Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. We talk about, of course, it's the name of the podcast, we talk about the church in history.

But we also have to be reminded that the church also is in the present.

And someday, there will be a church history

written about this moment in which we live.

So church history is, as it were, being written right now.

Well, I have a special guest with us

on this episode, and it's Dr. Tim

Kasey. You're part of a ministry frontline missions

international fact this year is the 25th anniversary of that mission. You're

also the writer and producer of

dispatches from the front, the video series, and that's also available as a book.

So you are right there on the front lines, you take the gospel to hard to reach places and you also have seen the gospel advance

in restricted areas.

So of the many stories, I think you use this expression and we're catching up with you here at a conference

that you're speaking I think you use this expression of sovereign surprises so

of the many sovereign surprises can you just share with us a story or two of the

advance of the Gospel? Not long ago I was on the northern border of Cambodia

where Laos, Vietnam, come together, an area called Ratanakiri.

And the gospel has come to this tribal area just 20 years ago,

among tribes such as the Jari, the Krum, the Tampuun, the Brau, and 20 years ago most of these groups

did not even have a written language.

And now linguists have come in,

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