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Series Code: JFAN
Program Code: JFAN000053A
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00:21 Hello and welcome to Jesus for Asia Now.
00:23 I'm Natalie Wood. 00:24 And today, my husband Jon and I get to share with you 00:27 the fulfillment of a request made a number of years ago. 00:31 It is a great privilege to see 00:33 when people see the response to their prayers. 00:36 Welcome to the show, love. 00:37 Hey, darling, it's good to be here. 00:39 Good, here at Jesus for Asia, 00:40 sometimes it's hard for us to define 00:43 who we are and what we do. 00:44 And I know that the Lord gave you an idea recently, 00:48 kind of a way to say our mission statement, 00:50 it seems like that might simplify. 00:53 Yes. 00:54 They encapsulate 'cause we got over 50 projects. 00:57 And so people say, "But yeah, what do you do? 00:59 What is it? What's your mission statement?" 01:01 It's been really hard. 01:02 We've been in the ministry for fulltime, 01:05 almost 13 years now. 01:07 But it's been really hard to encapsulate 01:09 what we're trying to do. 01:11 And so the Lord kind of gave me that 01:13 as I was in prayer the other day. 01:14 So the simplest way we can say it is 01:16 that we exist to enable the missionary 01:19 either local or national or foreign missionary 01:23 to take the gospel to the underserved, 01:25 and the most underserved 01:27 as far as we have been able to find 01:29 is the people on the continent of Asia. 01:31 Lot of people in America aren't aware 01:34 that Asia has over half the world's population. 01:37 Right. 01:38 Ninety percent of all unreached people groups 01:40 live in Asia. 01:41 Right. 01:43 So that's why we're in Jesus for Asia. 01:45 Right. 01:46 Okay, can you break that down? 01:47 Explain maybe a little more what that means. 01:51 It's very simple but all the projects, 01:53 you look at all the projects and they're all about 01:55 serving those that are on the frontline 01:58 to reach those that don't know the gospel 02:02 or don't have access to the gospel. 02:04 So missionary is coming from America 02:07 from other countries, going to the underserved. 02:09 In other words, a country, 02:11 there is like several stages in a person's Christian growth. 02:16 First you start out with hearing the gospel. 02:18 That's the seed planting. 02:20 Then you have the incubation period, 02:23 the growing, the early stages, 02:24 where you're just drinking all the milk of the gospel, 02:27 and then you go into the... 02:28 or develop stage where you start to establish, 02:31 you know, your identity as a Christ follower. 02:34 And then I believe the fourth and final stage is 02:37 when you become a giver of what you have received. 02:41 You know, first the seed, then the stalk, then the ear, 02:45 and then some 100, some 60, that type of thing. 02:49 And so we can find people like that in the countries 02:53 that are underserved 02:54 as well as people wanting to go to places 02:57 that are underserved. 02:59 And many times, it's easier for missionary 03:01 to go from a far country 03:03 than it is to go from the nearby tribe. 03:07 For instance, you know, one tribe across the valley 03:11 used to eat the people that are over there. 03:15 And so for the gospel to go there is very difficult. 03:19 Yeah, it's not going to work grow well. 03:21 There is going to be suspicion. 03:23 There is going to be some barriers to overcome. 03:24 Right. 03:25 Not that it's impossible, nothing is impossible with God, 03:28 but He needs people that are His hands and feet. 03:31 Right, right. 03:33 We all need to be willing to go wherever He goes. 03:35 Right. 03:36 Whether it's where you are right now 03:38 in a different capacity maybe even 03:41 or where somewhere on the other side of the world 03:44 to a city that has no Adventist 03:47 or to a village that has no Adventist 03:50 or to the far off jungle 03:52 where there is no Adventist. 03:53 That's right. 03:54 And then, that will take the form of, 03:55 you know, their food, you know, they need to eat. 04:00 Sometimes that will give them tools like media, 04:03 translation tools, television tools, 04:06 radio, car, you know, 04:08 motorcycle, and today... 04:10 We get to talk about bicycles. 04:12 Exactly, which is a tool to enable... 04:14 The local workers. Exactly. 04:16 A number of years ago, 04:17 and one of our videos explains us, 04:19 but a number of years ago, 04:21 you were there visiting workers, 04:24 and you received a request. 04:25 Yes. And the request was... 04:27 For more bicycles 04:29 or for bicycles for these people 04:30 because now what 04:32 another special aspect of the show today is 04:35 is that we're going into an area of the world 04:37 that is very, very unique. 04:40 And that it is one of the most highly densely populated areas 04:44 of the entire world. 04:46 As more people per square inch 04:49 than just about anywhere else in the world, 04:52 I mean, there are some cities that are 04:53 but as far as a large region, 04:55 if you look at a population density map, 04:57 this is in that area. 04:59 It's in northern India, 05:00 and there's just lot of people out there. 05:03 Okay, so back to the bicycles. Yes. 05:05 Why bicycles? 05:07 Well, that's a really good question 05:08 because there's a lot of forms of transportation. 05:10 And the idea of a bicycle wasn't really my idea, okay? 05:15 'Cause coming from America, bicycle is a recreation. 05:19 Yeah, that's true. 05:20 I mean I'm not thinking about buying a bicycle 05:23 so I can get to work. 05:25 Or to the grocery store or... Yeah. 05:27 I mean, I'm thinking about a car 05:29 or that, you know, maybe a motorcycle, 05:32 but usually car or minivan or something like that 05:34 where I can take my family but back in 2009, 05:38 I was on the tour of North India, 05:41 and we did an interview with one of our Bible workers 05:45 and that's what spark the idea 05:46 of this thing could be useful. 05:48 Okay, here is the video of a portion of that interview. 05:51 Yeah. 05:53 What is this area? District? 05:59 They are working in village. 06:01 Village. 06:02 Twenty-two. 06:04 Twenty-two villages? Yes. 06:06 On this bicycle? 06:08 Yes. 06:10 Okay, so you notice that that bicycle was new, okay? 06:14 Before that, he didn't have a bicycle. 06:16 And did you hear how many villages 06:18 he has to care for? 06:19 Twenty-two. Twenty-two villages. 06:23 With worship groups and each one of those villages, 06:26 you know, how many church members 06:27 he has gathered throughout those 22 villages? 06:30 How many? 06:31 One thousand three hundred church members. 06:35 He is a Bible worker, he's not a pastor. 06:38 And so I asked him and I didn't catch it on camera 06:40 but I asked him, you know, what do you do on Sabbath? 06:44 You know, You got 22 villages. Yeah. 06:48 I mean if you went to one village 06:51 every single Sabbath... 06:52 Right. So he could visit... 06:54 each village twice the year. Twice a year. 06:57 So I'm like what do you do on a Sabbath? 06:58 He says, "Oh, I'm so sorry, 07:00 I can only visit five or six villages 07:04 on one Sabbath on his bicycle. 07:05 Five or six. 07:07 Now that he has a bicycle, 07:08 he can hit five or six villages. 07:10 Wow. 07:11 I'm so lazy. 07:15 It just makes you want to enable them. 07:17 Absolutely. 07:18 Just makes you want to give them what they need, 07:20 the tools they need. 07:21 I would love to give them motorcycles. 07:22 Right. 07:23 And that's what a lot of them really need. 07:25 Yeah. 07:26 But then, you know, the cost for gas, 07:28 and maintenance, and things like that, it adds up. 07:30 And when you're living on $90 a month, 07:33 that's a huge expense. 07:34 Yeah. 07:35 At least with the bicycle, 07:37 they can get where they need to go. 07:38 It might take them a while, but they can get there. 07:40 Yeah. 07:41 And they're very thankful for those bicycles. 07:44 And so that sparked an idea in our minds 07:47 for maybe there's other Bible workers 07:49 that need bicycles also. 07:51 Right. 07:52 So a few years later, we had a young couple 07:54 that went to North India 07:55 and met a bunch of these Bible workers, 07:57 and they were doing training with the Bible workers. 08:00 And they saw a need for bicycles also. 08:02 And they shared it. 08:04 And one of their friends said, 08:06 "I'm going to see what I can do." 08:08 And so she started fundraising 08:10 to help buy bicycles for these Bible workers. 08:13 And that one lady who wasn't wealthy... 08:15 No. 08:16 She didn't have, hardly, any money of her own. 08:18 No, she couldn't just say I'm going to pay for 08:20 how many bicycles. 08:21 I don't think she could even afford one, 08:23 you know, all at once, 08:24 she had to give a little bit at a time 08:26 to buy one bicycle. 08:27 And what did she do to raise funds? 08:30 She told her friends, she asked people to help, 08:33 you know, it was just crowdsourcing, crowdfunding. 08:37 Yeah, the common term for that today 08:39 or the new buzzword for that is 08:40 peer-to-peer fundraising. 08:41 Peer-to-peer, right. 08:43 So instead of like donating what you can do, 08:45 you donate your time in spreading awareness of the need 08:48 and so a bunch of your friends get together 08:51 and make a bigger impact 08:52 than you could do on your own. 08:54 Right. 08:55 And so then we had another couple 08:58 that came forward and said, 08:59 "We want to finish off 'cause we had a goal 09:01 to give bicycles 09:03 to a certain number of Bible workers 09:05 at the beginning and then to keep, you know, 09:07 giving bicycles as we could." 09:09 Right. 09:10 And so then we had a couple that came forward and said, 09:12 "We want to finish off the fund 09:14 and enable those ones to have the bicycles." 09:17 Praise the Lord. And so we're very thankful. 09:20 Yeah, so what are we doing today then? 09:21 I mean, we've got some... 09:23 We get to have a report of how the funds were used, 09:26 which, you know, many times we come 09:28 and we share needs and we share opportunities, 09:31 but sometimes, it's nice just to see 09:34 where the money went 09:35 and what it got to do and who received it. 09:37 So we get to see that. 09:39 And we have a video showing some of these Bible workers 09:42 receiving their bicycles. 09:49 Here in Assam region, 09:51 we have got 32 Jesus for Asia workers 09:55 which started in the year 2008, 09:57 and by the grace of God, all these 9-10 years, 10:01 God has been miraculously blessing this ministry. 10:05 This Assam region is divided into three parts, 10:09 the Lower Assam, Middle Assam, 10:11 and the Upper Assam. 10:13 And this is a big state, and by the grace of God, 10:17 we have got 6,000 Seventh-day Adventist memberships 10:22 in this part of Assam. 10:25 Last year, when Elder Jon Wood, 10:27 the president of Jesus for Asia, 10:29 visited our workers, 10:31 we were asking them their needs, 10:33 and that is when they said 10:34 that it would be nice if we have a bicycle 10:37 because, here in Assam, the transportation is 10:40 very, very, very difficult. 10:42 So these workers are really covering up 10:46 30 to 40 kilometers each, 10:49 which is very, very difficult for them to go by walk 10:52 because the transportation, the bus facility, 10:55 or any other transportation is very difficult. 10:57 That is when they said 10:59 it would be nice to have bicycles. 11:01 And from then on, we have been praying. 11:03 And I thank the Lord, 11:05 God has answered our prayers 11:07 and opened the gates of heaven, touched the hearts of people, 11:10 and made it possible that we could buy these bicycles 11:14 and give them to our workers to hasten the work 11:18 because we know God is coming very, very soon. 11:21 In Lower Assam, 11:22 we are distributing nine bicycles to our workers, 11:26 and we have called the workers from Upper Assam 11:29 because it is a very long ways. 11:31 We are giving out 14 bicycles today 11:35 for these workers. 11:36 The reason, few of the workers, 11:38 they have got their own motorbikes, 11:40 so we are not giving for the ones 11:42 who have transportation, 11:44 but we are giving only for the ones 11:46 who don't have any mode of transportation. 11:49 So here in Middle, including the Upper Assam, 11:52 we are giving out 14 bicycles. 11:54 Upper Assam is a very vast area. 11:57 Our workers over there, 11:58 they find it very difficult to reach the villages. 12:03 So I think it's going to be a great blessing 12:06 for these workers to reach out 12:08 to the unreached people in the darkness of sin. 12:11 And our workers, they are going to really use these bicycles 12:15 in a mighty way. 12:18 In Jesus' name. Amen. 12:20 When we came here to meet the workers, 12:22 when they came to know that they are going to get 12:25 a mode of transportation that is the bicycle 12:28 which they have been praying for a long time, 12:31 when we told them and when we saw them, 12:33 their faces were brightened. 12:36 They were so happy to receive these bicycles. 12:40 So in behalf of them, I do thank you all so much. 12:44 And continue to pray for us. Thank you. 12:54 So they're very thankful for these bicycles. 12:56 Yeah, it's really neat to see 12:58 and to think about how much further they can go 13:01 when they can take a bicycle 13:03 and go to wherever they need, 13:04 you know, because we talk about... 13:06 sometimes we've shown footage from the buses, 13:08 sometimes we talk about them taking buses, 13:10 but the bus routes don't go everywhere they need to go. 13:14 No, they don't. 13:15 So it's really nice that they can take a bicycle and, 13:18 you know, take the side path or whatever and get there. 13:22 In many places, a bus may not come 13:26 but once a day or once a week. Yeah, it's true. 13:28 And sometimes those buses are very expensive. 13:30 They may seem inexpensive to us, 13:32 but a lot of times they're quite expensive. 13:35 I've been amazed. 13:36 Seems as though transportation costs in northern India 13:40 is about the same as transportation costs 13:42 here in America. 13:43 Wow, that's sad. 13:44 And so if you're living on $90 a month, 13:46 it's almost impossible to get anywhere. 13:49 Yeah. 13:50 In fact, when they have to come in to get their paycheck, 13:54 it's a major ordeal for them to do that. 13:56 Yeah. 13:57 Sometimes they'll go 24, 36 hours on a bus 14:00 just to get to the central office. 14:04 Yeah. 14:06 So what they go through is just amazing. 14:08 So to be able to enable them 14:10 and to see their happiness in receiving the bicycles 14:13 is just such a joy, such a joy. 14:16 'Cause they have a heart for expanding their territory. 14:18 Yeah. 14:19 And so a bicycle gives them that ability 14:21 to move faster in spreading the gospel. 14:24 Right. So we do have some pictures 14:26 from this time of giving the bicycles away. 14:30 Yeah. Okay. 14:31 Let's go quickly through them. 14:32 Okay, here you have some bicycles, 14:34 those are brand new, all lined up, 14:36 ready to be given out. 14:37 Here we are in Middle Assam. 14:39 You see the secretary in the blue shirt, 14:41 the ministerial secretary. 14:43 By the way, Assam, 14:44 just to give you an idea of what kind of state 14:46 we're talking about here, 33 million people in the state, 14:50 guess how many pastors? 14:52 No, don't guess, I'll tell you. 14:53 Okay. 14:54 Four. Millions, 33 million. 14:57 Thirty-three million people, four pastors. 15:00 A pastor for Upper Assam, 15:02 the president and secretary for Middle Assam, 15:04 and a pastor for Lower Assam. 15:08 You know, it's hard when you go to places like this 15:11 and you see the tremendous need. 15:13 And it's like, man, let's just rise up together, 15:16 let's make this happen. Yes. 15:18 We have 33 Bible workers up there, 15:21 so one Bible worker per million people. 15:23 Let's triple that. 15:24 Why don't we have 100 Bible workers 15:26 and a fulltime training program? 15:28 Yeah, that would be wonderful. 15:30 Yeah. Absolutely wonderful, 15:32 and the gospel would go much faster. 15:33 But even 100 Bible workers for 33 million people? 15:37 That's still not enough. 15:38 No, we need 1,000, you know? Still not enough, yeah. 15:41 There are people up there 15:42 that are willing to work fulltime, 15:44 and especially if we put in a training school 15:47 to train Bible workers to do this, 15:51 a lot of people would join. 15:52 Yeah. 15:53 And they would see an opportunity 15:55 in sharing the gospel. 15:57 Right. 15:58 So we want to do that. 15:59 We want to do. Absolutely. Yeah. 16:01 So that's one of the things we've been praying for 16:03 is more workers and a training program. 16:05 Yes. 16:06 So we do have a couple that's working on materials 16:09 to train the Bible workers in India. 16:11 This is what's so beautiful 16:12 because this couple is not just taking 16:15 what we have used here in America, 16:18 but they are looking at what are the needs, 16:21 what is the world view 16:22 because when you come from a Hindu background, 16:24 it's very different from coming from a Christian background. 16:27 If you go down the street and say you need to obey God, 16:30 people will at least have an idea of 16:32 who you're talking about, 16:33 where, in Hinduism, they have 300 million gods. 16:36 Yeah, which one? 16:39 Exactly. Yeah. I'm trying. 16:41 I'm trying to do that. 16:42 I'm appeasing, you know, 20 gods already, 16:45 which other god do you want me to appease? 16:46 Yeah. 16:47 Without understanding the character of God and stuff. 16:50 And so they're adapting materials, 16:52 the Bible and the principles of the Bible, 16:54 into that worldview 16:55 so that we can make those bridges a lot easier, 16:58 bring people into an understanding of who God is, 17:01 what His character is like much more quickly. 17:03 Right. 17:04 And what Christ really did for us. 17:06 Yes. 17:07 And so to establish that school up there 17:11 where you've got 4 pastors for 33 million people. 17:14 Yeah, that would be beautiful. 17:17 We got to do it. Yeah, yeah. 17:19 But we can't do it. 17:20 I mean, you and I, we have nothing. 17:23 Right. We're rather poor. 17:25 And so what we do is enable missionaries 17:29 by opening up the opportunity for our viewers 17:32 and for anybody that has a heart for the gospel 17:35 to get involved and sponsor a Bible worker, 17:37 sponsor a bicycle, sponsor a school, 17:40 sponsor a teacher, whatever they feel called 17:43 or they feel the Holy Spirit is 17:44 calling them to do... Right. 17:46 They can have a direct impact on the frontline. 17:48 Right. So we're like a big pipe. 17:51 Right. 17:52 So if somebody donates $90 17:54 to sponsor a Bible worker for a month, 17:57 how much of that $90 does the Bible worker receive 18:00 that's there in Assam in the field? 18:03 Well, the Bible worker receives $90 a month. 18:05 Correct. 18:06 So the only thing that comes out 18:08 of any funds given is the bank fees necessary 18:11 to move the money wherever it goes. 18:13 Okay. So the Bible workers get paid. 18:16 Thank the Lord we've been able to pay them full salary. 18:19 There were a few years 18:20 when we weren't able to pay them full salary. 18:21 Right. 18:22 I thought that they would all leave 18:24 'cause sometimes we pay them two-thirds their salary, 18:26 sometimes we'd skip a month or miss a month. 18:28 Yeah. 18:29 Because we only are able to send over... 18:31 What comes in. Exactly. 18:33 And so I thought they'd all leave, 18:35 and they didn't. Right. 18:37 And we're like, "Why didn't you leave? 18:39 Why are you still here?" 18:40 And you remember what they said? 18:42 They said, "God first, money second." 18:44 Yeah. 18:45 They have their priorities straight. 18:47 Yes. 18:48 And we're very thankful for that heart, 18:51 that heart that God has given them 18:53 to love the lost like that. 18:54 Yeah, yeah, and to be so dedicated to the Lord. 18:57 So this is a very effective and beautiful way 19:00 to take the gospel to the world 19:02 is to enable this workforce to go forth. 19:04 Right. 19:05 Okay, so we have these pictures. 19:07 We want to go through these pictures. 19:08 Okay. 19:09 Here they are praying around the bicycles, 19:11 blessing the bicycles, 19:12 blessing the riders of the bicycles 19:15 that they will be in good shape 19:16 and continue and give a life of service. 19:18 Okay. 19:19 Here's the secretary, one of the four pastors, 19:23 of the state is doing an individual blessing 19:26 for this bicycle and this Bible worker. 19:28 Young guy, smiling, 19:30 just received his brand new vehicle. 19:32 Here is a middle aged man, an elderly couple, I met them. 19:37 Amazing stories. 19:38 Can't wait to tell those stories someday. 19:40 Okay. 19:41 Now we go to Lower Assam. 19:43 Here we've got some behind-the-scenes 19:45 kind of artistic photos of some of these bicycles 19:49 all coming together. 19:51 Again, gathering around for prayer. 19:53 Prayer is very important in a country 19:56 with so much open idolatry. Right. 20:01 The opposition of the devil and his minions is very real. 20:05 Absolutely. Yeah. 20:06 Here's a man that's received a brand new bicycle. 20:08 Looks like they've got their names on them. 20:10 Yes, down here they did that. 20:12 That's neat. 20:13 And this is not one of our Bible workers, 20:15 this is just showing what they can do with a bike. 20:18 Right. 20:19 He got one, two, three, four, five, six, 20:22 probably seven huge packs of bananas. 20:26 Stocks. Stocks on one bicycle. 20:29 Wow. 20:31 So they can pile books and Bibles and, you know, 20:34 their wives or their kids, sometimes their entire family, 20:39 get on one bicycle and travel down the road. 20:41 So that was in Assam, all those pictures and videos. 20:45 And now we're going to move to a different area 20:47 to Upper Ganges section. Yes. 20:50 Yeah, and Upper Ganges is very highly populated, 20:52 and you've got some statistics to share I think. 20:54 Yes, Upper Ganges section, 20:56 now section is just a unit of church, 21:00 you know, the way that they've divided 21:01 like a conference, 21:03 but it's not a conference yet, 21:06 it's the next thing to a conference. 21:08 But Upper Ganges section, 21:10 I've spent quite a bit of time there, 21:13 and I've never been so challenged with statistics 21:18 as Upper Ganges section. 21:20 Okay, this one section has 170 million people. 21:26 That's more than half the population 21:29 of the entire United States in one section. 21:32 There are 110,000 villages in Upper Ganges Section, 21:36 110,000 villages. 21:40 Of which, we have some work and some representation 21:43 and maybe 1,000. 21:46 And we're gonna do a whole... 21:47 we're going to do a show about Upper Ganges section. 21:50 I have not been able to share much about it 21:53 because it just moves my heart. 21:55 It tears me to pieces, basically, 21:58 just the statistics and people and what it's like to be there, 22:03 it's earthshaking. 22:06 To my view of how the world works. 22:09 When we talk about underserved, 22:13 I mean we're really in the heart 22:15 of the underserved areas. 22:19 There are other areas that are more underserved, 22:22 but this is the least served that I have ever seen. 22:26 But with some of the biggest opportunities... 22:30 Right. 22:31 You've got some villages that are all Christian. 22:36 You know, you hear about North India, 22:38 nobody goes to North India to do evangelistic series 22:41 because it's more dangerous. 22:44 But you've got entire villages that were raised up by 22:48 and converted by other denominations, 22:50 but in the '60s or '70s, they were abandoned 22:53 by those denominations. 22:54 And so you have villages that are Christian 22:58 but without any connection to a denomination, 23:01 without any leadership, 23:02 without any resources coming in. 23:04 And so they're just kind of wandering sheep, 23:08 and with the correct resources and the correct people 23:11 could bring those sheep back into the fold. 23:13 Well, that's an opportunity. 23:15 Yeah. Big opportunity. 23:17 Yeah, it's like, here's a smorgasbord, 23:19 you know, how many people would you like to see in the gospel? 23:24 How many people would you like to bring into the gospel? 23:26 I mean this is the area where we saw Sanjay Singh. 23:30 Okay, he had 1,300 church members 23:32 as a Bible worker 23:34 scattered around 22 different villages. 23:36 Yeah. 23:37 You know, big wide open door. 23:39 Now I couldn't go there and do an evangelistic series 23:41 because of the color of my skin but we can enable others 23:46 that are already there to do that work. 23:49 Right. 23:51 And we can also enable them by giving them bicycles... 23:54 Yes. 23:55 Which is why we have another video 23:57 about giving bicycles in Upper Ganges section. 24:00 Okay. 24:07 I am here in Upper Ganges section, 24:09 which is a part of North India union. 24:12 This is one of the biggest sections 24:14 in the whole of India, 24:16 which consists of the biggest state 24:18 called Uttar Pradesh. 24:19 And by the grace of God, we have got eight volunteers 24:22 for Jesus for Asia's ministry in this section, 24:26 helping God's work in this part of the section. 24:30 We came in the year 2010 to meet our volunteers 24:34 with President Elder Jon Wood. 24:36 When we were visiting the volunteers, 24:39 we saw them how much they suffered 24:41 going to one place to another. 24:43 And when we asked our workers, "What do you need?" 24:46 They said, "We need bicycles 24:48 because since we are covering cast area." 24:51 They don't have any mode of transportation here, 24:53 and we have been praying from then on 24:56 by the grace of God, God has answered the prayers. 24:58 And today, we were able to give out those bicycles. 25:08 We were really privileged to have 25:10 the North India Union President Pastor V.P. Singh 25:14 to come over here amidst a lot of busy schedule. 25:17 He accepted our invitation. 25:19 He came today and gave out the bicycles 25:22 for the workers here. 25:32 God bless you. 25:40 Thank you so much to Jesus for Asia group, 25:43 especially the donors 25:45 who have pooled in their resources 25:46 and made these funds available to us. 25:48 We are so thankful to you. 25:50 We'll be going to some very far flung areas. 25:53 Those are outbacks of Uttar Pradesh, 25:56 interior areas. 25:57 So these cycles will be a great asset, 26:00 a great help to the pastoral workers, 26:03 our JFA pioneers who are working in those fields. 26:15 I thank the Lord. 26:16 I am very happy that God has given the bicycles 26:19 to the workers here. 26:20 I pray that it will be used for His work 26:24 to hasten His coming soon. 26:26 I thank you for your prayers, for your support. 26:29 I thank you all. 26:35 Pretty exciting, huh? 26:36 Yeah, so wonderful to see. 26:39 Yeah, the smiles on their faces and how this will enable them. 26:42 You know, but some people need bicycles, 26:44 some missionaries need bicycles, 26:47 some missionaries need motorcycles, 26:48 some missionaries need cars, some missionaries need vans, 26:51 some missionaries need airplanes. 26:52 Right. 26:54 And some just need their monthly stipend. 26:56 Yes. 26:57 So there is a huge need out there. 26:59 There is a lot of opportunity out there, 27:02 and we want to continue to enable these workers 27:05 in every way we can. 27:06 Absolutely. 27:07 The advantage of the bicycle, of course, 27:09 is that it's very inexpensive compared to a motorcycle. 27:12 Motorcycle might cost $600 to $1,200, 27:16 car obviously several thousand dollars, 27:19 bicycle, maybe $100 or $150. 27:21 Right. 27:22 Something less than $150 depending on the exchange rate 27:25 and of course the features that you get on the bicycle. 27:28 Right. 27:29 These were kind of like solid, it's a good bicycle, 27:32 not too expensive but strong. 27:34 That's good. 27:35 If you would like to sponsor a bicycle or a Bible worker 27:39 or any of the other needs you've heard about, 27:41 you can send your tax deductible love gift 27:43 to Jesus for Asia, 27:45 PO Box 1221, Collegedale, Tennessee 37315. 27:50 Call us at (423) 413-7321 27:55 or visit our website at Jesus4Asia.org. 27:59 Please remember to pray for these Bible workers 28:01 and their new bicycles, 28:03 and may God richly bless you 28:05 until we see you next time on Jesus for Asia Now. |
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