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00:21 Hello, and welcome to Jesus for Asia Now.
00:23 I'm Natalie Wood
00:24 and I have my husband Jon here with me on the show.
00:26 Hello, love. Hi, darling.
00:28 How're you doing? I'm doing great.
00:29 Merry Christmas.
00:30 Oh, you beat me to it.
00:32 This is our Christmas special.
00:34 Yeah, you can tell by the set, right?
00:35 It's decorated little bit special.
00:37 Yes, it is.
00:39 And, you know, we want to introduce
00:40 people to our workers here.
00:41 Yes, the ones in North America.
00:43 Right, and then also to a few of the ones
00:46 in Thailand in particular.
00:48 That's right.
00:49 And we want to share a little bit about
00:50 some new projects and some ideas
00:52 and concepts that the Lord is sharing with us.
00:54 That's right.
00:55 One of the first questions I want to ask you
00:57 before we get into all the other neat things
00:59 we're gonna do on the show today.
01:01 What was the first time you spent Christmas overseas?
01:04 The first time was in 1985
01:07 and I had just graduated college,
01:09 and I was in Korea as a student missionary,
01:12 and I had gotten sick and I'd gone up to Seoul,
01:16 the main city which is about four hours from the city
01:19 that I was teaching in,
01:21 and I wanted to get back home,
01:23 this was Christmas Eve
01:25 and I took the train and I got to the station
01:29 and I walked two miles to my apartment
01:32 and it was totally cold and nobody was there,
01:35 and I was alone for Christmas Eve,
01:37 and I tried to call my parents and they weren't awake.
01:40 So...
01:41 And this was a number of years ago,
01:42 so there was no e-mail. No e-mail.
01:44 There was no Skype. No Skype.
01:45 So when I think of Christmas overseas,
01:48 especially when you're by yourself,
01:50 when you're separated from loved ones,
01:51 it can be a very lonely thing and you really start to think,
01:54 "Why am I here?"
01:55 Yeah, and on that note,
01:57 we want to talk a little bit about
01:58 what we're doing today on the show.
02:00 Yeah.
02:01 We want to introduce everybody to our staff here in America
02:04 and to a few of our missionaries.
02:06 We've got some holiday greetings from some of them
02:09 and they'll be sharing a little bit about
02:11 what they're doing.
02:12 But first, let's talk a little bit about
02:14 our list of projects because I know maybe
02:16 some of our viewers have gone to our website before
02:19 and if they watched before,
02:20 they know that we have over 40 projects already.
02:23 Yes, yes.
02:24 So let's share a little bit about our list of projects
02:27 as they're on the website.
02:28 How do you find this list of projects?
02:29 It's really simple.
02:31 You just go to our website at jesus4asia.org
02:35 and then in the upper right,
02:36 there is a button that says, "List of Projects."
02:38 Click on that and you get
02:40 the entire list of all of our projects.
02:42 Now some of these projects, we don't have a page for,
02:44 so if you go through our website,
02:46 you're not gonna be able to see it.
02:47 But this is our total list and it's simple to update,
02:50 so we update it with new projects.
02:52 Some projects go away pretty soon
02:54 because they get fully funded,
02:55 so we just want to run through that list very quickly,
02:58 just to kind of get a feel for what's there, you know,
03:01 this is a season for giving, right?
03:03 Yes.
03:04 Yeah, and so we want to provide another opportunity
03:07 to give to other causes besides,
03:10 you know, we just go buy stuff for ourselves.
03:12 Right. Yeah.
03:13 Or our loved ones.
03:14 Right, and so this is just providing an opportunity
03:17 during the giving season
03:18 to think outside of just ourselves,
03:21 to think about others on the other side of the world.
03:24 That we can affect
03:25 with just a little bit of money or even a lot.
03:27 Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely, yeah.
03:30 So we just run through those projects real quick.
03:32 You can see, we have Bible workers,
03:35 we have children, we have publishing,
03:38 you know, translating and publishing,
03:41 this Man of Peace is a new one into Thai.
03:44 We also have churches that people can donate to,
03:46 especially like in the slum or a very poor areas of the world
03:49 that don't have the ability to build their own churches.
03:52 We got the Widow School mentioned there.
03:54 Our All Asia Media Team, you notice that on the right,
03:57 sometimes you'll see the little thermometer,
04:00 those are for the ones that have a certain goal that
04:03 they're trying to reach.
04:04 The other ones don't have and those are like
04:05 monthly expenses,
04:07 you can see there's the Atwells,
04:08 we're gonna hear from them later on in the show.
04:11 There's Gayle and Sharon Family
04:14 and other missionaries.
04:16 There is the Bair family and then GoBeDo,
04:19 slaving away down in South Philippines
04:22 working among in a very difficult situation.
04:24 As you can see, something for everybody.
04:27 If you look at the very bottom,
04:28 you've got "Where Needed Most."
04:30 People can donate to that.
04:31 And then it goes to wherever the biggest need is
04:33 that we sense at the time.
04:35 First one is Invested Jesus for Asia
04:38 because if someone donates to Jesus4Asia,
04:41 then all of these projects get supported.
04:44 You know, that's what allows us to function
04:45 to support these projects
04:47 and to enable them to move forward
04:49 doing what they do best.
04:50 And you know there's at the very bottom,
04:52 there's a little checkbox.
04:53 It says, "Make a recurring donation."
04:57 That means that every month,
04:58 whatever you've put in those boxes
05:00 will be automatically deducted from your credit card
05:04 which is kind of cool for like
05:06 if you're sponsoring a Bible worker
05:08 or a child or a widow or something like that.
05:10 And we have several people
05:11 that have chosen three or four items
05:13 even on the list and every month,
05:15 it's charging for that and so their sponsorship
05:18 or their donation is automatic.
05:21 Yes, they don't have to think about going and...
05:23 It just happens. Right.
05:25 And these were the things that missionaries appreciate so much
05:28 and national missionaries as well, Bible workers,
05:32 our media team in North Thailand,
05:34 all those national missionaries
05:36 that are really doing an amazing job
05:38 in where they have support.
05:40 Well, speaking of our home office,
05:41 we want to introduce our team here in North America.
05:44 Yeah, this is pretty exciting.
05:45 We've never done this before. Right.
05:47 You're gonna swap me out for some other people.
05:49 Right, but first,
05:51 while you leave us and someone else comes on,
05:53 we want to introduce the Bauders from Thailand.
05:56 Yes.
05:57 Merry Christmas from Bangkok, Thailand.
05:59 This is Josh.
06:00 And Chitlada Bauder.
06:02 This season, we're gonna miss our family and friends
06:05 in Spokane and Courtland area.
06:07 We'll be eating Som Tam and sticky rice in Christmas.
06:10 We thank you for all your prayers
06:11 and all your support that you've given to us.
06:13 And we pray that this season
06:14 that you will remember the kids in the slums
06:16 who don't have the opportunity to know the Lord.
06:19 Merry Christmas.
06:23 She was talking about Som Tam
06:25 and mangoes and sticky rice for Christmas.
06:27 I don't know if you've ever tried either of those dishes.
06:29 Som Tam is green papaya salad and can be very spicy
06:33 but it can also be very yummy.
06:35 And mangoes and sticky rice, well,
06:37 you just have to try it for yourself.
06:39 Maybe check out your local Thai place
06:41 and see if they have any.
06:43 You know, Joshua's talking about being away
06:45 from family and friends for Christmas
06:46 and it's especially hard but, you know,
06:49 they're not there because it's comfortable
06:51 or because it's easy.
06:52 They're there to share the gospel
06:54 with the people of Thailand.
06:56 At this time, I'd like to introduce you to Joe.
06:59 Joe works here with us in our office.
07:01 Welcome to the show, Joel.
07:03 Thank you for having me.
07:04 Now where were you originally from?
07:07 I'm from India.
07:08 I was born there
07:09 and then I grew up till about nine years old
07:11 and then I came to America.
07:13 Okay, so the star over the door is a familiar thing to you.
07:16 Yeah, I really liked that putting every year.
07:18 Yeah, and they're usually larger than that but...
07:20 Yes, much bigger and like yellow and red and shiny...
07:23 All different colors...
07:24 Yeah, it's beautiful.
07:25 Well, we had to substitute what we could find.
07:28 Yeah.
07:29 But it reminds us of our friends in India for Christmas.
07:31 Oh, yes, definitely.
07:32 So, Joel, what do you do here at Jesus for Asia?
07:34 I do the graphic design work here,
07:36 so lately it's been the print work that
07:39 most of the people have seen
07:40 and now we're also working on the website,
07:42 so hopefully that will be done soon.
07:44 Yeah, we're excited to have a new website finally.
07:47 Yes, praise God. Yes.
07:48 So how did you come to work here at Jesus for Asia,
07:51 you came fairly recently?
07:53 Yes, about four or five months ago
07:55 and my journey was actually very interesting.
07:57 I was working at a tech job
08:00 and I was wondering what do I do next
08:03 because I was like,
08:04 "Is this all that God has for me for this life?"
08:07 So I prayed about it and I asked for direction
08:10 and then I got a call from someone at church
08:12 and they asked if I wanted to go to Washington
08:14 to do health coaching.
08:16 I reluctantly said, "Yes"
08:17 after remembering the prayer and then after that,
08:20 an opportunity came up to go to Romania and Moldova
08:23 to train for sanitarium work,
08:25 so I thought God was taking me
08:26 in the health route so I enjoyed it,
08:28 it was awesome and then after I came back,
08:30 I was wondering, "What do I do next?"
08:32 I had a couple of doors open
08:34 and my mom reminded me,
08:36 I remember Jesus for Asia had done
08:38 small work for you guys
08:39 right before I left,
08:41 so I messaged Jon and he said,
08:44 "Yes," you guys were still looking
08:45 and so I prayed.
08:46 I told Jon I had to pray about it
08:48 and all the other doors closed,
08:49 praise God, and I knew
08:51 this is where I needed to be.
08:52 All right, wow, that's an amazing story.
08:54 Yeah, God is good.
08:55 Yeah, you know, He leads us
08:57 in strange ways sometimes...
08:59 Yeah, yeah.
09:00 You know, but He always has His plan in mind
09:02 and so we just have to follow.
09:03 Amen, yes.
09:04 So how do you see your work as a graphic artist,
09:08 how do you see that work playing in to
09:10 sharing the gospel or mission work or...?
09:13 Well, it's amazing how interested God is
09:15 in the graphics aspect of things.
09:17 There's times where I come in,
09:19 after doing morning devotional
09:20 and I'll start off doing, you know,
09:22 the graphics work and I'll have like this block,
09:26 like what's going on and then God will remind me,
09:29 "Did you pray?"
09:30 I was like, let me pray again
09:31 and I would pray and ask God for direction
09:34 and all of a sudden, you know, like...
09:36 Creative ideas...
09:37 You know, creative ideas come in
09:38 and you just know that
09:40 God is interested in everything
09:41 because He's the one who is letting people see that
09:45 and it's the Holy Spirit working on their hearts,
09:47 so it's amazing.
09:48 Right, you know, He knows just what
09:50 picture will draw people's hearts to Him
09:52 and which, you know, what words we need to use
09:55 and how it is to be laid up,
09:56 every part of it...
09:57 Yeah. He has the best ideas.
09:59 Yeah, and then I look at them before and after,
10:00 I'm like, "Oh, thank God for the outturn.
10:02 Thank God for God, right? Yes.
10:04 God is good. Yes.
10:05 Very good.
10:07 Well, thank you, Joel,
10:07 for coming on and sharing your story with us.
10:09 Well, thank you for having me. All right.
10:11 At this time, we'd like to share
10:12 a video greeting from another missionary to Thailand,
10:15 Brian Atwell
10:17 Merry Christmas from Bangkok, Thailand.
10:20 This year, not only will I be missing
10:22 my family and friends that live in America
10:24 but also my wife and children who are back visiting.
10:28 You know, as you look around this city
10:30 during Christmas time,
10:32 you see many of the same things
10:33 that you would in America.
10:35 There are Christmas trees and there are decorations
10:37 in many of the prominent malls in areas of town.
10:40 That's about as far as
10:41 the idea of Christmas goes for most Thai people.
10:44 In America, many of us understand that
10:47 the traditional meaning is
10:49 the celebration of the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus,
10:52 but in the city of 15 plus million people,
10:55 less than 1% of them are Christian
10:58 and have any concept of who Jesus is,
11:01 let alone that He came here
11:02 to bring us salvation, to bring us life.
11:05 This holiday season,
11:07 as you gather with your friends and family
11:09 and rejoice in the blessings
11:11 that you've had over the last year,
11:13 please remember those who are here in this huge city,
11:17 who have never had the opportunity
11:19 to hear about the love of God
11:21 and the gift that He sent in His son,
11:24 Jesus Christ, to come here and to give us life.
11:26 Thank you for your prayer and your support.
11:29 Merry Christmas.
11:31 Yes, Brian is by himself for Christmas this year.
11:34 His lovely wife Jessica, and their two children,
11:36 Asher and Joseph,
11:38 we will see in the next video but first,
11:40 I would like to introduce you to Thaddeus Lozensky.
11:43 Hi, Thad, welcome to the show.
11:44 Hi.
11:46 So what do you do here at Jesus for Asia?
11:48 I am the marketing development coordinator.
11:51 My official title is Missions Awareness Coordinator
11:53 and I'm in-charge of writing all the newsletters.
11:58 We have an e-mail newsletter that we send out.
12:00 We've also started doing a quarterly
12:02 mail newsletter that's really bright
12:04 and looks really nice
12:05 and Joel does the layout for that
12:06 and we work together on that.
12:08 I'm also involved in the new website
12:11 that we're developing
12:12 and we're really excited to get down
12:14 and get out for all of our JFA family,
12:18 and my most important job is to develop the fundraising
12:22 and marketing campaigns that we use to bring in new money
12:27 for Jesus for Asia, for all of our projects.
12:29 You saw that huge list.
12:31 There's a lot of projects to market for,
12:33 and so I work with everyone to develop
12:36 how we can best present those projects to our donor base.
12:41 You have an interesting story
12:43 and I know it's hard to tell it briefly
12:44 but could you tell us
12:45 how you came to work at Jesus for Asia?
12:48 Well, sure.
12:50 Last year, in June,
12:54 I've been praying really hard for God to bring me,
12:59 to show me where He wanted me to go next with my career.
13:02 I'd been working at the local university here
13:05 and was feeling ready to move on,
13:08 and one day I was praying
13:11 and I felt just a clear impression
13:14 in my mind from God,
13:16 Jesus for Asia.
13:18 And I nearly fell over in shock and amazement
13:23 because I had never considered Jesus for Asia
13:26 as a possible option for my career.
13:30 My wife worked there for a little while
13:33 as a video editor and a media production person,
13:37 and so I got to know you and the staff
13:40 a little bit like that,
13:41 but I never really considered that as an option,
13:43 so when I got that impression it was,
13:45 it could only have been from the Holy Spirit
13:47 'cause it would have never entered my mind...
13:49 Out of the blue.
13:50 Yeah, and it's been just a wonderful experience.
13:54 I learned so much about the needs in the world
13:58 and God's heart for the world here.
14:01 You know, John 3:16 has taken on a much greater meaning,
14:06 "For God so loved the world and..."
14:10 Our world tends to be pretty small
14:13 and working here has expanded my world tremendously
14:17 and yes, I have been very blessed
14:19 with my time here.
14:20 All right.
14:21 Well, thank you for sharing, Thad.
14:23 Nice to meet you here.
14:24 Good to be here. All right.
14:25 At this point, we're going to change
14:27 and we're gonna have another video
14:29 and this is Jessica,
14:30 Asher and Joseph Atwell.
14:32 All right, ready, grandma.
14:33 It's going. It's going.
14:35 Okay, Merry Christmas.
14:37 Merry Christmas.
14:39 Happy holidays from the Atwells,
14:41 from Jessica, Asher and brand new one, Joseph.
14:45 Just wanted to wish you all a Merry Christmas
14:48 and a Happy New Year and hopefully,
14:51 you enjoy the time with your family and friends,
14:54 and don't forget the people who are sacrificing time
14:56 with their family and their friends
14:58 because it's not easy,
15:00 but we're doing it for the Lord
15:01 and we can't wait all to be together in heaven
15:04 and celebrate as one big family.
15:05 So happy holidays from us.
15:07 We love you. God bless.
15:09 That was Jessica, Asher and Joseph Atwell
15:12 and that's Brian's family.
15:14 And as you can tell Brian is in Bangkok
15:17 and Jessica and the children are in America.
15:19 They had some medical issues to deal with,
15:21 as well as some other family things
15:23 they needed to deal with.
15:24 So please pray for them.
15:26 I have Jon back with me.
15:27 We have a little bit more to talk about here.
15:29 I wanted to point out the buttons
15:31 that we have hanging on the tree.
15:34 We've got these little buttons called,
15:36 this one's a "I fed a hundred children."
15:38 You know, it only cost $25 to feed a hundred children.
15:42 That's at our evening schools in India.
15:43 Right.
15:44 That's basically a quarter a day.
15:46 So it's one meal per day. Per child.
15:48 And plus, two hours of education per day,
15:50 six days a week.
15:52 Plus worship.
15:53 So this provides a hundred of those meals
15:56 and educational times for only $25.
15:59 This one is a 1,000.
16:01 So I fed a 1,000.
16:02 This says, "I fed a 1,000 children in India."
16:05 So for $250,
16:07 that's all it takes to feed a 1, 000 children
16:10 and provide two hours of education
16:13 for those 1,000 kids.
16:14 It's awesome.
16:15 Yeah, and it makes a nice gift too.
16:16 We have some friends
16:17 that have given them to their family and friends
16:19 for Christmas and the people enjoyed knowing that
16:22 that many children got to eat.
16:23 Yeah, yeah.
16:25 To find one of these on your Christmas tree is like,
16:27 wow, a 100 kids.
16:28 Wow, or a 1,000, that's cool.
16:30 Yeah.
16:31 So if someone is interested in donating
16:34 and receiving a button,
16:35 they can just call us or e-mail us
16:37 at the link on the screen.
16:38 Yeah, it's a great way to inspire your grandkids
16:41 to think about others on this Christmas season.
16:44 So at this point we want to change gears a little bit
16:47 and talk about our vision for the New Year.
16:49 Yeah, there's not much time left in 2016.
16:52 Can you believe it?
16:53 No, and we have some idea of how,
16:57 kind of sensing how the Lord is leading.
16:59 Yeah, yeah, you know,
17:01 this last trip through India and Thailand,
17:03 it's like, I see the power of the Bible worker.
17:07 So I sense God wanting to grow that program.
17:10 So more Bible workers, there's always a call for more,
17:13 you know, like in Assam, we have 33 Bible workers,
17:17 there's only four pastors for 32 million people.
17:21 There's a desperate need for more workers.
17:22 Right. Yeah.
17:24 So that's just one of the things
17:26 that we see coming next year.
17:27 And the big change that we see is churches,
17:31 building churches.
17:32 Up until now,
17:33 we haven't had much involvement with building churches
17:36 'cause we've been supporting Bible workers
17:38 and they've been planting house churches,
17:41 but now we see that there's a huge need
17:43 because we have congregations
17:45 that don't have a place to meet
17:46 and so they're scattered like in the slum
17:48 in Mumbai, you know.
17:50 There's no place for them to meet
17:52 and so they are a scattered flock
17:54 and so our big call that
17:56 we seek God is a big need for churches,
18:01 for building churches,
18:02 and the challenges that a lot of these local conferences
18:06 or regions or sections,
18:08 they just don't have the funds to build churches.
18:11 Some places do, a lot of places don't,
18:14 and so we feel that's a call that Lord has placed.
18:16 And we're gonna talk more about that
18:18 in our next episode.
18:19 The New Year special.
18:20 Yes, at this point we have another video.
18:23 This one is a promotional video for our new project.
18:26 Yeah, I'm really excited about this project
18:28 'cause I'm the cameraman in it.
18:30 You're the cameraman? Yeah.
18:31 You're not on screen?
18:32 No, and my son is producing it. Okay.
18:36 It's a new project and well, we've got the video,
18:39 talks about what it is.
18:41 Okay, all right, here we go.
18:43 Hi, I'm James Wood
18:45 and I'm producing this show called "Mission Trek."
18:47 A few years ago,
18:48 I got a call from Brenda Walsh at 3ABN's Kids Network.
18:51 She was saying how they don't have enough shows
18:54 that will inspire kids to put on her channel.
18:56 We're all about missions.
18:57 So we thought we would combine our passion for that
19:00 and our love for kids into one show.
19:02 So I told Brenda that we would love to do a show
19:04 if it was about missions and she loved the idea.
19:07 Originally, we were going to go profile a bunch of kids
19:10 that lived in the mission field.
19:11 But then we found out
19:12 that there are very few kids in the mission field.
19:15 So we came up with the idea of following my sister
19:18 and her best friend
19:19 as they learn about the cultures
19:21 and meet missionaries
19:22 who are ministering to God's other children.
19:24 The first time I went overseas,
19:26 I was four-years-old
19:28 and we went to India and Thailand.
19:29 Since then, I've had the opportunity
19:31 to go back five times.
19:33 The first time I went overseas,
19:34 it really opened my mind
19:36 to what it's like being over there.
19:37 I can't wait to introduce other kids to missions.
19:40 We'll be traveling to meet God's other kids
19:42 from the slums of Bangkok
19:44 to the mountain jungles of Northern Thailand.
19:46 Along the way, we will be meeting
19:47 amazing missionaries and interviewing them
19:49 to learn why they are so happy.
19:51 So far, we have the funding for the basic production,
19:54 this means that Lily Ann and I
19:56 and one other camera person can go
19:58 but not the rest of the team
20:00 including Lily Ann's mom and siblings.
20:01 Part of the show is gonna be shot on set here,
20:04 but we don't have enough funds to finish it or light it.
20:06 We'll be traveling to Thailand
20:08 and would like to visit Cambodia
20:09 also if funding allows.
20:11 We'll be borrowing cameras from Jesus for Asia,
20:13 but they don't have all the equipment
20:14 we need to shoot the show in the field,
20:15 we need to purchase more.
20:16 You can send your tax deductible
20:18 love gift to Jesus for Asia,
20:20 PO Box 1221, Collegedale, Tennessee 37315
20:25 and mark it for "Mission Trek."
20:26 Call us at 423-413-7321
20:30 or check out our website at missiontrek.net.
20:33 Your donation will go a long ways towards inspiring
20:36 the next generation of missionaries.
20:39 Doesn't that look like an exciting project?
20:41 I think it is.
20:42 And right now,
20:43 I would like to introduce you to my son, James.
20:46 Welcome to the show, James.
20:48 Thank you.
20:49 Nice to have you on with us.
20:50 Yeah. Good to be here.
20:51 So are you excited to produce this new show?
20:53 Yeah, it's gonna be a challenge.
20:56 It's something I've never done before
20:58 but I think it's gonna be good and with God's help,
21:00 it's gonna be amazing.
21:02 So what's it like to produce your first show?
21:04 It's a daunting feeling like I don't know,
21:09 I've always just been helping out here.
21:11 I never really done anything that big,
21:13 and so yeah.
21:15 So are there a lot of details involved?
21:17 So many details and yeah,
21:20 trying to figure out how to shoot the show
21:23 and how to do everything,
21:24 line everything up organize, it's...
21:26 Planning it and all that.
21:29 It can be a nightmare if you aren't organized.
21:32 Yeah.
21:33 So how big is your crew?
21:35 It's not very big.
21:37 My dad as he said before it was...
21:39 He is a cameraman.
21:42 He is gonna help me following Mary Ann and Lilly Ann,
21:46 the host and...
21:49 I think you're gonna help with like organizing everything
21:53 and that's it basically, so...
21:56 Yeah, Lily Ann's mom
21:57 and her siblings would be there to help
21:58 at least part of the time also.
22:01 But I think it will be a good show.
22:03 It's got a good...
22:05 From what I've seen already of your planning,
22:08 we got a good, good show on the way, so...
22:10 We got some awesome stuff planned, so...
22:13 Yeah, it will be fun and exciting
22:15 but it will also be thought provoking and bring out some,
22:19 maybe some new ideas to some kids out there.
22:22 Yep.
22:23 And some adults too I think.
22:24 All right, well,
22:25 thank you for joining us on the show today, James.
22:27 Thanks for having me.
22:29 All right, at this time we'd like to share
22:31 another greeting from our friends in Thailand.
22:39 Merry Christmas from Thailand.
22:41 Thank you for your prayer and support.
22:43 May God bless you.
22:45 Bye. Bye.
22:47 That was a greeting from
22:48 our Love for Asia media team in Thailand.
22:51 They are all natives of Thailand
22:54 but they wanted to send their greetings also.
22:56 So right now, I would like to introduce you
22:58 to my daughter Mary Ann
22:59 and her best friend Lily Ann Adams.
23:01 Hi, Mary Ann and Lily Ann. Hi.
23:04 Welcome to the show. Thank you.
23:07 Glad you could be with us today.
23:10 I wanted to talk to you,
23:11 ask you few questions about the new show Mission Trek.
23:15 Are you excited about the show?
23:17 Yeah. Yeah.
23:19 Stoked.
23:20 All right, excited to go to Thailand?
23:22 Very excited, yes.
23:23 And Cambodia, hopefully?
23:25 Hopefully, yes.
23:26 Okay, can you give us an idea some of the places
23:28 we might visit on the show?
23:29 Aunty Gayles.
23:32 Probably we going...
23:33 Definitely we'll see the Atwells.
23:35 Okay.
23:37 Probably the Sharons as well.
23:38 Okay.
23:40 And what about the culture in Thailand?
23:42 Are we gonna learn a little about the culture?
23:44 Yeah, hopefully.
23:47 Okay, gonna eat some Thai food?
23:48 Definitely.
23:50 You gonna try Som tam?
23:52 It's too spicy.
23:54 You tried it before?
23:56 I have no idea what it is.
23:58 It's green papaya salad.
24:01 Oh, yeah. I think I've seen that there.
24:03 Yeah.
24:04 Maybe we can try some.
24:05 What about mangoes and sticky rice?
24:07 Definitely, yes. Yeah.
24:10 What about some of the other cultural things?
24:12 Are we gonna do anything else on that show?
24:14 We'll probably go to some different temples
24:19 and walk around some old places like...
24:24 Ancient ruins or those kinds of things?
24:26 Yeah.
24:27 Okay, well I'm looking forward to seeing it.
24:30 Us too.
24:32 So you mentioned we're gonna go see Aunty Gayle.
24:34 What's it gonna take to go see Aunty Gayle?
24:37 Well, we have to take a bus to Mae Sariang
24:41 and then we have to take a songthaew
24:43 to another small town
24:46 where Aunty Gayle will pick us up,
24:48 and there is like two hour truck ride
24:52 from there to her place.
24:54 Okay, easy roads?
24:56 No. Not from what we've heard.
24:59 So how do you think
25:00 this show is gonna inspire other kids?
25:02 Hopefully it will inspire them to get involved in missions
25:05 and...
25:06 Maybe someday be a missionary.
25:08 Yeah.
25:09 All right, hopefully they can do
25:11 some short term mission trips
25:12 and maybe even be long term missionaries.
25:14 Yeah. That will be great.
25:17 All right, well thank you young ladies
25:19 for being with us on the show today.
25:20 You're welcome. Thank you for having us.
25:22 All right.
25:23 And now we have another video greeting
25:25 from a missionary in Thailand Jonathan Hill.
25:29 Hello friends, and Merry Christmas
25:31 from Thailand.
25:32 You know this would be my first Christmas
25:33 after moving here to Thailand
25:35 and there will be things that are different, right.
25:37 I won't be with my parents,
25:39 I won't be with family and with the...
25:40 Eating the food that I'm used to eating on Christmas.
25:43 But there is something else that's far more different
25:46 and far more important and that is, you know,
25:48 they say Jesus is the reason for the season, right.
25:52 Well, over here
25:53 the vast majority of people have no concept of Jesus,
25:58 who is the reason for the season.
26:01 So as you enjoy this Christmas season,
26:03 I encourage you to thank God for the blessing
26:06 He has given you and to contemplate
26:09 how you can pass on those blessings
26:12 to those less fortunate.
26:14 God bless.
26:16 You know, I can really relate to Jonathan being young,
26:18 single, overseas on Christmas.
26:21 Right, missing his family,
26:23 but he is there for purpose.
26:25 Yes.
26:26 And that's what we've heard from these other missionaries,
26:27 these other videos that we've seen tonight.
26:29 And they are just a representation
26:31 of all the missionaries.
26:33 There is other missionaries that didn't send in a video
26:35 and they're suffering,
26:37 they're missing family maybe as well.
26:40 Right, and these videos we got this morning
26:42 so it's a...
26:44 You know, it's right now.
26:45 It's these holidays right now.
26:47 And so I would just like
26:48 to invite our viewers at this time,
26:50 I'd like to ask you to pray for these missionaries
26:53 for the Atwells, the Bauders,
26:55 for Jonathan Hill
26:57 and all the other ones that they represent.
26:59 You know, even our media team in Thailand.
27:01 They're surrounded by people that don't know Jesus,
27:04 and they're doing their best to tell them.
27:06 And, you know Thailand is less than 1% Christian.
27:09 So they're literally surrounded by people
27:12 that don't know Jesus.
27:14 And then we could talk about India
27:15 and all the other countries in the world
27:17 where the gospel has not been preached to every nation,
27:20 kindred, tongue and people.
27:21 That's a lot of people out there
27:23 that haven't heard the good news.
27:25 So please pray for them,
27:27 pray for our friends in India and Cambodia
27:30 and the other countries around there.
27:33 All around the world there are people
27:34 that don't know Jesus,
27:35 and this time of year especially,
27:37 we remember how much He loved us,
27:39 that He came to this world
27:41 and that He died to save us from our sins.
27:44 Don't they have the right to know also?
27:47 If you would like to help these projects
27:50 and all of our other ones,
27:52 please send your tax deductible love gift to Jesus for Asia,
27:56 PO Box 1221, Collegedale, Tennessee 37315.
28:02 Call us at 423-413-7321
28:06 or check out our website at Jesus4asia.org.
28:10 All of us here at Jesus for Asia
28:12 would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas.


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