Hi, this is Hank Hennigraph, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast with another Hank Unplug Short.

The last few shorts I have been talking about my trip to Southeast Asia, but I'm still here.

And I'm sitting in my hotel room getting ready to do some teaching at a seminary for seminary students and staff.

And thinking about some of the priests and bishops and pastors that I've met over the last few days,

these are the unsung heroes of the faith.

Extraordinary. These people that go to the poorest of the poor and care for their needs,

their spiritual needs, their physical needs, their physical needs,

their educational needs, their sanitation needs, their need to have fresh water, or even

paths to be able to commute in and out of their village. It is simply extraordinary what these

men of God along with their wives and children are doing.

One man just touched me so deeply.

He goes to the leper colonies, and he takes a son.

That son in some way is now going to be stigmatized as unclean, but the son with a bright smile in his face accompanies his father and is learning from

his father how to care for the least of these. When I went to the home of this priest, the very humble home of this priest,

his wife wanted to wash my feet. And along with his 14-year-old daughter, they washed my feet. It would have been

an offense if I had not let them do that, but I felt so unworthy of that, that incredible

act of humility on their part.

And I remember saying to them as I was driving away from their humble abode, truly in

heaven, I will be washing your feet.

Jesus was crystal clear about men and women and children who are meeting the needs of others,

who are living selfless lives, that in eternity he will not only

know them, but he will reward them. These people have learned the valuable lesson of a life well-lived and the truth that this life is but a drop in the

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