It's not just the cliche
that the world has shrunk.
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Here in the United
States we have every tribe,
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language, tongue and
people through immigration
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and it seems like every
cuisine from around the world.
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But what are we doing to
touch the lives of immigrants?
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Survey show that the
vast majority of people
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from other
religious tradition say,
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I don't even know one Christian.
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Welcome to Global
Mission Snapshots.
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Just before He
went up to heaven,
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Jesus gave us a command.
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He gave us a mission.
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Jesus said, "Go,
go unto all the world,
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telling them of His love."
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This is our mission.
This is our Global Mission.
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Hello and welcome to
Global Mission Snapshots,
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I'm Gary Krause.
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Imagine leaving your
home, leaving your country
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and moving to the
other side of the world.
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Well, I don't have to imagine
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because my wife
Patina and I did it.
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It's not so easy even
under the best of circumstances.
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When we moved to
the United States
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at least they spoke
English, well, sort of.
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But imagine being forced
to leave your home country
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because of persecution.
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Imagine moving to a
place where the language,
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the customs, the
culture are totally different
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where you don't
even know one person.
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Some leave the steaming
jungles of Southeast Asia
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to arrive in places like
Minnesota or upstate New York
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in the middle of winter.
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Everything's new,
everything's different.
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According to the United
Nations most recent statistics
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there are more than 10
million refugees worldwide.
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Today we'll be
talking with Terri Saelee,
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coordinator for Refugee
and Immigrant Ministries
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for the Seventh-day Adventist
Church in North America.
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As a college student
Terri volunteered teaching
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in refugee camps in Thailand.
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She came back to
the United States
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with a passion to help refugees
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and immigrants back home
but first up, this message.
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It's my pleasure to welcome
to our program Terri Saelee.
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Terri, thanks for joining us.
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Thank you, it's a privilege.
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You are the-- you head up
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the Refugee and
Immigrant Ministries
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for the Adventist
church in North America.
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Tell me what does
this role involve?
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What do you do?
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Well, I prayerfully
find ways for Adventist's
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to reach out to
refugees, immigrants
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and visitors to North America.
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Now, refugees,
immigrants, visitors,
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can you define what they mean?
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Yes, refugees are people
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who have to flee
across national borders
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for a well-grounded
fear of persecution
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and there's a very careful
screening of these people.
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And they are
screened by the United Nations
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before they're
given refugee status
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and then they are
eligible for a third country
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that's willing to resettle
refugees to come for interviews.
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And immigrants are just
people who come through choice?
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Yes, immigrants,
actually once refugees are here
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after one year
then they are eligible
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for permanent residency status
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which means they're
eligible to become immigrants.
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But of course the refugee
experience never leaves them.
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No.
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The visitors to North America
are actually temporarily hear,
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there are totally on the average
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of 104,000 refugees
immigrants and visitors
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who come
everyday to North America.
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Wow.
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And some immigrants, refugees
and immigrants come to stay,
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the others whether they
are international students
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or whether they
come for temporary work
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or come as diplomats
they are here for a short time
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but they have the
potential of sharing
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what they learn
here when they come back.
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Right.
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Now this is a very
challenging time of transition
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for refugees when they come
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just
destabilized world for them,
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how welcoming is
the Christian Church
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in North
America to these people?
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Well, actually we
are a quiet unaware,
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actually the UN,
Americans in general
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are known to be
ignorant of refugees,
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who they are, why they're here.
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And there's so much
news about illegal immigrants
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that once they
hear the word immigrant
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just almost automatically
without thinking about it
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some of us think illegal.
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But by far the
majority are not illegal
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and they bring a rich
asset to our country as well.
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But refugees especially
have gone through so much
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and when they come
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they've had to leave
the country they love,
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most of them very reluctantly.
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They're not eager to
come-- I can tell you stories
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but when they
come they are ready
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and eager to
learn American culture,
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the English language to
fit in, to be productive
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but often about six months
to a year after they arrive
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they realize how very difficult
it is to learn the language,
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to survive most refugees
have three months of assistance
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and then they are on their own.
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They have to
speak enough English,
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have a driver's
license, be able to drive
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and be self-sufficient,
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making their own
money and its very stressful
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because many of
them come from cultures,
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from the jungle
of Southeast Asia
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and their skill set,
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gardening skills
honed for centuries.
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There's no place for
them to practice those--
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to use those skills in
the middle of the cities
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where they are dumped
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and they have to get
used to the concrete jungle.
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And often six months to
a year after they arrive
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post traumatic
shock syndrome sets in
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because just such a
feeling of helplessness
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and hopelessness to
ever really be productive
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and capable of
showing their appreciation
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to this country
that has welcomed them.
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Yeah.
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So what-- just briefly,
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what should be our
response to these people?
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You know, the more
welcoming we can be the better.
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Make friends
with them, you may--
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I believe God gives
us divine appointment.
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At the gross--
in the grocery line,
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at the gas station
often we'll meet people
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who we no idea what
they've been through.
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They have-- may have
had to flee for their lives
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and just for us to say hello
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or cheery smile,
hello, watch for something
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we can do to help be interested.
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Often we as Americans tend to--
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we taught not to
ask certain questions,
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don't ask a woman's age,
don't ask a person's income,
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don't ask where they
live because they might--
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But this is the opposite
of what these people need.
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They need people to care enough
to get involved in their lives,
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to ask, where do you live,
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to go and visit them
and see where they live,
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to find out what they
need and get involved,
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invite them to our
home, share our lives
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and our families with them.
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This is the best thing
we could do for a refugee,
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immigrant or
visitor to our country.
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We're gonna
continue talking some more
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but first we're just
going to go and visit Minnesota
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to see some
ministry taking place there.
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The big challenge was that
we simply felt totally isolated.
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We didn't have
people who could talk
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but somehow my parents through--
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a family that spoke German
found some jobs in a factory.
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One of the problems was
that there were good people
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you're dealing with,
there were also people
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who take advantage of you
and you never knew which it was.
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And so finding an apartment,
somehow we found an apartment,
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second floor of the
house and we moved in into it
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without any
furniture or anything
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but at least it was ours.
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At that time we have made
some contact with the church--
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or the church would
make contact with us,
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the Adventist church.
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So they helped
us with that move.
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Without them it would have
been really almost impossible.
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We talk about a church reaching
out to individuals in need.
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An immigrant is a person
or family or group of people
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who have left something
that was known to them,
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have come to
something that's very unknown
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and strange to them
and they feel awkward.
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They don't know want to
say, they don't know want to do,
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they don't know how to behave.
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And so that's the
mission of the church
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is to reach out to
people who have needs
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and certainly immigrants
are people who have very,
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very specific
needs at that moment.
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Every weekday
morning Blia Xiong,
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a Hmong refugee from Thailand,
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drives her two young
children to the local
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Seventh-day
Adventist elementary school.
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Adventist education
is so important to her,
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that she lives in
a homeless shelter
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so that she can afford to
pay her children's tuition.
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Unable to work
because of a disability,
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most of her
income goes to providing
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a Christian
education for her children.
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The thing that I hunger
and thirst for the most is God.
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So that's why it's so important
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that my children
attend an Adventist school
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because I want them to know God.
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That's why I decided
no matter what hardships
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I have to go
through, it's worth it to me.
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The snow covered
landscape of St. Paul, Minnesota
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is a stark contrast
to the humid streets
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of the large
cities of Southeast Asia.
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Anyone who immigrates here
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must learn to
battle the extreme cold
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as well as the culture shock
of living in North America.
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St. Paul has become
a settlement of sorts
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for refugees from Asia, Africa,
Europe and Central America.
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The Seventh-day Adventist
Church in North America
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has focused on reaching out
to the Hmong and Karen groups
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in the greater St.
Paul and Minneapolis areas.
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This quarter a portion of
your 13th Sabbath Offering
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will go to help Refugee
Outreach Ministry projects
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throughout the
North American Division.
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Teri Salee is the project
coordinator and has worked
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among refugee
groups for many years.
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Her tireless
dedication to reaching out
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to unreached people groups
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is a wonderful
example of serving
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as Christ's hands here on earth.
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So it is
significant that we are able
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to do something to
assist them to grow
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as we have done with our
other groups traditionally
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and individuals like Teri Salee
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who is very active in
working with the Hmong
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people need our support,
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but we need to
do something larger
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and so hence the
13th Sabbath Offering
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is a very welcomed
offering in North America.
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Several times a week,
Blia meets with a small group
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of Hmong refugees
to study the Bible.
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While some of them are
currently attending church,
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for others this the first time
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that they have ever
opened and read a Bible.
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They ask questions
and learn to sing hymns.
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At the end of the meeting
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they offer up to God
their first prayer to Him.
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For Blia, no matter how
hard her circumstances are,
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she will never stop
sharing the good news of Jesus
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with the Hmong community.
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Telling others about Jesus
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is an emotional
experience for Blia.
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God Loves me and every time
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I think about that love
and talk about that love
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the tears just come
because He loves me so much.
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I'm so touched by God's love
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that I can't
keep the tears back.
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The Eastside Seventh-day
Adventist Church in St. Paul
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is home to an
eclectic group of believers.
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People from Africa, Asia
and North America meet each week
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to worship the God
they serve and love.
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In the basement Karen refugees
from the country of Burma
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hold a Sabbath School
class in their own language.
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Most of their members don't
have access to transportation,
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so one of their leaders
drives a van to pick up members
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from all over the St. Paul area.
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There are more than
4,000 Karen refugees
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that now call
Minneapolis and St. Paul home,
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and more than 200 of them
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are now
Seventh-day Adventist members.
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They are in need of
their own place of worship
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where they can invite
others from the Karen community
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to learn about Jesus.
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Their resources are limited
and they ask for your prayers
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as they struggle
to meet the demands
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of this growing refugee group.
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Saw Morrison is
one of the lay leaders
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and he only
works a part time job
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so that he can work
among the Karen community.
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He helps them to find jobs,
apartments and assists them
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with their immigration issues.
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He also makes sure to
invite them to church.
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Lay Pastor See Nay
also works with Saw
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as they visit
members and seek to reach out
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to the needs of the Karen people
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in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
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Please pray for the
Refugee Outreach Ministry
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of the North American Division
as it strives to reach out
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to the growing refugee
population in North America.
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Currently there are more than
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three million
refugees in North America,
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making it a
ratio of three refugees
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for each Seventh-day Adventist
member in this division.
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Your faithful support of
the 13th Sabbath Offering
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will help to reach
these people as they strive
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to rebuild their lives
and find hope for the future.
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Well, it's good to see Terri,
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that a special
offering was collected
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to try to help
with this ministry.
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It's a
tremendous blessing. Yeah.
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Now the lady in the story, Blia,
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who sacrificed so her child
could have Christian education,
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can you tell us a
bit more about her?
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Blia is an incredible
story, she was an orphan,
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she lived in refugee camp
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and oh, I wish I
could go into the details
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but she at one point
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came face to face with a cobra.
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She didn't know even
the Mong word for God
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but in Mong culture they believe
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that the owner of
the sky made everything.
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And so she stepped up on a log
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and saw a cobra coming across.
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She silently
cried out, sky, help me.
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Short for, owner
of the sky, help me.
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And people
didn't believe her story
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till they went
and they saw the grass
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and what a big cobra
it had been and they said,
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you wouldn't be
alive if the sky,
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the owner of the
sky hadn't helped you.
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And through her
life she always wondered
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why she had such a hard life,
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she ended up being
forced to marry someone
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she-- very young,
came to the States,
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he left her for another woman.
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So many things
happened, she got so sick
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they were making
funeral arrangements
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but we have just
been called to reach out
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to the Mong in that area
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and a couple of our
members discovered her
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and after work every day
they would go pray for her.
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And they discovered one woman
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well, I should be
able to pray for her
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and maybe she could
hold something down.
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And so she prayed for
her, gave her some rice
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and she was able to
hold it down gradually.
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She improved, people said,
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let's do spirit
ceremony and she said, no.
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She had been
learning Bible and she said,
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I am gonna live with
God and die with Him.
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And she came to do
gardening at our at our place
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and she ended up
filling four freezers
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full of produce in one summer,
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two freezers for her
and two for our family.
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She's an incredible
woman and she is so thrilled.
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Now she is making
DVDs in her language
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on a myriad of
topics just to share
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with the people
in her ESL class.
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She's an incredible woman
who still has physical effects
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in her experience but
it's just on fire for God.
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Now, many of our
viewers are thinking,
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well, yeah, maybe these
people have not been on my radar
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that I just have not seen them
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maybe through their
eyes of God that I should.
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Where can we
start in our communities
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to minister to these people?
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Well, you may be able to
meet some of them at store
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or-- but a good place to
start is to just go online
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and type refugees and
the name of your town.
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And you will usually come
up with a refugee organization.
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There are very
few, I don't think
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we have any cities
without some refugees
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of some language
group and I got a call
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from the Panhandle of Oklahoma
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that there's a refugee
group that I never heard of.
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So there are different
groups in different places.
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Checking with a
Refugee Assistance Organization
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can really give
you a window into
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who is in your
specific community
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and if you need additional help
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I'm happy to help
you do some research.
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And for more information
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that they go to your website
at RefugeeMinistries.org.
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Yes. Yeah.
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Now, we know that these people
are very special in God's sight
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and we read the Old
Testament in how God talks about
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the alien within your midst
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and how we need to treat them.
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Is there some
way that we can help
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these people financially,
is that what they need or what?
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That would be a tremendous
help especially with educating--
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giving their children
a Christian education.
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Another huge need
is for church planters.
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People who can go and
serve them spiritually
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as well as of course
these people also help them
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with all kinds of other needs.
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We're beginning to
partner with conferences
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across the North
American Division
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to provide church planters
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for these
different organizations.
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In fact, some other
13th Sabbath Offering
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is going to that but to donate,
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you can donate to the
North American Division
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and specify for ARIM, A-R-I-M
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short for Adventist Refugee
and Immigrant Ministries.
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Fantastic.
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Terri, thank you so
much for joining us today.
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I appreciate it very
much. Thank you for having me.
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And viewers at home,
what a tremendous challenge
00:22:19.52\00:22:23.05
this is to us to
remember the strangers among us,
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people who have no home.
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I think that God calls all of us
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to open up our eyes to the needs
00:22:32.34\00:22:34.96
around us in our own community.
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So don't forget to go
to RefugeeMinistries.org
00:22:36.74\00:22:40.03
and please pray
for this ministry,
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pray for Terri, pray
for the church planters
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and pray that the good
news about Jesus Christ
00:22:44.83\00:22:47.53
will become real in
the lives of these people,
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these guest, these
visitors, these refugees
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that have come to these shores
from all around the world.
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Standing, standing
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Standing on the
promises of Christ my Savior
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Standing, standing
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I'm standing on
the promises of God
00:23:14.01\00:23:18.42
We are called to stand
for such a time as this
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We must fight for what is right
00:23:30.84\00:23:33.39
And learn to trust in Him
00:23:33.42\00:23:36.69
We have a truth to live for
00:23:36.72\00:23:39.37
A promise to defend
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Stand up tall, stand up proud
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Till the very end
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Stand strong, stand firm
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Press on until the end
00:23:53.11\00:23:55.29
And claim the
promise of His word
00:23:55.32\00:23:58.79
We have got a message
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Let's spread it through the land
00:24:01.29\00:24:04.32
Praying for the courage to stand
00:24:04.35\00:24:12.26
Let's run, but let's not hide
00:24:12.29\00:24:14.83
Proclaiming once again
00:24:14.86\00:24:17.76
To fight for what is right
00:24:17.79\00:24:19.88
Showing love unto all men
00:24:19.91\00:24:23.00
Not fearing what may come
00:24:23.03\00:24:25.74
Nor looking to the past
00:24:25.77\00:24:28.14
Trusting everything we are
00:24:28.17\00:24:30.81
To the One Whose love will last
00:24:30.84\00:24:33.56
Stand strong, stand firm
00:24:33.59\00:24:39.33
Press on until the end
00:24:39.36\00:24:41.62
And claim the
promise of His word
00:24:41.65\00:24:45.23
We have got a message
00:24:45.26\00:24:47.58
Let's spread it through the land
00:24:47.61\00:24:50.57
Praying for the courage to stand
00:24:50.60\00:24:56.00
Standing, standing
00:24:56.03\00:25:01.53
Standing on the
promises of Christ my Savior
00:25:01.56\00:25:07.02
Standing, standing
00:25:07.05\00:25:11.95
I'm standing on
the promises of God
00:25:11.98\00:25:17.18
Stand strong
00:25:17.21\00:25:18.81
Stand strong
00:25:18.84\00:25:19.93
Stand firm
00:25:19.96\00:25:21.42
Stand firm
00:25:21.45\00:25:23.04
Press on until the end
00:25:23.07\00:25:25.23
And claim the
promise of His word
00:25:25.26\00:25:28.88
We have got a message
00:25:28.91\00:25:31.17
Let's spread it through the land
00:25:31.20\00:25:34.33
Praying for the courage to stand
00:25:34.36\00:25:37.69
Stand strong, stand firm
00:25:37.72\00:25:42.18
Press on until the end
00:25:42.21\00:25:44.45
And claim the
promise of His word
00:25:44.48\00:25:47.96
We have got a message
00:25:47.99\00:25:50.27
Let's spread it through the land
00:25:50.30\00:25:54.71
Praying for the courage to stand
00:25:54.74\00:26:00.11
Praying for the courage to stand
00:26:00.14\00:26:05.59
Praying for the courage to stand
00:26:05.62\00:26:10.12
It takes courage
to live as a refugee
00:26:27.26\00:26:30.10
and it takes
great courage to stand
00:26:30.13\00:26:32.02
for your new
found faith in Jesus.
00:26:32.05\00:26:35.23
So please pray for these people
00:26:35.26\00:26:37.27
who are going through unstable
00:26:37.30\00:26:39.25
and unsettling
times of transition.
00:26:39.28\00:26:42.45
Our attitude to
mission first starts developing
00:26:42.48\00:26:45.65
when we are children.
00:26:45.68\00:26:47.15
And so to help kids recognize
00:26:47.18\00:26:48.72
a world out
there that needs Jesus
00:26:48.75\00:26:51.27
and to help inspire them
to get personally involved,
00:26:51.30\00:26:54.86
Adventist Mission
created Mission Cards for Kids.
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These simple cards
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inspirational mission stories.
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If you'd like to see a sample
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Well, thanks so
much for joining us today
00:27:47.76\00:27:50.18
and thank you for
your continuing prayers,
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financial support and personal
involvement in global mission.
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For Adventist
Mission, I'm Gary Krause
00:27:57.91\00:27:59.78
and I hope you can join us
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