Welcome to the God's Goodness podcast where our mission is to encourage as well as highlight
God's goodness and modern-day miracles.
We are your hosts, Josh and Shelly Hankins.
Today we have with us a special guest.
This is part two of God's Mad Cat Missionary.
Her name is Wendy Lawson and I don't know if you got to listen to her first episode with
us, but she talked about some miracles in her past such as being healed from 11 years
of MS, which is not curable with today's modern medicine, but she was cured of that.
And she talked about some other miracles that she has seen in her years as a missionary.
And since then she had given me her book, God's Mad Cat Missionary, and I read it and I thought
it would be really cool if we went into an episode with the theme being the protection.
She always seemed to have God's hand of protection on her life from before she had the relationship
with God, you know, all the way when she was a little girl being forced to go to church
by her mom and being the born-again believer, but not having that relationship and then having
that relationship with God.
So I wanted to have her review some of those stories that highlight his protection over
her life.
And I believe, you know, a lot of us have this protection even though we don't realize
it, and he is walking us through all kinds of things that other people may have not survived.
But before we get into the episode, we're going to have Wendy open us officially with
the opening prayer.
Well, Heavenly Father, we just lift this day, this podcast up to you to give you glory,
Lord God, that you are just so good to all of us, Father God.
And I want to share today on this podcast about your hand of protection over me, the
theme of protection through my entire life, like Shelley said, from a little girl to today.
So Lord, we just ask you to bless every word that comes out of my mouth.
I'll let the Holy Spirit take over, Lord God.
And I thank you for their wonderful podcast with Shelley and Josh.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
Amen.
In the first chapter of your book, it's called Off to China.
And you describe that all the things from the plane ride, how everyone looks so calm
and sedated, and you were wondering, why aren't these people more excited?
And they even have this picture that was in a time magazine in 2000.
And I wanted you to share a little bit about that time.
Now back in the day, we didn't have cell phones, believe it or not.
And so one of your missions in China was to get the word out.
When you had taken a trip to Australia, you got 10,000 Bibles to be distributed in a country
where it's not allowed to be distributed.
And then you're sneaking into China with 75 double bags.
All it didn't look suspicious or anything.
And they had to be heavy.
They were.
Yeah.
And then you're praying that they don't stop you.
So on your missions, you were trying to spread the gospel of Jesus to a place where they
don't want this spread.
And you had to work in the cover of night, dressed like a Chinese peasant, and you would
be going out 11 o'clock at night, working all hours of the night with this 17-year-old
girl.
And you guys went all around just putting these tracks on people's windows and wherever
you could put them.
Their bicycle baskets.
Even on their bodies when they're laying on the street or the sidewalks.
So tell us a little bit about that time.
We're going to start with her time in Australia.
Okay.
So we went to Australia.
I couldn't wait to go on this missions trip with Marilyn Hickey Ministries out of Colorado.
We were going to smuggle the article in Time Magazine is when smugglers are working for
Jesus.
So I was ready for just a risky trip.
I mean, and this is where God's protection through my whole life just comes in.
So we landed in Australia and we were there to pick up 10,000 Bibles all written in the
Chinese language.
And so, and we put them all in 75 duffel bags, loaded them on the airplane and flew into
Hong Kong.
Okay.
So when we landed, we had these duffel bags.
And I mean, it looks so obvious.
And we were told that just go towards the green sign that said exit.
It was course written Chinese, but the green sign and just take your duffel bag, walk to
the green sign and get on the bus.
Do not say anything.
So that's what we did.
And there was some mumbling and things like that, but they were pretty confused of what
we were doing.
And the commonest officials were all dressed in their green, we called them turtles, long
pea coats down to the ground.
So we got on that bus and we delivered those Bibles into that underground church in Hong
Kong.
And we heard that not enough Bibles, 10,000, they'll rip a page out and get shared by 300
people, one page out of the Bible.
So then when after we dropped them off, our real mission now was to go into inner China
by train, 10 hours into inner China, sleeping on a plywood bunk.
It was not very comfortable.
And what was so unusual was going through the countryside, we could see those turtles,
those communist officials stationed every mile.
So as this trains just go on what a hundred mile an hour, I don't know, we just saw these
con just standing at attention and they do it all day long.
So that that was really something to watch that.
So we ended up in first inner city in China and we got a hotel, well, you can call it
a hotel, I guess, corrugated doors.
Everything looked the same, really dirty town, feces and urine all over the roads and stuff,
a dirty country.
So anyways, our tracking, we had these tracks.
And if you don't know what track, it's a little gospel message, a little pamphlet that you
can not read.
And we had 600 of them at night, each one of us, 250 of us, we'd have 600 tracks at night.
The disguise that we would dress in had these built in pockets.
They bathe them here in the United States for us to wear over there.
So we stuffed them with tracks.
As we walked around from 11 at night to five in the morning, we would hook our arms together
like we were almost lovers.
Nobody's going to bother, but they see two girls, you know, you're just asking for trouble.
So we just had to fake it as good as we could and just ignore it because we were on a mission
from God and there's God's protection of us.
We had to avoid manhole covers that were missing, guide bars that held up poles, you know, to
just cut your neck.
I mean, it was just dangerous in the dark, no street lights, you know, there.
So you're just taking your chances there.
So when we delivered those tracks, we'd put them on windowsills.
We could hear the people snoring inside in their beds.
We just laid on the windowsill, laid in their bicycle baskets, everything.
So when they'd wake up in the morning, there was Jesus everywhere and we'd be out of the
town by 5 a.m.
We were told what train station to go to, to take another train ride a few hours into
another inner city and we would do the same thing, 11 to 5 in the morning, 600 tracks
a night.
So we covered inner China with those tracks really good and we had to use code words also,
even though they didn't understand English, a lot of them, but we called God the boss
and we called the tracks the crumbs.
So we kind of knew, you know, what we were all talking about there.
And then when our mission there was done, we were in there a couple weeks and when our
mission was done, this one particular hotel we were in, there was a town square outside
of it.
And there were people, another team group in the room next to us and we were told not
to talk about God.
Do not pray, don't do anything like that.
Communist country not open to the gospel or anything, but they had an English teacher
station down at the desk of that hotel to listen in to see if we were talking about
God.
Well, that the team next door to us, they were talking about God.
They came up and got them.
We heard all the noise going on, all the racket.
They dragged them out.
They took them down into that town square along with their luggage, the Bibles they had,
any their clothes, they lit them all on fire.
And made them watch all their belongings just be destroyed.
So we were heading home then, I guess a few days later and long, long trip home and we
landed in Chicago and we're walking through the airport.
And who did we run into?
But like six of those people that were next door to us are teammates and they just look
like drown rats.
I mean, they had been gone, no clothes.
They didn't even have any money.
So God took care of them to got them to Chicago and I'm sure they made it home.
Okay.
But that was a very interesting trip.
How God protected us during the nighttime to females walking out.
And but we weren't scared.
We had no fear because we knew God was there to protect us.
So that is just one example of how He has protected me my whole life.
So when you brought 75 duffel bags full of 10,000 Bibles through Chinese customs, did
it one at any point did you start thinking this is nuts?
This is never going to work because this is a lot of duffel bags full of a lot of Bibles.
Right.
Like I would think you they're going to catch at least one of these.
Right.
You're moving in or maybe 25 of these, but 70.
Come on.
You're going to see your chances that you got 75 duffel bags and all looked identical.
I took a picture of them in my photo album, big pile of them and not one question asked.
You know, I've been in the military and I've done a lot of guard duty as a result and that
would never have flown.
You're trained to see certain things and like if you I have to look inside your bags, I
have to open your coat.
Let me see what's going on.
Like I have to know you can't come in here unless I check it.
I don't understand how you did that.
I don't understand how you got passed with 10,000.
I don't think I've seen 10,000 Bibles in one room.
They were heavy Christian bookstores.
I haven't seen 10,000 Bibles in a Christian bookstore, you know, and they told us that
God would give us supernatural strength that we're going to be able to carry those duffel
bags like they just have few clothes in them, not loaded with 100 Bibles.
So God gave us strength to just walk with those duffel bags like we were super people,
you know.
So that was another reason they never asked us.
It didn't look suspicious.
Look like we just might have had clothes in it.
Wow.
That's so incredible and that you had, I love the code words that you would call God the
boss and tracks with the crumbs.
And like I could see you guys, you know, giggling to each other is like, Hey, I dropped some
more crumbs off for the boss, you know, the changes to see you guys having a good time
with that.
How much fear not used specifically, but the team have being in a country that was so
openly opposed to any sort of Christianity.
How scared do you think the pulse was for the team, you know, were they all like you
like, we're got this, God's got this, or do you think some are like, I don't know, man,
I probably should have stayed home for this one.
Well, there might have been some people on that trip.
I never sensed it because I did, I wasn't sensing it, but I didn't see a look of fear
on anybody's face.
Really.
I mean, I was excited.
You were on a mission.
I was on a mission for God.
Yeah.
I'm working for God's the best.
Yeah.
You got some wild adventures.
And so you said that you would ride like in a motorcycle at night.
Oh yeah.
Oh, okay.
Without street lights.
Right.
We were lost.
Crystal and I got lost tracking one night and we saw lights way in the distance and I said,
let's head to those lights.
That could be a hotel or something.
So we did.
We walked and walked and voiding those manhole openings and everything.
So we ended up in this hotel.
Well, we go in, there's like three people, three young Chinese people behind the desk,
couple girls and a guy.
And they didn't understand us at all.
They're inner China.
They know no English at all.
And there's no Google translate back then.
No.
No, there was nothing.
So I motioned to them.
I mean, we needed to ride back to our hotel.
I didn't even know the name of the hotel.
It was all of them were covered with corrugated doors.
They all looked identical.
But when I gave a motion for a car, you know, steering a wheel, they had no idea what that
was.
But then I gave the motion of a motorcycle, you know, your right hand flexing the throttle.
Well, they knew exactly what that was because they all had motorcycles.
There are mopeds, scooters.
So they let me borrow.
In fact, it was the same kind of bike that I had back here in the United States.
It was a Zuki.
I knew exactly how to drive that bike.
So I get on that bike and I'm going through these inner towns in China at night in the
dark with crystal on the back, looking at all these corrugated doors, having no idea
which one was ours.
So you went off on the motorcycle, but Crystal stayed back at the hotel.
Yes, she did.
Okay.
So I did not find the hotel.
So I said, well, I've got to go back to where Crystal is and get her.
So for some reason, I just remembered how to get back with her to her in that hotel.
So we didn't know how we were going to get back.
We didn't even know where we were.
So here we ended up calling Crystal's mother back in the United States.
She lived in Oregon and the Chinese people behind the desk let us call her.
And I think it was like in the middle of the night or something to her.
But anyways, a very long distance call.
Very long distance.
Yeah.
So, but she had the itinerary where we were staying in these different cities in China
and stuff.
So she had that information, we told her to call the Maryland Hickey office and let them
know and they somehow got a hold of everything and we're looking out the window of this hotel
and up pulls a cops and actually they were in a car and they had us get in the back seat
of the car.
We didn't know why.
But here they drove us back to the hotel.
What were the odds of that happening?
And we thank Crystal's mother and the Maryland Hickey Crusade for finding us in inner China
and taking us back safely.
And we thank God for just directing people, orchestrating everything that happened that
it just happened perfect to get us.
Nobody got injured on that trip.
Nobody got sick.
And well, people got deported, but they weren't hurt or anything.
They just lost everything they had brought with them.
But what a trip that was.
And so I was still on my way to do many more mission trips with that threat of adventure
in them.
So did you use that opportunity at that time when the turtles showed up to give you a ride
back to look over at the people that loaned you the motorcycle and then make the steering
wheel sign again and then point at their car so that you could educate them in the future,
that that was what you were talking about.
Because I seem like there's a missed opportunity if you didn't.
Yeah, maybe they just didn't see too many cop cars where they were.
That's good.
And that means they're not doing a lot of crime.
But that was a good thing because if you had missed that train ride, it was a 10 hour ride.
So that would have been a really big deal to miss that one.
Yeah.
And we were all separated.
We all went different ways tracking at night.
And you all had to come back to that specific hotel by five in the morning.
And we just prayed that everybody show up.
Because a lot of us floating out in those towns.
Did you guys go out two by twos?
Yes.
Hmm.
Yeah, two by two.
That's pretty interesting.
Sounds pretty biblical.
Yeah.
To go out two by twos.
To go preach in the gospel.
Essentially, two bunch of towns.
Yeah.
So tell us about the time and the Solomon Islands.
Okay.
Well, God sent me there three times and it's way in the South Pacific.
They're the Fiji Islands that I also went to in Vanuatu.
But the Solomon Islands, it's a group of a lot of islands.
And we went to this one and they all had chiefs on them.
And we went in dug out canoes.
And when we would pull up to the shoreline, the chief would come out followed by all
of his natives.
And some with spears and shields and swords and everything.
And but our missionaries, they knew their language there because they had been living
there in the Marshall Islands and the Solomons.
So they were saying that we were there to help out medically.
So we were setting the medical tents up.
Well, if you want to call them tents, but we had a medical cubicle.
We had a dental and we had an optical.
And the people would come and stand in line and tell us their complaint.
Well, of course, they're interpreters.
So the main mission behind those medical missions was we gave them free medicine.
And that always opened the doors to us to all these islands, all these countries that
I went to.
If you didn't have medicine, you weren't getting in.
And that to help their people, they were more than willing to open their doors.
So in the Solomons, we had those clinics in the different islands that we had.
When it came to the end of the Solomons of that particular mission, we were having a
big feast.
And there were oh, there was like six, seven hundred natives that came to them.
And we could see them coming over the horizon in their dugout canoes and all dressed in
their garb from their specific island.
They were just beautiful.
And so they all pulled up to this place where we were and we were going to have a feast.
Well, this feast consisted of, first of all, banana leaves laid all over the ground in
a great big spread.
On top of that, they throw rice down on top of those banana leaves.
On top of that, chunks of raw fish they throw in those banana leaves.
And then you eat it and you eat it with your hands.
There's no utensils over there or anything like that.
So you just scoop it up with their hands and eat it.
And people say, oh, I can't eat raw fish.
And well, yeah, you would.
You would eat it when you're hungry.
I ate dog brains.
I ate ostrich glands, monkey balls.
When you're hungry, you will eat it.
And now during that feast, after we had all eaten, we all lined up the medical team.
And I don't know.
Maybe there was 30 of us.
I can't remember the number.
But we all lined up because all these natives wanted to shake our hands.
So I'm just, and you know, you smile and say, God bless you.
They don't know what you're saying, you know, but a smile is universal.
So you just smiled and thanked them and everything.
So shaking hands, shaking hands, hundreds of hands.
And this one little native comes up to me and he puts some beads around my neck.
And I said, oh, thank you so much.
You're so pretty.
Thank you.
And just go on a couple hundred more hands and then another little native, he comes up
and he puts a string of beads on my neck and thank you.
This is so pretty, you know.
So after it was all over the missionaries are way in the back of this field.
So we're walking towards them and they said, Wendy, Wendy, come here.
So I go over and they go, they put it in my neck and those beads and they said, where'd
you get those?
I said, well, two little natives gave him to me back there.
They were, do you know what that means?
I said, well, no, what?
And they said, well, you just got married twice.
I said, married twice.
So I was sent back there.
God sent me back there a year later and I thought, wow, I might be able to meet my two
little husbands back there.
Well, one was kicked off the island and one disappeared.
So I never did meet my husband.
I said, I married over there probably to go look for you.
They couldn't keep up.
So you said there are six, seven hundred people and they came from different islands throughout
the group of these islands.
Did they all get along with each other?
Actually they did not.
There was like a civil war kind of thing going on between the islands.
Okay.
And so a lot of these people on the islands, they did not get along with each other.
So they had some drums and things like that.
And they were going to put on some shows for us, flaming swords and spears and you know,
just what you actually see on TV sometimes.
So we were just watching them do that and something drew me up out of my seat.
It was like God just pulling me up out of my seat.
I went to the middle of the floor and this little native, just as black as black could
be at a foot shorter than me and I picked him up.
I picked him up and held him like a football.
I can't believe I did that.
And I started dancing around with him.
Well, hundreds of people were laughing.
They thought that was the funniest thing they had ever seen.
I put him down and I was doing different dances we do here in the States and he was mimicking
me.
And I tell you what, the missionaries told me that it was even written up that through
that episode, that opportunity where they all got to laugh together over me.
Really?
That's okay.
And it just made a big difference in the islands and how they all got along because those missionaries
wrote to me after I got home and told me what a difference that made of me dancing with
that little native like a football.
So who would have ever thought that?
God uses all kinds of circumstances.
Yeah, happy feet.
So you were compelled to dance and these people who had animosity for one another were joined
in laughter watching the antics of you carrying one of their own.
Right.
Yes.
And just having the time of your life.
Yeah.
Enjoying life.
And so what drew them to the island?
Was it the medicine or was it just the feasts that they're going to have to send you off?
Like what drew them initially to that feast?
There is talk between the islands and everybody knew we were coming.
In fact, no matter where, what jungle we went to, always preplanned with a lot of advertising,
banners, people just telling people because they get free medicine, free glasses or free
medical help, free.
I get some teeth pulled that have been bothering them their whole lives.
I mean, they welcomed us.
Hmm.
Yeah, that sounds like it'd be beneficial.
Right.
That sounds very beneficial because, you know, in a primitive tribe, they don't have glasses
and they don't have dentists.
And I'm sure they have ways of dealing with tooth pain that isn't something that we would
recommend.
Well, actually, right, when we would pull the teeth, we'd let them point to their three
worst teeth because there's hundreds of people in line.
We can only, we only have time to pull three.
So point to your three worst ones.
So they would do that and we would bring some Novikin out with a needle.
Well, they freaked out.
They'd never seen anything like that.
They had nothing for numbing.
Maybe they used drugs with crushed coral and roots of plants and rub it and it turns their
mouth orange and they think that that helps.
I don't know.
You weren't about to find out.
That worked or not.
Right.
So yeah, I was actually a dentist.
I was trained to be a dentist in those countries.
So, but when we gave them the Novikin, we asked them, they'd never experienced that
feeling and we said, let them let us know when it gets numb.
Well, they never, they don't know what that word numb even through a translator, but they
called it fat.
Their lips were fat.
So when they said they told us their lips felt fat, we knew they were numb.
So I'd get in there and boy, you got to have some muscles for those people.
The African teeth, long roots.
I mean, you got to be strong to pull them out.
Filipino teeth, just a little pool.
They come right out.
So it's somehow God created different teeth for different people all over the world.
Yeah.
Interesting.
I bet it has a lot to do with the diet that he gave them.
I bet.
Yeah.
And these people, a lot of them were fat and I guess it's eating all that rice.
You know, I mean, I hardly ate it all over there, but I did eat rice and I actually put
weight on when I came home.
And the rice was cooked.
It was cooked.
But they didn't know enough to cook the fish.
No.
They don't cook the fish.
I said, you said that you said that you ate a lot of different weird foods, which, you
know, God clearly protected you from the different weird diseases that you can get from eating
raw and undercooked meat and whatnot worms that we don't have here.
And you said there was either better starve.
And I kept thinking to myself, I guess I'm eating Jesus because I would rather starve.
I would rather starve than eat monkey balls or dogs brain.
Like, I'm not, no, thank you.
And I understand this is very offensive to you, but I cannot do this.
I mean, no disrespect.
This is not going to happen.
I am not putting that in these lips.
Well, that's why God made me a missionary.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Because I can eat anything.
I'm fearless.
I can do anything.
I mean, I was the perfect person to do that.
In the class I was healed and I could speak by testimony all over the world.
And I did.
I spoke in all countries.
I had interpreters.
So God used me in many different ways on those trips, not only medically, because I was a
paramedic, but because of my healing.
I'm glad you said that, that you were the perfect missionary.
I was.
Because you are an illustration of what the qualities would be.
Right.
I don't have a lot of fear for certain things, but I have a very delicate palate.
Right.
We'll put it mildly.
I don't need a lot of things.
And so I don't think I'd be a good fit.
I'm a good fit for most of it, but not all of it.
And I come back very skinny.
And what was really cool is he didn't start you on this until you were 48.
That's right.
I was healed when I was 48.
So to start out a mission field for 20 years, I did that until I was 68.
And I mean, working, I mean, most of the day in really hot, they were rugged trips.
So they were, oh, they were tough.
When I was reading the back of your book, it talks about you floating 400 miles down
the Amazon river on a cattle barge.
But one of the details you don't have on the back of the book is that the cattle barge
is attached to another boat with a piece of rope and there's nothing steering the cattle
barge.
And so you're at the mercy of it going wherever, hopefully following the boat that's pulling
it in the dark.
And then sometimes it ends up in branches and then you have snakes and tarantulas falling
down on you.
And then on the barge, you had tarps set up because it's a cattle barge.
And so you made walls of plastic.
And it was just, it was kind of comical about everybody run, take cover.
And the nationals, they made us all hammocks and we were able to, there's, I think, maybe
12 hammocks on that cattle barge and they strung them.
So, and when we ran into those trees, see, we had two captains of the boat.
Well, every time the one captain went to the bathroom, we wrecked.
So we wrecked twice on that, on that Amazon journey.
But when we would be fired, when we would hit that tree and all those tarantulas and
bugs and everything come down, we would all swing in unison in those hammocks.
Everybody ever got hurt, never got thrown off their feet because we were all laying.
It was in the middle of the night, we were traveling.
What a blessing.
Yeah, yeah, just swinging God's protection again.
Yeah.
A blessing having snakes and tarantulas fall on you while you sleep.
That's blessing.
Yeah.
And then at the bottom of the cattle, the cattle barge, there was all these slatted wood, the
whole length of it.
And when all of those rats and tarantulas and all that fell down, you could hear their
toenails under, you know, just running underneath those slats.
And we're up in our hammock, you know, safe, get your feet up off the ground.
But boy, we heard them all night running around in there.
But, you know.
You're lucky it wasn't a jaguar jumping out of that tree.
I know.
I probably would have taken it home.
I don't know about that.
I don't know if you got that one through customs.
Yeah.
Harder to hide than 10,000 Bibles, maybe.
Right.
Maybe not.
You seem to have a way about it.
God's really been kind of shielding you from the enemy.
Really?
And that's pretty amazing.
Amazing.
And, you know, accidents I've been in and I mean, just, I could just go on and on.
No, and I just feel really good.
I mean, I'm 75 now and I'm still trucking.
I'm still working for God and mission trips have slowed down a little bit.
We do have a lot of problems in our world, but we do know we're under God's protection
when we go on one of them.
But I feel like maybe I'm passing the mantle on a little bit.
Maybe somebody a little younger than me.
You know?
But now you can do different things for the kingdom.
I do.
And now the newest project God has you maybe working on is you're called to maybe put your
stories in a movie.
Right.
So now she's working on finding all the people to help her with that because who knows about
doing that without having done it before.
Right.
I've had like four different production companies from New York and LA and they're interested
in adapting my book into a movie.
But that's a lot for me because I don't know what I'm doing there.
I would need, well, first of all, a lawyer.
It's a five year contract.
Make sure you're getting a good deal.
Yeah.
I need a trailer made.
That's a few thousand dollars.
Get that trailer made.
Out there in LA.
But I need like a TV producer kind of person.
I could even use a secretary.
Even though I am one.
I could use one.
But yeah, there's a lot involved to it and I just can't keep up with all the emails right
now.
I'm doing the podcast.
So one step at a time.
Yeah.
And maybe this podcast could be a prelude to that.
Yeah.
And I've been on the 700 Club, so they got a clip of that.
You know, I couldn't show them that.
And also I filmed a lot of those mission trips with VHS, those recorders we had back
in the day.
So I got a lot of tapes showing me in refugee camps and bombs and helicopters and tanks.
And when I was in the Albania war over there at Kosovo, I tell you to be an American and
look at our tanks and our artillery and our Black Hawk.
I was so proud to be an American over there.
And it was just a wonderful feeling.
I mean, we were really pitching in over there.
So at zero point, you felt any fear in any of your trips.
So at no point, at any point, you were just always confident that God had you.
Yeah.
I mean, looking back, I can't thank you of anything I was really scared of.
I think that is why you weren't scared.
I think that's why God gave you his protection, because you had full faith in him.
You did not waver.
You know, in the book of James, it talks about how having no doubt when you have faith,
when you ask for something, you ask for it as if you're going to get it.
You're a fetter about like a wave, right?
And I think that was you.
And I think that that is a direct result of your obedience to him.
Your faith in him is why you were called into missions, because he knew you would be faithful
in this.
And I think your childhood led up to that with the fearlessness that you had as a child.
And I think it takes a special kind of person to do missions trips and not just fearless,
not just an open pallet, not just a willingness to explore new things, but there's like, there's
more to it because you have to have compassion for people.
Otherwise, why are you doing it?
And so you are filling a whole list of things that God says, this is what I want from our
people.
And he said, when Jesus told us, hey, go out to all nations and make disciples, right?
Go everywhere.
And here you are going out there, bringing the word of God to everybody planting the
seed.
And that is a very difficult thing to do, especially in closed countries or hostile
countries, what I used to call before, we got the new closed country word.
And there's a lot of hostile countries.
A lot.
There's a lot, a lot of hostile countries that don't like it, which blows my mind that
people still think that the Bible is a fairy tale.
It's the only fairy tale that's illegal in 51 countries.
You know, you don't see Alice in Wonderland illegal in any countries.
You don't see any Cinderella illegal in any countries.
Like that's kind of, kind of should give you an idea that this might actually have some
weight to this book.
And you know, they were so anxious to receive a Bible.
And we had interpreters that used hand puppets.
And in fact, the puppet's name was Tito.
And they had all the children gather around a circle and Tito would give the gospel message
to all these kids, young kids, teenagers, and here at the end, they would all repeat the
sinner's prayer after Tito.
So what a useful tool that puppet was.
So you know, water to take water in there.
In fact, I'm very much into contributing to water wells, because I've seen 3, 400 people
stand in line to get a little bucket of water.
And so they need more money to drill wells deeper.
So that since I experienced that for 20 years, I'm very much into the water.
You can't live without water.
So that's where my offerings go.
Cool.
Thank you so much for coming on again and sharing some of these stories.
They were amazing.
And I'm sure God will put just the right people in touch with you to make these movies possible
because then more people can know not everybody's going to read a book, but a lot of people
will watch a movie.
I'm one.
Yeah, definitely watch it before I read.
Obviously.
And to get ahold of me.
You have a website.
I do.
It's called madcatmissionary.com.
And you could just there's a link there that you can notify me and you can email me through
there.
So yeah, if you're ever interested in that, just let me know.
If you can't help directly and you know someone who can let her know.
Yeah, that would be amazing.
Right.
Because I'm vested now.
I want to see this movie.
Me too.
And I want to say take off.
So all you people listening, we really need some, you might, you could be a cameo or
someone.
Get y'all dressed up, you know, and.
Like the guy in the Marvel movies.
Yeah, like Stanley, little cameo in his own movies show up a little bit part.
One of the somebody working at a hotel or something.
I hope the best for it.
And I can't wait to see it.
I know that God has big plans for you.
I know he's already shown good big plans, but he's not done with you.
I guess not.
You know, I type in published books for pastors now kind of at a home job and not traveling
the world and millions and zillions of miles and but nope, he's not done with me.
Here I go again.
I see it coming.
Awesome.
Yeah.
Better using me.
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