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Series Code: JFAN
Program Code: JFAN000038A
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00:21 Hello, and welcome to Jesus for Asia Now.
00:24 I'm Natalie Wood, and I have a special guest with me today. 00:27 But first, I want to share with you 00:28 one of her favorite texts. 00:30 That is Isaiah 50:7, 00:35 "For the Lord God will help me, 00:37 therefore shall I not be confounded: 00:40 therefore have I set my face like a flint, 00:44 and I know that I shall not be ashamed. 00:48 Isaiah 50:7. 00:51 I want to introduce you to our special guest today, 00:53 and that is Lisa Sharon. 00:54 Welcome, Lisa. Thank you. 00:56 Now this is part two. 00:58 We've already done one show talking 01:00 about how you got into the mission field 01:02 and what's happened in the first years 01:05 that you were there. 01:06 And we want to take it, kind of, 01:08 we'll start a little bit before we finished the last time, 01:11 but we want to go on in the story, 01:12 because the Lord has done so much 01:15 in your lives in the last couple years 01:18 that we want to be amplified and we want to be shared. 01:22 And we finished the last show talking about 01:24 how a huge mango tree came down 01:26 on one of the buildings on the mango hall 01:29 which is what it was named afterward. 01:32 It was the school building and the boys' dorm, 01:36 but no one was inside, 01:37 and God had protected everybody. 01:40 And we want to start there 01:42 because what happened after that 01:44 is kind of traumatic, 01:46 and I know at the time, it must have been, 01:48 kind of, frightening actually. 01:50 A little bit, it was. 01:52 So was it soon after this? 01:54 I don't really remember how many months, 01:56 it was several months afterwards. 01:58 It was towards the end of the school year. 02:00 When my husband and I were getting ready 02:03 to go to town for the night, 02:05 because we always went into town, 02:07 write our emails, did our shopping, 02:09 and then came back so that we could be ready 02:10 for the next school week. 02:12 While we were just walking off the path 02:14 when we saw a large group of soldiers 02:17 and important looking people 02:19 standing up by mango hall. 02:22 And we were little surprised, 02:25 but we went up there and they informed us 02:29 that the laws in Thailand had changed, 02:31 and that we were no longer allowed to have a school 02:35 in on the forest property. 02:38 And so they said that we would have to move. 02:43 And they were very nice. 02:45 I mean, once they realized that 02:47 we weren't there to cause any problems or anything, 02:49 they were just really, really sweet. 02:51 We really appreciated them a lot. 02:53 But the following week, 02:56 we were on our way up the river in the boat, 02:59 and we saw a large boat of soldiers 03:01 this time with big guns. 03:03 It's a little bit intimidating, but they told us to pull over, 03:07 and so we pulled over and got out on the sandbar, 03:09 and they made us stand there and they said, 03:11 "You have one week to move the school." 03:18 They had already sent all of our students home, 03:21 and so it was just, I believe, the nine of us that were there. 03:26 Four of them are children, so there's five adults. 03:29 We had mango hall which was a very large building, 03:33 we had our kitchen, we had our house, 03:36 we had the girls' dorm, we had a whole hydro system, 03:39 and a solar system, and two outhouses. 03:43 And they said, "You have one week 03:45 to clear the jungle, 03:47 get all of your buildings, all of your things and move." 03:51 So there could be like no trace that you had been there? 03:53 No trace that we'd been there. 03:54 Except that the jungle was cut, of course. 03:55 Yeah. Wow. 03:57 And so, we went home 03:59 and we started trying the impossible. 04:02 We figured it out, we had two days 04:04 to move each building 04:06 because, two, four, six, yeah, 'cause that was the Sunday, 04:09 and we had to be done by Friday 04:10 because we wouldn't work on Sabbath. 04:12 Right. And so we started. 04:14 It was the beginning of hot season, 04:16 so it was very, very hot. 04:19 We were up on the side of a mountain, 04:21 and then we had a narrow pathway 04:23 that went down to the river where we had our little boat. 04:26 And our boat is like... 04:28 Well, you can see pictures of it 04:29 that it's not very big, it's more like a canoe, 04:33 you know, with a motor on it. 04:36 Anyway, so we had to carry everything 04:38 down that pathway all the way to the river, 04:41 put in the boat, and then take the boat 04:43 about a kilometer up the river to where... 04:46 They've given us permission to put all of our stuff 04:48 on the shore of the river right next to the village. 04:53 And so we started, we tried. 04:56 I mean, we were working our hardest, 04:58 but it was an impossible situation. 05:03 It was just, you know, it was... 05:06 First of all, it was heartbreaking 05:07 to have to lose our school this way, 05:10 but the amount of work, 05:11 I mean, that's a lot of buildings. 05:13 It's a lot of materials. 05:15 And to not only dismantle the buildings 05:17 but then to transport them, it was a lot of work. 05:20 But we were busy tearing apart mango hall. 05:24 And one afternoon, and we looked up, 05:28 and there coming down the path was 18 young people. 05:33 Some of them are our students. 05:35 Somehow, the word had gotten back to them 05:38 what was happening with us. 05:40 And they said, "You know what? 05:42 Whether we get in trouble or not, 05:43 we have to go help." 05:45 And so people that we didn't even know, 05:47 kids that we never even met were there. 05:49 And they've been hiking for six hours 05:52 to get to the school. 05:54 And they just got right in there, 05:56 and they started carrying loads down to the river 05:58 and taking it up. 05:59 Some people had to hike up the river, 06:02 it wasn't too deep, except in places, 06:05 there were places where it was a rear head, 06:07 but they then tied the logs together, 06:10 all our posts where the houses in them, 06:13 hauled them up the river with a rope. 06:16 That's hard work, 'cause it's a very swift river. 06:18 It's swift and it's heavy, heavy wood, 06:20 that's why they had to do it that way 06:22 instead of in the boat. 06:23 Yeah, they were too heavy for the boat, 06:24 we couldn't do it that way. 06:26 Anyway, they got it all moved out. 06:28 On Friday morning, 06:31 we were just taking the very last load 06:33 of stuff down to the boat when the soldiers came again. 06:37 And they just kind of like looked with their mouths open. 06:39 They were like, "How did you do this?" 06:43 Even they didn't think it was possible, 06:46 but God did the impossible and it was all moved. 06:50 Wow. 06:51 What followed was probably 06:53 the most miserable month of our lives. 06:57 And I believed that that was God's plan. 06:58 I mean, that sounds kind of strange. 07:00 But there was this boat grandpa, 07:03 that's what we call him, 07:04 we don't use names over there, usually we give titles. 07:07 So the boat grandpa had asked... 07:09 He was a grandpa, and he had a boat? 07:11 Yeah, he was a grandpa. Yeah, and he had a boat. 07:12 And he would take you places if you... 07:15 And so hence why he is called the boat grandpa. 07:17 Right. 07:19 He had a piece of property down there 07:20 that he really wanted to give us. 07:22 And so we were camping on that piece of property, 07:24 trying to get permission to move there, 07:26 but the village leader said, 07:28 "No, I don't want you there 07:29 because it's too far away from the village that 07:31 that piece of property belonged to." 07:33 He wanted us to live right in the middle of his village, 07:36 not way out like that. 07:38 And so we were camping down there. 07:40 And I was really disappointed because I was thinking, 07:44 you know, if I have to leave our perfect place 07:45 for the school, at least this is second best, 07:48 you know, still by the river, 07:50 you can still go up and down the river in the boat, 07:52 it doesn't hurt my back. 07:54 But that place was closed down. 07:57 And I was like almost fuming about it. 08:00 I was like, "Why is this happening, 08:02 you know, why do I have to lose everything?" 08:05 But then, all of us got hives, I mean, like, 08:11 "Oh, my poor kids," 08:12 their faces were just covered in welts and splotches, 08:16 and they could hardly breathe. 08:19 And by this time, my husband had left, 08:21 and our volunteers had left to go... 08:26 They had other things that they had to do. 08:28 My husband had gone down to help Travis for a few weeks. 08:31 And then, Jason was looking for property, 08:33 he had found a place up on the mountain. 08:36 So he was up at the mountain 08:37 trying to put together something for us to live in. 08:40 And so I had all the girls down by the river by myself, 08:43 and I had no transportation. 08:46 There was no way to get out of there. 08:47 No communication, 08:48 there's no phones or anything down there, 08:50 and no transportation. 08:53 Two of the girls not only had hives, 08:56 but then they got malaria. 08:57 Oh boy. 08:58 And we didn't have any water on that place. 09:01 We had to walk about half a mile to get water. 09:05 Well, that was one thing, it's so hot during that time, 09:09 it's like 120 down there. 09:12 And so we go down to the river everyday 09:15 and try to cool off in the river, 09:16 but then it started raining just a few times 09:20 but that turns the river dark brown and angry. 09:24 Getting huge, yeah. 09:25 And I can't have the girls at the river 09:27 when it's dark brown and angry. 09:28 Especially not the little ones, yeah. 09:30 And so we couldn't cool off anymore. 09:33 And then, to top things off, we were living in, 09:36 we had taken a tarp and we'd made a tent out of it. 09:39 And always and all these bees, 09:41 I mean, there were hundreds of bees in my tent, 09:44 and I was so miserable. 09:47 When Jason finally came back to get us, 09:49 I'm just like, 09:50 "Get me out of here. 09:52 I don't want anything to do with this place ever again." 09:55 And I think that's what God needed to do for me 09:57 to make me willing to move. 10:00 So we moved seven kilometers up the mountain, 10:04 up on top 10:05 where it was much cooler all of a sudden. 10:07 And I hadn't realized how nice that would be. 10:12 It was cooler, and we were close to a village. 10:16 So we moved up there, 10:18 and we had to start building all over again. 10:21 Our original thought was, 10:23 "Well, we'll just rebuild the school up here 10:25 and we'll have a school." 10:26 But we got the classroom almost done 10:29 when we found out that 10:30 the government wouldn't allow that. 10:33 So we could no longer have a school. 10:35 Okay. 10:36 And so then, you know, it's like we found ourselves 10:41 swinging in hammocks going so... 10:44 Just hanging out. 10:46 "What are we supposed to do?" 10:47 I mean, "What's our purpose now?" 10:50 And you know, rainy season had started by then. 10:53 And you know, I was teaching the girls 10:56 and taking care of them 10:57 but I felt like I wasn't doing anything. 11:00 So I prayed, and prayed, and prayed about that. 11:04 It was just so devastating. 11:06 It was the hardest thing 11:07 I think I've ever had to go through 11:09 to lose our students, and lose our perfect school 11:11 and everything was setup, 11:13 so it's comfortable down there. 11:15 And to be in a village 11:17 where we didn't speak the same language 11:19 as the villagers, they speak Pwo Karen 11:21 and we speak Sgaw, 11:24 and the people were afraid of us, 11:26 so we could see them looking at us through the bushes, 11:28 but they weren't like, being really friendly 11:31 or coming to see us or anything. 11:32 And with Asia, it's all about relationship. 11:37 And so you have to take time to develop relationships 11:43 before they will trust you and after come to you 11:45 and make and be friends. 11:48 Yeah, it's different than it is here in America but... 11:52 Yeah. 11:54 So we didn't know what our purpose was, 11:55 and we just prayed, and prayed, and prayed. 11:59 And every time I would pray about it, asking God, 12:02 "I want something," you know, 12:04 teaching school is so rewarding. 12:06 You know, when you have students coming to you 12:08 and they are telling you how much they appreciate you. 12:12 And, you know, learning about God, 12:15 and seeing the changes in their lives, 12:16 it's so rewarding. 12:17 But just taking care of orphans, 12:20 that's a little different, you know, 12:21 you kind of start feeling like, "Am I doing any good? 12:25 Are they ever get, you know, 12:27 get their lives straighten around?" 12:29 But every time I would pray about it, God would say, 12:32 "Your kids are your number one job." 12:35 Even if it was just the four of them 12:37 at home right then, 12:39 they are so important to God 12:41 that He would take me halfway around the world 12:45 just to take care of them. 12:46 To become their mother. 12:47 Just to be their mom. 12:50 And, you know, that takes surrender, 12:53 because it's easy to be out in front of everybody, 12:55 and be doing something really active 12:59 and what everybody else thinks is important. 13:01 And what people can see a lot, you know. 13:03 Yeah, what people can see and measure. 13:05 But just being the mom is like, you know, 13:10 it's the most important job I could do, 13:13 but it's also one of the harder things 13:16 because there's really no reward in it. 13:18 At least, it doesn't feel like it at the time. 13:22 There's little things. 13:23 Yeah, little things. 13:24 But it's not like a huge... 13:26 Yeah. 13:27 You know, rewarding things day after day after day, 13:31 you see the light in their eyes and... 13:33 Yeah, yeah. 13:35 So it was probably a very difficult year. 13:40 But you know, I've learned through the years 13:42 that if we surrender to God, He gives us joy, 13:47 and that reward is so much greater 13:50 than it would have been. 13:51 And so I thought, "Well, you know, 13:55 if I'm going to just spend my time only with my girls, 13:58 then I'm going to do a good job." 14:01 And so I really worked it doing a good job, 14:03 and during that year that I thought was wasted, 14:07 both of my teenage girls were baptized. 14:11 And my daughter-in-law was also baptized, 14:13 I mean, she wasn't baptized 14:14 but she came in by profession of faith. 14:17 And so she wasn't my daughter-in-law at that time 14:20 but she is now. 14:22 Anyway, so that was when I look back on it, 14:25 now I can see that we needed that time. 14:27 We needed that time to rest and recuperate, 14:31 and we needed that time with our kids. 14:33 To connect with them all. 14:34 To really connect with them. 14:35 Yeah. 14:36 What happened next, the next part of the story, 14:39 once I was surrendered, then God could use us. 14:44 Well, it wasn't too long after that, 14:46 and one of our neighbors came over 14:50 and she was talking to my girls. 14:53 And she said, her dad had been sick for like a month. 14:55 And I thought, 14:58 "Well," I mean, I don't know what's wrong with him 15:00 but I could at least go check. 15:02 I mean, I can at least pray for him. 15:04 And so I got out my medical book, 15:08 my natural remedies encyclopedia, 15:11 and I had to eat lunch before I could go. 15:13 And so I was sitting there at lunch looking at my book, 15:15 and I just opened up to acute bronchitis. 15:18 And so I was reading through that. 15:19 And then we got in the truck and we went. 15:23 And when we got down there, that man had acute bronchitis. 15:26 And I just... 15:28 I have no confidence. 15:29 I'm just thinking, 15:31 "What if he doesn't want my help? 15:33 I mean, what if... 15:34 I should just take him to the hospital 15:36 'cause he's really sick." 15:38 And the head woman turned to me, 15:39 she had gone on this trip too. 15:41 She said, "If you can do something, 15:42 you need to do it. 15:43 We don't know anything, 15:44 and he's too sick to take him to the hospital 15:47 'cause the roads are terrible 15:49 and it's a long way to the hospital." 15:51 I had from years and years ago 15:54 somebody given me some things for that type of problem, 15:58 so I started giving it to him. 16:00 And I was just so amazed 16:03 at how God had shown me 16:04 exactly what the information I needed. 16:07 He had given me the right medicine 16:09 years before, 16:11 and I had exactly what I needed for that situation. 16:15 And that's kind of where it started. 16:18 But it got to be so intense that I was going to the village 16:21 like every day. 16:23 I get to spend all day in the village 16:25 going from house to house to house 16:26 treating all these people that needed help. 16:29 I mean, there's a lot of them, 16:30 like they'd have sores or rashes, or things like that. 16:36 And I say, "Well, how long has this been like this?" 16:39 They say, "Three years." 16:42 And I was... 16:44 I mean, it just makes you sick. 16:46 Yeah. 16:47 And I said, 16:48 "Well, why don't you go to the hospital?" 16:49 And they said, "We've been to the hospital, 16:51 they can't help us." 16:53 Oh, my... 16:54 And one of the things that happened was that 16:58 when I'd first started, 17:01 I'd gone 'cause I, you know, 17:03 we've just moved up there the year before, 17:05 and I hadn't ever needed my medical supplies, 17:07 but I thought, you know, I should probably unpack them 17:09 and get them out just in case. 17:12 So I unpacked everything 17:13 and I notice that every single one of my drugs, 17:17 any normal traditional type medicine was ruined. 17:22 The only thing I have left was natural. 17:25 So I felt like God was just telling me 17:27 that I should use natural remedies. 17:30 And then I found out that it's actually illegal for me 17:33 to use drugs 17:34 because if the hospital can't give it to them, I can't. 17:37 Okay. 17:38 And so that was, 17:40 that was another confirmation 17:41 that what I was doing was what God want me to do. 17:43 Wow. 17:44 But I was so busy that, once again, 17:49 I had a dilemma on my hands. 17:51 It's like, "Am I in the village all the time 17:53 and ignoring my girls? 17:55 Or do I spend that time with my girls 17:58 and let the patients come to me for the most part?" 18:02 And I realized that God was asking me to stay home 18:05 with my girls. 18:07 And so what we decided to do is, 18:13 my older girls would go into the village with Becky, 18:17 she's working with me. 18:19 And they would find the people that needed help, 18:25 and if they were too sick to come to me, 18:29 then I would go to them. 18:31 But if they weren't, then they could come to me. 18:35 And so most of the time, and then I have my girls, 18:37 I've been teaching them how to mix up the medicines, 18:40 natural medicines, 18:42 and you know, if we do a poultice, 18:44 I've taught them how to do them. 18:45 And so that if there's treatments 18:46 that have to happen every single day 18:48 that they can go into the village themselves 18:50 and do it. 18:51 Okay. 18:52 In that way my two little ones always have mommy around. 18:55 Wow. 18:56 So now the villagers can come on the porch, 18:59 and they come and join you for worships, and... 19:02 Another thing that we decided to do is, 19:06 I got this idea when my son got married, 19:09 he and his wife's sister is an artist. 19:13 And I thought, "Oh, wouldn't it be fun 19:15 to turn my whole house into a witness for God." 19:22 And so we asked her to come back, 19:23 and she came back last March, and she painted my walls. 19:28 And we put Bible verses in Thai above the whole living room. 19:33 She painted like a tree and a pot, 19:36 and there's a hanging plant and a cat with a butterfly, 19:39 and then across the middle of it 19:41 is Psalms 103:8 in Thai, 19:46 and then underneath it in English. 19:48 And then above the piano we have another Bible verse, 19:50 and then in the kitchen 19:52 we're gonna put a Bible verse there, 19:53 but she just drew... 19:55 she painted a window with a jungle scene 19:57 and things outside of it. 19:59 So when people come into my house, 20:02 you know, they're sitting on the porch 20:04 because they're too shy to come into the living room, 20:07 but they see this whole wall with Psalms 103:8 on it. 20:12 And it's... 20:14 It is a huge witness to them. 20:17 Wow. 20:18 Because, yeah, it's one of those... 20:21 And you see them just glancing at it, 20:23 and they look at it, and they think about it, 20:25 and it will say a whole lot that you just see... 20:31 So do you have any special stories of people 20:35 that you've been able to help 20:36 that God has healed through the natural remedies? 20:41 It's amazing. 20:42 I was shocked when I found out 20:45 how powerful those natural remedies are. 20:48 There's been a lot of them, a lot of them. 20:50 But one that was really exciting to me 20:53 was this man, he had gotten... 20:54 He was in his rice field, 20:56 and they cut the bushes in the rice field. 20:58 And when he cut a bush, it like, fell off the stump 21:03 and it jammed him into the leg. 21:06 And when he came to me, his whole leg was just huge, 21:09 and it was so infected, it looked... 21:14 So he didn't come to you right away? 21:16 No, he didn't come to me right away, 21:17 he'd already been to the hospital, 21:19 and they said that they had already gotten everything out. 21:22 But it was so infected 21:24 that I was afraid he was gonna lose his leg. 21:26 Oh, wow. 21:27 And I'm thinking, "Who am I to do this?" 21:30 You know, but I thought, "You know what? 21:32 I can do charcoal flaxseed poultices, 21:35 and we'll do that twice a day." 21:36 And so I got him starting on that, 21:37 plus garlic and things that would help 21:39 with the infection. 21:41 And twice a day we had to go to the village 21:44 and do these poultices on him, 21:45 and you know, I got rid of, you know, took weeks. 21:49 But after about two and a half weeks, 21:52 we've gotten the leg down to where there was 21:54 just a little bit of infection left. 21:57 But I could not get rid of the rest of that infection. 22:01 I worked on it, and worked on it, 22:02 and worked on it, and finally he... 22:04 I told him, I said, "You know, you need to go to the hospital 22:07 and have this opened up 22:09 so they can get rid of this infection 22:12 because we've done everything and we can't do it." 22:14 Seems like there's still 22:15 something in there, or something... 22:17 Yes, something, it was just wrong. 22:20 We figured there had to be something in it. 22:22 And he told me, "No." 22:24 He was the most stubborn man. 22:25 He's like, "No, if it needs to be cut open, 22:28 you do it." 22:29 Oh, boy. 22:30 He's like, "I'm not going to the hospital." 22:32 And I'm like, "Well, I'm not cutting it open." 22:36 And so we went another week, 22:38 and he still wouldn't go to the hospital, 22:40 and it still needed to be cut open. 22:42 And so finally I talked to my son about it, I'm like, 22:45 "If you'll do the cutting, 22:47 you know, I'll tell you what to do. 22:50 We have Lidocaine, I think we can do this." 22:52 And so we had him come over, and we were so careful, 22:55 we cut just a tiny little bit 22:57 and try to look and try to squeeze it out 23:01 'cause there was still a hole in his leg 23:02 where the stick had gone in originally. 23:05 And we had to cut a little more, 23:07 and a little more, and a little more, 23:09 and finally we got out a piece of bark, 23:11 and I was so excited, it's like, "Yay, we got it." 23:14 You know, we got this piece of bark out. 23:16 So I put people paste on it. 23:18 I didn't know how to do suturing at that point. 23:20 And so, we put people paste on it and it healed up. 23:24 And I was thinking, "Wow, we're done." 23:27 Well, so I didn't go do any more treatments on him. 23:30 But several day later, he came again, 23:33 and he's like, "You know what? 23:35 Another hole opened up in my leg." 23:38 I'm like, "Oh, no." 23:41 So I had him sit down on the hammock, 23:42 and I'm looking at it, 23:44 and it wasn't in the same spot, it was right next to the... 23:47 Where it had been opened before. 23:49 And so I was starting to clean it and stuff, 23:52 feeling so discouraged like, "I've tried everything, 23:56 I just failed." When I was cleaning it, 23:59 I saw that there was something there. 24:02 So Jason was coming down to the house at that same time, 24:05 and so I said, "Jason, look! 24:07 I think there's something in here." 24:08 And he just ran right over, and he grabbed his tweezers 24:11 and he starts pulling on it. 24:12 And I'm thinking, "What if it's a tendon?" 24:14 But he started pulling, and pulling, and puling, 24:17 and pulling, and he got a sliver, 24:20 that long and about that wide out of that hole. 24:25 And that man was so excited, for the first time in a month 24:29 he could walk without pain. 24:32 And the next day, he insisted on taking that sliver 24:35 and he's showing it to everybody in the village, 24:36 "Look what they did." 24:39 Within the next couple of weeks, 24:41 I had four more little surgeries. 24:46 Word got out. 24:48 The word gets out really fast. 24:50 And as soon as they know that you care about them enough 24:53 to persist and figuring out what the problem is, 24:57 people come to me from all over the place now, 25:00 villages that I don't, 25:02 I've never even been to we have people coming from. 25:05 And almost all of them 25:06 have already been to the hospital 25:09 and weren't able to get the help that they needed. 25:11 Wow. 25:12 So it's like opened up this huge ministry. 25:15 I'm teaching the girls as I go talking to them about, 25:19 you know, what I'm looking for, and what I'm doing, 25:21 and what the medicine is gonna do, and... 25:24 What herb or what poultice 25:26 that you're making will do what... 25:28 Yeah. 25:29 A friend of mine had given me last year 25:30 some books about natural remedies, 25:34 and different things to do for different things, 25:37 conditions and stuff. 25:38 And we've been using those books, 25:40 and it's just amazing how God has answered. 25:43 I mean, the people are actually getting well. 25:45 What about the dental needs of these people? 25:48 Well, that's another exciting thing. 25:51 We had some friends that came over 25:53 and did a one week dental training 25:55 for the missionaries. 25:57 And I wasn't able to go because I was with my girls. 26:01 But my son, and his wife, and Becky, 26:04 all went to this training. 26:07 And so now Becky and Shushana can do dental cleanings, 26:12 and Jason pulls teeth. 26:14 Wow. 26:16 And he's had quite a few patients 26:17 that he's had to pull teeth on and then, 26:19 that's a big, huge blessing for them because, 26:22 you know, they're in a lot of pain. 26:24 Their mouths are terrible. 26:27 Yeah, they chew betel nut in that area? 26:30 They chew betel nuts, and they just... 26:31 Oh, their teeth are awful. 26:33 So their mouths are red and their teeth are black. 26:35 Yes. 26:37 And it's so sad. It is. 26:39 Yeah. It is. 26:41 I don't mind blood 26:42 but I'm so glad Jason is the dentist. 26:47 Wow. 26:48 Well, it's been so awesome to hear the stories, 26:52 and to think about and talk about what God's been doing. 26:55 Just wondering if you have one more thought 26:57 you'd like to share or... 26:59 Well, I hope that somewhere out there 27:01 that there's people who will realize 27:05 that there is a lot of work to be done. 27:07 There's a lot of need out there. 27:09 We don't have enough resources for all the villages 27:12 that need us. 27:14 And it's really easy to get worn out 27:17 trying to meet all the needs. 27:19 And I know that God said in the Bible 27:21 that we are supposed to go and teach all nations. 27:24 We're also supposed to be like Jesus. 27:27 We're supposed to feed the hungry and heal the sick. 27:30 That's what He wants us to be doing. 27:32 And I'm hoping that so many will feel the burden to go. 27:36 Wow. 27:39 If God is impressing you to be a part of this ministry 27:41 financially or otherwise, 27:43 please contact us here at Jesus for Asia, 27:46 PO Box 1221, Collegedale, Tennessee 37315. 27:52 Call us at (423) 413-7321, 27:56 or visit our website at Jesus4asia.org. 28:00 There is a lot of need out there, 28:02 and I ask you to pray and be a part of God's work. 28:07 May God bless you until we see you again 28:09 on Jesus for Asia Now. |
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