Missionary Musings on Immigration (Also: My 36 Hours As An Illegal) [China Compass]
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4.7 • 957 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Today’s illegal immigration focuses podcast begins with a couple reminders and updates (0:18), followed by a lengthy conversation (me, myself, and I) about hoping to give more context to the overall immigration topic (4:18), including some interesting stories about my wife and I, and my 36 hours as an illegal migrant in the country that shall not be named (12:41), as well as the story of my illegal migrant (at least, for a time) Cuban friend, Mitchell. (39:40)
Welcome to China Compass on the Fight Laugh Feast Network! I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben. Follow and/or message me on Twitter/X (@chinaadventures) where I post (among other things) daily reminders to pray for China.You can also email me @ bfwesten at gmail dot com or find everything we are involved in at PrayGiveGo.us!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to China Compass on the Fidelap |
| 0:07.7 | Welcome to China Compass on the Fight LaFeast Network. |
| 0:12.2 | I am your China travel guide missionary bin. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm going to get myself in some trouble today, maybe, talking about immigration from a missionary's perspective. |
| 0:21.8 | You can follow or message me and or message me on TwitterX at China Adventures where I post, |
| 0:27.9 | among other things, daily reminders to pray for China. |
| 0:31.7 | You can also email me at BFWesten at gmail.com to find everything else we're involved in, you can go to pray give go.us. |
| 0:40.4 | I know it's a lot of different links and whatnot at China Adventures on XBFWestin at |
| 0:47.5 | gmail.com for email and then pray give go.us for everything else, including books, including substack, |
| 0:56.0 | including a link to my whole connection with John Piper. |
| 1:00.1 | If you happen to like John Piper, that would be interesting for you as well. |
| 1:03.0 | Other things as well, other ministries were involved in both with Peru and here in Asia. |
| 1:08.2 | A couple quick updates I mentioned last week. |
| 1:10.0 | I'll mention them again just in case you |
| 1:11.2 | missed that. Pray for China with the number four. Pray for number four China.us is now an |
| 1:17.7 | alternative to our usual domain. Pray for F-O-R-China.us. Both are going to work for you now. |
| 1:25.1 | Pray-4 with the number or F-O-R with the preposition, |
| 1:28.6 | prayfor china.us. Or like I said, you can go to praygiv-go.us. And you can get both of those |
| 1:34.3 | links there on that little landing page as well. Also, china compass.vip takes you to our podcast |
| 1:41.8 | homepage on the Fight Laugheast Network on Pub TV. |
| 1:46.8 | I believe it is, pubTV. |
| 1:48.0 | com, I believe it is. |
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