WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:21.610 [MUSIC] 00:00:21.610 --> 00:03:06.960 Turn to song number 224, the end of the book, song number 224. 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:11.230 There Shall Be Showers of Blessings, song number 224. 00:03:11.230 --> 00:03:32.890 [MUSIC] 00:06:36.130 --> 00:06:44.070 So there are flip boards out there in the lobby, and there are six different groups because they want to see groups of 30. 00:06:44.070 --> 00:06:46.600 So some of the groups are already filled up. 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:53.640 So what you're going to want to do is get one of those flip boards and fill out your name for everyone in your party. 00:06:53.640 --> 00:06:56.950 Like put a different line for each person of your party. 00:06:56.950 --> 00:07:04.880 Don't put like Anderson times six or something, or six people, because we want to make sure we know when the 30, when that has been hit. 00:07:04.880 --> 00:07:17.090 So maybe even, you know, maybe even right now you might want to just get out of your seat right now and just walk out there and say your name on one of those flip boards if you haven't already. 00:07:17.090 --> 00:07:23.530 Because you don't want to forget to do that, but we want to make sure we get those roots figured out and make sure that we're prepared for tomorrow morning. 00:07:23.530 --> 00:07:34.400 So if you're going to the Visible History Museum, be there by 945 at the latest, be there on time, because we're going to start the tours at 10, so we have to get organized at 945. 00:07:34.400 --> 00:07:38.540 And we're going to meet out in the parking lot, fix you in your groups, and so forth, okay? 00:07:38.540 --> 00:07:47.170 And then, of course, every day we're going to have soul winning at 5 o'clock, if you show up at 5 o'clock any of the days in the conference, we will sing about soul winning. 00:07:47.170 --> 00:07:52.290 We can give you maps to send you out other times too if you have nothing to go on with any other time. 00:07:52.290 --> 00:08:01.970 And then also, this is not on the schedule, but tomorrow at 3 o'clock, make sure to write this down, there's a wedding tomorrow at 3 o'clock. 00:08:01.970 --> 00:08:08.830 Everyone's invited to the wedding tomorrow at 3 o'clock, so just show up, don't be shy. 00:08:08.830 --> 00:08:13.160 That's not on the schedule in the whole thing because this is the last minute add-on. 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:17.920 I've got one of those for the moment things, you know? Long story, long story. 00:08:17.920 --> 00:08:25.620 But anyway, 3 o'clock. And then also, hopefully you got one of these little lanyards out in the lobby, you put your name on it and where you're from. 00:08:25.620 --> 00:08:30.540 And then you have this lanyard, well on the back of that has the schedule for the whole conference too. 00:08:30.540 --> 00:08:34.930 And the only thing that's missing on that schedule is again the wedding tomorrow at three, 00:08:34.930 --> 00:08:40.590 but everything else is on your little deal here. And so we got musical instrument museum, 00:08:40.590 --> 00:08:45.260 we got pastor Shelley preaching tomorrow night, and then you know we got all the other activities 00:08:45.260 --> 00:08:49.520 there so be aware of that. All right and then on the back of the bulletin, chili cook off, 00:08:49.520 --> 00:08:55.020 that ship already sailed, birth announcement for the Martin family, congratulations to them. 00:08:55.020 --> 00:08:59.790 That's really about it for announcements. Just remember if you do go to the museum tomorrow, 00:08:59.790 --> 00:09:04.340 they don't want us to bring any water or food and they don't want us to touch anything so you're 00:09:04.340 --> 00:09:09.470 just gonna have to fill the hump before you get there and eat and drink and and do all that. I'm 00:09:09.470 --> 00:09:15.950 sure there's drinking fountains okay but you know when I was a kid anyway we didn't carry water 00:09:15.950 --> 00:09:22.370 bottles with us everywhere we go and then we just we didn't even know what a water bottle was. 00:09:22.370 --> 00:09:26.550 A water bottle was like a canteen that a cowboy would have. That's the only water bottle we'd 00:09:26.550 --> 00:09:31.800 ever seen in our lives literally and people that are my age and older they know I'm telling the 00:09:31.800 --> 00:09:37.130 truth. A bottle of water did not exist. I know that's hard for you to believe but it's true. 00:09:37.130 --> 00:09:42.720 There was no I remember when bottled water came out. I remember when bottled water first dropped 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:46.900 when it was first released and I was like this is the stupidest product I've ever seen. Why 00:09:46.900 --> 00:09:52.340 would anyone pay for water? Water's free. If I wanted water I'll drink out of the garden hose 00:09:52.340 --> 00:09:58.280 of my neighbor or of other random strangers. That's how we grew up. So anyway you're gonna 00:09:58.280 --> 00:10:04.220 have to experience that 1980s lifestyle of not having a water bottle for two hours of your life 00:10:04.220 --> 00:10:10.200 and so yeah that's about it for announcements. I did want to have brother Cooper are you prepared 00:10:10.200 --> 00:10:15.420 to come and speak a little bit on the Philippines? So brother Cooper is going to be preaching more 00:10:15.420 --> 00:10:19.910 about the the cruise mission strips and things that we've been doing this year. He got to 00:10:19.910 --> 00:10:26.280 participate on one of those cruise mission strips and so I'm going to give you the microphone. I'm 00:10:26.280 --> 00:10:33.700 going to give you this one. But he also spent a bunch of time this year doing missions in the 00:10:33.700 --> 00:10:38.600 Philippines. So right now he's just going to briefly tell us about his missions in the Philippines 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:42.230 then we'll sing another song and then he's going to come back and preach to us about the cruise 00:10:42.230 --> 00:10:56.250 missions. So here you go just go ahead and click that on. All right so once again my name is brother 00:10:56.250 --> 00:11:02.040 Raymond Cooper and it was about this time last year that I kind of announced and we started 00:11:02.040 --> 00:11:09.860 planning for me and my family to move to the Philippines for a little while. And you know 00:11:09.860 --> 00:11:15.160 I want I wanted to go to the Philippines because you know I love missions you know I love you know 00:11:15.160 --> 00:11:21.220 mission trips I love so many important countries and you know I've always wanted to go on kind of 00:11:21.220 --> 00:11:25.840 more of an extended mission trip before you know more than just like a week or two you know me and 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:30.550 my good friend Daniel Ryder we talked about it before you know Daniel he spent like four months 00:11:30.550 --> 00:11:35.810 before in Malawi and he spent four months before in Jamaica. I just always thought that was a super 00:11:35.810 --> 00:11:41.400 cool idea and so anyway you know we had some savings my wife had just gotten her US citizenship 00:11:41.400 --> 00:11:48.020 so she could freely come in and out of the country and so we decided that um early this year back in 00:11:48.020 --> 00:11:55.010 February was a good time for us to you know head out to the Philippines and um and uh it was either 00:11:55.010 --> 00:11:59.560 going to be the Philippines or Africa but uh and because I love Africa so much that's like my 00:11:59.560 --> 00:12:04.120 favorite place but we decided on the Philippines because it makes you know a lot more sense because 00:12:04.120 --> 00:12:08.750 my wife is Filipino you know we're both very familiar with the Philippines a lot more so and 00:12:08.750 --> 00:12:14.260 there's also a lot of new IV people already there you know several churches and lots of 00:12:14.260 --> 00:12:20.880 lots of people already there and so yeah we decided to go to the Philippines. Now I did this you know 00:12:20.880 --> 00:12:25.040 or I wanted to do this just kind of you know of my own volition you know I just wanted to go out 00:12:25.040 --> 00:12:29.910 there so it wasn't like I was being sent out or anything uh from church I wasn't being ordained 00:12:29.910 --> 00:12:34.540 and I wasn't being funded at all either and so we kind of had two two goals in mind of course 00:12:34.540 --> 00:12:38.770 to do lots and lots of soul winning lots of lots of mission work but we were also going to try to 00:12:38.770 --> 00:12:43.480 start a business while we were out there as well to kind of fund us and let us stay there long term 00:12:43.480 --> 00:12:48.770 um you know as long as as long as we wanted or as long as we could uh so those were the two things 00:12:48.770 --> 00:12:54.860 that we wanted to do but uh the you know starting a business absolutely did not work out just you 00:12:54.860 --> 00:13:00.690 know 100 uh i did not realize this before going there but apparently the philippines is in the top 00:13:00.690 --> 00:13:06.180 20 uh most difficult countries in the world to start a business in so it's very uh difficult 00:13:06.180 --> 00:13:11.270 with all the government regulations and stuff it was an absolute nightmare and so sunk a bunch of 00:13:11.270 --> 00:13:17.120 money into that didn't work out and yeah it's all it's all good because the because the soul winning 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:22.330 was awesome you know and that was the part that was really great and so anyway we uh but you know 00:13:22.330 --> 00:13:27.140 with this business idea in mind you know I was looking at different places that we can move to 00:13:27.140 --> 00:13:32.160 in the Philippines and we decided to go to this island called the island of Palawan and for people 00:13:32.160 --> 00:13:36.380 who are not familiar with the Philippines this is you know one of their most beautiful islands is 00:13:36.380 --> 00:13:40.680 like the Hawaii of the Philippines or whatever which you know it's kind of silly to say because 00:13:40.680 --> 00:13:44.420 you know all the Philippines is you know kind of like Hawaii just very beautiful lots of nice 00:13:44.420 --> 00:13:50.280 beaches but Palawan is like way more so and they get lots of tourism coming in and so I figured 00:13:50.280 --> 00:13:54.590 that you know having like a tourism related business would be a good idea because from 00:13:54.590 --> 00:13:58.020 personal experience I know that the tourists there spend lots of money because I've spent 00:13:58.020 --> 00:14:02.410 lots of money there whatever so I just figured that'd be a good spot to go to and Palawan has 00:14:02.410 --> 00:14:06.730 about a million people that live on this island it's very long and skinny if you look at it on 00:14:06.730 --> 00:14:12.320 a map so it's a very large island from one side to the next it takes about 12 hours to drive but 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:16.950 then going from east to west it takes about an hour and a half so it's it's very long very skinny 00:14:16.950 --> 00:14:23.580 and we went to the big city that's there called Porto Princesa has 350,000 people there and before 00:14:23.580 --> 00:14:28.210 we went we made sure that there were some good churches there and we found two good churches that 00:14:28.210 --> 00:14:32.120 you know we listened to some preaching online it seemed really great we found one that was called 00:14:32.120 --> 00:14:36.590 the Porto Princesa Fundamental Baptist Church and we found another one that was a Bible Baptist 00:14:36.590 --> 00:14:40.710 Church which those are kind of hit or miss if they're good or not but but anyway we went there 00:14:40.710 --> 00:14:44.640 and we visited both of these churches and at first both of the churches were really really good we 00:14:44.640 --> 00:14:49.230 liked them but after you know about a month of being there the fundamental Baptist Church they 00:14:49.230 --> 00:14:54.570 were preaching some really you know weird heresies and stuff they they not only talked that like 00:14:54.570 --> 00:14:59.110 saved Christians if you're safe if you're truly saved then you'll have good works but they went 00:14:59.110 --> 00:15:03.410 like way beyond that and they were like you're truly saved then you're never going to do any 00:15:03.410 --> 00:15:08.750 bad works and if you do anything bad then you were never saved and that's in whatever so anyway we're 00:15:08.750 --> 00:15:13.660 just like no we're not we're not going back to this church so we started we went full uh you know 00:15:13.660 --> 00:15:17.790 we went full on into the Bible Baptist Church and I'm really glad that we did because that one turned 00:15:17.790 --> 00:15:22.470 out to be a fantastic church really wonderful we went there for the full six months that we were 00:15:22.470 --> 00:15:28.350 there and uh and um they never preached anything wrong as far as I could tell you know the whole 00:15:28.350 --> 00:15:32.890 time we were there was really great uh they have soul winning twice a week there um on Tuesdays 00:15:32.890 --> 00:15:36.950 and Thursdays and out of a church of about 100 people they had you know 20 to 30 people going 00:15:36.950 --> 00:15:41.100 out soul winning every single week at their soul winning time so it was actually really cool 00:15:41.100 --> 00:15:45.810 i like the pastor there pastor Jehu Kenoy but the thing that i like the most about this church 00:15:45.810 --> 00:15:49.850 you know i mean faithful word is like my favorite church in the world i think we have we have the 00:15:49.850 --> 00:15:53.910 best church ever but i'm not gonna lie though i think that this church in plowin had like the 00:15:53.910 --> 00:15:57.960 best church name out of any name that i've ever heard of before there the name of their church 00:15:57.960 --> 00:16:04.180 was what the bible says baptist church and i thought that was cool that was a that was cool 00:16:04.180 --> 00:16:10.060 and um and it was a great church and you know we really enjoyed our time there um the people were 00:16:10.060 --> 00:16:14.110 nice and everything and unfortunately this was this was kind of bad though about it is that the 00:16:14.110 --> 00:16:19.670 day after we left the day after we we flew back and i flew back to america and everything uh the 00:16:19.670 --> 00:16:24.000 church building had some electrical issues and actually burned down like literally the day after 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:27.660 we left it was pretty crazy there were a lot of people inside thankfully nobody was hurt or 00:16:27.660 --> 00:16:31.400 anything but as of right now they're kind of meeting in their parking lot and stuff so 00:16:31.400 --> 00:16:35.450 i mean yeah just be praying for them that they get that fixed and whatnot but um but overall 00:16:35.450 --> 00:16:39.270 it's a great church and i was i was happy to be a part of that church for the six months that we 00:16:39.270 --> 00:16:46.890 were there and and then also too about like a month and a half or two months into our stay there 00:16:46.890 --> 00:16:53.110 there was this guy named alexander barquez and this guy's a great guy you know he's he's an uip 00:16:53.110 --> 00:16:58.060 guy he's been you know in our movement for many years now and and i had actually met him many 00:16:58.060 --> 00:17:04.130 years ago back in 2019 whenever i was going to pastor logan robertson's church there and he's 00:17:04.130 --> 00:17:09.560 from the island of mindenel which is where my wife is from anyway this guy basically came out 00:17:09.560 --> 00:17:14.990 to palawan where we were at to basically come and help me do soul winning and to try to start 00:17:14.990 --> 00:17:18.750 that business i was talking about and so i was really nice to him and i was and i'm really 00:17:18.750 --> 00:17:23.540 thankful for him and and him coming out there to help us and so for the last like four months 00:17:23.540 --> 00:17:27.770 i was there i was there with alex and we were going soul winning all the time and he was going 00:17:27.770 --> 00:17:31.360 to and you know we were trying to start that business and whatnot we also started a youtube 00:17:31.360 --> 00:17:35.540 channel as well that you guys should check out it's called the gospel for all nations 00:17:35.540 --> 00:17:40.350 and i'm trying to keep it active but i've been pretty busy lately but anyway we talked about 00:17:40.350 --> 00:17:45.390 you know all the soul winning that we were doing there and all that good stuff and and so we went 00:17:45.390 --> 00:17:49.830 soul winning together for four months until i left and then you know i left because of financial 00:17:49.830 --> 00:17:55.300 issues whatever came back to america but even after i left alex continued going soul winning 00:17:55.300 --> 00:18:01.060 full time for the next two months after i even left and in fact he had one of his close friends 00:18:01.060 --> 00:18:05.120 named elijah fernandez fly out there from minden now as well to go soul winning with him so he 00:18:05.120 --> 00:18:08.790 didn't have to go soul winning by himself and they were continuing to try to work on that business 00:18:08.790 --> 00:18:13.250 and stuff like that and so that happened for the next two months until the end of september 00:18:13.250 --> 00:18:17.630 and then yeah we kind of gave up on the business and then they went back home and now they're 00:18:17.630 --> 00:18:21.540 doing you know secular their secular job and just going soul winning whenever they can 00:18:21.540 --> 00:18:26.610 and so that's great too but i want to talk about you know how many salvations we got so for the 00:18:26.610 --> 00:18:31.780 time that i was there and then for the two months after i left and then they continued soul winning 00:18:31.780 --> 00:18:40.120 all together we counted 1113 salvations for the entire time and so you know i'm really thankful 00:18:40.120 --> 00:18:44.300 for this opportunity to have gone out there it just kind of seemed like it was the you know right 00:18:44.300 --> 00:18:49.360 time in my life to go and try this and you know it was kind of just like a big experiment you 00:18:49.360 --> 00:18:53.110 know i just wanted to see you know if we could just kind of make it work in a foreign country 00:18:53.110 --> 00:18:58.280 for a little while and you know i'm thankful and i'm thankful for how it turned out i'm thankful 00:18:58.280 --> 00:19:03.620 that the business actually failed and everything because i was i'm i'm 100 serious you know in 00:19:03.620 --> 00:19:08.400 july we were ready to come back to america we were kind of we were kind of done out there you know 00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:14.170 my wife she was like she was like oh i want to go back to the philippines and stuff then once we 00:19:14.170 --> 00:19:17.730 got there you know it didn't take very long and she's like you know i miss america i want to go 00:19:17.730 --> 00:19:24.030 back and uh and me too i was ready to come back uh even what even one of my daughters uh priscilla 00:19:24.030 --> 00:19:28.480 she was like daddy i missed the arizona church i want to go back whatever you know and so yeah 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:32.380 we were all very ready to come back and so i'm really glad that everything worked out the way 00:19:32.380 --> 00:19:38.020 that it did and i'm glad that we got all the salvations and everything and you know i i just 00:19:38.020 --> 00:19:44.010 got back here to uh to church a couple of months ago and you know i left for six months i came back 00:19:44.010 --> 00:19:49.200 and i think that our church right now is like the best that it's ever been you know i love our church 00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:53.750 and um you know i came back and it just seems like we have such a great spirit now and we got 00:19:53.750 --> 00:19:58.300 a lot of new people here and everything so i'm just super thankful to be back i'm super thankful 00:19:58.300 --> 00:20:03.650 to be back for good and uh and then yeah it's really great to be back and so yeah thank you for 00:20:03.650 --> 00:20:08.200 you know listening to what i had to say about us going to the philippines and in a few minutes 00:20:08.200 --> 00:20:12.430 you know i'll be talking about um our cruise mission trip that we just took a couple weeks 00:20:12.430 --> 00:20:18.100 ago so thank you so just uh real quick uh we're just going to count up the salvations and then 00:20:18.100 --> 00:20:22.730 we'll sing a song and move on with the service here so just going back to monday and he's still 00:20:22.730 --> 00:20:32.050 winning to report from monday all right i gotcha let me write that down okay anything else from 00:20:32.050 --> 00:20:41.130 monday how about tuesday anything from tuesday gotcha anything else from tuesday uh there we go 00:20:41.130 --> 00:20:48.120 is that is that a three all right anything else from tuesday and then today i don't think we got 00:20:48.120 --> 00:20:56.590 a total at all so let's just go individual salvations from uh today okay got it so i don't 00:20:56.590 --> 00:21:01.780 think we had any totals so if you got anybody save so okay i got the two there one one one okay 00:21:01.780 --> 00:21:15.470 hang on one second okay so we got a one and a three and then a one in the back gotcha all right 00:21:15.470 --> 00:21:28.030 any help me out because i'm not good at seeing sometimes so point or i still don't see it i 00:21:28.030 --> 00:21:34.970 already got it guys all right anybody else that i'm missing all right very good keep up the great 00:21:34.970 --> 00:27:53.840 work on soul winning are you leading our next song come on up as the plates go around we 00:27:53.840 --> 00:27:59.650 will turn our bibles to first john chapter three and as brother dan comes to read the scripture 00:27:59.650 --> 00:28:04.950 also i just wanted to say out in the lobby we've got a lot of great swag out there as far as the 00:28:04.950 --> 00:28:13.880 sweatshirts water bottles visors hats all kinds of cool stuff bookmarks keychains you name it it's 00:28:13.880 --> 00:28:19.470 out there now of course everything in our church is always free nothing's for sale so help yourself 00:28:19.470 --> 00:28:24.460 to that just just only one per person right don't get like oh i got to get one of every color 00:28:24.460 --> 00:28:30.460 you know so you know one sweatshirt per person one whatever and so obviously there's a limited 00:28:30.460 --> 00:28:38.920 amount out there but it's all free so be sure to help yourself uh yes yeah and and uh the lanyards 00:28:38.920 --> 00:28:43.340 are for all ages at first they were just giving them to adults but now at this time every man woman 00:28:43.340 --> 00:28:49.900 boy and girl should get a lanyard did i lose the mic all right sorry but uh yeah every man woman 00:28:49.900 --> 00:28:56.130 boy and girl gets a lanyard it's got the schedule uh and and so you can get those today tomorrow 00:28:56.130 --> 00:29:02.640 whenever uh let's give a hand to all of the ladies who worked on the decorating what a great job they 00:29:02.640 --> 00:29:14.390 did on the decorating so fantastic job with the decorations everything looks awesome and so yeah 00:29:14.390 --> 00:29:21.700 get get your get your faithful word gear be sure to you know you know wear it for those pictures 00:29:21.700 --> 00:29:26.260 to burn up social media with with all those pictures of you with your faithful word swag 00:29:26.260 --> 00:29:31.100 and be sure to take your pictures up here in front of the cruise ship and everything and 00:29:31.100 --> 00:29:34.180 for a split second people will think that you went on a really cool vacation 00:29:35.260 --> 00:29:39.860 before they realized that it isn't real but actually you did go on a really cool vacation 00:29:39.860 --> 00:29:45.620 to arizona to the missions conference so i think that that's about it so let's go 00:29:45.620 --> 00:29:56.530 ahead and read our scripture first john chapter 3 the bible reads behold what manner of love the 00:29:56.530 --> 00:30:01.020 father has bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of god therefore the world 00:30:01.020 --> 00:30:06.500 knoweth us not because it knew him not beloved now are we the sons of god and it does not yet 00:30:06.500 --> 00:30:11.650 appear what we shall be but we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall 00:30:11.650 --> 00:30:16.880 see him as he is and every man that hath this hope in him purified himself even as he is pure 00:30:16.880 --> 00:30:23.400 whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law for sin is the transgression of the law and 00:30:23.400 --> 00:30:28.940 you know that he was manifested to take away our sins and in him is no sin whosoever abideth in 00:30:28.940 --> 00:30:35.130 him sinneth not whosoever sinneth has seen not have not seen him neither known him little children 00:30:35.130 --> 00:30:40.610 let no man deceive you he that doeth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous he that 00:30:40.610 --> 00:30:45.750 commits sin is of the devil for the devil sinneth from the beginning for this purpose the son of 00:30:45.750 --> 00:30:50.540 god was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil whosoever is born of god 00:30:50.540 --> 00:30:56.110 does not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is born of god 00:30:56.110 --> 00:31:01.670 in this the children of god are manifest and the children of the devil whosoever doeth not righteousness 00:31:01.670 --> 00:31:06.480 is not of god neither he that loveth not his brother for this is the message that she have 00:31:06.480 --> 00:31:11.100 heard from the beginning that we should love one another not as cain who is of that wicked one and 00:31:11.100 --> 00:31:17.370 slew his brother and wherefore slew he him because his own works were evil and his brother's righteous 00:31:17.370 --> 00:31:22.480 marvel not my brethren if the world hates you we know that we have passed from death unto life 00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:27.950 because we love the brethren he that loveth not his brother abideth in death whosoever hateth his 00:31:27.950 --> 00:31:33.640 brother is a murderer and you know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him hereby perceive 00:31:33.640 --> 00:31:38.850 we the love of god because he laid down his life for us and we ought to lay down our lives for the 00:31:38.850 --> 00:31:44.240 brethren but whoso hath this world's good and seeth his brother have need and shutteth up his 00:31:44.240 --> 00:31:49.600 bowels of compassion from him how dwelleth the love of god in him my little children let us not 00:31:49.600 --> 00:31:55.700 love in word neither in tongue but in deed and in truth and hereby we know that we are of the truth 00:31:55.700 --> 00:32:00.880 and shall assure our hearts before him for if our heart can condemn us god is greater than our heart 00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:06.420 and knoweth all things beloved if our heart can condemn us not then have we confidence toward god 00:32:06.420 --> 00:32:11.390 and whatsoever we ask we receive of him because we keep his commandments and do those things that 00:32:11.390 --> 00:32:16.550 are pleasing in his sight and this is his commandment that we should believe on the name of his son 00:32:16.550 --> 00:32:22.140 jesus christ and love one another as he as he gave us commandment and he that keepeth his 00:32:22.140 --> 00:32:27.300 commandments dwelleth in him and he and him and hereby we know it that he abides in us by the 00:32:27.300 --> 00:32:40.880 spirit which he hath given us we just come before you tonight and we just lift up this service to 00:32:40.880 --> 00:32:46.280 you lord and we just thank you that you've given us this time for this missions conference and we 00:32:46.280 --> 00:32:51.210 just thank you for bringing everyone here safely lord we ask that you would just give them a 00:32:51.210 --> 00:32:55.470 great time while they're here everyone that's visiting out of town and we just lift up brother 00:32:55.470 --> 00:33:00.720 raymond cooper as he preaches to us tonight and shares with us about the bahamas and we just ask 00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:05.700 you to guide him in the holy spirit and let us be those that would go where you want us to go lord 00:33:05.700 --> 00:33:12.760 and be who you want us to be in your name we pray amen amen and once again i just want to say thank 00:33:12.760 --> 00:33:17.780 you of course the pastor for this opportunity to preach at the missions conference for the third 00:33:17.780 --> 00:33:23.280 year in a row now and so that's a great blessing and a great honor to be here and thank you all 00:33:23.280 --> 00:33:29.580 for coming and and and showing up and everything and you know what i'll be preaching about tonight 00:33:29.580 --> 00:33:36.440 is you know this big cruise mission trip that a few of us just did just a few weeks ago about 00:33:36.440 --> 00:33:40.670 three weeks ago now we just went on this cruise mission trip you know and i want to start off by 00:33:40.670 --> 00:33:45.750 saying you know in the same way that this conference is kind of like or a large part of this conference 00:33:45.750 --> 00:33:51.330 is dedicated you know to our good friend kevin rove you know who passed a couple of months ago 00:33:51.330 --> 00:33:56.120 you know in the same way you know this this cruise that we went on was you know we also were really 00:33:56.120 --> 00:33:59.870 thinking about him and stuff because i want to point it out to you know maybe not everybody in 00:33:59.870 --> 00:34:04.260 here knows this but you know the cruise mission trips was a hundred percent kevin's idea you know 00:34:04.260 --> 00:34:09.370 kevin came up with this and and on it and you know this is kind of a funny story but i remember 00:34:09.370 --> 00:34:12.960 whenever kevin came up with this it was about a year and a half ago i remember he came in to the 00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:16.790 wednesday night church service he was just really excited about it he was talking about the cruise 00:34:16.790 --> 00:34:22.300 mission trip idea and and he was telling me about it and i and i was just like i don't know about 00:34:22.300 --> 00:34:26.980 that i was i was kind of i was kind of skeptical i started out kind of skeptical it just i don't 00:34:26.980 --> 00:34:31.800 know i just didn't click you know in my brain yet and so i was like i don't know about this 00:34:31.800 --> 00:34:38.450 but you know i am so thankful that i was wrong though you know i'm so thankful that we tried it 00:34:38.450 --> 00:34:42.430 you know we've done these cruise mission trips for about a year now and they've just been nothing 00:34:42.430 --> 00:34:47.680 but a huge success and we've gotten hundreds of people saved as a result of it and a hundred and 00:34:47.680 --> 00:34:53.990 it was all you know kevin's idea and so you know and and i'm really thankful that kevin kind of 00:34:53.990 --> 00:34:58.690 pushed me to sign up for one of these mission trips you know before he before he passed and 00:34:58.690 --> 00:35:03.870 and this was in this cruise that we went on was actually the very first mission trip like right 00:35:03.870 --> 00:35:07.780 after you know his passing and everything so it's a very emotional trip obviously you know we were 00:35:07.780 --> 00:35:12.410 thinking about him a lot and you know it's supposed to be five of us who went but there were four but 00:35:12.410 --> 00:35:17.910 there ended up being four of us so it was me and brother jimmy wright and of course lola and little 00:35:17.910 --> 00:35:24.340 baby phoebe so it was us four that went on the trip and and this was my this was me and brother 00:35:24.340 --> 00:35:29.880 wright's very first cruise mission trip and and for me it was just my first cruise in general i've 00:35:29.880 --> 00:35:33.130 never been on a cruise brother brother wright's been on a cruise before but i had never been on 00:35:33.130 --> 00:35:37.660 one and i want to ask i want to get a raise of hands who here has been on one of these cruise 00:35:37.660 --> 00:35:43.850 mission trips over the past year or so okay so a few people but you know the majority of people 00:35:43.850 --> 00:35:49.440 in here have not yet and so that was me as well i had no idea what to expect going into this cruise 00:35:49.440 --> 00:35:53.670 mission trip and there were a lot of surprises you know mostly good surprises you know there 00:35:53.670 --> 00:35:58.300 were a couple of things that you know um you know i didn't realize what's going to happen and stuff 00:35:58.300 --> 00:36:02.530 and that's totally fine and so that's what i'm going to talk about in this uh sermon tonight 00:36:02.530 --> 00:36:08.120 i'm uh the title of my sermon is an introduction to cruise missions an introduction to cruise 00:36:08.120 --> 00:36:12.990 missions and this is primarily going to be you know aimed towards people who have not been on 00:36:12.990 --> 00:36:17.620 a cruise yet or a cruise mission trip yet and so and i want to talk about you know some of the 00:36:17.620 --> 00:36:22.810 details um some of the things that surprised me and i just kind of want to tell our story of 00:36:22.810 --> 00:36:27.440 this cruise mission trip well it was an 11-day cruise and we went to seven different ports so 00:36:27.440 --> 00:36:33.160 we went to seven different stops along the way and um but i will say this just just right off the 00:36:33.160 --> 00:36:39.840 back i love cruise mission trips now so this was an amazing trip i am hooked i and i want to do a 00:36:39.840 --> 00:36:45.240 lot more cruise mission trips in the future i started out skeptical but now man i love this 00:36:45.240 --> 00:36:50.580 so um so anyway i want to start out by reading this bible verse here you're there in first john 00:36:50.580 --> 00:36:56.880 chapter three and this verse really jumped off the page i mean a couple of months ago um you know 00:36:56.880 --> 00:37:00.470 and it made me really think about these cruise mission trips that we've that we've been doing 00:37:00.470 --> 00:37:04.290 lately because i was just reading this and it really stood out to me but look down if you would 00:37:04.290 --> 00:37:09.960 at first john chapter three and verse number 17 and this is what the bible says it says but who so 00:37:09.960 --> 00:37:15.300 hath this world's good and seeth his brother have need and shut it up his bowels of compassion from 00:37:15.300 --> 00:37:21.730 him how dwelleth the love of god in him my little children let us not love in word neither in tongue 00:37:21.730 --> 00:37:26.330 but in deed and in truth and i want to point out a couple of things in this verse first of all 00:37:26.330 --> 00:37:32.270 you know god is not against us having good things you know in this life you know god is not against 00:37:32.270 --> 00:37:38.420 us you know having nice things or being able to participate in nice experiences or to even use 00:37:38.420 --> 00:37:42.970 you know the terminology here to have this world's good you know god is not against us 00:37:42.970 --> 00:37:48.320 you know having this world's good and and you know a cruise if a cruise is not having this 00:37:48.320 --> 00:37:52.390 world's good i don't i don't know what is you know what i mean because it's so nice it is 00:37:52.390 --> 00:37:57.180 luxurious they give you you know all this food and you can just keep eating and eating and you 00:37:57.180 --> 00:38:02.370 just eat for you know as much as you want and uh and you have nice lodging you know every single 00:38:02.370 --> 00:38:08.600 morning you wake up and you're in a new beautiful country i mean it's really cool and so yeah i 00:38:08.600 --> 00:38:13.470 mean if if that's not having this world's good then i really don't know what is um but you know 00:38:13.470 --> 00:38:18.100 in this verse though you know we see that god doesn't mind us having this world's good you know 00:38:18.100 --> 00:38:23.050 but there's a big caveat to that and it says that you know we still need to have compassion 00:38:23.050 --> 00:38:27.840 on people who are you know are don't have you know the same things that we have right and have 00:38:27.840 --> 00:38:34.230 compassion on people and you know to love and deed and in truth and the reason that this just 00:38:34.230 --> 00:38:37.660 instantly made me think of the cruise mission trips that we're doing is because yeah you know 00:38:37.660 --> 00:38:42.210 we've got this world's good we're going on this really nice super nice super luxurious cruise and 00:38:42.210 --> 00:38:46.600 everything but you know we're not just doing it for a vacation or whatever we're going there to 00:38:46.600 --> 00:38:51.070 preach the gospel to the people at those ports you know what i mean and we're there showing 00:38:51.070 --> 00:38:57.460 compassion to the lost that are in these these locations and so you know i think that's a really 00:38:57.460 --> 00:39:02.880 good way to look at this verse and again that just made me think of these cruise mission trips and 00:39:02.880 --> 00:39:09.660 and so let me get into our story here so we all met in fort lauderdale when we left out from 00:39:09.660 --> 00:39:15.690 florida this was about three or four weeks ago so this is very fresh this is this is new stuff here 00:39:15.690 --> 00:39:25.070 and our trip was actually going on at the exact same time as the steadfast bahamas trip that we're 00:39:25.070 --> 00:39:28.480 going to hear more about tomorrow and so that's going to come in later in the sermon so i just 00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:38.250 want to point that out but um but we were let's see but we were on a princess cruise and what we 00:39:38.250 --> 00:39:43.420 heard from this lady named penny and i'll talk more about her later is that princess is like top 00:39:43.420 --> 00:39:47.790 of the line so out of all the cruises that you could go on you know it's like princess cruises 00:39:47.790 --> 00:39:54.850 and celebrity cruises but according to penny princess is like much better than celebrity so 00:39:54.850 --> 00:40:00.440 i mean i started out at the top you know i started out at the very best cruise that you can possibly 00:40:00.440 --> 00:40:06.730 get is kind of what i thought and even though we were in we were on the smallest and oldest of 00:40:06.730 --> 00:40:11.660 their ships that they got but hey that's okay you know it was it was awesome and i have nothing to 00:40:11.660 --> 00:40:17.920 compare to anyway but but it was awesome and uh and and you know i learned i learned a lot of a lot 00:40:17.920 --> 00:40:23.090 of cool stuff about sailing and things you know some of my favorite books that i read uh are like 00:40:23.090 --> 00:40:27.950 old books about you know sailing and shipwrecks and pirates and stuff like that and so it was 00:40:27.950 --> 00:40:33.370 just so cool to learn all these new vocabulary words like port and starboard and aft and gangway 00:40:33.370 --> 00:40:36.960 and stuff i mean i've always read these books and i had no idea what they were even talking about 00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:41.360 but now i know because i went on this cruise so that was kind of cool but anyway we left out from 00:40:41.360 --> 00:40:47.540 fort lauderdale and our first full day on the on the cruise ship we woke up the next morning on 00:40:47.540 --> 00:40:52.700 the cruise ship and the first day was a full day at sea and so you know we didn't we didn't land 00:40:52.700 --> 00:40:58.130 anywhere we were just sailing for the entire first day and i will say this that would probably for me 00:40:58.130 --> 00:41:02.770 you know never going on a cruise mission trip like this that probably wasn't like uh you know my 00:41:02.770 --> 00:41:07.000 favorite way to start out this mission trip because you know i'm thinking about traditional mission 00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:12.030 trips and usually you know as soon as we land you know hey we're soul winning or you know maybe the 00:41:12.030 --> 00:41:16.260 very next day we're soul winning but here we had to wait for like two days after we landed uh in 00:41:16.260 --> 00:41:21.220 order before we started soul winning but you know later on in the trip i started to really appreciate 00:41:21.220 --> 00:41:25.930 those days at sea and i'll talk about that later but you know just starting out uh remember you 00:41:25.930 --> 00:41:29.200 know at this time i was still kind of skeptical about these i don't like i don't know about this 00:41:29.200 --> 00:41:33.200 i don't i don't like this day at sea or whatever there's no free wi-fi or whatever you know it's 00:41:33.200 --> 00:41:37.350 probably going to be a boring day but it ended up being a great day you know we did they have all 00:41:37.350 --> 00:41:42.140 kinds of different activities on board so we did like an origami class we did lots of trivia 00:41:42.140 --> 00:41:49.010 trivia nights or whatever and um and we even saw a show there that was talking about life on board 00:41:49.010 --> 00:41:54.690 and stuff so it was really cool and we ate a lot so we ate a lot of food and it was great and uh 00:41:54.690 --> 00:42:00.290 and so you know not a boring day at all it's great a day at sea um go ahead and turn it over if you 00:42:00.290 --> 00:42:06.740 would to Acts chapter 16 Acts chapter 16 but again that was kind of an adjustment coming from 00:42:06.740 --> 00:42:12.730 you know like a regular style mission trip but the next day we arrived in our first location 00:42:12.730 --> 00:42:17.280 which is the Turks and Caicos Islands and I've done a lot of research on this place before 00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:23.260 um this is a territory of the UK and uh and the Bahamas you know is I believe it's the most 00:42:23.260 --> 00:42:27.890 Baptist country in the entire world the Bahamas is with like 30 percent of their population is 00:42:27.890 --> 00:42:32.520 Baptist or you know it's it's one of the like the top five you know most Baptist countries but Turks 00:42:32.520 --> 00:42:36.990 and Caicos actually has a higher percentage of Baptists they have like 35 percent Baptist so 00:42:36.990 --> 00:42:41.380 you know and we actually met a lot of Baptists that day so that was pretty cool but we landed 00:42:41.380 --> 00:42:46.730 there and we landed on the island of Grand Turk and uh let me tell you you know there was there's 00:42:46.730 --> 00:42:51.880 nothing grand about it you know it was it was a it was a very tiny island it was not a very cool 00:42:51.880 --> 00:42:55.350 island there were donkeys everywhere we called it donkey island because there were just donkeys 00:42:55.350 --> 00:43:01.210 everywhere and like everybody there either well a lot of them didn't speak English so there was a 00:43:01.210 --> 00:43:05.510 lot of like Haitians there and Spanish speakers that had immigrated there but out of the people 00:43:05.510 --> 00:43:10.280 who did speak spoke English uh the majority of them were just kind of drunk and they just didn't 00:43:10.280 --> 00:43:16.110 really want to talk to us whatever and so it was kind of a rough day a rough first day you know um 00:43:16.110 --> 00:43:19.670 it was and it was also kind of hard to find anybody too i think there's like 2 000 people 00:43:19.670 --> 00:43:24.420 that live on this island it's a tiny island and there just wasn't a lot of people there um 00:43:26.120 --> 00:43:29.940 but you know there were some cool things that happened i got a haitian guy saved i've never 00:43:29.940 --> 00:43:33.840 gotten anybody from haiti saved before so that was pretty cool he spoke just enough english to 00:43:33.840 --> 00:43:38.050 get saved and so we were talking about haiti we also met a haitian baptist pastor there as well 00:43:38.050 --> 00:43:41.630 but he did not speak any english so we don't know what he said we don't know if he's saved or not 00:43:41.630 --> 00:43:48.120 but haitian baptist guy okay a pastor and uh and then the funniest thing that happened that i have 00:43:48.120 --> 00:43:55.140 to bring up is that we met this one crazy guy named gregory and uh and this guy was pretty crazy 00:43:55.140 --> 00:43:59.900 so he was just this like this old black guy and he was like this tall and he was just following 00:43:59.900 --> 00:44:06.180 us around as we were solding and um yeah this guy had lost his marbles you know this guy was 00:44:06.180 --> 00:44:11.960 this guy was fried for sure so but you know but anyway basically you know he was he just really 00:44:11.960 --> 00:44:16.420 liked lola he really wanted to talk to lola he just really liked her he was just like obsessed 00:44:16.420 --> 00:44:20.080 with trying to talk to lola but lola was preaching the gospel over here so i was trying to distract 00:44:20.080 --> 00:44:24.380 him and stuff so i was talking to him and um and then he wrote down his phone number and he's like 00:44:24.380 --> 00:44:28.130 here give this to lola make sure she gets it whatever and i'm like okay dude whatever you know 00:44:28.130 --> 00:44:32.630 but anyway i was like okay well while i'm trying to distract this guy i might as well try to preach 00:44:32.630 --> 00:44:37.320 to him so i tried to get into the gospel but i did not get very far because i was about to quote 00:44:37.320 --> 00:44:43.930 john 3 16 i was like you know john 3 16 says i was about to quote it but this guy he knew john 3 16 00:44:43.930 --> 00:44:49.790 and he really knew john 3 16 because as soon as i said you know john 3 16 he just he just stops 00:44:49.790 --> 00:44:54.180 everything he's and he just starts screaming it from the top of his lungs he's just like for god 00:44:54.500 --> 00:45:00.890 so love the world that he was just so excited he was just like man and i was just like okay 00:45:00.890 --> 00:45:06.310 this guy's crazy anyway but i eventually i left him and i went to go try to approach somebody else 00:45:06.310 --> 00:45:09.670 and this made me mad and this is why we're in act chapter 16 we'll look at this in a minute 00:45:09.670 --> 00:45:13.970 but you know i approached this one young lady she was like a teenager or whatever and i tried to 00:45:13.970 --> 00:45:17.810 hand her a card you know did the whole thing and i asked her you know are you sure that you're 00:45:17.810 --> 00:45:22.670 going to heaven and she said no i'm not sure and all of a sudden gregory shows up from like 00:45:22.670 --> 00:45:26.430 10 feet away he just runs up and he's like what do you mean you don't know how to go to heaven 00:45:26.430 --> 00:45:35.020 for god anyway he freaked out that lady that lady left and she didn't she won't talk to us anymore 00:45:35.020 --> 00:45:40.110 and uh that made me really mad that reminded me of this of these verses in act chapter 16 look 00:45:40.110 --> 00:45:48.990 down if you would at verse at verse number 16 act 16 did it blow up okay sorry yeah there you go 00:45:48.990 --> 00:45:57.080 got gregory in here now i'm sorry anyway but you're there in act chapter 16 look down if 00:45:57.080 --> 00:46:02.000 you would at verse 16 the bible says this and it came to pass as we went to prayer a certain damsel 00:46:02.000 --> 00:46:07.080 possessed with the spirit of divination met us which brought her masters much gain by suesing 00:46:07.080 --> 00:46:12.520 the same followed paul in us and cried saying these men are the servants of the most high god 00:46:12.520 --> 00:46:18.410 which show unto us the way of salvation and this did she many days but paul being grieved turned 00:46:18.410 --> 00:46:22.480 and said to the spirit i command thee in the name of jesus christ to come out of her and he came out 00:46:22.480 --> 00:46:27.500 the same hour and so this is like the exact same situation that we were in where this guy you know 00:46:27.500 --> 00:46:31.960 he's saying good stuff you know we all like john 3 16 but he's just being super annoying about it 00:46:31.960 --> 00:46:36.750 he's just like messing us up as we're trying to preach to people and stuff and so yeah this 00:46:36.750 --> 00:46:40.650 definitely reminded me of him and i'm not saying that the guy was you know demon possessed maybe 00:46:40.650 --> 00:46:46.390 he was just drunk i don't know but you know he was he was yeah he was crazy and so this was not our 00:46:46.390 --> 00:46:52.240 favorite spot and oh and i'll say this too so that guy the crazy guy gregory uh his brother did get 00:46:52.240 --> 00:46:56.140 saved so that was the guy that lolo's preaching to was his brother and his brother was cool his 00:46:56.140 --> 00:47:00.120 brother was normal his name was emerson so they get on their bicycles and emerson's like come on 00:47:00.120 --> 00:47:03.300 gregor we got to go home and he's like no you can't tell me what to do or whatever you know 00:47:03.300 --> 00:47:07.760 and he just kept he just kept following us around it was just it was very comical it was very funny 00:47:07.760 --> 00:47:13.700 but um but anyway this was uh so so we kind of got off on a rough start this was not our 00:47:13.700 --> 00:47:17.740 favorite location so you know we went sewing all day and we got four people saved today 00:47:17.740 --> 00:47:31.680 which you know praise the lord for the people that got saved honestly hopefully it stays but um but 00:47:31.680 --> 00:47:36.440 anyway we got four people saved so that was good but it was a full day of sewing and it was hot it 00:47:36.440 --> 00:47:41.200 was sunny i got the worst sunburn of my entire life like a part of my nose fell off and stuff 00:47:41.200 --> 00:47:46.590 it was really bad and because i'm i don't use sunscreen or whatever because i never get a 00:47:46.590 --> 00:47:50.330 sunburn here in phoenix but you know i don't know if we were just closer to the equator and that's 00:47:50.330 --> 00:47:54.460 why or whatever but anyway if you go on a cruise mission trip make sure you bring sunscreen or a 00:47:54.460 --> 00:48:00.670 hat because that was very important but um but anyway this place was probably our least favorite 00:48:00.670 --> 00:48:05.390 place for brother right specifically this was his least favorite spot for soul winning on the entire 00:48:05.390 --> 00:48:09.540 trip because he preached he tried to preach this one lady who was like a repent of your sins lady 00:48:09.540 --> 00:48:12.660 and as soon as he said that you don't have to repent of your sins to go to heaven she just 00:48:12.660 --> 00:48:17.300 freaked out and just started yelling at him and cussing him out and stuff so um so this was his 00:48:17.300 --> 00:48:21.530 personal least favorite spot for soul winning but it was also his favorite place for recreation as 00:48:21.530 --> 00:48:26.490 well because they had a nice beach so we hung out at the beach a little bit but um but overall yeah 00:48:26.490 --> 00:48:31.280 so not a great start now that night we went back to the ship and we ate at this fancy restaurant 00:48:31.280 --> 00:48:35.760 called both the cellies that was on board on the ship and so how this works because i was confused 00:48:35.760 --> 00:48:40.870 about this before going on the cruise but they'll have like the um the big buffet that's open you 00:48:40.870 --> 00:48:44.950 know all day long and it's open till like 10 p.m at night then you could just go in there and grab 00:48:44.950 --> 00:48:50.060 food anytime you want but they also have like free restaurants that are kind of fancy or whatever that 00:48:50.060 --> 00:48:54.140 you can have for dinner and so we ended up going to this place Botecelli's every night and it was 00:48:54.140 --> 00:49:00.050 really nice and we and we had the same waitress every night Miss Chona so she was very nice to us 00:49:00.050 --> 00:49:04.210 and and that's one cool thing about Cruises too that I didn't realize is that you really get to 00:49:04.210 --> 00:49:08.370 know these staff members that are there so you get to know them you know you talk to them every day 00:49:08.370 --> 00:49:12.360 you kind of get to know their story a little bit and so it's kind of cool to um to be able to get 00:49:12.360 --> 00:49:17.560 them get to know them uh because they're all from all around the world as well and uh and Lola 00:49:17.560 --> 00:49:23.550 actually got a lady saving Jessica who is an English-speaking Nicaraguan lady so she's from 00:49:23.550 --> 00:49:29.470 Nicaragua but she speaks English and uh Nicaragua is in Central America they mainly speak uh Spanish 00:49:29.470 --> 00:49:33.700 but all up and down their Caribbean coast they they speak English there and so we actually had 00:49:33.700 --> 00:49:38.420 several uh English-speaking Nicaraguans on our on our cruise ships so that was pretty cool to 00:49:38.420 --> 00:49:45.350 to learn more about that and everything. Speaking of English speakers in uh Spanish-speaking countries 00:49:45.350 --> 00:49:50.260 the next day we went to the Dominican Republic and this was one of my favorite spots this was 00:49:50.260 --> 00:49:56.700 really cool but you know going but going into it though I had zero hope for me and brother Wright 00:49:56.700 --> 00:50:02.060 because neither of us uh speak any Spanish whatsoever you know we don't speak it and uh and 00:50:02.060 --> 00:50:07.010 you know the Dominican Republic is you know as Spanish-speaking place so but so anyway we arrived 00:50:07.010 --> 00:50:10.120 we and I just figured we were going to be babysitting all day we're you know we were 00:50:10.120 --> 00:50:15.320 going to be babysitting uh baby Phoebe while Lola's you know preaching or whatever anyway we get there 00:50:15.320 --> 00:50:19.630 and we get to this big plaza area with lots of people around and Lola starts preaching the 00:50:19.630 --> 00:50:23.630 gospel and I'm holding the baby and everything and I see brother Wright he's just walking over here 00:50:23.630 --> 00:50:28.260 and I'm like okay cool you know you know he can go try yeah dude that sounds great but in my mind 00:50:28.260 --> 00:50:32.260 I'm thinking we're not going to find anybody who speaks English here but anyway he walks up he 00:50:32.260 --> 00:50:36.010 he approaches three different people and all of a sudden I see him pull out his Bible and he starts 00:50:36.010 --> 00:50:42.000 preaching the gospel I'm like okay that's cool so he found an English speaker so I'm like okay well 00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:46.880 let me see what I can do so I start looking around I see like a young young boy over here like 13 14 00:50:46.880 --> 00:50:50.950 years old and I'll walk up to him and I just approached him in English you know didn't try 00:50:50.950 --> 00:50:56.790 any Spanish and the kid spoke perfect English I mean it was perfect and and his name was Nathaniel 00:50:56.790 --> 00:51:01.980 and he was extremely receptive and you know he got saved super easy but as I'm preaching to him 00:51:01.980 --> 00:51:05.730 there's like an older lady that walks by and he waves at her and he says that's my English teacher 00:51:05.730 --> 00:51:09.810 that's that's how I know English right now or whatever so I'm like amen thanks for that 00:51:09.810 --> 00:51:17.620 English lady anyway after that so me and brother Wright we got two people saved an English parent 00:51:17.620 --> 00:51:22.250 when we were pumped we were ready to go so we were like okay let's go over here to the university so 00:51:22.250 --> 00:51:26.720 we went over to a big university and we were hanging out outside and we were catching students 00:51:26.720 --> 00:51:32.150 as they walked by and the first person I walked up to boom English speaker got saved and then 00:51:32.150 --> 00:51:35.820 you know we were we were talking to a lot of people and then we and then we made the mistake 00:51:35.820 --> 00:51:40.840 me and brother Wright made the mistake of walking inside of the university and we walked inside it's 00:51:40.840 --> 00:51:45.470 a big lobby with like 40 kids in there and then an angry teacher walks up to us and starts 00:51:45.470 --> 00:51:50.020 basically kicking us out uh but in Spanish and you know I don't want to get kicked out or whatever 00:51:50.020 --> 00:51:56.040 and so I'm just I'm just like no hablo espanol I don't know what do you want 00:51:56.040 --> 00:52:01.140 and so she's frustrated she makes like an announcement hey does anybody here speak 00:52:01.140 --> 00:52:05.930 English and so these two uh college you know students these two guys walk up and and they're 00:52:05.930 --> 00:52:10.230 like yeah we speak English whatever and I give them the card and I tell them what we're doing 00:52:10.230 --> 00:52:14.300 and he's like oh cool I'll watch your video but you know she's kicking you out right and I'm like 00:52:14.300 --> 00:52:18.690 yeah I know we'll leave or whatever so anyway we walk out and me and brother writer just hanging 00:52:18.690 --> 00:52:22.590 out outside and then 10 minutes later those two students that just kicked us out the two English 00:52:22.590 --> 00:52:26.500 speakers walked up to us and they're like hey we just watched your video and it was really cool 00:52:26.500 --> 00:52:32.510 and and man boom we preached them the gospel and they got saved as well so um so that was really 00:52:32.510 --> 00:52:36.560 cool that that lady who kicked us out kind of filtered through the students to help us find the 00:52:36.560 --> 00:52:42.440 English speakers so that was really cool and so anyway out of the 11 people that we got saved in 00:52:42.440 --> 00:52:47.200 the Dominican Republic five of those were in English so that was really cool a great experience 00:52:47.200 --> 00:52:52.980 there and I'm going to throw out some numbers here these are not um official or anything these 00:52:52.980 --> 00:52:56.500 are just based off of what we saw but I would say that out of the young people