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00:33 WELCOME TO "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" PUT ON YOUR
00:36 SEATBELT WE ARE GOING INTO AN AMAZING ADVENTURE 00:39 TODAY. 00:40 I'M LONNIE MELASHENKO, YOUR HOST AND WE'RE SO 00:42 GLAD THAT YOU'RE THERE BUT DON'T GO AWAY WE HAPPEN TO 00:44 BE TAPING THIS ON THE EVE OF HALLOWEEN. 00:48 NOW, YOU AND I GREW UP WITH THE NEWSPAPER COMIC 00:53 OF CHARLIE BROWN. 00:55 WE ACTUALLY HAVE CHARLES SHULTZ AS OUR GUEST TODAY. 00:59 GOOD GRIEF. 01:00 AND BELIEVE IT OR NOT HE'S GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT 01:02 A LITERAL, YOU REMEMBER SNOOPY THERE AND HALLOWEEN 01:05 THOSE WERE JUST FUNNY COMICS BUT WE'RE GOING TO 01:08 BE TALKING TODAY ABOUT THE HAUNTED HOUSE- THE HAUNTED 01:11 CHURCH. 01:12 THE HAUNTED CHURCH. 01:13 YES. 01:14 WELL, LET'S GO FORWARD AND SEE HOW DID WE GET TO 01:18 THAT? 01:19 OK WELL, THIS IS A STORY ABOUT A YOUNG HINDU MAN 01:23 WHO GIVES HIS HEART TO THE LORD. 01:25 AND WHERE IS THIS? 01:26 THIS IS IN A LITTLE TINY VILLAGE IN NEPAL, 01:30 SOUTHEASTERN NEPAL AND THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN THIS 01:34 AREA YOU'D PROBABLY CALL THEM SHARECROPPERS-DIRT 01:37 POOR. 01:38 AND THEY LIVE IN HOUSES MADE OUT OF MUD AND 01:42 STICKS. 01:43 AND KARTIK IS HIS NAME, BECAME A CHRISTIAN AND 01:52 IMMEDIATELY THE COMMUNITY WHICH IS STRONGLY HINDU 01:57 THEY JUMPED ON HIM AND THEY PERSECUTE HIM. 02:01 SO, YOU DON'T LEAVE THE FAITH WITHOUT REACTIONS. 02:04 THAT'S RIGHT AND YOU KNOW, THEY WOULD REFUSE TO SELL 02:07 HIM RICE. 02:10 AND THEN ANOTHER TRAGEDY OCCURRED, HE HAD A 2 ½ 02:12 YEAR OLD BOY AND THE BOY DIED AFTER HE BECAME A 02:17 CHRISTIAN AND ALL OF THE HINDUS ALL OF HIS 02:22 NEIGHBORS ARE SAYING, YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHAT YOU GET 02:25 FOR BEING A CHRISTIAN. 02:26 THIS IS A CURSE. 02:27 THIS IS A CURSE, YOU'VE BEEN CURSED. 02:29 YOUR LIFE IS HAUNTED AND HIS 8-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER 02:36 AND SHE SAID-BECAUSE HE'S VERY DEPRESSED AND HE'S 02:38 THINKING ABOUT GOING BACK TO HINDUISM. 02:42 HIS DAUGHTER SAYS, DAD, YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN, PRAY. 02:47 WELL, NOBODY WILL EVEN SELL ME RICE, YOU KNOW, 02:50 I'M AN OUTCAST IN THE COMMUNITY. 02:53 DAD, PRAY. 02:54 AND SHORTLY AFTERWARDS SOMEONE CAME WITH A TEN 02:57 POUND BAG OF RICE AND SO THAT WAS ENCOURAGING. 03:02 THE LITTLE GIRL'S PRAYER WAS ANSWERED AND SHE IS 03:06 RESPONSIBLE IN HELPING LEAD HIM BACK TO MORE 03:08 CONFIDENT FAITH. 03:10 THAT'S RIGHT AND YOU KNOW, HE -THIS IS THE KIND OF 03:14 HOUSES THE PEOPLE LIVE IN AND THEY ARE EXTREMELY 03:19 POOR AND KARTIK HAS A VISION FOR THIS COMMUNITY. 03:26 AND HE BECOMES A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER. 03:32 REALLY? 03:32 YES. 03:33 AND HE HAS A BICYCLE. 03:35 WE GET HIM A BICYCLE. 03:36 SO, OUR BROADCAST AND THESE TELECASTS AND THIS 03:39 MINISTRY ACTUALLY REACHED OUT TO HIM AND HE IS 03:42 DEPUTIZED NOW TO HELP REPRESENT US THERE. 03:44 YES. 03:45 AND HE HAD A BURDEN FOR HIS COMMUNITY EVEN THOUGH 03:49 THEY HAD PERSECUTED HIM; EVEN THOUGH HE IS LOOKED 03:52 DOWN AS UNCLEAN AND LOW CASTE AND ALL OF THAT SORT 03:58 OF THING AND HE COMES TO THE ADMINISTRATIONOF 04:03 NEPAL, ADVENTIST WORK IN NEPAL, AND REQUESTS THAT 04:06 WE BUILD A CHURCH IN THIS AREA. 04:10 HE IS REALLY THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX. 04:12 OH YES. 04:13 AND SO, HERE I AM AND THIS IS THE GROUND. 04:15 THIS IS THE LAND WHERE WE ARE GOING TO BUILD THE 04:16 CHURCH. 04:17 AND IT IS QUITE AN AMAZING MOMENT AND HOW MANY PEOPLE 04:19 IN THE INNER CIRCLE ARE HERE TO DO THIS? 04:29 UM, PROBABLY AT THIS TIME NOT VERY MANY MAYBE 20-30. 04:34 WOW. 04:35 A FAITH PROJECT. 04:36 BUT HE AND WE START WORKING ON THIS CHURCH AND 04:41 THERE IT IS. 04:42 AND Its A, IT'S UNIQUE BECAUSE IT IS UP ABOVE, IT 04:49 IS SLIGHTLY ELEVATED WITH STEPS AND IT IS MADE OUT 04:52 OF CINDER BLOCKS AND CEMENT. 04:56 NOW, THIS IS VERY SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE IN A 04:58 MONSOON, THE PLACE FLOODS. 05:00 EVERYTHING FLOODS AND THIS IS ABOVE THE FLOOD WATER, 05:01 UH HUH, AND WHEN PEOPLE HAVE THEIR HOMES BECOME 05:03 MUSH WITH ALL OF THE RAIN AND THE FLOODS WHERE ARE 05:06 YOU GOING TO GO? 05:07 TO THE CHURCH. 05:08 YOU GO TO CHURCH. 05:08 WHAT A PLACE TO GO. 05:09 IT'S A SAFE PLACE TO BE. 05:10 WE LEAVE THE LIGHT ON FOR THEM. 05:11 WE DON'T LOCK THE DOORS AND SO PEOPLE BECOME VERY, 05:26 VERY FAMILIAR AND WE'RE MAKING FRIENDS. 05:31 EVERY TIME I'M IN THE AREA OR WHEN THE PASTOR UMESH 05:35 IS IN THE AREA, WE WILL BUY THESE LITTLE CARTONS 05:39 OF MANGO JUICE AND CRACKERS AND WE GIVE THESE 05:43 OUT TO THE KIDS AND TO THE MOTHERS. 05:46 AND MAKING FRIENDS. 05:48 THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT. 05:50 AND THEY APPRECIATE THAT SO MUCH. 05:52 UH, KARTIK HAS ORGANIZED TAILORING STUDIES AND 06:01 SCHOOL FOR THE LADIES IN THE COMMUNITY. 06:04 THEY NEED TO HAVE SOME SOURCE OF INCOME. 06:07 AND SO, AGAIN MAKING FRIENDS AND BREAKING DOWN 06:12 THE PREJUDICE. 06:14 CHRISTIANS ARE NOT EVIL PEOPLE. 06:17 THEY ARE GOOD PEOPLE AND THEY ARE TRYING TO HELP 06:19 THE COMMUNITY AND KARTIK WHO WAS THE BLACK SHEEP OF 06:23 THE COMMUNITY NOW HAS ELEVATION, HE'S ELEVATED 06:27 AND PEOPLE RESPECT HIM. 06:28 PRIOR TO THAT THOUGH HE WAS REALLY PERSECUTED AND 06:31 ACTUALLY HATED. 06:33 YES. 06:35 THEY DID NOT WANT ANY PART OF CHRISTIANITY. 06:38 AND YOU KNOW, IT'S AMAZING HOW THE HOLY SPIRIT LEADS 06:40 PEOPLE'S LIVES. 06:42 AND THERE WAS A GREAT DEAL OF WHAT SHALL I SAY, 06:47 INFORMALITY ABOUT THIS CHURCH. 06:50 UM, AND HERE THEY ARE SOME OF THE PEOPLE FROM THE 06:56 VILLAGE, THEY ARE JUST HANGING OUT THERE. 06:58 IT IS NICE AND COOL; YOU KNOW AND IT'S SAFE. 07:01 THERE IS NO SNAKES IN THE CHURCH AND THERE IS A 07:07 FAMILIARITY. 07:09 SO, THE CHURCH IS REALLY A CENTRAL PART OF THE 07:11 COMMUNITY AND PEOPLE WANT TO BE THERE. 07:13 YES, YES. 07:14 WHEREAS BEFORE DON'T GO ANYWHERE NEAR. 07:16 THAT'S RIGHT. 07:17 AND SO, THINGS WERE MOVING ALONG VERY NICELY AND THEN 07:20 LAST YEAR WHILE I WAS IN NEPAL, I GOT WORD THAT THE 07:25 CHURCH IS HAUNTED. 07:27 WHAT? 07:28 HAUNTED. 07:29 AND-OK, NOW HERE'S WHERE THE HALLOWEEN HAUNTED 07:31 HOUSE COMES IN ONLY THIS IS A CHURCH. 07:34 HAUNTED CHURCH AND SO I WENT THERE AND I'VE BEEN 07:37 TO THIS CHURCH BEFORE AND I LOOK AROUND AND YOU 07:40 KNOW, THERE ARE NO SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET, 07:43 THERE IS NO CLOSETS. 07:45 IT'S A ROOM AND SO I ASKED, WHY DO YOU THINK 07:49 THE CHURCH IS HAUNTED? 07:52 AND THEY SAID, WELL, WE HAD A NUMBER OF PEOPLE 07:55 SLEEPING IN THE CHURCH BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THIS IS 07:58 LIKE A LOCAL PLACE TO SLEEP IF YOU WANT, UH HUH, 08:01 AND IT'S SAFE. 08:02 AND A CELLPHONE WENT OFF ON THE PULPIT AND SOMEONE 08:07 WENT TO LOOK AND THERE WAS NO CELLPHONE. 08:12 JUST A STRANGE TELEPHONE SOUND. 08:14 A STRANGE TELEPHONE SOUND AND THEN LATER ON THAT 08:18 NIGHT THERE WAS AH, STONES ROLLING DOWN THE IRON 08:23 ROOF. 08:24 SOUNDS OF ROCKS AND PEBBLES GOING DOWN. 08:25 AND YOU KNOW, IT WAS TRICK OR TREAT. 08:28 WOW. 08:29 AND IS THIS A PRANK? 08:32 AH, HAS THERE BEEN A CURSE -CAN A HINDU PUT A CURSE 08:36 ON A SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH? 08:38 AH, CAN A SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH BE 08:43 HAUNTED? 08:44 AH, THAT'S THE QUESTION AND SO, UM THIS WAS THE 08:51 DILEMMA I HAD. 08:53 SO, WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE HERE AT THE FRONT AREA 08:55 THAT WAS SO HAUNTED, THAT HAD SOUNDS ON THE ROOF AND 08:58 YOU GOT THE CELLPHONE GOING OFF ON THE PULPIT 09:00 THERE? 09:01 WELL, THIS IS TWO OF OUR- THIS IS A COUPLE, 09:04 ACTUALLY. 09:05 A HUSBAND AND WIFE AND WE'RE HAVING A CLEANSING 09:10 CEREMONY. 09:11 I'D NEVER HAD A CLEANSING CEREMONY FOR A CHURCH. 09:13 WOW. 09:14 AND THEY ARE SINGING AND PRAYING AND THEN I 09:16 PREACHED ON "PERFECT LOVE CASTS OUT FEAR" BECAUSE 09:21 FEAR HAS TORMENT AND HINDUISM IS REALLY ROOTED 09:26 IN FEAR. 09:27 AND I WANTED TO GIVE THE IDEA THAT GOD'S LOVE CASTS 09:31 OUT FEAR. 09:33 SO, IN ESSENCE THIS IS AN EXORCISM THAT'S GOING TO 09:35 TAKE PLACE FOR A CHURCH. 09:37 FOR A CHURCH. 09:38 ALL THE SOUNDS AND STRANGE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING. 09:41 WE WANT TO COME BACK TO THAT RIGHT AFTER THE 09:43 BREAK. 09:44 FRIEND, YOU DON'T WANT TO GO AWAY BECAUSE I CAN'T 09:46 WAIT TO HEAR WHAT HAPPENED WITH THIS HAUNTED CHURCH. 09:50 NOW, WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE YOU HEAR MORE ABOUT THESE 09:53 KINDS OF STORIES. 09:54 YOU ARE NOT GOING TO GET THESE IN GENERAL 09:55 PUBLICATIONS BUT YOU CAN BE A SUBSCRIBER TO OUR 09:58 ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS BROCHURE. 10:00 IT IS FREE. 10:01 IT WILL NOT ONLY GIVE YOU THESE KINDS OF STORIES AND 10:03 EXPERIENCES BUT ACTUAL MIRACLES THAT HAVE BEEN 10:06 HAPPENING. 10:07 AMAZING THINGS. 10:08 HEALINGS AND RESURRECTIONS. 10:13 PLEASE JUST WRITE TO US FROM THE GOSPEL OUTREACH 10:16 ADDRESS THAT IS ON YOUR SCREEN P.O. 10:18 BOX 8, COLLEGE PLACE. 10:19 OR IF ITS CANADA, BOX 27061 IN KELOWNA AND IN 10:24 BRAZIL YOU CAN BE A PART OF THIS TOO SO, WATCH FOR 10:27 JUST A MOMENT AND SEE A LITTLE BIT OF A CAPSULE OF 10:29 WHAT GOSPEL OUTREACH IS ALL ABOUT. 10:32 WHY HASN'T JESUS COME? 10:35 IT'S BECAUSE WE HAVE A JOB TO DO. 10:38 ONE THAT HIS RETURN DEPENDS ON. 10:40 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT CHRIST WILL COME AFTER THE 10:44 GOSPEL HAS BEEN PREACHED IN ALL THE WORLD. 10:47 THE WORLD'S POPULATION EXCEEDS SEVEN BILLION BUT 10:52 THREE BILLION PEOPLE STILL NEED TO HEAR ABOUTJESUS' 10:55 LOVE. 10:57 NINETY-SEVEN PER CENT OF THE UNREACHED PEOPLE LIVE 10:59 IN THE AREA FROM 10 TO 40 DEGREES NORTH OF THE 11:02 EQUATOR FROM WEST AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST, INDIA, 11:07 CHINA TO JAPAN. 11:10 GOSPEL OUTREACH HAS A UNIQUE APPROACH. 11:14 WITH THE SUPPORT OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU, WE SPONSOR LOCAL 11:17 GOSPEL WORKERS IN MORE THAN FIFTY COUNTRIES. 11:21 BECAUSE THEY KNOW THE LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND 11:23 RELIGIONS OF THEIR NEIGHBORS THEY FACE FEWER 11:26 CHALLENGES THAN FOREIGN MISSIONARIES WOULD. 11:28 TOGETHER WITH YOU, WE FUND MORE THAN 2000 BIBLE 11:34 WORKERS BUT MORE ARE NEEDED. 11:36 LET'S REACH THE UNREACHED WITH THE SAVING POWER OF 11:41 GOD'S LOVE. 11:42 JOIN US. 11:44 SPONSOR A BIBLE WORKER. 11:49 DONATE. 11:50 PRAY. 11:52 WE HAVE CHARLES SHULTZ WITH US IN PERSON AND WE 11:55 ARE TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING SPOOKY. 11:58 A HAUNTED CHURCH. 12:00 NOW I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT I'M GOING TO BUCKLE UP 12:01 MY SEATBELT HERE. 12:02 TELL US THE REST OF THE STORY. 12:04 WELL, YOU KNOW IT'S A PUBLIC RELATIONS PROBLEM 12:09 AND A CONFLICT BETWEEN CHRIST AND SATAN. 12:13 AND THE PEOPLE IN GILABARI REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT TO 12:19 BELIEVE, WHO TO FEAR, WHO TO TRUST, AND THEY REALLY 12:24 DON'T UNDERSTAND GABRIEL VERSUS LUCIFER AND THE 12:27 WHOLE STORY OF WHAT'S GOING ON. 12:29 THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT. 12:30 SO, THEY THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS SIMPLY HAUNTED. 12:33 RIGHT. 12:34 AND THEN, ALL OF A SUDDEN, THE DUBAI-NOW DUBAI IS A 12:38 COUNTRY IN THE MIDDLE EAST. 12:39 OF COURSE. 12:40 AND A LONG WAYS AWAY. 12:42 DUBAI CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH GOT THE 12:47 IDEA OF COMING TO NEPAL AND HAVING A HEALTH CAMP. 12:53 AND THEY WERE GOING TO BRING CLOTHES FOR THE KIDS 12:56 AND HAVE MEDICINES. 12:58 THE ELEVEN CONSISTED OF SEVEN AH, SEVEN NURSES AND 13:04 FOUR PARAMEDICAL WORKERS AND THEY WERE FROM INDIA, 13:08 UGANDA, AND THE PHILIPPINES, AND KENYA. 13:13 THEY JUST SHOWED UP AND THEY HAD A WHOLE BUNCH OF 13:15 CLOTHES TO GIVE TO THE KIDS. 13:18 DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THIS? 13:20 THE TIMING OF IT WAS ONLY THE HOLY SPIRIT DIRECTED 13:23 JUST AT THE RIGHT TIME. 13:24 THAT'S RIGHT. 13:25 SO NOW WE ARE GOING TO SEE THIS VIDEO AND YOU CAN SEE 13:28 WHAT HAPPENED THERE IN THIS LITTLE VILLAGE THAT 13:32 IS STRUGGLING-IS IT CHRIST OR IS IT SATAN? 13:35 WHO DO WE BELIEVE? 13:36 THE HINDUS OR THE CHRISTIANS? 13:37 BUCKLE UP, PUT ON YOUR SEATBELT. 13:47 [MUSIC PLAYING] SOMETIME AGO, ELEVEN MEMBERS OF THE 13:49 DUBAI CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH IN THE 13:52 COUNTRY OF DUBAI DECIDED THEY WANTED TO CONDUCT A 13:56 HEALTH CAMP IN NEPAL. 13:58 AFTER MUCH PRAYER THEY FOUND THEMSELVES IN 14:00 KATMANDU READY TO START THE ALL DAY TRIP TO THE 14:04 VILLAGE OF GILABARI IN NEPAL. 14:06 THESE ELEVEN INDIVIDUALS CAME FROM THE COUNTRIES OF 14:11 UGANDA, KENYA, INDIA AND THE PHILIPPINES. 14:15 SEVEN NURSES AND FOUR PARAMEDIC WORKERS. 14:19 THE MASKS THAT THEY HAVE ON IS NOT FOR COVID BUT IT 14:22 IS FOR THE POLLUTION-TERRIBLE 14:23 POLLUTION IN KATMANDU. 14:25 THERE ARE ALSO TWO NEPALI DOCTORS WHO VOLUNTEERED 14:28 THEIR TIME. 14:29 THE YOUNGEST IS A SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST AND THE 14:32 SENIOR DOCTOR HAS AN INTEREST IN HELPING 14:34 PEOPLE. 14:36 MONSOON TIME: EVERYTHING IS GREEN. 14:41 GILABARI OUR VILLAGE IS LOCATED IN THE 14:44 SOUTHEASTERN REGION OF NEPAL. 14:46 PEOPLE ARE VERY INTERESTED IN WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. 14:49 THIS IS BIG, BIG DEAL AND SO THEY HELP CARRY THE 14:52 MEDICAL SUPPLIES INTO THE CHURCH. 14:58 NOW, THE CHURCH IS WHERE EVERYTHING IS GOING TO 15:02 HAPPEN. 15:03 THE CHURCH AND THE TARP OUTSIDE. 15:06 THE FOLKS FROM DUBAI HAVE THE YELLOW VESTS AND SOME 15:12 ORGANIZATIONAL TALKS. 15:14 CONDITIONS ARE VERY PRIMITIVE BUT EVERYTHING 15:17 IS WELL ORGANIZED WITH THE HELP OF GOSPEL OUTREACH 15:21 VOLUNTEERS. 15:21 THERE ARE NO COMPUTERS. 15:24 THERE IS NO ELECTRICITY. 15:26 THERE IS NO CABINETS FOR MEDICINE BUT THE 15:29 BASICS-THE TARP IS THERE TO KEEP THE RAIN OFF THE 15:32 PEOPLE AND THOSE WHO ARE TRYING TO HELP. 15:35 STATISTICS ARE WRITTEN ON LITTLE PIECES OF PAPER. 15:39 THEIR HEIGHT, THEIR WEIGHT AND THEN THAT INFORMATION 15:44 IS PUT ON TO A SMARTPHONE, WOULDN'T YOU KNOW. 15:48 THE TARP IS VERY IMPORTANT AND AS PEOPLE ARE 15:52 GATHERING AND THEY ARE GATHERING FROM ALL OVER 15:55 THE AREA, THE SENIOR DOCTOR EXPLAINS ABOUT THE 15:58 MEDICINE. 15:59 THESE MEDICINES ARE GIVEN TO THE PATIENTS FREE-BEEN 16:03 BOUGHT BY DONATIONS. 16:05 AND LOTS OF WOUNDS OF COURSE, THE PEOPLE WILL 16:11 GET AN INFECTION AND IT GETS WORSE AND WORSE AND 16:15 WORSE AND SO, THE NURSES, PARAMEDICAL FOLKS ARE 16:20 THERE LOOKING AT THE PEOPLE AND THEIR WOUNDS. 16:24 THERE WE HAVE ALL OF THE NECESSARY THINGS: 16:28 ANTISEPTICS AND BANDAGES. 16:30 THE SIMPLE THINGS SHOWING OUR LOVE AND OUR CONCERN 16:34 FOR PEOPLE. 16:36 PASTOR TRANSLATES THEIR SANTALI. 16:39 THE NATIONAL LANGUAGE IS ACTUALLY NEPALI BUT SOME 16:44 OF THESE PEOPLE ARE SANTALIS AND THEY DON'T 16:48 KNOW VERY MUCH NEPALI AND THE SENIOR DOCTOR DOESN'T 16:51 KNOW SANTALI SO OUR PASTOR IS THERE HELPING OUT. 16:57 OK, EVERYTHING IS ORGANIZED. 16:59 PEOPLE RECEIVE A VISIT FROM THE DOCTOR AND THEN 17:05 THEY GET THEIR MEDICINE WHICH IS FREE WHICH IS A 17:07 WONDERFUL THING BECAUSE GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS YOU 17:10 HAVE TO PAY FOR YOUR MEDICINE. 17:12 OK, CHILDREN AH, CROWD CONTROL. 17:15 CHILDREN CONTROL AND EACH CHILD GETS THEIR VERY OWN 17:19 BALLOON AND CLOTHING. 17:23 THE CLOTHING HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO NEPAL FROM 17:28 DUBAI AND SOCCERBALLS -ALL KINDS OF THINGS AND THIS 17:34 JUST REALLY CREATES A GREAT DEAL OF EXCITEMENT 17:38 WITH THE CHILDREN. 17:40 THESE LADIES ARE SORTING THE CLOTHES AND THEN 17:43 GIVING IT OUT TO THE CHILDREN. 17:46 A VERY WONDERFUL EXPRESSION OF LOVE. 17:55 [MUSIC PLAYING]. 18:03 WELL, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH ALL OF THESE 18:04 PEOPLE? 18:05 WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH ALL THE KIDS? 18:08 WELL, YOU GOT TO GET THEM ORGANIZED AND HOW DO YOU 18:11 ORGANIZE THEM? 18:13 DO ACTION SONGS AND YOU HAVE THE BOYS ON ONE SIDE 18:17 AND THE GIRLS ON THE OTHER SIDE AND THIS IS A 18:20 COMBINATION OF AN ACTION SONG, PHYSICAL FITNESS 18:25 EXERCISES AND GETTING PEOPLE WORKING TOGETHER AS 18:29 COMMUNITY. 18:30 YOU SEE, SOME OF THESE KIDS THEY CAN'T FIGURE OUT 18:32 WHAT IS GOING ON BUT I GOT A BALLOON OUT OF THIS AND 18:34 I GOT SOME NEW CLOTHES SO THIS HAS GOT TO BE A GOOD 18:36 DEAL. 18:37 [MUSIC PLAYING]. 18:49 ALRIGHT, NORMALLY THERE IS A BIG OPENING CEREMONY 19:05 WELL, EVERYBODY WAS SO BUSY GETTING THINGS 19:07 ORGANIZED AND SET UP WE DIDN'T HAVE THE OPENING 19:10 CEREMONY BUT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A FAREWELL 19:12 CEREMONY. 19:13 SO, EACH OF THE FOLKS FROM THE COUNTRY OF DUBAI ARE 19:17 GIVEN A SCARF AND THEN THE GOODBYES. 19:21 IT IS SAD BECAUSE THESE MISSIONARIES FROM THE 19:25 COUNTRY OF DUBAI HAVE DONE A LOT OF GOOD FOR THESE 19:29 PEOPLE AND THEY RECOGNIZE THAT AND THEY SAY THEIR 19:33 GOODBYES. 19:34 THEY ARE LINED UP. 19:35 CAN'T BELIEVE IT. 19:36 WHY DID THESE PEOPLE COME ALL THIS WAY TO HELP US? 19:38 WELL, JESUS. 19:40 WHO IS JESUS? 19:41 AND YOU KNOW, JESUS SAID HIS MESSAGE AND METHOD 19:45 WORKS BEST WHEN YOU MINGLE WITH PEOPLE. 19:47 WELL, THAT'S WHAT THEY'VE DONE FOR TWO OR THREE 19:51 DAYS. 19:52 HE WON THEIR CONFIDENCE IN CARING FOR THE SICK THAT 19:56 WORKED AND THEN HE MET THEIR NEEDS-PHYSICAL 19:58 NEEDS. 20:00 THAT'S ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS. 20:03 ALSO, WE HAVE LEFT A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER 20:07 THERE AND THAT GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER WILL 20:09 LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE, PRAY FOR THEM AND REMIND THEM 20:14 OF THE WONDERFUL GIFT THAT THE DUBAI SEVENTH DAY 20:17 ADVENTIST CHURCH GAVE. 20:21 THANK YOU SO MUCH. 20:36 [MUSIC PLAYING]. 20:37 SO, WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF HINDU INFESTED 20:39 TERRITORY. 20:41 THERE HAS BEEN A HAUNTED CHURCH AND MIRACULOUSLY 20:44 GOD SENDS A GROUP OF PEOPLE OF ALL PLACES FROM 20:47 DUBAI AND THEY HOLD THIS BEAUTIFUL EXPRESSION OF 20:51 CELEBRATION IN JESUS THROUGH HEALTH AND 20:53 MINISTRY TO THE PEOPLE. 20:55 WHAT WAS THE RESULT? 20:58 WELL, IT WAS AMAZING AND YOU KNOW, IT WASN'T JUST 21:03 THE LITTLE VILLAGE OF DUBAI, I MEAN, THAT HELPED 21:06 OUT BECAUSE ALL OF THE PEOPLE FROM DUBAI WERE 21:10 FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES BUT THE FOLKS IN GILABARI 21:15 THEY CAME AND THEN THE CHILDREN AND THE PEOPLE 21:19 FROM THE SURROUNDING AREAS AND DUBAI ADVENTISTS WERE 21:24 VERY WELL ORGANIZED. 21:26 AND THEY HAD VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL AND WE HAVE 21:30 PAPER PLATES IN NEPAL AND SO THEY GOT CRAYONS AND 21:35 GAVE CRAYONS AND PAPER PLATES TO THE KIDS AND SO 21:38 THEY HAD A CRAFT. 21:39 THEY DID CRAFTS-THAT WASN'T INCLUDED IN THE 21:42 VIDEO AND THEN ALSO NOT INCLUDED IN THE VIDEO WAS 21:47 HOW DESPERATELY SICK SOME OF THESE PEOPLE WERE. 21:51 AND THIS MAN, YOU KNOW, IS AT DEATH'S DOOR, SKIN AND 21:54 BONES, LAST EFFORT-BRING ME TO THE SEVENTH DAY 22:02 ADVENTIST CHURCH IN GILABARI AND BECAUSE WE 22:07 HAVE A DOCTOR-WE HAVE TWO NEPALI DOCTORS AND YOU'LL 22:12 GET MEDICINE. 22:13 IF YOU GO TO THE GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL, THEY 22:15 WILL WRITE A PERSCRIPTION BUT THESE PEOPLE ARE SO 22:17 POOR THERE IS NOT WAY THEY ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO 22:19 BUY THE MEDICINE. 22:20 WE ARE GIVING THEM THE MEDICINE FREE. 22:23 AND THAT MADE QUITE AN IMPRESSION. 22:25 THERE WAS A LITTLE BOY WHO HAD BROKEN HIS LEG ABOUT 22:31 THREE OR FOUR MONTHS PRIOR AND OUR SEVENTH DAY 22:37 ADVENTISTS-WE LOOKED AT HIM AND HE NEEDED TO HAVE 22:41 THAT LEG TAKEN CARE OF BY AN ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON AND 22:44 WE TOOK THE LITTLE BOY 30-40MILES AWAY TO THE BIG 22:48 GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL AND MADE SURE HE GOT HIS LEG 22:52 FIXED. 22:53 AND YOU KNOW, IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE UM, VERY 22:57 SIGNIFICANT BUT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE GREAT 23:02 CONTROVERSY BETWEEN CHRIST -CHRISTIANITY AND 23:06 HINDUISM, IT MADE A TREMENDOUS IMPACT ON THAT 23:11 VILLAGE AND ON THE CHURCH. 23:13 AND I SEE SOMETHING ELSE KIND OF SUPERIMPOSED OVER 23:16 ALL OF THIS, THEY MAY HAVE HAD A REAL HEAVY 23:18 PREJUDICE, THEY MAY HAVE HATED THOSE FOLKS, YES, 23:21 BUT SOMEHOW EVEN ON HIS DEATH BED THIS MAN SAYS, 23:24 INSPITE OF THAT HAUNTED CHURCH, I KNOW I CAN GET 23:27 HELP FROM THE ADVENTIST PEOPLE. 23:28 RIGHT. 23:29 THEY KNOW GOD, THEY KNOW THE GREAT PHYSICIAN. 23:31 RIGHT. 23:32 AND HOW CAN IT BE HAUNTED WHEN THERE IS SO MUCH LOVE 23:35 AND THERE IS SO MUCH CARING THAT THESE PEOPLE 23:38 ARE GIVING AND THE BIG QUESTION IS WHY ARE YOU 23:40 DOING THIS? 23:42 WELL, WE'RE CHRISTIANS. 23:43 WE'RE DOING THIS BECAUSE JESUS LOVES US AND HE 23:47 LOVES YOU TOO. 23:48 AND THAT'S A FOREIGN CONCEPT. 23:49 OH YES. 23:51 THEY ARE AFRAID OF THEIR GOD AND FEAR DOMINATES 23:54 THEIR RELIGION AND THIS IS OUR WAY OF SHOWING THEM 23:57 THAT CHRISTIANITY IS DOMINATED NOT BY FEAR BUT 24:00 BY LOVE. 24:01 SO, IT IS A HUGE CONTRAST THAT THEIR GOD IS TO BE 24:04 FEARED BUT JESUS LOVES ME THIS I KNOW. 24:07 YES. 24:08 AMEN, AMEN. 24:09 AND SO, YOU KNOW NOW I HAVE A LITTLE BETTER 24:13 UNDERSTANDING OF HOW TO DEAL WITH A HAUNTED CHURCH 24:16 AND IT IS ALWAYS THE BIG PICTURE OF THE COMMUNITY 24:20 AND THE CONCEPT OF THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST 24:23 CHURCH IS A HOSPITAL CHURCH. 24:25 YOU GO THERE WHEN YOU ARE HURTING AND THAT CAN EVEN 24:29 BE IN THE UNITED STATES. 24:30 YOU KNOW, WHETHER THERE IS COVID OR WHATEVER AND YOU 24:34 ARE UPSET AND YOU ARE WORRIED AND YOU ARE AFRAID 24:37 AND YOU'RE FEARFUL COME TO THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST 24:40 CHURCH. 24:40 SO, GOD HAS OVERCOME AND THAT HAS BECOME A 24:43 LIGHTHOUSE IN THAT COMMUNITY NOT A DARK 24:45 HALLOWEEN HAUNTED CHURCH. 24:47 NO, NO. 24:47 WOW. 24:48 AND IT'S BECAUSE OF THAT ONE MAN, ONE GOSPEL 24:52 OUTREACH WORKER, KARTIK AND HOW HE HAS STRUGGLED 24:57 WITH THE PREJUDICE AND THE HATRED OF THE COMMUNITY 25:01 AND HOW THAT HAS CHANGED NOW AND HE IS LOOKED UPON 25:04 AS A LEADER. 25:05 A MAN THAT THEY WOULDN'T SELL RICE TO NOW IS 25:09 BLESSING OTHERS. 25:10 CHARLES, YOU KNOW JESUS SAYS IN MULTIPLE PLACES IN 25:13 THE GOSPELS YOU, ACTUALLY IT IS VERY SIGNIFICANT IN 25:17 THE KING JAMES: IT IS ALWAYS YE AND THEE AND 25:20 THOU THAT'S ALWAYS SINGULAR. 25:22 RIGHT. 25:23 YOU IS GENERALLY PLURAL IN THE NEW TESTAMENT BUT 25:25 JESUS SAYS, YE ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD; ONE 25:29 PERSON. 25:30 YE ARE A CITY SET ON A HILL THAT CANNOT BE 25:33 HIDDEN. 25:34 YE ARE THE SALT OF THE EARTH AND SO YE, YOU, ONE 25:38 PERSON CAN HAVE A HUGE IMPACT BY GETTING TO 25:41 PARTICIPATE IN WHAT GOSPEL OUTREACH IS ALL ABOUT AND 25:45 WE DON'T EXIST WITHOUT YOUR SUPPORT, YOUR PRAYERS 25:48 AND YOUR DOING WHAT CHARLES SHULTZ IS DOING AS 25:51 A LAY PERSON GOING INTO SOME OF THESE AREAS REMOTE 25:54 ON THIS PLANET AND SHARING JESUS AND ENCOURAGING 25:56 THOSE GOSPEL WORKERS WHICH YOU CAN SUPPORT. 25:59 YOU'LL SEE THE GRAPHICS COME UP ON THE SCREEN AS 26:01 WE CLOSE OUT TODAY. 26:02 BY THE WAY, WE HAVE A LITTLE BROCHURE THAT WE 26:04 CAN MAIL OUT TO YOU ON A REGULAR BASIS TO TELL SOME 26:07 OF THESE KINDS OF STORIES. 26:08 PLEASE, PLEASE PRAY FOR US. 26:11 PRAY FOR THESE VOLUNTEER MISSIONARIES OUT THERE WHO 26:13 ARE LITERALLY IN THE GREAT CONTROVERSY SCHEMES, THEY 26:16 ARE GOING HEAD TO HEAD WITH THE FORCES OF EVIL 26:18 BUT GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN US THAN HE THAT IS IN 26:22 THE WORLD. 26:22 THAT'S RIGHT. 26:23 SO, WHATEVER IT IS IN YOUR LIFE, PUT YOUR ARMS IN THE 26:26 HANDS OF JESUS. 26:28 HE SAYS, I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU. 26:30 I WILL NEVER FORSAKE YOU. 26:32 I WILL BE WITH YOU ALWAYS EVEN TO THE END OF THE 26:35 WORLD. 26:36 CHARLES, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING WITH US AGAIN 26:37 TODAY AND FOR BRINGING A NEW HALLOWEEN TREAT. 26:41 YES, YES, A TREAT AND NOT A TRICK. 26:44 THAT'S RIGHT AND FOR THE CELEBRATION ASPECT OF WHAT 26:46 THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH IS SUPPOSED TO BE ALL 26:48 ABOUT. 26:49 AMEN. 26:50 THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS A PARTY AND SO MAY HEAVEN 26:52 SMILE DOWN ON YOU WITH IT'S CHOICEST BLESSINGS 26:54 UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN. 26:55 MAKE SURE YOU JOIN US AGAIN NEXT WEEK AND TELL 26:57 YOUR FRIENDS TO JOIN US HERE ON "ADVENTURES IN 27:00 MISSIONS". 27:01 I'M LONNIE MELASHENKO YOUR HOST. 27:03 THANKS FOR WATCHING TODAY. 27:04 [CLOSING MUSIC]. |
Revised 2021-03-30