And next week I get to go on this CPAP machine, which I think some of you may be familiar with. And I guess I was, I just heard the stats 32 times an hour, I wake up. And then for over 10 seconds I hold my breath. And so anyway, I mean maybe familiar with that.
But they said actually if you get on this you might find you get over a tribulation. So that'll be wonderful. At least we'll get that part of me working. There's lots of parts that are failing.
But the Lord knows that. And praise Lord, I hear from the Word of God that one day we're going to get new bodies. We're all struggling. We have friends who are struggling with pain and suffering.
And it's very difficult to go through some of that to cause his tears and aches. And pain within our hearts. We pray and put it in the hands of our big Heavenly Father. And he's able to take care of it.
And I just thank the Lord for being raised by my own dead. Just a quick little story. He was going to rent this place. And so the people in the Netherlands where he was living at the time said you really, really need to get your name out there.
You have to leave the place you're in. You need to get your name because you just don't get a home. You might have to go into this, you know, these other multi-dolling units or whatever. And you need to get your name out there.
He said I did. He said I put it in the hands of my Heavenly Father. And they said but you need to get your name out there. So after a few weeks passed by did you get your name out?
And he said I heard he told you I put it in the hands of my Heavenly Father. And so time passed by and the whole church is worried about it and whatnot. And he said you know something I feel like I'm passing that house day after day. And you know where the Lord wants us to live.
And sure enough just a couple of houses out the road. This guy found out that my dad was looking for a place. He went to him over to look this place. And so that's all he had to do is walk up a couple of houses out the road and rent this house.
And the people in the next week said what's going to happen? You've got one week left. He said the Lord's already provided. And you know we forget that God can do that.
We think that he can't work those miracles. And but we just need to put our as we say in Papua New Guinea our heavies in the hands of our Heavenly Father. And you'll take care of them. Let's just bow in word of prayer.
Heavenly Father we thank you this morning for your love to us. We thank you Father that in all that we go through that you see each of it and each one of us. And Father we thank you for your precious Son the Lord Jesus Christ and what he's done for us. And Father may each one of us focus our thoughts on him today.
And Father I pray this morning if there's one here who does not know that their name is written in the book of life that the day they would leave here having put their faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ for eternal life. Father we thank you for the word you've given us and we just thank you for allowing us to be a part of you. I pray your blessing today and Jesus name I pray amen. So I guess you see that up there and I see it here.
Try to figure out where I'm supposed to look. So we have a sobering. I have a sobering message this morning. It's just going to be short before I go into an update.
But reaching the unreached and this morning I heard the words from a brother these words outreach. And that's one of the things I love about the assembly here is that you guys are always involved in some sort of outreach. And then but I want you to even look further and it's wonderful to see people from different parts of the world come here this morning. And that you want to fellowship and that we have the same God and the same Jesus and we hold hands together knowing that we're all part of one big family of God.
And if you're not part of that family there's just nothing like it. There's just nothing like it to be a part of the family of God. And to know that wherever you go that you have brothers and sisters in Christ who you know they may live differently. They may look differently.
They may eat differently but we're all part of the family of God. And it's Jesus Christ who brings us together and makes us a part of that family. So I want to talk a little bit just for a moment you can look online some of the things I've taken offline that are either with Wycliffe or with us ethnos or Joshua Project. I encourage you to look at some of those sites and just look and read some of the statistics out there about the unreached.
And we don't go or we don't do things outside the will of God. We want to do what he's encouraging us to do in our own hearts. But it's good for us just to look at those stats and pray for those people who are in different places. Pray for the people who are in persecuted places.
So this morning we just want to look a little bit. Where am I pointing? And so this morning Matthew 28 verses 18 to 20 says, and Jesus came and spoke to them saying, authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you.
And lo I am with you always even to the end of the age. And so when we think of this verse one of the things we see in there is Jesus command is followers to make disciples of all nations meaning every ethnic group. Now look at what we mean by that just a moment here. You can say how many people groups are there?
Well ethnically speaking is about 17,400 and 7,400 have nothing basically. If you went there you wouldn't see much of anything for people who know about following Christ. So when you have over 3 billion people that's a lot of people since Jesus Christ left here and said go into all the world. There's a whole lot of people when you look at if you don't know, look online what the 1040 window is across northern Africa and to Asia.
There's a lot of people there who are millions in a language group, many millions. And they know nothing about the word of God. And when we look at the word ethnic it means different people of different cultures that are of different ethnos we say the word ethnos. So the word we say the word nation in the Bible but when we look at I don't know if you've ever seen this country or the map of this before.
Have you ever been to this kind of place before or maybe visited some of you might know. Actually I think you probably have more authority to talk on that than I do this morning some of you. But when we look at I think this is Nigeria when you look at it is a nation when we think of the nation on the left side that's what we think of. But really what God's talking about is ethnic groups.
He's talking about the, correct me if I'm wrong, but over 540 if I'm right, ethnic groups in Nigeria. And so he's not talking about going to, where's this little thing? This, he's talking about all these little places that are in here that need an established local church that need a heavy ability to come to maturity where there's missionary where there's people who are able to help function within a local church to see this church reach out to other people. Okay I can hardly even see that.
29% of the world has no access to the gospel. 38 has access but they don't follow Jesus and 33% claim that they do. So in here we have that 1040 window in this area and so that's a lot of people, many many different ethnic groups that don't know anything about Christ. 87% of Buddhist Hindu and Muslims don't have any connection with Christianity.
And I was surprised when I got home one furlough and my girls were going to Dalhousie and they had friends from another country and their parents started the business here and they didn't speak really great English but the girls grew up here. But they knew nothing about what Christmas was about and they knew nothing about East was about. I said, you don't know anything about it? They said no we just know it's a holiday we're getting a holiday and that's all it is to them.
That's what we're here for. We're here to tell them that it's a whole lot more than that. It's about a person's about the Lord Jesus Christ and the whole message of salvation. Acts 1 8 says, and most of these verses you've memorized this is something very familiar to you so it's not something new and hopefully this will encourage you that right here in your own hometown you can reach across the world.
I preach in Papua New Guinea from my little home here in Dartmouth I will preach a message in the church in Papua New Guinea. They just went down the road and they just go grab a loop to a speaker they have a phone and they hope that together and there I am. And everybody comes up with the phone and goes, I will and they yak for a few minutes and then we start the meeting. You can do that too or if you know people from some other part of the world you don't then you can do it like one mother who just decided that she would make a chat room and in there she would have a Bible study and she's led men to the Lord who are from Iran and India.
So that's sitting here in Canada in America you can do that in your own home if you feel that the Lord is not leading you to go to another part of the world. But you shall receive power after, sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth to the end of the earth. That message needs to get out there are parts of the world that where people just simply have not heard about the Lord Jesus Christ. So this week I was reading a little bit through 2 Corinthians and I came to this verse and it says, but we all with unveiled face be holding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord are born.
The glory of the Lord are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory just as by the spirit of the Lord. Paul was speaking a little context there where he's talking about Moses and he says Moses came down the mountain second time and he hit the commandments in his hands and what did the people do? Well, the good said where's our shades or whatever, but Moses had to put on a veil over his face because of the glory of being with God and the glory of the law. And it says, and that glory was a fading glory until Christ came and when Christ came his message of salvation was much greater glory.
And the Bible says there the moment you put your faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ that veil is removed. And when that veil is removed there's that glory and like a mirror you behold and you reflect a mirror and behold and reflects. So as that glory comes into your own life we should be out there reflecting that glory and I'm thankful again that we see I hear things about you reflecting out through the neighborhood. And I hope that you will do that each and every day to the people you work with, the people you meet.
I was just sharing with somebody. I met this lady, she's in my sons apartment just we're just down the road here and she's a tall lady not sure where she's from. She can't speak a word of English. And so she's walking down very seriously walking down the hallway and I'm hello.
And she just mones the man. But she recognized me coming to the door yesterday and she couldn't get in because she had no keys. So I was walking away from the door and she was walking towards the door and she was pointing back and forth and I said, oh she must go on in. So I opened the door and I said, that's all she can do.
And I don't know I'm hoping that somewhere that I can meet people that will be able to talk to her and maybe I don't know, maybe I can be a friend. It's just, we're a Mazzabar. I don't know what her culture is like at all. But I know that God can work in her heart and I'm just hoping I can be a friend.
So I talked to her and some other people come out. It's wonderful. I can't believe it's like Poppin' again. We have 850 languages there.
And here I'm in my apartment and I hear all kinds of languages. I don't know them. So these people came up behind me and I turned around and looked at them and I said, I looked at them. And sometimes we play a game.
I guess we're people are fun. I don't know if that's culturally good to do. Sometimes people might think no. So I looked at them and I thought, this guy was shorter and rounded nose and I thought maybe Burma.
So I asked them other funds. I said the Philippines. I was a little bit off. So I came up and I said, Philippines.
I said, oh, there was about six of them. I said, you know, I had to go to a language school where I learned how to learn a language. And I said, I had to learn a language in some part of the Philippines. And they said, can you say it?
The only phrase I know is, it's my wife. She's coming from the garden and I'm going away from the garden. And she figured I'm being lazy. She goes, hey, lazy, where are you going?
And so I said to him, who's to do it? I've got a real gun. And they go, oh, that's from the northern part of our country. I don't know where that's from.
And I know it's just, it's not to do with the Bible, but you know something, it doesn't have to be hard to make a friend to make a connection. You just, you know, you can talk about something that might be a hockey game or whatever that you can connect with somebody, but we don't have to make it hard. We can make it simple because we have a wonderful message and God can work through those people's hearts. And so hopefully they will see that light reflect and I have many stories.
I love, actually, I have a hard time living in the UK because I can't handle 5G towers on my head and they're all around me. It seems like here. But I enjoy living in the apartment. I had a guy come up to me the other day and he said, he noticed that I came back.
He said, you're back. And I said, yeah, I'm back again. He said, you know, I'm really looking to find purpose in my life. And I'm thinking, did I reflect something?
Did I say something? And I know he's asking me before. And so I've been over to his apartment. I just thought, I'm not supposed to do this, but knock, knock, knock, knock.
And so I knocked and I just started talking to him about the Lord. I gave him a Bible and he smiled and he was really happy. And you know, I just opened a little door and there, people appreciate the fact that you care about their lives. There's a missionary who became a leader and he made this of a mission and he made this statement.
I have a short window here in this job. Really, we all have short windows in the big scheme of things. There will come a day when I won't be in leadership anymore and not long after, I'll become nothing more than a foot note in history. It won't take long for people to completely forget my name and a generation or two from now.
Not even my own family will have much, will have much if any real memory of me. Actually, he says in there, so that sounds encouraging. So let's pour ourselves out for the glory of Jesus with the time we have. That's all that matters.
That's all that lasts. And I thought of this song, which is written by C.T. Stud, who was a missionary many years ago to China, India and Africa. And he wrote this song and the last line appears in all eight verses.
Only one life, yes only one. Soon, well, its fleeting hours be done. Then in that day, my Lord to meet and stand before his judgment seat, only one life till soon he passed, only what's done for Christ will last. Is that true?
Yeah, I think so. Isaiah 61, 1 and 2 says, the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord had anointed me to preach the good tidings unto the meek. He has sent me to bind out the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to them that are bound to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance to our God to comfort all that mourn. And it's interesting that in Luke chapter 4, Jesus uses these same words again that this is what God has sent him to do.
He is our example of a missionary. He is an example of evangelism, of going out to help those who are, and I often picture them wherever I go, people who are lost are people who are in prison. They are like people in prison and they are hurting and they need to be bound up. And we have a wonderful message and it's really not that hard.
You can just simply, if you are nervous, a friend of mine said the other day, he has a trade he works at. And he said, I just pray in an ask the Lord to help me to preach to this guy and I just couldn't do it. He said, I was just so nervous he said and I couldn't get it out of me. But you know, somehow you get connected, he gets connected and they talk about talking again.
I said, just talk about that and then you ask people, ask them a simple question. What do you like to do? What's your goals in life? And eventually you'll have that opportunity to share the message of salvation.
It's not that hard. Give them the verse John 3 16. I know years ago when I was nervous the Mormons had come to the door and I didn't know what I was going to answer when I was a young kid. So I had opened the door and I just opened this and said they would want to give me something and the Joe Witness.
They'd give me something and I said, oh and I've got something for you later. It really isn't that hard. I think sometimes we think it's a lot more difficult than we make it. Song used to sing at my Bible school days.
Only one life to offer Jesus my Lord and King. Do you guys know what I'm saying that song here or not? No, I won't sing for you. Only one tongue to praise the end of the mercy sing forever.
Only one heart's devotion, Savior, O may it be consecrated, alone to thy matchless glory. Yield it fully to thee. Only this hour is my Lord. May it be used for the may every passing moment count for eternity, my Savior.
So's all about dying and sin and shame. Help me to bring them the message of Calvary's redemption in thy glorious name. And again we have a real privilege to share that wonderful message with those that are lost around us. And this is the last verse I'd like to share.
Romans 10, 14, how then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe on Him and whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent?
As a written, how beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace? Who bring glad tidings of good things? And especially that verse, how shall they call on Him and whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe on Him and whom they have not heard?
They can't. Yes, God says that we look at Romans chapter 1 where people may see the glory of God in creation, but the whole message of Christ and Christ's death on the cross. You cannot get salvation by looking at a tree. You have to have so many come and tell you that message.
We have to go and that's why God said go ye into all the world and tell these ethnic groups. And the unreached, again you can look at the definition, ethnos is a little different definition than Joshua's project, but unless somebody can hear the gospel in the language that they know best, and unless they can grow into maturity and a church can be established where they can carry on and churches come, a thriving church can be established in those settings, then the gospel will not go forth. And so we need more people to go. Can I switch to the other PowerPoint?
Again, I wanted to thank you all for your prayers for us for praying for us and for the work in Papua New Guinea. And I just thank the Lord when I hear different ones of you come to me and shake my hand and say we've been praying for you and praying for the people over there. It's wonderful. We have problems and those problems are the same as everywhere in the world.
They're sin problems and you'll get to meet some of the people here this morning and when am I supposed to be done? When I'm finished? I love it. Okay, get your coffee and sit back.
We thank the Lord for what he's doing over there and I firmly believe that when I'm sitting on the side of that mountain, wondering what I'm going to do in certain situations that people back here are praying for us and that God is moving way before Luke ever thought of moving or what I should do in certain situations. And we have some situations that we're going to be facing in the next while or things that we want to be involved with. It's tough when we get cults and false teachers in the area and we know exactly or sort of exactly what Paul the Apostle was going through when we read through some of his letters. So just in case you forgot where I am, I just want to point out that this is Australia, the tip of Australia.
So we're just off and these little islands belong to Australia. So I met a guy from there once. He said, yeah, he said it takes us five minutes by boat to get over to Australia. And that's so close we are.
And this guy here, he sits outside my window and we have these wonderful little animals that run under a house that are called fat rats. And so anyway, he waits for them and I'm thankful for him because I still like killing rats. And this is one of our believers. We just keep praying for him.
He's one of our believers who has many wives. And anyway, he decided to go down and help a village, a fundraiser for the school. They were trying to do a fundraiser. So they always rest up in their forefathers, dressings, get up or whatever.
And we won't bother with any sound. Let's go with it like this. But here's some of the, they dress up in their traditional dress and then you can see other people are just dressed normally. But this would be something that happens often in our area to do a fundraiser actually.
Changing, our world is changing around us. And just, I should have got the right picture here because the guy who is, this is my neighbor on the left side building a house. And that's his house. It looks very much like some of the houses.
Those are the most primitive ones. But just beside him is not that tower, but the other tower. These are the Chinese bringing in power. And it's across the other side of the mountain.
I don't know why they wanted to put it by us. But these are new towers going by us. And guess what we have. I don't think you guys have it here.
But last year they put in stainless steel post beside our highway with 5G cables going up and down the highway. That's what we got over there. They don't know what it's for. I don't know what it's for.
But I think it's supposed to help the cell towers or something. But things are changing all around us. I turn on my generator sometimes when I need to when the power cuts out. Which is a lot.
And all the kids come in with their phones. And so I think, oh, I'm going to get these kids together from some Bible study or something. So I go in there and all of a sudden they're hiding their phones. So, ha ha ha.
What are you watching? Let me see. And of course I pick, they're all my kids. And so something they're watching movies and sometimes they're not the greatest thing.
But all around us the world is changing. And this is our place on the last side in case you forgot where we live. And we still have an empty home if you want to come visit it or if you want to come work with us still there. And it's run down a little bit.
But we can fix it up. And one guy he's always coming to our door knocking our door and never got married. And he's always asking us for some food or something like that. So I finally told him I said go the other side of the mountain, plant some pineapples and build yourself out.
So he did and he was really happy about it. And he still does the same thing. But anyway, this is the place you have to climb to to go to him. And just pray for us with bad knees.
It's not easy in that part of the world. So I just showed you a few pictures of what it's like around home. Left side we have lots of orchids. And on the right side those are lawn mower.
That's our every month we have our lawn mowers come in and they cut our grass. And so that's what that looks like. And then we have the grass collectors come. And they're happy to be paid a few dollars and take out the grass.
And then the place looks normal again. It gets bushy and then normal again. So this is the first, one of the first times I guess, that our village leaders asked us to come down and be involved in a bride price. So it's kind of a fun time we went down and they're going to set the bride price.
They just set it way too high. And I don't know when they're going to get paid for this. But I'm always just their best friend because she brings the candies out and gives to everybody. And then the day comes when the bride price is to be given.
And so there's a whole bunch of ladies there on one side and then over the other side. We're on the right side. They're on the left side. And so there's three piles of food here.
One for the men of the bride, the brothers and then the fathers and grandfathers and then the mothers and then the grandfathers. And then there's a pile of money on each pile of food. And so anyway, it was during a drought and so the other side comes and they said, they're all excited to cleef into the money because they're the ones who are going to get the bucks. And you can see them standing over there and they're waiting for them to count the money.
And they said, you guys are short. You did not give the full amount that was demanded. And yeah, but we gave the food. Yeah, but we didn't ask for food.
And so then they started discussing back and forth. And this is going to be a two hour process or more. And probably two hours or many. So Lois and I went home.
And then after another four hours, there's a big hoot and finally they decided they must accept it because the food is just going to sit there in the sun. Wilton and the chickens are have a feeling like they're going to tie in the coats. And so finally it's all accepted and people come and they start to gather out their food, the bananas and all the great stuff. So these are just a few of our neighbors and neighbors down the road a little bit from us.
Well, then the day comes that the changing of the dresses. So the ladies gather around so not too much can be seen. But you can see she's looking really sad there because the lady starts crying. What happens is she gets all her, she gets her dress taken off, right down to her underwear.
And she then gets new dresses put onto her. Now this is the neat part of it. Is they start the parent, the mom starts saying and they start crying because they know she's going to leave. They said this is now your new life.
You're leaving your old life behind. You're going to a new life. You're going to live with your husband. Be a good wife.
Make good gardens. Look after your children. And don't be thinking about coming back here anymore because this is an old life. That's your new life.
You're going to live with your husband. Boy, you'd be poor preacher if you missed that one for an example of the new life we have in Christ. And that you're supposed to stay there, not come back. Unfortunately, we have some ladies who have come back and their sons who don't belong here come back and they want land.
They're fighting and they get into each other's sweater. So there's two ladies that were involved in the bride crisis here. And this is the one we were asked to come down to set the bride prices for. And so here she is.
Sorry. This is my cameraman. Didn't quite have I trained him, but his camera will eventually come in the right spot. So then they take all the clothes back off her so that she can take all her clothes back with her to her new home where she'll be living.
So I'll just let you let this play for just a bit and you can see what's happening. So she's got like, she can have on 12 dresses there that she's got to take off and that she's going to be taking back to her home in the wherever. So then the final day comes when they invite us out and it's either a money stick that's brought. You have bamboo with little slices in it and you put cash in a little slices or else it's a pot of money.
But this is that day of rapture. It's kind of corrupted now in our culture, but it's a day when we get invite out and the potatoes are given out. Just a small little meal. And then is the time of where we take her away.
And where we can still use this thing, it's different in the Bible, but it's where the guys finally built his house. Everything's ready, everything's set and he's going to go down and he's going to get her. And the father gives a solemn speech and he says, don't come back here. I don't have any room for you.
You're going to a new place, live at your new place, be good to your husband and be a good wife and whatnot. She gets this really strong speech. They're saying they're solemn. And our guys, you'd have to see it.
I should have got the video out. But one guy kicks his feet up into the air sideways and goes, yahoo! And we all go and bring her over to our side. She's then supposed to be, it was more of a snatching away years ago where she's taking away and she's brought to our village and that's again a happy time where she can be with her family.
Back in the village, Lois is taking care of these sort of situations where there's sores and whatnot that we have. Those are good opportunities we can talk to our neighbors. This little guy on the left here, we're just praying for these guys that they'll be saved. They're just a new family and anyway, they're all a bunch of little rascals.
But they come and play in the evening in our yard and it's a chance that we can get to know them and pray for them. We're really saddened by this. This is a place where I've asked for prayer. And I sat down one morning in the kitchen, it was morning time and I looked across and I said, that doesn't look like normal burning of gardens and grass to make gardens.
This looks like something bad. This looks like something Abraham was looking off when he looked at towards Son of Amora. And there was a lady from her village that was married there. She had 11 sons and they were kicked out of the village and they went in and they just burned the whole place down.
And so it was a place where we have 275 villages in our tribe and those villages mostly have a church of some sort in it. There's a few left that don't. This is one of them. And so we're just praying that God will work in hearts there.
That's happened. One of the sisters in our village passed away and it was a chance where people say, how do you connect with other villages? Well, it's through often through weddings and through through desks where people ask us, they say, hey, we heard you teach, you know, can you come teach in our village? And it gives us no opportunity to just talk with the people and to hear about their interests about and tell them about what we do.
Pray for the kids. This little guy here, he doesn't like going to school. So anyway, he always comes up to me and asks me for some job. And I really appreciate some of the kids.
I'm getting older. Pray for some of our youth. Fimo is our main Bible teacher and he could really use help. We have young guys grow up and they go off to town and they are now getting jobs in different areas.
And so this is Billy Boy. And he just loves coming out. He just can't read. He's one of the few guys I can't read.
And this is Luke. My name's sake. I think I've told his story about him before, but Luke is trying to finish his school. He's trying to think about what I do for a job and I'm saying, Luke, you know the word.
When he gives his testimony, he's just so clear about his love for Christ. And I'd love to really see him go back to his own tribe and be involved in the Lord's work there. So you can pray for him. Pray for some of the men that come out, that don't come out.
Their wives come out. Everywhere around our area is marijuana and some of these men have gotten into that and they're just not well. A quick story here. Our son and daughter, Dan and Jen are out west and Dan's just finished.
He's become a pilot. He's got his private license, commercial license and then he became an instructor to build up his hours so he can go to Papua New Guinea. But he can't fly in the mountains. So MAF was after him to fly with them.
And so he became a teacher. And two of his students have just passed, which is really an exciting moment for him. But they met out there and this lady here is from Assembly in Edmonton. And her mother said one time to her, she said, listen, those people that he chaggers, they're way over there in Papua New Guinea.
Wouldn't it be nice if you could just write to one of their daughters over there? And so she goes, okay, my mom, I'll write to them. So this is Laurel and she starts writing Jen over in Papua New Guinea. So they both go up and they both get married and they don't realize that their last names have changed.
So one day they're visiting at Prairie where they have the MAF training for pilots. And so anyway, Dan says to Jen, can we have them over for a meal and maybe you can get to talk to them, whatever. Because they're going to Papua New Guinea too. And so they got together.
So she says to Jen, she said, you know, I used to write a girl over there in Papua New Guinea. She was like a pen pal to me. Jen said, that's funny. I had a pen pal too.
That was no birdie. And so, okay, okay, that's cool. And so then she takes off and she gets the Papua New Guinea and she gets invited to Mission Base by somebody at supper time. And this older missionary, now listen to her story and she goes, you do know that both your last names changed.
Oh my goodness, she gets on the phone and she's texting Jen. She goes, get me, I was lying, I was lying. So anyway, they're all excited about being in Papua New Guinea together. And anytime we go to the base, they often invite us out.
This lady here, she's a Pentecostal pastor's wife. And it's just, I don't know if you guys have heard of King of Glory. Have you guys heard of that book? King of Gloria.
So that's done in the trade language over there. And we watched that as a series of meetings. And so we were able to give that to some of the people. And again, this is that funeral.
So this is again a good opportunity just to connect with other people. And come today when our conferences happen and everybody's excited about going to the conference. We had about eight to nine hundred come out to the conference, people from different tribes. And it's just a real wonderful time for the people to connect with one another.
Three of the guys in the back row, usually we just bring believers come with us. They came up and they stopped our bus and they said, from our village, they said, listen, we really feel that God's moving in her heart to come with you. And the guy on the far right, he's been coming faithfully to our meeting. He loves the Lord yet.
I don't know if he saved or not. So you can be praying for many of the ladies dressed up with a flag from their own countries. So anyway, it was just a neat time for them to get together. Here's some of the ladies how they wear their headcarvings over there.
I'm going to click along here. Again, pray for some of the young men. This guy in the center there with a cap on his head. He's like, I live by the highway and are not far from it.
It's just a small little highway. But he had never been on a car or in a car, much less in a car. And so he was telling our believers, he said, you guys are not really into the world. Like he said, churches are growing in my area.
We're way in the bush. It takes three days to get out here with hiking and walking and getting on a vehicle. He said, you guys need to be into the world. So he became friends with some of our believers.
Pray for the two on the right. Those are the two guys in our meeting. I just hope that they will grow. That's Billy and Appa that they will be.
And this guy too is just coming over the Lord. So we're just praying for these men. Some of the believers when we were there, these men are elders in their churches. And they said, look, we just don't have what it takes to get bibles.
So I often bring bibles to the conference and we sell them for about 60 to 70% off. And we brought 90 bibles and there's still another 200 people waiting for bibles. So we're hoping to help them out too. So they are.
They're all excited when they can hold the word. What better thing could you be holding in your hand than the word of God? So these are a few of them here. Just after meetings, get a time to share with the men.
I'd like you to pray for Phalix. He's my next door neighbor. And he's just one of the nicest guys in the village. But something's holding him back and I don't know what it is.
And his wife is a believer. She's just a really faithful sister. This is little Lois and a village leader's brother. This is a daughter.
Just pray for our village leaders, especially the men. They've just love following the ways of the world. This is the couple that we went to for one of the bride prices and the guy on the left. They both had a lot of questions.
They go to a cultist type church. And so anyway, he went with me. I had to go fix my car at Wycliffe Mission Base. And so we stayed overnight and it was a wonderful time.
His name's Tony. He just prayed for him to be saved. So this is their boy, Peter. And his mom and dad are walking by our church.
You have to go by our church to go to their church. And Peter, they don't always have time to take care of him. So they give him to one of the ladies who's a faithful central teacher in our church. So he's getting used to coming and he can hardly talk.
But as they're walking by, he pulls his parents hands. No, no. He wants to go to Fellowship at our church on the Bible study Wednesday night. And he's pulling their hands back.
No, come. And finally he goes, they don't want to know. We're going on to our church. And he goes, no.
Go to Jesus. Go to Jesus. And so anyway, they came. And they sat and then the next day they said, we want to come up and ask your questions.
They opened up their Bibles. And some don't like the trade language Bible as much. So they had English Bible there. They were able to read English.
And we just went through tons of questions. And we're just praying that this works. Cult, church will. Those people will leave and that they'll see the truth because many do want to serve the Lord.
In the sky on the left, he's a faithful brother. Just got a job down on the coast. So we missed some of these guys who are. And this is his brother, Pray, our his cousin.
So please pray. Pray for Taylor. Taylor has got the gift to stand behind a pulpit. He wants to visit people.
He sets up a whole program to go visit people. He will gather food together. People who are discouraged. Christians who are not coming.
People who need to be saved. Taylor will do it all. And Taylor is able to just gab sometimes. And he reads English.
Not many of our guys do. He can read Chuck's window at Sunday night and Sunday morning sharing in the Lord's supper. There he is. And it's beautiful.
But Taylor cannot stay away from all of the calls. It's just his enemy. And I called him up the other day and he was like, oh, no, no, no, no. And usually it's just once every four months or something like that.
But somebody comes and tempts him. And then he becomes a bad testimony in our village. This lady from another tribe just came to know the Lord. Pray for these new believers.
She's been in an area where she's seen missionaries and she loves to help us. Again, these are friends of ours that we don't know that they know the Lord. And they just love going to the church, which are all based in works. We want to go to this lady's area.
There's been a lot of fighting. We're hoping to do recording now, to record the messages, send 70 messages into some other areas so that people will hear the word of God there. And maybe the church can be started. There's been just, you can look right up at the cross on the next mountain from us.
And 13 kids, one day, felt like they were going to pay back and took them. And these other guys had high power rifle. Just killed them all and burnt them all there. And it just was really sad.
John's getting older. He said, I'm going to take my place. And that's what we need in our church there. You can do the same thing.
Will did. Will is his parents are serving missionaries and will knows a language. So will call up our mission and said, can I come and pass the tracks or help do literature or something like that? And they said, we don't really do some job.
And they said, well, we don't have any job right now. So he wrote me. And he said, can I help you pass the literature or something like that? And he said, no, but I said, you can come and he said, how can I help you?
And I said, you can help me, but I can help you. And I said, we can see if you can learn a language and we can see if you can do this and that. Oh, great. So Will came in.
He just loved being with our people. And in the trade language, Will applied himself. He made his teacher tailor and tailor made a program for him. And four weeks he stood up in the broken way.
He shared in the pulpit. And so we were pretty excited with Will being there. Our main Bible teachers, final pray for him. We're just praying that again, that the Lord give him help.
Him and I are both getting older. And this is a neighboring brother from another neighboring village where we taught the chronological lessons from Creation to Christ. And this man got saved and about 20 others. But we're hoping that a church will start there.
And that's a whole nother story, which I won't get into because of the time. I need to pray for the kids. These are some of our believers and are meeting over there. And again, thank the Lord for all the kids that help us.
And these are a couple of, you'll see them in the CMML handbook. If you have that here, some of the families that invite us up to the mission base there. Pray for Seth. Seth has some health issues.
Appreciate your prayers for him. There and her family are in Windsor, Ontario. And Julie has some health issues too. We appreciate prayers for her.
And pray for strength for Dan and Jen as they prepare their journey. They would love to come visit and tell you what they're doing. So as they get ready to also go to Papua New Guinea. Time comes to say goodbye.
And again, we just thank you guys for standing with us, praying for us. And for the many needs that we have over there. We're just, I appreciate your prayers that this whole sleep apnea thing goes all right. And that the Lord gives strength.
And you can look at me sometimes. People look at me and say, oh, you look pretty good today. But sometimes I'm very straight. And I need to sit down.
But thank you for your prayers. And for just all your love you showed to us. We sense that over in Papua New Guinea. And we're just encouraged to be here again and share with you today.
Let's close in order for our Heavenly Father. Thank you for the privilege of knowing you. Thank you for the privilege of holding the Word of God in our hands and to be able to read it and to share it with others. Father, we thank you and we praise you this morning for all that you've done in our lives for the Lord Jesus Christ and Father.
We heard this morning about the glory that will be revealed in us one day. And Father, we, who are we? Father David said, who am I? That we could give to you Father in any way, Father, our lives to serve you to tell this wonderful message to those who've never heard.
And pray your blessing on each one this morning and pray these things in Jesus' name. Amen.