I came here two and a half years
ago.
Anyone here remember?
Well, lots of friends.
Thank you.
My colleague Brian and myself, we left Dallas.
But I came this morning and he came
yesterday.
And I sure do miss Pastor Mark.
I think, why you are not even in
Hawaii?
That's where I heard he went.
I mean, everybody is coming to Florida.
This is the vacation land.
What a blessing to be back here again.
And in some way I wish the circumstances
of the country would be a little different.
I wish it was like last time when
I came here.
I was in India last few weeks.
And then from Bombay I went to Zurich
to have a board meeting there.
Then from there I went on to Germany,
which was the 10th of this month.
And I was scheduled to catch a flight
to Dallas, Fort Worth from Frankfurt on the
12th.
So, it was the 11th morning.
So, I had a call from someone from
Florida.
And we were talking about a meeting that
was taking place for mission agencies.
And right in the middle of the conversation,
he said, the terrorist attack.
And I hung up the telephone.
I went and turned the TV on and
turned the CNN.
I thought I was watching a movie.
I mean, how do you have any reference
in your head to see something like this
and imagine that it's actually just happening.
And I have seen and heard worse, a
thousand times worse than that.
You know, 6,000 people lost their lives
approximately from almost every country in the world.
Those buildings came down like, you know, the
North Times.
I think about Bangladesh, 100,000 people got
wiped out overnight a few years ago.
And I thought about the pictures I saw
from Rwanda.
Blood literally flowing on the streets from the
hundreds of thousands that had been butchered.
And I thought about the pictures of God's
people, Christians, being murdered brutally in Sudan.
And I thought about the 40,000 got
massacred in Jambu Kashmir by the fundamental religious
fanatics.
And I thought about the typhoon that hit
Orissa.
We lost several hundreds of thousands of people.
Estimated 150,000 people died within a few
hours.
And millions left homeless, lost everything.
But, you know, some of us that travel
through many nations of the world and experience
this and walk into the slums of Bombay
with 5 million people and 100,000 children
on the streets of Bombay not knowing who
their parents are and the morning time the
government vehicles will come and pick up the
dead bodies of the children that died overnight
in the slums.
But to tell you the emotional experience I've
been through, having seen and heard so much
what is happening in many parts of the
world, that is part of my very life.
But when I saw what happened in New
York and in this nation, I literally overcame
by emotion.
And I didn't know that there was such
emotion in me for the people of this
nation.
I've been here since 1974.
My children are born here.
And you can be an individual born in
this American nation and not be an American.
You also can be born in some other
nation and be here and you really become
an American.
And I sat and cried and cried.
And I found myself kind of so deeply
grieving.
And immediately I called the leaders in different
parts of the world and said, would you
please take time to fast and pray for
our nation.
It was very strange after I said our
nation, I realized I'm talking about America.
And I said to them, please tell our
people, there's no nation under the heavens in
our time.
There are people that love and care and
show mercy and concern for humanity like America.
My wife is from Germany.
She was born and raised there.
Second World War literally brought the country into
a heap of dust and to nothing.
Hitler was the reason for that.
But then Russia got East Germany after you
know it, the Berlin Wall.
But America would go back to Germany to
rebuild, to give life again, to give hope.
And whereas the eastern part of Germany under
Russia remained undone, untouched, buildings still destroyed and
no hope and no progress.
That tells a lot about the people here.
But we in this nation never experienced anything
like this.
Someone said, your headache means to you more
than the earthquake in Japan that killed 100
,000 people.
When it happens to us something, it's very
close home.
But you know, God is sovereign.
We are seated in the heavenlies with Christ.
We are his people.
We must force ourselves to think in terms
not Indian, German, American, Russian or any other
country titles, but rather we must make ourselves
look upon the world from our Lord's perspective.
Only then shall we find courage and strength
and hope to go on with life.
Because he is sovereign.
And that is my encouragement.
And I know God is going to use
this and is using it to touch the
lives of people.
Just the other day I was on the
telephone with Pastor Skip Heitzard from Calvary Chapel
in Albuquerque.
He is in New York with Lloyd Pauley
and Brian Broderson and Franklin Graham and a
whole bunch of people ministering.
And he said to me, Brother KP, we
never had more people come into Christ like
we had last Sunday during the altar call.
He said, we just turned up, I'm in
any space, anywhere in the building.
Packed, jam-packed people.
Well, the enemy means evil, but God turns
all these things for good.
May the Lord give us the grace to
humble ourselves continually and seek his face and
bring ourselves into focus to stay with him.
Staying on the course and not to be
distracted even with tragedies like this.
I want to read a couple of verses
for you.
By the way, by God's grace I got
back to the States.
12,000 people got stuck in Frankfurt Airport.
Having all the flights cancelled and Lufthansa had
mercy on me and they put me on
a flight.
Thank you.
Book of Acts chapter 20, verse
22.
This is Paul's farewell talk to the Ephesian
elders.
He is taking off.
Verse 22, And now, compelled by the Spirit,
I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what
will happen to me there.
I only know that in every city the
Holy Spirit wants me, that prison and hardship
are facing me.
However, I consider my life worth nothing to
me, if only I may finish the race
and complete the task the Lord Jesus has
given to me.
The task of testifying to the gospel of
God's grace.
Then in the book of Philippians chapter 1,
Ephesians Philippians chapter 1, verse 12.
Now I want you to know, brothers, that
what has happened to me has really served
to advance the gospel.
You all understand my English?
Thank God.
I'm glad.
Quite a
while ago, 1966, the year of 1966, I
left my home to North India to serve
the Lord.
And we knew some parts of North India,
it's very hard and difficult, opposition very severe.
One young man after finishing his Bible school
in Madras, South India, went to Rajasthan.
He was there hardly a week before his
co-workers found him headless.
They murdered him.
Along with six, seven others, I was on
a three-month tour with this old vehicle
filled with gospels, New Testament, Bibles, and all
these materials, preaching the gospel from village to
village.
Several times we got beaten up, persecuted.
But there was one place everybody feared of,
called Boondi.
The people that live in this community are
staunch, hard-hearted, militant Hindus, fanatics.
Those who believe killing anyone who come there
with any other faith than their faith, it
is a ticket to go to heaven or
to Marshal.
So there we were in Boondi.
Before you knew it, we were all beaten
up without mercy.
One brother, from one side of his head,
blood was just oozing down from the beating
he received.
Some of the brothers could not even stand
up because they were so beaten up.
And then they unloaded all our literature, Bibles
and New Testaments and everything, and took a
match and set it on fire.
And the leader of the gang said, you
dogs, we give you five minutes to leave
this place.
If you don't, we will kill you.
We knew they meant business.
And we escaped.
Some years would go by.
A 90 year old young brother, who finished
his Bible school, felt the Lord was calling
him to go to this particular place to
preach.
When he announced the news, the senior leader
said, this is not a smart thing you
are trying to do.
You are too young, skinny, and inexperienced.
But he said, I have been praying for
a whole year.
The Lord burned my heart to go to
Boondi.
They said okay.
They prayed and he went on to Boondi
and rented one room for about five dollars
a month.
A few days goes by, in the middle
of the night, while he was sleeping, six
or seven men come and bust the door
open.
And he found himself surrounded by these men.
And I told Rajput with a turban on
his head, pull this brother up by his
leg.
And said, you young fellow, you came here
to tell us about your God?
We have plenty of Gods and Goddesses.
Tonight we will not kill you.
We can tear you apart like we do
with the chickens.
You get away from here first thing in
the morning.
He really got scared.
You would.
I would too.
The very next morning he rushed back to
the main mission station and reported to our
brothers what happened.
They said, we told you that.
I mean, we told you.
That you are no match for Boondi.
Then the senior monk brother said, son, I
will ask you a question.
Did Jesus ask you to go to Boondi?
He said, I know he did.
That is my burden.
But they will kill me for sure, I
know.
He knew that other young man who came
there, that was martyred some years ago.
And our brother said, son, you go back
to Boondi.
If Jesus asked you to go, you go
back to Boondi.
Yes, they may come back to persecute you.
You may face some problems.
You may face some difficulties.
Possibly, you may end up getting killed.
But remember, son, heaven is a much better
place than Boondi.
And you wait there for us and we
will come later.
And he knelt down and they laid their
hands on him and prayed for him and
he got on the bus.
Tears, as he said goodbye, thinking that he
would never see them again.
He reached back Boondi.
Started talking to people about Jesus.
The very people that came to him to
kill him and threaten him came back to
him and said, Why on earth have you
come back?
You are now going to make us murderers.
We don't want to kill you but now
you are forcing us to do it.
And they made a long speech.
This young brother, calm and sober, full of
peace, simply responded, The sooner you do your
job, it is better for me.
Heaven is a much better place than your
Boondi anyway.
What will you do to a man who
wants to get killed?
They couldn't figure this out.
They issued more threats than they left.
Yes, he faced some problems, some difficulties.
But you know, that is not a strange
gospel.
To our ear, it may be strange sometimes.
But Paul, knowing that he was going to
be faced with tremendous inconveniences, loss, suffering, persecution,
even death, when they pleaded, What?
Don't do it!
He said, I know.
But I do not regard my life precious
to me.
All I want is to finish the task
he gave me to do.
And then I get a telephone call, middle
of the night, from India.
After a while of that particular incident, Hello,
I said, yeah, this is...
Yeah, this is KP.
We want you to come to Boondi.
I want to put the phone down.
I mean, it's like a nightmare.
Middle of the night.
I have never been beaten in my entire
life and suffered like I suffered in Boondi.
He said, no, no, no, no.
It is not that we want you to
inaugurate the church we just built in Boondi.
The story changes.
The following month I flew to Delhi, took
a train to Kota and then on to
Boondi.
My brothers and sisters.
Now I was looking at some 120-130
adults, children, in this brand new church, sitting
on the mat, worshipping the Lord.
If you want to see faces glow with
the grace and light from heaven.
If you want to see eyes giving out
life, you come to Boondi and see this
brand new Christian who just came out of
Hinduism and darkness through the ministry of this
brother.
I taught God's word, got through the whole
service, went to us all over.
This brother said, this is the man who
said he tear me like a chicken.
And that is his wife and kids and
all that.
The very people that came to kill him
now are his co-workers.
So, sitting in prison, poor guys.
He is not in 5-star hotel or
air-conditioned comfortable home.
No.
You see, our problem often, we read the
Bible to learn and understand.
We explain Greek and Hebrew and past tense
and this tense and all these things.
We become expert in knowledge like the Pharisees
and miss the life itself.
Bible is not given to us for us
to have knowledge and education from it, but
we may live by it.
So Paul says, all that happened to me,
my brothers, I want you to know.
I want you to know.
It helped, even sitting in prison, with the
inconvenience, with the problems, it helped the furtherance
of the gospel.
You know R.
G.
Lervin?
You know him?
The book Jesus Christ?
Who don't know him, by the way?
Everybody knows him.
We have translated that book Jesus Christ into
16 languages for our Bible schools.
You know, we have some 7,500 full
-time missionaries or pastors scattered in seven different
Asian countries.
Today we have some 9,000 churches.
They are just like our chapel.
You know the Tao emblem you have?
I mean, you travel throughout Asia, you'll find
it a thousand times.
Everywhere.
And today some 7,000 young people studying
in our Bible schools between the age of
18 and 25.
Three years training for them to prepare themselves
to go to unreached areas to preach the
gospel.
So we have plenty of materials for them
to distribute.
But this book Jesus Christ is translated not
for public distribution necessarily, but for our students
to learn what it means to be following
Christ.
So in Bihar, one of our team, Weekend
Outreach, went to this village to preach.
And they really got it bad.
They beat them up.
The village chief came with his gang and
destroyed everything they had.
Burned all their Bibles and everything.
And beat up this brother really bad.
Some of them had to be even taken
to the hospital for treatment.
Some monks went by and the Holy Spirit
burdened their hearts that they should go back
to the same village.
You know, sometimes these announcements are made, half
of the brothers say, Are you sure the
Holy Ghost spoke or somebody else is speaking
to you?
It doesn't make sense sometimes.
No, no, the Lord is going to do
something, then let us go.
So this team, the same people who got
beaten up and suffered, again goes back to
the same village seeking to preach the gospel.
As they entered into the village with fear
and trembling, here comes the village chief called
Sarpanch to greet them.
They usually do like this, Namaste Ji, Namaste
Ji.
And he was smiling and so happy.
And our brothers thought, Oh, this is going
to be a dangerous thing.
He said, I want you to come to
my house, I want to talk to you.
That sounded even worse.
So they went and he got them all
in the house, gave them tea to drink.
Then he said, You know what?
I was really hoping that you will come
back.
He said, Last time when you people came,
I beat you up, destroyed everything you had.
But I was so curious to see what
you people believe.
Why you do this?
So I kept one book.
And in his native language, Hindi, the book
Jesus Child.
And he said, I read through the whole
thing, and I realized the Jesus you talked
about is not the kind of Jesus I
thought you are preaching.
I want to know more about this Jesus.
And the whole family that day gave their
life to Christ.
The village chief became the first believer and
his family.
Then more people, more people.
Now there is a church established in that
village.
There are people worshipping the Lord Jesus Christ.
Hallelujah.
Again, you see the reality of when we
are willing to let go of our ambitions,
our life, our agendas, our programs.
We become fearless.
God is seeking for those who are willing
to abandon their life completely and totally.
So that he can do a deep work
in their life.
And use them to touch a lost world
that do not know him.
And are on the way to hell forever.
Without elaborating this, I'll tell you, when I
talk about thousands of brothers on the mission
field, giving their life to Christ, just like
our Paul mentioned, it is not an exception.
It is not once in a while.
It is a normal thing.
They go out knowing their problems.
But you know what?
God does wonders to their life.
Before coming back to the United States one
time, I met this dear brother in a
missionary conference.
He said, my legs are hurting.
I said, why, somebody beat you up or
something?
He said, no, I had to baptize 85
people standing in the river the whole time,
one by one.
I said, you must thank God for this.
He said, yeah, the problem is tomorrow I
had to baptize 135 people more.
I said, now you got problems.
And people come into the Lord Jesus Christ,
ask his brothers to go out and commit
their life with this kind of commitment.
As I was getting ready for this evening
meeting, I was going through some of these
letters that just came from the mission field.
One of the brothers wrote on his mission
field, he met this Hindu priest called Marimuthu.
And this man was so wicked and vicious,
that he not only was a Hindu priest,
but also he had so much satanic power,
a witch doctor, that caused so much damage
for so many people.
But then, he began to get attacked by
the evil spirit.
They did everything under the sun to find
hope for him.
Finally, somebody said, there is a Christian preacher
who can pray for you to Jesus.
And I was called, and I prayed for
him, and he was set free.
As a result, we have now a church
established in that village.
But I tell you something though, while that
happens, stories like the one I heard from
Ranji, their life, as his dear brother was
going about preaching the gospel, they caught him
and stripped him naked, took a razor blade,
went all over his body, left him on
the street, that he would bleed to death.
Somebody found him, took him to the hospital,
and the Lord spared his life.
But then asked, would you change the mission
field and go elsewhere?
He would quote the Bible verse that I
read for you today, saying that I do
not regard my life dear unto myself.
Jesus calls us, not that we may give
something we have, something left over, but he
calls us to give all, total, everything.
After coming to America, I went through a
brief period of my life experience here.
I wanted to become like an American, the
first years of my life.
That means when I first came to America,
I thought hot dog was dog meat.
Hot rice, hot peach, then hot dog.
Nobody could convince me otherwise.
But then later I learned, yes, that was
okay.
And got used to the normal things, you
know, a library to my name, books I
will have in it that I may never
read, but it looked fantastic.
People think I'm very intelligent, although I never
read those things.
Sports, I don't understand what people do here
in the name of sports, but I had
sports magazines when people walked in.
Although I never read it, it looked nice.
And a couple of years time, I had
17 neckties and quite nice clothes, and I'm
glad nobody's wearing any necktie here that serves
me.
But, you know, I was becoming kind of
normal in my thinking.
While I was studying in seminary and also
passing at church.
What more do you want?
Deep in Bible study and teaching, not doing
any bad things out there, so-called full
time in the ministry.
But then I found all of a sudden,
I couldn't cry anymore.
My eyes were dry.
Yeah, I preached about heaven and hell, and
the world that is needing to hear my
gospel, all these amazing things.
And the Lord said, one day, son, some
60,000 people die every day in your
country and plunge into eternity without hearing my
name even one time.
What are you doing with your life?
Is this what I called you about?
Didn't I say, unless you love me more
than father, mother, son, daughter, you didn't stop
there.
Even your own very life, you cannot be
my disciple.
And I looked around and looked inside and
I realized, it was all a game I
was playing.
And I said, Lord, my heart is so
cold.
You have to change me.
Reminds me the words from Keith Green.
My eyes are dry.
My faith is old.
My heart is hard.
My prayers are cold.
And I know how I ought to be
alive to you and get to me.
Oh, what can be done with an old
heart like mine?
Soften it up with oil and wine.
The oil is you, your spirit of love.
Please wash me anew in the wine of
your blood.
And I said, Lord, take eternity and stand
on my eyes.
God made my heart soft.
I can do it.
And I would now stop weeping.
Not weep over my problems.
World map came into my home.
I looked at India and China and Bhutan
and Mongolia and Eastern Europe and Nepal, these
nations where over 2 billion people live having
not heard Jesus name on the way to
eternity forever.
And I began to weep.
And I said, Lord, I don't know what
all this means.
But all that I am, every fiber of
my being, every drop of my blood, my
wife, my kids, all, everything total, I give
over to you.
Whatever you want.
That was before Gospel of Asia started.
Today, reaching millions of people.
Touching the lives of people, all these nations.
Some 9,000 churches worshiping the Lord Jesus
Christ.
Every single day, some 6 churches planted on
the mission field.
Every single day.
It all began by God's grace when I
said, I am willing to die and give
up.
No more what I want.
But Lord, it's all you.
When we train our missionaries, we have an
interesting thing that happens when the graduations take
place.
80% of the young people who go
through the three-year training, they end up
going to some mission field where no one
went with the name Jesus.
Sounds like a stat rack.
Going where no one has gone before.
And they kneel.
And the elders, we brothers, would go and
lay our hands on each one and pray.
And this is the kind of things we
say.
Dear brother, you are called by your Lord,
and we, as his servants, lay our hands
on you to bless you and send you
out in Jesus' name.
With the one-way ticket that you get,
when you get to the mission field, please
know, if this is the place the Lord
called you to lay down your life for
his sake, heaven is a much better place
than where you are.
And never forget, someday we will see you
also.
And be strong.
Give your life and all that you have.
Never we are able to do this without
weeping.
Because we know, some of those brothers that
we send out, we will never see them
again.
They will lay down their life on the
field.
Isn't that what Jesus said?
A seed falling to the ground and dying?
Didn't he say something like that?
You agree?
You can hold on to your life by
the way.
Especially at times like this.
When emotionally we are wounded with what happened
in our nation.
We can say, I don't want to spend
my money anymore.
I don't want to travel anymore.
I don't want to get an aeroplane anymore.
I am not recommending you fly.
That's not what I am telling you.
I don't want to go for shopping anymore.
I don't want to do anything.
I want to keep it.
We don't know what's going to happen.
All of a sudden, we look inward, trying
to protect ourselves so much.
I don't care about half of the world
going to bed with empty stomach and naked
bodies.
I don't care about 2 million people going
to hell.
My problem is too much.
I am hurt.
You know why I am saying this to
you?
Please believe me.
I spoke to my staff.
We have some 75-80 people working down
in our mission office.
God bless you.
I know I found myself.
Listen, I am not white.
I don't have blonde hair.
I found myself day and night, turn the
TV on, and worrying about what's happening in
New York, and Pentagon, America, and all.
I mean, I found myself so involved with
emotions.
And all of a sudden, the Holy Spirit
spoke to me, and said, What is happening
with your life?
Wake up.
There is a world going to hell.
We can become deeply involved, and be self
-centered, especially in times like this.
But oh, I pray that you will not
let that happen to your life.
I want to conclude by telling you, the
greatest influence I had in my life, in
serving God, I began at the age of
16.
Now I am 51 years old.
The greatest influence, I say this to anyone
everywhere I go, happened to be my own
mother.
The tiny little village I was born and
raised in in the extreme southern part of
India.
We are six boys, I am the youngest
in my family.
My mother led me to the Lord when
I was eight years old.
Her prayer and hope was that one of
her sons would become a missionary.
One by one, they all went for business
and farming and all kinds of things.
When I finished my high school, I came
home and told my parents if they allowed
me, I would like to go and become
a missionary.
Before I could finish my talk, my mother
said, Please go!
She was kind of very urgent.
I thought she didn't like me.
I went off to North India and faced
some difficulties and came back two years later,
skin and bones and worn out, tired.
Then she saw me, she began to weep.
The following day she told me, Son, I
want to tell you something that you don't
know nothing about.
She said, When I saw all your brothers
went off to all kinds of things and
you were growing up, I did not know
if God would ever answer my prayer.
I began to fast and pray.
Every Friday, only drinking water, asking God that
one of her sons would become a missionary.
And that's all I wanted.
And when you came and said you want
to go and serve God, I knew I
can stop fasting for that.
God answered my prayer.
In 1990, when I was in India on
the way to South Korea, my mother was
taken ill with a heart problem at the
age of 84.
And that weekend my mother died.
I never experienced pain in my entire life
as I experienced then.
My best friend, my prayer partner, now no
more.
After the funeral, my brothers, we discussed about
our mother.
And one of my brothers wanted to know,
he's a businessman, how much money did our
mother leave in the bank?
Because all her sons every month, according to
our custom, will give her lots of money.
She could do what she wants to do
with it.
But we never saw her spending any penny.
We didn't know what she would do with
it.
As a matter of fact, one time when
I came back from America, I saw my
mother wearing a blouse torn from here to
there, hand stitched.
I was so furious.
I said, Mother, what madness got into your
head?
Don't you have any feeling for your sons?
You are bringing shame upon our head.
And cowardly you are putting on our face.
Please, Mother, don't do it.
We are giving you money to buy a
new dress if you want every month.
How come you do things like this?
A little fragile woman, you know.
She never traveled overseas.
She never left her state.
She never went to university.
But she loved Jesus with all her heart.
Her favorite verse in the Bible, Psalm 73
verse 25, Whom have I in heaven but
you?
And on earth I desire no one.
No one beside you.
Psalm 73 verse 25.
And she looked at all my anger and
said, You little fellow don't understand nothing.
Someday you will understand.
How much money did she leave in the
bank?
The question was answered by one of my
brother.
He said, We found this little notebook under
the pillow of our mother.
The bed she slept on.
And we opened it.
He said, There is nothing in the bank.
But I tell you what happened.
Dozens of names of young people studying in
Bible school.
In North India.
In different parts of India.
Among Hindus and Muslims and Buddhists.
Preaching the gospel to the churches.
Against their names she writes the amount she
was sending them every month.
Without sending one human being.
And I began to weep.
Not because there was no money in the
bank.
Because all of a sudden I realized the
meaning of what she said.
My little son.
Someday you will understand.
Someday.
And that someday happened to be now.
And the last will.
Final will.
Desire of my mother.
Listen.
When I am dead and gone.
The only thing I will leave behind.
Is the wedding ring.
My ear ring.
And the gold chain my husband gave me
the day he married me.
Please sell these items.
And give away.
To preach the gospel.
Among people that never heard my Jesus name.
I want to see them also in heaven.
It was after she came back to the
room whispering in my ear.
My son.
It's worth it.
This life is not forever.
This world is not our home.
We are not here forever.
It's a very short time.
Stay focused.
How do I make an application for this?
One.
I would say.
Ask the Lord to take eternity and stamp
on your eyes.
Ask him to take eternity and stamp on
your eyes.
Ask him to help you make your life
decisions.
In the light of eternity.
Hundred years from now.
What does it matter?
Secondly.
Thirdly.
I ask that you take at least one
day of the week.
As God give you grace.
To fast.
To pray.
For those nations and people.
That are suffering.
And do not know the Lord.
Be one to stand in the gap.
Accept the inconveniences.
Accept that hunger.
Accept that pain and sorrow.
Whatever.
To choose.
Choose.
Something that means much for the kingdom.
Thirdly.
One of the reasons I come back.
Spend a few months in this country.
Eight.
Nine.
Ten times a year.
I run back and forth to all these
nations.
It's time to come before you.
My brothers and sisters.
Part of my own family.
Kind of.
And plead with you.
Would you please.
Help us.
To send out more missionaries.
To people that never heard Jesus name.
And I'm sure many of you will say
yes.
There's no compulsion.
Or guilt trip.
Or force to do it.
But it's an opportunity and a blessing.
Would you please pull out this card from
your bulletin.
There's a bulletin given to you tonight.
There's a card.
Something like this.
Just take me another one minute to wrap
it up.
And then Brian is going to come and
tell you about some of the materials we
have.
So you will not ask all the questions
out there.
It says.
Yes.
I want to help.
I will help native missionaries reach their own
people for Jesus.
You see.
If you want.
As an American come to India.
Or Burma.
Or Bhutan.
Nepal.
To be a missionary.
You can come as a tourist.
But you cannot stay there forever.
They will not let you.
There's no way they give you permission.
They stopped doing that long ago.
But we can link our life with those
who are over there.
Native missionaries who are giving their lives so
completely.
All they need is our prayer.
And our help.
So they can plant the church and become
self-supporting.
Starting now.
I will prayerfully have a sponsor.
One or two or whatever native missionaries.
$30 a month.
And you need to fill your name and
address.
And would you look here just for a
second.
Oh there it is.
That is neat too.
We never had that done before.
See there you are looking at missionary folders.
In my hand you can see the same
thing kind of.
The testimony of the missionary.
And all the information about him.
And where they are.
And all these things.
And the real photograph.
Real picture.
Of a real missionary.
You know some years ago.
When the Lord touched my heart.
My wife and I began to support four
native missionaries.
On the mission field.
Giving $30 a month.
To help them preach the gospel.
Within the first year.
They all planted at least one church on
the mission field.
And some of them became self-supporting.
Then we started some other missionaries.
Because we didn't need our help anymore.
Every missionary you help.
Will end up planting a church.
At least in the first year.
And then keep on doing it.
After the Lord enables them.
It is not a social welfare program.
It is that you just say I want
to help you.
And pray with you.
They actually become part of your family.
If you come to our house.
You will find by the dining table.
In Dallas our home.
The four missionary faces of missionaries.
Every day we can look at and pray
for them.
And when you fill this card out.
And say Brother KP.
I can't go to India or Burma or
Mongolia or whatever.
But I can pray for one of those
missionaries.
Or two or ten missionaries.
And when you fill your name and address.
And mark how many missionaries you want to
support.
And bring this to the table out there.
In the open space there.
From the table there.
You can get your missionary to take home
with you tonight.
If you support one missionary.
If you support ten.
You can get ten.
There is a medical doctor who supports I
think eighteen missionaries.
You got more money than I have.
But I ask you.
Even if you are supporting a missionary tonight.
With gospel creation.
You can take one more.
After the Lord gives you the grace.
And if you have a checkbook or money
to give.
Along with your card.
Please do that.
That will help us to get the help
to these missionaries.
They are waiting to get to the mission
field.
Like Boondi.
I told about.
And so many places.
If you have any money to give with
the card.
You please do.
But listen.
Some people say.
Oh but KP I forgot.
I don't have a checkbook.
I have no money.
Don't worry.
Even if you don't have any money with
you tonight.
You still can get your missionary.
All you need to do is to fill
the card.
Bring it.
And get your missionary.
And you can send the money later.
We will send you a letter after a
few weeks or a month.
And anyone will come with that.
You can send your support.
Oh by the way.
One hundred percent of the money you send
to support that missionary.
Every penny goes to the mission field.
We do not take one penny out of
it.
Like Brian.
All our staff raise our own support to
take care of our needs.
We don't take one penny out of your
money that you give to the mission field.
And like my mother.
Nobody may know the sacrifice you make.
But quietly.
Humbly.
Gently.
Loving Him more than anything else.
Praying.
Seeking His face.
Serving Him.
For here and everywhere.
And someday we will stand before Him.
Happy.
Forever.
The privilege the Lord gave us.
To love Him.
And serve Him.
May the Lord speak to us.
Amen.