BCM Update by Marty and Jeanette Windle

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All right, let's open with a word of prayer and then I will introduce our guests this morning.

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Let's pray Father is by your grace that we are able to gather here We thank you that you have given us this place together and that you've called us to your son

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We thank you for the mercy and grace of salvation and the fact that you continue to spread your gospel around the world

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We pray that you would help us by your grace to appreciate what you are doing and help us to see your hand of providence

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Working in our lives and the lives of others and we ask that you would be honored and glorified through this time in Christ's name.

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Amen All right. Well, we do have the blessing today of having with us Marty and Jeanette Wendell How many of you have listened to the missionary interviews that we posted online with the

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Wendell's? Okay a few not many Marty and Jeanette I have known them

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As long as I've been a believer for sure They were have been supported by Kootenai Community Church since the 1980s, all right 1984 and we continue to support them

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They are on our list of missionaries that we are pleased to support and I've said before in Some of our annual meetings and to anybody who asks that the missionaries that this church supports are some of the finest people that you will ever meet fantastic doctrinally sound

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And Faithful servants of Christ every one of them and so Marty and Jeanette have been on the mission field since or at least supported by Us since 1984 which makes him far older than he looks actually, and it and I have known him all of these years knew him as a teenager and Have been delighted to be able to spend time with him

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So you're gonna get the privilege today of seeing what the Lord is doing. So here's how the Sunday school is going to work

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I'm gonna turn it over to Marty Marty is gonna stand up and say a few words and Then Jeanette who is his wife is gonna stand up and she's going to take us through a slideshow presentation of some of the work of BCM and then

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Marty is going to come up afterwards and he is going to He's gonna do a Q &A and I have a few questions that I want to ask him and so be thinking about questions that you

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Want to ask Marty at the end of this? so that's how this is gonna go down and I I Say that so that you understand it is with my blessing with the blessing of the elders that we've asked them as a couple to do the presentation and Jeanette is going to be up here speaking, but that is not she's not teaching scripture to adults in church setting.

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So that is a Necessary needed clarification. Okay, then the next step is not to do a

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Rick Warren and and Ordained three women pastors next week. That's not where this is going.

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So and She wouldn't accept good. She's not gonna be here next week. So that's all right. Okay with that Marty.

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Good morning It is a pleasure to be here again. I Remembered the beginnings of the church when they were meeting

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I don't remember the location down around Hope somewhere and then they were meeting in the little church over here and When we drove by this morning,

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I pointed that out to my wife and we used to think that was a big church But guess what?

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when I drove up to the Tabernacle here We were so astounded to see what

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God has done here When I heard how many people are coming here to hear the Word of God spoken every

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Sunday This is a great praise because we think of 1984 we've seen a lot of churches come and go and The church that we've seen that have come and have stayed strong and have grown have three things in common

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They preach the word They're pro missions And they have a pastor who's committed for the long term now.

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I like the pilot the polish job that I'm not supposed to use the word pastor But the word pastor

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Jim said when he said I looked younger than I am don't believe that when he first knew me

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I Had all of my hair and it was the right color he still got all of his hair and he still

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Looks pretty young to me so I can't believe it's been 25 years when pastor soon 25 years praise the

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Lord So I told you those three things missions Preach the word and a good committed pastor.

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So let me just give you a couple of Verses that I have been meditating on as we travel and then

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I'm gonna let Jeanette come and talk a little bit about our ministry Before I do that for those who haven't met me

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I'm Marty Wendell. I have been in missions with Jeanette now since 1984 and my sweetheart

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Jeanette is We work together in ministry, but she also does a lot of editing

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So you'll see we have a display in the back where she has some of her publications.

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They are We get this right International missy illogical fiction and nonfiction books, so there's some great nonfiction there.

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Oh Well, no, that's that's the books that she's written and then she edits I don't even know how to idea how many clients she's got.

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But God has blessed her with the gift of of Writing and it helps me look much better as well

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So the verse of scriptures I'd like to read you're in the book of John Where Jesus is talking to someone and he says

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Jesus replied Anyone who loves me will keep my commandments

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John 14 Will keep or ray my teaching my father will love them and I am my father will come and make her home with them

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Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching these words you hear are not my own

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They belong to the father who sent me All this I was spoken while still with you with the advocate the

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Holy Spirit whom the father will send in my name Will teach you all things and remind you of all the things

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That I have said Do not peace. I leave with you my peace.

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I give to you do not give as the world I do not give as the world gives do not let your heart be troubled.

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Do not be afraid The last 18 months have been probably some of the most difficult

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Global ministry challenges that we have seen in some time We've seen local challenges.

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We deal regularly with natural disasters with persecution I was just mentioning to brother

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Rick a Persecution that we had in Orissa where we lost 41 churches in one night

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So we know what it is to deal with disaster But I've never seen globally so many people so afraid of something that they cannot see

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So when I read these verses it promises me first of all, Jesus says if you love me, you will keep my teachings

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We have a standard for daily life that doesn't change regardless of what happens in the world around us

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We have a promise of community true fellowship where the Trinity comes and makes himself

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Present with us the Father and I will come and make our home with you The sending of the

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Holy Spirit and then we have peace peace not like the world gives But peace that Christ gave us the legacy of peace and that ongoing energized

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Peace that resolves issues from day to day. You see peace is not the absence of conflict

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It's the presence of Christ in the ability to manage it. That's John chapter 14 23 and following Before I ask

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Jeanette to come let me just read one one of our liaisons who works in the

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Philippines BCM has a hundred and twenty churches in the Philippines in a couple of camps and That country is economy and their social structure has been devastated by this

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Pandemic that we have all heard about let me just read her response she talked about how the church saw the crisis, but Did what

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Christ would have done in drawing everyone together to make a spiritual impact? With the rising death toll widespread unemployment mental health issues suicide feelings of isolation challenges of online education and dozens of other unpleasant stories all attributed to this

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Covid virus it is easy to question if there remains any beauty hope or life in today's world

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But there is a better way to look at our circums. Is there a better way to look at our circumstances as This issue sweeps our planet.

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The answer is yes as Believers we can look at this situation through the eyes of faith because we know that beyond this pandemic

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God isn't surprised God is almighty He's powerful and he brings everything even though we don't understand it to glorify his name

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Here in the Philippines. We are seeing the beauty of God's love expressed in the unity of the body of Christ within our

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BCM Bible centered ministries family Pastors are readily supporting each other's ministry instead of just focusing on their own little church situation

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Local churches are cheerfully extending help to believers from other local congregations

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Young people are reaching out to share God's live and minister to their friends individuals and families are

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Generously giving financially to assist and words of comfort to pastors and individuals who have contract contracted this disease and To our families who have lost loved ones

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You see we as believers Have the

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Word of God tells us how to live regardless of what happens around us Whether be death sickness or anything else.

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We as believers have community with God the Father God the Son and God the

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Holy Spirit we have his peace and we're not to be afraid We are to look at the world we live in it's always been a damaged nasty sick world

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Filled with death and darkness and find a way to spread the light Jeanette's gonna come and share about some of the things we do to spread that light and then we'll have a

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Q &A I Put them to sleep dear now you get to wake them up a

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Microphone for you Thank you

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And I'm gonna just stand a little bit so I can see the screen myself and am I blocking anyone's view

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For those of you to whom BCM is new a BCM was founded in 1936 as the

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Bible Club movement inventors of flannel graph Genesis through Revelation Today BCM has 880 missionaries and almost 10 ,000 volunteers in over 40 countries

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On or in of over 40 nationalities in 60 plus countries on five continents

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We still reach 1 .5 million children a year But we have also seen the planting of over 5 ,000 churches in the last 30 years, especially in Asia more than 200 ,000 baptized in that same time period and We have a

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BCM camping program that reaches. This is actually outdated about 35 ,000 children a year your

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Katie Kinney from this church Was counselor in one of our camps in Ireland and we would just people still ask when is she coming back?

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Then came 2020 and we all know what has happened. And of course for BCM like ministries around the world

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Everything came to a crashing close So, what do you do

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Well, we old people wondered what we were going to do around the world our millennial generation

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Literally stepped forward and we learned all about how much you can do with zoom

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FaceTime YouTube live streaming and many other areas in the

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Philippines Jerilyn de Jesus Is the one whose quote Marty read as mentioned we have over a hundred churches and when everything shut down They got organized the

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Philippines is known for its tech So what they decided to do is they brought all 120 plus churches together for a single live streaming

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System and so over the past year different church different pastors would teach different Sundays Sunday school youth group home churches

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They basically took every church as it was broke it down into groups of 25 Which was the maximum the government would allow and created an entire home church network

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Here's what you can see and they decided if we're going to have families stuck together for months of quarantine

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Why not have an emphasis on the family so they got together and they literally created in all

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Philippines wide teaching Sunday school church on the family and how to have a godly family so you can see a bit of this here

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Again on tech. There's one of the small groups up there one of the youth groups here you can actually see the

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Mother's Day Pan -philippines Children's Choir doing their special number for the streaming service and it has been really exciting again 120 churches together

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There is now a fellowship between those churches that are scattered across 2 ,000 miles that was not there before kovat

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Peru Peru is another of our fields where we're reaching tens of thousands of children through our

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Bible Institute volunteers camps etc and Again, everything shut down So our directors

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Jonathan and Chantal Odissio Thankfully Millennials who know tech they turned one of their guest bedrooms into a studio and their

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Incredibly talented young people began creating programming So today they began an online

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Sunday school that was streaming across six countries Children's Bible clubs, etc.

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And here you can see just some of the programs they have produced It was so exciting they that people were watching who would never have set foot in Sunday school at the height

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We've had currently 6 ,000 families every Sunday morning tuning in in six countries

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And one of the major television programs in northern Peru said, you know, we've got all these kids at home

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We don't have enough children's programming. Can we stream your program? So this is now being streamed across northern

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Peru by television If you wonder how kids in these countries could possibly be seen high -tech

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Well, this is Peru and it's shows how the world has changed in 30 years

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These are still often very poor people But you'll see here watching on a screen here the entire family is literally gathered around the smartphone which everybody has no matter how poor and then over here watching on a laptop

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Children's ministry we through either virtual printing out or most of it for download they provide

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Homework material and Bible studies and everything that the kids can also do at home And then especially in Peru well around the world

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This is a time of crisis tiempo de crisis. And so they created a program that's also

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Streaming but on Facebook and all kinds of social media where parents can come and they just Do a series of tips of how to work with your children at home and what to do, you know in this crisis time

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Brazil Brazil is actually currently in a crisis of kovat because they did not close down But what they did do is they closed all of the schools everything that's public in We reach approximately 10 ,000 children a week in recife,

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Brazil And what that created was simply pushing all those children into the streets and homes of the slums

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No social distancings. No maskings. No medical care nothing So instead of being helpful, it just made matters a whole lot worse all the

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Bible clubs, of course were canceled So what they did is they started a program with their teams and they've got several hundred

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Teams that work with these 10 ,000 plus kids and they started just doing home visits

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And you can just see some of the things they did here. They started tutoring programs Cooking classes

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As long as you did it inside a home It didn't matter how many people are in the home and what you do

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And so they have really basically been able to take their outside Bible Club Program and simply move it inside of houses and do the same thing

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India or a Ireland Castle Daly Manor, that's where Katie Kinney Served with us but again, everything shut down and of course in Europe even stricter than in a lot of the other countries and so once again our

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Millennials got creative This is our annual Easter cookery virtual camp

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It was of course canceled the regular camp and so you they just decided to do it online

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If you see how the tech is working, that's a smartphone They ended up having from the usual hundred kids.

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They have at the these camps. They ended up with over 800 Because they were sitting at home with nothing to do

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They created what's called and this is actually in many of our camps across Europe and around the world

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They simply created online Streaming combined with zoom programs to reach the kids.

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So this is some of our camp Activities there you can see the the virtual clubs

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Northern Ireland in this case one one missionary just took her

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Smartphone her car and created a little quiz and she would go to each home outside the home.

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She'd call They'd take a picture of it and then inside they do the little Bible study with their mom

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Phone the answers to the questions and then she'd do like a five -minute Bible club on the phone with them in Scotland again, they created an entire virtual Bible clubs and Sunday school

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The exciting thing is these are all online So instead of just being used locally they ended up being used across the

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English -speaking world We had a ministry leader here in the States that wrote the office and said

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We really appreciate those those programs you have that are online that we can use

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But you really need to talk to the producers. They need to learn how to speak English properly if they're going to be

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Sharing material with the rest of the world and we're thinking you do realize it's Scotland You're listening to their programming, you know, but anyway, if you guys are interested and have kids it's still all online and available

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Canada as well Online camps one of the ministries just one small example of ingenuity is that one of our missionaries?

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Created a ministry to older people who don't have computers and can't stream or anything

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And it's called dial a service and they would call in she would take the pastor's Message, she'd play the songs with them sing with them

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They do a little Bible study and then she'd do a summary of the pastor's message over the phone

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In Italy again this particular men's conference was Already on the books when when everything shut down and they just everything is virtual a year later

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This all seems normal. We all know zoom virtual etc a year ago. This was

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Innovative for our ministries Virtual Bible clubs and all over the world to be able to see how they've been able to create these virtual Bible clubs and keep

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Going this one in Nigeria this one in Myanmar. I Think 30 years ago.

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We would never have had the tech, you know God's timing is perfect if he gave us a timeout

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He gave us the text so we can continue sharing his word and that's been really exciting because 30 years ago

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There would have been no way to keep in contact with all these people In step with the master teacher is our ministry leadership training program

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BCM believes in multiplication You can reach children You can teach a church how to reach children or you can teach area leaders how to teach their own churches

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How to reach children and BCM his program which is now in over 40 countries

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It was created about 15 years ago with the distillation of 70 years on five continents of ministry with children and Again, we had conferences scheduled all over the world in India.

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We are in Africa We have a partnership with the Evangelical Association of Churches of the

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Congo 60 million members In Nigeria, we we work with the

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SIM Church 6 million members and all of a sudden Everything is closed.

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Now if you wonder why this is so important this is one Sunday school class in Nigeria 100 plus children in the five through eight year olds one teacher and If you go across Africa and Asia, it is common to have these huge churches with multiple choirs

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Hundreds of people and maybe half a dozen people involved in children's ministry So that has that multiplication has been a good part of our ministry and again our

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Field director for Africa for children's ministry Pat Govinder created a locking down.

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That's what they called it and they just simply moved everything online and across They found out to their excitement.

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They were used to people coming to a conference Being taught and going home and like they said the creation of doing everything through zoom and virtual All of a sudden they're maintaining contacts across Thousands of miles and they actually a week or so ago.

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She wrote and she says, you know Everything's opening back up, but they were good things. We learned about this.

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We want to keep including that ability to communicate So we graduated

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Train the trainer are the the top layer where they're training they're capable of training an entire region and Then under them is the in step with the master teacher and we ended up with training from across 11 countries

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Camps just very quickly camps did open up this summer a big sky Bible camp in Big Fork, Montana is one of our biggest and this but a lot of the camps again had to be virtual and It was interesting the innovation.

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This is just one of our camps. They kind of shared their ideas So this was literally happening around the planet where they had their news programs

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Worship streaming online Bible teaching streaming online and then they're meeting Individually with their counselors just as though they were at camp but through zoom and then the most incredibly innovative

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Outdoor activities where the kids are on their smartphones Streaming and doing all kinds of things like this competition here.

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So Home activities How did they do that? They would be created camp in a box.

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So every camper got a box Delivered to them with their camp t -shirt and a package for each day and each day they would open that package and it would have their activities and everything crafts and they would just do it, you know through the through the internet

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And that's a camp virtual camp Italy handicamps as well can't promise here in Montana and around the world

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This is actually the virtual every Friday night at every camp we have around the world is the final campfire and This was the virtual final campfire of handicap camp 2020 at Big Sky Bible Camp in Montana Yeah, oh yes, that was the

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Canada one And then can't promise in Bigfork, Montana And again, it's a delight to see a bunch of the camps opening back up We're hoping this summer pretty well, everything will be back to normal That said just to finish off This is

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God has done great things despite Kovac and sharing his word But at the same time there is a lot of suffering in need and in India, especially

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India is our largest field one -third of our ministry. This was just the last

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Summary before kovat hit for the for one year, which would have been 2019 half a million reached with the gospel 168 plus children 20 almost 28 ,000 youth or 28 ,000 received

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Christ 4 ,000 plus baptized Well again then came kovat and one of the hardest things and this is a picture if you following the news

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India has now just gone wild. They've got almost half a million cases a day This picture here is just one of the crematoriums where they're they're not dealing with all the bodies

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And you can see this lady on the street with her oxygen now there isn't even oxygen to be on the street with so with BCM we have 240 plus church planting missionary families many with very young kids and Plus our other ministries, so it's been very very difficult and we have done aid

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Ministry outreaches for them. This is just some these are just some of the pastors in the different areas receiving their their aid

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That picture up at the top you can see that somebody donated an entire truckload of coconuts

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So those are going out as aid as well as well as to widows and needy people In Myanmar or in Madagascar as well where the children are just dying in the street because all of a sudden there's no work.

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There's no No social services, and so we've done a fair amount of feeding programs as well as far as we can go in Bolivia Another place that's been a hotspot we have missionary couple that are doctors and they have an actual

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Christian clinic that they founded and Once kovat came and people started dying and if you follow that's one of the countries that They're just stacking up in the streets now

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They created a mobile clinic with oxygen and everything else and pastors would be calling and we lost 40 pastors in One week in that in their city

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Beyond church members and everybody else just 40 pastors in one week And so they work

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By phone and by driving around and helping the churches and the pastors who have no access to medical care

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Myanmar it will start stop with our end with this if you happen following the news as well

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Myanmar had a coup on February 1st and of course it has been 50 years of military dictatorship 10 years of democracy and then the coup where they

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They arrested the newly elected president and all of her people so we have 18 church planting families a

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Bible Institute in orphanage and Jacob among our leader is also the main Christian publisher in the country

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Just some pictures here. I don't know if you've heard of the Hunger Games but The Hunger Games, I guess it's kind of global and there's a symbol of defiance

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Where they lift up the three fingers and that means freedom and You'll see that all of these protests

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Mostly young ten years ago people were scared to death They're marching in the streets now the new generation holding up their fingers in the the

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Hunger Games signal Signal saying we are not going back to that.

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We want democracy. So in the meantime our people Everything's on lockdown the

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Bible Institute could not send the kids home. And so we have ended up with 54 orphans 34

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Bible Institute students 9 BCM children's workers and then the 18 church planting families

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Needing fed all locked down in a compound So we have been able to get aid and bless them.

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They managed to graduate their latest class in the middle of all of this But that's an ongoing prayer request.

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So pray for India pray for our people around the world Who are dealing with these situations pray for me and more and praise

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God for what God is doing despite The setback of this last year. So with that I'll hand it back to Marty and How much time?

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Okay questions and answers No, Apago is so I'm sorry.

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Do I turn this off? Got it wrong language

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Just a couple of prayer requests Jeanette did ask about prayer for Indian stuff for those of you who have

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Canadian connections BCM Canada Initiated a class -action suit against the government of Canada for civil rights of the believers to practice their religion without Pray we seal whatever that is in English To freely practice those rights so that case it's being

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Presented. We are the pro. We are the people that are presenting the case against the government was defended by the associate

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Christian Association for civil rights in Canada out of Calgary that went to court on the 14th of April and the judge has

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Said he's going to make a ruling on that by the end of May so be praying for that What's happening is we're having our camps shut down because of some of the funding that we used to get for college kids because of the

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LGBTQ people Working behind the scenes to marginalize all

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Christian activities and organizations So be praying for that, especially of those who are Canadian.

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This will affect a lot of missions and churches in the future there All right

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Q &A pastor, excuse me Jim. Yes, we do

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Okay, we deal you are correct. We deal with permanently 50 countries We have another 15 countries that we deal with on an itinerant basis.

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Many of those are closed in fact, we have several closed countries that That we don't talk about at all if this wasn't going online

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We talked about one country that begins with a C where we're involved there Yeah in Canada On a scale of 1 to 10 from 10 being the most hostile

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I would place Canada at about a 2 or 3 We still don't have any bloodshed yet and Hopefully you never will because of the stability of the

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Canadian society, but Be praying for that our

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Canadian ministries What shut them down was a lot of the Department of Health would shut them down This last year because of the code thing.

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So we found a way around that we've done the virtual camps the camp in the box was a Canadian idea and Everybody who had done traditional camps said it'll never work

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But it was sort of exciting because not only did you deliver the boxes by hand when you deliver to them

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You got to make an initial contact with the parents who usually don't show up at camp. Anyways, so we had an evangelistic thing there

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We don't know what's going to happen in the future We've had problems for some years getting into schools now, especially in Ontario to do the release time project

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So you can be praying for that. It is on there is a trend there for it to become more difficult in Canada But that's not unusual.

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We see that trend in pretty much all of the countries we deal with including this one

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Africa is probably the most open continent now for the ability for us to come and do ministries

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As you know Africa was colonized in years gone by by English speakers francophones that would be

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French and Portuguese the

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Portuguese ones especially and some of the English ones are Well, actually all of them you either had

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Protestant the English speakers were more Protestant the French speakers were Catholic and the

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Portuguese so in those countries that have that background of Catholicism or Traditional Christianity such as South Africa is a lot of reformed church people

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Those countries are opening up rapidly and we can get in there and do ministries We're having troubles in the northern part of Africa where it is

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Islam That'd be Muslims and We are doing some active ministry there.

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We do itinerant work in those countries Just to give you an example

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Christmas of this last year. My main guy who works in Africa Got a phone call from a village in Africa in Niger and the brother that he taught with Taught when he was there before Said pray for us the terrorists are in our village.

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They're going from hut to hut they're killing some people and dismembering others with machetes and you could hear the gunfire and the screaming in the background on that phone call and The brother just he didn't ask for deliverance.

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He asked for prayer that they would remain strong so when I look at that kind of closed persecution when we complain a little bit about some of the

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Minor inconveniences that the walking dead place on us We still have a ways to go to defend our faith, so All right.

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Another question Yes, sir. Okay. Is it more prolific in the

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East and Canada regarding? difficulty we would find Yes, I would say that answer is correct.

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We find Alberta Where we have had work we don't have work now. We're trying to expand back into the western provinces

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Alberta especially where those Bible school belts were at so you had all those Bible schools for years that did make an impact on Society even though society refuses to recognize that especially as far as values go

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The most difficult place we find right now is is Ontario It's interesting for those of you that are

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Canadians, you know exactly how people from Quebec think they're not part of Canada and Everybody will speak

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French if they're true Canadians. So we have ministry happening in the streets of Montreal and That's growing quickly

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The amount of international people that show up in a large urban area with no connections and no anchors

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Will readily listen to you and debate with you and in many cases they will come to the

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Lord So that's sort of a bright spot in Quebec where evangelism and discipleship is happening it stopped for a little bit this last year not due to Canada or Due to the

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COVID but our evangelist Tony Chapman his wife is Polish. So they'd moved to Poland for a year

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He learned Polish and he was out doing street evangelism for a year, but now he's back in Quebec So he's back into French.

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So that is an exciting piece Nova Scotia We had a camp Canada shut all overnight camping down For the year

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Nova Scotia we had a camp so we transitioned to day camps but the donors in the churches in Nova Scotia saw the lack of Revenue to help with the funding of the camp and all of the churches stepped up on their donations

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Or a camp in Nova Scotia was fully funded and was able to do other ministry, even though they didn't have camp scholarships

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So yeah, we find that the more conservative provinces are more open to Overt Christianity.

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Okay. Now the question I'm sorry

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Eastern Europe Eastern Europe, there's a lot of lockdowns there.

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The problem we've had with several countries including Eastern Europe is that the

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The ability to deal with a COVID situation has caused the collapse in the health

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Systems we had that in Mexico. We've had that in In the

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Ukraine where we lost our national director a man of 51 years old caught that virus and he was dead within six days

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We've got some major Spreads for whole churches and communities are now sick and many of them dying

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Russia We don't we don't that's one of our close countries so maybe we should just say the country that begins with our and we have one missionary there and She caught the virus.

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There were no medical doctors So one of her cousins came and started giving her Whatever IVs they had when she got better It was her job to help the people in the church because the pastor and all of the people in the church got the same

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Thing so the infrastructure is much more difficult there. We do have a growing ministry, especially like the

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Ukraine We have a ministry camps to deaf kids to handicapped kids and to regular church planting and orphans

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Russia we have some stuff going we need desperately need missionaries for hungry. I've got

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Two missionaries now aged ladies who were sent by BCM Germany who are starting to timeout

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We have a camp there We desperately need especially men and couples to demonstrate

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Christ in Hungary If you decide to go to Hungary you better learn to like Paprika Because it was in everything and their national dish is catfish soup made with paprika

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I'm not a big catfish fan Thankfully, I do like paprika though So we have a great need in Hungary.

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We are doing some itinerant ministry in some of the other Eastern European countries

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We aren't in the stands yet Kyrgyzstan bunch of those but we're doing itinerant training in some of those countries and we do that undercover online through zoom

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So if you know one of those languages, especially I'm happy to talk Talking about opportunities.

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We do have a international Academy of Suriname in Panama able

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Suriname Suriname is comprised of 1 3rd Chinese 1 3rd

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Hindu and 1 3rd Dutch So you Yes, oh

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Okay. Thank you. I thought I messed something up on my tea. Okay and 1 3rd Dutch So you hear all three of those languages in the street?

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Chinese Hindi and Dutch but English overlays everything So we have a what used to be a missionary children's school that when all the missions pulled out went

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Independent and now we have helped to bring that back to a Christian basis. So we have about sixty to a hundred students depending these are all international students many of them their parents are from the embassies or from large oil companies and Approximately 15 % of our student body is believers

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So what we're doing there is we're doing evangelism and discipleship tied to education And I have a list out there.

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We need two or three more teachers for this coming year. We want someone who's committed To talking about Jesus Christ in the classroom

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It is an ACSI school for those of you who are Accommodations internationally and this particular school will pay for you to come and teach

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So you get room and board a stipend and they will pay for you to get there and get back

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So if you're qualified I want to teach in English, I want a way to do evangelism and discipleship

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I don't remember who's on the list now, but we currently almost always need a chaplain

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Need a Bible teacher a Bible is one of the certified courses So you have to be a certified teacher to teach that and any of the teachers need to learn their

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Bible Also the ones I recruit all have to become BCM missionaries So I bet every individual that goes there so we have quality control on the gospel being shared there

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Right question in where?

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Philadelphia Oh Chile, I'm sorry BCM presence in Chile No, we don't have anything going there yet But my

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Latin America director has he's trying to make contact so we can expand into Chile We have lots in Peru, yeah currently in Peru, Mexico What's that Not Ecuador yet It's coming up Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, and Mexico But don't tell

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Mexico that they're in Latin or Central America because Mexico believes they're part of the North American continent

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So be very careful about yeah, my wife who was raised in Colombia says they are We are working on connections in Argentina we already have a contact there we're working on connections in Ecuador We have missionaries that want to come in.

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We have had historically had a camp that's functioned for 50 to 60 years roughly in Cuba We actually survived the revolutions in Cuba that camps still going but we're trying to start a new ministry in Cuba this year through Bible clubs and teacher training for Spanish speakers

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Canadians can get into Cuba Americans. It's still very difficult and then

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Costa Rica we're working on connections there So we expect to expand into five more countries four or five in Latin America in the next 18 months

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Chile is still not on the list So to answer the question if you have someone that you're interested in becoming

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Involved in children's ministry and Bible teaching in Chile. We are all eyes and ears

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Okay Any other questions? Yes, ma 'am You got a guano to name another

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Nicaragua to the via Or can I contact us, um,

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I'm doing this in the wrong language We don't have anyone in Nicaragua yet because we don't have contacts, but we are more than open to something happening there

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Yes Nicaragua Right pastor.

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Excuse me, Jim Am I I think I'm out of time All right.

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So what happens next? Is that a response to the power of the prayer

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I close with or? All right, let's close in prayer our gracious God and Heavenly Father I thank you for you because you are you

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I thank you that you give us structure for life Through the teachings of Jesus Christ I thank you that you give us true community because of our relationship

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Vertically with the Trinity and how that expresses itself is horizontally with mankind

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Especially those in the body of Christ. I thank you for your peace that you give us and that we are not to be afraid or troubled

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But to have a spirit of power Love and a sound mind now I just pray for us today as we go through our worship time together that it would be an expression of what we believe in and whom we serve and be a

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Visible expression of what happens all during the week We pray all these things in the name of the