{"id":304806,"date":"2017-12-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/a-unique-look-at-missions\/"},"modified":"2017-12-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T17:00:00","slug":"a-unique-look-at-missions","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/a-unique-look-at-missions\/","title":{"rendered":"A Unique Look at Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>guest: Amy Peterson | Series: Dangerous Territory | As a child, Amy Peterson read tales of brave missionaries and longed to serve God in an extraordinary way, too. While in high school, Peterson made a commitment to serve God overseas for one year. 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She talks about what it was like to serve God in Southeast Asia.","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2017-12-14.pdf","transcript_content":"<strong>Bob: <\/strong>As a young girl, Amy Peterson knew she wanted to live a life that mattered\u2014a life that was focused on God and His kingdom. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>I wasn\u2019t sure, as a woman, growing up Christian, how I could have those kinds of adventures. When I realized that I could be a missionary and have those adventures, while also serving God, it was like, \u201cWell, that\u2019s what I am doing, <em>for sure<\/em>.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Thursday, December 14<sup>th<\/sup>. Our host is Dennis Rainey, and I\u2019m Bob Lepine. We\u2019ll hear from Amy Peterson today about how her desire to serve God led her to some unexpected places and into <em>dangerous<\/em> territory. Stay with us. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. I want to play something for you. This is actually something\u2014this is a conversation we had with a couple who were radio guests, back in\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>1:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014this was in April of 1993\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Wow!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>So, that goes back a ways. In fact, we had\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Let me just think what I was doing back in April \u201993, Bob. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>We had to dig this out of the box of DAT tapes. This was not even\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>DAT?\u00a0 People don\u2019t know what DAT is. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I know. We had to find\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>They think we\u2019re from the South or something. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u201cWhere is \u2018dat\u2019 tape at?\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u201cWhere is dat?\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes. So, we found the DAT and we pulled it out. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLet me ask our guest: \u201cHow old were you in April of \u201993?\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>Do you know?\u00a0 [Laughter]\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I do know. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>There is the rest of the story\u2014we\u2019ll tell about that in just a moment. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Our guest was 12 years old. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>That\u2019s right. I was 12 years old in\u2014\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>She was 12 years old. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>\u2014actually, in April of \u201993,\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>That\u2019s right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>\u2014I was 11. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You were 11. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>But I was <em>nearly<\/em> 12. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Boom!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Your birthday had not\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Give me a fist bump\u2014boom! [Laughter]\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Should we identify our guest before I play this tape?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Not yet; not yet. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Okay; alright. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Let\u2019s hear the clip. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>So, the point is the clip we\u2019re going to hear was a conversation that I was having with you\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>2:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014with our guest [at that time]\u2014back when our guest was 11 years old. Here was the conversation. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Previous Interview]\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I\u2019ve got to ask you, at the outset: \u201cHow in the world did you communicate a sense of mission?\u00a0 Why do you think that is so important in raising kids today?\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Well, they\u2019re going to have a cause\u2014or call it a mission\u2014of some kind. I think they look for that instinctively. Well, there are plenty of those causes out there in the world today. Almost all of them are the wrong cause; and I believe parents have to put an exciting, vibrant mission in front of their children to give them a reason for life and a direction in life. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI must say, we didn\u2019t do it with a lot of plan and purpose\u2014it was sort of accidental. I think, mainly, because <em>we<\/em> were interested and we did little things like\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>3:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014since we were fascinated by a missionary biographies, our home was <em>full<\/em> of missionary biographies. When our kids ran out of anything else to read, that\u2019s what they would read; and that had its effect upon them. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Studio]\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Now, the reason for that clip\u2014that, by the way, was Don Myers, who was here with his wife Sue. They were on staff with Cru<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> back\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes; and served in the continent of Africa for over two decades\u2014maybe, three. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I think, after that interview\u2014I think I ordered a bunch of missionary biographies to put in our home [Laughter] so they\u2019d be available for our kids to read as they were growing up. Although, I think we already had some missionary biographies lying around the house by that time. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Right. The reason you mentioned that is because?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>There was an 11-year-old at our house, who was reading anything that she could find around the house; and she read a few of those missionary biographies. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And that 11-year-old grew up to become a writer, a wife, and a mom; and it\u2019s your daughter, Amy. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>4:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAmy, welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>Thank you so much for having me. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Let me just give you a little background on Amy. She is a writer and an adjunct professor at Taylor University in Upland, Indiana; has her Master\u2019s degree in\u2014\u201cWhat else?\u201d but missions and intercultural studies from Wheaton College; and she is, as I mentioned, a mom to two children: Rosie who is eight and Owen who is\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>He is six. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014six. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And she is the author of a book, <em>Dangerous Territory: My Misguided Quest to Save the World<\/em>. My question for you\u2014after I thoroughly enjoyed your book\u2014I read it from cover to cover. Barbara read it too. We both just thought, \u201cWe knew her when\u2026\u201d\u00a0 [Laughter]\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>Well, thank you. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u201cWe knew her when\u2026\u201d\u00a0 I just felt like you were too hard on yourself\u2014your misguided quest to save the world. Comment on that if you would. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>Well, you know, first of all, the subtitle was written by the publisher, not me. [Laughter]\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>5:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>So, the subtitle\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>So, my publisher was pretty hard on me; don\u2019t you think?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis: <\/strong>He was punishing you. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>Yes. No; but I definitely had a sense of being on a quest or I had a really adventurous spirit. You know, I was inspired by tales of missionaries from a very young age. To me\u2014I was a reader, and I loved to read Nancy Drew\u2014she had adventures and solved mysteries. I wasn\u2019t sure, as a woman, growing up Christian, how I could have those kinds of adventures. When I realized that I could be a missionary and have those adventures, while also serving God, it was like, \u201cWell, that\u2019s what I\u2019m doing, <em>for sure<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>So, let me jump to 25 years later, with an eight-year-old daughter at home. If Rosie comes and says, \u201cI want to buy this biography of Amy Carmichael,\u201d do you go, \u201cGo for it!\u201d or do you go, \u201cWell, let me\u2014let\u2019s talk about Amy before you read that book\u201d?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>6:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>It depends on what the biography is. I think that there are some missionary biographies written for children that are pretty problematic in some ways. They sort of jump over \/ alight over the really dangerous, and sad, and even tragic parts of missionary life. They end up making missionaries like these glorious, glamorous heroes, who are better than your average Christian\u2014I think setting up that kind of dichotomy\u2014especially with a young child, who doesn\u2019t have a framework for understanding tragedy. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, they\u2019ll read a story like that\u2014and even if you read about Gladys Aylward and she\u2019s hiking through the mountains with these children she\u2019s trying to save and they\u2019re practically starving\u2014when I read that, as a child, I thought, \u201cAwesome!\u201d; you know?\u00a0 When I read that, as an adult, I\u2019m like, \u201cThis is breaking my heart.\u201d So, I think we need to be careful how we introduce missionary stories to our kids. I don\u2019t think that means we shouldn\u2019t introduce them, but I would probably want to read it with her or read it before her, at least; yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>7:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>So, as you started your journey and as you began your book, you make this statement\u2014you say: \u201cI wanted to be extraordinary\u2014the greatest, truest kind of Christian, one whose life <em>counted<\/em>\u2014not one who raised 2.5 children behind a white picket fence in American suburbia. I wanted to be one of heaven\u2019s heroes.\u201d\u00a0 Did that come from reading those biographies?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Amy: <\/strong>Yes; I think so. It came from reading those biographies, and it came from\u2014and just to be clear\u2014in expressing that desire today, I\u2019m <em>critiquing<\/em> the way that I felt\u2014not holding that up as like: \u201cAll children should want to be one of heaven\u2019s heroes.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019m critiquing that desire and saying like, \u201cI had this wrong-headed sort of paradigm that there were two kinds of Christians\u2014normal everyday Christians in American suburbia and the true heroes of heaven, who were missionaries.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>8:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think that\u2019s a <em>false<\/em> dichotomy; right?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>I think that when we have that dichotomy between like ordinary Christians and extraordinary Christians, it has two really dangerous things. One is that it leaves missionaries with this sort of self-inflated sense of themselves; right?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Right; right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>Also, it leaves them unable to communicate the realities of their experience to their supporters, back home, because supporters are thinking, \u201cThey are the great missionaries.\u201d\u00a0 Missionaries, then, can\u2019t talk about their doubts or their failures without fearing they\u2019ll lose, actually, financial support. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThen, also, it has this effect for the normal people in the pews of making them feel like they\u2019re second-class Christians or of making them feel like they are off the hook: \u201cWell, the missionaries are taking care of the evangelism. So, I don\u2019t need to do that,\u201d or \u201cThe missionaries are making the grand sacrifices. So, I can live my normal, comfortable life.\u201d\u00a0 Actually, I think all of us are called to radical sacrifices. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>9:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s just, maybe, that doesn\u2019t always look the way we think it\u2019s going to look. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I\u2019m glad you are saying that because, when we raised our kids\u2014and growing up in a ministry family, even as you did\u2014it has its downsides \/ it has its landmines, so to speak. We wanted our kids to know: \u201cWhether they ended up in \u2018fulltime Christian work\u2019 or whether they are in fulltime Christian work through their vocation\u2014that it didn\u2019t really matter\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>Right; yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014\u201cwhat they did\u201d; right?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>Yes; it is fulltime Christian work either way; right?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Just be faithful with the gifts God has given you. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen do you remember you entertained the idea of stepping off of the Island of America, so to speak, into the world into some dangerous territory?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>When I was in high school, we were on a youth group retreat. Our youth pastor had been talking about the importance of missions and evangelism.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>10:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAt the end of the retreat, you know, he asked us all\u2014with every head bowed and every eye closed\u2014to raise our hands if we would commit to spending, at least, one year serving God overseas. He said: \u201cMormons all give two years. You can surely give one.\u201d\u00a0 [Laughter]\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>We\u2019re not going to comment on that. [Laughter]\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>I remember\u2014I mean, I raised my hand, at that point; and that was after I had already been on two short-term mission trips. I think I\u2019d been thinking for a while that that was a direction I was probably headed or likely to head; but at that point, I did make a commitment to spend, at least, one year overseas. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I remember a couple other things that I think were influential for you. One was\u2014you were a part of that audience, 25 years ago, in the field in Tennessee.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>That was a few years later, but\u2014yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>For the first time ever, you heard about seashells from John Piper. [Laughter] You heard him say, \u201cDon\u2019t waste your life gathering seashells on the seashore.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>11:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat resonated with you; didn\u2019t it?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>Definitely. If you look at my scrapbook of that event, I think it says, \u201cIt changed my life.\u201d\u00a0 [Laughter]\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Then, you went to a class, while you were in college\u2014the perspectives class. I remember you\u2014I don\u2019t know if it was an email or a phone conversation\u2014but it fueled the passion for you to be overseas. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Amy: <\/strong>Yes; definitely. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Here is my take on Amy\u2014[who] was then, Amy Lepine \/ now, Amy Peterson\u2014my take on Amy Lepine was\u2014when your dad told me you were headed to a country that we\u2019re not going to be able to name, here, on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>\u2014when you were headed to this country, I said, \u201cAmy is doing that?!\u201d\u00a0 Now, I just had this little, kind of pristine picture of you, as a young lady\u2014very sharp\/very smart\u2014but I didn\u2019t have you as a spiritual guerilla with\u2014[Laughter]\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u2014as an adventurer; right?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes; as an adventurer!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Well, imagine <em>me<\/em> when Amy tells me\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>12:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Well, she\u2019s your daughter!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I know. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>You helped raise her!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>But when she says, \u201cOkay; I\u2019ve talked to this agency, and they want to place us in this country;\u201d and she said\u2014I said, \u201cTell me about the city.\u201d\u00a0 She said, \u201cWell, it\u2019s about 250,000 people.\u201d\u00a0 Then, the next thing she said: \u201cAnd as far as we know, the other person and I, who are going into that city, are the only two Christians in the city.\u201d\u00a0 I thought: \u201cThat\u2019s not the kind of missionary service I\u2019m thinking about. I want you to have a group you\u2019re getting together with on Sunday night, and you\u2019re all studying the Bible\u2026\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014somewhere down in South Alabama. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Exactly!\u00a0 [Laughter]\u00a0 Not in a country that is dangerous, where you and your friend are the only two Christians in town. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Okay, Dad, you shared how you took that. Amy, do you remember the look on your dad and your mom\u2019s face?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>It was over the phone\u2014so I can\u2019t say what the look on their face was, but all I remember is this was <em>exactly<\/em> where I wanted to be going. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>13:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOf all the cities they could have assigned me to\u2014the one that was the most unreached or the \u201cdarkest\u201d \/ the hardest place to go\u2014I was so excited that that was my place to go. I don\u2019t remember feeling <em>his<\/em> fear. I mean, I don\u2019t even remember being aware of it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I don\u2019t think we communicated over the phone. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAmy\u2019s heard me tell the story\u2014it was, maybe, a week later that I took her brothers to a movie. We went and saw a movie about the Civil War called <em>Gods and Generals<\/em>. In the movie, it quotes Stonewall Jackson\u2014and apparently this is true from history\u2014one of his lieutenants had asked him, \u201cGeneral Jackson, how do you keep your composure on the battlefield when there are bullets whizzing past your head?\u201d\u00a0 Jackson said, \u201cMy theology, sir, teaches me that I am as safe in my bed as I am on the battlefield if I am in the will of God.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI walked out of that theater, thinking: \u201cYou know what?\u00a0 My daughter is as safe in the country she\u2019s going to as she would be on the streets of Little Rock if she\u2019s in the will of God.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>14:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou just have to trust that God is a big God; and He can take care of your kids, wherever they are. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes; I have to ask you this question, too, before we get into the stories that begin to occur in this country as you ventured out. Initially, you really disliked the term, \u201cmissionary.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Amy: <\/strong>Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Now, what\u2019s behind that?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>There are a few things behind that. I had just finished four years at a university\u2014a state university. I knew how educated liberal arts people felt about the word, \u201cmissionary\u201d; and I knew that they had some good reasons, actually, for feeling that way. I knew that, historically, missionaries had been complicit with imperialist and colonialist agendas of various countries\u2014both Catholic and Protestant missionaries. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI knew that it wasn\u2019t a clean history there; you know?\u00a0 Missionaries had done wonderful and <em>amazing<\/em> work. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>15:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey had also been sort of tied up with some things that were not so great. I was afraid that I would, accidentally, live into this imperialist, ethnocentric legacy that some missionaries had left. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think, also, I had some doubts that\u2014maybe, I wasn\u2019t even aware of yet\u2014about what I believed. I wondered if the things that I had grown up believing would still seem true on the other side of the world. When I was in interactions with people from very different cultures and upbringings, I think I had some doubts I hadn\u2019t even fully realized about whether or not the things I believed would still seem true on the other side of the world. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>So, you raised your support, which was the vast sum of\u2014how much a month?\u00a0 Do you remember?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>No! Maybe, it was\u2014maybe, it was like $1,200 a month or something. This was so long ago\u201414 years ago. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes, but you didn\u2019t get involved in this for the cash. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>16:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>No! [Laughter]\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>The point is\u2014this was not a get-rich-quick scheme. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>No. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I should show you\u2014and I still have the video of the apartment. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Well, it\u2019s hardly an apartment. It\u2019s basically a cinderblock room that has a sink, and has a bathroom somewhere, and a mattress was on the floor, and a desk that you\u2019d brought in from somewhere; right?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>Oh, come on, Dad. It was a perfectly <em>lovely<\/em> apartment\u2014[Laughter]\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Was there a window?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>\u2014for a 22-year-old. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>No; now, wait. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>There was a window. It had bars on it, but that was <em>fine<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>You\u2019re jumping ahead, Bob. I wanted to ask her, \u201cWhat did you think when you got off the plane?\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>Yes; you know, I remember stepping off the plane. The intensity of the heat and some of the smells\u2014the smell of fish sauce\u2014I remember driving into the city and seeing shacks on one side of the road and newly-developed high-rise buildings on the other side of the road. It was really a land of contrasts, and it was a totally new place. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>17:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI was excited. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And you began to adjust immediately. Biggest adjustment?\u2014besides the cinderblock room that Bob said you had. [Laughter]\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>Yes; so I moved in on campus. My apartment was on campus, up 101 steps on the fifth floor of a building; and I started teaching about a week later. I was\u2014it was my first time ever teaching. I had classes of about 30 students, and they were all studying to become English teachers, themselves. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Did you speak the native language at all?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>No; no. I was an English teacher. My students were coming in with some knowledge of English already. They had been studying since sixth grade or something. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI had some adjustments to my new career of being a teacher. I had adjustments to new food and to a new climate; but I think that there were a lot of cultural differences that I needed to adjust to that I wasn\u2019t even aware of yet, at that time. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>18:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne of the biggest one was that Americans are generally pretty direct in their communication. The people, were I was living, had a very indirect style of communication. It took a while to understand what they meant. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFor example, where I lived, teachers were really highly-respected. My students were not really allowed, culturally, to say, \u201cNo,\u201d to me. So, if I asked students, \u201cDo you want to come over and watch a movie in my apartment Friday night?\u201d they would say, \u201cYes, teacher, I think maybe we can do that.\u201d\u00a0 I thought that was a \u201cYes\u201d; right?\u00a0 Actually, culturally, that was a \u201cNo,\u201d because they couldn\u2019t say, \u201cNo.\u201d\u00a0 If they said, \u201cYes, <em>maybe<\/em>,\u201d\u2014I had to learn that that was their polite way of saying, \u201cNo,\u201d to me. There were a <em>lot<\/em> of things for me to learn, culturally. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Well, we want to hear more about those things you had to learn; but your dad has probably told you I have a favorite question to ask guests. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>19:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>No; he should have warned me about this. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>He should have. I\u2019ve just been sitting here thinking, \u201cI wonder how Amy would answer my question.\u201d\u00a0 So, here is your question, Amy\u2014it\u2019s very simple: \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>Okay. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u201cWhat\u2019s the most courageous thing you have ever done in all your life?\u00a0 Courage is doing your duty in the face of fear.\u201d\u00a0 I just\u2014after reading your book entitled <em>Dangerous Territory<\/em>, I wondered, \u201cThis may not be it!\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>Oh, yes\u2014doing my duty in my face of fear. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>So, basically, you\u2019re asking me, \u201cWhen is the time when I was most afraid and I did the thing anyway?\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>Oh. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Bob: <\/strong>Now, being my daughter, she is having to remember every event of her life\u2014[Laughter] and sequentially\u2014[Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And our listeners know that, sequentially, she must review each one on a 1-to-10 point scale.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u2014and determine: \u201cWait; was this more dangerous than the other?\u201d [Laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>20:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, the answer for Dennis\u2014Sweetheart, all you have to do is think of one and share it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>Just one\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>\u2014one example?\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t have to be the <em>most<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>It doesn\u2019t. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes, it does; yes, it does. [Laughter]\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>Oh, man. I feel like the hardest thing I\u2019ve done in my life is probably give birth, and I was pretty scared about that too. I did it anyway, but I didn\u2019t have much of a choice. [Laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Not at that point you didn\u2019t. [Laughter]\u00a0 It was\u2014how many hours of labor?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>I mean, with my first child, I was in labor for three days. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Oh my goodness!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Amy: <\/strong>Yes; yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>You had plenty of time to get afraid; didn\u2019t you?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>Yes; I mean, the first day-and-a-half was just easy, mild labor; but I had a day-and-a-half of <em>hard<\/em> labor. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I\u2019ve had answers all over the spectrum. I\u2019ve had other women\u2014I have had other women answer that question in that way\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>You have. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014just to affirm you. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Well, I just want to affirm your faith\u2014that in the midst of growing up\u2014part of your life in San Antonio \/ the other part here in Little Rock\u2014and going away to the university, you put your faith on the line. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>21:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou stepped up, and you stepped out. I love the story\u2014I loved the expression of doubt, and evaluation, and your honesty in here about where you came from and what you believed. I think our listeners ought to get a copy, because she is a <em>great<\/em> writer. I don\u2019t know where she got it! I think it had to be from her mother. [Laughter]\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I think our listeners ought to get a copy as well. In fact, I think they ought to get <em>several<\/em> copies. [Laughter]\u00a0 I think they ought to get a <em>case<\/em> of the book and make it a Christmas present to <em>everyone<\/em> they know this year. [Laughter] And by the way\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>I agree with that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I have never seen him this enthused about any book in 25 years, Amy. [Laughter]\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Including my own; okay?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br><strong>Amy: <\/strong>He\u2019s not getting a cut of the profits, either. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>He\u2019s not; he\u2019s not. <br><br><strong>Bob: <\/strong>That\u2019s right. I might get some loans paid back. [Laughter]\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Amy: <\/strong>I was thinking that. [Laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I think that\u2019s false hope\u2014is what I think that is. [Laughter] I see the look in her eyes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>We do have copies of Amy\u2019s book in our <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> Resource Center. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>22:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe book is called <em>Dangerous Territory: My Misguided Quest to Save the World<\/em>. You can order the book from us, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com; or call 1-800-358-6329. Again, the website\u2014FamilyLifeToday.com\u2014order the book online; or call 1-800-358-6329\u2014that\u2019s 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe need to take just a minute for an update. For those of you who are regular listeners to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>, you know about the matching-gift fund that we\u2019ve got going on this month as we approach the end of 2017. We\u2019re asking <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listeners to help us reach more people, more regularly, during 2018 than we\u2019ve ever been able to reach before\u2014a lot of exciting projects coming up. We\u2019ve got a matching-gift fund that\u2019s in place this month, where every donation we received so far has been doubled, dollar for dollar. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>23:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019re not done yet. In fact, our friend, Michelle Hill, is here to give us an update on the matching- gift fund. Hi, Michelle. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Hi Bob, I do have an update and I <em>hope<\/em> this is not a glitch in reporting, because today\u2019s number is pretty amazing \u2026FIVE HUNDRED NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS! Wow! \u2026and Jordan says thumbs up\u2026\u201cthat\u2019s a good number\u201d \u2026Bob what I <em>do<\/em> know for sure is that faithful friends like\u00a0 Alan from Deerbrook Wisconsin and Scott from Chattanooga are just a couple of the nearly four thousand folks now who\u2019ve decided to stand with us in this two million dollar match, and we <em>are<\/em> thankful for your faithfulness <em>and<\/em> for your donation.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And it\u2019s easy for you to donate to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. You can do that, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com; you can call to donate, 1-800-358-6329; or you can mail your donation to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> at PO Box 7111, Little Rock, AR; the zip code is 72223.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>24:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tKeep in mind\u2014your donation is matched, dollar for dollar, when you make a donation between now and the end of the year. So, we\u2019d love to hear from you. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd we hope you can join us back again tomorrow. Amy Peterson will be here again. We\u2019ll continue our conversation about the dangerous journey God took her on. Hope you can tune in for that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I\u2019m Bob Lepine. 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