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3:14So I want to talk about how can people in every nation come to worship the Lord? That's the question that we have to answer. It's the Great Commission. And you should be turned to Matthew 28. We're not going to spend much time here. I just want to set the stage and try to maybe, if I could, ask you just to think just for a moment, what would it have been like if that was me standing there at that Great Commission? What if I was one of those 11 people? And what if Jesus were to say this to me as one of those 11? So I'm just going to read verses 16 through 20. It says this. But the 11 disciples proceeded to Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had designated. When they saw him, they worshiped him, but some were doubtful. All right, let's just stop there for a moment. Some worshipped him, or they worshiped him, but some were doubtful. Why do you think they were doubtful? Well, he'd been crucified. He'd been buried. The stone was rolled away. He came back from the dead, and people are like, is this real? Did this really happen? And so don't cast stones at them for having some doubts. It's okay.

4:30But Jesus walks them through the great commission, and they have a great deal of comfort with him. Verse 18, and Jesus came up and he spoke to them, saying, All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. All authority. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I've commanded you, and lo, I'm with you always, even to the end of the age.

5:01Think about it. You got 11 guys here. Some argue that the 500 could have been listening, but we don't know for sure. But just go with me here. Maybe there's 11 there, and Jesus is giving them the Great Commission. Really, the Great Command. It's an imperative. You must make disciples of all nations. Exclamation point. There's 11 of them, right? Can you just imagine? Maybe they looked around and somebody said, okay, which one of you guys is going to Europe?

5:33Who's going to take this message to Africa? Any takers for Japan? Anyone want to head to Iraq? There's 11 guys, right? And they're supposed to go all over the world. It doesn't make a lot of sense for 11 people. And if you think about it, just 11 people, it's not just to go there. That's a lot. That's a tall order. But they're supposed to tell the people they meet with to observe everything that Jesus said. Can you imagine yourself being one of them? Jesus, are you for real? Am I supposed to go to Singapore?

6:20Who's going to Australia? Certainly, there was somebody thinking, who's going to BCS? Certainly, one of them was thinking that. But if you think about it, we fast forward to, and we're not going to go there, but just bear with me. Let's, in our minds, go to Acts chapter 2, just in our minds. Acts chapter 2. So Peter gives this sermon. And he's preaching to the people that actually were the ones who were responsible for killing Jesus. And there was a great deal of conviction for sin. He implicated them. I could see maybe him pointing his finger in their chest. You're the ones that killed him. And what was the response?

7:04There was conviction. There was, maybe read between the white spaces in your Bible. Uh-oh. We're the guys that did this. And they asked the question now: what do we do? Do you remember Jesus' response? Excuse me, Peter's response in Acts 2. He says, repent. He says, repent and be baptized. Repent and show proof of your faith. Christ through an outward manifestation, your baptism. What happened after that? Help me out here. This is going to be an open form. What happened? 3,000. 3,000 added to the church that day, right? Look at the math on the screen here. We start out with 11. They're very concerned that they can't reach the whole world. And all of a sudden, when we add in 1 Corinthians 15, where the 500 saw him, and now we're adding 3,000. Now we've got 3,511 who are supposed to go out through all the nations, teaching them to observe everything that Jesus taught them.

8:08Do you think they had a little relief, maybe? I think they probably did. Okay, so let's fast forward a little bit more. Let's get to church history. Let's do the fathers, the founding fathers of the church. We go to the church fathers 100 to 300 AD. A lot of things were settled during those years in terms of doctrine, in terms of theology. A lot of things weren't settled then, but a lot of things were. Sound doctrine, sound theology. Jesus is God. The Holy Spirit is God. The Father is God. We get the Trinity. Preaching and teaching, people getting saved, and they're adding to the church. And all of a sudden, the Great Commission doesn't have 3,511. They've got a lot of people. We don't know how many by that point. But they're starting to reach the world, the known world. They're reaching out, and something is happening.

8:58Church history, let's fast. Forward to 1200 through 1500 AD. What period of time is that most well known for? Help me. The Reformation, Martin Luther, John Wycliffe, all those great guys, the men of God and their godly wives who supported them, stood in these pulpits and they preached the word of God. And they settled the fact that salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, and Christ alone. Church history. And so then more people are added to the church. Books are written. Systematic theologies are written. Music and the great hymns of the faith are written. And then, so church history catches up with us. And we get to our point. And we ask the question still: how shall the Lord's church make disciples of all nations?

10:01You can see it. Church history is behind us. Those generations are now no longer with us. You know what? It's our turn. It's our turn. In effect, over the generations, by extension, you and I were one of those 11, figuratively speaking. And we are tasked with a very serious task, and that is to be those that, as we are going, were to, the command is to make disciples. And it's to instruct the people all that Jesus told them to observe, to baptize them, and that he would be with us till the end of the age. And so we're approaching that end of the age. It may be here sooner than you think. And so it's our turn. So how do we do this? How do we make disciples of all nations?

10:57How shall our generation of the Lord's church make disciples of all the ethnicities of the world? Well, we're supposed to baptize them, right? Supposed to baptize in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. How do we know that? Because the Great Commission says so. That hasn't changed. He didn't give them a whole lot of other instruction beyond the Great Commission, of course, the Word of God that's held within that, what we're supposed to communicate. What else did he tell them?

11:30To teach them to observe everything that Jesus ever commanded the disciples. And that doesn't just happen here behind Pastor Tom's pulpit. That happens one-on-one. That happens in discipleship situations. That happens with you who are professionals out there in the world. You're working for the university or you're an engineer or you're a teacher or you're a police officer. Officer, whatever it is, you know what? There are people within your realm of influence that God has given you to be a light for the gospel in their presence.

12:09And that's what they were supposed to do back then. So it's not just preaching and teaching from the pulpit, it is one-on-one. It is moms and dads training their children, discipling them, preparing them to be responsible citizens. They can't be responsible citizens unless they know the gospel, really. Acts 20, 27. Anyone happen to know what that passage talks about? Paul's meeting with the Ephesian elders on his way to Jerusalem? That whole section of scripture there in Acts 20, he says, I told you everything that I was supposed to tell you. And he's on his way to Jerusalem. He's going to get arrested. He's going to spend time in prison. Then he's going to go to Rome. But he told them everything that God had told him to tell them.

12:57What did Jesus command his disciples to do? We know from Mark 2:10, he commanded them to follow me. Exclamation point. It's a command. We know that they were called to believe also in Jesus. We know from John 6:29 that they were called to believe that the Father sent the Son. We know from John 14, 1, again, they were called to believe in Jesus. Not a whole lot of works-based salvation here. It was a faith-based salvation. They were called to repent.

13:31A very precious man came up to me this morning and he said, You know, we just don't hear preaching on repentance in our churches anymore. And he came from a church that didn't preach that message. But you know what? In Matthew 4, 17, it says that Jesus began to preach repentance. And the way that verb is structured is it's continuous. He preached it over and over and over and over again in his messages. Mark 1, 15, Luke 13, 3, it's all there. This is the message that they were supposed to give. Go into all the world and preach the gospel. That's the message. That's how disciples are made. They learn from the Lord. That's the message that we saw here as the Great Commission. I want you to hear from not just me. I want you to hear from people that are out there in the world. People associated with the Masters Academy International. You're going to hear from Samuel Labalo. Samuel Labalo is one of our graduates in South Africa. Some of you know him. You're waking your head, yes? So Samuel Labalo, let me just tell you a little backdrop on this. I took a trip to Africa, to Malawi, and to South Africa, and I asked our leadership team there to set me up with a church that I could just watch them, one of our students preach to his own church. I wanted to see how he learned from our people, and is he carrying the torch? Is he doing well? And Samuel Labalo is. A man who's doing it well. Sammy is a pastor of a church in the Soweto Township. Anyone ever hear of Soweto? Very scary place. During the years of apartheid, this was the place that all the black people were herded into, and the only way they could get out of Soweto was with a permission slip from a white person saying that they've hired them to work on their house or something. It's a very sad situation. Sammy is an expository preacher. He preaches just like your pastor. He teaches the word faithfully, and he is one pastor amongst 2.1 million people. I tell you what, if I had to live in that area without a heartbeat, that would be my church. He would be my pastor. Listen to what Sammy has to say.

15:55My name is Sammy LeBallo. I'm a pastor at Malatana Baptist Church. We are a church of about 45 adults and 15 children. The reason I went to Christ Seminary was that I desired to be thoroughly equipped to handle the word of God, that I may be able to serve in the local church, especially my mind was more in a township set. Christ Seminary was recommended to me by Joseph McCarla. He was our pastor by then and a student at Christ Seminary. and he's currently a professor at Christ Seminary. So I admired how he handled the Word of God and how he risen from the scriptures and I was eager and have that desire to also be able to share the Word of God in a way that it will glorify God. Before then, well, I used to just preach out of my own head, like especially copying other sermons from guys like Kenneth Copeland and just saying things that were not scriptural, but say like I want people to hear what's in my mind, but then going to Christ Seminary was more to help me not to say things that are in my mind but to echo what is in the scriptures and that's what I've learned through my years at seminary how to handle the word of God and also appreciate the professors there, how not only did they taught us how to handle the scriptures, but mainly how to live a godly life. So they modeled that and I remember Pastor Dave Bigley during our graduation he mentioned something to say we're not going to be perfect preachers. We may still err in our preaching, but what is important for us is to pursue holiness and that has been my desire. That even though I will be struggling at times handling the passage of scripture, but my love for God and my love for his people should continue to be a motivation of why I want to be diligent in handling the scriptures.

18:19When I walked into Malat Sanny Baptist Church in Soweto, those who were driving me were just a few minutes late, and we walked in the back door. Sammy didn't know I was there. They didn't even tell him I was coming. And they're singing these hymns, hymns that you and I would sing, but they rotated them between English and Zulu and Sutho. I don't know those languages. Sammy knows those languages. And Sammy has been trained to preach in English, but you know what? Sammy does something I can't do. He can preach in Zulu and he can preach in Sotho.

18:55How do we reach the nations, the little towns and hamlets around the world? We teach them to preach in their own languages. Sammy is a godly man. You can pray for he and his wife, E2. Lovely people. We've got a standing invitation here at Emmanuel to come down and lead it help with the children's program there in Surato. Oh, do it. Pray for us. Yeah. Do it. That's the longest plane ride in the world, but do it. Go. And when Sammy. Took the pulpit. He stood up. He prayed. And he said, turning your Bibles to 1 Thessalonians chapter 1, we're going to pick up where we left off last week in verses 9 and 10. And he preached that passage. And he did such a great job. And the people are learning from him. And that particular church was a church that was a Pentecostal church. It was past Pentecostal. It wasn't even that. It was just a horrible situation. And he came in and he started preaching, exposing the text, and the neighborhood that hadn't been coming tried to take that building back. But you know what? He'd been there for a few months, and the people were hearing the Word of God for the first time. And they say, no, we're not giving this up. This is our pastor. He trained up two more elders.

20:21And he is now becoming one of our TMAI leaders in South Africa. He will be one of our professors at some point in time. He's still going through some coursework, but we're so proud of what the Lord is doing in Sammy's life. Well, let me go to the next thing here. How shall we make disciples? Well, we know from Romans 10 verses, well, the whole chapter, really. But if you want to turn to Romans 10, I just want to highlight a few things here that I think we really need to focus on.

20:49Because as Paul writes this text, Romans 10, verse 8, I'm just going to read it. He says, but what does it say? The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart. That is, the word is. Faith, which we are preaching, that if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. This is what Paul is doing. He's teaching them to observe everything that Jesus ever taught. Yeah, this is Paul's words, but these are what Jesus taught. Okay? Verse 10. For with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. For the scripture says, whoever believes in him will not be disappointed. For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek. Again, we're talking about, like we talked about this morning, the ethnicities of the world. For the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call upon him. For whoever will call upon the name of the Lord will be saved. Now, how shall they go? Or how should they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how will they believe in him and whom they have not heard? And how will they hear unless they are without a preacher? How shall they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, how beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news of good things.

22:09How did Sammy finally get this point? Well, there were guys, Americans, that went to seminary at the Master's Seminary years ago. And they said, we have to go to South Africa. And we have to open a school and we have to train people. And so they went there a long time ago and they opened the This school, and they have trained hundreds and hundreds of preachers throughout Africa. And it's not just Africa, as you're going to see in a minute, excuse me, not just South Africa, but the surrounding nations that they're impacting. Surrounding languages and dialects, Zulu and Sutho, right? So, this is how it works. This is what they preach.

22:50I want you to hear from Charlie Ramfumedze. Dr. Charlie Ramfumedze, he just finished his doctorate at the Masters Seminary. He is South African, and he is the head of the school in South Africa. It's very important to the Masters Academy International that it's not just the Americans who run the school. We're only there to get it started, and that may take several decades to do it, but eventually we turn it over to the national leadership. And Dr. Ram Fumedze, he's the head of the school. I want you to hear from him.

23:28My name is Charlie Ramfumedze. I am the president of Christ Seminary Lukwane in South Africa. We are training shepherd expositors, men who can lead the congregation and also who can take the Bible and do the thorough exposition of the Bible. Because we identify this great need in our villages and also in our township for the churches that are dying without the spiritual milk of the word. And now we need men who can expand. Positive scriptures and feed the congregation and also impact this village and the continent at large. Thank you.

24:09That's Charlie. Well, let's move on. Let's talk about TMAI's mission. You can see it on the screen. TMAI is committed to fulfilling the Great Commission. How? Well, by training Indigenous church leaders like Charlie and like others that we're working with out there. So we're teaching, training Indigenous church leaders to be approved pastor teachers, much like your pastors here. That they would be able to equip churches to make biblically sound disciples. That's the Great Commission. They're the ones that do the work. We train them, but then they're set free to go do what they do, and that is to serve the Lord. But how should we make disciples in Japan?

24:55Japan's a tough country. And as I mentioned this morning, I have one of their prayer cards. They're our most recent addition to the Masters Academy International. Japan is a very populous country. We have five training sites there. We're praying that the Lord would help us open an actual brick and mortar in Tokyo. Very expensive to do ministry in Tokyo. But Tokyo is important because it's a very dense population, very easy to get through on train. And so, how do we make disciples there? Well, we do what we've just been talking about. What about Central America? How are they going to come to trust Christ? Cool thing about Central America is we have a school, and many of you have been there, right? Meda, Cepe, we are in Cihuatpeque, Honduras. Beautiful place. If you haven't been there, maybe next time the church goes, you go, and you have an opportunity to see what the school does there. They, again, are training pastors. And what's exciting about this area is that it's just not Honduras they're reaching. They have students there from the five nations of Central America. Every nation in Central America has students that go there. We'll learn in a minute how our school in Mexico City is sending people to one of the schools, future schools that you're excited about, and that's El Salvador, El Salvador. So Central America is important to us. And it's the same answer. We teach them all that Jesus told them to observe. Let me introduce you to Edwin Ziala. Many of you know Edwin. Edwin is Honduran. Edwin is our expert in Greek, and he teaches biblical Greek in Honduras.

26:49Currently, I have 25 students. And cuando yo pienso una cláce no pienso entanto en el impacto a la persona mismas y no el impacto a la singlesia. ¿ And when I'm teaching a class, I don't look at just the impact that I'm having at this people, but I try to look beyond it of the impact that this is having at their congregation. So, when I have these 25 students, I'm actually thinking about 25 churches. And so, that motivates me to just pursue excellence in this.

27:32And throughout the years, I've seen the impact of this. For instance, there's a student of mine before who is now graduated, and he was one of my Greek students, and now he's teaching Greek. And this is what he's doing. He's from El Salvador, and now he's doing it in El Salvador. In fact, we've been able to use him to substitute me when I wasn't able to teach Greek. So, the impact that seminary is creating is really incredible.

28:24It doesn't have to do just with the students that come here, but it goes beyond that. It goes to their churches. And that's what the Lord is doing here at CEPE through all the classes that we offer. That building looks a little familiar to some of you? Yeah, they just finished that two years ago, I think, about two years ago. And that's where that training takes place. They just finished that portfolio that was student? Mm-hmm. Yeah. What about Zimbabwe?

28:58Where is Zimbabwe? It's a little bit north of South Africa, right? It is a Marxist communist nation. We have students in Zimbabwe that come all the way down to our school in South Africa. And it's becoming increasingly difficult for them to get there because the price of gas is outrageous. It's hard for them. But we are still able to train them through things like Skype and other means that we have that I can't go into great detail here. But how do you reach a nation like that that's difficult? Well, you train their people who speak their language to preach God's word. And so this is how we reach into Zimbabwe.

29:40See all those surrounding nations. We've done TMAI's mission again. I wanted you to see it one more time. TMAI is committed to fulfilling the great commission. We need to get this in our minds by training indigenous church leaders. They're to be the leaders, to be approved pastor teachers, able to equip their churches to make biblically sound disciples. Just like what happens here, I want you to meet Elia Wallet, I can't pronounce his name, Elia Wadalaquenda. Elia is a pastor just outside of Lilongwe, Malawi. And when I visited him, I was in a little tiny van. And we were gone out of the city, we'd gone into a very remote area. I thought it was remote. We pulled into this little area, and all of a sudden, thousands of people come out. Thousands. And they surrounded the van. And I'm thinking, do I need to be a little uncomfortable here? And all of a sudden, we get to this spot where there's this massive 18-wheeler facing us, and there's no place to go.

30:45And I said to the driver, I said, so now what do we do? He goes, oh, we're here. The gate's opening. So he opens this gate, and it opens into this little paradise setting. There's a church. There's a whole community inside the gate. And it is an orphanage. And we're going to meet Eli, the pastor of the church. And he is currently a student at CAPA, which is the Central African Preaching Academy. I just want you to listen to his heart.

31:17My name is Selia Odala Cuenda. He's pastor, by God's grace. I'm pastoring a church here behind. The church name is Hope Community Church. We meet every Sunday for. Corporate worship. Our services start from 9 up to half 11. Every Sunday we're gathering like 100, I mean, 220, 250 members. I am a student at CAPA. I just finished in my first year and ready to start the second year. I came to Kappa through Reverend Gideon Manda. Let me mention here that it is always good and perfect to have fathers in the spirit. He's been my father, he's been my mentor. So when Kappa came, he knew who needed it most. Because all along, though I have a sense of calling into ministry, but I have had no formal theological training. This is not because there were no schools, but I just didn't want to go to a school where I will spend four years and then I'll come back, kind of like separating myself from the work that God has called me to do. So when Kappa came with the system of teaching, we go there two weeks and then we come back. I feel I'm still connected to the ministry and I'm enjoying the studies there. It is good. I think it is timely for me to do this for the work of the Lord that He has given me.

33:00Yeah, after finishing my festi, this is something that I didn't know in the Old Testament before. As a preacher, I was just taking the passage, going straight as if it is referring to us in those days. After going through the studies in the Old Testament, I realized that as a church, we are the church and we're not the nation of Israel. In the first place, when the passage is talking about the promise of the covenant with the people of Israel with God, I used to take that as if it is referring to me. I didn't know that. So before, I was not able to bridge from the Old Testament and to the New Testament. I was just taking everything as if God is speaking to us directly and without knowing the context and the historical context and all that. So I'm really happy. I believe we are making strides in terms of application of what the Bible is saying in our day. And after that, in coming up to the New Testament, I also had a problem to differentiate, especially the book of Revelation. I didn't know it was divided, I mean, it was divided in a way that it also has an aspect of the future, the way the tribulation period is described. I never knew about that. And I was mixed up things. And I thought, when I came to Cappa, I started studying and said, well, Wow, one thing of Kappa, they gave us the tools. They are giving us the tools. So I'm able to see by myself, not just telling us, but we are able to see the XGC thing and biblical interpretation. So we are able to see what, where, and when, and who. So those things they are really helping me, and I'm really enjoying what I'm studying.

35:00Now that I'm thanking God for the CAPA, for the school at Kappa, I'm also trusting God that He will help me to finish well. Why? Why finishing well? The vision that we believe God is showing us, giving us, directing us to, is to ensure that we decentralize whatever I am learning at CAPPA. There are many people in our church, even so-called leaders or laymen. Some of them we call them pastors, they are in the typical villages with minimal education that they cannot participate at CAPPA. We want to teach them the same things after we have finished. I want to have a college, not like CAPPA, but something that will find these people at their own level. We have many of our people in the church, in the villages. That they would only understand things in Chichewa. So, I, if God's willing, I want to participate in the translation of the Bible on a small extent. But on the large extent, I want to be involved in training people in this church, specifically in this church. So, we want to have training programs, but then it will be in Chichewa. So, we will learn everything there, we have the work to translate them. I believe that there are people, Gideon and other people, who will help us to do that, so that we now done everything to those who cannot come up here. That's what we are planning for the church. He mentioned a few times the word Chichewa. That is the national language in Malawi. And what he's talking about here is the people in his church, a lot of them, they don't know English. Well, he's fluent, as you can tell, in the English language. He's getting his studies in the English language, but then you know what? He has to teach them in their language, Chichewa. And he wants to be able to translate theological works into their language that they can understand. And the educational lever may not be that high, and so he needs to be able to take it from English, not only put it in Chichewa, but put it in a way that they can understand it. I can't do that, and neither can you. But who can? Well, we send people there to train them. They can do it, they do the work. We want the national leaders to do what they do. Tom. Do you remember him? Yeah, yes. And Jichewa, they don't have a Bible in Chichewa that's been translated from the original languages. So some of those students, these first generation students, have a burden to translate. They have an email, something that's been translated from the King James into Chichewa, but they don't have anything that started with the original languages. And so that's the burden of a lot of these. So it's exciting what's happening there. Thanks for saying that. And that's extremely important. When you have a Bible that's translated from another language, not the original Greek and Hebrew, there's all kinds of problems. I could tell you horror stories out there. Rick, I'm sure you could too, with just different translations of different works. All right. Well, what about our TMEI schools? Well, in Europe, we have a school in Albania. Albania is one of those schools Pastor Tom just mentioned here about translating. Well, their Bible is translated from Italian into Albanian. Albanian is much like a Greek language. And so these guys, right now, if you were to read through this prayer thing here, you're going to see how they've already translated some of the New Testament, the smaller books in the New Testament, and they're working on the book of Genesis right now. They're going to translate it into Albanian from the original languages. Well, how did they get that?

38:54Well, the guy who's the head of the school there grew up in communist Albania. When he was in college, he was one of the protesters that ultimately helped to bring down the communistic government. And he told me as he was growing up as a child that he kept hearing the word Bible, and he didn't know what it meant. He didn't know what that word meant, but he kept hearing it, and he didn't know what it was. He'd go to the library, and they would warn him sternly: do not ever ask for a Bible. You're going to end up in prison. Well, time goes by. The restrictions come down. He makes his way to Italy, but he got his hands on a Bible somewhere along the way. He makes his way to Italy, and he's studying God's Word. By the time he got to Italy, he knew that he was in the wrong place. He thought he'd go to a Catholic building. And he got in there and he saw all these relics and all these statues and things, and he got very afraid because he knew that the Bible said, you shall not commit idolatry.

39:54He ended up coming back to Albania out of frustration. And he was sitting on a park bench reading his Bible one day. And a young woman, an American, came up to him and said, well, what are you reading? He says, well, I'm reading my Bible, but I'm really not understanding it. And she said, you know what? We've just started a church over here, and we'd like to invite you to come. Well, you know this young girl, where she was from, she was from the Masters University, Masters University student at Grace Community Church doing a little outreach to Albania. And the church that they had just started was Anbar Hoxha's house. Anybody know of Anbar Hoxha? He's the Hitler of Albania. He was the guy that pronounced in their own founding documents that they are the first atheist nation of the country or the world. And yet, right in his household, he was no longer in existence, right in his household, the Masters Academy International started a school. In his household, they started a church. And our guy went to that church, heard the gospel, got saved. You know what? Now he's one of the leaders of that church, and he's translating Hebrew and Greek into the Albanian language so they have their own Bible. That's Albania. I kind of got on a rabbit trail there. We're in Germany, Switzerland. We're in Italy, Russia, Spain, Croatia, Czech Republic. Many of these places I've been to, Croatia, Czech Republic, and Albania, been to those locations. We're in Ukraine. What about Asians Pacific? We're in India. We're in the Philippines. We're in Japan. And then we're in some other secret locations. But in the U.S., we have Russian. Believe it or not, in Battleground, Washington, the state of Washington, we train in Russian. Why? Well, because we can do online training there, and it's much more safe. We can translate many works into the Russian language right here in the U.S. or even post them online in the Russian language, and they're training both in Russian and Ukrainian. So, Honduras, Mexico, Africa, you've seen that in Malawi, South Africa, Middle East, we have a few locations in the Middle East we'll talk about here in a minute, but let me just. Keep going and show you what's coming up. Now, we have about 50 nations right now pleading with us to come and open schools there. We don't open schools, they open the schools, we come in and we help them. But here's the schools, future schools that are pretty close at this point in time. Myanmar is just right around the corner. I was there a couple of years ago, and there's a school there that was started maybe about 10 years ago. And it is run by those who are from Myanmar, one guy from the U.S. You can see on the screen, I won't go into all of them, but Madagascar. Is that cool? Madagascar? Okay, that's really cool. We're going to be all over South America. Argentina, they've just applied to be a TMA training center, so they will be on with us in about two years. Fortaleza, Brazil, Ecuador, you don't see El Salvador in here because we just heard that they finally got approval from their government to have an accredited school. We heard that last night. Okay.

43:03TMA's global impact. As I said before, we have 17 brick-and-mortar training centers. We have 67-plus teaching locations around the world. 6,000 graduates in our time of existence. 2,000 current students that we're training and teaching. We've got 42 book translations and original works that we're publishing. We did publish in 2019. Rick, just a moment about what you're doing. Do you mind just speaking loudly? Well, we're doing together a database, and we're putting together a database of a lot of the materials that Pastor MacArthur has as well, and trying to gather the information on that, and then fielding all sorts of requests constantly for different works being translated and having to work with the publishers and things like that. And then we have a sort of a ministry ongoing with several different publishers as well.

44:10Great. Yeah. This is an important thing because there are a lot of languages out there that want books. They've been printed, but they only printed a certain amount, and the publishers can't make any more money. They're not going to print anymore. So Rick is helping us to get rights to those so that we can, in turn, print them and make them available. We appreciate you, Rick. Okay, so 6,500 church leaders attended 48 TMEI conferences this past year, 2019. And it's great to know that 71% of our TMEI faculty are indigenous, meaning they are from their own country. We had a donor recently that stepped up and he says, I'm going to donate some money to the seminary, the master's seminary, and I want the money to go to only international students who can come and be trained and go back to their countries. Over the next three years, I think it's about 30 past. From around the world, we'll go through the master's seminary, and they will ultimately be our professors around the world. Well, the story is still being written. It's only the beginning, and we say that TMAI relies on churches like this and on individuals like you that support the work of the ministry and the great commission. When you support us at TMAI, and you've been so faithful as a church to do that, you are actively in the trenches with us. You are our fellow workers with the truth, helping guys like Ellie get an education and others like him all over the world. Well, let me introduce you to Gideon Munda. He is our Dean of Students at CAPPA in Malawi. He's working on his doctorate right now. Let me just let you hear his heart.

45:44I'm Gideon Manda. I'm the Dean of Students at CAPPA, Central African Preaching Academy. I'm always waking up and excited doing what I do at CAPPA because of the fact that if you've heard in missions, they say the church in Africa is a mile wide and an inch deep. Ideally, what that means is the church is not taught. We in the Africa, the church, many times we emphasize emotions and not the word of God. So I'm excited to see every time when students graduate, they come with little knowledge and they go out committed to preaching and teaching God's word from the text. I'm so excited for that, and I'm grateful to the Lord that I'm part of that process.

46:27What caught my attention was to. To train men to rightly divide the word. And looking at the need in our country where a lot of men would read a passage and say something else that was not in the passage, and at times not even in scriptures. That to me was the greatest need of our church in Malawi. And so when Brian Biedebach invited me to be part of this work, to come and change men to be committed to the text, not only in our language or in English, but in the original languages, I was so excited and I'm glad I'm part of this.

47:03When you pray for Kappa, these are some areas that you need to focus on. There's a process of bringing in student admission. Pray that God would send us men that are called, men that God knows will do the work, that we can train them. Even when they are attending our classes, pray for them that they will not just learn the truth and have head knowledge, but the truth will sink in their hearts and change them to become the vessels that God wants them to be. Pray that their families will be examples to the communities which they've been called to minister. Pray that they will have the resources to do school. And pray that God will be honored even in the process of just training these men.

47:44I'd like to say this to all of you: that we're so grateful to the people of America, the church in America, what you're doing to the church in Malawi is something that humbles us. And we see that in the gesture of you praying for the church here and praying for these students. And the work here in honor of the Lord is a great contribution to the kingdom of God. And we thank God for this great contribution you're making. May God bless you. Thank you so much.

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