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Mission SONlight Chatt Extra 16: ASAP Ministries and Gospel Outreach Follow-up · Mission SONlight CHATT

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  Welcome to Network 7's Mission Sunlight Chat.
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  the share button as well. Today's broadcast is
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  a special episode. It's a two -part missions
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  episode from Southeast Asia. We have two organizations
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  that are going to be sharing special reports.
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  The first will be Daryl Hosford from ASAP, and
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  the second... will be Brent Scully from Gospel
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  Outreach. So we are grateful to have you as our
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  audience. We're going to start that program right
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  now without any breaks. Please enjoy this first
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  episode from Daryl Hosford, and then we'll be
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  with Brent Scully. And we're beginning here with
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  Daryl Hosford from ASAP Ministries doing incredible
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  things in Southeast Asia. Daryl, I want to hear
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  about the things that we can be supporting, whether
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  it's through resources or through prayers or
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  even through volunteering. I want to hear all
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  of those things, the latest report from ASAP.
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  But before we do so, as we begin the program,
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  would you please pray for us? I'd be honored.
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  Father God, thank you for being a God who's reached
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  your life through your Son to this world. to
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  provide salvation. And thank you for the honor
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  of sharing that good news around the globe for
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  every people, every people group, every tribe,
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  every nation, every tongue. And Father, we pray
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  that all of us together could be represented
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  on that sea of glass, giving you honor and glory.
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  To that end, we ask for your blessing on these
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  few minutes that we have together. And we thank
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  you in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Well, Darrell,
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  the time is yours. Hit the road. Let's go. Well,
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  you know, ASAP, some of your viewers may wonder,
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  well, as soon as possible. You know, that's an
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  interesting acronym. Our ministry began as Adventist
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  Southeast Asia Projects. And from that, we have
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  grown over the past 30 years to a... A ministry
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  that focuses on meeting the practical needs of
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  people. You say, well, how does that get then
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  to the next step of, you know, sharing the gospel?
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  But we find that when there's no commonality,
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  when there's no connection with Christianity,
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  you know, we serve in Buddhist countries. You
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  can't say, well, let me tell you the latest truth
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  I've discovered from the Bible. Right. Because
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  there's no commonality. No context. No foundation.
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  Yeah. They don't know about the first coming,
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  much less be prepared for his second. That's
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  right. So acts of mercy, acts of care are the
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  first way to establish a relationship with a
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  cross -cultural, cross -religion party. The old
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  saying, people won't care about how much you
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  know until they know how much you care. That's
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  right. And so our ministry focuses on care, share,
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  multiply. And I'm just giving the background.
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  Sure. How do we approach ministry? Thank you
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  for this. It's helpful. So caring. You know,
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  we dig wells for a community. We establish community
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  centers. We have medical missionaries who go
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  and provide health care. And this is all under
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  the umbrella of ASAP. That's right. Not necessarily
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  another ministry, but you've got a global reach,
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  a global training, a global strategic plan. That's
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  right. Can I say that way? That's right. That's
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  very true. And we want to share that plan that's
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  working with other ministries across the 1040
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  window and around the world. We focus on those
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  five countries of Southeast Asia, the mainland
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  Southeast Asia countries that are Buddhist countries.
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  Tell me those again. So Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar,
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  Laos, and Vietnam. Okay. Two of those countries
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  are communist countries. One of those countries
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  is in an active civil war. The other two countries
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  lob shells at each other, Thailand and Cambodia.
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  So it's a region of upheaval and repression and
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  conflict. So we come in with care as our primary
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  mode. Then we share the gospel. And finally,
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  we look to multiply disciples. If a person is
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  going to become a baptized Seventh -day Adventist
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  Christian, We want them to be a sole winner for
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  Christ. Amen. And carry that message forward.
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  Yes. And expand and grow outward that margin.
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  So exciting things that are happening. Okay.
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  Yeah. Let's get right to it. So with that framework,
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  we say, how can we train our people better? Sure.
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  This year, we're starting in a partnership with
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  Amazing Facts Ministry. And we have begun this
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  month, AFCO Thailand. Let me pause you there.
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  We're using some vernacular that Seventh -day
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  Adventists will probably be familiar with, but
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  not all of them. And many of our audience are
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  Christians or not even Christians. So let me
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  explain a few things. You mentioned the Amazing
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  Facts Ministry. They're based in California.
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  They do a lot of evangelism and some humanitarian
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  work themselves. AFCO is Amazing Facts College
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  of Evangelism, where they're training. is afco
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  are you saying afco in the u .s or is there an
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  afco there in southeast asia how does that connect
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  so we've created a special training program for
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  bible workers in thailand okay going through
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  a similar curriculum okay so it's a partnership
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  with amazing facts this other ministry that you
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  mentioned and asap and it has to be similar but
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  not the same because the cultural application
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  of the gospel feels a little different exactly
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  right the gospel doesn't change but the application
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  of the gospel feels different when you have as
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  you said you don't have people with a basic understanding
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  that there is a god who loves them that's right
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  there are gods or spirits spirits or It's complicated.
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  We could have a whole program just talking about
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  Buddhism. Yes. But in our few minutes that we
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  have together, I'll not go into that. But Buddhism
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  is not almost not a religion. It's developing
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  the divine within you. It's not a higher power.
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  Very self -centered. Making yourself God. We'll
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  talk some other time about how to reach Buddhists.
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  Okay. So you've got the AFCO training? AFCO training,
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  brand new program, developing the local missionary
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  to be soul winners for Christ. And we're excited
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  about that. What else have we got? So we have
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  73 mission schools. 73, spread across five countries.
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  Spread across five countries. 8 ,000 students
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  that we support. And some of those are boarding
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  students because they... aren't able to go home
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  because of the war and conflict in their region.
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  And of those, we want to see them become, well,
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  exposed to Christianity and to become soul winners
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  themselves. Amen. So that's two things that are
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  happening. What else can you share with us? Medical
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  missionary work. All right. So this is a part
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  of that care concept, that care. We have medical
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  missionaries who are being trained to go out
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  and give simple remedies. And in a place where
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  there's health care in some of those countries,
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  that's very good, but some other places, it's
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  unattainable because of cost or because of conflict.
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  And with a diet that's somewhat monotonous with
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  rice, morning, noon, and night, and brown rice.
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  which actually would metabolize a little slower
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  and not have quite this sugar spike, is considered
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  pig food. You don't serve that to your family
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  or to guests. You only want white rice. And that
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  actually has some health challenges for the people.
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  They're missing nutritional content. Nutritional
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  content and diabetes is rampant across Southeast
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  Asia because they're not exercising like they
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  used to. They're not doing as much manual labor.
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  And the high sugar spike three times a day is
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  just wrecking havoc. And probably cooking with
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  more oil than they did and not as healthy oil
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  as they did. So medical missionary work, the
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  simple remedies of just good lifestyle is really
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  helpful to share. As we often like to say, someone
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  has written that health evangelism, helping people
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  with the basic. lifestyle changes that can make
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  life healthier and better than feel better. That's
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  like the right arm of the gospel. I love that.
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  And another quote from that same writer is the
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  entering wedge, right? So we can use that, as
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  you know, as you were iterating, that we can
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  use that entering wedge to get to know people.
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  Let me help you feel better. Let me help you
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  live better. And as you come alongside them,
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  they're like, something's different about you.
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  Amen. Tell me about it. Amen. Do you find that
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  effective in working in those societies? A very
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  short story. When we were in a closed country,
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  because I don't know the extent of your podcast
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  or your program, I'll just say it's a closed
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  communist country. It's global, so let's keep
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  it safe. There was a mission trip happening in
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  that closed country that was service -oriented.
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  a health mission trip very simple uh remedies
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  being shared a dentist was doing some dental
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  care a neighboring chief a hundred kilometers
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  away said we heard you were doing this mission
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  this this health program and he says i know that
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  you're religious We want your program in our
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  village. In fact, if you could send a church
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  planter, we will welcome them with open arms.
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  Really? This is in a closed country. Wow. A closed
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  communist country. That desire is that their
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  people be living better. And that is that right
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  arm, that entering wedge, where people there
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  with no access to any health care says, if you're
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  willing to share this, we're willing to listen
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  to what else you have to share. Amen. As our
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  time winds down, Daryl, I wonder if you could
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  just share with folks how they can connect with
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  ASAP Ministries and give us some reasons why
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  we would connect. What are the connection points
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  for ASAP? Great. I love that. And I would love
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  to have all of you sign up to our free newsletter
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  materials. That way you can see and experience
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  these mission stories firsthand. Every week we
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  send out a free email newsletter. If you like
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  print material, we'll send that to you as well.
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  I want to pause there. One of the things I like
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  about your ministry is if I call it, I get a
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  real person. Yes. And if you happen to be in
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  the country and I say, I'd like to talk to Daryl,
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  there's a good chance that you'd be available
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  and talk with me. I'd love to. Your ministry
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  is not so large. that you don't get a personal
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  connection. So I just wanted to say that as a
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  blessing of ASAP. You really feel like you can
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  connect with the ministry and learn things, ask
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  questions, be a support, be praying, etc. You
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  mentioned the newsletter. That prayer support
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  is what we really need. If you can sign up to
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  our materials, we'll send it to you free, and
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  you can become a prayer partner. I think prayer
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  is maybe what you could do best, what we need
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  the most. In a region that is so, so needing
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  of God's spirit. Amen. Sponsoring a student.
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  Of those 8 ,000 students, $30 a month can feed
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  a boarding student and put them through school.
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  Amen. $30 a month. That's less than a buck a
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  day. Yeah. And we will send you the picture of
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  your student, give you an update. We try to give
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  updates quarterly. If I go and visit that school,
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  I will send you a video with me and your student
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  straight to your box, one -on -one. So that's
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  our desire is to have you feel connected, that
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  you're actually making a difference in this young
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  person's life. Amen. Okay, so we've talked about
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  points of contact, but let's talk about the actual
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  how do we contact. Ah, good. ASAPministries .org.
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  That's A -S -A -P ministries. And we can also
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  add that to the bio so people can find it there.
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  Great. You have social media points? We do. We
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  have a YouTube account that you can search ASAP
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  Ministries. Okay. That'll bring up all of our...
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  Lots of media content there. Lots of media. Great.
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  We're on the other social media platforms. Instagram,
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  Facebook. Yeah, you can just search ASAP. Probably
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  many of the same media contacts. But if people
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  were going there, would you recommend the first
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  stop be YouTube or Facebook? If you like media...
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  That's just pure videos, and we put them out
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  every week. So what about your newsletters? Are
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  those available in reader form there at Facebook,
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  or do you have some of it available? Perhaps.
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  We send a lot of those via email direct to subscribers.
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  Okay. Lots of ways to connect. I know it's old
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  school, but throw in the phone number just for
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  the fun of it. Sure. Let me give you that number.
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  It's 269 -471 - 3026. All right, very good. And
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  Daryl, as we close, I just want to share a quote,
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  and I know you'll have a comment about it. Christ's
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  method alone will give true success in reaching
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  the people. We talked about the method you're
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  using. Let's see if it measures up. The Savior
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  mingled with men as one who desired their good.
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  We talked about that, didn't we? He showed his
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  sympathy for them. We've talked about that. He
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  ministered to their needs. Yes. This is what
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  ASAP Ministries is doing. And he won their confidence.
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  That's right. And that's absolutely happening
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  with not only the Bible workers, but you and
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  other teams that go and visit in these countries
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  and go and provide support to the Bible workers
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  and provide direct connection to the people.
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  So then what happened? He bid them, follow me.
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  Amen. Don't you want to hear the voice of Jesus
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  say, follow me? Amen. And it's beautiful to see
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  baptisms and people give their heart to Jesus
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  because of that formula. And it really works.
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  Darrell, ASAP Ministries, Darrell Hosford, thank
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  you so much for your time today. Thank you. God
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  bless. We hope you're enjoying this special episode
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  from Mission Sunlight Chat. Hearing from these
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  two ministries, we're going to go from that one
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  to the next one. Here we go. Brett Scully from
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  Gospel Outreach. Thank you for joining me for
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  this special report from Gospel Outreach. Tell
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  us what's happening today. Well, Christopher,
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  thanks for having me. It's always a pleasure
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  coming on and talking about the great things
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  that happen in gospel outreach. You know, the
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  world and the political climate is changing in
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  other countries quite dramatically. Places like
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  India, we're finding that we're getting letters
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  from the inside people. saying that the non -conversion
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  laws are becoming much more strict. In 13 states
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  now, they're clamping down on evangelism, proselytizing,
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  and so it's becoming more difficult to share
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  the gospel. But the good news is that when things
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  are tightened up in the political world, that
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  means that the gospel just takes off. Are you
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  saying that people are more hungry? People are
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  more hungry. Like in Iran. We're starting work
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  in Pakistan. We got a $50 ,000 grant from ASI
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  while we're here for starting work in Pakistan.
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  And this is something that we as an office have
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  been praying for for several years to try to
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  pull together. And it's like as soon as we get
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  this grant approved, all of a sudden doors are
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  opening up for the regional director for Pakistan.
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  people on the inside and the in the mission that
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  are already cooperating they got things and people
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  in place all ready to start work so we can see
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  the holy spirit moving already and plowing the
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  fields before us as we come in and pick up pieces
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  from behind wow so When I hear you saying that
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  people are hungry, I want to be clear because
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  we do have an audience that is not necessarily
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  Seventh -day Adventist or even Christian. That
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  understanding of what hunger is might be a little
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  unclear. They're hungry for the gospel. They're
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  hungry for the love that Jesus offers them in
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  his word. Well, they may not be able to identify
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  those things, but they're hungry. It's like when
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  I go to India. There is a look of oppression
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  on people's faces. It's a very, very Hindu -dominant
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  country. I think 75 % is Hinduism. But their
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  gods are just idols, and they don't offer anything.
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  And they're just, they have to live under oppression.
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  Their faces express what's going on inside of
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  them. Their stone -cold look, their eyes look
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  almost glazed over. But yet when you talk to
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  people about the hope of something better in
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  this life, the hope of Jesus, the hope of salvation,
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  the hope of cleansing of sin, they actually get
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  excited and they're like, tell me more. Tell
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  me more. You know, when we do some week of prayer
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  with students at the schools there, these kids
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  are really privy on not, they don't have much.
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  So they know what it's like to have need. And
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  so when you come with something like hope, it
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  encourages them. They feel happy. They feel like,
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  tell us more. And when you tell them more, they
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  want more. It's like when you're having a conversion
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  experience, you just can't get enough of the
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  word. Amen. You're learning something completely
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  new that is actually filling this incredible
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  void and space inside you. So I want to ask two
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  questions. The first one is, I hear you talking
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  about schools. One would think that they're in
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  the captive audience. You're talking to a captive
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  audience. You're talking to youth that are kind
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  of getting that slow digestion, continuing the
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  story of Jesus in their life through the school,
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  through the mechanics of day -to -day in school.
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  And you also talk about new work where you're
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  reaching people on the street through Bible workers
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  and other people. Do you find that the circumstance
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  is different in the school learning and interest
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  versus maybe the family or the adult out in the
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  public sector? Is their hunger or their craving
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  or their desire any different, or is it all very
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  similar? I guess I'm not sure I'm even understanding
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  how I'm asking this, but I'm just wondering if
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  the cultural response is different. I can probably
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  answer this by sharing with the audience. One
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  of our projects that we support is Sunshine Orchard
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  School. We had talked with Ana, who is the, I
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  think she's one of the administrators of the
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  school. And this school is right on the border
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  of Myanmar. Thailand and these Myanmar refugees
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  are coming down out of the mountain villages.
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  They're being pushed down and the kids come down
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  to school and we're supporting teachers. I think
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  up to 50 teachers there in the school, gospel
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  outreaches. And because we specifically support
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  gospel outreach workers, people wonder, well,
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  why are you supporting teachers? Well, you can't
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  get Bible workers into these schools. So what
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  we're doing is we're hiring teachers who are
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  teaching the Bible to these students. And so
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  every morning when these kids come to school,
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  they have a devotion, they have prayer, they
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  have worship, they're singing, they're praising
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  the Lord. worshiping together. And they're hearing
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  the word, God's word. And what's happening is
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  they're learning these things and then taking
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  them back home when they go back to the villages.
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  And it's changing their families. These kids
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  are finding hope and they're taking it back home
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  and sharing their testimonies. That's an amazing...
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  business model, don't you think? Amen. And you
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  know, I've seen it work around the world. It
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  isn't just in these countries you've described.
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  We have children who will attend Christian Seventh
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  -day Adventist schools who will take the joy
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  of Jesus they found in school, take it home and
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  say, Mom and Dad, I learned to pray. I want to
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  pray with you. I learned this in the Bible. I
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  want to share it with you. Because it's excited
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  them. And often, not always, but very often,
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  it incites a fire in... one or both of the parents
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  in the home that they want to know who this Jesus
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  is that's changed their kid's attitude. I'm seeing
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  an excitement in younger people for missions.
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  Amen. I don't know if you've seen that, Christopher,
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  but it's really encouraging because, you know...
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  Is it there's something in Malachi about our
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  youth? Yeah, there is. And it seems to me that,
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  you know, we in the older generation, we kind
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  of get stuck a little bit. And maybe it's because
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  we're routine -driven a little bit. You know,
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  we like doing routines, doing the same thing.
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  But young people bring an energy and a creativity
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  that we don't have. You know, at Gospel Outreach
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  this last year, Dr. Stephen Pilgrim brought his
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  business class in through Gospel Outreach to
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  do projects for us. There were, I think, in all
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  six classes. throughout the school year. And
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  they did projects for us. But man, I tell you.
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  I get so inspired by when these young people
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  come in and get excited about missions and they're
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  talking to their classmates and telling them,
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  hey, this project we did for Gospel Outreach
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  was life -changing for me. I didn't know Gospel
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  Outreach existed. I didn't know that our church
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  was so involved with missions. I didn't realize
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  that our church did stuff like this. And there
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  were non -Admettist kids who were actually so
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  inspired. to be involved with some sort of mission
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  work with Gospel Outreach. And in fact, they're
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  so inspired. They want to stay through the summer
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  and do internships with us just because they
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  love what they love, what we're doing. And and
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  that's that's amazing. Amen. You know, just it's
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  encouraging to inspiring to have young people
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  kind of at the forefront now leading the way
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  in missions. I want to take us down a path you
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  hinted at earlier. And I realize because of the
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  culture, you may not be able to say a lot, but
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  you mentioned the grant coming from ASI this
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  year, 2026, as we record this. Can you tell us
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  any more about how that's going to work, the
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  end run purpose? Well, the end run is simple,
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  and that is use indigenous native Bible workers
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  in Pakistan. to deliver the gospel to their own
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  people. And what we do is we work through the
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  church, the mission, the Seventh -day Adventist
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  mission in the country, who finds and establishes
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  the Bible workers and then Gospel Outreach will
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  support and give the funds through the mission.
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  Then they will deliver it to the Bible workers.
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  But the mission will, they'll train once a month.
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  Give them the tools to go out and minister to
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  the community. So they'll supervise. They'll
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  report back to our office. And then we'll establish
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  a regional director that will be over that region.
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  Okay. And then they will be the liaison between
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  them and us. So a very practical, gospel -centered
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  effort. by Gospel Outreach to have those individuals
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  placed. They're indigenous, as you said. That
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  means they're Pakistani. That's right. So you
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  said you're going to have a director there eventually.
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  So you're depending on connecting with the local
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  mission, the local church there, to provide that
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  training. Is that director that eventually will
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  come directly from Gospel Outreach, is there,
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  I don't know how quite to word this, I don't
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  want to sound... accusing anybody in Pakistan
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  of anything, but is there any danger or any complication
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  to someone going over there? Well, I think there
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  probably is to some extent, and to be honest,
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  I'm not exactly sure what extent that is. We
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  know in other countries that we work underground,
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  that it's so dangerous we don't have names of
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  our Bible workers, they're just numbers. And
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  so... With Pakistan, we already have a regional
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  director already lined out. So God's already
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  worked that issue out. So that's how we're doing
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  work in Pakistan. And I want to thank ASI again
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  for the $50 ,000 grant that they've given us.
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  That's pretty impressive and pretty important.
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  That's a big blessing for us. So as we wrap up
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  our segment here, tell me what... what you want
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  to tell folks about connecting with Gospel Outreach.
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  What do you want them to hear or know about this
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  report specifically? Gospel Outreach is one of
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  the largest self -supporting ministries our church
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  has for supporting Bible work. We are in 50 -plus
• 27:40
  countries. and we're supporting close to 2 ,400
• 27:44
  Bible workers. If you want to get involved with
• 27:47
  supporting Gospel Outreach, go to our website
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  at www .goaim .org, and you can support us on
• 27:55
  our donation page. You can pray for us. You can
• 27:58
  receive our newsletter. You can sign up for our
• 28:00
  newsletter, and you'll get monthly stories and
• 28:03
  kind of the news of what's going on with Gospel
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  Outreach. But most of all, pray for Gospel Outreach.
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  Pray for our Bible workers. You can also volunteer
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  if you've got skills and talents that we need
• 28:14
  at Gospel Outreach. We're also taking volunteers
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  as well. You're taking volunteers. What does
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  that mean just in a nutshell, 30 -second elevator
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  speech? What does it mean to be a volunteer with
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  Gospel Outreach? Well, it depends. You can be
• 28:26
  an accountant. You can be, if you've got some
• 28:29
  legal experience like an attorney, where we can
• 28:33
  lean on you for some legal advice. You can be
• 28:36
  an ambassador. You can represent Gospel Outreach
• 28:38
  in your local church. We'll send you quarterly
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  reports, pictures, videos that you can show in
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  front of everybody to inspire people to solicit.
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  people to be involved with missions with Gospel
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  Outreach. And from a coordinator standpoint,
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  I know you mentioned country directors, and I
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  know that in at least one place you have a chapter
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  leader. I'm not sure I understand all the structure,
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  but just the few things I picked up. Explain
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  a little bit if someone is more interested in
• 29:08
  the... can I say pastoral or administrative aspect
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  of an area? Well, I would say that we have chapters.
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  We have a southern chapter led by Ed Wright.
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  And if you want to be involved in leading out
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  or coordinating a chapter in one of our unions,
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  we would be glad to talk to you. You can coordinate
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  rallies. We have the Malashenko family who will
• 29:35
  come and do rally concerts. We can coordinate
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  benefit dinners. um inspiring uh bringing bringing
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  our directors who have um on the boots ground
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  stories for you know for our people okay and
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  a country director and a country director they
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  travel and do training on boots on the ground
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  in the countries yeah we call them regional directors
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  regional directors okay all right And we partner
• 30:00
  with Ultimate Mission as well, who trains our
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  Bible workers' wives in the health ministry.
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  So we partner with other organizations where
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  we feel that partnering with them would really
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  enhance both of our ministries. And I don't know
• 30:13
  if Ultimate Mission's podcast will be out, but
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  eventually, if it's not out already, people can
• 30:17
  search for Ultimate Mission, Jim Reynolds' conversation
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  that we had here on Mission Sunlight during this
• 30:23
  same convention time. But dates don't always
• 30:25
  line up, of course. Brent, thank you so much
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  for coming on. Thank you for joining us for this
• 30:31
  special episode of Mission Sunlight Chat from
• 30:34
  ASAP and Gospel Outreach. Happy to hear those
• 30:37
  updated reports from our friends in those ministries
• 30:39
  as we are here attending the 2026 ASI North American
• 30:43
  Division Convention in Phoenix, Arizona. It is
• 30:46
  hot outside, but warm in our hearts, and we have
• 30:49
  been thankful to have you along. Thank you so
• 30:51
  much for being a part of our audience. Please
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  continue to pray for us and know that we are
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  praying for you. That's our program. This is
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  Mission Sunlight Chat.