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Series Code: JFAN
Program Code: JFAN000174S
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00:00 (uplifting music)
00:21 - Hello and welcome to "Jesus for Asia Now." 00:24 I'm Natalie Wood. 00:25 I have Jon here with me today, 00:26 and I'd like to welcome you 00:28 to our headquarters office here in Collegedale, Tennessee. 00:31 Today, we want to share with you 00:32 some of the many things we have to be thankful for 00:34 here at Jesus for Asia. 00:37 Come on in. 00:37 Let's go inside. 00:38 (gentle music) 00:49 - Welcome to Jesus for Asia. 00:51 This is the building that God has called us into 00:53 for a purpose. 00:55 This is a first step in his vision of reaching all of Asia. 00:58 - Yes, and part of his vision, obviously, 01:00 by giving us a building this size, 01:02 is that we have to have more staff. 01:03 So I'm gonna introduce our friends to some people. 01:06 And why don't you go ahead and do the work you need to do 01:09 and we'll catch up with you later? 01:11 - Okay. 01:12 See you. - All right. 01:13 Come this way and let's meet my friend, Heidi. 01:15 So Heidi, what do you do here at Jesus for Asia? 01:19 - I answer the phones 01:20 and I also coordinate the prayer ministry. 01:24 - Okay. 01:25 So what does that involve, coordinating prayer ministry? 01:27 - Just planning different times of prayer. 01:30 We have a windows of prayer 01:32 that we're doing every week at different times 01:35 so that the missionaries can join. 01:37 And also we are doing quarterly 24-hour prayer. 01:41 We have a daily prayer guide. 01:43 And so just encouraging people there. 01:45 - We have prayer team. 01:46 - And we have a prayer team. 01:48 - Yeah, so if somebody wants to join our prayer team, 01:51 they can go to the website and there's a link there 01:53 - Absolutely. - To join. 01:54 Yeah, we would love to have them join. 01:56 - Yeah. 01:57 So do you have something you'd like 01:58 to share that you're thankful for? 01:59 I know you haven't been here very long, 02:00 but do you have something to share? 02:02 - Absolutely. 02:03 I am so grateful because God 02:05 has provided housing for my husband 02:08 and I in this time of transition 02:11 and has been helping me prepare a home 02:14 for him when he comes back in a few days 02:17 from Bible worker training. 02:20 And I'm also thankful that I get to answer the phones 02:23 and pray with people as they call in. 02:25 That's been a real blessing to me. 02:27 - Awesome. 02:28 All right, well thank you for sharing. 02:30 Okay, let's move on. 02:32 We're gonna go through a room here 02:34 that's a little bit different. 02:36 So this room is our poverty experience room. 02:39 You can see it's set up with tables. 02:41 We do have some events here where people eat, 02:43 and so we let them eat in here. 02:45 But we have this hut here that is set up 02:48 to look like a hut in India, in one of the villages. 02:51 It's a very special story, 02:53 which we've shared on our "Jesus for Asia Now" show before 02:57 about a little village called Amaravati. 02:59 And this is made after one of the huts in Amaravati. 03:03 And it's a story of a Bible worker that was determined 03:07 to reach to the people in this village. 03:09 So determined that she cooked food 03:11 and took it there for three months 03:13 without them ever talking to her. 03:16 Three months, can you imagine? 03:17 And after the three months, 03:18 they finally started talking to her. 03:20 Why wouldn't they talk to her? 03:22 Because her sari was too nice. 03:24 They thought she was a wealthy woman 03:25 and they didn't deserve to talk to her. 03:27 Once they started talking to her, 03:29 she found out about the educational needs of the children 03:32 and we were able to start an evening school in that village. 03:35 So this is an awesome story 03:36 of how by enabling Bible workers 03:40 and enabling evening schools, 03:41 we're able to help a village in India. 03:44 So let's move on. 03:45 Okay, then here on our left side 03:47 of the hallway is our accounting department. 03:50 Come on in. 03:52 - Hi. - Hi Veronica. 03:53 What do you do here at Jesus for Asia? 03:55 - Oh, well, I help in the accounting office. 03:57 And I also help with missionary support 04:00 and connecting with our missionaries. 04:02 - Okay. 04:02 And do you enjoy this? 04:04 - I do enjoy it. 04:05 It's very fun. 04:06 - Oh, praise the Lord. 04:07 How long have you been working here? 04:08 - I have been working here five years. 04:11 - Okay, do you have something you'd like to share 04:13 with us today that you're thankful for? 04:15 - I am thankful for God's perfect timing 04:19 and I have seen that a lot working in this ministry. 04:21 And it's amazing. 04:23 - Just financially or in other ways? 04:25 - In other ways, but it definitely shows financially. 04:29 You can see that God provides just when he needs to 04:32 and it's just amazing. 04:33 - Wow. 04:34 Well, praise the Lord. 04:35 Thank you for sharing. 04:36 - Yeah, you're welcome. 04:38 - Let's go on in and meet Tim in his office. 04:41 Hi Tim. 04:42 - Well, hello. 04:43 - What do you do here at Jesus for Asia? 04:45 - Well, I help also out in accounting. 04:47 - Okay. 04:48 And have you been here long? 04:50 - No, I've been here about four months. 04:53 - Wow. Okay. 04:54 And do you have something you'd like to share 04:55 that you're thankful for? 04:56 - Well, I'm just really glad the Lord saw fit 04:58 to tell me I was coming here and then to work it out. 05:01 - I'm sure there's a story behind that. 05:04 - There is. (chuckles) 05:05 - Okay, well thank you for sharing 05:07 and I hope you have a blessed rest of your day here. 05:08 - Thank you very much, Natalie. 05:10 - All right, well let's come on out 05:11 and we'll meet some of the other new staff. 05:13 We will start right here. 05:16 - Hi. 05:17 - I know that you're recently joined here at Jesus for Asia, 05:20 and you just go back from a trip to Asia. 05:23 - Correct. 05:24 - And I know also that you have multiple names 05:26 that people call you in your life. 05:28 So I would like to know which name you're going by today. 05:31 - Augustine. 05:33 - Okay, Augustine, what do you do here at Jesus for Asia? 05:36 - I am project manager working 05:39 with the various schools that operate in Asia. 05:43 We mainly work with Bible workers, 05:46 but in some areas, we've had schools, like for example, 05:52 in one place, there's three churches 05:54 that have been running school for 50 years 05:56 but struggling to improve it. 05:58 And so we've gotten involved in projects like that. 06:01 - Okay. 06:02 So you just recently got back from a trip to Asia, I know. 06:04 And do you have anything you'd like to share 06:06 that you're thankful for since you started 06:09 working here at Jesus for Asia? 06:11 - Just to interact with so many dedicated teachers 06:13 and school principals who are guiding the young people 06:17 in their countries to a relationship with Christ 06:20 and working so hard to expand it 06:22 to accommodate more students. 06:23 - Hmm. 06:24 Well praise the Lord. 06:25 Thank you for sharing. 06:26 - Thank you. 06:28 - All right, let's move to the next cubicle 06:29 and we will meet Augustine's wife, Julie. 06:35 Julie, what do you do here at Jesus for Asia? 06:37 - I maintain the website and manage the social media. 06:42 - Do you have something you'd like to share 06:43 that you're thankful for? 06:45 - God moved our family here to work with Jesus for Asia 06:48 this past summer. 06:50 And I'm just so thankful 06:52 to have a part in reaching the unreached for Jesus. 06:55 - [Natalie] Awesome. 06:56 Well thank you for sharing. 06:57 - Thank you. 06:58 All right, let's go past my office 07:00 'cause I'm not in there obviously. 07:02 This is my office. 07:03 It's very full of things. 07:05 This is Jon's office, the president's office. 07:08 And hello, dear. 07:10 - Hi darling. 07:10 How are you today? 07:11 - Good. 07:12 We're saying hello again to you. 07:13 - Yes. Yeah. 07:14 - And so- - Been working away. 07:16 - Have you? - Yeah. 07:18 - Okay, good. - Getting a lot done. 07:19 - Looks like you're editing a "Jesus for Asia Now" show. 07:22 - Yeah, this is a story of one of our Bible workers 07:25 in the Philippines that through prayer and faith, 07:28 raised his father from the dead who was dead 07:30 for 11 or 12 hours. 07:32 - Wow. 07:33 - So it's pretty exciting. 07:34 - All right, well we'll be looking forward to that show. 07:36 - Yeah. (chuckles) 07:37 - Okay. 07:38 So do you have something you'd like to share 07:39 with us today that you're thankful for? 07:40 - I'm thankful for a wife. 07:42 We married 33 years and we work together 07:45 and God allows us to work together 07:47 and spend a lot of time together. 07:49 And so I'm thankful for that. 07:51 Other blessings, man, the list is so long. 07:55 The main blessing 07:56 is that he's given us a vision and a purpose. 07:58 You know, he is given us a reason to exist 08:01 and he's given us a goal. 08:02 And so we see the world falling apart around us, 08:04 and yet we have a mission that is stronger than death itself 08:09 because we know that when we die, we just sleep 08:11 in Christ and then we rise from the dead. 08:14 And so that hope, you know, blocks us 08:17 or creates a barrier against the fear 08:19 that tries to take over. 08:21 And God's given us a vision to reach Asia, you know. 08:25 90% of all unreached people groups live in Asia. 08:27 Over half the world lives in Asia. 08:30 And God has a heart for every single one of those people. 08:32 And so that purpose, that passion that gives us 08:36 that reason to live, gives us a reason 08:38 to wake up in the morning, to keep working for him, 08:40 keep serving him, and put everything 08:42 into what he's called us to do. 08:44 And so we've seen other people get on board with God's cause 08:49 and I see the happiness in their lives. 08:51 And so I guess that's what I'm most thankful for, 08:53 is that the joy that we found in his service 08:56 is not just for us, it's for anybody that gets involved 08:59 and gives 100% to the Lord. 09:02 I see that same joy and that same purpose 09:04 and that same meaning entering into their lives. 09:06 And so I can think of people right off the top of my head 09:09 that I can look in their faces 09:11 and they say thank you. 09:14 Thank you to the Lord 09:15 for giving me a purpose and reason to live. 09:18 - Yeah. - Yeah. 09:19 - So today, we do have something special 09:21 that we wanna share. 09:22 - Yes. 09:22 - And what is that? 09:24 - Well, just recently, a friend of ours felt impressed. 09:27 He and his wife prayed about it 09:28 and offered up a $250,000 matching grant. 09:33 So from now to the end of the year, 09:35 if somebody donates $10, then that equals $20 09:39 for God's kingdom. 09:41 - Right. 09:42 - And so it doubles their investment. 09:44 And we like to look at it as an investment. 09:46 Because according to Matthew 25, when you give 09:49 to the Lord, you're investing in your future 09:52 and Luke 16:9, and all kinds of stuff, 09:55 but you're investing in your own future. 09:56 You're investing in the eternity 09:58 that you're gonna spend in heaven. 09:59 Having more friends, 10:01 having more people to that say, 10:02 "Hey, it's because of you that I'm here. 10:05 And that's gonna be really precious. 10:07 - Right. 10:08 So in order to be matched, the donations 10:11 need to be marked for where needed most. 10:14 And why is that? 10:15 - Well, when you give to where needed most, 10:17 that actually supports all the projects. 10:20 So when you market where needed most, 10:23 then a lot of times, certain projects, missionaries 10:27 or Bible workers or even evening schools, 10:29 they don't get the full funding that month. 10:32 And so where needed most allows us to fill in the gaps. 10:35 So there isn't a break in, lets say for instance, 10:38 the children getting food or a missionary going 10:42 and not able to get make it through the month. 10:45 Some projects don't get enough funding ever. 10:49 And so where needed most goes to supply their need. 10:52 And they're strategic projects 10:54 but they don't look so good on camera, for instance. 10:57 And so they don't get as much funding. 10:59 But man, we cannot imagine not having them. 11:03 - And most of those are media unfortunately. 11:06 Most of those are media. 11:07 - Yeah, but they're media into other languages. 11:09 And so we don't see them, you know? 11:11 And we forget about them. 11:12 They seem expensive. 11:14 - And it's hard to see results of media 11:15 because you know, media goes out 11:17 and you're not necessarily there to be able 11:19 to capture the story of conversion 11:21 or the story of a life changed 11:23 or you know, whatever God's doing 11:25 as a result of the media, 11:26 - Especially in Indonesia, 11:28 when there's spread across 17,000 islands. 11:30 - Right. 11:32 Some of those stories we're never gonna hear till heaven. 11:33 - Till heaven. 11:33 But when we get to heaven, 11:34 - Yeah. Awesome. 11:35 - We will hear some stories. 11:37 And so that's the purpose of where needed most. 11:40 And also we're needed most allows Jesus just to continue 11:44 and to organize all the projects, keep tabs 11:47 on where the money is spent and if it's spent properly. 11:50 And to then also, you know, God's given us the vision, 11:54 not just to manage, but to envision. 11:58 You know, what's it gonna take to reach Asia? 12:00 You got 3 billion people that don't have access 12:03 to the gospel. 12:04 3 billion people. 12:05 How are you gonna reach that? 12:07 How are you gonna manage that? 12:08 I don't know. 12:10 But to be able to see God's leading 12:13 and then follow that leading in the moment as he leads us, 12:18 that's really what God's called us to do. 12:20 Because we could keep doing this for another 600 years 12:23 and not be much closer than where we are to Jesus coming. 12:29 We have to find ways to accelerate the gospel going to Asia. 12:34 And to the world. 12:35 - Jesus is coming soon, 12:36 - Very soon. 12:37 - We don't know the day or the hour, but we know it soon. 12:39 - Well, I have a theory that according to Matthew 24:14, 12:43 that the world will continue to get worse and worse 12:46 and worse until the gospel is preached to the whole world. 12:49 Now there's some tools that are massive 12:51 and cover the whole world, 12:53 but there's many languages 12:54 that still don't have access to the gospel. 12:56 And so it's those languages and the boots on the ground 12:59 and meeting people that know Jesus. 13:01 We've met people that never heard the name of Jesus. 13:04 And there's millions, billions out there like that. 13:07 And so that's our commission, that's our calling. 13:10 And that's what I'm thankful for 13:11 because God's preserved us these unreached people groups 13:15 for this generation. 13:16 To give us that joy of seeing souls say for the kingdom. 13:21 - All right, well thank you for sharing 13:22 with us about the matching grant 13:24 and what you're thankful for. 13:26 There were several things there. 13:27 - Yep. 13:28 - So we will see you again. 13:30 - Okay. - All right. 13:31 - Sounds good. 13:32 - Goodbye. - Bye. 13:33 - So let's go in and meet Sharon. 13:37 Hello, Sharon. 13:38 - Hello. 13:39 - So how long have you worked here at Jesus for Asia? 13:42 - I've worked here since 2018, so over six years. 13:46 - Wow. Okay. 13:48 And what do you do here at Jesus for Asia? 13:51 - So I have two roles. 13:53 One is the office manager here 13:55 and the other is a project manager 13:57 for various projects like evening schools for one. 14:01 - Okay 14:02 And I bet you enjoy that part. 14:04 - Oh yes. 14:04 - All the children. - I do. 14:06 - They're so cute. 14:07 - They're so cute. 14:08 - And they sing with all of their bodies, you know. 14:11 They love it. 14:12 - Yeah, they're very, very expressive. 14:15 And joyful. 14:16 - Yes. 14:17 - Okay, so what are you thankful for? 14:18 - What I'm thankful for are the evening schools actually, 14:21 because it is a joy to get the stories there 14:24 and hear how children 14:27 who have come from very difficult backgrounds meet Jesus, 14:33 fall in love with him, go home and tell their parents, 14:36 and then their families become baptized 14:38 as a result of the school. 14:40 And so it's a joy to see them praying 14:43 and singing and sharing. 14:44 And that is a joy. 14:46 And I would love more evening schools. 14:48 That's my Christmas wishlist is more evening schools. 14:53 - All right, well thank you for sharing. 14:54 - You're welcome. 14:56 - We will be praying for more evening schools. 14:56 - Yes, yes. 14:57 Thank you. 14:58 - All right. 14:59 - Okay, bye. - Bye. 15:01 And we will come and we will meet Hannah. 15:04 Hello, Hannah. 15:05 - Hi. 15:06 - How long have you worked here at Jesus for Asia? 15:08 - It's been a little over five years now. 15:10 - Okay. Wow. 15:11 And what do you do here at Jesus for Asia? 15:13 - I help to write and edit stories from the mission field 15:18 that we use in our newsletters 15:19 and magazines and stuff like that. 15:21 - Yeah, I know you write the email newsletter 15:23 and a number of different stories. 15:25 And then you help help to make sure things flow, right? 15:27 And we have everything in order 15:29 for the magazines and things. 15:31 So do you have something to share that you're thankful for 15:34 from this year? 15:34 - Yes, I do. 15:36 I'm really excited 15:37 and thankful for all of the new people 15:39 that God has brought an answer to prayer, 15:42 because rather than just having me doing marketing 15:45 and communications, we have a team now 15:47 and that's really exciting. 15:49 - That's helped a lot. 15:50 - Yes. 15:51 - Yeah, it makes it easier to get things out more often 15:53 and less weight on you, I know. 15:56 All right, well thank you for sharing today. 15:57 - Yes. 15:58 - All right, bye-bye. 16:02 So we're coming into the rest of the cubicle area 16:07 and we have Cameron here. 16:09 - Hi. 16:10 - So Cameron, how long have you been here at Jesus for Asia? 16:12 - About three months. 16:13 - So what do you do here at Jesus for Asia? 16:15 - So I've done video editing 16:17 and I'm also kind of leading a social media campaign 16:21 of making more content about the mission work 16:24 and getting the message out there basically 16:26 so that more people from North America can spread out 16:29 and be the salt of the earth. 16:30 That's the goal. 16:31 - All right, do you have something 16:32 that you've experienced while you've been here 16:34 that you're thankful for? 16:36 - Mainly it's just, I absolutely love working here 16:40 with all of these wonderful people. 16:42 It's just really, really nice. 16:45 I love all of the prayer 16:47 and just working with a bunch of people 16:50 who have the same mission and care deeply about missions, 16:53 it's really meaningful. 16:54 - Awesome. 16:55 All right, well thank you for sharing. 16:56 - Yeah, no problem. 16:57 - Okay, we're gonna go on down into our cubicle area 17:01 and talk about a few people who aren't here at the moment. 17:04 So we have another desk here that's used 17:07 for the missionary support for when Veronica needs 17:10 to work solely on that and not be distracted by accounting. 17:14 And then we have a volunteer named Michael who works here. 17:17 He's helping with our church renovation 17:21 and church buildings. 17:22 And he's actually currently on a trip in Asia as well. 17:26 And then we have Pastor Chris Donavan's desk. 17:28 And Pastor Chris is Heidi's husband who we met earlier. 17:31 Pastor Chris is currently on a trip in Asia as well. 17:35 And he is in charge of our Bible worker program 17:37 and our Bible worker training program. 17:39 So he is been doing bible worker training 17:42 in a number of different areas over there. 17:43 And then we have one empty cubicle that God has preserved 17:47 for someone who's not here yet. 17:50 Okay, and then the next thing 17:52 on our tour here is our prayer lounge. 17:56 We have morning worship and prayer together here 17:59 every day as a team. 18:01 So far we fit in this space. 18:03 A few times, we've had people on the floor, 18:05 but we just gather and study something from God's word 18:09 or from the writings of Ellen White together. 18:12 And then we have prayer time. 18:14 And it's kind of fun. 18:16 We have the little vase there. 18:18 The big vase actually has promises that were given to us 18:22 during faith camp here that last summer. 18:25 They had the young people go through 18:26 and write down some of the texts 18:28 for their favorite promises. 18:29 So every day we pull a promise. 18:31 So then we go in here around the corner. 18:34 And this is where we have our marketing meetings, 18:38 our event planning meetings. 18:40 And you can see on the board here, we've got a number 18:43 of different things in the works. 18:45 So we're doing a lot of praying right now 18:47 that God will work out the right dates at the right places 18:50 and that he will lead and guide us 18:51 to where our team is supposed to be this coming summer. 18:54 So then as we keep going, 18:57 we will go down our back hallway 19:01 and this is our event team office, Christina's office. 19:04 And she is our event team coordinator as well as our cook 19:09 for the faith camps and other events here. 19:12 And now, we're going into the media area of the building. 19:16 This is the editing area. 19:18 And right here we have a IT closet 19:21 where we're streaming Mission TV. 19:24 And so if you've ever watched Mission TV, missiontv.com, 19:28 it's on the mySDAtv box 19:29 and on Roku also, you can find 19:32 what we're streaming live from here. 19:34 And then as we continue through, 19:36 we've got four editing rooms here. 19:38 And we'll go to this furthest one 19:40 and as we go around the corner, we will find Jon again. 19:46 This is what we have to do when we wanna look for Jon. 19:48 We go from office to office, this is where he normally is 19:51 or this is where he normally is and we go 19:53 and we look and he is not there. 19:54 So we check the next office. 19:55 So what do you do in this office? 19:57 - Okay, so this is my editing office. 19:59 This is my only five-year-old computer 20:01 that is a little bit faster than my 8-year-old computer 20:04 in the other office. 20:05 So this is where I come to edit. 20:07 And right now, I'm working on a show 20:09 that is gonna be talking about all the closed churches 20:12 that are in India that we're trying to reopen again. 20:14 - So what are you thankful for in this office? 20:16 - Well, I'm thankful that this office is one of four 20:20 and we have two or three editors. 20:23 We've got Eric who is not here right now, 20:25 he's helping in a different location, 20:28 but he's helping with editing. 20:29 And then we've have Michael, who you'll see in a moment. 20:32 He's also helping with editing. 20:34 And I'm thankful that the Lord 20:36 is going to provide us with more computers 20:39 that we can have more editors 20:40 because we're only about six months 20:42 behind at our editing schedule. 20:44 - [Natalie] Wow. 20:45 - So I'm really thankful for this grant 20:47 that's coming up because it's gonna allow us 20:49 to replace our four or five, 6-year-old computers 20:52 and be able to produce the shows much quicker. 20:56 - All right, well thank you for sharing. 20:57 - Yeah. 20:59 - So the Eric that Jon mentioned 21:01 that does editing works right here and he's not here today. 21:05 He's on another site helping with something else. 21:09 So we will come down the hallway here. 21:13 On the right is the back door to the kitchen. 21:15 And then this one is the studio 21:18 where our "Jesus for Asia Now" set will be going. 21:21 Hopefully soon. 21:23 As you can see, they started putting in the lighting grid 21:25 and we have lighting that needs to be put up 21:28 and then we have to move the whole set. 21:30 So we're looking forward 21:32 to having the "Jesus for Asia Now" set here in the office. 21:37 And then here as we come down the hallway, 21:39 we come into our control room and we find Michael, 21:45 Michael works here part-time. 21:47 And Michael, how long have you worked 21:48 here at Jesus for Asia? 21:49 - I've worked here since August. 21:51 - Okay, and what do you do? 21:53 - I do video editing. 21:55 Currently, I'm editing faith camps. 21:58 - Okay. 21:59 All right, that's cool. 22:00 Do you have something that you'd like to share 22:02 with us today that you're thankful for? 22:04 - Well, I am thankful for all the opportunities I've had 22:07 with Jesus for Asia to exercise faith 22:10 and learn more about faith and develop my faith. 22:14 I'm also very thankful that there's this room here, 22:16 it's for audio recording, but I've been using it 22:18 as a little prayer room and it's been a great blessing 22:21 to have a separate space to pray. 22:23 - Awesome. Awesome. 22:25 So what else happens in the control room? 22:27 Can you share that with us or? 22:29 - So in the control room, we also live stream meetings 22:33 that happen in the meeting room. 22:36 - Okay. 22:37 So the reason that Michael edits in the control room 22:39 is that we don't have enough editing computers 22:42 for all the editing suites that we saw earlier 22:45 to be outfitted properly. 22:46 And so once we are able to afford more computers, 22:49 then he will have his own editing office 22:52 and he won't have to edit in the control room every time. 22:55 Okay, and then we continue down the hallway. 22:59 So let's go in the other studio and oh, we found Jon again. 23:03 - Now I don't normally work in here, I'm just a placeholder. 23:08 But a pastor who speaks Russian comes in here 23:11 and does programming in Russian 23:13 and he has like 60, 70,000 followers. 23:17 And that's part of Asia. 23:19 The eastern part of Russia 23:20 is actually part of Asia, so it's legal. 23:24 So the reason I'm thankful for this place 23:25 is that just this one little room is reaching 50, 23:29 60,000 people plus in Asia. 23:33 And so that's exciting, 23:34 and a lot of people are coming to truth. 23:36 - Okay. 23:38 And we can also use this for other shows at some point. 23:42 - This will be our multimedia multipurpose studio. 23:46 So we'll have a different set maybe with backgrounds, 23:49 different backgrounds we can pull down 23:51 and swap out really quickly 23:52 - [Natalie] Or something, yeah. 23:53 - Yeah. 23:54 Eventually, we'd like to have a video wall in here 23:56 that we could just really quickly 23:57 get a different background. 23:59 So we're praying about that too. 24:00 - All right, well thank you. 24:02 Bye-Bye. 24:05 We are back at the reception area 24:08 and we will go into what we call the prayer hall. 24:14 And this is where we host faith camp 24:17 and other special meetings. 24:18 We have weeks of prayer that we do here 24:21 and we live stream 24:22 as we talked about earlier in the control room. 24:25 And you can see the cameras are set up 24:27 and we see Jon again. 24:29 - Hi. 24:31 - Many times when meetings are going on, 24:32 you'll see Jon sitting here running audio and things. 24:35 And do you have something you're thankful for 24:37 regarding this room? 24:38 - The meetings that have been held in the last year 24:41 since this building was built have been so powerful 24:44 and so tremendous that just this room alone 24:48 is worth the entire building. 24:50 - Yeah, 'cause lives have been changed. 24:52 - Absolutely. 24:53 - Because of what God has done in this room. 24:54 - Yeah, it's just been tremendous. 24:56 - [Natalie] So yeah, we're so for it, yeah. 24:57 - So sometimes I'm up there, sometimes I'm back here. 25:00 I like it back here. 25:02 - So as we go up front, Jon will meet us up front. 25:06 But let's look right here. 25:07 This is our prayer area in our prayer hall. 25:10 We have a special rug and we have pillows. 25:13 Many times, we invite people 25:14 for special times of prayer here. 25:16 And so we gather in this section 25:18 and if we need it enlarged, 25:19 we can obviously pull chairs and enlarge it. 25:22 But it's a special place where even sometimes 25:25 during the day, I'll see people come 25:27 and pray in this section of the room. 25:29 So let's go ahead and go on to the front 25:32 and Jon will meet us up there. 25:36 - So darling, what are you thankful for in this room? 25:39 - In this room? 25:40 Wow. 25:41 I am thankful, like I said back there, I'm thankful 25:43 for the lives that God has changed through 25:46 what he has shared from different speakers here. 25:49 We've had a number of different speakers 25:51 and I'm just thankful that his word is going out 25:55 and that we have the ability to live stream 25:57 and people are watching the live streams 26:01 and then they're watching later on the YouTube channel. 26:04 And so I'm just really thankful to the Lord for that. 26:06 And this year, I'm especially thankful 26:08 that God has given us the ability 26:10 to move forward in so many ways. 26:12 Even while actually donations have been down this year, 26:16 quite a bit down, especially for a couple of key projects 26:20 like Bible workers and evening schools. 26:22 And so I'm just really thankful for the fact 26:24 that the Lord has given us enough 26:25 to keep going month by month. 26:27 I feel like we're like Tim Maddox, 26:29 we're having man a month and it's month after month 26:32 and many times, it's day after day. 26:34 He gives us exactly what we need for that day. 26:36 And so I'm really thankful for this matching grant. 26:39 That's gonna allow us to have a little bit of growth space, 26:43 but also to pay off some bills 26:45 that have been kind of hanging a little bit. 26:48 People have been patient with us. 26:49 - Yeah. 26:50 I like that term "growth space." 26:52 Yeah. 26:53 Is there any room for growth? 26:54 - That's one thing that I've learned 26:55 from the different prayer walking that we've done 26:57 and prayer walk trips that we've done 26:59 and even from our recent trip to Europe, 27:02 there's so many people everywhere that need Jesus. 27:06 And, you know, even inside our church, 27:10 our church members need a deeper walk with Jesus. 27:13 And outside the church, there's so much darkness. 27:16 There's so much, you know, casting about here and there 27:20 looking for something. 27:22 And they need the ability to find the truth. 27:24 - Absolutely. 27:25 - So I'm thankful, so thankful 27:26 that God has given us the opportunity 27:28 to be a part of sharing the truth. 27:30 - Amen. 27:31 - With the people out there. 27:32 - Amen. 27:33 Well said, love. 27:34 - All right, well I'd like to thank you for joining us 27:36 for this episode of "Jesus for Asia Now." 27:38 And may God bless you 27:39 and look around for things that you have to be thankful for. 27:43 And if the Lord is impressing you 27:44 to have your donation doubled, please mark it 27:46 for where needed most. 27:47 You can contact us with any other questions 27:50 at Jesus for Asia, 27:51 PO Box 1221 Collegedale, Tennessee, 37315. 27:57 Call us at (423) 413-7321 28:01 or visit our website at jesusforasia.org. 28:04 May God richly bless you until we see you next time 28:07 on "Jesus for Asia Now." 28:09 (uplifting music) |
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