Jesus 4 Asia Now

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00:00 (uplifting music)
00:21 - Hello and welcome to Jesus for Asia Now.
00:24 I'm Natalie Wood and today we've got special guests
00:26 Mike and Michelle Cordes with us.
00:28 And they work in Mindanao in the Philippines.
00:32 They have a project called GoBeDo.
00:34 It's one of the ones that people can donate to
00:37 through Jesus for Asia and we're very humbled
00:39 to be able to support the amazing work
00:41 that God is doing through them over there.
00:44 Welcome to the show Mike and Michelle.
00:45 - Thank you. - Thank you.
00:47 - So glad to have you here.
00:48 We just wanna start off because I know
00:50 that there's a lot the talk about with the ministry
00:53 but we also wanna know where has God brought you from
00:57 because I know that there's a lot of history
01:01 and how you came together to do ministry,
01:04 is kind of an amazing story.
01:07 So, how did you get to know each other?
01:09 - It is a long story.
01:12 If we can try to condense it a little bit,
01:14 circumstances led us both to Adventist Singles.
01:17 We were both seeking God's will in our life,
01:20 we were both tired of making mistakes
01:22 and we wanted nothing but God in control.
01:27 That was really it.
01:28 We just couldn't afford to make mistakes in our life
01:31 at this point and we had made commitments,
01:34 both of us, to serve God more fully.
01:38 Something that clicked in us that we just were
01:41 ready for that next step
01:43 and we were both on Adventist Singles.
01:47 And I think for over a year I was on Adventist Singles.
01:51 How long were you on it?
01:52 - Maybe two years.
01:55 - Two years.
01:57 And we were so incompatible, we found out later,
01:59 that we never saw each other during this time.
02:02 - So the system never showed you each other
02:05 as an option.
02:06 - No, we were never.
02:08 Well, it did one day.
02:11 She said--
02:12 - Yeah, somebody dropped a note and say hi.
02:16 Oh okay, and I said hi too because you know--
02:21 - And I thought it was her that initiated it
02:24 because it was a popup saying that somebody wanted
02:27 to talk to me.
02:29 And as I said we found out later we weren't compatible
02:32 and we never saw each other before
02:34 but all of a sudden now, we're popping up.
02:36 I had a ticket to Asia, never been on an airplane before.
02:41 Circumstances had led me over there.
02:44 And I had no passport, but there was a cheap ticket.
02:50 I had no tour guide.
02:52 I was frightened to death.
02:53 And- - Wow.
02:55 - I saw that Michelle was connected to family in the church
03:00 in the conference at union levels
03:02 and so I felt pretty confident in asking her
03:04 if she knew of somebody that could show me around.
03:07 That's kind of how it started.
03:09 - Okay.
03:10 So then, but you asked her something.
03:14 - I did. - That really
03:14 threw her for a loop.
03:15 What was that that you asked her?
03:17 - I asked her if she would like to, me to call her
03:20 after we got off the chatting.
03:23 Can I, ask her, can I call you and pray with you?
03:26 - And it made me nervous.
03:28 - Why would that make you nervous?
03:30 - Because it's one of the indicators that I had been asking
03:32 from God, if a man would call and pray,
03:36 then, you know, that's one of the indicators.
03:40 - [Natalie] Are you supposed to go with him?
03:42 - Yeah, that's the man that God has given me.
03:46 - Wow.
03:48 - I can't imagine in two years that no man ever said,
03:51 you know, "Can we pray?"
03:53 I just can't imagine it.
03:54 - On Adventist Singles.
03:56 - Yeah, yeah.
03:56 - Wow.
03:58 - So she began to act differently.
04:00 I remember that and yet I was starting to like her.
04:05 I'm actually, I smile and she seemed to have
04:09 a real passion for mission work.
04:11 Neither one of us had ever done missions
04:14 but we both had a desire to do missions.
04:17 We had both seen missionaries, heard the stories,
04:20 and we had a desire to have a significant other
04:23 in our lives that was mission-minded.
04:26 - So you're seeking that kind of relationship.
04:30 - Yeah. - From God.
04:32 Okay, so then you were coming over to the Philippines,
04:36 but you don't have a passport.
04:38 How's this gonna work?
04:39 - Yeah, that's what we were wondering.
04:41 She was starting to tell me about the indicators
04:43 that were happening and that maybe I needed
04:46 to do the same and I had never done that before,
04:49 you know, but being that I didn't have a passport,
04:53 I said give me a little ideas of what,
04:55 of how I should do this.
04:56 - Yeah, what should I do.
04:58 - She said, sometimes God says yes, sometimes no
05:00 and sometimes maybe.
05:01 I'm thinking okay, no passport.
05:04 If you can give me my passport by a certain date
05:07 then maybe that's a yes, we'll be married.
05:11 If it doesn't come in by that date, maybe it's a maybe,
05:16 and if it doesn't come in at all,
05:18 by the time my ticket comes, because we're coming up
05:21 on the date, then that's a no.
05:23 So that's what I did and I got on my knees
05:25 and I claimed the song, "It is Well with my Soul".
05:28 - Surrender?
05:29 - Full surrender.
05:31 So I was excited, here comes the day that was coming
05:35 to see whether I was gonna be married or not.
05:38 And I went to the mailbox, I came back without a passport.
05:43 - It wasn't there.
05:45 - It wasn't there.
05:46 I got on my knees and I said, "Thank you, Lord, anyway."
05:49 I said, "Maybe it's a no but there's still a maybe."
05:53 And no sooner did I get off my knees
05:58 than I felt the phone rang and I got a call
06:00 from the passport agency saying they were sorry
06:03 for the delay and for all the trouble but my passport
06:06 had been approved.
06:07 - Wow.
06:08 - I was blown away.
06:09 I was beginning to feel like I had no control over my life.
06:13 Something was happening that I didn't understand.
06:17 And I called Michelle and told her that it looked like
06:21 we might be getting married.
06:24 - Were you happy?
06:25 - No, I wasn't happy.
06:28 I was more and more nervous and it was like I don't know
06:34 what's going on because it just happened so quickly.
06:38 - [Natalie] So fast. - So fast.
06:40 - Well I know you mentioned to us off camera
06:42 that both of you were looking for somebody
06:44 that didn't have any baggage.
06:46 - Well I understand, she had two daughters
06:49 and she was worried about them being able to eat
06:53 and what kind of father figure they might have
06:55 and it's understandable.
06:58 - It is.
07:00 Okay, so you had the passport and the ticket was there,
07:05 so what happened next?
07:06 - So next, her dad asks me to speak a sermon
07:10 and you know, he wanted a good hour plus sermon
07:14 and I had never preached before.
07:16 So huge anxiety, never been on an airplane,
07:20 just a couple of weeks for the trip to happen.
07:24 So all the elders and the pastor are giving me
07:28 ideas and sermons, here's a sermon, here's a sermon,
07:30 this is what they need, you know,
07:32 that kind of thing and I knew
07:34 the Lord was asking me to trust Him in this journey
07:39 and to seek Him for His words.
07:42 So, with that in mind, I was about ready to board
07:47 the plane and no sermon.
07:50 And then I got a call from my dad saying
07:52 that he had lost his password to his email,
07:55 and I said what's your email dad and he told me
07:57 it was something with GoBeDo in it
07:59 and this GoBeDo just jumped in my face.
08:02 - Now GoBeDo, can you explain that real briefly?
08:05 In the middle of your topic.
08:06 - Sure, sure no problem.
08:08 The gospel commissioned to go and share the gospel,
08:12 to disciple others into Jesus, to be like Jesus,
08:17 so that we can reflect His character
08:19 and show people who He is.
08:23 And then to put into action, to do, whatever,
08:26 wherever, and whatever He asks of you,
08:28 wherever you are and to do that.
08:32 So that's basically, that was the format for the sermon.
08:36 So I'm excited and I get on the plane
08:38 and I've got my Bible in my hand and I'm going through it
08:40 and I get a 17 minute sermon so far.
08:44 - So you're like reading it to yourself
08:47 and you're timing it?
08:48 - Yeah, timing it and I got 16 hours on an airplane
08:50 through this trip and so it's not working.
08:53 So I'm, so I go back to work and praying,
08:56 "Lord, You gotta give me more than this, please,
08:58 "like I really need You so bad."
09:00 And ended up with something in the 20s, 20 minutes, 23,
09:05 27 minute plus and no matter how many times I practiced it,
09:09 that was it.
09:10 Now, my wife, I knew she--
09:19 I just figured they all spoke English too, I didn't know.
09:23 So I get there and I realize they speak another language
09:26 and I'm really stressed and I get in the church
09:30 and I get a translator, her mother translates.
09:33 And of course this sermon goes over an hour.
09:36 God had it figured out all along.
09:39 He knew what He was doing.
09:40 - Wow, wow, so your father was content then, or?
09:43 - I don't know because, probably not,
09:47 because he asked for an indicator.
09:49 - What was that?
09:50 - That is the, about the license thing.
09:53 - The license, oh yeah.
09:55 So what happened was there was a typhoon in the country
10:00 and there was no air travel, no boat travel.
10:06 And we had only a few days to get the license, so we-
10:08 - A marriage license.
10:09 - Yeah, a marriage license and we had to get
10:10 to the middle of the country in Cebu
10:13 and we're in the south, in Mindanao
10:15 and the storm was heavy.
10:17 So it was getting to the end of the storm
10:19 but still, there was no travel.
10:22 And I remember we had asked the travel agency,
10:25 so let us know if there was something available
10:27 and the day before the license, we needed the license,
10:31 they called us and said there was a small ferry going over
10:34 so we went over to the whole night on rough waters
10:38 and we got to the US Embassy, or the Philippines
10:40 Consulate's office.
10:43 - Wow, and then the next thing happened.
10:45 - It's closed. - It's closed.
10:47 They said, the US Consulate's office is closed.
10:51 It's a US holiday.
10:52 - Oh wow.
10:54 - So I'm like, I don't understand what's going on.
10:58 I'm starting to really like this girl.
11:01 - And yet it seems like it keeps being no.
11:05 - Yes, no, yes, no.
11:06 - You're kind of going no- - Yeah, and so we're-
11:09 - [Natalie] What are you doing?
11:10 - We're walking away, we're walking away.
11:11 We turned around and walked away.
11:12 And it wasn't no more than five steps away
11:14 and I felt a tap on my shoulder.
11:17 Turn around, go ask them, where is the office?
11:20 Let's see it with our own eyes.
11:22 And we did, I said, "Let's go Michelle,
11:24 "let's go down and look at it."
11:25 "Why? They're closed," she said.
11:27 No let's go, I wanna see it and we went down
11:30 and it was really closed.
11:32 - wow.
11:33 - So I sat on the ground, I'm like, I don't get it, Lord.
11:37 I don't really, am I not really hearing you,
11:40 are we just joking around?
11:43 What's going on here?
11:44 I mean there were so many things going on in our minds.
11:48 She was happy.
11:50 - Why were you happy?
11:51 - I just had a relief, you know,
11:53 you're not really getting married yet.
11:55 - Yeah, so as we were sitting there,
11:58 going through these emotions, some people came up
12:01 and said, "What are you doing?"
12:01 And we tell them our situation.
12:04 They said that the Catholic holidays were coming up,
12:06 that whole week would be closed, the offices would be closed
12:09 but they were the US Consulates, consular,
12:12 and that they would take care of our issue,
12:15 our permit and so they helped us with our paperwork.
12:19 The US Embassy opened on a closed holiday.
12:22 Amazing, so I'm back on that yes.
12:25 - God said yes, here we go.
12:28 And you are?
12:29 - Nervous and not happy.
12:32 - So when you went back to your family's home?
12:35 - And we had to turn in the license to the local register
12:38 and the local register said no, can't be, it takes 21 days.
12:42 You have to have marriage counseling,
12:43 you have to, another 21 days.
12:45 You have to have marriage counseling,
12:46 you have to have a pastor who's willing to marry you.
12:50 And they said no.
12:51 So we were out the office again, out with a no.
12:56 And then what happened?
12:57 - Somebody chased us outside the office-
12:59 - A government worker? - And said
13:01 if you can really talk to one of the pastors
13:04 that would really be okay to do the ceremony,
13:08 and then the paperwork, just put it in the date
13:12 when the permit was being approved,
13:18 then we would allow you guys to get married.
13:21 - So we went through marriage counseling,
13:23 which was also a miracle because it was supposed
13:26 to be scheduled and they were able to get us in.
13:29 And everything fell back into place again.
13:32 - Wow.
13:33 - So I asked my uncle, because he's a pastor
13:35 and he said, "Oh, no problem."
13:38 So it happened, my dream wedding day.
13:41 I'm supposed to be happy but you know,
13:44 the devil was talking to me to running away.
13:47 I wanted to run away from him,
13:49 like I'm nothing to this marriage.
13:52 But God used one of my aunties and she said,
13:56 "The devil sees that you will be happy in the future
14:01 "and he wants that not to happen.
14:04 "So if you really wanna run away from this marriage
14:06 "that you told me is really God's will,
14:10 "you might regret in the future, you might find somebody
14:13 "that is not really from God and the result
14:15 "is not really," so with that advice I just, like okay,
14:21 so I really have to do this.
14:24 So we got married.
14:26 - Wow. - Yeah.
14:29 - Going back, we had helped a 1000 Missionary Movement
14:34 with a project.
14:35 We had found a bible worker willing to go up into,
14:38 it wasn't in the mountains very far, but it was still
14:40 far enough up that it was like unknown territory
14:43 for the church and we were, his name was Dudes.
14:48 And Dudes helped the two missionary girls
14:51 that were, one was from Korea, one was from the Philippines,
14:54 we helped to establish that church there with them.
14:57 - You had that, it did start
14:59 with the faith camp that you attended.
15:01 - It did, I had already gone to two faith camps
15:04 and so this missionary idea was just burning in me.
15:07 It was really burning in me and so-
15:09 - I remember the second faith camp you had-
15:11 - I was doing the PA work for the-
15:13 - And you stood up and you claimed your inheritance.
15:16 - Oh, yeah, I did.
15:19 - The theme of faith camp that year
15:20 was claim your inheritance, going off the text in the Bible
15:23 that talk about our seed shall inherit the Gentiles
15:26 and I will give you the heathen for your inheritance
15:29 and so you claimed-
15:30 - Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread.
15:32 I was excited, but as much as I felt this burning
15:37 coming on me, I said, "Lord, I'm a pretty dense guy,
15:42 "if You're really talking to me,
15:43 "You're gonna have to hit me with a bigger stick."
15:45 And those were really my exact words.
15:47 And for the next three months, God spoke loud and clear.
15:50 Matthew 6:33 came at me from every single direction.
15:54 It just like, I couldn't escape it.
15:56 And like Luke 14, I was saying, but Lord,
16:00 and I have to bring my wife here,
16:01 this is gonna be a huge expense, but Lord,
16:04 you know, I've got this and I've got that,
16:07 and He just kept reminding me, seek ye first
16:09 the kingdom of God and His righteousness
16:11 and all these things will be added unto you.
16:14 Your way of thinking, as an American,
16:16 is you get your skills, you get a job,
16:19 you eight to five, nine to five, whatever,
16:22 you build your retirement up and life is good, right?
16:28 - And then, yeah.
16:30 - And so this idea of seek ye first the kingdom of God,
16:36 and trust everything with Him, and He's calling me
16:37 to do missionary work in the Philippines,
16:38 when I'm supposed to be bring a wife to America,
16:42 doesn't make any sense to me.
16:43 It just doesn't make any sense, I love America.
16:46 It was hot and sticky over there.
16:48 It was loud, it was not agreeable with me.
16:52 But I remember after three months,
16:55 I really cried like a baby, I gave in to the Lord
16:57 and said, "You know, I'm gonna stop running like Jonah,
17:00 "I'm really gonna listen to your voice."
17:02 And I was excited because I got on the phone with Michelle,
17:06 and I said, "Honey, what do you think
17:07 "about doing missionary work in the mountains in Mindanao?
17:11 And she said-
17:12 - Oh, we're gonna die.
17:14 We're really gonna die.
17:16 That's what I was thinking.
17:18 - Yeah.
17:18 - Why did you have that thought?
17:20 - It's because the mountains, we live in the coast area,
17:24 coastal area and we don't really go to the mountains
17:28 because for us, it's just, there's a lot of
17:31 the people there have a different mentality
17:35 and they're very, they have different laws.
17:41 The tribal people have a different law, so-
17:43 - And it was an ongoing insurgency.
17:45 There were- - That's what it was.
17:47 - Between the communists and the government.
17:50 It's been going on, I think, since the 1960s, right?
17:52 - I don't know, it's quite a long time.
17:55 - Yeah. - Wow.
17:56 So there was real danger there?
17:57 - Yeah.
17:58 - Wow.
18:00 So he told you this and you said, "We're gonna die,"
18:02 and then-
18:02 - I said I'm not really into it.
18:03 - And then we started researching the books,
18:06 "Christian Service", and "Welfare Ministry" and other books.
18:10 Seeking the Lord, how are we gonna do this?
18:13 And praying and what happened next was
18:19 the circumstances came, we said, "Okay, Lord,
18:22 "we're not putting stipulations on you anymore.
18:25 "We're ready to go."
18:27 And as soon as we were ready to go
18:29 without the stipulations, a kind and generous woman
18:33 who we had given our last bit of money to, the year before,
18:37 for dog food and other needs that she had,
18:40 because she was on hard times, had come on better times.
18:43 - She didn't ask for it.
18:44 She didn't ask for it.
18:45 - She didn't ask for the money-
18:46 - We just saw- - We saw her need
18:47 and we gave our last bit of money for her.
18:50 And the following year she did the same for us.
18:53 And we had figured out, we found a piece of land,
18:55 we knew what we were gonna need to begin
18:57 the ministry as a, in an area,
19:01 and she gave us a huge cheque.
19:04 Over $70 thousand.
19:06 - Wow.
19:08 - And, you know, we were granted one motorcycle
19:14 and then another motorcycle as we were faithful,
19:16 God enlarged, we got off the coast, we got in the mountains.
19:21 We were by concept able to establish a church
19:25 and then another church and then another church
19:27 and then another church.
19:28 And God continued to bless us.
19:31 Then three schools later, I mean it just kept
19:36 getting bigger and bigger and what we thought
19:37 was just gonna be a vision trip, to go over and see
19:40 you know, spend a short-term mission trip,
19:43 turned into a full-blown ministry.
19:45 - Wow, wow.
19:46 - Yeah, it was amazing. - That's amazing.
19:49 So once you said yes, then He just--
19:53 - Once we submitted, yeah.
19:55 - That a lot of things happen.
19:58 - Circumstance happened where were wanted to live
20:00 in wood houses, and we almost went to jail.
20:04 We thought we were following the proper procedures
20:07 and we showed up for a, at the wood to start building
20:11 the house and all the government officials were there
20:14 and the chief of the people that we went to
20:16 to actually thought we were following protocol
20:19 to cut the wood for us, and we were taken downtown
20:22 for investigation.
20:23 I was threatened to be blacklisted
20:25 and thrown out of the country.
20:27 - Basically, we were being betrayed.
20:29 The people that sold the wood to us,
20:32 they were the ones that reported us.
20:35 So it was like the devil doesn't want us there.
20:38 - And we weren't doing it purposely,
20:39 we really thought we were following proper protocol.
20:43 So we were forced to build wood and cement,
20:46 I mean cement and steal houses in the beginning.
20:49 And, which, looking back now, you know-
20:53 - It's a blessing.
20:55 - It was a blessing because we started hearing gunfire
20:58 around the area and hundreds of people had been dying
21:02 around us within a, within a probably a seven
21:05 or eight mile area, we were right in the middle of a war.
21:09 And we didn't know.
21:11 Our first house we were living in there were 14 of us
21:13 living in this 14 by 10 house.
21:16 It was just small logs, with bamboo sheeting around it
21:21 and at night time, we'd hear these rubber boots come up,
21:24 (squishing)
21:26 and they would breathe next to the building
21:29 and we would tap each other.
21:31 - [Natalie] Pray. - Pray.
21:34 We knew at that point that we were in the thick of it
21:38 and we needed to be right with God.
21:40 If ever we were gonna accomplish and stay alive in this,
21:44 this situation, we were gonna need to search our hearts
21:46 and be right with God.
21:48 - Wow, what a way to start ministry.
21:50 - Yeah, it was a real boot camp.
21:53 - Baptism by fire.
21:54 - It was, yeah. - Wow.
21:57 So, how, in your mission work, I know that you're busy
22:03 all the time- - yeah.
22:04 - And you've got a lot going on,
22:05 how do you protect your marriage,
22:08 how do you protect your family?
22:09 Because if you've got 14 people living with you,
22:12 or whatever it is that at the time,
22:14 I know it goes up and down sometimes for you.
22:16 - We've had as many as 50.
22:18 - Yeah, but how do you, how do you work things
22:21 so that you stay that connection with each other?
22:24 - When you take and look outside of yourself,
22:27 it's easy not to see your own problems, not to see you
22:31 and see your spouse's faults.
22:34 You know, when you're serving others, you need each other.
22:38 You need each other and you're dependent on each other
22:40 for advice and for prayer and for that comfort, you know?
22:46 We all need that so that was important.
22:50 God knew what he was doing, for sure.
22:52 - Yeah, well we've seen a friend of ours share
22:55 that like in their mission field,
22:58 out of six families or something like that,
23:01 four of them ended up getting divorced.
23:04 And so it's like we've seen the tension
23:08 because of the devil's attacks on the marriage
23:11 and upon the family and it's a good thing
23:14 that you've learned that you have to be connected to God
23:18 and to each other and be humble.
23:20 There's a lot of attacks, I know
23:22 that everybody has challenges.
23:25 - Our kids suffer for the, for a lot of years.
23:28 We took them to the mission field early
23:31 and, you know, sibling rivalry and sibling fights,
23:35 you know, and with the people we were working for,
23:38 it's just not acceptable.
23:39 So we had to stop leaving them, stop bringing them-
23:43 - And so you left them with grandparents, or?
23:46 - With grandparents and with other missionaries.
23:49 It was with grandma for a couple of years
23:53 and so it was hard on our family.
23:54 We neglected our kids and so we spent
23:57 the last couple of years reclaiming them.
24:00 And it's worked out really good.
24:03 - God is good.
24:05 - You know when, the Bible says to raise up your kids
24:08 in the morning, and the afternoon and the evening,
24:11 always talking about the Lord and His goodness,
24:13 and we did that, we never neglected to do that.
24:16 So we may have neglected time and listening,
24:19 like we should have, but I think we caught it in time
24:23 and we're proud of what's becoming of our kids.
24:27 - Wow, praise the Lord.
24:28 - [Mike] Yeah. - God is so gracious.
24:30 - Yeah, even when we don't deserve it.
24:34 - Yeah, so what is the plan now for your ministry?
24:39 Where are you headed?
24:40 What's the big burden right now?
24:43 - Things are changing quick in the country.
24:46 There's not anybody who's reading up on the country
24:49 and Mindanao is, things are happening.
24:53 Radio, and I was working in radio before I started missions
24:57 and now the Lord's bringing it back.
24:59 And we are in a location where we can reach
25:05 over a million people- - Wow.
25:07 - Not only people but communist rebels, locals,
25:14 coastal, Islamic-
25:18 - So a variety of people.
25:20 - A variety of people so we just found out,
25:24 last night, that it looks like we will
25:25 be going under franchise and we've been assigned
25:28 our frequencies and everything.
25:30 So we're excited.
25:31 We've got a problem with our present location.
25:35 Tourism is overtaking the front of the property
25:37 and we see a need to move up, higher,
25:40 and out of the way of tourism.
25:43 - So you've got to put your antennae
25:45 up on the top of the hill?
25:46 - Yeah, we've gotta, we've got a mountain behind us
25:49 and we've been praying for that mountain.
25:52 The Lord says, right- - Go forward.
25:55 - If you add faith, you can what?
25:57 Move mountains.
25:58 - Move mountains, yes. - I don't wanna move it,
25:59 I just wanna possess it, so that we can possess
26:02 the people that it can reach.
26:03 - Wow.
26:04 - So that's our next goal, we need to rebuild
26:06 the mission post, it's rotting.
26:09 We live at 4000 feet in the clouds.
26:12 Humidity is 99% and it's already getting tired.
26:17 - Lots of molds.
26:19 - Mold and it's not safe anymore.
26:22 We need to rebuild.
26:23 - Okay.
26:24 - And so we're looking at all of our options
26:26 and we need to build some roads and bring
26:28 some electricity lines up top and so it's a big task
26:31 and we know that in our own, in our own estimation
26:34 we'll never really get this done.
26:36 But we know that what God has done in the past,
26:38 has been a miracle and we know that God
26:39 will perform what He wants us to do.
26:42 Whether that's His plan, we'll see.
26:44 - Yeah, wow, I just wanna thank you both
26:47 for coming here today and sharing your stories with us.
26:50 - Oh, we wanna thank you too and we had a blast
26:53 at faith camp and it's been just great
26:54 to see everybody again.
26:56 - Yeah, and praise the Lord for the opportunities
26:58 to share what God is doing.
27:01 - You know, Jesus is coming soon.
27:02 And we wanna be ready. - [Natalie] Yeah.
27:06 - But more than that, we want others to be ready too.
27:09 - [Natalie] Yeah, praise the Lord.
27:10 Thank you for sharing.
27:11 - Thank you. - Thank you.
27:13 - I would like to invite you to pray for Mike and Michelle
27:16 and their ministry there in the Philippines.
27:19 They are in a place of real danger but God is big
27:22 and God's angels are there and He encamps around
27:25 those that fear him and He delivers them.
27:28 They have many more stories that they have not
27:29 been able to share today, stories where God
27:32 has obviously protected them very obviously
27:35 from clear and present danger.
27:38 You know, if the Lord is impressing you to be a part
27:41 of this ministry through financial offerings as well,
27:45 you can send your tax-deductible love gift
27:47 to Jesus for Asia, P.O. Box 1221,
27:51 Collegedale, Tennessee, 37315.
27:55 Call us at 423-413-7321
27:59 or visit our website at Jesus4asia.org.
28:02 May God richly bless you.
28:05 Until we see you next time on Jesus for Asia Now.
28:08 (uplifting music)


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