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Series Code: JFAN
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00:21 - Hello and welcome to Jesus for Asia Now. 00:24 I'm Natalie Wood and today, I've got two special guests 00:26 on set with me and I'd like to introduce you 00:29 to Kasey and Hannah. 00:32 Welcome to the show. 00:33 - Thank you. - Thank you. 00:35 - And we're so glad that you could finally be with us 00:37 and we could have a firsthand report 00:40 because I know we talked before you went, 00:42 and you've had some actual experience in the field now. 00:46 - Right. 00:48 - So before we go any further, where are you located? 00:51 - We are in Sukhothai, Thailand. 00:53 - And how long have you been there? 00:55 - It will be two years in August. 00:57 - And has it just been Thailand, 00:59 go to the beach kind of fun? 01:01 - Yeah, one big vacation. 01:02 (all laughing) 01:05 - Not really right? - No, no. 01:08 - So start us out, I know when we talked last, 01:10 you were looking forward to going, 01:11 you had probably expectations 01:15 that may or may not have been fulfilled, 01:17 but can you share with us what happened when you first 01:20 arrived in Thailand? 01:22 - We cried. We arrived in Thailand and we're overwhelmed, 01:26 our senses were overwhelmed. 01:27 We were just immediately struck by 01:32 what we had done and felt like we had made a mistake. 01:36 And surely what God was asking us to do was too hard. 01:42 Our plan was to be in Chiang Mai for about six months 01:44 to do language study and as soon as we got there, 01:50 I think he was eight at the time, Levi, 01:53 was struggling, his health was struggling, 01:55 and about three weeks in he ended up in the hospital. 01:59 So we 02:02 realized that it seemed very clear that God was leading us 02:06 to Sukhothai sooner rather than later. 02:08 - Okay. So within three weeks you were headed to? 02:13 - Within three weeks, we were in the hospital 02:15 and that was a five day stay, then and we had to leave 02:18 to go to Vietnam to get our visa extensions. 02:24 So right around the one month mark, we moved to Sukhothai. 02:26 - Okay. And how did that go? 02:30 You found a place easily or what happened with finding 02:34 a place to live there? 02:35 - Jonathan and Hannah Hill offered to take us to Sukhothai 02:39 to see this was- - Three days after? 02:41 - Yeah. Three days after arriving in Thailand. 02:45 And so they made about the five hour trip down there. 02:48 And on the day that we were going to come home, 02:50 Jonathan decided we would drive around and just look 02:54 to see what was available for housing and he ended up 02:58 driving down a road didn't intend to be on 03:00 and then driving down another road 03:04 cause all the houses we had seen were very dark, 03:07 shuttered, they had spirit houses all over and just 03:11 nothing seemed as though God was saying, this was the one. 03:15 Until he turned down these two roads that 03:18 he has no idea why and there was a big, 03:22 bright, happy looking house with no spirit houses 03:25 and it was very clear leading that day 03:29 and we went back and prayed, but we knew within about a day 03:32 or so that that's where God was leading us. 03:35 - Wow. So then when Levi was having trouble 03:38 and ended up in the hospital and all that, 03:40 and you realized you needed to move, 03:42 then you contacted the landlord. 03:44 - We actually contacted him about a day or so 03:48 after we got back to Chiang Mai. 03:49 So before Levi was in the hospital, we already knew 03:53 that we were moving because we had already rented the house. 03:57 - So you mentioned already the trip to Vietnam. 04:00 Can you share with us how that went because you had a child 04:02 in the hospital and then suddenly you're going to Vietnam. 04:05 How was that? 04:06 - So because we went in on tourist, no, I'm sorry, 04:09 visa exemptions, then that's only good for 30 days. 04:13 So then you are required to go to a boarding country 04:16 and apply at an embassy for visa extensions. 04:20 Well, that just so happened to line up with the time 04:23 that Levi was hospitalized. 04:26 He was in there five days, we got to about 04:28 the three or four day mark and it was clear 04:30 he wasn't going to be ready to go. 04:33 And Robbie said, "I believe we're supposed to 04:37 get on the plane. I believe we're supposed to go." 04:40 And I was like, "No way. 04:42 We're not getting him out of the hospital, 04:44 putting him on a plane, taking them around new germs. 04:48 We're not doing that." 04:49 And our friend, he called us and he said, 04:53 "I've been praying and I really believe 04:56 you're supposed to be on the plane. 04:57 I believe that there's somebody at that embassy," 04:59 because we're kind of high risk for being denied the visas. 05:04 - Because you are a large family. 05:05 We didn't say that already. 05:06 - Right. Yeah. 05:07 - How many children do you have? 05:09 - Eight natural born children. We had six in Thailand 05:11 with us at that time. 05:12 - Okay. So you were a family of eight, essentially 05:14 at that time. - Yeah. All trying to be 05:16 under one work permit and so red flags. 05:20 - Yeah. 05:24 - When he said that I knew I needed to pray. 05:26 I needed to really surrender my fears and trust 05:30 that in this experience that God took us there for. 05:36 So very quickly I was convicted that I needed 05:38 to just let Robbie lead and he was believing 05:40 that we needed to go. 05:42 So day five came and Levi was still in the hospital 05:45 on intermittent oxygen, not continuous anymore. 05:48 And we got the doctor to check them out, to discharge him 05:50 against as well, he signed off, but wasn't happy about it. 05:54 - He was like, no, it's not a good idea. 05:56 - Right. So we ran back to the apartment in Chiang Mai 06:01 that we were staying in, we made it to the airport 06:04 in just about enough time. 06:05 Levi had to be carried in, they got a wheelchair 06:08 and he just kind of fell into it, couldn't hold himself up. 06:12 We're going through the line at the checkout counter 06:13 and they were just questioning us. 06:16 What is wrong with him? What are you doing? 06:18 And I'm thinking, I don't know what we're doing, 06:20 we should not be doing this. 06:21 Please tell us we can't get on the plane. 06:23 I didn't say that, but that's what I'm thinking. 06:25 I know I can't trust myself to say, "Robbie, we can't go." 06:29 But they didn't. 06:31 And so we boarded the plane and it was absolutely miraculous 06:35 to watch what God did as we did 06:39 take that tiny little step of faith, 06:41 well, that's not tiny I guess, that's a big deal. 06:43 - No, it's a bit deal. (woman laughs) 06:46 - Levi got on the plane and he immediately 06:49 began to turn the corner. 06:53 He gained strength, he was happy 06:55 and we watched that happen the whole time 06:58 we were in Vietnam. 06:59 He continually, by the hour almost, just got better 07:02 and better and better. - Wow. 07:04 - And we quickly found out when we got to Vietnam, 07:07 we were told not to expect to be given the visas. 07:12 But we submitted our paperwork and within 24 hours, 07:15 we had all, I guess it was eight visas that we needed. 07:19 No questions, no problems. 07:20 So it was very clear that there was somebody in the embassy 07:23 that day that we needed. 07:27 - Right. Wow. 07:29 That's amazing. 07:31 So the next step, you come back from Vietnam 07:34 and then you moved to Sukhothai 07:36 and what started to happen there? 07:38 What did you start to see there because I know 07:42 now you're starting to, okay, this is going to be home 07:45 and it's like, you're almost like a deep breath. 07:48 Okay, let's look around and figure out 07:50 how the world works here because you'd been in the city 07:53 before so what was that like the first part of 07:57 figuring out how to live in Sukhothai in the new home? 08:01 - Yeah. I think we finally really began to see the people 08:07 God helped us to come out of ourselves a little bit, 08:10 catch our breaths and we saw the people around us 08:13 and you're living in a little village surrounded by, 08:18 this was a probably upper class neighborhood 08:21 and it's government workers and so these well-educated, 08:26 well-to-do people have these spirit houses 08:30 inside their gates and our neighbors directly across from us 08:34 would go out and have, I don't know what they call it. 08:38 - Ceremonies. - Yeah. 08:39 - Oh, with the Monk every morning. 08:41 - No, just with their spirit house, which is actually, 08:43 from what we understand, not even a Buddhist- 08:44 - It's Hindu. - Yeah. 08:46 It's borrowed from Hinduism. 08:50 And God placed us in a house right next to a family 08:54 that had two children, a boy the age of our little boys 08:58 and a girl, the age of Hannah and Abby, 09:01 about the same age and they both spoke fluent English. 09:03 So right away, there was no barrier. 09:06 It really, in so many ways, helped our kids to adapt 09:12 to being there. 09:14 Their family helped us to really begin to immerse 09:17 into the culture and 09:21 just in so many beautiful ways, 09:23 took us under their wing. 09:25 - Nice. Nice. 09:26 Now I know at the beginning, your landlord did a few things 09:29 that surprised you. 09:31 Can you share? 09:32 - Yeah. We had no table because obviously you're moving 09:35 over there with your suitcases, 09:36 you can't check your furniture. 09:38 So we had all these people and one day, 09:42 Robbie and I were out getting something, 09:44 a stove or something for the house 09:46 and we came back and some of the kids were gone. 09:50 Hannah or Alex, or a couple of them, 09:52 the landlord had come in and taken them 09:55 to go haul this huge wooden table 09:58 and eight or nine chairs over. 10:02 And he said, "This is for your family. You can eat." 10:05 (all laughing) 10:08 Just the kindness and then later there was a field 10:11 next to our house and it was overgrown, 10:13 you couldn't play in it but it was the only house 10:15 in the village that had a space like that. 10:19 And he cleared it. 10:22 He paid and brought in tractors and equipment 10:27 to clear it out then he brought in dump truck load 10:29 after dump truck load of dirt and just filled it 10:32 so the grass would grow and the kids could play 10:34 and he never wanted to charge any money for it. 10:38 The day or so after that was done, it was so neat to see 10:42 the people in the village coming out into that field. 10:45 Yeah. Other people were utilizing it, playing badminton. 10:51 - So it was a blessing to the whole community. 10:52 - It really was. Yeah. 10:53 - Wow. 10:54 Well, that's neat. 10:55 So as you're going through this, 10:57 what is your focus for the mission work 11:00 that you're there to do? 11:01 Are you going to do an English language school, 11:05 what is your focus? 11:06 Is a church planting? Can you share the plans 11:10 that you had? 11:11 - We didn't have a plan. 11:12 We knew we were called to more of like 11:15 a friendship evangelism approach. 11:17 That we needed to go over, 11:20 just learning to live among the people and care about them 11:23 and just to be surrendering our lives 11:28 to God so that the Holy Spirit could work through us. 11:32 If we're praying and we're inviting the spirit in 11:34 then he can do a work that we don't even know is happening. 11:37 And so in so many ways, I think just being there bodily 11:42 and praying is what makes things happen. 11:46 We've made more mess of everything that we've tried to do 11:50 and yet we can see God working through it in spite of it. 11:54 So we had no plan and we still don't. 11:57 Every time we make one, he changes it. 12:00 - So being open to what God wants to do. 12:02 - Right. - So when you went there, 12:03 you didn't know the language yet either. 12:05 - Right. 12:07 - So you're praying and seeing what God's going to do 12:09 and you're just meeting the neighbors and the landlord 12:12 and different people 12:13 and what about the market? 12:16 I mean, everything's Thai in the market, how did that go? 12:19 - Right. 12:20 The whole thing was humbling I think. 12:24 Because we would learn a few little words 12:26 and then think that we could use them. 12:29 I remember going out to the gate, talking to our neighbor 12:31 and I thought I had this little phrase down 12:34 and she was going to understand me 12:36 and I tried it on her and she just stared at me 12:37 and she was like. 12:39 But I think what it did is it showed them vulnerability. 12:41 They realized that we needed- 12:44 - [Natalie] Help. - Yeah. 12:45 And so they saw us as, 12:49 I think almost weaker than them, 12:51 which gave them the courage because a lot of Thai people 12:54 are intimidated by Americans. 12:58 - Or just white people in general. 12:59 - Yeah. Yeah, white skinned people in general. 13:02 - Well, we tend to go over there and act 13:04 like we know everything. 13:05 - Right. 13:06 - Like there's somehow a lower, not life form, 13:09 but you know, less than us because we know everything. 13:12 - Exactly. 13:13 - But that's not true. 13:15 - They saw that we didn't and we needed them. 13:18 And so we had people that did take us to the market. 13:23 They tend to charge you more if you can't read the signs. 13:29 God, he put people in our paths that helped 13:32 and our neighbors especially, they would buy groceries 13:35 and invite me over and teach me how to make Thai dishes 13:38 and then send all that food back home with us to eat. 13:41 So yeah, God was very, very good through 13:43 the Buddhist people that were around us. 13:46 And we still, we don't live in that house anymore, 13:48 but we still- - Keep contact. 13:50 - And we still have the house because we believe 13:52 very strongly, he put us there for a purpose. 13:57 I don't know if he's sending people 13:58 that are going to live in it. 13:59 We utilize it, but nobody lives in it right now. 14:02 But the contact with those people in that village- 14:06 - [Natalie] It needs to continue. 14:07 - Yeah. It really does. 14:09 - Can you share briefly, I know there was a situation 14:12 with the front gates. 14:15 So the house has a wall around it or gate fence. 14:21 So can you share with us what happened with the front gates? 14:24 - In America, you don't have that. 14:27 We always lived in the country, there were no gates. 14:29 And it felt counterintuitive 14:33 to what we had gone there to do 14:35 and to pull your gate shut, even though that's 14:39 customary for them, to us, it just didn't- 14:42 - It felt like nobody bother us. 14:44 - Right. - Yeah. 14:45 Stay away. 14:46 - So we kept it open. 14:48 And there were a few people that were concerned that 14:51 somebody was going to come in and steal our stuff or 14:56 break into our house and there were people 14:57 that would tell us you feel safe here, 15:00 but it's not actually safe. 15:04 Not only did it, I think, 15:07 show them that we were open to relationship, 15:12 but also, again, it helped 15:15 open up conversations that we wouldn't have had otherwise. 15:18 Because even somebody telling you, "Be careful, 15:20 your motorbike's going to get stolen." 15:22 It's still a conversation. 15:23 It's still a way that they can reach out to you 15:26 with something which is a gift of information or whatever. 15:33 Just leaving the gate open, I think God was able to do 15:36 a work to break down some of those walls. 15:39 - Right. 15:41 Now you had your children with you. 15:43 And I know at one point, you shared that your little ones 15:46 took a mind to prayer walk the neighborhood. 15:49 Can you share a little bit about how that happened? 15:52 - Yeah. 15:54 I don't honestly remember what made them 15:57 come up with the idea, 15:59 but they were planning to do it and on the morning, 16:02 the first time on that morning, Levi was fine 16:05 and then all of a sudden he wasn't. 16:07 He has asthma, or he did, he pretty much doesn't 16:10 have any symptoms now. 16:12 And he suddenly couldn't breathe, 16:17 we gave him a breathing treatment 16:18 and we had to give him some oxygen. 16:20 And we recognized, this came out of nowhere, 16:24 he wasn't outside running around. 16:27 We have these little boys who were eight or nine 16:29 at the time. 16:30 Zach was five maybe 16:33 and they wanted to walk in the neighborhood 16:36 and pause in front of the houses and pray 16:37 and then suddenly, we have a boy having an asthma attack. 16:40 And so we prayed over him and he was fine. 16:46 They got up and my natural mother inclination 16:52 was okay, you just had an asthma attack and it's very hot, 16:53 he can't go out there. 16:56 Robbie and God were able to help me see 16:59 this is what they need to do. 17:02 This is what the devil was trying to stop from happening. 17:05 So they did go and pray at the houses. 17:09 We have some pictures of them standing at the gate, 17:11 looking so tiny and powerful. (woman laughs) 17:14 - That's awesome. 17:15 So they knew and they embraced the, 17:19 I don't want to call it a method, but the direction 17:22 that God had been leading your family. 17:24 That we're here to pray and see what God does. 17:27 - Yeah. 17:28 - So did he get better as they went 17:30 through the neighborhood? - No problem at all. 17:32 - Wow. 17:33 So even with the heat, he was- 17:34 - Right. No problem. 17:35 - So you were there living as a family 17:38 and seeing opportunities to interact with your neighbors 17:41 and things and the Lord was slowly growing 17:44 what you were doing there, but then suddenly, 17:47 you had more children. - Yeah. 17:49 - So how did that come about? 17:51 - About two weeks after we moved to Sukhothai, 17:55 so we'd been in Thailand a month and a half, 17:57 we got a call from Josh Bauder, 17:59 actually I think it was just a message, 18:01 and he said something like, 18:02 "So when you're ready to take kids in, let me know." 18:04 And we had already talked about it, 18:07 just about a week before, we were walking through a store 18:10 and there was a thing for adopting pets or paying for 18:14 putting money toward helping pets. 18:16 And so the spontaneous conversation between Robbie and I 18:20 about needing to be open to 18:24 if God were ever to give us children to take care of. 18:28 And so we immediately responded back, "Well, we're ready." 18:32 (woman laughs) 18:34 He, I don't think, expected us to say that, 18:36 but he had two kids in mind. 18:40 - [Natalie] Okay. 18:41 So they came to live with you? 18:43 - [Kasey] Yes. 18:44 - And was this a walk in the park? 18:46 - No. (women laughing) 18:48 - Because they didn't speak English right? 18:50 - No. And we still, at that point, 18:52 spoke very, very, very little Thai. 18:55 And they were from Islam and their parents 18:57 were both in prison at the time, 18:59 so they were just basically street kids, 19:01 fending for themselves, they were rough. 19:05 - So they had all the attitudes that come with 19:09 being a street kid, but also not having regular meals. 19:14 - And they were scared because street kid or not, 19:18 you're taken out of your familiar setting and 19:21 they love their parents. 19:23 Their parents were in prison, 19:24 but being taken away from home, then you think, 19:27 when my parents get out, I'm not going to be here. 19:29 So they had a lot of hurt and pain 19:32 that they brought with them. 19:35 So yeah, it was a challenge taking them in, 19:38 but I imagine that the greater challenge was them 19:40 having to come to strange people's house 19:42 that they didn't understand what we were saying, 19:45 they didn't understand why we had rules. 19:49 - Surrounded by a bunch of white people. 19:51 - Exactly. - In totally different area. 19:54 Wow. That must've been hard for them. 19:56 - Yeah. 19:57 - In addition to the cross cultural and cross language 20:02 and all this kind of stuff, were there additional 20:04 spiritual challenges that you saw with them? 20:06 - Yeah. Sky definitely was dealing with demonic torment. 20:10 I don't want to say possession. 20:12 I don't know enough about all of that. 20:16 She was being tormented. - She was being attacked? 20:17 - Yeah. 20:19 So there was one significant 20:23 incident and it took a bit for the light bulb 20:26 to come on what we were dealing with. 20:28 But praying allowed into the room, 20:31 she didn't immediately calm. 20:34 No, she did immediately calm, 20:36 but she didn't immediately stop and it took a bit 20:38 of just holding and hugging her for her to calm down. 20:41 But she was 20:45 able to go to sleep that night. 20:46 But then over the, I think it was several months really, 20:49 that you would be talking to her and all of the sudden 20:52 her voice would just change- 20:53 - And her eyes would do something weird. I don't know. 20:56 - Yeah. Hard to explain. 20:58 And you knew it wasn't her. 21:04 Continually praying and it didn't feel good 21:06 because it felt like somehow the power is lacking. 21:10 This keeps happening. 21:12 But we were getting counsel that sometimes that's the case. 21:16 There's all sorts of different types of things 21:19 and I don't know if at some point, 21:20 we were able to get rid of something 21:22 that was giving the enemy access to her. I don't know. 21:24 But eventually, she was delivered 21:29 from it. 21:32 She's still a struggling child who's trying to learn, 21:35 but she is just a struggling child who's trying to learn now 21:38 she's free of whatever that was. 21:42 - Wow. 21:43 Wow. 21:45 That sounds like it would be a little bit intimidating. 21:46 (all laughing) 21:48 Just keep praying, keep praying, just keep praying. 21:50 - We had been warned though, before coming, 21:53 there was a man that came to church 21:55 and he told me he had a message for me from God 21:57 and he said, "You're going to encounter things when you go 22:01 that you couldn't wrap your mind around right now." 22:03 And he said, "God wants you to know 22:05 you are never to be afraid." 22:07 And he repeated that over and over again. 22:08 And so many times when this type of stuff has come up, 22:12 situations that we would normally 22:15 have been afraid of. 22:18 There was a peace, I think, knowing. 22:21 And he said, "This conversation will come back to you 22:24 when you're over there and you need it." 22:26 and it has proven true many times. 22:29 - Wow. So I understand that one of the challenges 22:31 when they came to live with you was that they had 22:34 been used to not getting enough food. 22:37 So what was it like when they first got there? 22:40 How did they deal with meal times? 22:42 Setting up the table? 22:44 - They hated the food. 22:46 We had to ease them in by utilizing street vendors. 22:52 They would just scarf their food down. Inhale it. 22:55 And it's so funny now to remember, 22:57 especially how Sky ate then, 22:59 because she just ate until- - She's our pickiest kid now. 23:03 - Yeah. She ate until she was going to pop 23:05 and we would have to stop her. 23:07 And now she eats like a bird. 23:10 So we just thought she had this huge appetite, 23:13 when really, it clearly was, she didn't know 23:16 if there was going to be more to come. 23:19 So yeah. 23:20 There was definitely food challenges and trying to learn 23:23 to cook food that they would eat. 23:25 I never accomplished that. 23:27 - Uh oh. (woman laughs) 23:28 Was there a hoarding kind of thing with the food with them? 23:32 - I believe that they- 23:34 - I think they would take the Ramen Noodles up to their room 23:37 and hide them under their beds. 23:38 - They did. 23:39 They would bring things home from school and hide them. 23:43 - Okay. 23:45 Just so that we can prepare, because we're not done 23:48 with our conversation here, we're going to have more. 23:50 We have a lot more to talk about. 23:52 So there will be another episode that people can watch. 23:55 And I'm just wanting you to share just kind of a quick 23:58 overview so that people understand there's a lot more 24:01 to talk about. 24:02 So you got Wind and Sky 24:06 and how many children do you have now? 24:08 - [Kasey] We have nine Thai children total. 24:12 - [Natalie] Okay, so you have seven more since then? 24:14 - [Kasey] Right. 24:15 - [Natalie] And each comes with its own story I'm sure. 24:16 - [Kasey] Right. 24:18 - [Natalie] His or her own story I should say. 24:19 - Yeah. 24:20 - Okay. And then you were living in that house 24:22 and then the Lord led for a church plant? 24:27 - Right. We were led to a building in the business district 24:31 of Sukhothai. 24:32 A three story building. 24:34 And we rented that in October of 2020. 24:38 That's got a small church plant. 24:41 It's got a, I want to say English school, 24:44 but COVID keeps shutting it down, 24:47 and a food ministry. 24:49 - All right. So then a church plant. 24:52 Have you been able to meet there? 24:54 I know with the ongoing pandemic, there's lock down, 24:56 there's none, there's lock down, there's not. 24:57 - Yeah. That's never impacted. 25:00 By the time we had the church plant, they had lifted 25:03 the restrictions on the meetings. 25:06 So we've been meeting in there since, I don't know, 25:08 a week or so after we got the building. 25:10 We just went in at first and sat on the floor with the kids 25:13 and had church. (woman laughing) 25:15 Very awkward. 25:17 But it has since grown a bit. 25:21 Everybody that meets with us was an existing Adventist. 25:25 So we don't have anybody yet 25:26 that's worshiping with us that wasn't, 25:29 but the more that little group of people grows, 25:34 we're in there gathering and praying for the Holy Spirit 25:37 and I know that that in itself is going to have an impact. 25:40 - Well, somewhat existing because sometimes the monk 25:43 will come home. 25:45 And sometimes, On, from downstairs who prepares our food, 25:48 also comes. - This is true. 25:50 Our monk friend has come upstairs during our church service 25:53 and stood in the back and listened 25:56 on more than one occasion. 25:57 - Okay. You mentioned also, you've tried to do 26:00 an English language school? 26:02 - Yeah. 26:03 - So because of COVID you just can't 26:05 because schools are supposed to be closed. 26:07 - Yeah. Well, we'll get it started and there'll be 26:09 a good number of students coming in and then 26:11 there'll be another, where people are either scared 26:14 or they've locked things down a bit again. 26:16 And so we just slowly, 26:19 it hasn't been so much other than maybe once 26:22 that the government has said you can't. 26:24 It's been more the people are scared of gathering indoors, 26:28 so they just stopped coming. 26:30 So that's happened three or maybe four times. 26:34 So yeah, we're beginning to just pray and 26:37 maybe God is leading in a different direction. 26:39 One of the biggest things that we see a need for right now 26:42 is people are so scared of this virus. 26:45 And so 26:47 reaching them with the health message. 26:51 Even just a portion of it, how to build the immune system 26:56 and what to do if you do get sick. 27:00 We're praying for God to direct in a different way 27:04 if English is not what we're supposed to be doing right now. 27:06 English classes. - Okay. 27:08 So then, after the church plant, what came next? 27:12 - We were led to a property 27:16 about 20 miles out of town 27:19 where we have moved and have begun the development 27:22 of a children's home and small school. 27:25 - Okay. 27:26 And just so our viewers know that there's a lot more 27:28 stories coming in the next episode. 27:30 Who's your best friend? 27:33 - A Buddhist monk. (women laughing) 27:34 - Awesome. - Yeah. 27:36 - Well, there's a lot of stories there I'm sure. 27:38 - Yeah. 27:39 - Well, I would like to invite you to join us next time 27:41 for a lot more stories from Kasey and Hannah Norton. 27:44 And if you would like to support the Norton's project, 27:47 you can contact us at Jesus for Asia. 27:50 PO box 1221, 27:52 Collegedale Tennessee, 27:53 37315. 27:55 Call us at (423) 413-7321 27:59 or visit our website at JesusForAsia.org. 28:03 May God richly bless you until we see you next time 28:06 on Jesus for Asia Now. 28:08 (triumphant music) |
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