WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.360 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 2 00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:04.360 3 00:00:05.740 --> 00:00:12.040 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 4 00:00:12.040 --> 00:00:12.820 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 5 00:00:12.820 --> 00:00:13.240 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 6 00:00:13.240 --> 00:00:27.160 I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you. 7 00:00:31.820 --> 00:00:34.980 How beautiful the world. 8 00:00:38.760 --> 00:00:42.220 How blessed the people. 9 00:01:05.980 --> 00:01:13.540 How blessed the people. 10 00:01:38.580 --> 00:01:42.260 How wonderful is God. 11 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:46.360 How gracious to all the children of men. 12 00:02:04.980 --> 00:02:05.680 How wonderful is God. 13 00:02:06.380 --> 00:02:11.920 How gracious to all the children of men. 14 00:02:12.020 --> 00:02:17.280 How gracious to all the children of men. 15 00:02:18.720 --> 00:02:23.620 From our mother's womb, he has called us. 16 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:29.220 From the body of our mother, he has named our name. 17 00:02:29.220 --> 00:02:34.700 How sweet the sound. 18 00:02:47.740 --> 00:02:59.200 I was, was lost, but now I'm free. 19 00:02:59.220 --> 00:03:15.600 I was, was lost, but now I'm free. 20 00:03:15.600 --> 00:03:27.200 And the Lord said to our fathers, 21 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:32.700 Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land 22 00:03:32.700 --> 00:03:35.100 which I will show you. 23 00:03:40.140 --> 00:03:44.300 And I will bless you and make you a blessing to many. 24 00:03:44.300 --> 00:03:44.340 And I will bless you and make you a blessing to many. 25 00:03:45.600 --> 00:03:50.660 And I will bless you and make you a blessing to many. 26 00:04:02.600 --> 00:04:04.860 The Co-Portour was a bookseller 27 00:04:06.600 --> 00:04:10.920 with Bibles, hymnals, catechisms and devotional literature 28 00:04:10.920 --> 00:04:15.740 to fill the most urgent spiritual needs of those settlers who had no pastor. 29 00:04:20.840 --> 00:04:26.240 And where there were pastors, only eternity will reveal a deep personal love 30 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:29.200 which our spiritual forefathers felt for those men. 31 00:04:30.300 --> 00:04:35.280 I remember one of our early pastors conducted two services every Sunday morning 32 00:04:35.280 --> 00:04:41.520 in his own village, then walked 11 miles to hold an evening service in another place. 33 00:04:58.220 --> 00:05:02.900 125 years later, our world has changed 34 00:05:02.900 --> 00:05:08.760 and so have our ways, but the will of Jesus remains the same. 35 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:12.900 To let the love of Christ dwell in us richly 36 00:05:13.780 --> 00:05:18.560 and to share the word of life so that in the day of Christ 37 00:05:19.300 --> 00:05:21.600 we may not be found wanting. 38 00:05:42.320 --> 00:05:58.040 I was in prison 39 00:05:58.700 --> 00:06:00.900 and you came to me. 40 00:06:01.560 --> 00:06:02.560 I can't really blame it on now. 41 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:02.880 I'm sorry. 42 00:06:02.880 --> 00:06:02.880 43 00:06:02.880 --> 00:06:05.060 Why can't you? They put the idea in your head. 44 00:06:07.140 --> 00:06:08.580 Do you go to church? 45 00:06:16.380 --> 00:06:18.560 Maybe you can help your friends out too. 46 00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:21.880 Maybe you can talk to them and they'll go on. 47 00:06:22.040 --> 00:06:23.660 Maybe they'll meet different friends. 48 00:06:23.660 --> 00:06:26.700 Then you won't be a sister because all your friends will be with you. 49 00:06:27.200 --> 00:06:30.260 That's true too. I could try, you know. It wouldn't hurt. 50 00:06:34.640 --> 00:06:38.440 I was hungry and you fed me. 51 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:59.660 I was naked and you clothed me. 52 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:12.660 I was a stranger and you welcomed me. 53 00:07:12.660 --> 00:07:28.920 I was sick and you visited me. 54 00:07:48.660 --> 00:07:51.980 Jesus died on the cross, say what I say. 55 00:07:52.300 --> 00:07:53.620 He died on the cross for everybody. 56 00:07:54.540 --> 00:07:55.820 He died for everybody. 57 00:07:58.100 --> 00:08:07.280 He died for you and you and you and you and you and me and him. 58 00:08:07.620 --> 00:08:08.980 All of us. Amen. 59 00:08:11.960 --> 00:08:13.980 What's going to happen after we die? 60 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:16.600 Go up in heaven. 61 00:08:23.060 --> 00:08:27.600 God has entrusted unto us the message of reconciliation. 62 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:31.220 We are ambassadors for Christ. 63 00:08:32.880 --> 00:08:36.680 We pray you in Christ's stead 64 00:08:36.680 --> 00:08:40.680 that you be reconciled to God. 65 00:09:07.100 --> 00:09:08.940 Christ loves me. 66 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:12.340 The Bible says so. Christ loves me. 67 00:09:12.360 --> 00:09:15.240 He saved me. He died for me. 68 00:09:15.460 --> 00:09:17.640 My mother will pray for me. 69 00:09:17.780 --> 00:09:21.860 And she will give me eternal life. Christ loves me. 70 00:09:21.860 --> 00:09:24.940 And we heard the voice of the Lord saying, 71 00:09:26.560 --> 00:09:32.120 Whom shall I send and who will go for me? 72 00:09:34.820 --> 00:09:36.260 Here am I. 73 00:09:37.140 --> 00:09:38.220 Send me. 74 00:09:49.960 --> 00:09:53.940 Here in New Guinea there's no more difficult concept 75 00:09:53.940 --> 00:09:58.360 to try to communicate than love. Just how are we going to translate this? 76 00:09:58.860 --> 00:10:03.940 Yeah, the Aukank I think fits pretty well for what people like and are attracted to. 77 00:10:04.300 --> 00:10:08.140 Except that I don't think there's anything in Aukank 78 00:10:08.140 --> 00:10:08.200 that's not really the same as the Aukank. 79 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:12.860 Meaning love that would express giving or commitment. 80 00:10:17.080 --> 00:10:18.400 You know enough by him to spell it. 81 00:10:18.620 --> 00:10:21.740 Me monocetank long head. Aukank long head. 82 00:10:23.300 --> 00:10:26.540 I'm going to put him back on this for a while. 83 00:10:28.980 --> 00:10:30.680 I'll talk Aukank. 84 00:10:30.680 --> 00:10:32.580 And we talk monocetank. 85 00:10:33.940 --> 00:10:42.540 Yeah, I think the way he's feeding it back, we're going to have to have an awful lot of trouble trying to sort out any difference between the two. 86 00:11:00.680 --> 00:11:06.840 And the Lord said, What you have heard and trust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. 87 00:11:30.740 --> 00:11:35.180 And the Lord said, What you have heard and trust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. 88 00:11:35.640 --> 00:11:37.820 And the Lord said, What you have heard and trust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. 89 00:11:41.220 --> 00:11:49.100 And the Lord said, What you have heard and trust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. 90 00:11:49.300 --> 00:11:53.780 And the Lord said, What you have heard and trust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. 91 00:11:54.180 --> 00:12:00.660 And the Lord said, What you have heard and trust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. 92 00:12:00.660 --> 00:12:14.440 And the Lord said, Behold, My name shall be honoured by a people who do not know me, And praised by nations afar off. 93 00:12:14.440 --> 00:12:14.440 94 00:12:15.880 --> 00:12:19.540 India is a country where we have a number of art forms. 95 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:25.220 India is really famous for its music and also for dance. 96 00:12:25.220 --> 00:12:37.760 But for some reason or other, the Christian churches all through the centuries have never used the art forms in proclaiming Jesus Christ to the people in this country. 97 00:12:38.680 --> 00:12:49.900 So the Christian Arts and Communications Service decided to use indigenous classical music, which is a prayer, praises God for His grace. 98 00:12:49.900 --> 00:12:59.780 And He expresses His desire to surrender Himself totally at the feet of the gracious God who has revealed Himself in Christ Jesus. 99 00:13:19.900 --> 00:13:34.700 And the Lord said, Behold, My name shall be honoured by a people who do not know me, And praised by nations afar off. 100 00:13:34.700 --> 00:13:43.320 And the Lord said, Behold, My name shall be honoured by a people who do not know me, And praised by nations afar off. 101 00:13:44.020 --> 00:13:49.800 And the Lord said, Behold, My name shall be honoured by a people who do not know me, And praised by nations afar off. 102 00:13:49.800 --> 00:14:19.780 And the Lord said, Behold, My eyes are upon them that fear me, To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine. 103 00:14:19.800 --> 00:14:33.600 The Lord said, Behold, My eyes are upon them that fear me, To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine. 104 00:14:57.720 --> 00:15:10.480 The Lord said, Behold, My eyes are upon them that fear me, To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine. 105 00:15:22.100 --> 00:15:45.600 And the Lord said, Behold, My eyes are upon them that fear me, To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine. 106 00:15:45.600 --> 00:16:00.960 And the Lord said, Go out and bring in the poor, And the maimed, and the blind, and the lame, That my house may be full. 107 00:16:13.260 --> 00:16:21.520 And we said, Sir, what you have commanded has been done, And still there is room. 108 00:16:22.660 --> 00:16:30.940 And the Lord said, What I told you in the dark, utter in the light, And what you have commanded has been done, And still there is room. 109 00:16:30.940 --> 00:16:36.360 You have heard a whispered, preach from the rooftops. 110 00:16:49.060 --> 00:16:55.920 On Christmas night all over the world, as we join hands in peace and understand, 111 00:16:55.920 --> 00:17:04.920 there's joy for everyone in every land, and all is right on Christmas night all over the world. 112 00:17:10.060 --> 00:17:20.020 In Mexico the children all will play, the fiesta will begin, they believe in the joy of Christmas. 113 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:33.000 And in Africa, proud is born, for the Prince of Peace. 114 00:17:33.900 --> 00:17:42.720 While in Japan every little child should cheer, says, may your joys increase. 115 00:17:48.960 --> 00:17:50.760 Follow, it's Jesus. 116 00:17:51.960 --> 00:18:00.760 On Christmas night all over the world, as we join hands in peace and understand, 117 00:18:01.280 --> 00:18:09.680 there's joy for everyone in every land, and all is right on Christmas night all over the world. 118 00:18:15.500 --> 00:18:24.360 I guess at least part of my answer would be that we ought to be able to see that well-trained pastors and teachers are the very lifeblood of the Church. 119 00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:32.660 And the point that I'm getting at is that the future of the Church and of our work lies in your hands. 120 00:18:33.660 --> 00:18:38.800 That really comes clear from the perspective of 125 years of synodical history. 121 00:18:38.800 --> 00:18:49.860 As the church bell rang, my thoughts raced back across the years, and my soul cried out in joy and gratitude for all the blessings I have received in my lifetime. 122 00:18:50.560 --> 00:18:59.580 As the choir began to sing, a figure appeared from the minister's study, our son in his first church assignment as full-time servant of the Lord. 123 00:19:02.200 --> 00:19:05.800 How can one put into words the innermost utterings of a grateful heart? 124 00:19:05.800 --> 00:19:11.700 As my husband's grip on my hand tightens, surely my cup overflows. 125 00:19:23.880 --> 00:19:25.640 Amazing grace. 126 00:19:35.800 --> 00:19:42.660 Yes, it was God's amazing grace that blessed the work of our Church for the past 125 years. 127 00:19:43.120 --> 00:19:45.420 He has blessed us and made of us a blessing. 128 00:19:46.600 --> 00:19:53.640 It is fitting, therefore, that today we rededicate ourselves to the task which he has set before us. 129 00:19:54.340 --> 00:20:00.600 Behold, he says, I have set before you an open door which no one is able to shut. 130 00:20:01.740 --> 00:20:03.740 Open doors are the opportunity. 131 00:20:03.740 --> 00:20:08.180 Entering is the task he has given us. 132 00:20:09.280 --> 00:20:12.480 As never before our world needs his amazing grace. 133 00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:17.160 As never before his grace is ours not to keep, but to share. 134 00:20:17.900 --> 00:20:23.480 As never before this is the time to thank and praise him for his mercy to us. 135 00:20:24.760 --> 00:20:31.660 By returning a portion of his blessings for the 125th anniversary thank offering, 136 00:20:31.660 --> 00:20:40.100 we can enter more open doors, reach more, teach more, and love more, 137 00:20:40.760 --> 00:20:47.340 so that all can share with us the joy of his amazing grace in Christ Jesus our Savior. 138 00:20:51.560 --> 00:20:58.660 Amazing grace, how sweet the sound 139 00:20:58.660 --> 00:21:10.660 That saved a wretch like me 140 00:21:13.140 --> 00:21:25.600 I once was lost, but now I'm found 141 00:21:25.600 --> 00:21:38.820 Was blind, but now I see 142 00:21:41.600 --> 00:21:43.600 Surely I am coming soon. 143 00:21:46.800 --> 00:21:46.800 144 00:21:48.500 --> 00:21:50.600 Come, Lord Jesus.