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Series Code: JFAN
Program Code: JFAN000165S
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00:21 - Hello, and welcome to "Jesus for Asia Now". 00:24 I'm Natalie Wood, and I am not in the studio. 00:27 I am in Sukhothai, Thailand. 00:29 Now, why am I here? 00:31 It's because we brought a bunch of missionaries together 00:34 for back to the altar training. 00:36 Back to the altar training is an initiative 00:39 from the general conference in association 00:42 with In Discipleship Ministries and Pastor Don MacLafferty. 00:45 And basically, 00:46 it's teaching us how to be disciples 00:49 and how to disciple others to learn and grow in Jesus. 00:53 It's been a very blessed time here 00:55 and I'd like to introduce you to some of the 00:58 "Jesus for Asia" missionaries that have joined us here. 01:01 Our first ones here are, what are your names? 01:04 - Harvey and Brenda Steck. 01:05 - Okay. 01:06 And where do you live? 01:07 - We live in Chiang Mai, Thailand. 01:08 - Okay, in Thailand. 01:09 Okay. 01:10 And what do you do here? 01:12 - I'm heading up the Love for Asia office, 01:15 the foundation that "Jesus for Asia" has in Thailand. 01:18 - Okay. 01:19 And what's involved in that? 01:20 Is that just like one office or? 01:22 - We have the main office where we have a studio 01:25 and a translation team. 01:28 We're producing videos that are put up 01:30 on YouTube and Facebook. 01:32 - [Natalie] Okay. 01:33 - We also have a translation team working on 01:34 Ellen White Books and other materials 01:37 to get into the Thai and Hmong languages. 01:39 And we also have another studio in Mesat 01:42 and we have a team working there as well, 01:45 producing videos in Karen and Burmese. 01:48 - Okay. 01:49 All right. 01:50 And Brenda, what do you do? 01:52 - So I make small booklets to hand out 01:55 to the Buddhists so they know that God helps them, 01:59 He can answer their prayers 02:01 and so they know that He loves them. 02:04 And so, so books to share. 02:05 - Sounds awesome. 02:06 And do you have a brief testimony 02:08 for us that you can share? 02:10 - It's a great blessing to work with our staff 02:12 and they love to do their work 02:17 and it's a blessing to be able 02:19 to see materials produced in the local languages. 02:22 And I also find a great blessing in studying 02:24 the Bible with people. 02:25 There was a lady that we met recently. 02:27 We were introduced by another Adventist 02:30 who was visiting Thailand. 02:31 She introduced us to this lady. 02:33 The lady says, "I wanna read the Bible. 02:35 I wanna start reading in Genesis one and two." 02:37 And so we went and visited her a couple Sundays ago 02:41 and she was just amazed 02:44 what she could learn just from Genesis 1. 02:46 And she can't wait to study 02:48 with us again when we get back. 02:49 So we're really thrilled with that. 02:51 So it's a great blessing not only to work with Adventists, 02:56 but also to work with people 02:57 that have never heard the gospel. 02:59 - Awesome. - Praise God. 03:00 - All right. 03:01 Well, thank you. 03:02 - Thank you. 03:03 - All right. 03:04 And let's meet our next family here. 03:06 What are your names? 03:07 - We're the Leffler family. 03:08 My name's Matthew and my wife Rachel 03:10 and our children, Emily, Alyssa, and Luke. 03:12 - Okay. 03:13 And where do you live? 03:14 - We live in Chiang Mai, Thailand right now. 03:16 - Okay. 03:17 And what are you doing here? 03:18 - Right now, we are doing Thai language learning. 03:20 - Okay. 03:21 - And our goal is to move to central Thailand 03:23 to church plant among the Thai Buddhists. 03:26 - Okay. 03:27 And do you have a testimony from your time here? 03:29 - Yes. 03:32 When we were first considering coming to the mission field, 03:34 one of the things that we were wrestling over was, 03:37 is this the right time 03:38 to bring our kids to the mission field? 03:40 Because I know mission work can sometimes impact families 03:43 both positively and negatively. 03:45 So since making the decision to come 03:48 and bringing them here, 03:49 we've been really thankful to have made that decision 03:52 because we can see now 03:54 that they're our greatest asset here in the mission field. 03:57 We've been able to make all sorts of friends and contacts. 04:01 Just going to the store, 04:03 we'll have people coming up to us and saying, 04:05 "Can I meet your kids?" 04:06 And asking to talk to them, touch them. 04:11 Thais love kids. 04:13 And we met a lady that way who we've 04:17 developed a relationship, a friendship with. 04:19 And it ended up working out that she came to our house 04:23 to teach me how to make pad Thai. 04:25 And she brought a friend of hers 04:28 who is actually a Buddhist nun. 04:31 And I was able to talk with this lady 04:34 for a while about her experience being a nun. 04:37 That was a really interesting opportunity to meet her. 04:44 And we're just, it's a developing relationship. 04:46 We're still spending time with her. 04:49 Anyway, 04:50 I just wanna encourage anyone 04:52 who is not sure about bringing kids to the mission field 04:54 that they're probably your biggest asset. 04:57 - Yeah. 04:58 We've seen that over and over again. 05:00 All right, well, thank you for sharing. 05:02 All right. 05:02 Now let's meet the next group. 05:04 What are your names? 05:05 - I'm Kenton Rogers and this is my family, 05:08 Rachel and Jeremiah and Marta. 05:10 And our oldest daughter is still in Cambodia, 05:12 so we're from Cambodia. 05:14 - Okay. 05:15 And what are you doing in Cambodia? 05:17 - We are working on starting a publishing house. 05:20 - Okay. 05:21 - And actually getting, 05:22 we have this last year gotten to the place 05:24 where we are starting to print. 05:26 - Okay. 05:28 So is there more to the publishing work than just printing? 05:31 - Yes. 05:33 So translation is also part of it 05:36 and finding people is hard. 05:38 And so a lot of our translators are doing work on the side. 05:43 And so it's taking something, it's years to get translated. 05:47 So this last month, 05:49 we're this close to having two books done. 05:52 - Wow. - And it feels so nice. 05:53 - Yeah. 05:54 I'm sure it does. 05:56 Do you have a testimony you'd like to share with us 05:58 about the work or about your time here in Cambodia? 06:01 - Yes. 06:03 So we've been printing, 06:06 one of the first things we did was a small little booklet 06:09 and it was not really going out at all or being used, 06:13 but this last year, 06:15 there were evangelistic series, 06:18 one done in Radnecurie 06:20 and then a larger one in Siem Reap. 06:22 And in the process of inviting people, 06:25 they wanted to give something to the people. 06:27 And so one of the pamphlets 06:29 we have on introducing Jesus was given 06:32 as an invitation to the people in Radnecurie 06:36 and 3,000 of them in Siem Reap. 06:39 - Wow, okay. 06:40 Well, praise the Lord. 06:41 That's such a blessing. 06:43 So what do you do while he's working on the 06:44 publishing and translation? 06:46 - Well, I guess I'm the support team. 06:49 I homeschool the kids and I fix meals for Kenton 06:52 and our one full-time employee 06:54 that's in the print shop and pray. 06:58 - That sounds like a busy day anyway. 07:01 Well, thank you so much for sharing today. 07:04 Let's meet our next group. 07:05 What are your names? 07:07 - My name is Biet Jhaw. 07:08 - And I'm Gayle. 07:09 - Okay. 07:10 And where do you live? 07:11 - Well God has definitely called us up in the jungle 07:13 mountains of Northern Thailand to work in small villages 07:18 of Karen people, which are all through the jungle mountains. 07:22 - Okay. 07:22 And what do you do there? 07:24 - I am a nurse and we have a clinic, so to speak, 07:27 and we get to see hundreds of patients 07:31 - And Biet Jhaw, what do you do? 07:33 - I translate for her and then I'll be like her driver, too. 07:38 - Her driver, okay. 07:39 Do you help also 07:41 or do they have to one-on-one wait for Gayle? 07:43 - I do. 07:44 I do help them, too. 07:45 And then sometime when she's gone 07:47 and like she has to go back to America, 07:50 yeah, I will be the one. 07:51 But I do not give shots and I will not pull teeth. 07:55 - Okay. 07:56 So you've learned a lot from Gayle 07:57 about nursing over the years. 07:59 Okay. 08:01 Do you have a testimony that you'd like to share with us? 08:02 - Yes, because where we are, 08:05 it might be kind of centrally located to a lot of villages 08:08 because we have seen patients from over 08:10 120 different villages. 08:12 - Okay. 08:13 - And they come from a long way, some of them. 08:15 Some walk for an hour or more. 08:18 Some have motorbikes, most have motorbikes. 08:20 Sometimes they hire a truck. 08:23 And they will come, one or two trucks, 08:26 and full of people that want to be treated. 08:29 And we say, why did you come here? 08:31 Because you passed two clinics 08:33 and you could've gone to that hospital. 08:35 And they say, 08:36 "Well, we heard you get better when you come here." 08:38 - Okay. 08:40 - And so we have a chance to tell them it's not us, 08:42 but we pray with our patients 08:44 and we have a chance to tell them 08:45 that God is more powerful than anything. 08:48 And it's because we pray. 08:49 And you know, 08:51 you can pack a lot of the gospel in a simple prayer. 08:53 We just have the best job of anybody 08:55 because we get to tell the people about Jesus every day. 08:59 - That's so wonderful. 09:01 Thank you so much for sharing. 09:03 All right. 09:04 Let's meet our next family. 09:05 What are your names? 09:06 - We are the Espana family. 09:08 - My name is Ric. 09:09 - Jane. 09:10 - Isabelle. 09:11 - Juliana. 09:13 - Lucas, and this is Francesca. 09:15 - Nice to meet you. 09:16 So where are you living? 09:18 - We are temporarily living in Khon Kaen learning the 09:22 Thai language and music for ministry. 09:24 - Okay. 09:25 And what else are you doing? 09:27 - We are there connecting with people and making friends 09:29 and we're helping people with their health 09:30 or their emotional needs. 09:32 - Okay. 09:33 - One of the things that we've 09:34 also been involved in is the printing ministry in Thailand. 09:39 And God has opened the doors for materials 09:43 to be translated in Thailand. 09:44 And we are involved in distributing 09:47 books to Eastern Thailand. 09:48 - Nice, nice. 09:50 Sounds awesome. 09:51 Do you have a testimony from your time here? 09:53 - Yes. 09:54 We met a lady, she grew up Christian, 09:57 but she experienced a lot of pain 10:00 and suffering in her life and she actually tried 10:04 to commit suicide just before we met her. 10:07 So I prayed with her twice a day for over a month. 10:11 And in about a month's time, she said, 10:13 "I believe in God and I have a lot of hope." 10:16 And her faith was really strengthened. 10:17 So we just praise the Lord for what he did. 10:19 - Yeah. 10:20 - There are 101 ideas that we have for what 10:22 to do in Thailand, 10:23 but we want the Lord to lead us in what He wants us to do. 10:26 There was one gentleman who 10:28 was suffering from severe ulcers on his lower limbs. 10:33 We started helping him with the ulcers. 10:36 But what was most exciting was that his heart was open 10:41 to the relationship with God 10:43 and that God wants him to experience a relationship 10:45 of healing for his own soul. 10:47 - Wow. 10:48 That's awesome. 10:49 Is there anything else you'd like to share? 10:51 - We're going to an unreached province at the end 10:54 of this year and there's 10:55 so few missionaries out in the field. 10:58 And so we would just like to make an appeal 11:00 to pray about God leading you to be a missionary overseas. 11:04 - All right. 11:05 Well, thank you so much for sharing. 11:06 - Thank you for having us. 11:07 - All right, let's meet our next group. 11:10 What are your names? 11:11 - My name is Jim and this is my wife Irene. 11:13 Our last name is Hill. 11:14 - Okay. 11:15 And where do you live? 11:16 - We live at a small school, 11:18 an elementary school on the western border of Thailand 11:21 about an hour north of the town of Mesat. 11:24 - Okay. 11:25 And what are you doing there? 11:27 - Well, it was an interesting call to come there. 11:29 We met the secretary 11:31 of the Thailand Adventist mission while we were in Bangkok 11:34 and he was instrumental in asking us to come to this school. 11:38 - Okay. 11:40 - To grow food, to help the budget of this very poor school, 11:43 but also to bear our Christian influence while we're there. 11:46 - Okay. 11:47 Wow. 11:49 Do you have a testimony from your time there? 11:50 - Sure. 11:51 I'd like to tell you about one 11:52 of the students at this school. 11:54 It only goes to grade six. 11:56 So this girl was 11 years old when we met her, 11:59 and she impressed me as the most cheerful and kindest, 12:05 most polite student on campus. 12:07 And over the years, we've gotten to know her. 12:09 And she comes from a very poor family. 12:12 Her parents are separated, her father's an alcoholic. 12:16 And so she has suffered quite a bit. 12:18 And one of the things that she would do often is she 12:21 would come to the gardens 12:22 and she would ask if she could have a guava 12:25 or if she could get some long beans to eat. 12:28 And she was always very kind about asking 12:31 and then then I would respond to her and help her. 12:34 And she would always say to me, "You are so kind." 12:37 Well, I wasn't doing anything special. 12:39 So she wasn't experiencing much kindness in her life. 12:42 This year, we've asked her, 12:43 "What are you gonna do after you're done here?" 12:46 Says, "Well, I'd like to go to academy, but I can't." 12:49 - Oh. 12:50 - So because of the generosity of various donors, 12:53 we're able to sponsor her to go to academy next year. 12:56 - That's awesome. 12:57 - So we're anxious to see 12:58 how is God gonna work in her life to develop the potential 13:01 that God has given her. 13:03 - Wow. 13:04 Thank you so much for being here today 13:05 and for sharing with us. 13:06 - Thank you. 13:07 - All right, let's meet our next family here. 13:09 What are your names? 13:10 - Hello, we're the Howell family. 13:12 I'm Billy, this my wife Natalie, my daughter Elisa, 13:15 and we have another daughter at school in the States. 13:17 - Okay. 13:18 And where do you live? 13:20 - We currently live in Cambodia. 13:21 - Okay. 13:22 And what are you doing there right now? 13:24 - We're planning to start a school, 13:27 Adventist school in the Battambang area of Cambodia. 13:30 There's no schools in that area, Adventist schools. 13:32 We're having a few issues with teachers. 13:34 They don't have teachers. 13:35 So we have to train some young people, 13:38 teach them English so that they can go away to school 13:41 so they can be trained to be teachers. 13:43 - Okay. 13:43 Wow, that sounds challenging. 13:45 So do you have a testimony you'd like to share with us? 13:48 - Yes, I do. 13:49 Currently, 13:51 we're living in the capitol learning the language 13:53 'cause we do not have a translator. 13:55 And recently, 13:57 I received a call from another missionary 13:58 saying the head police in our village area, 14:02 province tried to reach us. 14:04 And I was nervous because 14:06 I don't know the language enough to speak to him. 14:09 And I was like, "I have no one to help me." 14:12 So God wanted me to be bold. 14:14 So I called him and I was able to talk to him in Khmer, 14:18 telling him where we were, what we were doing, 14:21 how long we would be there. 14:23 And in the middle of me talking, 14:25 I could hear the smile in his voice because 14:28 before when we met him face to face, 14:29 it wasn't the friendliest, you know? 14:31 And so it was really nice to hear that smile. 14:34 And then in the end, 14:35 he responded to me and I told him 14:37 (speaking in foreign language), meaning I don't understand. 14:40 And he spoke perfect English. 14:43 And I realized, 14:44 I could've spoken to him in English all the time, 14:47 the whole time. 14:48 And I'm like, 14:49 it was a better testimony being able to see 14:51 how God has been helping me with the language. 14:54 And he was able to understand that. 14:55 And I feel like there's a connection when they see 14:58 that you're trying to learn their language. 15:00 - Wow. 15:01 Well, praise the Lord. 15:02 Thank you for sharing. 15:03 - Thank you so much for having us. 15:05 - All right, let's meet our next couple here. 15:08 What are your names? 15:09 - I'm Mike. and this is Marilee. 15:11 We're the Kier family. 15:12 - Okay. 15:13 And where are you living? 15:14 - God called us here to Thailand 15:16 and we are based in the Central Valley, 15:19 which is kind of the heart of average Thailand. 15:22 - Okay. 15:23 - It's among the Thai ethnic people that 15:25 we really don't have much Seventh Day Adventist 15:27 Christians in this area. 15:28 - So what are you doing here in Thailand? 15:31 - We joined a team when we first came 15:32 and we helped to plant a congregation 15:34 where there was no Christian work before. 15:36 And then from that, 15:37 we helped to plant two other congregations. 15:40 Natalie, when we came, there was no "Jesus for Asia." 15:43 But it's such a joy to see all these 15:45 friends that have been coming through. 15:46 And we had a breakthrough happen when you and John 15:49 and your children and another family came to stay with us. 15:52 That kind of opened the door for another dimension 15:54 where we're helping people come and go 15:56 and help 'em with transportation and orientation to be here. 15:59 - Well, praise the Lord. 16:00 We praise the Lord for that. 16:02 Do you have a testimony you'd like to share? 16:03 - We do. 16:04 - Yes. 16:06 I was wanting to share about a lady that we've been working 16:09 with for years and she's gone through so much 16:13 and she was just broken. 16:15 She's just wondering what the point of living is. 16:18 So we took her to a friend's house 16:20 and we just stayed there with her 16:23 and we spent time focusing on just ministering to her heart. 16:28 - You know, 16:29 there's no way to describe her sufferings 16:30 and her upbringing, but she said, 16:33 "Now I understand. 16:34 God has given me the gift of suffering 16:37 so I can comfort others and their suffering." 16:39 - Wow. 16:40 Praise the Lord. 16:41 - She's now open and caring and showing love to others. 16:46 It's just amazing to see 16:48 how God has worked in her life for years and years 16:52 and now how He's bringing a breakthrough 16:55 into her experience. 16:56 And we're just praising God for it. 16:58 - Yes. - Amen, amen. 16:59 - I can understand that. 17:00 Well, thank you so much for sharing today. 17:02 - Thank you, Natalie. 17:03 - All right, let's meet this group here. 17:05 What are your names? 17:07 - I'm Michelle, and this is my son, Micaia. 17:10 And sad to say Mike is not here 17:12 because of some health problems. 17:14 - Okay. 17:15 So where do you live? 17:16 - We live in, 17:17 God called us in the mountains of Mindanao, 17:20 in the northern part of Mindanao. 17:21 - In the Philippines? 17:22 - Yes, in the Philippines. 17:23 - Okay. 17:24 And what do you do there? 17:26 - Whatever God asked us to do, 17:28 like what he said in Matthew 28:19 and 20 and Matthew 10:7, 17:35 those are the things that we're doing. 17:37 Like we have to go where God leads us 17:39 and be Christlike through His leading 17:42 and do what God asked us to do. 17:44 - Okay. 17:45 So do you have a testimony you'd like to share with us? 17:47 - Well, just lately, there was an old man with his sister. 17:52 They're all, you know, 17:53 their spouses are already all dead 17:55 and nobody took care of them, nobody's taking care of them. 17:58 And what happened was that they found out 18:01 that this old man has been paralyzed. 18:02 So God impressed our students together with your mentor 18:08 to take care of him. 18:09 And you know what? 18:10 He opened up that he was in the verge 18:12 of committing suicide. 18:13 - Oh. 18:14 - Because he felt like he was hopeless. 18:16 And by God's miraculous healing, 18:19 like for like a week only of taking care of him, 18:22 doing the new start, and last Saturday, he came to church. 18:28 - Wow. 18:28 - So it's really a good thing 18:30 - Yes. 18:31 - That we can't really take credit of. 18:33 And before I would say, 18:35 since Mike's health is really bad 18:38 and he can't anymore be useful in the mountain 18:40 because, you know, he trips easy and a lot of health issues. 18:46 So by then he's still asking God to use him. 18:49 So he's reaching out the Muslims on the west 18:51 side of Mindanao. 18:53 - Well thank you so much for sharing 18:54 and for being here today. 18:56 - Thank you, too. 18:57 - All right, let's meet this lovely couple. 18:59 What are your names? 19:00 - My name is Robbie and this is my wife Kasey. 19:03 - Okay. 19:04 And where do you live? 19:04 - We live here in Sukhothai. 19:06 - Okay. 19:07 And what do you do here? 19:08 - We have a home for children at risk, 19:12 high risk for being kind of pushed into prostitution 19:17 or human trafficking. 19:18 - Okay. 19:20 And then you have another kind of side work in the city? 19:23 - Yes, we have a church plant in the city as well. 19:26 - So do you have a testimony you'd like 19:27 to share with us today? 19:28 - I think that looking back now, 19:31 after these few years that we've been here, 19:33 the thing that strikes me most 19:35 is that when God first convicted us to leave America, 19:39 we were living a very comfortable to us life. 19:42 We have eight children and we really didn't sense our need. 19:48 And so when this impression came, 19:50 I think we thought God was calling us to go do something 19:54 and not really recognizing that God was calling us 19:57 because He wanted to do a work in us. 20:00 And I think the greatest blessing has come from walking this 20:04 out in such a messy way and realizing 20:08 that while He can use us in our mess to reach somebody else, 20:13 ultimately, He's also after our hearts. 20:16 And so the change in our children, 20:19 whether they came with us 20:20 or didn't come with us, has been profound. 20:23 And then through that process, 20:26 He's also enabled us to have daily interaction with, 20:30 we have 25 Thai children right now 20:33 and just got licensed to have 40. 20:35 - Wow. 20:37 - And so there's a work to do as He's working on us. 20:40 And I just think they go together. 20:43 And it's been such a blessing to watch that. 20:45 - Praise the Lord. 20:47 Well, thank you so much for sharing with us today. 20:48 - Thank you. 20:49 - Well thank you for having us. 20:51 - All right, let's meet this next family. 20:54 What are your names? 20:55 - I'm Melson Martino and my wife is Jonalyn. 20:58 And this is baby Kisaya. 20:59 - Kisaya, okay. - Kisaya. 21:01 - She's 30 months old. 21:02 - Okay. 21:03 So where do you live? 21:04 - We live in the central part of the Philippines. 21:07 - Okay. 21:08 And what do you do there? 21:10 - Right now, we are a JFA correspondent in the Philippines. 21:13 What we do is we bring the audience to where the mission is, 21:18 where the Bible workers are. 21:20 - Okay. 21:21 Do you enjoy that work? 21:22 - Yes. 21:23 So much. 21:23 We have been traveling 21:25 and experiencing their experience, 21:27 especially when we go to India 21:29 or Thailand and different places we see. 21:32 At the same time, 21:33 we experience what the other workers are experiencing, 21:36 especially in Asia. 21:37 - Okay. 21:39 Do you have any testimonies you'd like to share? 21:40 - Well, I have a testimony. 21:42 Sometimes we go to like places where Muslims are, 21:45 so there's some places where we go where known for pirates. 21:52 So we went to this place, this island, 21:54 we don't know anyone, 21:55 but we're with Pastor Rani 21:57 and he doesn't know anyone there also. 22:00 So we went there 22:01 and we just found out that two weeks ago 22:04 that there's two ladies were burned alive, Christian, 22:08 because they were sharing God's, you know, the gospel. 22:11 - In that village. - Yeah. 22:12 - But we were there and they welcomed us. 22:14 - Huh. 22:15 - And there's some places where we 22:19 go where there are some Muslims, we are like, 22:25 oh, this place are just, you know, peaceful. 22:26 And Pastor Rani said, oh, 22:28 there are people like behind 22:29 the houses where they have guns. 22:32 They're looking at you. 22:33 But, you know, it's very risky, but praise the Lord. 22:37 God has been protecting us. 22:39 And there's some places where we're the only Christians 22:42 that we went to the Muslim, you know, 22:44 houses or, you know, worship. 22:46 So they welcomed us because we're a Seventh Day Adventist. 22:50 Because of through Bible workers, 22:52 they're open to Christianity. 22:55 - They know the similarities. 22:57 - Yeah. 22:58 - They know that we share some beliefs. 23:00 - Yeah. - Wow. 23:01 - Praise the Lord. 23:02 Well, thank you for sharing today. 23:03 - Thank you. - Thank you. 23:06 - All right, let's meet this next couple. 23:08 What are your names? 23:10 - I am Pete. 23:11 - And I'm Jessica. 23:12 - We are the Barolo family. 23:14 Actually, we are from the Philippines, 23:16 working in Mindoro Island among the Mangyan people. 23:20 - Okay. 23:22 So you're telling me you're working there. 23:23 What are you doing? 23:25 - Primarily, that's how our ministry started, 23:28 reaching the unreached tribe of the Mangyan 23:31 through literacy centers. 23:33 - Okay. 23:34 So education? 23:35 - Education, yes. 23:36 And we have 11 literacy centers. 23:40 - Wow. 23:41 That's awesome. 23:42 So do you have a testimony you'd like to share? 23:43 - Our God opened a way wherein we can 23:47 minister to the sick people. 23:50 You see the refused of the hospitals, 23:52 the doctors would tell them, okay, terminal cases. 23:56 So when we learned, we invited to them to the house. 24:00 Okay, bring them. 24:01 Maybe the Lord will still heal your patients. 24:05 And most of them actually died 24:06 because actually, they were dying. 24:09 But one thing I can assure you is 24:11 when physical healing is impossible, 24:15 spiritual healing is not. 24:17 Many of them died peacefully. 24:19 You know, cancer, 24:20 is so something too terrible 24:23 to watch somebody dying of cancer. 24:26 But the missionaries were gathered around singing hymns 24:30 until the patient expires. 24:34 And what a joy to minister to these dying people. 24:38 You see, the doctor said their cases are hopeless, 24:42 but I believe our Master Doctor has no 24:45 impossible cases like that. 24:48 Pray for us as well. 24:49 We need more missionaries. 24:51 Those who are willing 24:52 to sacrifice whatever they have. 24:54 In the Philippines, we are not rich, 24:57 but we left everything, even our comforts there. 25:00 And I'm just so glad 25:03 that we have now missionaries with us who are 25:05 as well sacrificial as just... 25:07 They learn from what we are doing. 25:11 - Well thank you so much for being 25:13 here and sharing with us today. 25:15 - Our pleasure. 25:16 Praise God. 25:17 - So let's meet this lovely couple. 25:19 Who are you? 25:20 - My name's Jonathan. 25:21 This is my wife Hannah. 25:22 - Okay. 25:23 And where do you live? 25:24 - We live in Nakhon Sawan, Thailand, 25:26 which is about three and a half hours north of Bangkok. 25:29 - Okay. 25:30 And what are you doing there? 25:31 - We're born correspondence for "Jesus for Asia." 25:35 So we travel around and we film a lot of different projects. 25:38 - Okay. 25:40 - And then, actually, in Nakhon Sawan city, 25:41 we're there because as far as we know, 25:43 there's no other Adventists in the whole province, 25:45 which has about a million people. 25:47 And so we moved there almost three years ago, 25:49 just wanting to just let God lead. 25:52 And so praying for the people, 25:53 trying to connect with the people. 25:56 It's not like things have gone as fast 25:57 as we thought they might or we kind of hoped they would, 26:00 but God is definitely working. 26:01 - Okay. 26:02 Do you have a testimony you'd like to share? 26:04 - Sure. 26:06 So one of the ladies that we've actually gotten 26:07 to meet recently, fairly recently, 26:09 is an older lady who's in a very poor section of town. 26:13 And Jonathan actually met her while he was 26:15 prayer walking one day. 26:17 And it was really interesting 26:18 because he got talking with her about God. 26:21 And in the end of the conversation, 26:23 he actually shared some money with her 26:24 'cause she was hungry. 26:25 She didn't have money for food. 26:26 And he told her the money was from Jesus 26:28 and she cried, just so grateful. 26:30 And then he said, "I have a book for you." 26:31 And she's like, "Is it about Jesus?" 26:33 And he was like, "Yeah, it is." 26:34 And so he brought it for her and left it with her. 26:37 And we came back a few weeks later 26:38 and she's like, "Yeah, I've been reading that book. 26:40 Like Jesus created the world. 26:42 He's our Lord." 26:43 - Wow. 26:44 - We were trying to go to her 26:45 to get massages once in a while 26:47 because that's like something she could still do 26:49 to earn a little bit of money. 26:50 And then we weren't gonna be in town for a while. 26:52 And so we're like, let's just pray with her. 26:54 And so we prayed with her that God would send people 26:56 to get massages and came back like a month later 27:00 and we were like, "You wanna give us massages?" 27:02 And she's like, "Oh, I just got home. 27:03 Like, I'm so tired. 27:04 I've been massaging people all day." 27:06 And she's like, "Jesus blessed me. 27:08 I have been massaging people every day 27:10 since you prayed for me." 27:12 So we were so excited. 27:13 We had been praying for her like every day 27:16 whenever we thought of her. 27:17 We'd just pray that God would send her people 27:18 and that she would know that He was the one 27:20 providing for her and not us. 27:21 - Wow. 27:22 Well, that's neat. 27:23 Thank you so much for sharing. 27:25 - You're welcome. 27:26 - Well I hope you've enjoyed meeting our missionaries 27:28 as much as I have enjoyed introducing them to you today. 27:31 It has been such a blessing to be here together. 27:34 So many of them have told me how much they've enjoyed it. 27:38 And if you would like to learn more about any 27:40 of the missionaries you've met today on our show 27:42 and their projects, 27:43 or if you'd like to learn more 27:45 about in discipleship training, 27:46 you can contact us at Jesus for Asia, 27:49 PO Box 1221, Collegedale, Tennessee, 37315. 27:55 Call us at (423) 413-7321 27:58 or visit our website at jesusforasia.org. 28:02 May God richly bless you until 28:03 we see you next time on "Jesus for Asia" now. 28:07 (inspirational music) |
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