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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 my husband, Jon is joining me today. 00:27 As we share about a brand new ministry type, 00:30 not just a new project, a new type of project. 00:35 Hello Love. 00:36 - Hey darling, how are you? 00:37 - I'm doing good. - Good. 00:38 - I'm looking forward to this show. 00:40 - Yeah. 00:41 - Some major miracle stories. - Yes, very exciting. 00:43 - Okay, so set us up. 00:45 Tell us what we're gonna do today. 00:46 - Okay, several months ago, we had the 10 condos here, 00:50 now, you know the 10 condos. 00:51 - Right, and probably at least some 00:54 of our viewers know them. 00:55 - Absolutely, yeah. 00:57 'Cause we've had them on this show a number of times. 00:58 - Right, Ramon and Shandy. - Yes. 01:01 And they are missionaries in Indonesia. 01:03 - Right. - They're Indonesian. 01:04 - Right. - And they came from a very, 01:07 very wealthy background, that had a lot of wealthy friends 01:10 and God called them into service because they were 01:13 unsatisfied with the things of this world. 01:16 And so they really sought after God, really sought after, 01:21 you know, the message, the truth, who is God. 01:24 We did a faith camp in Jakarta in 2011 01:28 and they learned about service. (Natalie chuckles) 01:32 The missing component. 01:33 And so they moved out into the country 01:35 and they started a satellite ministry. 01:37 Now, Indonesia, as you know, is how many islands? 01:40 - 17,508. - Yeah (indistinct). 01:43 The number changes depending on the type. 01:45 - The water level, yeah. (both chuckles) 01:47 - Not all of them are inhabited, obviously, 01:49 but satellite is the perfect method to reach 17,000 islands. 01:55 And so they've been doing that for 10 years. 01:57 The Lord has tested them amazingly and really done... 02:02 They've done a lot of changes in their life. 02:04 So we recorded a show with them a few months ago 02:06 that was going to be about the health work 02:09 that they're doing, the healthy lifestyle work 02:12 that they're doing with their old friends 02:14 and this new project. 02:17 And then what's happened between that show 02:19 and now is so amazing. 02:22 Some miracles have happened that we said, 02:24 "Okay, this has to be its own show." 02:26 - Right, so we took the part about this new project 02:30 out of the other show. 02:32 And that will only be focused on the health ministry 02:34 that they're doing. - [Jon] Correct. 02:35 - And then this one is about this new project, 02:39 which we keep talking about as the new type of project. 02:42 - Yes, yes. 02:44 - Now we wanna talk really briefly 02:47 about another faith project 02:48 that God seems to be leading toward. 02:52 And part of it's because Indonesia 02:55 is a land made of islands. 02:57 And so there's a tool that can get you from one island 03:00 to the next much more quickly, and that is an airplane. 03:04 - Yeah. - Yeah. 03:06 - So can you share a little bit about this dream 03:08 or whatever? (Ramon laughs) 03:11 I mean, (indistinct chatters) 03:13 It seems like God's leading that way. 03:15 I mean, I know it's not funded yet or anything like that. 03:17 And the health center isn't either. 03:19 So that's why it's like faith project after faith project. 03:23 And that's the lifestyle that God has led you in but-- 03:26 - This is nothing actually new, you know, 03:28 we've had this television on the satellite 03:31 for the past 10 years and a half now and then-- 03:33 - 10 years, six or seven months. 03:35 - Yeah, 10 years and seven months. 03:37 And then as soon as we started 03:39 to broadcast in the satellite, we're getting signal, we're.. 03:43 The signal is reaching all parts of Indonesia. 03:46 Right, the footprint we call it, 03:48 it's just as big as America, the continent. 03:51 - But the island is 17-- - Yeah, but 17,000 island, 03:55 500 and something-- - 500, 8000, island. 03:57 - And there's just so many people that are responding 04:00 from places that we haven't even heard of. 04:03 You know, where is this? 04:04 Where are you calling from? 04:05 - Yeah, what Island, what-- - What area? 04:07 Oh, okay, and then we'll look at the map, you know, 04:10 and then they're asking us to, 04:12 "Well, do you have any teachers or Bible worker 04:14 you can send us or nurse or can you send us books?" 04:18 You know, some Muslim ask for books even Bibles. 04:22 And then we send them Bible, we send them books. 04:24 What do I read? 04:25 What do I do? 04:26 - We-- - They need mentorship. 04:28 - Yeah, there's so many different needs 04:31 in different parts of island. 04:32 We cannot serve every single one of them. 04:34 But you know, one of the good, effective ways 04:37 to reach out to them is aviation. 04:39 So very early in this TV ministry, 04:43 we knew we're gonna have aviation somewhere down the line, 04:47 even though it's already been 10 years and no, 04:49 I'm a pilot, I am the pilo... 04:50 I became the pilot, but still without wings, you know, 04:53 but God is going to provide, I think sometime soon, 04:57 you know, before Jesus comes, we're getting invitations 05:00 to reach out the television viewers, there's a... 05:07 For instance, we're planning to reach out 05:08 to this to two destinations, one in the slightly West, 05:12 one is in the East part of where we are, and then once... 05:16 140, a 140 one miles West, 05:20 and then the other one is 170 miles East. 05:24 That's not that far really, but with a car, 05:27 this is like 16 hours and 18 hours to get there. 05:30 It's ridiculous, but with airplane they you can get there 05:33 in an hour and a half or two hours. 05:36 And then we can drop off the health worker 05:38 or a Bible worker, depending on the needs, you know, 05:41 we can quickly develop, you know, make frequent visits, 05:44 you know, drop them off and pick them up 05:46 and then install different programs. 05:47 They know we care for them, 05:50 and that's how you're gonna make effective evangelism. 05:57 You know, and this is really the faith project. 06:00 It's really gonna cost a lot of money, 06:01 but, you know, we were--- 06:03 - Yeah, because, you know, one time we got in invitation 06:06 in Kalimantan, Borneo and then-- 06:08 - [Ramon] Oh yeah. 06:09 - You know, I remember to reach to that place, 06:11 it took us like how many hours? 06:12 - That was about 150 miles inland from the Coastal City. 06:19 It took us 20 close to 24 hours to get there. 06:21 - And then we use-- - We drove. 06:23 - We drove by car. - And then the tire broke 06:26 or the tire-- (chuckles) 06:27 - When we visit the, you know, that point 06:29 and we met one a pastor, old pastor, you know, 06:36 you can see the old pastor, you know, serving in the-- 06:38 - Yeah, he was serving six or seven churches or something. 06:40 - Yeah, and the pastor came because, you know, he just like, 06:43 you know, he just want to meet us, and he's like, 06:45 "Wow, I'm so happy to see you in person. 06:47 You know, I'm really blessed to see 06:49 because we watched your television." 06:51 And I was like, "Wow, he's so old and he's so tired." 06:55 - (indistinct) motorcycle-- - (indistinct), 06:58 when I see his motorcycle and his motorcycle is very old, 07:04 you can name it, it's very old, like a, wow. 07:08 And he drive like more than 20 hours just only visit me 07:14 to want to see me and my husband in person. 07:17 And I asked him, "Can you explain, you know, your road, 07:20 your way to go here?" 07:21 Yeah, I need to (speaking in foreign language) 07:24 - (speaking in foreign language) 07:25 It's just (indistinct) the big river is crossing-- 07:27 - I need to cross in the big river. 07:28 - One town after another, 07:30 village after village. - And then I go, 07:31 I was like, Wow! 07:33 You know, and then when we came to that place, you know, 07:36 somebody come to us and said like, 07:38 "Hey, you know, before this place is--" 07:42 - Back in the early 80s - Early 80s, 07:43 this is Adventist village right? 07:45 - This whole village used to be Seventh Day Adventists. 07:48 (indistinct) How come they're not having this anymore? 07:51 Well, because there's a new church coming 07:53 and then just kind of recruit them one by one. 07:55 And then, that your church stopped coming here. 07:58 What are you talking about? 08:00 Yeah, back in the 80s, there is an airplane going here 08:03 like few times every month, you know, by American pilot. 08:07 So it used to be funded, you know, 08:09 the aviation program was funded from this Coastal City 08:13 to that area frequently. 08:17 And then after that stop, there's no more service. 08:21 You know, people kind of forgot after a few years, 08:23 and then the generation sort of have no connections anymore 08:25 with the church. 08:27 - They even show us the airstrip. 08:28 - And then I was taken to the area 08:30 where they used to have this airstrip built by our church. 08:33 It's not even airstrip anymore, just like soccer field, 08:36 you know, one after another houses, and I'm like, 08:38 "Oh, they kinda broke my heart." 08:40 You know, I knew that God, 08:42 you have to re-install this program for us 08:44 to reach out to them again, 08:45 because they know we're in television 08:47 and there's not one place like this. 08:48 There's so many different places 08:49 that are asking us the same thing. 08:51 We remember you, we know you from long time ago, 08:55 come back to see us, we give you like acres of land 08:57 for you to land your airplanes, (indistinct). 09:01 - You know, like we know like Indonesian is a lot of island, 09:04 like 70, 1700-- - 17,508. 09:09 - 17, 508.(all chuckles) 09:13 - I was like, I said like, you know, we always, you know, 09:17 like we go to state and then we can drive, 09:21 to go to the other, you know, state right? 09:22 - Yeah. - [Natalie] Yeah. 09:23 To how many states this summer? 09:25 - [Ramon & Mandy] 25 states. - In America? (chuckles) 09:27 - In America, but in Indonesia is impossible 09:30 for us to bring car. 09:32 - Yeah, no, it's island. - Just no, its impossible, 09:34 its an island. - [Ramon] Yeah, you know. 09:36 - You just so, you cannot swim to go to the other island, 09:38 you know, and the God always-- 09:39 - Not even ferries or boats? - Yeah, not everything 09:42 is connected to ferries. - Yeah, takes a long time. 09:43 - Even got all those trees whispered to us like, 09:46 "You need to do something, you need to do something." 09:48 And then we treat our viewers as our family, 09:53 they are very connect to us. 09:54 They just like, "Hey, can you give the name for my children, 09:57 for my daughter? 09:58 - [Ramon] Yeah. - They did... 09:59 They just do it, not just only that, 10:01 "Hey, I need something for even, you know, my (laughs) 10:06 - We got a recent call from a television viewer. 10:08 "I got a problem, so nobody can help me, 10:10 I've spent so much money to go see different doctors." 10:12 What is the problem? 10:14 "I have a strong body odor." (all chuckles) 10:17 We sort of smiled. 10:18 Body odor and then, 10:19 Well, (indistinct) try one solution. 10:22 "What is it?" 10:23 Baking soda. 10:25 Really? 10:27 We can buy that in a local market 10:28 and like cheap too like, yeah, go buy it, try it. 10:31 And then the lady tried it and in like few days after that, 10:34 she came back on the phone, like, 10:35 "Whoa, wow, that's such an easy solution." 10:40 - You know, that is how we-- - Simple. 10:43 - Very simple. 10:45 - That is how we very close with our viewers. 10:47 You know, they always give us like stories, you know, 10:50 like they just want to talk to us and like many, like, 10:54 you know, there's many times we visit them. 10:58 - Yeah, we see them in person. 10:59 - We sleep in their house. 11:01 They love to see us because, you know, 11:03 they love to see people in the television right, and when... 11:06 And they're just like, 11:08 "Wow, they're just people in television." 11:09 And especially when we came to their house, 11:12 they are really appreciate that. 11:14 And that just only that they see something... 11:16 Message, like very firm message when they see us, 11:20 wake up in the morning, they just like, 11:22 "Wow, your movement is very firm. (Ramon chuckles) 11:26 Why, what is (indistinct)? 11:28 I can, you know, you know, 11:29 what is the strong message that you bring to us? 11:32 What is that? (Ramon chuckles) 11:33 I can see, what did he say? - And they were, 11:36 "You wake up in the morning with the same look, 11:38 the way you slept at night." 11:40 It's something like that. 11:41 - And then that is only that the way I see you 11:43 in the television, it's same here. 11:46 - Yeah, there is simple-- - [Mandy] Simple. 11:47 - Simplicity, you know, that's some message to them. 11:49 - And that some message. 11:50 - Many of them appreciate, you know. 11:52 - So that's why we really want to have some aviation 11:54 like not us, if you ask us as a human, of course, 11:58 this is like, "Lord, this is a big burden already." 12:00 You know, you give out the other big burden, 12:03 but God always (indistinct), you know, you need to do this. 12:06 They need to see you, you know, you need to do this. 12:08 And so that's why we just say, you know, like, 12:14 "Okay Lord" 12:15 But not firm like, "Not okay!" 12:16 You know, "Okay, we're gonna do that." 12:19 So that's why we-- 12:20 - Yes, you open the door (indistinct) go forward. 12:23 - Joshua 1:3 it says, 12:25 "Wherever the soul of thy foot shall tread upon 12:28 that have already given unto you." 12:30 - You know. - [Shandy] True. 12:31 - It's just a matter of you willing 12:33 to make step there because that God 12:36 has already given unto us, you know, 12:39 that's his promise. - To that-- 12:41 - Even though we prefer not to go cycling, 12:43 we prefer not to fly anywhere, 12:45 we prefer to be home really because we're tired, you know. 12:50 But when God says, "Go, if you wanna go, 12:52 I'm going to provide." 12:56 (Jon chuckles) 12:58 - If you're willing to go, I'm gonna provide. 13:00 - Yeah, yeah. 13:02 And just a really quick statistic on 13:06 why airplanes are so powerful in Indonesia. 13:11 The country is about the size of the United States, 13:14 geographically distance wise, 13:15 even though the United States is all connected by land. 13:18 Whereas Indonesia is all islands, 13:21 but as far as actual distance of roads, 13:24 Indonesia is about 5% of the roads 13:27 that we have here in America. 13:28 So you can imagine trying to get anywhere in America, 13:30 if we only had 5% of the roads, that we have. 13:34 - Yeah, it wouldn't work well. (both chuckles) 13:36 - And I've been in Indonesia, I mean, you talk about, 13:38 "Hey, let's go a 100 kilometers, you know, 13:40 60 miles down the road." 13:41 That could take several hours, you know, and we... 13:46 Here we think 60 miles-- - [Natalie] Depending on. 13:47 - So that's, you know, less than an hour, 13:50 but over there, it's not like that, and so-- 13:52 - Well, because it's not just, is there a road? 13:55 It's what is the quality of the road 13:57 and where is the road located? 13:58 Like how much traffic will there be on that road? 14:01 - Exactly. 14:02 - Because there are fewer roads. 14:03 There is a lot more traffic on some of those roads. 14:04 - Right, and Indonesia is one of the highly... 14:07 Most highly densely populated areas on the planet. 14:11 And so you get a lot of traffic, a lot of people. 14:14 - So we recorded this show and then we were talking about it 14:17 and praying about it together 14:20 before they went back to Indonesia. 14:22 - Right, 'cause I was very unsure about this 14:24 because I know that airplane programs 14:27 are not really cheap and not only that-- 14:30 - And they're usually underfunded. 14:33 - And, just the difficulty of running one, 14:37 the paperwork, you know, all the challenges, I mean, 14:43 and so it's like, I was unsure, but here's a guy 14:46 that has a lot of business experience, 14:49 and he's Indonesian and there's this need, 14:53 I mean, that story of the entire town 14:55 that used to be Adventist, that the runway that 14:58 our church built is being used for a soccer field and-- 15:01 - And housing now on-- - It's like, okay. 15:03 - It won't be a runway anymore. 15:05 - Yeah, it's like, "Okay, God, I can't see the way clear 15:08 to get a program going, but I... 15:11 But maybe you do, and if we just move forward, 15:14 according to the need, just follow where the need is, 15:17 maybe you'll open the door." 15:19 And so I says, "Okay, well, go back. 15:21 You know, when you go back to Indonesia, look for a plane, 15:24 see what God does." 15:25 You know, 'cause we were thinking, 15:27 should we send one from America to Indonesia? 15:29 Because you've got to import tax, you've got shipping costs, 15:32 you've got to disassemble the airplane in America, 15:34 send it over there and reassemble it. 15:37 And then you've got to get it registered. 15:39 And how are you gonna register it? 15:40 You know what, we just... 15:41 Just a lot of questions, a lot of unknowns 15:44 and a lot of expense, you know? 15:46 So we're looking at different airplanes 15:48 for sale here, just wasn't really working out. 15:52 And so then they went back home to Indonesia 15:55 and then I went on a trip to Thailand. 15:58 So--(chuckles) 16:00 - So we have a picture? - Yeah. 16:02 - From your hotel in Thailand. 16:03 - Very exciting photo. (both chuckles) 16:05 I spent 10 days right here, (both chuckles) 16:08 a lot of praying, and a lot of... 16:11 I had my walking trail, you know, 16:14 12 steps this way and 12 steps that way. 16:17 It was back and forth for 10 days straight. 16:19 - Right, it's hard to get enough exercise that way, 16:22 but you try. (both chuckles) 16:24 - But while I was there, I got a picture from Ramon. 16:28 He says, "Hey, I found an airplane." 16:31 And I'm like, "Well, that's not what I was thinking about." 16:35 'Cause I'm thinking, you know, big Tundra tires, 16:37 really remote stuff. 16:38 And this is not a remote type of airplane. 16:41 This isn't like a primitive airstrip type of airplane. 16:46 And I'm like, "I'm not sure this is the right thing." 16:48 And he looked into it some more. 16:51 He says, "You know, it's a really good price." 16:54 It was selling for $62,000, 16:57 and brand new, this is $120,000, $130,000. 17:03 Only had 150 hours on it. 17:05 - That's really, really very little. 17:07 - That's very little. 17:09 I mean, you don't have to rebuild the engine 17:10 until like 2000 hours, so that's... 17:14 And you know, that's, I mean, that's almost brand new. 17:17 And the guy that bought this had bought it from the factory, 17:22 shipped it from America and had the factory people come 17:25 and reassemble it in Indonesia. 17:27 - Wow! 17:29 - And then he registered it in Indonesia. 17:31 So the total cost of this airplane originally for that guy, 17:34 for the seller was $180,000. 17:37 - Wow, so 62,000 was a really cheap asking price. 17:40 - Yeah, that's a third. - [Natalie] Wow! 17:42 - And then the miracle happened. 17:44 I was praying about it, Lord, you know, really, 17:46 I mean like, "Lord, do you really want this happen?" 17:50 And just praying, you know, when you've got nothing to do, 17:53 then you can pray, (chuckles) you got time to pray. 17:56 And, then you guys called me. 17:59 - Right, because we got a cheque here in the office 18:03 that was designated for any project anywhere, 18:06 and it was $50,000. 18:07 - Yeah, but it was for pro... 18:09 For a mission project. - Right, right 18:10 - Yes, and so it was how much? - It was 50,000. 18:14 - [Jon] 50,000, we get a lot of those don't we? 18:16 - Nope. (Jon chuckles) 18:17 - So this was a very unusual experience. 18:20 And very unusual timing. - Right, right. 18:24 - And so I told Ramon, I says, 18:28 "Okay, why don't you go and offer him 50,000, 18:32 and if the guy accepts it, we know God's in this." 18:36 - Right, that would definitely be a good sign. 18:40 - Yeah, 'cause he's already selling it 18:42 for a third of what he put into it. 18:44 And so Ramon went there and test fluid, 18:48 loved the plane and offered him 50,000. 18:53 And the guy took it. 18:54 Yeah, he says, "But I need the money right away." 18:56 Because his business due to COVID was going down, 19:00 and so he needed the cash right away. 19:02 And so we sent the cash and what happened 19:05 to the wire transfer? - It didn't get there. 19:10 - It went into-- - Yeah. 19:12 One of them had the name on the account incorrect-- 19:18 - By the bank. - By the bank, yeah. 19:20 Somebody made a typo, and so then once that was corrected 19:24 and the correction was sent through, 19:26 then that one actually went into the bank account, 19:28 but it went like a week later. 19:31 So he was like, the money was not getting there. 19:33 It was nowhere, they couldn't figure out why it was stalled. 19:36 The other one was the name wasn't right, 19:39 and everything but it did not go to the account. 19:42 And so we finally ended up sending two more wire transfers 19:46 from a different account, a totally different way, 19:49 and those ones got there, but late. 19:52 - Yeah, so it was like that he made the offer on a Monday. 19:58 We thought that we'd be able to pay for on a Wednesday, 20:00 the following Wednesday-- 20:04 - The money still wasn't still wasn't there. 20:05 - Still wasn't there, so-- 20:06 - So we sent it again the second time. 20:07 - So we sent it again, and I remember that Friday, 20:09 just like going after God, just like, Lord-- 20:12 - Because the owner had said, "I need the money on Friday." 20:16 - Right, that Friday... 20:18 Yeah, that second Friday, he says, that's the deadline. 20:21 If the money's not here-- 20:23 - That's it. - Deal is off. 20:24 - I'm taking the other person. 20:25 - 'Cause somebody else had offered more money by then. 20:28 And so we were... 20:29 I was just like really begging God, I was like, 20:31 Lord, it's my fault, I did it wrong. 20:33 And we should have done-- - If it's your will, 20:34 or if it's, you know-- 20:35 - Oh Lord if just please don't let us lose it, 20:37 'cause we know Satan's angry about this. 20:40 You know, and he likes to control all the money matters. 20:43 And so he, you know, he's fighting this thing hard. 20:46 And so we just like prayed really hard, 20:48 and Ramon's friend who is also friend with the seller, 20:55 came to, you know, stood up for Ramon and say, 20:57 "Hey, please, don't let this-- - Just wait a little longer. 21:00 - Yeah, just wait a little longer. 21:02 And praise God, the money came in that Sunday. 21:04 - Right, so Monday he was able to pay the owner? 21:07 - Yes. 21:08 - And become the owner of the airplane. 21:11 - Right (Jon laughs) 21:14 - Yeah, it was really frustrating, 21:17 like where did the money go? 21:18 Like, that's a lot of money to have just disappeared. 21:22 - Thank God that we've been able to find it. 21:24 So we haven't lost anything. 21:26 The other money's part of it's come back, 21:28 and the other one's over there getting used. 21:30 But it's safe, so it's just-- 21:33 - It was one of those things where I was like, 21:35 "Okay Lord, this is your money. 21:37 Anybody that's touching it is messing with you." 21:40 (Jon laughs) So it's like, you know, 21:42 that's the good thing that really... 21:43 About realizing that God owns everything 21:46 because we can trust him with his money, 21:48 even if we don't know where it is. 21:49 And it kind of freaks us out, 21:51 but we know that nothing can happen to it. 21:54 That's outside of his full plan. 21:57 - Yes, and the other beautiful thing is that, 21:59 through this, we've... 22:00 I've really come to love our bank. 22:02 The people in there, they just love what we're doing. 22:05 They just really try to bend over backwards to help. 22:08 - Yeah, they pray. 22:09 They pray for our projects. 22:11 They're excited when something good is happening. 22:14 I mean, it's really-- - It's very encouraging. 22:16 And every time we go in there, 22:18 we come out feeling, you know-- 22:20 - [Natalie] Encouraged. - Yeah. 22:22 And that's a blessing, in this world. 22:26 - So we have a few more pictures that the airplane. 22:28 - Yeah, and here they're washing it. 22:30 These are the first pictures that I saw, these three. 22:32 It's the kind of a smaller airplane. 22:34 This is a video of him flying. 22:36 And then here's Ramon getting time, now he's... 22:38 Ramon had about a 100 hours of flight time, he.... 22:41 So he already was a pilot, had his pilot's license. 22:43 So he's getting checked out that he needs another 20 22:46 or so hours in this plane before he can, you know, 22:49 be let loose-- 22:50 - Be certified to fly it by himself. 22:52 - Right, now those of you that are into airplanes, 22:54 you'll notice that it has a glass cockpit. 22:57 That's a big deal. 22:58 Instead of all the little analog instruments, 23:00 it's got like the big digital instruments. 23:03 So it's very modern, and so this is really important 23:07 because when I was growing up, when I was two months old, 23:10 my parents went to New Guinea and I went there with them, 23:16 - Good thing? (Jon chuckles) 23:17 - And my dad has always been an airplane fanatic, 23:21 loved airplanes. 23:22 If he could have figured out how to have Sabbath off, 23:24 he would have been an airline pilot. 23:26 But he was a doctor instead. 23:28 And while he was a missionary in New Guinea, he got to fly. 23:32 And because the main pilot was injured, 23:35 and so they asked my dad to do some flying. 23:38 And there was a time when he was flying and he could not see 23:42 any runways 'cause he was up above the clouds 23:45 and he couldn't see anything down below. 23:48 And this is obviously before they had instruments, 23:50 they couldn't see the weather patterns coming in. 23:52 They couldn't see how to get around 23:55 and where the runways, they couldn't land. 23:57 - And New Guinea, there are mountains. 23:59 - Very tall mountains. 24:01 And so it's very dangerous. 24:03 And so having this kind of instrumentation, 24:05 I think is really important for them. 24:07 - You should finish that story. 24:09 - Oh, so-- - He landed safely. 24:12 - Yeah, my mom didn't know where he was. 24:14 He prayed really hard and he saw a hole in the clouds 24:17 and he just went right down through those clouds. 24:21 The ground control was yelling at him, give us an update, 24:25 and he's like, he just took his headphones off. 24:27 'Cause he, you know, he just had to focus on landing. 24:30 - He didn't have any update, he didn't know where he was. 24:32 - Right, and so he got in, he landed, 24:35 and then of course he couldn't take off 24:37 because everything just socked in. 24:38 So it was a miracle that he landed 24:40 and then he was locked down there for three days. 24:44 Of course my mom didn't know, couldn't get word from him 24:48 if he was okay or not. 24:50 And so she's up there in the Highlands, 24:51 in her mission house with two kids, 24:54 not knowing where her husband was, for three days. 24:58 And so-- - A lot of praying. 25:00 (both chuckles) 25:02 So, now there's something special about 25:04 different kinds of gas with airplanes as well. 25:06 And this one, yeah, 25:07 I think you need to explain that as well. 25:09 - Okay, so most airplanes take aviation fuel, 25:13 which is better fuel, but it's very expensive. 25:16 And so he was specifically looking for an airplane 25:18 that would take normal car fuel, auto fuel. 25:22 It's about a third, the price. - Wow. 25:24 - And so it gets good gas mileage and it only takes, 25:27 you know, normal car gasoline, and so it's very-- 25:30 - Which is very important? - Yes, (both chuckles) very, 25:34 inexpensive (indistinct) 25:35 - Inexpensive in smaller Airports. 25:36 - Yeah, yeah, to find the gas, 25:37 but also just the cost of operation. 25:40 That's one of the least expensive airplanes 25:42 that you could find to operate on a per hour basis. 25:47 - Wow. - So, very exciting. 25:48 - Which is a God thing too? - Absolutely. 25:50 God's, I mean, just God's been leading 25:52 so clearly in each step of the way, 25:55 and we know that God's gonna continue to lead 25:58 because he has a plan and there's going 26:00 to be people in heaven because of this. 26:03 New places opened, as Ramon was saying, you know, 26:07 taking Bible workers and putting them in places 26:09 where there's no evidence present and in Indonesia, okay, 26:13 just to get an idea of the unreached people, 26:15 groups in Indonesia, there's like 1500 languages 26:21 in which there's no (indistinct) work whatsoever. 26:23 - Wow. - 1500 languages. 26:27 The statistic I've been told is that 26:30 if we continue entering into new languages 26:33 at the rate that we're currently entering into, 26:36 it'll take 600 years before Jesus can come. 26:41 And so-- 26:42 - Every nation, kindred tongue, and people. 26:44 - Exactly, and so we've, I mean, this has been our prayer 26:47 this whole last year is like, 26:49 "Lord, you gotta take over because we gotta go faster." 26:55 We've got to take this God, we gotta... 26:57 God's got to find new ways to open up new territory. 27:01 And-- 27:02 - And he's got a light that fire 27:04 that burns fast and furious across the country sides. 27:07 - Right, right, we're also praying for 27:10 a ultra light airplane, (chuckles) that will help 27:14 with this project as well. 27:16 We have one in Thailand, 27:17 but we're trying to get it shipped down to Indonesia to-- 27:20 - Which just needs a lot of prayer too. 27:22 - Yes, (Natalie chuckles) 27:23 because Satan has been fighting that hard. 27:27 He just doesn't want to lose any of his territory. 27:29 But God's in charge. 27:31 Yes, and God's gonna-- 27:34 - And God will do a lot more miracles. 27:36 - And Matthew 24:14, will be fulfilled. 27:40 - Right, that's true. - Yeah. 27:42 - Well, I would like to invite you, 27:44 if you would like to be a part of this miracle story, 27:47 you can contact us at Jesus for Asia, P.O.Box 1221, 27:51 Collegedale, Tennessee, 37315. 27:55 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 (bright soft music) |
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