Well, today we're going to continue the harvest fields of the world, a look into missionaries and missions supported by East End Baptist Church. But today, we have someone in person. So we will finish with Sister Sandra Chandradott. But before that, we're looking at three more of the missions and missionaries that we support. And I'd like to begin each one with a passage of scripture. The first one is Psalm 40. Psalm 40. But let's pray and ask the Lord to just bless this time to our hearts. Dear Father, thank you so much for Your heart for missions, Lord, it was all because of you that you sent your son into the world. And now you're sending people all over the globe to tell people about Jesus and to train them to be disciples, followers of Christ. I pray that our hearts will continue to be challenged. Bless the messages that we hear today, whether visually or in person, use them for your glory and bless your word. to our hearts. In Jesus' name, Amen. Psalm 40, verses 1 through 3. I waited patiently for the Lord, and He inclined to me and heard my cry. He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock and established my steps. He has put a new song in my mouth. Praise to our God. Many will see it in fear and will trust in the Lord. So I want to read to you something from Brother Yohan in India. He has been in touch with us. He has been able to get onto some of our online messages when they were posted on YouTube, I think, because he's commented about he appreciated the music and the messages. So here is what he sends from India. Dear Pastor Woody Proffitt, hoping you are doing okay. I am glad that everyone in the church are okay. Thank you very much for your prayer and support towards the ministry in India. Because of the COVID-19, government asked to close the school and churches. In India, population more than any country So the virus can't be controlled soon. There are over a billion people in India. Correct, Sister Sandra? Over a billion. Is it 1.3? 1.3 billion people. So the virus can't be controlled soon. We can't involve too much in the ministries. Also, people do not appreciate to visit their houses. Here we go through a tough situation. We need your prayer and support. Every bill has to be paid. We look to the Lord in prayer, praying for you. Sorry I can't make videos at present. God bless you, Pastor Johan. So that is a blessing to hear from him. continue to uphold them in prayer. He was with us, I think it was last year, and yes, he went to sight and sound with us a year ago. So please uphold him and his dear wife Susan in prayer. And then I want to go to Romans chapter 10, Romans chapter 10, verses one through 10. a wonderful passage that speaks not only of salvation, in fact the verse that was in Taki Taki, we'll read that, we'll read it in English though, and the verse that begins the chapter, Romans chapter 10 verse 1. My brethren, or brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, the man who does those things shall live by them. but the righteousness of faith speaks in this way. Do not say in your heart, who will ascend into heaven, that is to bring Christ down from above, or who will descend into the abyss, that is to bring Christ up from the dead. But what does it say? The word is near you, even in your mouth and in your heart. That is the word of faith which we preach. that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes to righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made to salvation. So we have all around us people of the Jewish descent. We see them in Brooklyn and Manhattan, sections of Brooklyn. You see all the writing on the school buses in Hebrew. And they need Jesus. And Brother Smolenski and his wife, Julia, they're seeking to reach Jewish people. And I learned something from him that I had never been challenged to do. before, by example, I have yet to do it, but I want to do it. He goes into Jewish synagogues and builds relationships with people. It's amazing. And I want to do that. I have found in interacting with some Jewish doctors and dentists that oftentimes there is an openness, but I also find there's a great ignorance of the Old Testament scriptures outside the laws of Moses, because many traditions and laws and laws have been added, and the scripture has been lost. And so sometimes I like to ask, have you heard of the Jewish prophet Isaiah? And sometimes I get a response like this, well, yeah, I think I've heard of him before. But Isaiah 53, not well known. So let's hear from the Smolenskis. OK, hello. I'm back East End Baptist Church, and I'm at another synagogue. We were at a reformed conservative synagogue, and now I'm here at a more conservative orthodox synagogue. And this is the young synagogue. greater younger israel synagogue i'm sorry but uh... i was told i had absorbed about five minutes of trying to keep this within the eight to ten minute time frame in respect to your schedule but uh... again jesus our savior would teach in the synagogues and uh... paul the apostle paul would also go to the synagogues and he would discuss the Scriptures with them, showing those things concerning the Scriptures that were referring to the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ. And so we were going over the Fall Feast in Leviticus 23. In the background you can see here, again, they have their tabernacle and their booths set up to practice this piece of tabernacles, but this is again a lesson concerning the second advent, our Lord Jesus Christ is coming back, and this of course is going to conclude the tribulation period that Israel is going to finally find complete redemption as a nation in the Lord Jesus Christ. But we have interesting discussions here concerning the Messiah at the young Israel with the rabbis. There are several rabbis that are here and they allow me to talk concerning those things in the Scriptures, concerning those messianic prophecies found in the Old Testament. We'll come here for Holocaust memorial services and there's observance that we can come here to see Passover and other events throughout the year. But praise the Lord for the open doors. and God has given us that opportunity to meet here. And while those opportunities are... and the doors are still open, you pray. You pray for the Jews here in this area and their salvation. Now we're going on to an ultra-Orthodox synagogue. I'll see you over there. Thank you. Okay, we're back. I'm at the Jewish Discovery Center. The rain's holding up so far. I'm without my umbrella this time, but I just wanted to show you here. This is an ultra-Orthodox synagogue, and they've got this piece celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles, and you can just kind of walk in here, show them this, okay? Okay, hello again, East End Baptist Church. We're at our final location here. This is a ultra-Orthodox synagogue. It's the Jewish Discovery Center. And this group of Jews are of the Lubavits, actually. have their roots basically in Nakum Schneerson's one of their rabbis has started this synagogue here and then of course you guys know is in your backyard your neck of the woods Brooklyn New York but the The day here is the beginning of Sukkot. I was just thinking on our drive from last place to here was where the pilgrims actually got this idea for Thanksgiving actually came from the Feast of Tabernacles. And so the Jews here are awaiting His first appearance, and we have been in this synagogue several times. Rabbi Greenberg had explained to me that the Jewish people are not guilty of the original sin, they have not sinned, and they are fine-standing with the Lord because of them being God's chosen people. And of course we know this is not to be true, the Day of Atonement. one of the highest holy days, is the highest holy day for the Jews. And that is that they are becoming more sin conscious than ever. And this is a substitutionary sacrifice that's necessary. The blood of the animals applied to the mercy seat by the high priest is going to bring national redemption to the Jews. But a reminder, a reminder for us as believers, Jesus is coming back. This is a lesson for these feasts. And you pray. Pray for me. Pray for my family. Pray that God will work and stir the hearts of these Jewish people here. I'm looking forward. I always love visiting East End Baptist Church and pastor. It's still on my bucket list. I want to go to New York again and you and I together and whoever else would like to at the church go with us and observe a Sabbath service and meet the Jews there in your area of service. The Lord bless you. Thank you again for including us, the Smolenski family, in your virtual missions program. And remember always Psalm 122, verse 6, to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. The Word of God says, they shall prosper that love you. I hope this was a help and it's a blessing to you guys and we're praying for you and thank you so much for your faithfulness and serving the Lord. Look up. Amen. The day is coming. Our redemption draweth nigh. Jesus is coming in. God bless you. Shalom. So the Feast of Booths, that's going on now. You can see the little booths on apartment porches or in yards. It's the Feast of Booths or Tabernacles, Sukkoth, and a sign of Jesus coming back. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. I believe East End has supported the Smolenskys for many years, and I believe Anchor did before that. Is that right? So we have a long tradition with supporting them. Well, next we're going to go to the International Missionary Fellowship, and this is a ministry in Haiti. There is one missionary that is supported, but our support doesn't go toward him and his family. It goes to the ministry in Haiti, the different ministries they have going on there. So I've spoken to Brother Matthew. We tried to do a Zoom call, and it was a little Hard to have a good connection, but we had a lengthy phone visit But this was a video that he had prepared for another church. So we're sharing that today Hello IMF supporters, thank you so much for your prayers and support during this very challenging time both in the States and in Haiti Sarah and I and the kids are still in North Carolina we're currently waiting on the Port-au-Prince Airport to open up so that we can get home and get back to work and We are also waiting for Sarah and the baby's passports to be returned and issued to us. We've tried to expedite them, but the government is not expediting passports right now. So if you guys can pray with us as we eagerly wait on those passports so we can go home. At the hospital, we haven't had any known cases of COVID. We don't actually have any testing means right now to be able to test for anything. We have sort of changed the way the hospital works in the sense that we don't have waiting on site anymore and we're appointment only. So that significantly reduced the amount of people coming to the hospital. And there's a lot less people hanging around. We've installed some hand washing sinks. some mask and sanitation procedures. We're doing the best that we can with the resources that we have at our disposal. If you guys can continue to pray for our staff as they are scared and things are difficult and we're doing the best with what we have to work with and the knowledge that we have of the disease. Also, just, you know, prayers and financial support is a big need right now. We, everything in Haiti is getting more expensive and a lot harder to find. Things are open limited hours. Supplies are getting harder and harder to come by. Things in general aren't functioning very well, kind of like here in the States. So, we just, we covet your prayers and your support and If you'd like to give, you can give online at our website, which is hadeyhospital.org. Thanks so much. We're going to have reading some excerpts. A few different ladies, I believe, are going to do that. So if you could just come up here, and there's a mic over there that you could use. All right, those ladies that are going to read, maybe you can just spread out across the front here, if that's all right, or past the mic. This is about International Missionary Fellowship in Haiti. Ministering to the poor is a recurring directive from God throughout his word. As we reach out in his name, we pray that his will be done among some of the poorest and most forgotten folks in his world. Please join us in prayer that he will lead us and touch lives for his kingdom. Hospital Evangelical Day. Bombardopolis, providing medical and spiritual care to the more than 50,000 individuals and families of rural northwestern Haiti. The main ministry of international missionary fellowship continues to be Hospital Evangelique de Bombardopolis. the widow's home. Life in Haiti is hard. It is especially, it is especially so for the matriarch of the family. She has birthed the babies, cared for the babies, and raised the babies in hope that they will care for her in her old age. She has cooked, cleaned, toted water, tended to the garden, gone hungry, seen her children go hungry, and seen her children grow up with little or no opportunity. She has raised the garden and seen gardens failed from drought. She lived a life that includes none of what we in America have for years considered basic necessities, such as electricity and all that comes with that, running water, free schooling, grocery stores, money to buy grocery. There is no waiting for retirement. the golden years. There is no vacations. And add to that, her husband had died and her children are unable to care for her. This is a situation of the ladies who we are able to provide basic comfort and housing in their later years. God's word tells us that this is pleasing, that this is pleasing to him when we are able to help and provide for the widow's house. A way we seek to address the current problem of hunger in our area is by supplying food bearing trees to the folks of our community. The benefit of this method are several. It involves the recipient in their own welfare. barely labor intensive for us. It is low in cost to maintain. It does not endure dependence. It does not introduce an alien model as food. Burnt trees have been utilized here for the centuries. It shows this love of Christ in a tangible and substantial way. And that comes from James to versus 15 and 16 water. for most of us is a no barrier. We just use what we need and don't think about it. In many parts of many developing nations, getting water for basic daily living is beyond when we can imagine from our comfortable perspective. Walking to a spring and carrying every gallon of water needed several miles. Many of those miles up steep grades. Every day is the rule, not the expectation. This is a chore that demands time, that could very well be better spent if these demands were leased. We seek to lessen these chores by partnering with folks here who have the need and are willing to do their part, and folks who have the funds and desire to help. We are able to place a cistern as a water source at these folks' homes that will save hundreds of such trips. The cost per cistern is evaluate equivalent to $1.91 per gallon. for a year, or $700, and will change lives for decades. It is a cup of water in Jesus' name. Evangelism, one way we directly share the God's message is by showing a film called The Hope. The film does a remarkable, complete job of presenting who God is and his plan for the redemption of mankind. We discreetly distribute Bibles in Creole as we travel showing this film. It is our desire to see as many people as possible come to true saving, growing, sanctifying relationship with Christ as Lord. We distribute Creole Bibles in the area, mostly through the Haitian church with which we are involved. Ebenezer, we involve Ebenezer. We plan to continue this and to further equip local pastors in their study of the word with French study Bibles and various Bible study books in French. These are resources that we Americans take for granted, but will surely be treasured and utilized by these folks. It has become evident to us over the years that by far the best people to share the plan of salvation with Haitians are Haitians. Thus, our effort to better equip them. Education. Giving a Bible to an illiterate person obviously has a limited value. Illiteracy also compounds the challenges of daily living. We see a need to help with the educational needs of the children in this area. To this end, we have helped the school at Ebenezer Church add much-needed classrooms. We also are able to sponsor children to attend Ebenezer School. whose families cannot afford to send them. There is no free education in Haiti. There are government schools, but there are fees associated with them as well. We also help on an individual basis children from our area seeking higher level education. in Port-au-Prince. One of the things that we want to do here as a church is to know our missionaries and our missions. And we had a little bit of a challenge figuring the connection to International Missionary Fellowship. And there's one piece that I still don't have put together. As I checked around in the church here, no one seemed to know what our connection was. We think that Pastor Allen knew this man. We're not sure, but I've heard about him. So let me just read this. Thomas E. Northern founded the hospital here in Bombardopolis where no hospital had previously existed because he loved the people, the land, and the Lord. National Missionary Fellowship, he had served many years in Jamaica, then spent the rest of his years until the age of 75 serving the Lord in Haiti, nurturing the hospital and seeking the good or flourishing of the people in northwest Haiti alongside his wife, Jean Northern, who was an RN. Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me? Jeremiah 32, 27. So what Brother Matthew Rideout told me in our phone conversation is that Tom Northern was a missionary in Jamaica. He was training men in a Bible school there, and some of those men went to Haiti to minister and evangelize, and they invited him to come and to minister there, and he fell in love with the people. He left the Bible College in Jamaica, went to Haiti, and founded the ministry there. So that's what we're uncovering so far. So pray for them. And this man is now with the Lord, but the work is going on in that hospital in northwest Haiti. Well, today we're very privileged to have in person Sister Sandra Chander. Sister Sandra, if you would come forward. And we'll just have two podiums here, but I want to tell you, yes, you can have this one over here. Maybe, let me move it out for her a little bit. I want you to know this is not a debate, all right? Okay. So, Sister Sandra, I don't know that this question was on the list here, but East End has supported you since, did you say 2000? Probably 1999. 1999. Yeah. So that's a blessing. So we are so thankful you could be here with us today and let's have a few questions here. First of all, could you give us an update on your life the past few years? Yeah, so I went into India in 2000, and every four years you come home for a furlough. And I have lived in the country to see how the politics have changed, and with that, us missionaries, we're restricted. So between 2000 and 2000, 12 to 2016, it became extreme. So I lost all my teammates due to visa issues. They come knocking, the government come knocking on your door and give you maybe a week Sometimes at the airport, you're turned back. So I came home in 2016, April, because I know that I need a secular education. My background is in Bible. from Columbia Bible College in South Carolina. So in 2016, I came home and I was accepted in CUNY City University in Staten Island for a postgraduate program in autism. And I finished that and enter into an internship program in Kew Garden Hills with an orthodox family. They're originally from the Ukraine. The kids are born here and they're twin girls. Makila and Jacqueline, 14 years old, autistic. So I was being supervised by a supervisor who give me the program and I work with that program. And she comes in every other week and supervise the program. And this is what I need as a skill to go back into India. And lo and behold, COVID came in and topsy-turvy, the whole plan of going back. So because it's part of Board of Ed, everything was closed down between March to like around September, August, around then. So I resumed working back and now they put me in a program where I'm training new people coming into work with the girls. And I probably will have to do that until India is ready to receive us. As Pastor mentioned this morning, the population is 1.3 billion, and every day there is a 90,000 infection rate. But they're not having the death rate like we did here in the States, or it could be they're not telling us. Like, you know, it's a shame thing. But the infection rate there is high. In the meantime, I had to switch from Christar to InterServe. Christar operated more traditionally where you go in as a church planter. That's their DNA. And that's what I was doing between 2000 and 2016. And politics have changed, and I no longer can become credible. So I had to find a sending agency that worked with a professional background. And InterServe is in Redding. They're in Upper Derby, Pennsylvania. And they serve around the world. And they only work with professionals. So you go into these countries with your profession. And of course, naturally, as a believer, you have conversation. And you take it from there with really what you're there to do. So that's where I have been for the past four years. Very good. So what are your plans going forward? You have already alluded to those. You will continue working with these two Jewish girls. And then when do you hope to be in India, or what needs to happen for you to get there going forward? Yeah, I was hoping to shoot out by fall of this year. That was before COVID. So the way InterServ operate, they have strong partners in these other countries that receive us, like India is a receiving country and also a sending country. So InterServe work with developing locals over there who can work with us coming from different parts of the world so that when we leave, they take over the contacts or the work that was started. With Kristar, we didn't have that and that's a gap. So we need the local church. We need to work with the local church strongly. So right now, the receiving office in India, they're waiting for the politics and government restrictions to calm down, to let the US office know when it is safe to send us. In the meantime, I have to support Raisin. Because when you switch agency and when you come back home to the US, you are not considered a missionary for some churches. And I praise God that you guys didn't drop me. They are strict. rules in some churches that we only support you when you're overseas. And when you come home, even though it was an educational purpose of coming home. So I'll have to do that. In the meantime, the exchange rate have gone up. It's like almost 75 rupees for $1. So you can imagine the inflation there. So I am hoping that, you know, God will eradicate COVID and the airports will be open. And at least by, I will say spring of next year, I'm shooting for that because the longer you're away, it's harder to get back into life there. And it's been four years. Yeah. So spring 2021, hopefully, but right now the airports are closed. They're not accepting foreigners. Yes. All right. Well, you have an amazing testimony. Could you just share a little bit about how you came to know the Lord and then how you came to be a missionary from Guyana? You came to New York. You went to India. Tell us a little bit about that. Yeah, so ethnically, I am from East India, so that meant that my great-grandparents came by boat as indentured laborers from India into Guyana, and the population that was brought were Muslim and Hindu. And I was in the Hindu category. So I grew up in a very organic village. At the time, we didn't know what it was about until you come here and you realize it was this amazing village that was just family. It was an estate owned by the family. And of course, on that estate is a temple. And that's what you do. That's how you do life. So I grew up worshiping idols. I live on a farm. And of course, in Hinduism, they believe in reincarnation. So I will see my uncle or my dad slaughtering a sheep and I'll be peeping through the window and I was like, oh my gosh, it's some grandfather or it's an uncle or it's somebody else. And that fear about that grew in me because this whole reincarnation thing puts you on a treadmill. So it was a missionary from Trinidad who came into Guyana and went into the interior. and came back on the coast. And there was something different about him. And he went home to home, giving out our daily bread. Really? And they were like, like five years old daily bread, but it didn't matter. It was the word of God. And there was something different about him. And I had an aunt in the family. And because by marriage, she married into a Christian family, she convert into Christianity. And there was something strikingly different about her Aunt Amy. and so that pastor came into our village and there was a family in the village that was demon possessed and in these countries like in India demonic possession are real and you do see the manifestation and in this family the mother was demonized and there was one daughter in that family who was my friend and she invited this pastor to come and pray for her mom and they pulled all the idols all the pictures burned it and the pastor prayed and the woman was delivered and the church was born right there and it was in stilted post so on the bottom of the house is where we met And that's where I heard about Jesus and about Adam and Eve and the cross and Jesus' death and his burial and his resurrection and his coming again. And the pastor lent me a book called Through Gates of Splendor by Elizabeth Elliott. And that was it for me. It was like, wow, you know, these women went back after their husbands were pierced by the Aka Indian in Ecuador. And that, for me, put the cross, the Bible, in a modern-day story. And in 1984, our family moved into New York, and I ended up at Calvary Baptist Church, and it was at a conference like this. that I met missionaries and that was my journey. From that I went to Urbana. From Urbana we came back at the church and started a missions action group where all my peers went off like to Turkey, to Haiti, to Romania, to Papua New Guinea, and I to India. And I came back from Urbana and went to Columbia Bible College and came back at Calvary Baptist, who sent me over to First Baptist in Flushing, and I did an internship there. And I went to India for a three-week survey trip, and came back and fell into a four-month depression. Because I've never seen Indian people so poor. I've never seen such poverty. I've never seen such filth. I've never seen so many people. And I was not going back. So at the church, I became the secretary to the senior pastor and then the Christian ed director. And I worked there for four years. And 1999, that was it. I knew I had to go. And I resigned, and within one year, all the support came in, and September 27th, I went over. Wow. Praise the Lord. Amazing testimony. So much to digest there. A missionary from Trinidad went to Guyana, was handing out daily breads. You saw something different in him. He prayed over this demonized woman. And then you had an aunt that had become a Christian. And as church was formed, you heard about Jesus, became a believer. Amen. Beautiful. That's how you love your maps. Yes. Your flags. Yes. Amen. It's beautiful. So you never know. One seed, one tract, one daily bread, what God can do. That's amazing testimony. Thank you so much for sharing that. I had asked you, what are a couple of your favorite verses? Yeah, I have Romans 8.28, and we know that for those who love God, all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purposes. Especially, you know, when you come back home and you have a plan, 2020, 2021 calendar, day timer, together. And nothing worked out because of COVID, you know, this is where I draw my strength from. And also Proverbs 3, 5, and 6, trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge him and he will make straight your paths. And especially this whole COVID trial, these are the verse that I draw comfort from and has been with me. And since you came home, your father passed away. Yeah, I was with my dad for a year helping. He had sarcoid, sarcoidosis, which is a lung disease. It was not curable, but controllable. So I had the privilege and the honor of helping out with him. And pastor did came at the hospice in Jamaica Hospital, and he passed on February 2017. Yeah, 83. So Sister Sandra, how can you help us to relate to Hindu neighbors, co-workers, friends? For example, there's a family that lives right here next to the educational center whose kids have come to our Bible club. Just down the road here, across from McDonald's, there's a Hindu, do they call them temples? Yeah. And one day we were leaving after church and we drove that way The people had like a red powder all over them, there were drums, they were dancing in the street, and I don't know what, that was a festival. And there's one coming up this month, isn't there? Diwali, the festival of light. Yes. Which is November. So can you just give us two or three practical ways to engage Hindu people. How can we reach them with the gospel? Yeah, I think, you know, as believers, we all have a relationship with the Lord. And for any people group, it will come up naturally from you as you work with them, as you rock shoulder, even if if it's their neighbor, people are watching you. They are watching how you walk, how you talk, how you cared for them, the way you talk to them, Those kids that are coming, I think that's a beautiful thing because it's what they will remember. And a book given to them or like the little skip that was here with those kids and that the teacher, I mean, that does leave an imprint. So it's just caring for people, listening, a genuine friendship, reaching out to say hello, How are you? How can we pray for you? I mean, you all, you know, you have your skills. If they come, they need help, you reach out. I think once you told me that it would be good to go to their home and have tea with them, visit if they would have you in. Yes. Yeah. Well, this is so good and I hope you'll be back with us before you leave. Let me ask a very practical question because when we talk about missions and local churches, we have to talk about support. So at this point in October 2020, what is your support level? Yeah, so basically all the support that I had from Crystar, because 90% of it was done electronically, so I had to send out a letter for people to do all that bank work. So it's about 15%. Did all of it transfer from the other nation? Most of it. I mean, it's something that's on your list to do. Yes. You kind of not get around to it, kind of like that. So it's just a gentle reminder. So you need another 50% in order to go. Yeah. And then the airports need to open and many things. Oh, yeah, the logistics. But the beautiful thing of it all is that the visa, the one that I had was called People of Indian Origin. And then the government came in and said, well, we're going to do away with that. We want to upgrade it to an overseas citizenship of India. And the deadline is September 30th. And then you heard the missionary from Haiti saying they're waiting for their passport. for the baby, the new baby and his wife, because of COVID, all the federal buildings were closed. And praise God, I was able to get my U.S. passport renewed so that I could upgrade that PIO, people of Indian origin visa to the OCI, which is like a lifelong visa. So I just praise God for that. That was a big one. Amen. Yeah. Thank you so much. And you can stay for lunch, I hope. Oh, yes. Very good. Yeah. Well, praise the Lord for this ministry and Sister Sandra and her faithfulness, her love for the Lord. Let's continue to pray for her. I would like to ask that question again. Who will go work in my fields? If you know the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal savior, You and I share a responsibility. It's to go. It's to be willing to go. It's to pray. It's to give so that others can go. But I want to address just one part of that. And it's this. Are you willing to tell the Lord, here am I, Lord, send me? If you know Jesus as your Savior, and from your heart you are willing to tell him that, you mean it. Even if it means to leave loved ones, to leave your homeland. If God were to call you somewhere, you're willing to go. Would you just raise up your hand? Their heads bowed, eyes closed. Just raise your hand. You say, yes, I am willing. God can send me. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. The others. If you raise your hand, I want to ask you to just stand up Stand up and say, yes, I'm willing. I'm saying to God, here am I, Lord, send me. Any others? Our Father, we thank you so much for this challenge today. Thank you for this challenge the last three Sundays and the whole month. Lord, I pray that you will stir our hearts to be witnesses where we live and work to our friends and family and neighbors. And Lord, I pray that you would produce in our hearts such a willingness to go wherever you would send us. Bless these that have indicated a willing heart to pray, here am I, Lord, send me. Lord, may we do as William Carey said, to expect great things from God and to attempt great things for God. Lord, do exceedingly abundantly above what we could possibly ask or think right here in this local church. We commit the missions and missionaries that we support to your hand and pray that they will be filled with your spirit and used mightily to reach many people for Christ. Bless Sister Sandra, Lord, supply her need and send her forth in your perfect time and continue to challenge our hearts. And may we, Lord, be a church that's driven by the heart of God. by his missionary heart because God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. Thank you for the wonderful privilege to serve you. And Lord, if there's anyone here who's not yet trusted Christ as their Savior, show them their need that they would run to the cross, believe, and be saved. In Jesus' powerful, wonderful name we pray, amen.