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Mission SONlight Chatt Season 4 Ep. 20 Gary Wilson - Gospel Outreach · Mission SONlight CHATT

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Welcome to Mission Sunlight Chat from the Media
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Missionaries of Network 7. What a blessing to
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have you along. We are in St. Louis, Missouri
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at the Church's, the Seventh -day Adventist Church's
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General Conference. And this week we have been
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a part of the polity, that is the setting of
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policy and the election of officers. But also
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we've been here in the exhibit hall where people
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are sharing what Jesus is doing in their part
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of the world. And that has been an incredible
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blessing to network with others who are working
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for Christ. wherever they may be stationed, whether
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they're working for the church institution or
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for lay organizations, whether they're in business
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supporting the church ministry. We have been
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blessed to be connected with them and have our
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space here in the exhibit hall. And at this moment,
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we have a special friend who is working in a
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far -flung region of the world with Gospel Outreach.
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I'm going to give you a chance to introduce yourself,
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tell us who you are and what you do and where
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you're working. My name is Pastor Gary Wilson.
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I am currently working as a regional director
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for Gospel Outreach. Gospel Outreach is an organization
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that began about 30, 25, 30 years ago, 32 years
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ago. When the concept of realizing what happened,
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and we talked about it a little bit tonight in
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the meeting, the 1040 window. the need to evangelize
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that area. Now, many of our listeners may not
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know what a 1040 window is, so let's explain
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that that is the latitudinal lines primarily
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in the eastern hemisphere that starts at 10 degrees
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above the equator. That's correct. And goes up
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to 40 degrees above the equator. That window...
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particularly focuses on Northern Africa and Southern
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Asia. Is that a fair way to describe it? Yes.
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And I would say that it covers the majority of
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the unreached people, groups. So we're going
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to talk a bit in more detail about gospel outreach
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in our second segment. Gary Wilson, I would like
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you to open us with a word of prayer, and then
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we want to learn a little bit more about you
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and what makes you tick in your early years of
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knowing who Jesus is. Let's bow our heads. Father,
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I thank you so much for being such a loving,
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kind Father who guides us through our lives,
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through everything we do, that we can trust you
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because you have shown your undivided love for
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us. Thank you, Jesus, for blessing us as we talk
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this time. Help us to be able to share your message
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with this world. In Jesus' name, amen. Thank
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you for the prayer, Gary. Take us to the early
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years of your life and your family experience.
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Well, my family life is an interesting thing.
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My father was a pastor, but early on contracted
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multiple sclerosis in an era when there wasn't
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much to do about that. And so my mom raised my
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brother and I pretty much. But I've always had...
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One of the things that they did for us was to
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provide us with mission stories, mission books.
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And it touched my life. I remember hearing someone
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that older people in the church would know, Eric
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B. Hare from Burma. And he was quite a storyteller.
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And we call that Myanmar Today. Myanmar Today,
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yes. The stories touched my heart as a child.
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And I would go to camp meeting in the summer
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when all the groups would get together and the
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churches get together in an area. And once in
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a while we'd have him or someone like that to
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tell us mission stories. And that began to touch
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my life with the idea I wanted to do missions.
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How would you say you were then? I was six, seven
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years old, eight years old. Early years. In the
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early years of my life. And it continued because
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we would go, we loved to go to camp meeting every
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summer. And I grew up in the Oregon Conference,
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which is the state of Oregon. And we would go
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up to camp meeting up there near Portland. And
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I couldn't get enough of going to those stories
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when I was in. In the junior department and primary
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and all those things, I would go every time.
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And even when I was older, teenage, it was always
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something that I wanted. Missions were something
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that interested me. I went on to Walla Walla
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College, and the Lord turned my life around because
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I was headed to go to dental school, but I had
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to wait a year. And so I met. The young lady
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was going to be my wife. I didn't know that at
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the time. And because I had to wait a year, I
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went to St. Louis, right here, St. Louis. Began
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my ministry straight out of college, teaching
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here in the Adventist school here in St. Louis,
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Missouri. Missouri, if you're from this area.
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And he set it up. where that was going to be
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my goal. He just opened all the doors and closed
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the ones, and I never went to dental school.
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I went straight into teaching. My second year,
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I was an administrator of the school here. And
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God just led me right straight through teaching.
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And I have spent, like I said, I spent the next
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53 years teaching and administrating schools.
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Mostly junior academies and boarding schools,
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high schools, and all over the United States.
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And worked many, many different areas around
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the United States. And then my wife and I, we
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got married after my first year of teaching.
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So she followed you to St. Louis. Well, she was
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already here. She graduated in Michigan from
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Andrews University the year before me. And so
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and she became they called her to be the principal
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that my first year of teaching. I married her
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and became the principal second year. She says
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she says I didn't want to do it anymore. And
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so I have some people say, well, you married
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so you could get to be principal. It wasn't quite
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the case, but it was where God wanted me to be.
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And I realized that as the next few years went
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by. I knew that this is where God wanted me to
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be. I want to back up on something you said earlier.
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Your father was sick with multiple sclerosis.
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Your mother was focused on your formative years
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on raising you, and you said a brother? Yes,
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I have a younger brother. Okay. So you would
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credit your mom with your ultimate connection
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to Christ? I would say that as well as my grandparents.
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Okay. My grandparents on my mom's side were church
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workers as well, educators. What ended up happening
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with your father? He passed away eventually in
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1975. Okay. And because it was difficult for
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him. He was a person who had been very active.
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And all of a sudden, he was in a wheelchair before
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I went to first grade. I mean, I suppose it's
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too personal, but I remember the last time he
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drove a car. He couldn't get his foot from the
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clutch to the brake fast enough, and we hit the
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garage door. It didn't do any big damage, but
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that was his last time he ever drove. And so
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you have these kind of experiences, and emotionally
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he didn't handle it that well. Right. And so—
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Many of us would not. No. And there was—if they
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had the kind of medical care today, back then,
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he probably would have lived much longer and
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not even had to go into a wheelchair as much
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because there's other treatments today. But he
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didn't have that opportunity, so he had to handle
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the whole flow of that disease to the end, and
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it was gone. I see. So you've brought us forward
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to your time here in St. Louis where you were
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teaching, and you spent, as you said, 53 years.
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How did you, without giving too much away about
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gospel outreach, how did you connect with gospel
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outreach? How did you arrive from a teaching
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career to leading missionaries? It began, I suppose,
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in one sense. My wife and I, when we were first
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married, we came to the general conference officers,
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and we applied for mission service. It didn't
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happen for many, many years, but in 1981, we
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got a call to go to the Marshall Islands. I was
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the first full -time principal of that school
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there. It had started the year before. and they
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asked me to come and be the first full -time
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principal. So we took our children. I have four
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children. My youngest was nine months old when
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we got on that plane. And so I got involved,
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and there I got involved with student missionaries.
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I had 21 student missionaries and volunteers
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every year running that kindergarten through
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12th grade high school. And so the concept of
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missions just kind of... Moved in was something
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that had been part of our life. It was so it's
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just something that continued getting the concept
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of mission and Then forward fast forward that
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after a few years in the marshals we came back
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home worked in several different places and then
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In 2010 it opened up for us to go back overseas
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and now all of our kids are grown married and
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grandchildren and so on but for us from my wife
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and I my wife's anyway they it became something
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that we just wanted to do and so got the general
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conference called us to go to Sri Lanka and in
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Sri Lanka I had I was print I was president of
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Lackawanna Adventist College. It's a junior college,
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elementary through junior college experience.
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And we met up with our pastor and his wife were
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teaching there, John and Ruby Stafford from College
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Place Washington, but they've done a lot of mission
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service. And so we met them. He retired. while
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we were there, went back to Walla Walla. And
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I guess he got involved with gospel outreach
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at that time. I'm not sure exactly when he got
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involved, but it was about that time. And so
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we continued on, went to Thailand and then to
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Guam and then ultimately to Egypt in 2020. And
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then when we came home, which we had to come
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due to COVID issues, we were sitting at home
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and Don Ruby, we were talking one time and he
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mentioned something about they needed regional
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directors in gospel outreach. As we stated a
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little bit more, gospel outreach, what we do.
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is we have over 2 ,000 workers in 44 countries
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across this, what we call the 1040 window. We
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hire natives, indigenous workers. And train them.
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And train them. And put them, have them go into
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unopened villages. Friendship. Bible studies.
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prayer time with people, helping them. We give
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them a little bit of medical training in some
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cases. And then we just ask them to keep working.
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We try to get them, encourage them to move into
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new villages, because there's lots of little
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villages. And they usually run three to five
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villages at a time. And weekly they will go in.
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house churches, house meetings in these areas,
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and fantastic work. But it's challenging. As
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Gospel Outreach, we work through the church organization.
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I want to learn more about Gospel Outreach, but
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I want to finish up on your story, how you connected.
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You had your friends over? They invited me. They
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introduced you to it a little bit? They introduced
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me to the idea of Gospel Outreach. They said,
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we need RDs. Would you be willing to do that?
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And I said, yes. I said, I would be more than
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willing to, you know, if this is what God wants
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me to do, because I don't want to quit working.
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I hear I'm retired now. I said, I really don't
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want to quit working. But if this is what God
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wants me to do, I will do it. Amen. Because going
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back to one of my time at Walla Walla, one of
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the things on Friday evening and Sabbath evening,
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we would have these Vesper services. And one
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of the songs that was my favorite was about going
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and filling God's mission. somewhat of the term,
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I will go. If you call me, I will do it. Something
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like Isaiah's little vision, I'll do it. And
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that's kind of where I was. And so, hey, I really
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didn't want to come home from Egypt. We'd just
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gotten really going there. I was principal of
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a school in Zaitun, which is in Cairo. I wanted
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to continue work, and this gave me an opportunity
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to stay active. Amen. I mean, I can do that in
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my local churches and be involved in Sabbath
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school teaching and preaching and stuff like
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that, but my heart's always been overseas. So
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gospel outreach made a lot of sense. Gospel outreach
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just made sense, and it does involve my training
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as an administrator. because I'm working with
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local, what we in the United States, we call
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them conferences or missions. Over there, they
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call them sections and regions. And so I'm working
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with the presidents of those sections and regions.
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They have to fill out reports. They have to follow
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guidelines. We have to have accountability and
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transparency and stuff like that. And that's
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challenging sometimes. education level of understanding
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all that is a little different there than here
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let's talk a little bit more about gospel outreach
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as we go along we're going to come back in just
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a moment with more with gary wilson gospel outreach
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leading out in the northern india union we'll
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talk about that a bit more in a moment but first
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i want to remind you you can stay connected with
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7 there at missionsunlight .org. You can text
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us at 1 -423 -855 -4877. And one quick shot around
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the exhibit hall here. We are at the general
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conference session and... As you can hear in
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the background, if you're listening, as you can
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see on the screen, if you're watching, it is
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a busy Saturday evening, the last night of the
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General Conference session, and folks are excited
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about what they're learning about, and that is
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how Jesus is working around the world. We're
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thankful to have you along. We will be back with
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more Mission Sunlight Chat. Being a media missionary
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can mean many different things. It means the
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love of a home at the heart of the planet. The
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intrepid spirit of a village and the vibe of
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a great metropolis. It means camera one and camera
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two. It means transforming a school, orphanage,
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or hospital. It means fire, rain, ice, and snow.
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It means gifts by the dollar and by the check.
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it means donations that roll and donations that
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fly it's a movement on a trail or down a motorway
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it means family all of us together and individually
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it's who you are or who you are becoming and
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to her it's a simple gesture that means hope
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whatever it means to you being a media missionary
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means more than you might think. Welcome back
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to Mission Sunlight Chat. We are excited to be
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in the exhibit hall at the General Conference
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session. Folks are learning and sharing about
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ministry around the globe, hearing what Jesus
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is up to and how He is working in their field.
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And right now we're talking with Gary Wilson,
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who is going to share with us what is happening
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in one of those far -flung fields, as we like
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to say at Mission Sunlight, northern India. You
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have a great opportunity to share Jesus in your
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region of the world. What exactly is Gospel Outreach
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doing in northern India? In our section in northern
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India, I'm in what's called Region 10, which
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is mostly the state of Uttar Pradesh and then
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up into Punjab. 275 workers that we work with.
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These people go into the villages and they work
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hard to meet the people and show them Jesus.
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We had a visit just within the last six months.
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My fellow RD was... covering it this year. I
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wasn't able to go in November. And he was there
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and they visited a few, what they call home churches.
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They're just out of, up in the Punjab and just
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out of the town of Jalandhar. And the people
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are coming together and they're singing and they're
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praying. And these are people that are not. there's
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a lot of them Sikhs of the Sikh religion and
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but they they want they want to understand the
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love of Jesus and our workers and many of these
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workers are very poorly educated but they love
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Jesus and and they're sharing the gospel and
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the meeting my friend was telling me the meeting
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was just like being in one of the early Christian
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churches when Paul was around. The people were
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singing, praising God, and just loving prayer.
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And it was just a fantastic experience. He said
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he came away with tears in his eyes, moved by
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the spirit that was going on in that meeting.
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And I think that this is what we see in general.
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Now, the challenge that we have is that we have
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to work through And sometimes we get people that
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are more interested in the money than they are
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in the work. So we struggle with that a little
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bit. But it's not bad. I mean, God is so in control
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of what's happening in this world today. You've
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got to be blind not to see that Jesus is coming
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very soon. People are excited about wanting to
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know about the Lord. We have, in gospel outreach,
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we have workers in the Middle East, in countries
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I probably shouldn't even mention. And we have
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Muslim young men coming, telling us they're having
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visions of seeing Jesus. And we have imams that
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are becoming... Sabbath imams. They still keep
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their temple open on Friday for worship, but
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on Sabbath they open it for Sabbath worship.
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They believe everything we believe. They've accepted
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everything we share with them. This is the excitement
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of working with the gospel. Too often here in
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the United States, it's just kind of, we go to
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church every week and sit in church, whatever.
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But out there, these people are having to face
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it. In India, we're facing some problems. They
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just passed in 2014 a non -conversion law. It
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went through all the process and everything.
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Which is interesting for a country that professes
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not to have a national religion. That's right.
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It says it has religious freedom, but they have
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this law. And it went all the way to their Supreme
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Court just recently. And the Supreme Court just
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kind of punted the ball, so to speak, didn't
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finish it, left it up to the states. Well, if
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you get up in the north there where we are, up
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in the north, it's very, very Hindu. And we've
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had some of our workers thrown in jail for periods
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of time. We have one of our presidents that's
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called into the police station quite regularly.
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We've been working with this and realizing, hey,
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their Constitution protects them. They can be
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harassed a little bit, but the Constitution protects
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them. And so our president, this one guy in one
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of our sections, he's just become friendly with
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the police. He's not fighting it. He's just saying,
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you know, hey, we're not doing anything that's
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against the Constitution. And even though he
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gets called in all the time, they're on a first
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-name basis, and they're friends. And so what
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I've been trying to help my presidents to realize
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is that, hey, your Constitution protects you.
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Don't be fearful. God's in charge. Amen. And
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so we're getting excited as we see things happening
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that way. and it's going forward in a positive
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way. Amen. Rather than be afraid, you know, Jesus
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said, don't be worried about what you have to
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say when you come before magistrates and kings
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or whatever, because I'm going to take the words.
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I'm going to do it for you. We have a tendency
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to live in fear. Yes. And I'm not saying we're
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any different here. I just, you know, how are
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we going to handle it when... When the Sunday
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law comes through or whatever it is, it comes
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across. Maybe I should, whatever. But the point
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is, we have a God who's in charge. Amen. I mean,
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that's what we come to the general. Whether it's
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religious persecution because of the day we worship
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on or because of the way we reach people with
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Jesus, we still know that the Lord will provide
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for us. That's right. And even when we get into
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concern about leadership positions and stuff
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like this, I just have to help my people understand
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God's in charge. Amen. And I can trust him. Amen.
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I mean, we may go through some tough times. I
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mean, when we read the book of Job, we find out
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that sometimes we're going to go through some
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troubles that we don't understand. But the ending
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is always, we know who the winner is. Amen. We
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know how the book ends, don't we? Yes, we do.
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Gospel Outreach, how can people connect with
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that ministry? You can go on to gospeloutreach
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.com, although I think the app, we have an app
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called Go Aim App. It's all goaimapp .com, and
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you can get... Information about it. We could
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put those details in our program description
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and let folks know about that. We have a TV channel
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called GoTV that puts on programs about what's
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happening in the field with some of our people.
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So if they want to learn more about your particular
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area, they can just look in northern India? Yeah.
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But like I said, we cover... We cover the Muslim
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areas. We also cover the lower, more Muslim areas
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of what used to be the Soviet Union, Kurdistan,
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Tajikistan, those areas. And then the Middle
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East, and of course, like I said, Gospel Outreach
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Canada, which is part of us, and they're joining
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back together more. Deals with West Africa. Okay.
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But we also handle Southeast Asia, the Philippines,
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Indonesia. So it has a broad reach. So we have
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a broad reach. As I said, we're in 44 countries.
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And with over 2 ,000 people. What we do is we
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have coordinators in most of these divisions.
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and those coordinators will identify where we
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need, and if we've got the money, we distribute
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over $4 million a year to sponsor these workers.
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We give them a wage, ask them to work for us,
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and most of these people are people that don't
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have a lot of money. So to go to work for us
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is a full -time job. And we train them, keep
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them trained. Keep constantly working with them.
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I go over at least once a year and do seminars,
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training. Coaching, encouraging. Coaching, encouraging.
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Even helping them spiritually. Because it's nothing,
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you know, it's pretty hard to be out on the front
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line. I understood this as a missionary too.
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You're out on the front line all by yourself.
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And you have felt what they have felt. Yes. And
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so you're on your own, and you need encouragement.
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You need training. And spiritual encouragement
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is extremely important. They're not going to
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grow unless they spend time with the Bible. We
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get this question once in a while. It's kind
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of a funny little thing. Is my devotional time...
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Do I have to do it on my own or can that be part
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of my work? And we're saying, look, your devotional
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time, your growth spiritually is part of your
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work. And so, hey, yes. If you need to spend
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time with the Bible every morning as part of
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your time, if you want to count it, they always
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get worried about, well, what do I do all day?
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How many hours do I have to spend in this and
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stuff like that? And the point we're making is
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it's a lifestyle. Yes. Live your belief. They
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don't have the same work concepts that we might
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have here in the West. It's a different feeling.
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Well, you know, we don't understand, but even
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our poorest state in North America, the United
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States, is ten times what they make in many cases.
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So it's just part of helping them. Some of them
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are making real changes. They have to have been
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baptized at least two years for us to hire them.
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We have to check them over, make sure they're
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grounded in the belief system. Some of them come
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right out of Sunday churches. But they need to
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know what it is they believe. And so I go over
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there. I usually do a three -day seminar all
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day. And I have three or four other people presenting.
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We talk about their finances. But we always spend
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time in the Bible with them. What we believe.
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What they're going to do. And help them. to be
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strong because when they're strong spiritually,
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they do fantastic jobs. Gary Wilson, Gospel Outreach.
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We're going to have a closing thought from you
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in just a moment. I want to remind our folks
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who are listening and watching, we are grateful
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to have you along with the program. We are especially
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grateful to have your prayers and know that we
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are also praying for you. As we look at the General
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Conference Session Exhibit Hall, lots of people
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in, literally thousands of people in the hall.
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learning and growing and networking and stretching
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how the Lord is working around the globe. So
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we want to thank you for being a part of our
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program. Remember, you can connect with us at
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missionsunlight .org. We will be back in a moment
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with more. Mission Sunlight, ciao. Our salvation
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is a day -to -day matter, isn't it? The real
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principle of the Sabbath is reconnecting ourselves
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with the Creator. We must learn to abide in Jesus
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now. We move ahead with our mission objectives,
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recognizing that we are serving together the
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Most High God. Welcome back to Mission Sunlight
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Chat. Gary Wilson from Gospel Outreach. Gary,
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thank you so much for being a part of our program
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today, for sharing with us what Gospel Outreach
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does and what your work is there in the Northern
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Indian Union. Before we go, you have a word of
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encouragement that you want to share with our
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listeners and viewers, so I'm just going to ask
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you to share that now. You know, the theme of
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this conference has been, I will go. Gospel commission
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that Jesus gave his disciples and all of us in
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Matthew 28 verses 19 and 20 was to go and make
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disciples. It isn't for ministers go or teachers
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go or missionaries go. It's every one of us goes.
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And if we can't go, we can help sponsor things.
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And I suppose I will tell you that Gospel Outreach
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is a lay -funded organization. We do the work,
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but we depend on donors, just like you probably
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do too. I'm sorry I missed that. It's okay. It's
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something we do. And nobody's asking me to say
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this because I haven't talked to my bosses at
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Gospel Outreach. But I know we want, if you can't,
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We go in different ways. The Gospel Commission
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is to make disciples. Now, how do I do that?
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I can talk to people one -on -one. And you know
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the concept of each one can reach one is very
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important. That's part of the Gospel Commission.
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God wants us. If we believe he's coming again,
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we've got to do our job. We've got to do it.
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And however we do that, it may be in giving.
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It may be in praying. Whatever it is. Supporting
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others. However you do it. God has given each
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of us that challenge. And I don't want to. I've
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tried not to back away from it. Even though I've
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sometimes wished I wasn't where I am. But it's
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something. You can't walk away from. If you are
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committed to Jesus. You have to share the gospel.
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Because. He's pursuing me. He wants to save us
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all. I want to be a part of that. Gary Wilson,
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thank you for challenging us and reminding us
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of the scriptural challenge to go in whatever
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way the Lord leads us to do that, whether that's
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sending our resources, lifting up our prayers,
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or physically taking a step out of our comfort
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zone and go in there. Amen. Jordan, would you
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wrap us up with a word of prayer as we conclude
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here from the General Conference Exhibit Hall?
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Lots of sounds around us as people are sharing
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and learning more about how God is working. Thank
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you, Jordan. Be glad to. Let's pray. Heavenly
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Father, we thank you for this opportunity. We've
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had to talk with Gary about the different things
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that are happening in his region of gospel outreach
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and around the world. In fact, we praise you
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for the things and the roads you're making. with
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the word going into these places, and some of
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them are very hard to reach. And we pray that
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you will continue to work in those regions. Thank
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you for the encouragement for all of us to find
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a way to be involved in ministry and to tell
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others that you love them and that you're coming
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back to take us all home. Please be with us and
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remind us of that on a daily basis, to tell our
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neighbors and our friends. and those around us
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that you love them, and you're coming soon. In
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your name, amen. Amen. Gary, thank you for being
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a part. GospelOutreach .com, you can Google that
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name and find all kinds of information, GoTV,
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GoAIM, the app. If you want to connect with them,
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want to be a part, want to volunteer, check it
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out, GospelOutreach .com. To our listeners and
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viewers, we're grateful that you've been along
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Let me go to the hall there. That's fine. Once
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again, taking a look at the exhibit hall and
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seeing all of the guests who are around, thousands
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of people visiting the hundreds of exhibitors,
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learning more about how God is working around
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the world, not just in gospel outreach, but all
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over the world. Amen. God is blessing. That is
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our program for the day. This is Mission Sunlight
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Chat. This has been a Beeson Brook production
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Scarborough, Don and Nancy Van Ornum. Associate
37:35
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Beeson. Director of Production and Audio Engineer,
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