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Series Code: JFAN
Program Code: JFAN000054A
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00:22 - Hello, and welcome to "Jesus for Asia Now". 00:24 I'm Natalie Wood and today I have Joshua Bauder with me 00:27 and he's here to share with us some of the stories 00:29 of what God's doing in the lives of children 00:32 there in Thailand that come from difficult circumstances. 00:36 Welcome to the show, Joshua. 00:37 - It's awesome to be here, thank you, Natalie. 00:39 - So glad we can have this opportunity. 00:40 - Me too. - To share 00:41 some of the stories. 00:43 Now, we've had you on our show before 00:45 so people might remember some of the stories 00:47 of what you're doing. 00:49 But can you share with us briefly 00:51 a little bit of your conversion story? 00:53 Because I know it's an amazing testimony of what God can do. 00:57 - Well, I was a drug dealer in Spokane, Washington 01:00 for about 10 years and then I started reading my Bible 01:03 and got convicted of the things 01:06 that I was doing wrong or wasn't doing. 01:10 And after that I started going to church 01:13 and I became a Bible worker in Hayden, Idaho. 01:17 And I felt the conviction to go to overseas missions 01:20 and God just took off from there. 01:23 - Wow, so then you ended up in Thailand. 01:26 And you were single at the time though. 01:29 - I was. 01:31 - So what happened, 'cause now I know you're married. 01:34 How did God bring that about? 01:35 - Well, I got married. 01:37 - Okay. (Joshua laughing) 01:39 No, um, so, I met my wife and here's a picture of her, 01:43 this is the first time she ever ate a burrito 01:46 and I met her and I made a deal with God before, 01:54 I'd been celibate, stayed away from all women 01:58 for about five years and I made a deal with God 02:00 that the next woman that I meet, the next woman, 02:03 not the next woman I meet, but the next woman I date 02:05 will be the woman that I marry. 02:08 So, keep all these women out of my life 02:10 that you don't want me to be with 02:11 and He brought my beautiful wife into the picture 02:14 and after seeing each other for little bit, 02:17 we decided to fast and pray and see 02:19 if that was what God really wanted for us. 02:21 And so we fasted from each other and we fasted, 02:25 we did a Daniel fast for two weeks 02:28 where we fasted and prayed, 02:30 and it was the two hardest weeks of my life, 02:32 and so we said that we would show up at a certain spot 02:39 at 10 o'clock on this day and we only had a 10 minute window 02:42 so if we weren't there in that 10 minute window, 02:45 then it was very obvious that God didn't want us together 02:47 and we were both there and the rest is history. 02:51 - Wow, wow, so when you got together, 02:55 then you started working in the slum 02:57 and we've seen a little bit of that on the show before. 03:01 So, can you share with us a little bit 03:03 of how God worked you into this mystery? 03:07 - So we were struggling to find a church 03:09 where we felt like we fit in. 03:11 And we had been hearing about the slum church 03:14 for quite a few months and we really wanted to go, 03:17 but we couldn't find time to get there. 03:19 And when we finally got there, 03:21 we realized that this is where God wanted us to be. 03:23 It was very focused on outreach 03:25 and there was a ton of kids there 03:27 and we just, we just fit in. 03:29 - [Natalie] And this picture that we have? 03:32 - Yeah, this was when we started our after school, 03:36 you know, weekend program. 03:38 This is where we teach English and we teach ukulele 03:41 and we help them with their homework 03:43 and we have a little snack in between, 03:45 we're eating some guava, anona, and rambutan. 03:49 - So you mentioned teaching English 03:51 and teaching them to play ukulele, 03:53 how did the children respond to this kind of interaction 03:57 and this kind of ministry that you were into? 04:01 - They loved it. 04:02 Kids wanna go somewhere where they can have fun 04:05 and they can learn new things 04:06 and there's really no opportunity to do that 04:08 in the slum and so when we started offering 04:12 stuff for them to do, the kids were always there. 04:15 - So did you see any changes in attitudes 04:18 or ways of interacting in the young people 04:20 that you were working with? 04:21 - We saw a lot of changes in the kids. 04:24 We noticed big changes in the way that they think, 04:27 in the way that they act, in the fighting that was going on. 04:30 When we first got there, they were fighting all the time. 04:33 They wouldn't listen to anyone 04:35 and little by little, and I mean little by little, 04:38 they would listen more and more 04:40 and they got to the point where they really started 04:42 to respect us and we had a program set up 04:46 where they would get rewards and things like that 04:48 that they really loved so they started to listen 04:51 and they started to change and memorizing verses 04:53 and singing songs really helped. 04:55 - Wow, I know that's really neat to hear the changes 04:59 were coming because these kids come 05:02 from really difficult circumstances. 05:04 So I know that this picture, this next picture, 05:06 shows around their houses. 05:08 Kind of a physical environment 05:10 and there's a lot of trash in the water, 05:12 there's a lot of water, and a lot of trash in the water. 05:15 - Yeah it's really dirty there. 05:17 It's really, really dirty there. 05:19 There's dog poop on the walkways everywhere 05:21 from all the wild dogs. 05:23 I mean, you can see the pollution of the water 05:27 and this water they swam in, they catch fish in, 05:30 they eat out of this. 05:32 These kids were just surrounded by dirtiness. 05:37 - Right, and it wasn't just physically dirty. 05:40 There's drugs in the slum, there's other illegal activities. 05:46 - Everything that you can think of. 05:48 Thailand is a place where anything is available 05:50 to you and the problems that are in the slum 05:53 are horrible anywhere you are in the world. 05:56 Just seeing the depravity they go through every day, 06:00 it's just really hard to see. 06:02 - Yeah, so the physical abuse, maybe? 06:05 - Physical, mental, sexual, everything you can think 06:08 of happens there. 06:10 - Wow so these kids have history and background. 06:14 - Yeah they all have sad stories, they all have sob stories, 06:18 and you think you have a sad story yourself 06:22 until you go there and meet these kids 06:25 who don't even know that they have a sad story. 06:28 - Because it's normal. 06:30 - Because it's normal for them, yeah. 06:31 - [Natalie] Wow, so then this next picture. 06:34 - Yes, so these were our first two kids. 06:36 Nut is the boy and he was 13. 06:39 The girl is Preaw and she was 16 at the time. 06:42 We were super proud of them. 06:44 We were super happy to send them up there 06:45 and they were our first two students 06:46 and we thought everything was just gonna turn around 06:49 for them and changing the environment 06:51 was just gonna be the best thing that ever happened to them. 06:54 - Changing the environment. 06:56 - Yeah, we didn't realize the problems that they had 06:59 because some of the problems were too deep 07:02 and too hard to talk about so we didn't understand 07:05 everything that they were running away from 07:08 or everything that we were getting into 07:10 when we sent them up there 07:11 and about six months into their schooling, 07:14 living in the dorms and everything, 07:16 Preaw was just having too many problems 07:19 with the problems that she had before, 07:21 caused her pain inside of her, caused her physical pain, 07:28 and she decided that she would be better off dead. 07:32 - So she tried to commit suicide? 07:34 - Yeah. 07:34 - And you got a phone call. 07:36 - We were at church on Sabbath and we got a phone call 07:40 saying that we needed to go up there 07:42 and so we got on the bus and we got up there 07:45 as quick as we could and this is how we found her. 07:48 With IVs and everything in her 07:52 and so many questions of what happened 07:55 and what was going on and why. 07:57 Why was the biggest one. 07:59 And the pain that she had just been going through 08:02 from leaving everything and not dealing with the problems 08:06 and all those things just kind of eating at her. 08:09 She just decided it would be better if she wasn't alive 08:12 and so she tried to kill herself 08:14 and we looked for a plan trying to find a plan somewhere 08:18 but we couldn't find one. 08:20 So we started praying. 08:22 My wife and I, we prayed for three or four days 08:25 while she was in the hospital. 08:26 We didn't have a lot of time to dedicate this in prayer 08:29 and we prayed as much as we could and we said, 08:32 "God, what should we do?", 08:34 and God kept putting the parable 08:35 of the lost sheep on my mind. 08:37 And because we had our ministry in the slum going, 08:40 you know, the 99, and I guess she would be the 100, 08:44 that we sent to Chiang Mai and we just felt 08:49 like God was calling us to leave the 99 08:52 and come and take care of the one sheep. 08:55 - Wow, I bet that was a hard decision. 08:56 - It was very hard, it's very hard to leave a ministry 09:01 that you love and even when God is calling you away from it 09:07 and you know you're doing the right thing 09:08 and you know you're going where God wants you to be, 09:10 it still makes it very hard to leave something like that. 09:14 - To leave the known and to leave not knowing 09:17 if someone would take up the work you were leaving? 09:20 - Exactly and especially when we see the, you know, 09:23 we see the pain that the kids are going through every day 09:26 and the one outlet that they have, 09:28 it's very hard just to leave that. 09:30 - Yeah, so you were moving from Bangkok, 09:34 which is a big city, 09:37 to Chiang Mai which is out in the country. 09:38 Chiang Mai Academy, anyway, is out in the country. 09:41 And so this brought up some questions besides 09:44 just physically should we move or should we not. 09:48 There were transportation issues, I mean in Bangkok, 09:51 how were you getting around? 09:52 - We were riding around on a motorcycle 09:55 and we just had a motorcycle accident 09:57 that put the fear of God into my wife, 09:58 where she didn't want to get on the back of a motorcycle 10:01 again and now we had three people instead of two people 10:05 and you can't really take three people as big as we are 10:08 on a motorcycle and so we started praying 10:12 and John happened to be there and he said, 10:14 "You guys can't ride a motorcycle, 10:16 "you need to get a car." 10:19 and me looking at all these other projects going on, 10:24 the bible workers in India and all these people 10:26 doing these great things, 10:28 it was hard for me to imagine that God would 10:30 want us to have a car. 10:32 The way that God worked it out was so amazing 10:35 because the day that we got her 10:37 and moved up there was the day 10:39 that we were able to get a car. 10:42 It was really amazing and the way that God worked it out 10:45 we knew that God wanted us to have a car 10:48 and He wanted us to have a daughter as well. 10:52 - And then the question was, also, 10:53 where are you going to live? 10:55 - Yeah and we had no idea. 11:00 I called John actually, and said, 11:01 "John, we don't have a place to live, 11:02 "do you know anybody up there?" 11:04 'cause we didn't know anyone up there 11:06 and the Love4Asia office is right up by the school 11:09 and so I called John and asked him 11:11 if he knew anyone up there 11:13 and he said, "Oh, well we have this house" 11:17 and we went and we stayed in it thinking 11:21 we were just gonna stay there for a week or two 11:23 and now it's our home base. 11:26 - Wow, yeah, because this lady approached John 11:30 and said, "I wanna do this for God" 11:32 and so she offered it to us at a huge discount 11:35 from the sale price she was asking before 11:38 and then John said, 11:39 "I had to, I felt like I had to honor her faith" 11:43 and then you needed it right after that. 11:46 - And it's just amazing how God has a plan 11:49 that we don't know about 11:51 and as much as we think that we know, we don't know. 11:56 John did something that he had no idea what he was doing. 11:59 We did something and we had no idea what we were doing 12:02 and God just brang them both together 12:04 and He put is in that house and now we have a house 12:07 that's just barely big enough for everybody 12:10 that we have in it (laughs). 12:12 - So you were trying to show her you loved her 12:14 and trying to have a stable home life. 12:17 Is there a story that goes with this picture? 12:20 - Yeah, well this is just a regular everyday picture, 12:23 but this is the kinda stuff that we were doing with her. 12:25 Just helping her with her homework, 12:28 teaching her how to make stuff. 12:29 Right here we're making a cake. 12:31 I think it's for my wife's birthday 12:32 but it might have just been for us to eat 12:35 because I really like cake 12:36 and so we just do stuff with her, and just hang out with her 12:41 and just show her how much we love her. 12:43 We tried to give her confidence. 12:47 I got all the verses I could think of 12:48 in the bible that talk about having confidence in God 12:51 and that God will take care of you, 12:53 He'll mount you up on eagles' wings 12:55 and give her that confidence that she could be good 12:57 at whatever she did. 13:00 There was a call porter program for the kids 13:03 that we'd go on during their break 13:04 and Preaw wanted to do it but she wasn't sure 13:06 that she would be good at it 13:08 and I said, "You're gonna be number one. 13:10 "You're gonna sell the most books out of anybody". 13:13 We gave her a plan and we taught her how to pray. 13:15 We taught her how to pray to sell the books 13:19 and just how to have confidence 13:21 when you're going to sell them 13:23 and not confidence in yourself 13:24 but confidence that God is gonna take care of you. 13:26 - To help you. 13:27 - Yeah, He's gonna bring you to the people 13:29 that He wants to have these books. 13:34 She didn't really believe it. 13:36 I don't think she believed it, she said okay, 13:38 but I don't really think she believed it 13:40 until she went and sold the books and she was better 13:44 than everybody and she sold about double the books 13:48 as the next person sold. 13:51 So this picture here is her getting an award 13:53 for being the number one book seller 13:56 and after that her confidence just took off. 13:59 After she realized that she was good at something, 14:02 because in the slum, nobody tells you 14:04 that you'll be good at anything. 14:05 They tell you all the bad things about you 14:07 and they try to plan your future in the worst way 14:11 and so when she got confidence in that it just took off. 14:15 She saw God's love, she could feel God's love. 14:18 She could feel that we loved her 14:20 and that just made her so much stronger 14:21 to do all these other things and you know, 14:24 when you feel the love of God for the first time 14:26 you wanna share it with everyone 14:28 and that's what she started doing. 14:29 This picture right here she's getting the kids 14:32 from our neighborhood and she's reading "My Bible Friends" 14:34 to them and explaining the bible 14:36 and she, everyday after school, 14:38 she'll get all the kids to come 14:41 and she'll set it up like she's the teacher 14:43 with rewards and with tests and everything like that, 14:48 and she teaches the kids ukulele songs 14:51 and bible verses and bible stories. 14:54 Her confidence is just getting higher and higher 14:57 and she's realizing that she's good at a lot of things 15:00 and all she has to do is have confidence in God 15:03 that she can do it and she'll be able to do anything. 15:06 - Wow, well praise the Lord that that's not just affecting 15:10 her it's affecting her willingness 15:12 to share with others as well. 15:13 So Preaw is not your only child. 15:16 You sent Nut also to Chiang Mai Adventist Academy 15:21 at the beginning so we wanna go back to his story 15:24 a little bit here at this point. 15:25 These are pictures of him. 15:28 - Well, when we sent Nut, you see in the first picture, 15:31 he's a little boy in there 15:33 and now he's starting to look like a grown man. 15:35 He's about as tall as I am now. 15:38 The first year that they were up there he started getting 15:41 involved with the wrong crowd 15:43 and in the dorm, just like any dorm, 15:46 when you get 18 year old boys together 15:50 there's gonna be drugs and alcohol and things like that 15:52 and he was hanging out with those kids 15:54 and all of them got kicked out but him. 15:57 I just thought he was really good at hiding it, you know. 16:02 He started to come live with us at the beginning 16:04 of this school year and it's been awesome having him there. 16:08 He is so responsible, he is one of the smartest kids, 16:13 he is the smartest kid that we have actually. 16:16 He really loves being there and we love having him there. 16:19 - Wow, praise the Lord. 16:20 - Yeah it's really been awesome. 16:21 - That's really great. 16:22 Okay, so you have more children. 16:24 The next one is Ice, is her name. 16:28 - Yeah, so Ice is my wife's niece, 16:30 and she decided about three years ago 16:33 that she wanted to be a Christian 16:35 and it's really hard where they live to be a Christian. 16:38 Especially working on a farm and everything. 16:41 It's hard to find time to really set aside to be-- 16:47 - To have a devotional life that's needed? 16:49 - Yeah and to go to church, 16:51 because there's so much work 16:52 that needs to be done on a farm. 16:55 So up there she couldn't get that break and her parents, 16:59 they kinda flirted with Christianity and still are, 17:02 but really haven't made a decision 17:03 so it's been really hard for her 17:06 when she already made the decision 17:08 and so she decided to come to live with us 17:10 and she wants to learn how to be a Christian 17:12 and she wants to learn English before she goes to University 17:16 because she's already graduated high school 17:18 so she's taking a year off to really learn 17:20 how to be a Christian. 17:22 We've been doing bible studies, 17:24 she's been homeschooling with us, 17:26 her and Preaw both have been home schooling with us. 17:28 In bible class we're going through baptismal studies 17:32 and so hopefully not soon after I get back to Thailand 17:38 they'll both be getting baptized. 17:39 - Wow, praise the Lord. 17:40 So Ice didn't come from the slum in Bangkok? 17:43 - No. 17:44 - She came from a different area of Thailand. 17:46 - When Preaw actually tried to kill herself, 17:50 everyone from the slum heard about it 17:53 and we had five kids who were going to come this year 17:57 but their parents all said no. 18:00 They said, "If she tried to kill herself up there, 18:03 "I don't want to send my kids to come 18:05 "because then they'll wanna kill themselves" 18:08 and all the doors that we had worked so hard to get open, 18:15 they just got shut right in our face. 18:17 We're hoping when they go back 18:20 and when people see the change that those doors will reopen 18:23 but since they weren't open we had to reach out 18:26 to other areas and we have two kids from Khon Kaen, 18:31 two kids from Sa Kaeo, and two kids from Bangkok now. 18:36 And so Ice is from Khon Kaen, 18:39 and then Daonin and Sam, they're from Sa Kaeo. 18:43 They're brother and sister, 13 and 14 years old. 18:48 They're really awesome kids 18:50 and before they came up to live with us, 18:53 Daonin was praying that God would take 18:57 her out of the Buddhist school, 18:58 because all Thai schools are Buddhist. 19:00 He would take her out of the Buddhist school 19:01 and He would put her in a Christian school 19:02 and she'd been praying for about six months 19:05 and when we showed up at their door 19:06 and she knew that we were gonna send her. 19:10 We just showed up to interview her and talk to her 19:12 and she knew that she was gonna go 19:14 because she'd been praying for so long 19:17 and the mom said, "But if you send her, 19:18 "could you really send her brother too?" 19:21 and at the time all he did was sit around 19:25 and play video games. 19:26 He would sit on his phone from three o'clock 19:28 after he got outta school 19:30 until three o'clock in the morning. 19:32 He didn't do his homework, didn't do anything, didn't care. 19:35 He was a trouble maker and when he showed up 19:39 at our house I couldn't see all the stuff 19:42 that they were saying around him, 19:44 all the people around the area were saying he was a bad kid, 19:47 he was lazy, and all these other things 19:49 and he shows up at our house and he's just an awesome kid. 19:52 He's one of the most creative kids. 19:54 He's helpful, he's just a really fun kid to be around 19:59 and I really enjoy these two. 20:01 They're loud, they're rambunctious, 20:05 they're annoying at times but it's really awesome 20:08 and I'm really glad that they're in our house. 20:10 - Wow, well praise the Lord. 20:12 So you have one more girl at this point. 20:14 - I call her Beat, or Beatsa Beatsa, 20:17 I have all kids of nicknames for her. 20:19 She's from Khon Kaen as well as Ice. 20:22 She had a much harder life than Ice though. 20:25 She comes from kind of a bad area in Khon Kaen 20:28 and her mom is a construction worker 20:30 which is the lowest rung of society in Thailand. 20:34 She is married to a man, and this man is a very bad man, 20:41 in my opinion, and he as soon as Boot started to develop 20:45 and become a woman he started inviting her out, 20:51 making her come out, not inviting her. 20:52 Making her come out to drink with her and his friends 20:55 because one of his friends had a thing for her 20:58 and, you know, these are 30 year old men, 21:00 30, 40 year old men, 21:02 and he's bringing his 13 year old daughter out 21:05 to come and sit with them while they drink 21:06 and this guy would show up at her window at night 21:11 and things like that and when her dad would get drunk 21:14 he would try to drag her into his room. 21:17 It was just really sad to hear these things 21:20 and we didn't even know these things 21:22 until we got close to her 21:26 and she was opening up more and more. 21:29 Her mom tried to kill herself in front of her 21:31 when she was about 10 years old so there's 21:35 a lot of hurt and there's a lot of pain 21:37 but Boot is so happy and being here with us she's so happy. 21:43 - [Natalie] So this is a picture? 21:45 - Yes, so this is a picture of all six of our kids 21:49 and only one of them really, 21:51 two of them capture the personalities, 21:53 the other ones are just pictures. 21:55 Daonin and Sam, that's really their personalities 22:00 and it's makes me sad to see it 22:01 because I really miss them right now. 22:03 - Yeah, makes you homesick. 22:05 - Yeah, definitely, and these are all our girls together. 22:09 You can't get a picture of the boys together really 22:11 because they don't wanna take pictures 22:13 but all the girls love to take pictures 22:16 so this is all four of them there. 22:18 Ice is 18, Preaw is 17, Boot is 15, and Daonin is 14. 22:25 And they're just like a group of loud, loud sisters. 22:31 - So the volunteer, is she one of your relatives, 22:34 is she somebody from Thailand? 22:36 - We got a volunteer from America 22:38 and her name is Raquel Reyna 22:40 and she has really taken on that grandma role. 22:44 It's really nice to have, but she's only gonna be with us 22:48 for another five to six months, 22:50 and we're really looking for a grandmother 22:54 who wants to do some mission work in a low risk environment. 23:00 Low risk, high reward environment, 23:02 where you just get to be around the kids 23:05 and hang out and watch them when we need a break. 23:10 - And connect with them. 23:12 - Connect with them, you make friends for a lifetime 23:16 doing this and you make kids for a lifetime 23:18 and you can make grandkids for a lifetime. 23:21 - That's true, that's true. 23:22 Well it's amazing to see how God has led, 23:25 through all these changes in your lives 23:27 and it's so wonderful to see how He's providing 23:31 just what you need at the right time 23:35 and the love for these kids 23:36 and the wisdom I'm sure that sometimes is like, 23:38 "Lord what do we do now?" 23:40 - It's been an amazing journey 23:43 and yeah, the wisdom, the what do we do now, 23:47 it's everyday for us but God takes care of us 23:50 and He provides everything that we need 23:52 and it's been really awesome just to see God work 23:55 through us and for us and with us. 23:59 It's been awesome. 24:00 - Wow, so speaking of you and Chitlada needing a break, 24:05 sometimes and the volunteer you have now having to leave 24:11 in five or six months, you really do need somebody to come. 24:14 - Yeah we're looking for an older woman 24:17 who has the desire to be a missionary 24:20 and has the courage to go where God wants her to go 24:24 alone and come to a place where she can't speak 24:27 the same language and take care of kids 24:31 who won't understand what she's saying all the time. 24:34 Someone who really feels like God has called them 24:37 to be here because we need a grandmother type role 24:42 to be filled for the days when we need a break 24:44 or we need to get away or we have to go do something else 24:48 around Thailand. 24:49 Someone who can be there and take care of the kids. 24:52 Someone who wants some new grandkids 24:55 and someone who really wants to get involved 24:58 in the kids' lives and teach English 25:00 and just have fun with the kids. 25:03 - So okay, sponsoring the kids. 25:05 We wanna talk about that briefly at least. 25:08 Sponsoring them, are they fully paid, fully funded, 25:11 or how does that work? 25:13 - Well right now we have one child 25:15 that's fully sponsored but we have five other ones 25:21 and soon we'll have seven other ones, or six other ones, 25:25 that aren't sponsored. 25:27 So right now we have six kids and we only have one 25:31 that is sponsored to go to school. 25:33 So we're looking for people that have a heart 25:36 to help kids get education. 25:38 People who prayed about it and they've given it to God 25:41 and really feel like God is really put it 25:43 on their hearts to help 25:44 because sending a kid to Chiang Mai Adventist Academy, 25:48 if they're in the dorms, like we have two, 25:51 it costs about $1500 a year for just tuition 25:55 and room and board and a little bit of food. 25:57 That's not for all the costs that come up 26:00 with medical and all the other stuff that they have to buy. 26:04 But it's about $1500 a year. 26:07 Then we have the kids that are at our house. 26:10 Which it costs about $600 a year just for them 26:13 to go to school, not food, or fun, or travel, 26:17 or anything like that medical, dental, any of that stuff. 26:20 Just for the school. 26:21 And so we're looking for people who would like 26:23 to sponsor one of these kids. 26:25 Who would like to get to know them, 26:27 maybe even possibly come over and visit them, 26:31 because everything I've learned that having six kids 26:37 is really expensive and we didn't realize how much 26:41 it was going to be. 26:43 They have counseling, they have school, 26:46 they have clothes, they have fun sometimes. 26:50 Just everything that comes along with it and all the, 26:52 I didn't realize how much teenagers 26:55 hurt themselves either and how many things that they didn't 27:00 take care of in the past that need to be taken care of now. 27:03 It seems like every week we're surprised by a new bill, 27:09 a new surprise and so we need sponsorship for these kids. 27:15 If you've prayed about it 27:17 and you've really given it to God please contact us. 27:21 - Thank you so much for joining us today, Josh, 27:23 and for sharing the lives of these young people 27:26 and the blessing that they are to you, 27:28 and the challenges, yes of course, 27:31 but seeing what God's doing in their lives, it's awesome. 27:35 - It's really awesome to be able to share their stories 27:37 and I praise God that He's given me this opportunity. 27:41 - I would like to invite you, 27:43 if you would like to be involved in this project, 27:45 you can contact us at Jesus for Asia, 27:48 P.O. Box 1221, Collegedale, Tennessee, 37315. 27:54 Call us at 423-413-7321, 27:57 or visit our website at Jesus4Asia.org. 28:01 May God richly bless you until we see you next time, 28:05 on "Jesus for Asia Now". 28:07 (gentle music) |
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