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Series Code: AIM
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00:32 HI, I'M JULIE AND WELCOME TO "ADVENTURES IN
00:35 MISSIONS" HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH AND YOU KNOW 00:37 WHAT? 00:38 IT IS AWESOME WHEN WE HAVE ENERGETIC PEOPLE ON THE 00:40 SET. 00:41 ENERGETIC PEOPLE WHO ARE EXCITED ABOUT THE LORD AND 00:43 SHARING JESUS AND THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT HERE 00:45 AT GOSPEL OUTREACH AND TODAY I'D LIKE TO 00:48 INTRODUCE YOU TO JIM REYNOLDS. 00:49 HI, JIM. 00:50 HELLO. 00:51 NICE TO BE HERE. 00:52 IT'S GREAT TO BE HERE AND YOU ARE HERE WITH 00:54 "ULTIMATE MISSION" AND YOU KNOW, JIM IT IS EXCITING 00:57 TO ALWAYS HAVE YOU HERE AND IT IS EXCITING HOW 01:00 GOSPEL OUTREACH IS PARTNERING WITH OTHER 01:02 ORGANIZATIONS JUST LIKE YOURS. 01:04 YES, AND IT IS EXCITING THAT THIS PARTNERSHIP HAS 01:07 BEEN VERY GOOD FOR ALL OF US, I BELIEVE. 01:10 WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO WORK WITH THE BIBLE WORKERS AND 01:13 TRAIN THE WOMEN- I DON'T KNOW IF EVERYBODY KNOWS 01:15 WHAT WE DO BUT WE TRAIN THE WIVES OF GOSPEL 01:18 OUTREACH WORKERS TO DO BASIC PUBLIC HEALTH WORK 01:22 AND THEN THE WIVES CAN WORK TOGETHER WITH THE 01:24 HUSBANDS. 01:25 THEY CAN GO OUT AS TEAMS AND THEY CAN JUST SPREAD 01:28 THE GOSPEL THROUGH LOVE. 01:29 YES, ABSOLUTELY. 01:30 THAT'S THE BEAUTIFUL PART ABOUT THE HEALTH MESSAGE. 01:32 WELL, AND YOU KNOW, THIS IS WHAT THE GOOD NEWS OF 01:35 THE BIBLE IS ALL ABOUT. 01:36 UH HUH. 01:37 JESUS CAME AND THERE ARE SO MANY MIRACLES OF WHAT 01:39 JESUS DID IN THE BIBLE, THE HEALING AND NOT ONLY 01:42 AFTER JESUS WENT BACK TO HEAVEN BUT WITH THE 01:45 APOSTLES AND PAUL AND IT IS STILL POSSIBLE TODAY. 01:49 RIGHT? 01:50 YES, OH YES. 01:51 A LOT OF THE GROWTH OF THE CHURCH CAME RIGHT AFTER 01:55 SOMEBODY GOT HEALED. 01:56 AND LOOK AT WHAT PETER DID WHEN HE AND JOHN HEALED 01:59 THAT MAN AND BROUGHT HIM TO HIS FEET. 02:01 YES. 02:02 THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE CAME TO GOD BECAUSE OF THAT. 02:03 I WAS JUST WORKING ON THAT EPISODE ACTUALLY, WITH OUR 02:05 BIBLE IN LIVING SOUND AND JUST CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT 02:10 THAT WAS LIKE? 02:11 THE JOY OF THIS MAN-HE WAS DANCING ALL AROUND SO 02:14 EXCITED THAT HE COULD WALK AND CAUSING AN UPROAR. 02:17 ISN'T THAT JUST GREAT? 02:18 THE HEALING. 02:19 I TELL YOU I HAVE ONE LEG AND I WEAR A PROSTHETIC 02:22 LEG AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, MY LEG WAS THERE AND I 02:27 COULD JUMP AND I COULD RUN WHOO HOO, I'M TELLING YOU. 02:30 I KNOW. 02:31 WATCH OUT, PEOPLE. 02:32 WELL, AND THAT'S THE THING FOR YOU AND FOR ME BECAUSE 02:34 I'M BLESSED WITH SEVEN FINGERS, UH HUH, AND WITH 02:36 YOUR LEG, I AND JUMP IN HERE BUT I INTERPRET THESE 02:40 STORIES A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY, YES, BECAUSE 02:42 YOU AND I HAVE SOMETHING SPECIAL GOING ON THE 02:43 OUTSIDE, YES. 02:44 SOME PEOPLE HAVE SPECIAL THINGS GOING ON IN THE 02:47 INSIDE; SOME OF US HAVE BOTH. 02:48 YES. 02:49 BUT FOR US YOU KNOW, THESE MIRACLES ACTUALLY ARE 02:52 SOMETHING PHYSICAL. 02:53 YES. 02:54 AND WHEN THE BIBLE SAYS YOU WILL LEAP LIKE A DEER, 02:56 I'M CAN'T WAIT. 02:57 DUDE, YOU'RE GOING TO BE LIKE A POGO STICK. 03:00 I'M TELLING YOU, WELL, YOU KNOW BECAUSE I LOST MY LEG 03:03 WHEN I WAS 21 SO AND I WAS ALWAYS A GOOD RUNNER. 03:07 I MEAN I WAS VERY FAST I WAS ON THE TRACK TEAM AND 03:10 I WAS YOU KNOW, HAD RECORDS IN HIGH JUMPING 03:12 AND ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF SO, YES, I REALLY WANT TO 03:15 GET BACK TO THAT. 03:16 I CAN'T WAIT FOR HEAVEN. 03:17 YES, COMING. 03:18 SO, FOR THE VIEWER WHO IS PROBABLY WONDERING, OK, SO 03:20 WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS LEG? 03:21 SO, WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR LEG? 03:23 WHEN I WAS 21 YEARS OLD I WAS ON A MOTORCYCLE AND A 03:26 CAR PULLED IN FRONT OF ME AND I COULDN'T AVOID THE 03:29 CAR AND SO THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED. 03:32 SO, WHAT HAS GOD DONE AND WHAT'S HE DOING BECAUSE OF 03:35 THIS. 03:36 OH, WELL. 03:37 HOW MUCH TIME DO WE HAVE, RIGHT? 03:38 YES. 03:39 WELL, YOU KNOW GOD HAS CHANGED MY LIFE IMMENSELY 03:40 FROM WHERE I WAS FOR 26 YEARS AND OF COURSE, THE 03:44 WRECK DIDN'T QUITE DO IT BUT IT WAS PART OF IT. 03:47 IT WAS PART THAT EXPERIENCE I CAN LOOK BACK 03:50 AND SAY, YOU KNOW, LOOK HOW GOD HAS SAVED ME AND 03:54 THEN THE BLOOD TRANSFUSION I GOT FROM THAT WRECK THE 03:56 MAN WHO GAVE IT TO ME, WAS HIV POSITIVE BUT I WAS 04:02 NEGATIVE AND SO YOU KNOW, I JUST LOOK BACK ON ALL 04:05 THESE DIFFERENT THINGS WHERE GOD HAS JUST MADE 04:08 WAY FOR MY LIFE TO DO SOME OF THE THINGS THAT HE'S 04:11 DOING THROUGH ME RIGHT NOW. 04:12 THAT'S-MY HEART JUST KIND OF STOPPED. 04:14 I MEAN, HERE YOU NEED A BLOOD TRANSFUSION AND THEN 04:17 YOU FOUND THAT OUT AFTER THE FACT. 04:20 YES, YES. 04:20 OH, JIM. 04:21 THAT WAS AN EVENTFUL TIME OF LIFE. 04:23 I WILL TELL YOU. 04:24 I WOULD SAY SO. 04:26 WAITING FOR THOSE TESTS TO COME BACK, I HAD GOTTEN 04:29 MARRIED. 04:30 I HAD HAD CHILDREN IN THOSE TWO YEARS AND THEN 04:33 WE FIND OUT THAT THE MAN THAT GAVE IT WAS HIV 04:35 POSITIVE. 04:36 SO, YES THAT'S A WHOLE OTHER TESTIMONY THERE. 04:38 YES, I WAS GOING TO SAY. 04:39 HELLO, WE COULD TALK ABOUT ALL SORTS THINGS, YES, THE 04:42 FAITH WALK AND THE JOURNEY AND ALL OF THAT. 04:44 WELL, YOU HAVE A SCRIPTURE VERSE UM, IN 3 JOHN AND 04:48 TELL ME WHY IT'S IMPORTANT. 04:49 WELL, I BELIEVE THAT HEALTH IS SO IMPORTANT TO 04:57 OUR SPIRITUAL LIVES. 04:59 YOU LOOK AT PEOPLE THAT ARE UNHEALTHY. 05:01 YOU LOOK AT PEOPLE THAT ARE SICK THAT ARE GOING 05:04 THROUGH CHEMOTHERAPY AND IT IS SUCH A DEVASTATING 05:10 WAY TO HAVE TO LIVE A LOT OF TIMES. 05:11 I MEAN YOU CAN'T FOCUS ON REACHING THE WORLD FOR 05:14 JESUS. 05:15 YOU CAN'T FOCUS ON JESUS A LOT OF TIMES BECAUSE 05:18 YOU'RE SO SICK AND IT'S SUCH A TOUGH TIME AND 05:20 BEING IN GOOD HEALTH, MENTAL, PHYSICAL AND 05:23 SPIRITUAL HEALTH ARE ALL INTERTWINED. 05:25 YES. 05:26 AND SO BEING IN GOOD HEALTH, UM AS IS IN THE 05:28 BIBLE VERSE. 05:29 YES. 05:30 SO, 3 JOHN VERSE 2, "DEAR FRIEND, I PRAY THAT YOU 05:34 MAY ENJOY GOOD HEALTH AND THAT ALL MAY GO WELL WITH 05:38 YOU EVEN AS YOUR SOUL IS GETTING ALONG WELL." 05:41 . 05:41 UH HUH. 05:43 SO, THAT KIND OF BRINGS IT BACK TO "ULTIMATE MISSION" 05:45 PARTNERING WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH AND YOU RECENTLY 05:48 WENT ON A TRIP AND SHARE WHAT HAPPENED AND WE'VE 05:52 GOT SOME VIDEO TO SHARE AS WELL BUT HOW DOES THE LORD 05:54 BLESS AND WHAT WAS YOUR ULTIMATE GOAL ON THIS 05:57 TRIP? 05:58 WELL, THE ULTIMATE GOAL ON THIS TRIP WAS TO MEET THE 06:01 LADIES THAT WE HAD UH, THAT WE HAD TRAINED. 06:04 SO, THIS WAS OUR FIRST TIME OF TRAINING REMOTELY 06:07 BECAUSE THROUGH COVID WE COULDN'T GO TO ETHIOPIA 06:10 WHEN WE WERE ORIGINALLY GOING TO GO. 06:11 COVID STARTS TO DISSIPATE AND WE MAKE PLANS TO GO IN 06:16 NOVEMBER OF 2021 AND UM, AND AT THAT TIME THEN THE 06:21 CIVIL WAR INTENSIFIES IN ETHIOPIA. 06:23 OH MY. 06:24 SO, ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU KNOW, THE REBELS ARE 06:27 MARCHING ON ADDIS ABBA WHERE WE ARE SUPPOSED TO 06:29 DO OUR TRAINING. 06:30 AND SO, WE WEREN'T ABLE TO GO DURING THAT TIME. 06:33 MATTER OF FACT, THREE DAYS BEFORE WE FLEW OUT I GOT A 06:36 LETTER FROM THE STATE DEPARTMENT THAT SAID DON'T 06:38 GO. 06:39 SO, I HAD TO CANCEL THE WHOLE TRIP. 06:40 SO, WE FINALLY GOT TO GO AND WE WERE INVITED BY IT 06:44 IS WRITTEN AND THAT WAS KIND OF A THRILL TOO 06:46 BECAUSE IT IS WRITTEN WAS A BIG PART OF MY 06:49 CONVERSION EXPERIENCE COMING BACK TO THE CHURCH 06:51 AFTER BEING GONE FOR 26 YEARS. 06:53 AND SO, IT WAS ALMOST LIKE FULL CIRCLE FOR ME. 06:56 SEE. 06:57 I GOT TO WORK WITH THIS ORGANIZATION THAT HAD 07:00 PLAYED A BIG PART IN ME DECIDING TO BECOME A 07:02 SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST AGAIN. 07:03 AND SO, OUR GOAL GOING OVER THERE WAS TO SEE 07:07 THESE LADIES THAT WE HAD TRAINED BUT WE HADN'T SEEN 07:10 YET. 07:11 SO WE TRAINED THROUGH VIDEO AND THEN WE HAD 07:12 HIRED AN INCREDIBLE SUPERVISOR OVER THAT WAS 07:16 ABLE TO DO THE TRAINING AND WE DID A LOT OF STUFF 07:19 REMOTELY. 07:20 SO, SEEING THEM IN PERSON WAS VERY NEAT. 07:23 YES, AND I HAVE TO SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS TIME 07:26 WARP THAT WE'VE HAD OF THE EXPERIENCE THROUGH COVID 07:30 GOD HAS USED THAT AS HE HAS THROUGH SO MANY, YES, 07:33 STORIES OF PROBLEMS IN SUCH A GREAT WAY IN SO 07:38 MANY WAYS BECAUSE WE HAVE USED THE TECHNOLOGY OF 07:40 ZOOM. 07:41 WE'VE USED IT HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH AND YOU 07:44 GUYS HAVE USED IT AT ULTIMATE MISSION, YES, AND 07:46 IT'S BEEN POWERFUL AND I HAVE SEEN SOME OF THE 07:49 VIDEOS THAT YOU HAVE DONE AND HOW NEAT, THOUGH, TO 07:51 SEE WHAT -HOW GOD HAS BLESSED WITH THAT AND THEN 07:54 TO BE ABLE TO GO AND SEE THE ACTUAL PEOPLE WHO HAVE 07:57 BEEN TRAINED VIA ZOOM. 07:58 YES. 07:59 OK, WE HAVE THIS VIDEO. 08:01 COOL. 08:01 CAN WE SHARE IT NOW? 08:02 YES, LET'S SHOW THE VIDEO. 08:10 OK, ALRIGHT. 08:15 (VIDEO PLAYING). 08:19 FOR YEARS, ULTIMATE MISSION HAS BEEN HEARING A 08:26 CALL TO GO TO ETHIOPIA BUT EVERYTIME WE MADE PLANS, 08:29 GOD SEEMED TO CLOSE THE DOOR. 08:32 IN 2021, WE AGAIN MADE PLANS BUT THE CIVIL WAR IN 08:35 THE COUNTRY BECAME TOO INTENSE AND WE HAD TO 08:37 CANCEL JUST THREE DAYS BEFORE WE WERE TO FLY OUT. 08:41 IN 2022, IT IS WRITTEN ASKED ULTIMATE MISSION TO 08:45 PARTNER WITH THEM TO RUN THE HEALTH PROGRAMS IN 08:48 FRONT OF THE EVANGELISM MEETINGS WES PEPPERS AND 08:51 JOHN BRADSHAW WERE HOLDING. 08:52 THIS TIME THE DOOR STAYED OPEN. 08:54 THIS TIME GOD SAID, YES. 08:56 (MUSIC PLAYING). 08:58 THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE IS THE EXTREME HARDSHIP 09:09 AND NEED. 09:11 EVERYWHERE YOU TURN YOU SEE BROKEN DOWN ELDERLY 09:14 PEOPLE AND MOTHERS DESPERATE TO FEED AND CARE 09:17 FOR THEIR BABIES. 09:17 THE POVERTY LEVEL IS VERY HIGH. 09:21 ETHIOPIA RUNS AT ABOUT 19 PERCENT UNEMPLOYMENT. 09:24 JOBS ARE SCARCE. 09:25 THE PAY IS VERY, VERY LOW. 09:29 SOON HOWEVER, YOU CAN'T HELP BUT NOTICE THE BEAUTY 09:32 OF THE AFRICAN LANDSCAPE. 09:34 THE GRACE AND WONDER OF THIS ANCIENT CIVILIZATION. 09:36 A PLACE THAT CAN BOAST ONE OF THE FIRST CONVERTS TO 09:41 CHRISTIANITY. 09:42 THE PEOPLE HERE ARE TALL AND GORGEOUS WITH CHISELED 09:44 FEATURES AND HUMBLE HEARTS. 09:47 A HANDSHAKE ALMOST ALWAYS INCLUDES A HUG. 09:50 IT DOES NOT TAKE LONG TO REALIZE THAT YOU ARE ONE 09:53 OF THE ETHIOPIAN FAMILY. 09:55 (MUSIC PLAYING). 10:00 THE ULTIMATE MISSION TEAM WAS TASKED TO ORGANIZE THE 10:23 MEDICAL OUTREACH. 10:29 PEOPLE CAME TO US BY THE HUNDREDS. 10:41 WE TRIED OUR BEST TO HELP EVERYONE WE COULD BUT THE 10:44 NEED WAS TOO GREAT. 10:46 AT ONE POINT I WAS FACED WITH SO MANY DESPERATE 10:48 PEOPLE THAT ALL I COULD DO WAS WALK AWAY SO NO ONE 10:51 COULD SEE ME CRY. 11:03 WE SENT PATIENTS THAT WERE CRITICAL TO THE LOCAL 11:06 HOSPITAL RUN BY ADVENTISTS AND ANOTHER MEDICAL CLINIC 11:09 IN THE AREA. 11:10 PATIENTS WERE ADMITTED, TREATED, GIVEN MEDICINE 11:13 AND RELEASED. 11:14 ULTIMATE MISSION COVERED THE FULL COST BUT BELIEVE 11:18 IT OR NOT, THE COST PER LIFE SAVING TREATMENT ONLY 11:21 AVERAGED AROUND $25 PER PATIENT. 11:24 THIS SHOWS THAT EVEN SMALL DONATIONS CAN CHANGE 11:29 SOMEONE'S WORLD. 11:29 (MUSIC PLAYING). 11:44 DR. JOHN ANDERSON IS THE ULTIMATE MISSION BOARD 11:53 CHAIRMAN. 11:54 HE IS ALSO AN ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON. 11:56 FOR THE FIRST TIME, ULTIMATE MISSION WAS ABLE 11:59 TO INCLUDE ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY AS PART OF OUR 12:02 UNIQUE PROGRAM. 12:04 DR. ANDERSON USED MULTIPLE OPERATIONS TO TRAIN LOCAL 12:07 SURGEONS IN ADVANCED SURGICAL TECHNIQUES. 12:11 LOOKING TO THE FUTURE, WE SEE COUNTLESS 12:14 OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH THIS NEW ARM OF ULTIMATE 12:17 MISSION TO HEAL, TO TRAIN AND TO LOVE. 12:20 (MUSIC PLAYING). 13:07 I AM SO PROUD OF THE ULTIMATE MISSION COMMUNITY 13:09 HEALTHWORKERS. 13:10 THESE LADIES ARE WORKING BESIDE THE GOSPEL OUTREACH 13:13 BIBLE WORKER HUSBANDS TO HEAL THE SICK AND BRING 13:15 SOULS TO THE KINGDOM. 13:17 ADDITIONALLY, IT WAS A PRIVILEGE TO WORK 13:20 ALONGSIDE IT IS WRITTEN AND THE ETHIOPIAN 13:23 ADVENTIST UNION. 13:24 WE WERE ABLE TO WATCH HUNDREDS OF SOULS BAPTIZED 13:27 INTO JESUS CHRIST. 13:29 ULTIMATE MISSION BELIEVES THAT IF ALL OF US ARE 13:32 PRAYING TOGETHER AND WORKING TOGETHER WITH ALL 13:34 OUR MIGHT, GOD WILL USE US TO CHANGE THE WORLD. 13:39 GO TO ULTIMATE MISSION.ORG AND SEE HOW YOU CAN BECOME 13:42 PART OF THE SOLUTION AND A MEMBER OF THE ULTIMATE 13:53 MISSION FAMILY. 13:55 (MUSIC PLAYING). 13:57 WOW. 13:58 TALK ABOUT SIX MINUTES OF EMOTIONS. 14:04 OH. 14:05 ALL OVER THERE, WOW, JIM THE PEOPLE, THE NEEDS, THE 14:13 BAPTISMS, THE LITTLE KIDS, THE SMILES, THE SICK I 14:18 MEAN LETS JUST KEEP GOING. 14:20 WOW. 14:20 IT IS OVERWHELMING. 14:21 YES. 14:23 SO, WHAT WAS IT LIKE FOR YOU EMOTIONALLY? 14:25 OH, BOY WELL THERE WAS ONE POINT THAT WE HAD ALL 14:28 THESE PEOPLE AT THE GATE AND I WAS THE ONE 14:30 RESPONSIBLE FOR LETTING THE PEOPLE IN BECAUSE WE 14:33 HAD TO DO CROWD CONTROL. 14:34 AND THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE AND THEY WERE OLD 14:37 AND THEY WERE SICK AND THERE WERE BABIES, I MEAN 14:40 JUST ALL OF THIS GOING ON AND I COULDN'T HELP ALL OF 14:43 THEM. 14:44 AND AT ONE POINT, I BROKE DOWN. 14:46 I MEAN I JUST LOST IT AND I HAD TO WALK AWAY AND 14:49 THEN I, YOU KNOW, PRAYED, I CAME BACK AND WENT BACK 14:52 TO WORK BUT JUST SEEING ALL OF THAT MISERY AND NOT 14:56 BEING ABLE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT WAS TOUGH. 14:58 BUT WE DID HELP A LOT. 15:01 WE WERE SEEING 100-150 PATIENTS A DAY. 15:04 WOW. 15:05 YES, AND THEN WITH DR. ANDERSON HE'S AN 15:06 ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON, YES AND SO, BUT THE TRAINING 15:10 WHEN YOU SAID IN THE VIDEO THAT HE WAS ABLE TO TRAIN 15:13 THE LOCAL DOCTORS, YES, THAT'S PHENOMENAL. 15:16 YES. 15:16 AND WHAT WAS IT LIKE FOR YOU? 15:17 WERE YOU ABLE TO SEE SOME OF THIS? 15:19 I WAS ABLE TO ACTUALLY BE IN FOUR OF THE SURGERIES 15:22 AND I GOT TO SCRUB IN FOR TWO OF THE SURGERIES WHICH 15:24 IS AMAZING BECAUSE YOU WOULD NEVER DO THAT IN THE 15:27 STATES. 15:28 NO, NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS BUT WE HAD TO DO 15:30 SURGERY AT NIGHT SOMETIMES BECAUSE THEY WERE ALSO 15:32 DOING AN EYE CLINIC THERE AND SO THEY DID AROUND I 15:36 THINK, ALMOST 2000 EYE SURGERIES WHILE WE WERE 15:38 THERE. 15:39 SO, WE DIDN'T HAVE THE OPERATING ROOM DURING THE 15:40 DAY SO WE WOULD HAVE TO DO IT AT NIGHT AND SO THERE 15:43 WASN'T AS MUCH HELP. 15:44 SO, THEY ASKED ME TO SCRUB IN SO I'M HOLDING 15:46 INSTRUMENTS, I'M WIPING AWAY BLOOD; I'M DOING THE 15:49 WHOLE THING. 15:50 WOW. 15:51 IT WAS SO AWESOME. 15:52 IT WAS SO AWESOME, JULIE. 15:54 WOW.WOW. 15:54 NURSE JIM HERE, RIGHT? 15:55 SURGICAL ASSISTANT AND I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT. 15:58 BUT TO SEE THE NEED AND WHEN YOU SHARED AT THE 16:01 BEGINNING OF THE PROGRAM ABOUT HOW THE TRIP WAS 16:04 CANCELLED AND THEN TO SEE WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED, I 16:07 MEAN WHEN YOU CANCEL SOMETHING LIKE THIS, THIS 16:09 IS A BIG DEAL. 16:10 OH YEA. 16:11 AND THEN TO GET IT BACK BUT LOOK WHAT THE LORD DID 16:13 BUT HOW FAR WERE PEOPLE TRAVELING TO COME TO THIS? 16:16 AH, WELL PEOPLE WOULD THE PEOPLE THAT WERE THERE, 16:19 THE LOCALS WERE TRAVELING THREE DAYS. 16:21 THEY WOULD WALK THREE DAYS AND TRY TO STAY WITH 16:23 FAMILY MEMBERS OR SOMETHING TO COME TO THIS 16:25 AND SO, IT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE TRY TO 16:28 GET AS MANY OF THEM IN AS POSSIBLE. 16:30 AND YES, WE WORKED VERY, VERY HARD BUT WE-YOU JUST 16:34 CAN NEVER DO ENOUGH. 16:35 THAT IS THE ONE DOWNSIDE TO THIS. 16:38 YOU ALWAYS WANT TO DO MORE. 16:40 WELL, AND THAT'S THE STORY YOU KNOW, OF JESUS. 16:42 THE WORD GOT AROUND THAT HE WAS THE HEALER AND 16:44 PEOPLE CAME AND AT ONE POINT IT SAYS IN THE BIBLE 16:48 THAT THEY LEFT THE CROWD BEHIND. 16:50 JESUS AND THE APOSTLES LEFT THE CROWD BEHIND. 16:52 I MEAN, THEY HAD PEOPLE FOLLOWING THEM ALL THE 16:54 TIME JUST LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE WORD GETS OUT ABOUT 16:57 THE GOOD NEWS. 16:58 SO, HOW DO PEOPLE REACT TO YOUR LEG? 16:59 YOU KNOW NOT AS MUCH THERE AS THEY DO IN INDIA BUT 17:03 THEY -WHEN THEY SEE IT AH YES, I GET SOME REACTIONS 17:07 ESPECIALLY FROM THE KIDS. 17:08 THE KIDS LOVE IT. 17:09 YES, YES. 17:10 I'VE GOT TO TELL THE KIDS ALL ABOUT IT. 17:11 THEY ARE CURIOUS. 17:12 THEY ARE CURIOUS BUT MOST PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, THEY 17:15 LOOK, THEY GO JUST LIKE YOU KNOW BUT, IN THE U.S., 17:17 PEOPLE ARE GETTING MORE AND MORE USED TO THINGS 17:19 AND SO I DON'T GET AS MUCH REACTION HERE BUT OVER 17:22 THERE, YES. 17:23 YES, PEOPLE NOTICE MY HAND AND SINCE I'M THANKFUL I 17:26 HAVE GREAT PARENTS WHO'VE RAISED ME TO YOU KNOW, 17:30 THIS IS HOW I WAS BORN AND THE LORD HELPS US WITH ALL 17:35 SORTS OF THINGS AND I HAVE NO PROBLEM TALKING ABOUT 17:37 IT AND IT'S THE PEOPLE WHO ARE CURIOUS RIGHT, YES, 17:40 AND THEN THEY WANT TO KNOW SO. 17:41 MY FOUR-YEAR-OLD GRANDSON TELLS EVERYBODY HE SEES 17:45 THAT HIS GRANDPA HAS A ROBOT LEG AND HE IS SO 17:47 PROUD OF IT AND HE WANTS ONE JUST LIKE IT. 17:49 ISN'T THAT CUTE? 17:50 SO. 17:51 I LOVE IT. 17:52 OUT OF THE MOUTH OF BABES. 17:53 WELL, WE WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO BE A PART OF THE 17:56 HEALING POWER THROUGH THE LORD JESUS. 17:59 NOW THIS ISN'T ANYTHING THAT WE'RE DOING. 18:01 THIS IS THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND JESUS AND 18:04 GOD WORKING THROUGH ALL OF US AS HIS CHILDREN AND WE 18:07 WOULD LIKE TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO AH, IF YOU'RE MOVED 18:10 BY THIS VIDEO YOU'VE SEEN AND WHAT JIM HAS SHARED 18:13 WITH THE PARTNERSHIP WITH ULTIMATE MISSION AND 18:15 GOSPEL OUTREACH FOR PEOPLE TO BE HEALED NOT ONLY 18:18 PHYSICALLY, SPIRITUALLY AND MENTALLY BUT ALSO TO 18:20 HAVE THE HOPE THAT JESUS IS COMING. 18:22 WON'T YOU GET INVOLVED? 18:25 WHY HASN'T JESUS COME? 18:27 IT'S BECAUSE WE HAVE A JOB TO DO ONE THAT HIS RETURN 18:32 DEPENDS ON. 18:33 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT CHRIST WILL COME AFTER THE 18:37 GOSPEL HAS BEEN PREACHED IN ALL THE WORLD. 18:39 THE WORLD'S POPULATION EXCEEDS 7 BILLION BUT 3 18:45 BILLION PEOPLE STILL NEED TO HEAR ABOUT JESUS' LOVE. 18:48 NINETY- SEVEN PERCENT OF THE UNREACHED PEOPLE LIVE 18:52 IN THE AREA FROM 10 TO 40 DEGREES NORTH OF THE 18:55 EQUATOR. 19:03 GOSPEL OUTREACH HAS A UNIQUE APPROACH WITH THE 19:06 SUPPORT OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU WE SPONSOR LOCAL GOSPEL 19:10 WORKERS IN MORE THAN FIFTY COUNTRIES. 19:14 BECAUSE THEY KNOW THE LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND 19:16 RELIGIONS OF THEIR NEIGHBORS THEY FACE FEWER 19:19 CHALLENGES THAT FOREIGN MISSIONARIES WOULD. 19:21 TOGETHER WITH YOU WE FUND MORE THAN 2000 BIBLE 19:27 WORKERS BUT MORE ARE NEEDED. 19:29 LET'S REACH THE UNREACHED WITH THE SAVING POWER OF 19:34 GOD'S LOVE. 19:35 JOIN US. 19:36 SPONSOR A BIBLE WORKER. 19:39 DONATE. 19:39 PRAY. 19:44 AND WE WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU FOR ALL 19:47 THAT YOU'RE DOING AND WE WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU PLEASE 19:49 TO SHARE WITH SOMEONE ELSE ABOUT WHAT GOSPEL OUTREACH 19:52 IS DOING "ULTIMATE MISSION", AND A GREAT WAY 19:54 TO DO THAT IS THROUGH OUR NEW GOTV MISSIONS APP. 19:58 IT IS ON ROKU. 19:59 IT'S A ONE STOP SHOP FOR FINDING OUT ABOUT ALL 20:02 SORTS OF FABULOUS ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE 20:04 DOING FANTASTIC MISSION WORK AND IT IS JUST -IT'S 20:08 REALLY, REALLY NEAT. 20:09 SO, IF YOU AH, WANT TO GO ONLINE GO TO YOUR APP 20:12 STORE AND GO TO GOTV MISSIONS.ORG AND FIND OUT 20:15 MORE ABOUT THAT. 20:17 SO, JIM WE ARE TALKING ABOUT AH, PHYSICAL, 20:22 SPIRITUAL HEALING AND THERE IS ALSO ANOTHER 20:24 ASPECT THAT WE NEED TO CONSIDER. 20:26 UH, WHAT IS THAT? 20:27 MENTAL HEALTH. 20:28 MENTAL HEALTH IS SO BIG. 20:29 IF PEOPLE ARE IN DEPRESSION OR ANXIETY, 20:33 LIFE IS SO HARD. 20:34 IT'S SO HARD TO BE PHYSICALLY HEALTHY IF YOU 20:36 WON'T LEAVE YOUR HOUSE, RIGHT? 20:38 IT IS SO HARD TO BE SPIRITUALLY HEALTHY IF YOU 20:41 ARE INCREDIBLY DEPRESSED. 20:42 SO, SPIRITUAL, MENTAL, UH, PHYSICAL HEALTH ALL 20:46 INTERTWINE VERY, VERY DIRECTLY. 20:49 AND SO, WHAT WE'VE DONE AS ULTIMATE MISSION IS WE'VE 20:53 DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO START A MENTAL HEALTH 20:54 PROGRAM INSIDE OF THE PROGRAM WE ALREADY HAVE. 20:57 RIGHT NOW, WE TEACH FIRST AIDE, AH, NUTRITION, CLEAN 21:01 WATER SAFETY, AH PREBORNS, AFTER A BABY IS BORN HOW 21:06 TO DEAL WITH AN INFANT BUT WE WANT TO ADD MENTAL 21:09 HEALTH INTO THIS. 21:10 SO, WE HAVE A PH.D. 21:11 IN PSYCHOLOGY THAT IS AN ADVENTIST PASTOR THAT IS 21:15 PUTTING A PROGRAM TOGETHER THAT WE WILL INTRODUCE 21:18 INTO INDIA IN JANUARY. 21:20 AND NEPAL. 21:21 WE'RE GOING INTO NEPAL SOON, ALSO, YES, SO THERE 21:23 IS SOMETHING ELSE THAT WE ARE DOING SO. 21:25 THIS IS HUGE BECAUSE FOR SO MANY PEOPLE THEY FEEL 21:29 LIKE THEY CAN'T TALK ABOUT STUFF, UH HUH, AND THEY 21:32 DON'T AND I'VE THOUGHT ABOUT THIS, YOU KNOW, HERE 21:34 IN OUR WESTERN CULTURE YOU CAN GO TO BARNES AND NOBLE 21:36 AND YOU CAN FIND ALL SORTS OF BOOKS AND ONLINE AND 21:40 SERVICES AND THINGS LIKE THAT BUT IN MANY OTHER 21:43 COUNTRIES THEY ARE JUST TRYING TO GET FOOD ON THE 21:44 TABLE. 21:45 HOW DO THEY THEN FIND HELP FOR MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS? 21:47 AND THE STIGMA AROUND MENTAL HEALTH, YES, IN 21:50 THESE COUNTRIES IS HUGE AND SO, YOU HIDE IT AND 21:53 THE THING IS IT IS SO DEVASTATING TO A PERSON'S 21:56 LIFE. 21:57 RIGHT. 21:58 AND SO, WE'RE ALREADY THERE. 21:59 WE ARE VISITING PEOPLE. 22:00 WE'RE TALKING TO THEM. 22:01 WE'RE SHARING AND HELPING THEM AND SO IF WE -WHAT WE 22:05 FIGURE IF WE CAN TRAIN OUR LADIES TO LEARN TO BE 22:07 LISTENERS, TO LEARN TO DO SOME SIMPLE COGNITIVE 22:10 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND TO JUST DO SOME VERY BASIC 22:15 MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMS WITH THEM WOW, COULD WE 22:18 MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE JUST BEING THERE? 22:20 I MEAN, ANYBODY OUT THERE IF YOU KNOW SOMEBODY THAT 22:22 HAS DEPRESSION AND YOU HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE AT ALL 22:25 ABOUT HOW TO HELP JUST BE THERE. 22:28 JUST BE THERE AND LISTEN. 22:30 ABSOLUTELY. 22:31 ABSOLUTELY. 22:32 AND YOU KNOW, AS YOU'VE SAID THAT NEPAL, INDIA, I 22:35 SIT HERE AND AM BLEST I HEAR SO MANY DIFFERENT 22:38 STORIES FROM ALL THE REGIONAL DIRECTORS, FROM 22:41 OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS. 22:42 THERE ARE WOMEN WHO IN THEIR SOCIETIES, THEY NEED 22:46 TO HAVE A CHILD. 22:47 THERE HAS BEEN NO CHILD. 22:49 UM, WE EVEN HAVE REGIONAL DIRECTORS HERE WHO HAVE 22:52 STORIES TO TELL OF THEIR OWN FAMILY AND HOW THEY 22:55 ARE A WALKING MIRACLE BECAUSE THEIR PARENTS 22:57 PRAYED FOR A CHILD AND THEN WE ALSO HEAR ABOUT 23:00 ALL THESE RELIGIONS, ALL THE MAJOR RELIGIONS 23:02 STARTED IN THE 10/40 WINDOW AND YET MANY OF 23:06 THESE RELIGIONS, WELL, ARE NOT, IT'S ALL FEAR BASED, 23:09 RIGHT? 23:10 UH HUH. 23:11 AND SO, WE HAVE THE LIVING GOD BUT YOU HAVE ALL OF 23:13 THOSE OTHER AVENUES OF ANXIETY, YES, THAT I'M NOT 23:16 DOING THIS RIGHT AND THE BIRDS CHIRPING, WE DON'T 23:18 LISTEN TO THE BIRD ON THAT SIDE OF THE STREET AND ALL 23:20 OF THIS STUFF. 23:21 I MEAN, ITS EXHAUSTING, YES, AND SO NO WONDER 23:23 THERE IS A NEED FOR ALL OF THIS. 23:25 YES. 23:26 AND ESPECIALLY WITH WOMEN WHO ARE TREATED LIKE 23:30 SECOND CLASS CITIZENS IN SOME OF THESE SOCIETIES. 23:32 UH HUH. 23:33 AND EXPECTED, LIKE YOU SAY, TO HAVE CHILDREN AND 23:35 IF THEY DON'T HAVE CHILDREN, RIGHT, IT'S 23:36 THEIR FAULT. 23:38 IT'S SOMETHING WRONG -ITS THEIR FAULT AND SO YES, 23:40 THERE IS A HUGE AMOUNT OF SUICIDE AND DEPRESSION AND 23:45 ANXIETY. 23:46 WELL, AND THEN YOU HAVE THE WOMAN WHO IS GETTING 23:48 THE WATER; SHE'S RESPONSIBLE FOR GETTING 23:51 THE FIRE BURNING FOR UM, DOING THE THRESHING OF THE 23:55 GRAIN AND EVERYTHING. 23:56 I MEAN WE'VE SEEN VIDEO THERE ARE THE MEN STANDING 23:59 RIGHT THERE WHILE SHE IS, YES, I KNOW, POUNDING AWAY 24:01 AT ALL OF THIS AND THEN WE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE 24:03 WATER AND YES, WE CAN BOIL THE WATER FOR THREE 24:06 MINUTES BUT THE WOMAN HAS TO HAUL THE WATER. 24:08 SHE HAS TO HAVE THE FIREWOOD SO, I MEAN YES 24:11 AND I'M NOT JUST USING WOMEN AS AN EXAMPLE, I'M 24:13 SAYING THAT THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT NEEDS 24:16 THROUGHOUT, YOU KNOW, ALL WALKS OF LIFE. 24:19 YES. 24:20 WELL, I'M GLAD TO HEAR ABOUT THAT. 24:22 SO, YOU HAD THE TRIP TO ETHIOPIA. 24:24 GOD BLESSED. 24:26 HOW MANY BAPTISMS WERE THERE? 24:28 THERE WERE OVER 1700 BAPTISMS. 24:30 WOW. 24:31 THAT WAS AN AMAZING THING TO SEE. 24:32 THEY DID IT IN LESS THAN TWO HOURS. 24:34 WOW. 24:35 WITH 19 PASTORS. 24:36 WOW. 24:36 DO THE MATH. 24:37 WOW. 24:38 IT'S JUST I MEAN THEY WERE FATHER, SON, HOLY SPIRIT, 24:41 FATHER, SON, HOLY SPIRIT I MEAN IT WAS QUICK. 24:43 BUT IT WAS THEIR MOMENT OH YES, WITH THE LORD AND BUT 24:46 WHEN YOU HAVE GONE AND YOU'VE GOTTEN MEDICAL CARE 24:49 JUST LIKE IN THE BIBLE, YOU WANT TO HAVE A CHANGE 24:53 OF HEART, YOU WANT TO FOLLOW YOU KNOW WHAT GOD 24:56 HAS DONE. 24:57 SO, SOME OTHER THINGS ON THE FORECAST THAT YOU CAN 25:00 SHARE WITH US THAT YOU'VE GOT GOING ON? 25:02 WELL, SO, AH ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE LOOKING 25:07 INTO RIGHT NOW, WHICH IS REALLY EXCITING IS OUR 25:10 DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION IS A DOCTOR THAT IS THE DEAN OF 25:16 STUDENTS OK, FOR THIS COLLEGE RIGHT HERE. 25:20 MY BRAIN IS GETTING NUMB ---WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY. 25:24 THANK YOU, WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY AND SHE'S 25:27 LOOKING INTO PUTTING TOGETHER AN ONLINE COURSE 25:30 FOR OUR LADIES. 25:31 OK. 25:32 SO THAT THEY CAN GET FURTHER EDUCATION AND 25:35 MAYBE A CERTIFICATE. 25:36 SO, WE'RE LOOKING INTO THAT RIGHT NOW SO THAT'S 25:39 VERY EXCITING. 25:40 THE MENTAL HEALTH IS VERY EXCITING. 25:42 NEPAL IS VERY EXCITING. 25:44 WE'VE GOT A LOT OF THINGS COMING UP AND YOU KNOW, 25:47 WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING IN. 25:48 I WAS JUST TALKING SOMEBODY TODAY ABOUT GOING 25:50 TO INDONESIA WHERE THEY ARE PUTTING IN 200 MORE 25:52 WORKERS. 25:53 WOW. 25:54 INDONESIA. 25:55 SO, I MEAN, WHEREVER GOD TAKES US THAT'S WHERE WE 25:57 ARE GOING TO GO. 25:57 YES. 25:58 IT'S JUST GOOD STUFF. 25:59 YOU KNOW, I WAS THINKING AS I WAS LOOKING AT THOSE 26:02 PEOPLE AND I HAD TO WALK AWAY CRYING, WHAT CAME TO 26:05 MY MIND IS WHAT GOD MUST FEEL LIKE EVERYDAY? 26:07 I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT THAT. 26:09 WHAT GOD MUST FEEL LIKE EVERYDAY, HOW BADLY HE 26:12 WANTS TO COME BACK, END THIS ALL AND TAKE US HOME. 26:15 SO, HE DOESN'T HAVE TO SEE THIS MISERY. 26:17 HE HAS SO MUCH MORE LOVE THAN WE DO. 26:19 YES. 26:20 AND THIS MUST JUST- I CAN'T-I WOULDN'T WANT TO 26:22 BE GOD'S HEART. 26:23 WELL, AND IT'S THE ONE SHEEP, WE TALK ABOUT THE 26:25 ONE SHEEP, THE LOST SHEEP AND YET THE BIBLE SAYS 26:29 THAT GOD DELAYS THE DAY FOR US TO GET OUR HEARTS 26:33 TOGETHER, RIGHT, UH HUH, AND SO EACH DAY I'M LIKE 26:35 OK, LORD THERE MUST BE SOMEBODY ELSE INCLUDING ME 26:38 THAT YOU ARE WAITING ANOTHER DAY BUT YES, I 26:40 MEAN TO LOOK AT IT ALL AND GO, I CAN FIX IT ALL. 26:43 UH HUH. 26:44 I CAN FIX IT ALL BUT HERE'S THE STORY YOU AND I 26:46 NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE SHARING AND THAT'S 26:49 WHAT WE NEED TO DO. 26:50 YES. 26:51 WELL, JIM GOD BLESS YOU AND THANK YOU FOR SHARING 26:53 HERE AND WE APPRECIATE WHAT YOU ARE DOING FOR THE 26:55 LORD. 26:56 AND WE WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR BEING A PARTNER 26:59 HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH WITH ULTIMATE MISSION. 27:02 YOU'VE SEEN THE PICTURES, YOU'VE HEARD THE STORIES. 27:04 NOW WE WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO GET INVOLVED AND WE 27:06 THANK YOU FOR YOUR DONATIONS. 27:07 MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU TODAY. |
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