12:26 And it's important to me that we raise up some money 12:29 for our refugees that are being trained, 12:32 because the refugees in some countries 12:35 don't have freedom to go door-to-door. 12:38 One of my students named Kai-Kai, 12:40 last year was going door-to-door when policemen stopped him. 12:45 They put him in a car, drove him out into the countryside, 12:49 they beat him up, they took his phone and all his money 12:53 and they left him there in the middle of the jungle, 12:56 not knowing where he was, no way to contact anyone. 13:00 That's the way that some countries harass. 13:03 They harass their refugees, hoping the word 13:06 will prevent people from trying to come. 13:09 You know, what we're doing at the border 13:11 to kind of discourage people coming, 13:14 well we're not the only country 13:15 trying to discourage people coming, 13:17 but beating people up is a little worse. 13:20 And, well I don't mean to say what's worse, 13:24 but it's bad enough, so Kai-Kai experienced that. 13:26 What I would like to do is to have funds 13:28 so that Kai-Kai and those like him 13:31 can work on campus at our help center, 13:33 doing the work that won't put them in danger 13:36 of life and limb, while their fellow students 13:39 are out doing that work door-to-door, 13:40 not facing that same kind of issue. 13:42 - Mmm, yeah. 13:45 - And I don't need to raise any money 13:48 for the operations of our schools. 13:50 Our schools fund themselves through the call porter work, 13:55 but one thing we do need to do is to raise some money 13:58 for translation and printing of books. 14:01 Natalie, I'm careful with money, 14:02 so I raised money last year to translate and to print 14:06 The Great Controversy and Ministry of Healing. 14:08 I've printed those now in English and Chinese, 14:11 and I'll never need to raise money for that again. 14:14 Because when we sell them we make sure 14:17 we keep enough margins, 14:18 so that if we printed 3,000 the first time 14:20 we'll have enough money to print 5,000 the next time, 14:23 and then seven, and then 10. 14:25 So I only have to raise money for the first printing. 14:28 And so I want to raise some more money 14:29 to print in Thai and to print in Indonesian, 14:32 and to print some more in Malay, 14:35 but once we get those first funds we manage that money 14:39 so that our schools can operate purely on the basis 14:41 of the call porter work. 14:44 And there's a special project that might sound so strange 14:47 to people who have a hard time to understand it, 14:49 but there are completely unentered cities in Southeast Asia. 14:54 Cities where just no one is doing anything. 14:58 Well and we want to go and work. 15:00 If we're going to a city that has Adventist, 15:03 maybe we can stay in their house, 15:05 maybe we can stay in the church, 15:08 but what if we're going to a city that has nothing? 15:11 - Then you gotta stay somewhere. 15:13 - This company, Airbnb that's kinda famous 15:15 here in North America, it exists in Asia now. 15:18 And we experimented with this just a few months ago, 15:20 we went into a city of 125,000 people, 15:23 no Adventist presence. 15:25 We rented a house there for three weeks 15:27 and were able to visit every business 15:30 and most of the homes in that city, but it costs money. 15:34 That cost about $1,000 to do that, 15:37 because we weren't renting a little home, 15:38 it had to be a home for 20 people. 15:42 So we wanna raise some money for that too, 15:44 to help us enter brand new areas, to rent facilities. 15:48 I found out that in towns that aren't as rich as that one, 15:51 we could probably rent a similar size facility 15:53 for three or $400, that was because of its industrial center 15:57 that made it more pricey. 15:59 So you know this, but let me say it 16:02 to those who are watching. 16:03 If you give money to our program with Jesus for Asia, 16:07 you can find Eugene Prewitt Southeast Asia, 16:09 you'd find it there. 16:11 If you do that, please would you specify 16:14 what you're giving for? 16:15 I wanna know, is this for Airbnb houses for new areas? 16:19 Is this for refugee support? 16:22 Is this to build staff homes in Sulawesi, 16:24 or to build a dormitory there? 16:26 Is this because you wanna help us 16:27 start new work in Thailand? 16:29 Is this to help Joshua whenever we get something 16:32 going in Myanmar, up in his area? 16:34 Would you please tell us? 16:36 Don't say it's for the operation of the schools, 16:38 we don't need that, that's our call portering. 16:42 But if it's for translation we want to know. 16:44 - Yes, for sure, well that's good to know, 16:48 and it's good to reiterate that 16:49 because it really does help to know 16:51 where it's supposed to go. - Amen. 16:54 - Okay, so you've shared a few stories, 16:57 do you have some more? - I have so many. 16:59 - Okay, we've got a few more minutes, 17:01 I think we've got time for one more. 17:03 - Again, when I was in Indonesia just recently, 17:06 I was walking another road when I saw a man who I thought, 17:10 he had that look of someone I wanna talk to. 17:13 He was an older man, he had white hair, a white beard, 17:16 and he had the wrinkled, working face, 17:18 and he was a farmer, and he was in his garden. 17:22 And I just know farming is good for the character. 17:25 'Scuse me, farming makes good people. 17:28 So I tried to talk to him and-- 17:31 - You didn't speak his language? 17:33 - I'm trying to learn Malay right now 17:34 but at that point I knew about 300 words, 17:36 and you need about 8,000 to communicate well, 17:39 and it was not happening. 17:41 And he didn't know English, and so we could just say hi, 17:45 that's similar in both languages and that was it, 17:48 I couldn't talk to him. 17:49 But on my last weekend there, one of the young ladies 17:53 that was studying at our school, 17:54 she wanted to talk to Heidi and I about some personal issue. 17:58 And so we went on a long walk with her, 18:00 and I always take my wife with me 18:02 when I talk to girls about personal issues. 18:04 And so we had a good talk, but there came a point 18:06 where I thought we've said as much as we can usefully say, 18:10 the rest of this is just, it's time to turn around, 18:13 we turned around. 18:15 And on the way back there wasn't as much to say, 18:18 and that's when I noticed noble farmer beside the road. 18:21 And God reminded me, this young lady knows Indonesian. 18:26 I said sister, would you help me out for a minute? 18:29 And she did, and now noble farmer and I could talk. 18:33 He invited us into his home, 18:35 he gave us water from his fountain, 18:38 we pray that it was good for us, 18:40 and we ended up talking to him, and his wife, 18:43 and his granddaughter that was right there, 18:45 excuse me, his wife, and daughter, and granddaughter. 18:47 His wife is quite ill, she wasn't there. 18:49 And as we talked to them I found out that his smoking habit, 18:54 he even smokes indoors with the children. 18:57 Now here in America I don't think many people do that, 19:00 would smoke inside the home with children, 19:01 somehow that strikes us as cruel 19:03 and unusual treatment of children. 19:06 But there I felt many men, who even though 19:09 they seem to know that, it doesn't stop them. 19:13 They're right in there, smoking with the kids 19:15 all around the place, and I began to talk to him 19:19 and asked him if he would like to quit. 19:21 He said the same thing Alub had said, 19:23 he said I would love to quit, I can't do it. 19:25 He said my son would like to quit, 19:27 my son-in-law would like to quit. 19:29 And I asked if I could arrange 19:31 to have a stop smoking seminar 19:33 right here in your living room. 19:35 If I could arrange that, would you be willing to host that? 19:38 He was so ready to do it, he was excited about that, 19:40 that maybe he could learn to quit. 19:43 And so I don't know if it's been done yet, 19:45 because as soon as I left those students 19:47 went on a canvassing campaign, 19:48 but somehow when they get back 19:50 they're be doing a stop smoking seminar in his home 19:53 for him, his son, his son-and-law, 19:55 and of course that's gonna open their eyes 19:57 to these noble farmers, they're gonna see here's a power, 20:00 here's a savior, not just a savior from a hereafter, 20:04 but a savior from a here and now, 20:06 from sin that controls and enslaves, I'm glad for that. 20:11 - Yes, that'll be a blessing, we'll have to look forward 20:14 to hearing an update on that story. 20:17 - Courage is what makes, 20:19 I don't say courage makes a Christian, 20:21 Natalie, but it shows one. 20:23 I really don't believe in this weak, sloppy, 20:27 messy, fake Christianity that is just afraid of persecution. 20:34 I don't see how you can be a real believer 20:36 and be afraid of death. 20:38 You might not know, but in the country 20:41 where I'm living right now, it happened in 2017, 20:45 that three of the most prominent missionaries there, 20:48 none of them were Adventist. 20:50 Three of the most prominent missionaries there 20:51 were kidnapped, two of them publicly, 20:54 and they haven't been seen since. 20:56 No one knows where they are, 20:57 but many people supposed that they've been killed. 21:00 And that kind of experience is enough 21:04 to petrify fake Christianity. 21:07 That didn't petrify anyone in the book of Acts. 21:10 In the book of Acts, when Paul gets beat up 21:13 and left for dead, as soon as he wakes up 21:15 he gets back to work, there's none of this idea 21:18 that we have to protect our skin somehow. 21:21 - Yeah, comfort. - Yeah. 21:22 - So do you have any other projects, 21:23 or stories that you wanna share with us? 21:25 - I do, and I'm kinda nervous about this one Natalie, 21:28 but I'm gonna tell you. 21:31 If there's any obstacle between us 21:34 and finishing the work on Earth, 21:37 it is the Muslims of this planet. 21:39 They are good people, many of them, 21:42 but they don't know the three angels' messages. 21:45 And frankly, there's danger in giving it to them. 21:49 That's the way it is, so I have students right now 21:51 that have spent jail time for example in Brunei, 21:55 and I have one that right now is in Iran, 21:59 and I have others that are working in Lebanon, 22:02 and some that were in Egypt recently, and Malaysia also, 22:05 I have them working in these countries. 22:09 And I and a friend of mine, Christopher Crump, 22:12 came up with a project three years ago 22:15 that it was to write a series of Bible studies 22:19 that would introduce a Muslim 22:21 to the prophets that he's heard about 22:23 all his life, Jesus, and Moses, and Soloman, and David, 22:29 the whole bunch of them, Isaiah, 22:30 and a few others that he doesn't know he hasn't heard of, 22:33 but especially Daniel, starting with Daniel. 22:36 I wrote a series of Bible studies 22:37 that take them from the prophet Daniel and Moses, 22:41 and over time builds them all the way 22:44 to knowing all three of the angels' messages, 22:46 the three angels' messages. 22:48 It's done in sections, so that when they finish one section 22:51 they can take a test, and when they pass the test 22:54 they can take the next section, and then the next test. 22:58 So no one can jump ahead and see what's coming. 23:01 So for the first two sections they would have no idea 23:04 that what they're getting to might not be something 23:07 by something who believes very much like them, 23:10 they just wouldn't know. 23:11 Although we never use the Quran in our lessons. 23:14 I'm not a Muslim, I don't feel I should use the Quran. 23:17 I'm using Proverbs they've heard about the whole time. 23:20 So we wrote this series, and now we're having it translated 23:24 into the languages of the world. 23:27 Farsi, Indonesian, Malay, other languages. 23:33 We need to raise money for translation, 23:37 and then also to hire individuals 23:40 who are going to be doing follow-up work in those countries. 23:43 That's gonna be some of the most dangerous work 23:45 anyone has ever done, to follow-up on those studies. 23:48 - Wow, yeah. 23:50 - So our very first contact like that, 23:53 I flew to his place in Saba last year. 23:57 I bought a ticket, flew to meet him, 23:59 and for all I knew he might be a radical person 24:02 posing as a convert, well he wasn't. 24:04 He's a convert, his name is Rojie. 24:06 And Rojie, his wife has left him, 24:10 he's lost his job over the Sabbath, 24:12 he's ended up suffering a great deal of resentment 24:15 and rejection in his home area, 24:18 but he is faithfully reading his Bible every day, 24:21 and in just a few weeks he's gonna join our group 24:23 in Indonesia who are studying to be missionaries. 24:26 He's older, but he's gonna join them and learn how to work. 24:31 We're gonna have maybe hundreds of Rojies in the future, 24:33 but what we need is money for translation, 24:36 money to hire follow-up, and then how much money 24:40 do we need for this third thing? 24:44 There's no way to say how much, it's advertising money. 24:46 So what people, when we advertise we're paying per click. 24:50 That means if one interested person clicks on it 24:53 we'll pay a few cents, if 10 click we might pay 40 cents. 24:58 We're gonna pay per click, and if we have two dollars 25:01 we'll advertise for 20 clicks. 25:04 And if we have $2,000 then we'll get 20,000 clicks, 25:07 and if we have $2,000,000 then we'll get 20,000,000 clicks. 25:11 I mean that we will use every dollar we get for that 25:14 to advertise in these countries 25:16 to let people find the truth. 25:18 We're gonna have these videos, 25:20 we're recording videos in Germany. 25:23 We're obscuring the face of the presenters 25:25 who are doing the translation. 25:27 So the Bible studies are gonna be written 25:28 but have a video beside it. 25:30 Most people watch the video, 25:32 then they can get the transcript if they want it. 25:34 After the video they can take the test, 25:36 they'll have the questions. 25:37 The video's going to be in English and their own language. 25:41 It's a large project that can be operated 25:43 in many places at once, and because it's hosted 25:46 out of Germany it can't be shut down. 25:51 And so we have volunteer labor, 25:54 the programming is done, the URLs have been purchased, 25:57 we've done the writing, we already have people who are ready 26:01 to fly there and make the videos. 26:03 All we're needing now is to get some money 26:07 for the translation, and some money for advertising. 26:10 And if no one gives us a penny we're gonna do it anyway. 26:14 But boy, the more we get the more we're gonna do. 26:16 - Right, wow that sounds like a powerful tool, wow. 26:21 Well Eugene I'm sure you have more stories to share, 26:25 and I'm sure we could continue probably the rest of the day 26:29 with what you've learned over there, what you've seen, 26:32 what your students have learned and seen. 26:34 - Even if it was only stories that are ongoing 26:35 we could talk for hours. - Yeah. 26:38 - We don't need to go back, we can talk about right now. 26:41 - Wow, well I just praise the Lord because you're out there, 26:44 and you're working, and you're giving Christ 26:46 to these people, to your students. 26:49 It's, yeah, the need is huge. 26:51 Thank you so much Eugene for joining us, 26:53 and for sharing this opportunity, all these opportunities, 26:57 and this burden with us and with our viewers. 27:00 And I wanna invite you to be a part of God's work. 27:03 Ask him how he would like you to be involved, 27:05 there's a lot of opportunity out there. 27:07 There's opportunity where you live 27:10 to support your fellow men, and encourage them, 27:12 and learn from these monkeys, 27:13 that story we heard at the beginning of the show. 27:16 And also you can learn from the example 27:18 of the other stories Eugene has shared. 27:21 Be brave, be courageous for God. 27:25 Don't be afraid to share him with our fellow men, 27:29 wherever we are. 27:30 And he might send us to the other side of the world, 27:33 but if he does he's right there, 27:36 and he will help us to reach out to those, 27:38 even those that we can't speak to at first, 27:40 he'll provide a way for us to speak to them. 27:44 If you would like to be a part of this work 27:46 you can send your tax-deductible love gift 27:48 to Jesus for Asia, PO BOX 1221, 27:52 Collegedale Tennessee, 37315. 27:56 Call us at 423-413-7321, 27:59 or visit our website at Jesus4asia.org. 28:03 May God richly bless you until we see you next time 28:06 on Jesus for Asia Now. 28:08 (uplifting orchestral music) |
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