Page 77: Gracia Burnham
The Unfolding
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🗓️ 29 January 2021
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| 0:00.0 | Page 77 of the unfolding is the story of Gratia Burnham. |
| 0:04.4 | So I looked at Martin and I said, we are in big trouble. |
| 0:07.4 | And he said, yes, we are. |
| 0:09.2 | And for a year, we were in big trouble, you know, running for our lives, starving and drinking dirty river water. |
| 0:16.1 | And it was just an awful year. |
| 0:19.3 | God's story has been unfolding. |
| 0:22.5 | Since the beginning of time. |
| 0:25.7 | He invites you to be a part of it. |
| 0:32.0 | Another page in the unfolding. |
| 0:46.3 | Hi, this is Meredith Foster. |
| 0:55.6 | On May 27, 2001, Martin and Grisha Burnham were spending a rare night at a resort to celebrate their wedding anniversary. In the early morning hours, they were kidnapped by the Abu Sayyaf, a terrorist group with ties to al-Qaeda. While their |
| 1:01.7 | capture made headlines locally, it wasn't until after the 9-11 attacks that international media |
| 1:06.7 | really began following their story. At the time, I was doing morning news at a radio station. I remember |
| 1:12.4 | scouring the AP Newswire every morning looking for an update. People all over the world were |
| 1:18.0 | gripped by their story and praying that somehow they would make it out alive. What had taken |
| 1:23.7 | you to the Philippines? Martin and I were missionaries with New Tribes Mission. We'd been there |
| 1:29.0 | 16 years when this happened. Martin was a missionary pilot for our organization. Missionaries live |
| 1:36.3 | out in the middle of nowhere in the jungles and think of all the things you buy in a month. |
| 1:41.8 | We would buy them for them and box them up and send them in |
| 1:46.0 | and the medicines they needed and the homeschool stuff and the building materials, anything |
| 1:53.1 | they needed. That was our job to keep missionaries supplied and working well in the jungle |
| 1:59.4 | regions. So where were you living? You were in a more... |
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