OR: You remind me of–
RR: They are one of those 34.
OR: –yes, of a pastor down in Texas who heard about this and met his deacon board and they reexamined their whole missionary program. And they found that in some places their money wasn’t winning souls and healing the sick. Richard, you remember he flew up here with a $45,000 check from his church to sponsor one of the ORU medical students to be a medical missionary in a nation.
RR: And he said, “This isn’t the last of the money you’re going to get, you’re going to get more than this project,” he said, “because I’m with you. (Applause)
ER: Honey, let’s get back to the point of why God wants this done and why He’s so urgent about it? To me the whole result of why He said, “If you don’t turn the medical school around, I’m going to take you home,” the reason He said that is because He’s concerned about hurting medical people in there because a medical person opens up a country so that the other team can get in. And as an example–let me tell you this–tell the people this. You know the story and Richard and Lindsay. But our people don’t know it. I may have shared it on television once before. We had a medical team of students who went to Africa a summer or two ago just for the summer and they took some singers and ministers, etc., a whole group of students went. And they went to a little clinic in Africa. Two of the young medical people had been examining the patients there because they didn’t have a permanent doctor. And one night a young woman came in to that clinic and she was just as heathen as she could be. She’d never heard of Jesus, but she was bleeding to death. And the young doctors examined her and they said, “This woman has to have blood or she won’t live.” So they went around to all the team to examine their blood to see who had the kind of blood this woman needed, and it happened to be one of those medical students. And he gave her a blood transfusion of his own blood and saved her life. The next morning when she came to, they said to her through an interpreter, “Do you know what has happened to you?” And she said, “Well, I know I’ve been very sick.” And they said, “This young man right here gave you his blood and saved your life. But the most important thing that you should hear is that two thousand years ago a man spilled all of His blood on a cross thatyour soul might be saved and you might have eternal life.” And that young woman accepted Jesus Christ lying right there on the bed. (Applause) Now that is the end result of what these healing mission teams can do. We who are at home can participate and help to open up a country. We may not be able to go like the young doctor who will open it up, but if we give to this program the Lord will give–our reward will be just as great. I really believe that. Our reward will be just as great if we take a part in helping to open up a nation as the young doctor who was in there and helps to open it up.