December 11, 2024 • 37 mins
Join us on an inspiring journey as Amber and Clint Hudson, wrap up season three of the Unreached podcast, where we share remarkable stories of divine interventions among unreached communities. This episode spotlights Operation Christmas Child, whose shoebox gifts have opened doors to the gospel in remote regions. Hear heartwarming accounts of a child in Mongolia who wanted to thank Jesus, and Agnes, a Tanzanian teenager encouraged to spread the gospel, illustrating the incredible ripple effects of selfless giving.
Prepare to be moved by tales of hope and healing that showcase God's providence in unexpected ways. From a young boy's miraculous recovery from kidney failure to a girl's joy upon receiving a gift box filled with her favorite hair accessories, these narratives highlight how being seen and acknowledged by God can transform lives.
Finally, immerse yourself in the poignant story of Sinkalitsa, a girl who found a new identity and hope through faith, leading to her finding a new name. This transformation underscores the power of faith and community in redefining one's worth. As we reflect on our duty to reach the unreached, we invite you to consider your role in this mission, whether as a sender, teller, or prayer. We here at the UNREACHED Podcast express our heartfelt gratitude for your support and encourage you to share this journey of love and transformation within your own communities.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
In Revelation 7, john shares his vision of heaven,
with members from every tribe,tongue, people and language
standing in the throne roombefore the Lamb.
Yet today there are still over7,000 unreached people groups
around the world.
For the last six years, myfamily and friends have been on
a journey to find, vet and fundthe task remaining.
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Come journey with us to theends of the earth as we share
the supernatural stories of Godat work for the men and women he
has called to reach theunreached.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Hey friends, welcome to another episode of the
Unreached podcast.
I am Clint Hudson, your host,and this is our final episode of
season three.
Wow, we've been at this forthree full seasons.
We have literally traveledaround the globe.
We've had guests that have toldus incredible stories of God at
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work at the most unreached andunavailable places in the world
Just absolutely incredible.
And today I have Amber Hudsonon the podcast with us.
Amber does our social media andshe also does our story
curation.
She makes sure that we stayconnected with all of our former
guests that we've had on theshow and she also makes sure
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that anybody that's in theaudience that's listening has an
opportunity to reach out to herand get connected to anybody
that they've heard on thepodcast before.
So, amber, thanks for beinghere.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
So the last episode, amber was on with us.
She brought us a couple ofstories from Operation Christmas
Child.
So Amber's brought us a fewstories today.
We're going to journey aroundthe world, like we always
promise you guys best we can, tojourney around the world.
Today we're going to tanzania,we're gonna go to kenya, we're
gonna go to peru.
I'm gonna take you back tomalawi.
I got another story from malawi.
That's actually I've never toldthis story before on the pod
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and it's probably my favoritestory that I've ever been a part
of.
But ambers brought us us a fewstories today, so let's just a
quick recap.
Operation Christmas Childwhat's the big idea?
How do they work?
What's their purpose?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
The big idea is that they take something like a
simple shoebox and they havepartners, partner, local
churches, partner people whofill the shoebox with simple
gifts, things like notebooks andpencils and maybe a small toy
Soccer ball, soccer ball,something like that a doll and
they take these shoeboxes intothe most remote places in the
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world, the unreached people whohave never heard the name Jesus
that is what this podcast isabout unreached and so they take
these shoeboxes and theseshoeboxes serve as a key for
them to be able to get intothese communities.
A lot of these communities arepretty closed off to the world,
and so they have an opportunityto go in.
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The kids receive the gifts andthen they're presented with the
gospel and it's this beautifulpicture right of the gospel that
Jesus brought salvation, gaveit as a gift, he gave his life
for us.
And so they hear the gospel andthen they're walked through
this discipleship program, notjust the kids, but the parents.
It changes the entire village.
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Then the village wants to goand share the gospel.
It's incredible.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
So I got a clip right at the beginning here from our
friend David Thompson fromOperation Christmas Child, where
he talks about a specific kid'sresponse to getting their box
and who they wanted to thank.
So check this out.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
One of my favorite stories of all time from
Samaritan's Purse OperationChristmas Child is this family.
They moved out to be with theBarati people in Mongolia.
They left the capital,ulaanbaatar.
When they came into the villagethere was this long, dusty road
.
They had stones thrown at themand they didn't know how it was
going to go.
But with the gifts, the giftschanged so much, just like we
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heard from the Bara people.
With this Barati people and oneof those kids came back to the
guy who was starting the churchthere right, came up to his gear
these little tents thatMongolians travel and live in
and he knocked on the gear andhe said is Jesus in there?
Because I'd like to thank himfor my gift and just one simple
kid, bringing it back to whatyou shared.
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Jesus cares about the one andhe cares about one more box
because there's one more Baratikid in Mongolia who's going to
have the opportunity to saythank you to Jesus for that box.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
It was so beautiful and so practical.
Because this Barati kid inMongolia, they didn't have a
concept of who Jesus was or thefact that he had sacrificed his
life so that they could haveeternal life.
He just knew that Jesus wasassociated with him getting this
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gift and it's I feel likethat's such a beautiful way to
introduce somebody into arelationship with Jesus.
Jesus has gotten this gift foryou and the gift we for those of
us that know Christ.
We know that the gift iseternal life.
The gift is is being absolvedof our sin and our brokenness,
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but it starts with just anunderstanding that Jesus is a
gift giver and I think that'sjust such a beautiful story and,
inevitably, like David, goes onto talk about how that kid
ended up walking through theGreatest Journey, which is their
discipleship program, and hestarted to understand who Jesus
actually was and the true giftthat Jesus actually gave, which
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is so beautiful.
But what an incredible open doorfrom a story in Mongolia.
That's amazing.
We got another story of a13-year-old girl Her name is
Agnes and she's in Tanzania andshe felt compelled to not only
receive a gift but tocommunicate the gospel as she
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started to understand more aboutwho Jesus is.
So take a second listen to thisawesome story from Tanzania.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
I was talking with our team in Tanzania and they
were telling us a story thatjust kind of blew my mind of an
outreach event that happenedright at the end of a religious
holiday with extreme fasting,and so this village was just
amped up and they wanted to comein and celebrate the end and
use it as a platform to be ableto share the gospel and point
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people to Christ.
At a time where they were justopen and there was a church out
in this village and this is inTanzania and there were 180 kids
sitting on the floor.
There was an opportunity inTanzania and there were 180 kids
sitting on the floor.
There was an opportunity wherethe room just fell silent and a
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girl named Agnes gave a fullgospel presentation and it was
beautifully done.
Afterwards, our team talkedwith Agnes and asked her you
know what's the call in her life?
And she described withincredible clarity her desire to
share Christ with her friendsand even with adults.
This is a 13-year-old girl inTanzania that's taking the
gospel and planting seeds at theend of a dusty road and after
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the end of all that, those samekids who had never heard the
gospel are now going to have theopportunity to be part of the
greatest journey Just incredible.
And that's just a story thathappens again and again.
I was just in Ghana and saw thatexact same thing happen, six
hours from the capital 150kilometers took seven hours to
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drive to.
But when we got there we usedthose same posters that we're
using Tanzania over in Ghana andthe end result of that was just
an engine roar, the laughter,the joy, the love that those
kids felt.
I mean, I literally felt like Iwas standing on a tarmac and
there was a plane about to takeoff like a 757.
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It was just so loud and itlasted for like 10 minutes.
Like 10 minutes.
It's this powerful combinationof all that prayer and service
that Grace sees sharing beingdistilled down into this perfect
little gift that is arepresentation of God's love.
And then that end result iskids being blown away by that in
a beautiful way and gettingthat kind of liftoff for the
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gospel in their life.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
That's pretty convicting that this 13-year-old
girl.
You know this chaos If you'vebeen around kids 180 kids.
That room was probably chaoticand as soon as it got quiet she
said OK, this is my time, I'mgoing to share the gospel.
That was her heart, that shewas going to take that moment,
take that opportunity becauseshe wanted her friends to know
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the gospel.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I just as I was listening to that I was just
thinking about like heroes ofthe faith, like I feel like
agnes is a hero absolutely ofmine.
Like someone who, someone whoknows that they have the good
news of the gospel and theyunderstand who jesus is, and
they want to take theopportunity to be able to
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communicate that to theirfriends.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
And then the impact of the kids in Ghana hearing the
gospel and just the roar andthe joy that they had receiving
the gospel.
It's that visual of kidsreceiving the gift box right and
they're opening their gift boxand there's so much joy in the
receiving those gifts and thenthey turn around and receive the
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greatest gift you could everreceive and have even more of a
joyful reaction.
I can only view these storiesfrom the perspective of being an
American.
And things like soccer ballsand dolls and paper and pencil
they're so common.
It's so common.
I see them everywhere.
I see them all the time.
If one of my children wants one, I can go to Target and get one
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.
I think in the same way,sometimes we can become numb to
the beauty of the gospel.
There's a Bible.
You can find Bibles in everystore here.
It's so common.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
There's a church on every corner, like in our
language.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
In our language.
Yeah, there's podcasts, there'smusic.
I mean, it's just we'resaturated with the gospel and
yet we can become so numb to it.
They are presented with thesethings that they've never seen,
never experienced.
It's incredible and beautiful.
It's like they can recognizehow great it is.
I and beautiful.
It's like they can recognizehow great it is.
I want that you know.
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Psalm says restore to me thejoy of your salvation.
I want that.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I think about.
When I was in Malawi, one ofthe things that was impactful to
me is that I did see thesesoccer fields almost everywhere
and almost every village had asoccer field.
Now, take out of your mind anytype of structured soccer field
thing.
We're talking about a dirtfield with maybe one goal with
no net.
Okay.
But it was such a meeting placefor people that in every
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village, soccer is aninternational sport.
It's the biggest sport in theworld, but especially in Africa.
That's just something that's soimpactful.
But one of the things that wasreally interesting is most of
the soccer fields.
They didn't have a soccer ball.
They had some kind of beat uplike tape ball or something that
they would play with.
And so you know you mentionedjust a second ago, like how we
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take some common things forgranted.
You know there's not a targetin Malawi to go and get a soccer
ball.
If you have a soccer ball, Imean that's something that
brings people together, bringsan entire village together.
It's not just a toy, it's anopportunity to bring people
together.
It's not just a toy, it's anopportunity to bring people
together.
So there's a story very similarto Malawi.
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Kenya is the same way.
There's soccer fields and everyvillage pretty much has a field
where they designate for peopleto go and play soccer together.
It's just incredible story thatOCC brought to us last year
where they talked about a soccerball and the impact that it had
in Kenya.
So check this out.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
I have one from Kenya .
There's a boy that he'd beendevastated from having kidney
failure and it was been verytough for him to walk, his
body's swollen.
I'm looking at a picture of him.
It's just.
His life was so challenging.
He came to an outreach event.
The gospel presentation wasshared with him and when he got
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it he found something that he'dalways wanted, which was a
soccer ball, and he wasextremely happy.
At that outreach event, thegospel presentation team from
the local church prayed for himand for his healing and he did,
I know, hear about the MedinaWhite, but we also love to hear
about when Jesus healspractically.
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And this boy I have anotherpicture of him where he now can
walk again and he has that balland he carries it with him
everywhere he goes, even back tothe local church he now attends
.
He went into the GreatestJourney classroom and he
believed in Jesus for the firsttime and he's become an
ambassador for Christ in hisneighborhood and we're thanking
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God for both his completehealing and just the image.
Think about that little boy whocouldn't walk, carrying a
soccer ball around, and when Iwas in Ghana, walk carrying a
soccer ball around and I, when Iwas in Ghana.
You know, just in October I sawall these kids that got these
boxes later in the day out inthe field with their soccer
balls.
They pumped them up.
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They were out there playing andyou know we're in the middle of
nowhere, rejoicing, you know,to see practical examples of
love.
These things are just going tobe powerful door openers for the
rest of their lives to want tobe involved in their local
church.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
You know, I think about this young man receiving
this gift, this soccer ball, andEven though he couldn't walk at
the time because of his kidneydisease and his kidney failure,
how he felt, so seen and knownby God.
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Yet God had something so muchmore substantial and so much
more needed for him.
And God doesn't just givesoccer balls from across the
world.
So much more substantial and somuch more needed for him.
God doesn't just give soccerballs from across the world.
God provides healing and thisincredible story of how this kid
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received the healing that heneeded because of prayer and
trust in Jesus.
And I feel convicted sometimesthat I want to give practical
things, maybe that I will evendiscount the supernatural and
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not pray for or anticipate thatGod will move in a supernatural
way and I'll just skip straightto praying for the practical
things.
Even when I think about some ofour partners that we've had on
the podcast, and you know, whatdo they need?
They need resources, they needBibles, which?
They do which they do, and inthe same way, this kid needed a
soccer ball.
But also, like we serve a Godwho just doesn't stop at giving
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good gifts, he also is a God whohas healing in his hands and he
can do so much more than justthe practical things that we can
think to ask for.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I have a good friend that would always pray God, put
your super on my natural and Ilove that.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Oh, I like that.
Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Put your super on my natural.
That's how he works.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
So, speaking of feeling seen and known, we have
this really beautiful story thatour friend from OCC, gracie,
told us about a young girl whowas at a gift-giving event in
Peru, and I'll let Gracie tellyou herself.
This is such a beautiful story.
Check this out.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
I went to this outreach event in Peru and it
was this village town that wasyou know way on the outskirts of
Lima, and I mean such poverty,you know dirt floors.
We were at a little school andit was just a concrete room.
And this little girl, I canstill picture her perfectly in
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my head.
She had these cute littlepigtails.
She was about seven and shecame and while they were doing
you know the introduction andthe games and everything, she
came over to me and she pulledmy ponytail out of my hair.
She starts running her fingersthrough my hair, she starts
taking out the little ponytailholder that she had in her hair
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and putting it in my hair andshe was just playing with my
hair.
She, she couldn't stop playingwith my hair and I was like, do
you love playing with hair?
And she did.
She just, um, you know, she waslike I love it and she was
showing me her hair.
Well, we did the distribution.
She gets her box.
I'm like working, you know,going around the room and
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everything.
I come back and I'm like whatdid you get in her box?
Her shoe box had everything todo with Hager.
It was brushes and just so sweet.
Yeah, I mean, she had littlebarrettes and little ribbons and
she was over the moon and itwas just you know, again the
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Lord saying I see you, I knowthe desires of your heart.
I mean just those little tinythings that seem insignificant
but it makes a child feel soseen.
That's what's so incredible andit happens over and over again.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I mean, that's one of millions of millions of stories
you think about when they bringthese boxes into the village.
They're not bringing 10 boxesor 20 boxes, they're bringing
thousands of boxes sometimes.
And so out of these hundreds orthousands of boxes, this girl
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in her box is exactly exactlywhat she loves and it's just
such a beautiful picture of God.
Like she said, god saying I seeyou.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Like I see you and I know you.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
I know you and I love you.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
So on the second to last day that I was in Malawi
with Operation Christmas Child,I had the opportunity to go to
an orphanage.
This was an orphanage that wassponsored by the country of
Malawi, and so they had a fewmore resources maybe, than some
of the other more ruralorphanages that we had seen
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throughout the course of ourtrip.
So I got an opportunity when wewent to the orphanage to play
some music, and the kids thoughtthat was like the coolest thing
ever, and I don't think theyreally knew what I was singing
or saying, but they clappedalong and they shouted and they
sang and it was beautiful and itwas really cool.
And the leader of the orphanage, the pastor because this is a
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Christ centered orphanage thepastor of the orphanage, uh,
came over to me and asked if Iwould be willing to come and
pray for some of the kids thatwere there.
And, um, I mean just reallycool, uh privilege to get an
opportunity to go and pray forsome of them, and so naturally I
wanted to know some of theirstories, and so I asked him
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specifically.
There was this young girl whowas there.
She was probably maybe 13 or 14or so.
She was older than most of theother kids that were there in
the orphanage, and I asked youknow what her story was?
He told me the story about howshe was sick as a kid, even as a
baby.
She had a sickness that she hadcarried with her for her entire
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life.
She had some deformities andsome things that made it very
difficult for her to walk or toeven just be a part of the
normal activities that some ofthe other kids got to be a part
of, and that she and her sisterhad been given to the orphanage
because her parents,specifically her mom, just
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didn't know how to take care ofher, and because this orphanage
had some, some resources andsome medical resources, she just
thought it'd be a better chanceat a, at a life maybe, for her.
But also, I think I rememberhim telling me that, um, her mom
just didn't think that she wasgonna make it, and so, um, here
she is, though, you know, 13, 14years old, and so I asked her.
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I was like what's her?
I asked the, the, the pastor,what's her name?
And he told me that her namethat she was given is sick synco
litsa.
He told me that the name thatshe was given was Sinkalitsa,
which meant she is sick.
So every day for her entirelife she has been called this
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sickness, this negative thingthat she's had over her, and she
had been praying for healing,and they'd been praying for
healing for years for her.
So he asked me if I would prayfor healing for Sinkalitsa.
But he also asked me to doanother thing.
He said that she today, whenshe had heard the proclamation
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of the gospel at this OCC event,that she had decided to put her
trust completely in Jesus.
And he said that not only didwe want to pray for her healing,
but he said that she needs anew name because her name meant
sickness and that she was sick.
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And so he said I want, you knowyou got anything.
Can you come up with a goodname to me?
I'm like, I'm like, oh my god,I'm hearing her story right now
in in real time.
And he asked me you got it, yougot a good name for her.
She needs a new name, just likeSaul to Paul and um, the first
name that popped into my headwas Amber, because that's my
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wife's name, and so I startedthinking about how she had been
called sick.
Her name was, she is sick, andnow she has this relationship
with Jesus, so let's give hersomething that's that's worthy
of this new life in Christ thatshe has.
And so Amber means preciousjewel.
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It's a jewel, and that's what.
That's what she is to Jesus,that's how that's what she is to
Jesus, that's how that's whatshe is to Christ.
And so I said let's give herthe name Amber.
I'll never forget this.
He's, he's translating all ofthis to her as he's talking to
me, and her eyes just light upwhen she hears this.
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And she takes her name tag andshe crosses out the name of sink
elitza and she writes amber sheasked me how to spell it and
she writes amber on her name tagand, um, it was such an
incredible story that I feltlike I got the opportunity to
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communicate to her her truevalue and the way that God looks
at her.
Not just the way that her momlooked at her when she was born,
that she was a burden, that shewas sick, not the way that
society maybe looks at her as anorphan or an outcast, but the
way that God looks at her as a,as a precious jewel.
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And so she has this new nameand, um, I've, I've had the
privilege of being able to tofollow up a few times over the
years and and get updates aboutwhat she's doing as she's.
She's grown and you know, nowshe works within the orphanage
and helps all of the other kids.
This was several years ago thatI got to go and so now she's
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gone through her teen years.
She's still alive.
God's continued to use her inthe place where she's been
planted, but she's so proud tohave this new name and this new
name that marks the moment thatshe met Jesus and that Jesus
said you're worth more to me, soI'm super grateful for
opportunities that OperationChristmas Child.
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That's just such an anecdotalstory.
That's my story, but there areliterally millions.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Millions.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Of stories like this around the world.
I think David Thompson said atone point that the goal was to
reach 5 million kids this year.
That's not in addition to theones from last year.
That's 5 million new kids thisyear.
And so you think about thelittle stories that we've heard
today about soccer balls andhair braids and hair brushes and
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a Barati kid walking up andknocking on a tent door to say,
hey, is Jesus in there?
I want to tell him thanks.
There's just 5 million storieslike this every single year and
it's just incredible to see thework that God's doing.
So I could try my best to tellyou how impactful this is, but I
feel like the words are morearticulate and more meaningful
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when you hear them from ourfriends David Thompson and Joel
Hayslip.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
This is your opportunity to rise up and be
part of one of the most amazinggospel partnerships that the
Lord has ever created in thehistory of the world.
It really is, and that is notto give us.
Joel and I are just, you know,two guys that write emails and
go to meetings.
I mean, it's all about thelocal church, you know, and
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that's where people getdiscipled, that's where
transformation happens.
That's long-term.
If anyone has ever thought, oh,it's just a simple shoebox, well
, god uses the simple things ofthe world to shame those who
think that they're wise right,and he's done that in this
instance, 200 million times.
And you know what that, I think, is part of the beauty of it is
just like it shouldn't work,but it does, and it does because
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of the prayers and it doesbecause of God's people rising
up in a church in Kiev that'sbeen bombed and keeps going with
the greatest journey.
I mean, we've watched thesetestimonial videos of I think
her name was Maria and you knowshe just church bombed kids or,
you know, just had to flee homesand they're still going through
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the greatest journey.
I mean, come on, don't you wantto be part of that?
Don't you want to see thatgrowing, at least get to full
capacity.
I mean, it's right there.
You guys are so right.
The fulfillment of the GreatCommission has to be all of our
calling as Christians, and whatthe Lord has raised up through
his own local church is rightthere.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
As we go out and share the vision of the Great
Commission, Jesus' vision ofexpanding his kingdom to all
nations right throughout all theearth, what we're discovering
is that God has alreadywhispered to so many.
They've already got the passion, They've got the heart, They've
got the desire.
They just don't have the means.
They don't know how to get in.
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They don't know how to do it.
They know they've got thecalling, like this pastor was
talking about with the Bada.
He had been trying for threeyears to get into that community
by sending us 2,500 shoeboxes.
This feels like such a simplething.
The gates, the doors just flungopen and here he is, a huge
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smile on his face, sharing thegospel.
Well, today he's already got apastor installed.
They're talking about plantingsome churches long-term.
It's unbelievable.
God is already whispering forall 7,000 of those remaining
under-peopled groups.
God has already raised up.
He's already calling themissionaries locally.
What they need is our prayerand they need some simple tools,
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some simple resources, somesimple encouragement and, by
God's grace, we're able to dothat.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Hebrews 6, 19,.
We have this as a sure andsteadfast anchor of the soul, a
hope that enters into the innerplace behind the curtain, where
Jesus went as the forerunner.
That's it.
It's all about.
Jesus tore the curtain, he senteveryone out and that's what we
get to do.
We get to do that in ourgeneration, our time, with the
resources that we have.
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And you know the race is.
It's time Like he handed thatbaton on to the local church,
and it's time for us to run, notshrink back and go to the last
7,000.
They shouldn't be unreached.
What if it was your family?
What if you woke up and youdidn't have access to the gospel
?
That should make you mad.
Like what if you had no way tohave eternal life because you
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didn't know the name of jesus?
Like what if that was yourfamily?
When we just got started, a guynamed paul eshelman asked me
like think about that every day.
What if it was your family inan unreached people group?
That should break your heart.
Just like Bob Pierce, thefounder of Samaritan, first said
, the things that break theheart of God break our hearts
too.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
You know you guys have heard me say this so many
times over the course of thispodcast.
But how could you not want togive your life to something like
this?
I do think about my family.
I think about if my familydidn't have the opportunity to
hear the transforming story ofthe gospel.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
If there wasn't a church on every corner or a
Bible, you know everywhere thatwe could go.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
And so I think about two things as I start to process
through that One is aconviction that man, I really
take it for granted us through.
That one is a conviction thatman, I really take it for
granted, I really take it forgranted, and I think too.
It's like man, I reallystruggle with inaction because
there's so much that I couldeasily do to make an impact, to
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reach the unreached.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
And we talk about that a lot on this podcast just
that we're not all able to go tothese remote villages in Africa
.
We're not all able to go, butwe can be senders, we can be
tellers, we can be senders, wecan be prayers.
We all have a part to play inthis.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
So we're gonna end this episode in the season a
little bit differently.
Instead of Amber or I or aguest praying for you, I want to
give you some time to just prayand reflect on the things that
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you've heard and just ask God,simply, what am I supposed to do
with this?
So, guys, thank you so much fortaking the time to listen to
this podcast, to be willing tobe impacted with these stories.
Thank you for those of you guyswho have supported the
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ministries and the organizationsthat we've partnered with here
at Unreached.
Thank you for your prayers thathave supported the missionaries
that are in the field doing thework.
Thank you so much.
And so now I want to give yousome time to just process
through what God is calling youto do to reach the unreached.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
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Speaker 1 (37:04):
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In Revelation 7, john shares his vision of heaven,
with members from every tribe,tongue, people and language
standing in the throne roombefore the Lamb.
Yet today there are still over7,000 unreached people groups
around the world.
For the last six years, myfamily and friends have been on
a journey to find, vet and fundthe task remaining.
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Come journey with us to theends of the earth as we share
the supernatural stories of Godat work for the men and women he
has called to reach theunreached.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Hey friends, welcome to another episode of the
Unreached podcast.
I am Clint Hudson, your host,and this is our final episode of
season three.
Wow, we've been at this forthree full seasons.
We have literally traveledaround the globe.
We've had guests that have toldus incredible stories of God at
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work at the most unreached andunavailable places in the world
Just absolutely incredible.
And today I have Amber Hudsonon the podcast with us.
Amber does our social media andshe also does our story
curation.
She makes sure that we stayconnected with all of our former
guests that we've had on theshow and she also makes sure
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that anybody that's in theaudience that's listening has an
opportunity to reach out to herand get connected to anybody
that they've heard on thepodcast before.
So, amber, thanks for beinghere.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
So the last episode, amber was on with us.
She brought us a couple ofstories from Operation Christmas
Child.
So Amber's brought us a fewstories today.
We're going to journey aroundthe world, like we always
promise you guys best we can, tojourney around the world.
Today we're going to tanzania,we're gonna go to kenya, we're
gonna go to peru.
I'm gonna take you back tomalawi.
I got another story from malawi.
That's actually I've never toldthis story before on the pod
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and it's probably my favoritestory that I've ever been a part
of.
But ambers brought us us a fewstories today, so let's just a
quick recap.
Operation Christmas Childwhat's the big idea?
How do they work?
What's their purpose?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
The big idea is that they take something like a
simple shoebox and they havepartners, partner, local
churches, partner people whofill the shoebox with simple
gifts, things like notebooks andpencils and maybe a small toy
Soccer ball, soccer ball,something like that a doll and
they take these shoeboxes intothe most remote places in the
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world, the unreached people whohave never heard the name Jesus
that is what this podcast isabout unreached and so they take
these shoeboxes and theseshoeboxes serve as a key for
them to be able to get intothese communities.
A lot of these communities arepretty closed off to the world,
and so they have an opportunityto go in.
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The kids receive the gifts andthen they're presented with the
gospel and it's this beautifulpicture right of the gospel that
Jesus brought salvation, gaveit as a gift, he gave his life
for us.
And so they hear the gospel andthen they're walked through
this discipleship program, notjust the kids, but the parents.
It changes the entire village.
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Then the village wants to goand share the gospel.
It's incredible.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
So I got a clip right at the beginning here from our
friend David Thompson fromOperation Christmas Child, where
he talks about a specific kid'sresponse to getting their box
and who they wanted to thank.
So check this out.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
One of my favorite stories of all time from
Samaritan's Purse OperationChristmas Child is this family.
They moved out to be with theBarati people in Mongolia.
They left the capital,ulaanbaatar.
When they came into the villagethere was this long, dusty road
.
They had stones thrown at themand they didn't know how it was
going to go.
But with the gifts, the giftschanged so much, just like we
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heard from the Bara people.
With this Barati people and oneof those kids came back to the
guy who was starting the churchthere right, came up to his gear
these little tents thatMongolians travel and live in
and he knocked on the gear andhe said is Jesus in there?
Because I'd like to thank himfor my gift and just one simple
kid, bringing it back to whatyou shared.
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Jesus cares about the one andhe cares about one more box
because there's one more Baratikid in Mongolia who's going to
have the opportunity to saythank you to Jesus for that box.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
It was so beautiful and so practical.
Because this Barati kid inMongolia, they didn't have a
concept of who Jesus was or thefact that he had sacrificed his
life so that they could haveeternal life.
He just knew that Jesus wasassociated with him getting this
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gift and it's I feel likethat's such a beautiful way to
introduce somebody into arelationship with Jesus.
Jesus has gotten this gift foryou and the gift we for those of
us that know Christ.
We know that the gift iseternal life.
The gift is is being absolvedof our sin and our brokenness,
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but it starts with just anunderstanding that Jesus is a
gift giver and I think that'sjust such a beautiful story and,
inevitably, like David, goes onto talk about how that kid
ended up walking through theGreatest Journey, which is their
discipleship program, and hestarted to understand who Jesus
actually was and the true giftthat Jesus actually gave, which
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is so beautiful.
But what an incredible open doorfrom a story in Mongolia.
That's amazing.
We got another story of a13-year-old girl Her name is
Agnes and she's in Tanzania andshe felt compelled to not only
receive a gift but tocommunicate the gospel as she
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started to understand more aboutwho Jesus is.
So take a second listen to thisawesome story from Tanzania.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
I was talking with our team in Tanzania and they
were telling us a story thatjust kind of blew my mind of an
outreach event that happenedright at the end of a religious
holiday with extreme fasting,and so this village was just
amped up and they wanted to comein and celebrate the end and
use it as a platform to be ableto share the gospel and point
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people to Christ.
At a time where they were justopen and there was a church out
in this village and this is inTanzania and there were 180 kids
sitting on the floor.
There was an opportunity inTanzania and there were 180 kids
sitting on the floor.
There was an opportunity wherethe room just fell silent and a
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girl named Agnes gave a fullgospel presentation and it was
beautifully done.
Afterwards, our team talkedwith Agnes and asked her you
know what's the call in her life?
And she described withincredible clarity her desire to
share Christ with her friendsand even with adults.
This is a 13-year-old girl inTanzania that's taking the
gospel and planting seeds at theend of a dusty road and after
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the end of all that, those samekids who had never heard the
gospel are now going to have theopportunity to be part of the
greatest journey Just incredible.
And that's just a story thathappens again and again.
I was just in Ghana and saw thatexact same thing happen, six
hours from the capital 150kilometers took seven hours to
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drive to.
But when we got there we usedthose same posters that we're
using Tanzania over in Ghana andthe end result of that was just
an engine roar, the laughter,the joy, the love that those
kids felt.
I mean, I literally felt like Iwas standing on a tarmac and
there was a plane about to takeoff like a 757.
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It was just so loud and itlasted for like 10 minutes.
Like 10 minutes.
It's this powerful combinationof all that prayer and service
that Grace sees sharing beingdistilled down into this perfect
little gift that is arepresentation of God's love.
And then that end result iskids being blown away by that in
a beautiful way and gettingthat kind of liftoff for the
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gospel in their life.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
That's pretty convicting that this 13-year-old
girl.
You know this chaos If you'vebeen around kids 180 kids.
That room was probably chaoticand as soon as it got quiet she
said OK, this is my time, I'mgoing to share the gospel.
That was her heart, that shewas going to take that moment,
take that opportunity becauseshe wanted her friends to know
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the gospel.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I just as I was listening to that I was just
thinking about like heroes ofthe faith, like I feel like
agnes is a hero absolutely ofmine.
Like someone who, someone whoknows that they have the good
news of the gospel and theyunderstand who jesus is, and
they want to take theopportunity to be able to
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communicate that to theirfriends.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
And then the impact of the kids in Ghana hearing the
gospel and just the roar andthe joy that they had receiving
the gospel.
It's that visual of kidsreceiving the gift box right and
they're opening their gift boxand there's so much joy in the
receiving those gifts and thenthey turn around and receive the
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greatest gift you could everreceive and have even more of a
joyful reaction.
I can only view these storiesfrom the perspective of being an
American.
And things like soccer ballsand dolls and paper and pencil
they're so common.
It's so common.
I see them everywhere.
I see them all the time.
If one of my children wants one, I can go to Target and get one
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.
I think in the same way,sometimes we can become numb to
the beauty of the gospel.
There's a Bible.
You can find Bibles in everystore here.
It's so common.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
There's a church on every corner, like in our
language.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
In our language.
Yeah, there's podcasts, there'smusic.
I mean, it's just we'resaturated with the gospel and
yet we can become so numb to it.
They are presented with thesethings that they've never seen,
never experienced.
It's incredible and beautiful.
It's like they can recognizehow great it is.
I and beautiful.
It's like they can recognizehow great it is.
I want that you know.
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Psalm says restore to me thejoy of your salvation.
I want that.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I think about.
When I was in Malawi, one ofthe things that was impactful to
me is that I did see thesesoccer fields almost everywhere
and almost every village had asoccer field.
Now, take out of your mind anytype of structured soccer field
thing.
We're talking about a dirtfield with maybe one goal with
no net.
Okay.
But it was such a meeting placefor people that in every
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village, soccer is aninternational sport.
It's the biggest sport in theworld, but especially in Africa.
That's just something that's soimpactful.
But one of the things that wasreally interesting is most of
the soccer fields.
They didn't have a soccer ball.
They had some kind of beat uplike tape ball or something that
they would play with.
And so you know you mentionedjust a second ago, like how we
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take some common things forgranted.
You know there's not a targetin Malawi to go and get a soccer
ball.
If you have a soccer ball, Imean that's something that
brings people together, bringsan entire village together.
It's not just a toy, it's anopportunity to bring people
together.
It's not just a toy, it's anopportunity to bring people
together.
So there's a story very similarto Malawi.
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Kenya is the same way.
There's soccer fields and everyvillage pretty much has a field
where they designate for peopleto go and play soccer together.
It's just incredible story thatOCC brought to us last year
where they talked about a soccerball and the impact that it had
in Kenya.
So check this out.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
I have one from Kenya .
There's a boy that he'd beendevastated from having kidney
failure and it was been verytough for him to walk, his
body's swollen.
I'm looking at a picture of him.
It's just.
His life was so challenging.
He came to an outreach event.
The gospel presentation wasshared with him and when he got
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it he found something that he'dalways wanted, which was a
soccer ball, and he wasextremely happy.
At that outreach event, thegospel presentation team from
the local church prayed for himand for his healing and he did,
I know, hear about the MedinaWhite, but we also love to hear
about when Jesus healspractically.
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And this boy I have anotherpicture of him where he now can
walk again and he has that balland he carries it with him
everywhere he goes, even back tothe local church he now attends
.
He went into the GreatestJourney classroom and he
believed in Jesus for the firsttime and he's become an
ambassador for Christ in hisneighborhood and we're thanking
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God for both his completehealing and just the image.
Think about that little boy whocouldn't walk, carrying a
soccer ball around, and when Iwas in Ghana, walk carrying a
soccer ball around and I, when Iwas in Ghana.
You know, just in October I sawall these kids that got these
boxes later in the day out inthe field with their soccer
balls.
They pumped them up.
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They were out there playing andyou know we're in the middle of
nowhere, rejoicing, you know,to see practical examples of
love.
These things are just going tobe powerful door openers for the
rest of their lives to want tobe involved in their local
church.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
You know, I think about this young man receiving
this gift, this soccer ball, andEven though he couldn't walk at
the time because of his kidneydisease and his kidney failure,
how he felt, so seen and knownby God.
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Yet God had something so muchmore substantial and so much
more needed for him.
And God doesn't just givesoccer balls from across the
world.
So much more substantial and somuch more needed for him.
God doesn't just give soccerballs from across the world.
God provides healing and thisincredible story of how this kid
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received the healing that heneeded because of prayer and
trust in Jesus.
And I feel convicted sometimesthat I want to give practical
things, maybe that I will evendiscount the supernatural and
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not pray for or anticipate thatGod will move in a supernatural
way and I'll just skip straightto praying for the practical
things.
Even when I think about some ofour partners that we've had on
the podcast, and you know, whatdo they need?
They need resources, they needBibles, which?
They do which they do, and inthe same way, this kid needed a
soccer ball.
But also, like we serve a Godwho just doesn't stop at giving
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good gifts, he also is a God whohas healing in his hands and he
can do so much more than justthe practical things that we can
think to ask for.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I have a good friend that would always pray God, put
your super on my natural and Ilove that.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Oh, I like that.
Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Put your super on my natural.
That's how he works.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
So, speaking of feeling seen and known, we have
this really beautiful story thatour friend from OCC, gracie,
told us about a young girl whowas at a gift-giving event in
Peru, and I'll let Gracie tellyou herself.
This is such a beautiful story.
Check this out.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
I went to this outreach event in Peru and it
was this village town that wasyou know way on the outskirts of
Lima, and I mean such poverty,you know dirt floors.
We were at a little school andit was just a concrete room.
And this little girl, I canstill picture her perfectly in
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my head.
She had these cute littlepigtails.
She was about seven and shecame and while they were doing
you know the introduction andthe games and everything, she
came over to me and she pulledmy ponytail out of my hair.
She starts running her fingersthrough my hair, she starts
taking out the little ponytailholder that she had in her hair
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and putting it in my hair andshe was just playing with my
hair.
She, she couldn't stop playingwith my hair and I was like, do
you love playing with hair?
And she did.
She just, um, you know, she waslike I love it and she was
showing me her hair.
Well, we did the distribution.
She gets her box.
I'm like working, you know,going around the room and
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everything.
I come back and I'm like whatdid you get in her box?
Her shoe box had everything todo with Hager.
It was brushes and just so sweet.
Yeah, I mean, she had littlebarrettes and little ribbons and
she was over the moon and itwas just you know, again the
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Lord saying I see you, I knowthe desires of your heart.
I mean just those little tinythings that seem insignificant
but it makes a child feel soseen.
That's what's so incredible andit happens over and over again.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I mean, that's one of millions of millions of stories
you think about when they bringthese boxes into the village.
They're not bringing 10 boxesor 20 boxes, they're bringing
thousands of boxes sometimes.
And so out of these hundreds orthousands of boxes, this girl
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in her box is exactly exactlywhat she loves and it's just
such a beautiful picture of God.
Like she said, god saying I seeyou.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Like I see you and I know you.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
I know you and I love you.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
So on the second to last day that I was in Malawi
with Operation Christmas Child,I had the opportunity to go to
an orphanage.
This was an orphanage that wassponsored by the country of
Malawi, and so they had a fewmore resources maybe, than some
of the other more ruralorphanages that we had seen
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throughout the course of ourtrip.
So I got an opportunity when wewent to the orphanage to play
some music, and the kids thoughtthat was like the coolest thing
ever, and I don't think theyreally knew what I was singing
or saying, but they clappedalong and they shouted and they
sang and it was beautiful and itwas really cool.
And the leader of the orphanage, the pastor because this is a
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Christ centered orphanage thepastor of the orphanage, uh,
came over to me and asked if Iwould be willing to come and
pray for some of the kids thatwere there.
And, um, I mean just reallycool, uh privilege to get an
opportunity to go and pray forsome of them, and so naturally I
wanted to know some of theirstories, and so I asked him
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specifically.
There was this young girl whowas there.
She was probably maybe 13 or 14or so.
She was older than most of theother kids that were there in
the orphanage, and I asked youknow what her story was?
He told me the story about howshe was sick as a kid, even as a
baby.
She had a sickness that she hadcarried with her for her entire
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life.
She had some deformities andsome things that made it very
difficult for her to walk or toeven just be a part of the
normal activities that some ofthe other kids got to be a part
of, and that she and her sisterhad been given to the orphanage
because her parents,specifically her mom, just
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didn't know how to take care ofher, and because this orphanage
had some, some resources andsome medical resources, she just
thought it'd be a better chanceat a, at a life maybe, for her.
But also, I think I rememberhim telling me that, um, her mom
just didn't think that she wasgonna make it, and so, um, here
she is, though, you know, 13, 14years old, and so I asked her.
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I was like what's her?
I asked the, the, the pastor,what's her name?
And he told me that her namethat she was given is sick synco
litsa.
He told me that the name thatshe was given was Sinkalitsa,
which meant she is sick.
So every day for her entirelife she has been called this
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sickness, this negative thingthat she's had over her, and she
had been praying for healing,and they'd been praying for
healing for years for her.
So he asked me if I would prayfor healing for Sinkalitsa.
But he also asked me to doanother thing.
He said that she today, whenshe had heard the proclamation
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of the gospel at this OCC event,that she had decided to put her
trust completely in Jesus.
And he said that not only didwe want to pray for her healing,
but he said that she needs anew name because her name meant
sickness and that she was sick.
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And so he said I want, you knowyou got anything.
Can you come up with a goodname to me?
I'm like, I'm like, oh my god,I'm hearing her story right now
in in real time.
And he asked me you got it, yougot a good name for her.
She needs a new name, just likeSaul to Paul and um, the first
name that popped into my headwas Amber, because that's my
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wife's name, and so I startedthinking about how she had been
called sick.
Her name was, she is sick, andnow she has this relationship
with Jesus, so let's give hersomething that's that's worthy
of this new life in Christ thatshe has.
And so Amber means preciousjewel.
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It's a jewel, and that's what.
That's what she is to Jesus,that's how that's what she is to
Jesus, that's how that's whatshe is to Christ.
And so I said let's give herthe name Amber.
I'll never forget this.
He's, he's translating all ofthis to her as he's talking to
me, and her eyes just light upwhen she hears this.
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And she takes her name tag andshe crosses out the name of sink
elitza and she writes amber sheasked me how to spell it and
she writes amber on her name tagand, um, it was such an
incredible story that I feltlike I got the opportunity to
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communicate to her her truevalue and the way that God looks
at her.
Not just the way that her momlooked at her when she was born,
that she was a burden, that shewas sick, not the way that
society maybe looks at her as anorphan or an outcast, but the
way that God looks at her as a,as a precious jewel.
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And so she has this new nameand, um, I've, I've had the
privilege of being able to tofollow up a few times over the
years and and get updates aboutwhat she's doing as she's.
She's grown and you know, nowshe works within the orphanage
and helps all of the other kids.
This was several years ago thatI got to go and so now she's
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gone through her teen years.
She's still alive.
God's continued to use her inthe place where she's been
planted, but she's so proud tohave this new name and this new
name that marks the moment thatshe met Jesus and that Jesus
said you're worth more to me, soI'm super grateful for
opportunities that OperationChristmas Child.
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That's just such an anecdotalstory.
That's my story, but there areliterally millions.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Millions.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Of stories like this around the world.
I think David Thompson said atone point that the goal was to
reach 5 million kids this year.
That's not in addition to theones from last year.
That's 5 million new kids thisyear.
And so you think about thelittle stories that we've heard
today about soccer balls andhair braids and hair brushes and
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a Barati kid walking up andknocking on a tent door to say,
hey, is Jesus in there?
I want to tell him thanks.
There's just 5 million storieslike this every single year and
it's just incredible to see thework that God's doing.
So I could try my best to tellyou how impactful this is, but I
feel like the words are morearticulate and more meaningful
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when you hear them from ourfriends David Thompson and Joel
Hayslip.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
This is your opportunity to rise up and be
part of one of the most amazinggospel partnerships that the
Lord has ever created in thehistory of the world.
It really is, and that is notto give us.
Joel and I are just, you know,two guys that write emails and
go to meetings.
I mean, it's all about thelocal church, you know, and
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that's where people getdiscipled, that's where
transformation happens.
That's long-term.
If anyone has ever thought, oh,it's just a simple shoebox, well
, god uses the simple things ofthe world to shame those who
think that they're wise right,and he's done that in this
instance, 200 million times.
And you know what that, I think, is part of the beauty of it is
just like it shouldn't work,but it does, and it does because
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of the prayers and it doesbecause of God's people rising
up in a church in Kiev that'sbeen bombed and keeps going with
the greatest journey.
I mean, we've watched thesetestimonial videos of I think
her name was Maria and you knowshe just church bombed kids or,
you know, just had to flee homesand they're still going through
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the greatest journey.
I mean, come on, don't you wantto be part of that?
Don't you want to see thatgrowing, at least get to full
capacity.
I mean, it's right there.
You guys are so right.
The fulfillment of the GreatCommission has to be all of our
calling as Christians, and whatthe Lord has raised up through
his own local church is rightthere.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
As we go out and share the vision of the Great
Commission, Jesus' vision ofexpanding his kingdom to all
nations right throughout all theearth, what we're discovering
is that God has alreadywhispered to so many.
They've already got the passion, They've got the heart, They've
got the desire.
They just don't have the means.
They don't know how to get in.
(27:21):
They don't know how to do it.
They know they've got thecalling, like this pastor was
talking about with the Bada.
He had been trying for threeyears to get into that community
by sending us 2,500 shoeboxes.
This feels like such a simplething.
The gates, the doors just flungopen and here he is, a huge
(27:42):
smile on his face, sharing thegospel.
Well, today he's already got apastor installed.
They're talking about plantingsome churches long-term.
It's unbelievable.
God is already whispering forall 7,000 of those remaining
under-peopled groups.
God has already raised up.
He's already calling themissionaries locally.
What they need is our prayerand they need some simple tools,
(28:05):
some simple resources, somesimple encouragement and, by
God's grace, we're able to dothat.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Hebrews 6, 19,.
We have this as a sure andsteadfast anchor of the soul, a
hope that enters into the innerplace behind the curtain, where
Jesus went as the forerunner.
That's it.
It's all about.
Jesus tore the curtain, he senteveryone out and that's what we
get to do.
We get to do that in ourgeneration, our time, with the
resources that we have.
(28:30):
And you know the race is.
It's time Like he handed thatbaton on to the local church,
and it's time for us to run, notshrink back and go to the last
7,000.
They shouldn't be unreached.
What if it was your family?
What if you woke up and youdidn't have access to the gospel
?
That should make you mad.
Like what if you had no way tohave eternal life because you
(28:52):
didn't know the name of jesus?
Like what if that was yourfamily?
When we just got started, a guynamed paul eshelman asked me
like think about that every day.
What if it was your family inan unreached people group?
That should break your heart.
Just like Bob Pierce, thefounder of Samaritan, first said
, the things that break theheart of God break our hearts
too.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
You know you guys have heard me say this so many
times over the course of thispodcast.
But how could you not want togive your life to something like
this?
I do think about my family.
I think about if my familydidn't have the opportunity to
hear the transforming story ofthe gospel.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
If there wasn't a church on every corner or a
Bible, you know everywhere thatwe could go.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
And so I think about two things as I start to process
through that One is aconviction that man, I really
take it for granted us through.
That one is a conviction thatman, I really take it for
granted, I really take it forgranted, and I think too.
It's like man, I reallystruggle with inaction because
there's so much that I couldeasily do to make an impact, to
(30:03):
reach the unreached.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
And we talk about that a lot on this podcast just
that we're not all able to go tothese remote villages in Africa
.
We're not all able to go, butwe can be senders, we can be
tellers, we can be senders, wecan be prayers.
We all have a part to play inthis.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
So we're gonna end this episode in the season a
little bit differently.
Instead of Amber or I or aguest praying for you, I want to
give you some time to just prayand reflect on the things that
(30:45):
you've heard and just ask God,simply, what am I supposed to do
with this?
So, guys, thank you so much fortaking the time to listen to
this podcast, to be willing tobe impacted with these stories.
Thank you for those of you guyswho have supported the
(31:08):
ministries and the organizationsthat we've partnered with here
at Unreached.
Thank you for your prayers thathave supported the missionaries
that are in the field doing thework.
Thank you so much.
And so now I want to give yousome time to just process
through what God is calling youto do to reach the unreached.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Thank you, oh, come and share the no-transcript.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
would you please rate and review the podcast wherever
you listen.
Also, share with your family,your friends, your church, your
life group, small group, dgroup,wherever you do life, and if
you want to connect with us,find us on Instagram at
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