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Series Code: JFAN
Program Code: JFAN000086S
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00:21 - Hello, and welcome to "Jesus For Asia Now." 00:24 I'm Natalie Wood, and my husband John is joining me today 00:27 for a trip into a different, exotic, 00:30 and challenging part of our world. 00:32 Hello, love. 00:34 You know, I'm excited about this journey. 00:35 Where are we going today? 00:36 - We are going to the other side of the world. 00:38 We're going to an island 00:40 in the Philippines known as Mindoro. 00:41 - Okay. 00:43 What's our history with Mindoro? 00:44 I know we've had other, 00:46 we've done other episodes about Mindoro, 00:48 but what is our history there? 00:49 - Well, way back in 2010 I met Pete Barolo. 00:53 He told me about the tribes up in the mountains of Mindoro, 00:56 and he's trying to get something started up there, 00:59 a school or something. 01:01 So I scraped together some money, 01:03 like $250 and gave it to him. 01:04 And I didn't see him for another four years. 01:07 - Uh huh. 01:08 - And then he came back with all these stories 01:09 of what they had been able to accomplish, 01:11 and they were doing this, 01:12 he was a teacher in the government school, 01:14 and he was doing this part time, 01:16 but to support the work, they were making soy milk, 01:18 and selling soy milk. 01:19 - Wow. 01:21 - And they were just super dedicated, 01:22 and the kind of work that they had accomplished, 01:24 they had not only entered into one village, 01:26 but they were in like five or six villages. 01:28 - Wow. 01:29 - And I thought, man, this is somebody 01:30 who's whole heart is into it. 01:32 - Right. 01:33 - And so when we met them again in 2016 01:36 he said that he was ready to go full time. 01:38 Quit his job as a teacher, 01:40 and so we says look, we wanna commit 01:42 to helping you guys out, because we're seeing the stories 01:45 that are coming out up there of the, 01:48 I mean, this is the village of the Bucow 01:52 - Cause some of those stories we've shared before. 01:54 - Yeah. 01:55 - And so people will be like, what are we talking about? 01:57 But they'll have to just watch the previous ones 01:59 cause we don't have time to tell the stories again. 02:02 But yeah, there are so many stories. 02:03 This is the story of the angel that appeared to the elders 02:07 and told them not to punish the children. 02:09 - Yes, and the stand that those kids, 02:12 and also Abar was part of that stand. 02:15 - Right, and Abar we're gonna meet in a video 02:18 toward the end. - [John] Of this episode. 02:20 - But yes, he was part of that whole experience. 02:23 So there's a lot of stories from the past 02:25 that we don't have time to share today. 02:27 - Right. 02:28 - But we wanna just jump right in and talk 02:30 about the children, especially in this episode. 02:32 - Yes, the children just, of course, 02:34 they just grab your heart. 02:36 - Hmm. 02:37 - The kids, when you see how they live, 02:38 and the kinds of things that they have 02:40 to deal with in their life. 02:42 And so a couple years ago, we started the feeding program. 02:44 - Right, so they get a lunch everyday. 02:47 Besides just having school, 02:48 they also have a lunch. 02:49 - Right. 02:50 And that has cut the children mortality rate 02:54 from like two or three per year, 02:56 two or three children would die per year, 02:59 to now nobody's dying. 03:01 - Right, it's amazing. 03:03 And they're not all sick all the time. 03:05 - Right, their immune system is strong. 03:07 - And they can learn. - Yes. 03:08 Yeah, they're bright, and they're not, 03:10 you know, constantly sleeping because 03:12 they're feeling all the hunger. 03:13 They can listen, they can absorb information and stuff. 03:17 So that's really cool. 03:19 - Yeah, yeah. 03:20 So we wanna start at the beginning of their lives 03:22 - [John] Yes. 03:24 - We wanna talk about how they give birth in this village. 03:26 - Yes. 03:28 So the video that we're gonna show isn't graphic. 03:29 It's not actually showing people giving birth, 03:33 but it's just people talking about how they give birth, 03:36 and that kind of ordeal. 03:39 - Which can be hard for people to listen to. 03:42 But at least they only have to listen. 03:43 - [John] Yeah. (soft chuckling) 03:45 - All right, let's watch that video now. 03:46 - Okay. 03:48 (soft instrumental music) 03:56 (soft chattering) 04:02 (woman singing in native language) 04:09 (speaking in foreign language) 04:28 (speaking in foreign language) 05:32 (speaking in foreign language) 06:04 Yeah, so, honey, how did you give birth? 06:06 - In a hospital with a doctor. 06:09 - Were you in a kneeling position? 06:10 - No I wasn't. 06:12 - And did we cut the umbilical cord with 06:14 a vine, a hardened vine? 06:16 - No we didn't. 06:17 And we didn't put charcoal, 06:19 coconut husk charcoal on the child. 06:22 And-- - It was very different, 06:24 wasn't it? 06:25 - Yeah. - Yeah. 06:26 - And she's delivered so far eight children this way. 06:29 - Amazing, amazing. 06:31 We've got more video talking about 06:33 some of the customs that they have surrounding giving birth. 06:37 - Okay. 06:39 (speaking in foreign language) 07:07 (speaking in foreign language) 08:17 (inspirational instrumental music) 08:26 - Can you imagine no anesthetic, 08:28 and not being able to scream? 08:30 - No, because, yeah, 08:31 the baby gets shy then it won't come out. 08:34 - Yeah. 08:35 - It's interesting all the explanations they have 08:38 for the different situations. 08:39 You know, if this happens, then this is their reason. 08:42 If that happens, then this is the reason. 08:44 And we can't do this because of that. 08:46 We can't do that because of that. 08:47 - Yeah. 08:49 - We have to do it this way because, 08:50 you know, it's very interesting, 08:52 and in the first video, you know, 08:54 there's no such thing as infection. 08:56 That's something the doctors just come up with to say, 08:59 and it's like they definitely are not educated people. 09:03 They're definitely from-- 09:05 - Animistic beliefs. - Yeah. 09:07 - Yeah, where animistic belief is where 09:10 everything has a spirit, 09:12 and so they're afraid of everything. 09:14 You know, a lot of times it won't dig in the ground 09:17 because that'll disrupt the dragon spirit of the earth. 09:20 - Right. 09:22 - Certain parts of, like, if there's a spring in the water 09:23 they're afraid of that because 09:24 there's a spirit in the spring. 09:26 So all these kinds of things. 09:27 And so now they have in their birth procedure and beliefs 09:32 there's spirits tied to that 09:33 and you know, different things like that. 09:35 What's interesting is I asked them 09:38 is there a lot of infant mortality. 09:41 - Right. 09:42 - And they said there isn't. 09:43 - They say that up in the mountains 09:45 hardly any children die. 09:46 The mothers die, but not so much the children. 09:50 - You mean during childbirth? 09:51 - [John] Yes. 09:52 - Okay. 09:53 - Yeah, that is surprising, 09:54 because it seems like, you know, 09:56 we see situations where the baby can't come out 09:59 and they have to cesarean section, 10:02 and yet, these mothers don't have that. 10:05 - Nope. 10:06 - They don't have that at all. 10:07 - No. 10:08 - Which means the mother would die, 10:09 and the baby would die. 10:10 - Right, yeah. 10:12 So, but there's no way to really track 10:14 how many deaths there are 10:15 because it's all up in the jungle 10:17 and there's no hospitals, 10:19 nobody counting, and it's all anecdotal. 10:22 And so there's, we don't really know. 10:25 I imagine that there's quite a few deaths 10:27 of baby and mother. 10:30 But what's really sad is how they practice birth control. 10:33 - Yeah. 10:34 - Cause they don't have birth control, 10:36 and so if they get too many children, 10:38 well we're gonna find out more in a future video. 10:40 But right now we'd like to look at 10:43 when these kids are born, you know, 10:45 there's no education, 10:46 there's no learning, they don't even name their kids. 10:52 - Right. 10:53 - And if a kid's born, then if it's a boy 10:54 they'll call it boy, and if it's a girl 10:56 they'll call it girl. 10:58 And that's about it. 11:00 And in this video, Jessica Barolo 11:01 is gonna meet with a Mangian that's coming 11:04 to visit her for some food. 11:06 And then she's gonna talk about, 11:09 she's actually gonna give a child a name. 11:11 - Okay, that'll be fun. 11:12 - And the child's father, 11:13 gonna give the child's father a name. 11:15 - Okay. (soft chuckling) 11:17 (speaking in foreign language) 11:28 - It's their second time to be here. 11:31 They just here just last Christmas. 11:37 And they're asking for food 11:39 because the last time they visited us 11:42 we gave them food. 11:45 So this time they want again food. 11:48 They've been to, (speaking in foreign language) 12:01 (speaking in foreign language) 12:42 (speaking in foreign language) 14:33 - Isn't that awesome? 14:34 - Yeah, that's really neat. 14:36 You know, we talk about them, 14:37 or we hear about them walking two days 14:40 to come to this place where they know 14:42 that someone will give them food, 14:43 someone will help them. 14:45 And, that's kind of another story, 14:49 but we wanna make sure that we bring out 14:52 that these people are not cared for members of society. 14:56 They're looked down on by the majority tribes, 14:59 and it's just really a tough life for them. 15:02 I mean, they probably were walking 15:04 along the side of the road for some of that time, at least, 15:08 and no one would pick them up. 15:09 - Right. 15:10 - Because they don't smell good. 15:12 And if someone picks them up, 15:13 then everyone else will get out of the vehicle. 15:16 And so it's really sad to think 15:18 about the way we are as humans 15:20 and how we tend to do that to other people 15:23 that aren't as fortunate as we are. 15:24 - That's correct. 15:25 Yeah. 15:26 I love how God brings in identity. 15:29 - Right. 15:30 - And brings in value to individuals. 15:32 - Right. 15:33 - I love how he's put the burden for these people 15:35 into the Barolo's hearts. 15:37 - Yes. 15:38 - And makes such a big impact. 15:40 - Right, you can tell. 15:41 I love that they named him Daniel. 15:42 - Yeah. 15:43 - [Natalie] That's so awesome. 15:44 - Yeah, and it sounds like the father didn't have 15:46 a name either because they named him Daniel's Father. 15:48 - Yeah. (soft chuckling) 15:50 Which is fun. 15:51 - Yeah, it is, for sure. 15:54 - As we talked about earlier, 15:56 we have a Bible worker in this village. 15:58 Actually we have two Bible workers, 15:59 and they're a married couple. 16:01 - Uh huh. 16:02 - Now, and, one of them, Abar, 16:04 we had mentioned was in the video that we made before 16:07 about the angel that wore the G-string 16:10 to save the lives of the children 16:11 that stood up for God. 16:14 Actually, they got baptized and they were gonna be punished. 16:19 And so Abar, I don't know if people 16:21 will recognize him from that video, 16:23 cause he wasn't in a long part of it, 16:25 but he's in that video, 16:27 and then also people might remember his wife, Mercy, 16:29 from the video where she talked about 16:32 them only having one toothbrush, 16:34 and sharing the toothbrush among 30. 16:36 or how many ever of them it was. 16:38 - I think that was the first video that we shared. 16:41 - Student summer canvassing program, 16:45 (speaking in foreign language) 16:51 and then joined some missionary. 16:58 (speaking in foreign language) 17:11 (speaking in foreign language) 17:50 - I think that was the first video 17:51 here on the JFA now show. 17:54 - Right, right. 17:55 So the other thing is that both of these people 17:57 have health challenges, 17:58 and they talk a little bit about that 18:00 in these videos, but I just wanted to set this up 18:02 because he is actually losing his eyesight, 18:05 he's mostly blind, from what I understand, 18:08 and Mercy has some sort of heart problem, 18:10 and I know they took her to the doctor at one point, 18:13 but I'm pretty sure they didn't have the funds 18:16 to do whatever was necessary, 18:18 or nothing could be done, 18:19 I'm not sure what the answer was. 18:21 But she has some sort of heart problem. 18:23 If you watch closely, you can see her 18:25 heart beats in her throat. 18:28 - Yeah, there's a little-- - Yeah. 18:29 - Thing happening there. 18:30 - So, anyway, I just wanted to mention that 18:32 because we wanna think about the reality that they live in. 18:37 - Mhm. 18:38 - So what is this next video? 18:40 - In this video, the story kind of flows out of this 18:45 situation where the people, 18:49 they have a hard time supporting their kids, 18:50 so they can't just go down to the store and buy food, 18:52 they can't, you know, just get a better job, 18:55 or something like that, they have to work 18:57 for each person's food for that day. 19:01 And so the parents will leave at five o'clock 19:04 in the morning, so you got five year olds 19:06 taking care of two year olds all day long 19:09 while the parents are out foraging for food 19:11 so they can find a root or some kind of 19:14 vegetable, or fruit in the forest, 19:15 whatever they can find, 19:16 and they fix that for the supper that evening. 19:19 - Right. 19:21 - And so the kids basically have no breakfast or lunch, 19:23 and if the parents are successful, 19:24 so, then they can eat dinner. 19:26 But what happens is if they get too many kids 19:30 they can't support that many kids. 19:32 - Right. 19:34 - And so the solution is just to end the child's life. 19:36 And so this happens more times than we care to admit, 19:43 or, you know, I don't know how many times this happens, 19:45 but it's a pretty common practice. 19:47 - Right. 19:48 - So the background of this video 19:49 is Abar was married to his first wife, 19:53 and she died in child birth, 19:56 and his father killed his baby 19:58 because the family couldn't support another child. 20:03 - Wow. 20:04 - Yeah, and this is the hard, cold reality. 20:07 You know, they can't just go out and get a job, 20:09 a better job, and get more money, 20:11 you know, there's no healthcare system. 20:15 - Right. 20:16 Now, I wanna mention, because he wouldn't 20:18 have access to baby formula. 20:20 - Right. 20:21 - To feed the child either. - Yeah. 20:23 - And, we'll notice in this video 20:25 that Mercy actually is using baby formula, 20:28 and that's because of the Barolos, 20:30 because they have access to that 20:32 and they can bring it to them in the mountains. 20:33 - That's correct. 20:35 - So let's go ahead and watch that video. 20:37 - [John] Yes. 20:42 (speaking in foreign language) 23:38 (singing in foreign language) 23:53 (speaking in foreign language) 25:04 - What a beautiful picture of the love of God. 25:06 - Oh man, yeah, 25:07 and that baby, you know, wow. 25:11 They saved a life. 25:12 But they weren't sure they'd be able to 25:14 feed it and take care of it. 25:16 - Right. 25:17 - They're still very poor. 25:18 But they think that they can find out. 25:21 - I think that God will help them. 25:22 Because it's an opening door, 25:25 I mean, we don't even think about, 25:27 they had no idea that this would cause that family 25:30 to want to be close to them because they saw them care 25:34 for someone that didn't belong to them. 25:36 I mean, it's not their child. 25:37 - [John] Right. 25:39 - But they're taking it as though it is. 25:39 - Yeah. 25:41 - That's really beautiful picture of God. 25:42 - And I love what he said at the end, 25:43 he says maybe this is the reason for our life. 25:47 And maybe that's their calling 25:49 is to be parents to many children 25:52 that would have died otherwise. 25:54 - Yeah. 25:56 - Well see what God does? 25:57 - [John] Yeah. 25:58 - He has started a beautiful story. 25:59 - Yes, he has. 26:00 - And is continuing it. 26:01 - Yeah, for sure. 26:03 That's one of the challenges that we see right now 26:05 is getting the supplies into those villages. 26:09 - Right. 26:10 I mean, it's-- 26:12 - We tried, we walked to the closest village, didn't we? 26:15 - Right. 26:15 - And we almost died. 26:17 (light chuckling) - Yeah. 26:18 And we had them get a horse and try using the horse, 26:20 but the horse couldn't even make the trails. 26:22 - Yeah, yeah. 26:24 So everything has to go from the base of the mountain, 26:25 to the villages by foot. 26:27 - Right. 26:28 - Which is a lot of work for them. 26:29 - Yeah. 26:31 - But since we started the feeding program 26:32 for the children in the village, 26:33 you know, they regularly are climbing the mountain 26:36 with rice, and with vegetables, 26:38 and various things that they need. 26:40 The problem comes with getting all the food 26:43 to the base of the mountains. 26:44 - Right. 26:46 - Because the vehicle the Barolos have, 26:48 you might have seen it in the video behind Jessica, 26:51 is broken down. - Right. 26:52 - And is broken so thoroughly 26:54 that they don't think it's repairable. 26:56 And they've been told not to bother repairing. 27:00 So they need a new vehicle. 27:01 - That's correct, yeah. 27:03 They need a vehicle where they can carry people, 27:05 transport people, transport food, supplies, 27:08 everything that they need to do. 27:09 Right now they're riding bicycles. 27:11 - Hello, brother John, sister Natalie, 27:14 JFA family, we just finished today a crusade from the tribe 27:18 from a community, and another community is requesting 27:21 for evangelistic needings. 27:24 So many requests, so thank you very much brethren, 27:30 the Lord is working. 27:32 - It's hard to carry a lot on a bicycle. 27:34 - Right, yeah. 27:35 - So that's what we're praying for right now. 27:37 - Right. 27:39 I would like to invite you to pray with us 27:41 for this vehicle that they need 27:42 for this ministry to continue. 27:44 And if you would like to help Abar and Mercy 27:46 and the Bible workers like them, 27:48 you can contact us at "Jesus For Asia," 27:51 P.O. Box 1221, Collegedale, Tennessee 37315. 27:57 Call us at 423-413-7321, 28:00 or visit our website at JesusForAsia.org. 28:03 May God richly bless you until we see you next time 28:07 on "Jesus For Asia Now." 28:10 (inspirational instrumental music) |
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