Participants: Gary Krause (Host), Dan Weber, Don Noble
Series Code: GMS
Program Code: GMS000008
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00:07 The south Pacific is a very diverse area
00:10 ranging from islands such as Fiji, where I was born, 00:14 through the highlands of Papua New Guinea, 00:16 to the urban areas of Downtown Sydney and Downtown Auckland. 00:20 All our tremendous mission fields. 00:22 And on today's program we will be looking 00:25 at these challenging areas. 00:26 My name is Gary Krause 00:28 and welcome to Global Mission Snapshots. 00:35 Just before He went up to heaven, 00:37 Jesus gave us a command. 00:40 He gave us a mission. 00:43 Jesus said, go, go unto all the world, 00:48 telling them of His love. 00:50 This is our mission. 00:52 This is our "Global Mission." 01:00 Hello and welcome to global mission snapshots. 01:03 On today's program buckle your seat belts 01:05 as we go flying on a mission plane 01:08 in Papua New Guinea. 01:10 This plane has given wings to mission. 01:12 Thanks to the support of people around the world 01:15 who gave generously the mission offerings. 01:17 We will also talk to Don Noble 01:19 from Maranatha Volunteers International, 01:21 a vital partner in Global mission work 01:24 around the world. 01:25 Among many other things 01:27 Maranatha helps local congregations 01:29 build their own places of worship, 01:32 often in just one day. 01:34 We will also talk to video producer, Dan Weber 01:37 to get some stories from behind his mission camera 01:41 and we will visit a church plant in Sydney, 01:43 Australia's largest city but first up, flying for God. 01:57 When the 13th Sabbath offering 01:58 last came to the south pacific division 02:01 it was 2006 and a portion of your offerings 02:04 helped by a plane for Papua New Guinea. 02:06 At that time when the offering was taken it set a record 02:10 for the largest 13th Sabbath offering in the history 02:12 of the Seventh-day Adventist church. 02:14 Your faithful prayers and financial support 02:17 helped to purchase a remarkable airplane, 02:19 one that has an even more remarkable mission reaching out 02:23 to the hard to reach areas of Papua New Guinea. 02:30 Many Seventh-day Adventists learned about Papua New Guinea 02:32 when Eric Were produced his film, 02:35 "The cry of New Guinea" 02:37 the film showed church members 02:38 all over the world the mission work being done there. 02:42 Eric Were spent 40 days following missionary Len Barnard 02:45 up rough mountain trails, through hot sticky jungles, 02:49 over rushing rivers, and finally to the highlands 02:52 where they met the cannibals of Karimui. 02:55 There they cared for people's wounds, 02:57 helped heal the sick and most importantly, 03:00 taught them about Jesus. 03:02 Today, the fruits of this early work can be seen in the lives 03:05 of the more than 235,000 Adventists 03:09 currently living in Papua New Guinea. 03:13 Today that same trip taken by the pioneer missionaries 03:17 can be accomplished in about 30 minutes 03:19 in the new mission plane 03:20 that was purchased with your offerings. 03:23 The plane is based in Goroka 03:25 at the Adventist Aviation Service hanger. 03:28 The planes pilot, Roger Millist, is on his second tour of duty 03:31 in Papua New Guinea as a mission pilot. 03:34 He returned to Goroka in 2005 03:36 and has turned the mission flight service 03:38 into a top-notch operation. 03:40 Roger and the plane ferry local missionaries 03:43 who live and work among the small villages 03:45 that dot the mountains around Goroka. 03:48 These missionaries commit at least one year of their lives 03:51 to tell the story of Jesus and His love and forgiveness 03:54 as they leave to move on to a new village 03:57 tears are shared with the people who have come to love them. 04:01 The plane is also used to transport teachers, 04:03 church leaders, and health workers 04:05 to the small villages and communities scattered 04:07 throughout the islands of Papua New Guinea. 04:10 The mission plane excels at getting around 04:12 to these small mountain villages. 04:14 Not many planes can land or take off from airstrips 04:17 that are only several hundred meters in length. 04:20 Adding the fact that some of the airstrips 04:22 have close to a 14-degree incline 04:24 and it's easy to see why not everyone 04:26 is skilled enough to do this dangerous type of work. 04:30 Pastor Millist and the rest of the Adventist aviation staff 04:33 are truly dedicated to their mission. 04:39 The mission plane, a PAC XL, 04:41 can haul large amounts of cargo, 04:43 as well as up to 12 people at a time. 04:46 The plane often carries roofing 04:47 for new churches being built in the jungle, 04:50 as well as local produce 04:51 that will be taken back to larger cities and sold 04:54 so that people of these remote villages can earn a living. 04:57 By carrying this cargo for a small fee, 05:00 the Adventist Aviation Service 05:02 can help to cover the cost of moving missionaries 05:04 and church materials around the islands of Papua New Guinea. 05:09 Through its unique ministry 05:10 to the people of Papua New Guinea 05:12 Adventist Aviation truly is fulfilling the call 05:16 to take the gospel and to the ends of the earth. 05:19 It means a great deal to us to have been able 05:21 to get into this new turbine-powered aircraft. 05:25 It has significantly raised our levels of safety 05:30 and performance for pilots as well as for passengers. 05:33 And it's great to know 05:35 almost daily I get e-mails from people saying, 05:38 you're in our prayers every day. 05:40 We work in a very challenging area 05:43 and to know that people around the world 05:45 church members around the world, 05:47 as well as church members 05:48 here in the South Pacific Division, 05:50 have support as well as church members 05:53 here in Papua New Guinea, 05:54 have all banded together with Adventist Aviation 05:57 with the resources we had that means a great deal to us, 06:01 we know we're not alone in what we're doing. 06:06 Thank you for your support of the mission offering, 06:09 your prayers and financial support 06:11 have helped to reach God's children 06:14 even on to the ends of the earth, 06:16 even those at the end of grass runway 06:18 on a mountain in Papua New Guinea. 06:25 Maranatha Volunteers International 06:27 is a Seventh-day Adventist lay organization 06:30 that over the years has involved thousands of people in Mission 06:35 giving them a first hand fresh taste 06:38 of what it's like to be involved 06:39 and I'm delighted to welcome Don Noble to our program. 06:43 Don, the president of Maranatha. 06:47 The importance of involvement 06:49 to actually go on a mission trip, 06:51 how important is that in the life of people 06:54 who you have seen serving with Maranatha. 06:56 Well, first hand you know, if a person actually goes out 06:59 and sees things in the area of mission, 07:03 their lives are changed, they cannot be the same. 07:05 You can watch all the pictures you want, 07:08 videos, even this program 07:11 but going out there and personally 07:14 interacting with the people looking into their eyes 07:17 feeling how they live, 07:18 sensing their commitment to Jesus Christ 07:23 it's powerful and life changing. 07:26 I regularly get people coming up to me and say 07:29 why don't you just collect the money from the people 07:33 that we are gonna go and go out there 07:36 and build whatever you are going to build. 07:38 I say we have a couple of problem with that. 07:39 Number one you are going to give it. 07:42 You are going to keep the money 07:43 and the second one 07:45 is it's not just about the buildings, 07:48 it's about the people 07:50 and it's not just about the people 07:52 for which you are building the buildings. 07:53 It's also about you as an individual 07:57 going out primarily North America 07:59 but not exclusively and seeing 08:02 what God is doing having an impact 08:04 and you come back it riches your life, 08:07 it changes your local church. 08:09 It changes your commitment, changes your giving patterns, 08:15 when you change the life and you get the heart. 08:17 You got the individual 08:18 and then God can do anything with you. 08:22 Now, what do the youngest volunteers 08:23 that you have sometimes? 08:25 Oh, babies in arms. 08:28 You know, we have actually started 08:29 a very very surprisingly successful project 08:33 called family project. 08:34 We now have two or three of them in a year 08:36 because we can't keep up, we had a-- 08:38 we started with a Christmas family project, 08:40 thinking where there is a few people 08:42 that may not want to just give gifts, 08:44 may be they want to go and give a gift to someone else 08:46 and do it as a family. 08:48 Boy that's popular, really popular. 08:50 We had to add another one in the summer and another one 08:54 and so family is getting involved and saying 08:56 let's teach our children from a young age. 08:59 To be involved in mission so, 09:02 they take their young kids and though 09:03 we provide programming for them it's a little bit different 09:07 and they don't necessarily have to go out and lay break, 09:10 but they start thinking mission 09:12 how can I help somebody else from a young age. 09:15 And the families want that type of education 09:18 to be going into their-- into their kids, 09:20 so it's popular. 09:21 Yeah. Really popular. 09:22 And you get some older people to go on these trips? 09:25 Oh, sure, oh, yeah, families 09:28 you know, everybody defines a family different, 09:30 you know, might be the perfect husband, wife two kids 09:34 but it can also be a grandfather and a grandson it's-- 09:38 it can be an aunty and the niece. 09:41 It can be a lot of different things 09:43 and they decide so they come usually 09:46 some kind of a relation between them. 09:50 Now, Don you have so many things 09:52 going on with Maranatha 09:53 but I want to focus on a project called the one day school. 09:58 But originally this came out of the one day church program 10:01 just give us a little bit of background to that. 10:03 Yes, it did, of course the one day church program 10:05 started incorporation with the Adventist church, 10:08 ASI Maranatha responding to the huge number of need 10:13 around the world for churches 10:15 and as you start to build these you will say isn't it possible 10:18 or wouldn't it be useful to also provide schools 10:21 because the request started coming soon 10:23 as the one day church started going up 10:25 and what we have found 10:27 since the last general conference in Atlanta 10:31 the requests have been overwhelming 10:33 more for schools than for churches. 10:37 We have requests now pretty verifiable 10:40 of about 80,000 one day school classrooms. 10:44 Wow! 10:45 And it's phenomenal because as many places in the world 10:49 where churches and traditional evangelism doesn't work 10:52 but they can put in a school 10:54 and they can attract the children, educate them 10:58 and that is their form of outreach. 11:01 So it's really powerful. 11:03 That's a nice looking school. 11:05 Yes, that's the school comes complete the church, 11:10 we let them finish it. 11:11 Now this is also the big educational evangelism centre 11:15 we do a few of those, that's not the one day program. 11:19 But the one day buildings come complete with, 11:22 you know, four walls, black board, 11:25 desks everything so the next day you can start school. 11:30 And most of the requests are coming are for campuses. 11:34 That's all right. 11:35 Oh, yeah, we thought it would be oh, yes, 11:37 classroom here and classroom there but-- 11:41 I give you example Zimbabwe it's a-- 11:44 they not only want a primary school 11:47 or a secondary school, they got big pieces of property 11:50 that the government has given to them 11:52 and they want their request for one school 11:56 is may be 15 primary classrooms 11:59 and 15 or 18 secondary classrooms, 12:02 that's one school to them. 12:04 Yeah. 12:05 And they have dozens in these countries 12:09 and think of the impact on children, 12:12 the communities and the church in the long run 12:15 from these buildings. 12:16 In Haiti, we've got a project directly with Adra 12:20 for a 100 classrooms now there after the earthquake 12:23 what an impact it's-- it's powerful. 12:26 Education, you know, is one of the-- 12:29 one of the great things 12:30 in the Seventh-day Adventist church train up a child. 12:33 Teach him about Jesus from the time they are young 12:36 and see what happens in their life. 12:37 Oh, yeah. The lives of their family. 12:39 Oh, yeah. 12:40 It is the future I think. 12:42 How many schools have you put up so far? 12:45 Oh, just getting started on schools say about 300. 12:48 Wow, fantastic. 12:49 It sounds wow, but -- No, no, not at all. 12:51 Unless you have to drive to each one of them. 12:53 That's right. 12:54 Then it becomes a big deal. 12:55 But there are starting to grow, 12:57 we've built one down in Honduras 12:59 with the big educational evangelism centre 13:01 and 30 sum of the one day classroom. 13:04 A school for 1,400 students. 13:05 Fantastic. And it goes up quickly. 13:08 Don, thanks for joining us today and sharing with us-- 13:11 this is an exciting project touching thousands of lives 13:14 and just growing, growing, growing. 13:16 If you would like to be involved in Maranatha 13:18 just go to Maranatha.org and there you can find out 13:22 all the information you need to know 13:24 about volunteering and building schools and churches. 14:05 In this segment, we are going to travel to the South Pacific. 14:09 A region that ranges from the small pacific islands 14:14 through to the large cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland. 14:19 Dan Weber has joined me. 14:20 Dan is the video producer for Adventist mission 14:23 and Dan it is really a diverse place, the South Pacific. 14:28 It's a fun place to visit 14:29 but of course you're from there so you know that. 14:30 I'm biased, of course. Yeah. 14:32 And you went there, 14:34 I guess within the last year or two. 14:36 A couple of years ago 14:37 and I'm actually going there again in a couple of months. 14:39 And you went up to the highlands of Papua New Guinea. 14:42 Yeah. 14:43 And so you experience 14:44 what it was like to ride in the mission plane 14:46 that we just saw a few minutes ago. 14:48 Yeah, if you are in a fear flying 14:49 I wouldn't suggest that trip. 14:50 Well, I understand that flying 14:52 in the highlands of Papua New Guinea 14:54 is some of the most dangerous flying you could do. 14:56 It is and as we saw in the video earlier 14:59 you are landing on little grass strips 15:02 you know, basically on the side of a mountain 15:04 and its not flat and sometimes you are landing up hill, 15:07 sometimes you are landing downhill based on the wind 15:10 and this plane is pretty amazing 15:12 it can land and take off from very short distances. 15:15 And of course it saves days and days of trekking 15:19 through the trails to these villages. 15:22 The first Adventist missionaries that really went there 15:26 and they would talk about 15:28 how they would have to trek for 15 to 20 days 15:30 to get from one village to another, 15:32 down through the valleys and the jungles and back up. 15:35 And now, you could do that flying in 15 minutes. 15:37 Yeah, amazing. Yeah. 15:38 Yeah, I can remember sitting 15:39 in the front seat at camp meetings 15:41 listening to missionaries telling their stories, 15:44 I remember talking to Pastor-- 15:47 listening to Pastor, Lynn Barnard 15:49 who actually trekked in with a cinematographer, 15:52 Eric Were and actually went to a group of cannibals 15:55 for the first time that ever seen a concoction. 15:57 It's one of the most amazing films you can ever see. 15:59 Yeah. Yeah. 16:00 Now, Dan what is happening, what is the plane doing? 16:03 What is the plane helping do in Papua New Guinea? 16:06 The plane ferries missionaries from-- 16:10 and these we think a missionary we tend to think westerners 16:12 going over to a different culture, 16:14 but lot of these are people 16:15 who are from the Papua New Guinea 16:18 and so who have dedicated their lives 16:19 to go work up in the highlands 16:21 or there are other people from the same division, 16:24 who are going to work 16:25 and they will work for a year or two in a village 16:27 and so the plane will fly them out there to this village. 16:30 And I remember one of the stops we made 16:32 where we were transferring a pioneer and his wife 16:37 from one village to another. 16:40 The whole village came out and there were tears 16:43 and there was crying and there was wailing 16:46 because the village was upset that this couple was leaving 16:49 and they understood why. 16:52 But the pioneer's wife 16:55 and she was hugging the other woman 16:57 she didn't want to let go, 16:58 you know and so there was a real emotional relationship there. 17:02 They really cared about each other 17:04 and that was really nice to see, 17:05 so the plane will then take them and their supplies 17:07 and ferry them over to another village 17:09 and it also moves roofing material for churches 17:13 and so that it had these long thin sheets of tin 17:16 would load up the whole plane 17:18 and fly it up and drop it off 17:20 and then they take it off into the bush 17:21 to go build the church, it was great. 17:24 Now, we talk about global mission pioneers 17:26 here all the time but just in case some of our viewers 17:28 don't know, what is a global mission pioneer? 17:30 A global mission pioneer is some one 17:32 who understands the local culture of the area 17:35 you're trying to reach 17:36 and we say the global mission goes to the un-reached areas 17:39 where people don't know about Jesus, 17:40 don't know about God. 17:42 But you are taking someone who understands 17:43 the language and the culture 17:45 and putting them into that environment 17:48 but it's not just-- not just there to preach 17:51 they are there to become part of the community, 17:54 to make friends with community to feel 17:57 to make the community feel like they care about them 17:59 and that they are involved 18:00 and they are there to care for their needs, 18:02 not just preach the gospel and then leave. 18:05 So, the mission plane, who fly's the plane? 18:09 Roger Millist is the CEO 18:11 of what's called Adventist Aviation, 18:12 he is one of the pilots there 18:14 and he is a dedicated long time missionary. 18:17 And an amazing pilot. 18:18 So he does this full time? 18:19 He does this fulltime. 18:20 Wow. Yeah. 18:22 And they also make extra income 18:24 because they are going from one village to another 18:26 or from a village to larger city 18:30 so the people that live in the villages 18:32 will pay a small amount of money 18:33 to have their supplies then ferried down by plane. 18:36 And so, it's actually allow them 18:39 to make a little bit of money to make the-- 18:41 it's not really profitable 18:43 but it keeps the business running 18:44 so that the church doesn't, 18:46 you know, have to pour all this money into it, 18:48 that they can kind of sustain yourself as it goes along. 18:51 The great thing about this plane is that it was a gift 18:54 from the world church to Adventist aviation 18:58 because the funds were provided through the mission offering 19:02 and the 13th Sabbath offering 19:04 but also in Australia the local churches 19:06 went around the camp meetings over the summer time 19:08 and they raised half of the cost of the plane. 19:10 Oh, wow. 19:11 So it was really a gift from the world church 19:14 to Adventist aviation, Papua New Guinea. 19:16 Great. 19:17 Now from the highlands of Papua New Guinea 19:19 to a place like Sydney, Australia 19:22 totally different world. 19:23 Very very secular environment. 19:26 Very hard a pioneer can go 19:29 into a village of Papua New Guinea 19:31 and be accepted quickly and make friends 19:33 and have success you can go into a large city in Australia 19:37 and people there just don't care about God. 19:41 And you can say hey, I want to become your friend, 19:42 I want to get to know you and I want to share 19:44 God with you and they are like, 19:45 why should I care about God? 19:46 It's a tough place it's very hard to reach people. 19:48 Yeah, I grew up praying 19:50 for the missionaries in the islands 19:52 but today there is far more 19:53 there are far more Adventists in Papua New Guinea 19:56 than there in Australia, New Zealand. 19:58 Yeah, good job. 19:59 Now, you also visited a church plant in Sydney 20:02 what was that? 20:04 It's a Macarthur fields 20:07 which is in area that has a rough history. 20:09 In fact, there was a riot there 20:11 probably about five years ago. 20:13 And it's economically down area 20:17 and the church has a school there 20:20 and they decided that they wanted to plant a church 20:22 attached to the school. 20:24 It's a great story. 20:25 Good, well, Dan thank you so much 20:27 for joining us today, I appreciate very much. 20:29 Thank you. 20:30 Yes, Sydney, Auckland, New York, Chicago, 20:34 I don't care where you talk about in terms of urban areas, 20:37 tremendous challenge. 20:39 How do we reach busy people, 20:42 people who have agendas, 20:44 people who have heard it all before 20:45 and may not be open to the gospel. 20:48 Well, let's travel to Sydney now, 20:50 let's go to the church in the fields 20:53 and let's see how they are putting 20:54 Christ method into practice 20:56 where they are mingling showing sympathy, 20:59 ministering to needs, winning confidence 21:02 and slowly but surely 21:04 they are leading people to Jesus Christ. 21:19 The city of Sydney is very much 21:21 moving into a postmodern mindset 21:23 where there is a deep union 21:26 and a deep seeking for spiritual values. 21:30 Now the Greatest Sydney conference 21:31 is essentially the city of Sydney. 21:34 Has around four million people living in Sydney 21:37 and it's the largest city in Australia. 21:40 In Sydney we have about 77 congregations, 21:43 it's spread through out the city 21:44 with an average attendance 21:46 of around six and half thousand people 21:48 on from Sabbath to Sabbath. 21:50 In Greatest Sydney we have got 21:52 a some very exciting church plants happening. 22:00 A Macarthur field is a very socially disadvantaged area 22:03 and it's a segment of the population 22:07 it is in Seventh-day Adventist church 22:09 we haven't done well at reaching in the past. 22:13 We have got pre-kindergarten which is 4 year olds, 22:16 right up to at the moment year 11 22:18 and there are 15,16 year old's 22:22 and then next year we are going into year 12's 22:24 and that will complete our package of the school. 22:35 When I came in 2004, it was pretty evident 22:38 that's the area was in dying need of Jesus Christ. 22:46 We had an incident that happened in the beginning of 2005, 22:49 which is called the Macarthur field riots 22:52 and they went around the countryside 22:54 as one of the-- the most nastiest riots 22:57 that they've had. 22:59 And we run stones from those riots. 23:06 I felt so impressed that we had to move now at that time, 23:10 2005 to do something about a church. 23:17 I went to our conference personal 23:20 and said we got to do something to help the families here 23:24 and if we can help them with their spiritual needs 23:28 then the emotional and the social needs 23:31 can also be then met in some way, shape or form. 23:58 We believe that God has placed the church here 24:00 to be in the hands and faith of Jesus 24:02 to proclaim the gospel but not just proclaim it, 24:05 to actually show it to people as well and to live it out. 24:08 Because we are unusual and that we have a school 24:12 and a church here 24:13 so we would like to call ourselves 24:16 a church that's here seven days a week. 24:18 We had been to it seven days a week. 24:30 Predominantly it's young students 24:34 from our school and their families, 24:37 we have students just coming to our school 24:40 way into the church because it's the school. 24:52 We all get breakfast in the morning 24:54 and then we would all come sit down 24:56 and we do like testimony and giving 24:59 and we don't just sit there talk about God 25:01 and would sing songs and pray 25:03 and its just so awesome. 25:09 It has a real family atmosphere 25:14 and basically you walking of straight in, 25:17 you are welcomed. 25:19 You don't find that at a lot of churches. 25:25 We enjoyed the music 25:26 and it was just very well relaxed and laid back, 25:30 it was still focused on God and the Bible. 25:40 My passion is that our schools 25:43 around the world will take this up, 25:47 to me church is seven days. 25:51 We are a seven day church, 25:53 we should be operating all through the week 25:56 doing all sorts of things 25:57 and it's then my dream coming true to say 26:01 that happening on the grounds here. 26:30 It's wonderful to see families worshipping together 26:33 and it's just so important to help our children 26:36 catch a vision for sharing Jesus. 26:38 A vision of mission to the world 26:41 and so we are producing resources 26:43 to help share mission with our children. 26:46 One of them is our secret, 26:48 well it's not really a secret but sometimes it feels that way 26:51 because so many people don't know about it. 26:54 Mission cards for kids is a simple resource 26:57 to help children remember the mission stories they hear 27:00 with a colorful reminder card. 27:03 If you live in North America 27:04 and you would like to see a free sample set 27:07 of these mission cards 27:08 just call us or visit our website 27:11 and ask for Mission cards for kids 27:13 or ask for offer number 302. 27:16 Please remember to clearly state your name and address 27:19 and be sure to mention 27:20 mission cards for kids or offer 302. 27:24 Again, if you would like to receive 27:26 a free sample set of these cards 27:28 simply call the toll free number on the screen 1-800-648-5824 27:35 and ask for mission cards for kids or offer 302. 27:40 Or just visit our website at Adventistmission.org/offer 302. 27:46 Well, that's it for today's program. 27:48 Thank you again for your continuing support 27:51 of global mission through your prayers, 27:53 gifts and personal involvement. 27:56 For Adventist mission, I'm Gary Krause 27:59 and I hope you can join us next time 28:01 for Global Mission Snapshots. |
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