As Many as the Stars | Robert Glover OBE

Inspired... with Simon Guillebaud

Great Lakes Outreach

Christianity, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 663 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

A truly extraordinary story of God taking an ordinary social worker (with his wife and six children) from Norfolk to China, opening crazy doors of influence in the Communist party, and using him to get 1,000,000+ orphans adopted into families. Check out: https://www.careforchildren.com (careforchildren.com) Read 'As Many as the Stars' by Robert Glover and watch Children of Shanghai’ documentary (narrated by Bear Grylls) at https://www.childrenofshanghai.com (childrenofshanghai.com) --- For more from Simon go to: https://www.simonguillebaud.com/ (simonguillebaud.com) --- Produced by Great Lakes Outreach - Transforming Burundi and Beyond: https://www.greatlakesoutreach.org/ (greatlakesoutreach.org)

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0:00.0	He said today, 85% children living in care in China and now living in family.
0:08.0	I said, what does 85% mean?
0:10.0	I said, is it a million?
0:12.0	And he smiled and he said, no, it's not a million.
0:15.0	It's much more than a million.
0:17.0	And I thought, wow, it 17 years with God's faithful.
0:22.9	Hello, everybody.
0:23.7	My name's Simon Gilbo.
0:24.8	And we're back with Inspired.
0:26.0	This week we've got Robert Glover, OBE.
0:28.5	He's awarded an OBE in 2005 by the Queen for his work in China.
0:31.9	It's absolutely fantastic.
0:33.1	Robert, I was given this book a few months ago, as many as the stars, a story of change for the children
0:38.4	of China, and I was so deeply stirred and inspired myself. I read in the book, The Air Connections
0:43.5	with my uncle, Ross Patterson, who's one of my heroes, and I'll be doing a podcast with him
0:48.9	in the next few weeks. But I don't want to tell your own story, so let's just get straight into it,
0:53.6	Robert. Welcome.
0:55.0	Thanks for coming on.
0:56.2	And how about just kicking us off with a bit of a background before the China episode?
1:01.2	Where were you born, brought up, raised, that sort of stuff?
1:05.2	Yes, thank you, Simon.
1:07.0	Good to be here.
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