I'm standing here in
front of Mandoto church
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here in Madagascar
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we have just seen 14
people being baptized.
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Thanks to the work of
a Global Mission Pioneer
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and his district pastor.
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I'm Rick Kajiura
for Adventist Mission
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stay tuned for
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.
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Go unto all the world,
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telling them of His love.
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This is our mission.
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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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On today's program we
are focusing on the mission
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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around the world
from remote tribal regions
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to the large urban areas.
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So many people
still don't know Jesus
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as a loving Savior.
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Today we will be
talking with Rick Kajiura,
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communication
director for Adventist Mission
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and Conrad Vine, president
of Adventist Frontier Missions.
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But first let's travel to
Madagascar an island nation
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just off the coast
of South-Eastern Africa.
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My name is Romain
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and I want to share with
you the story of my conversion.
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I used to
belong to another faith
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and I was studying at a
University in Antananarivo,
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the capital of Madagascar.
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I'm in agriculture major,
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and I was in
need of an internship
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so that I could
continue my studies.
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I couldn't find a place
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that would take
me for an internship,
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but at the last
moment I ended up
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getting a summer placement
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at the Adventist
University, Zurcher,
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which is operated by the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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I was worried about
what it might be like
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to be with these Adventists,
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but I had family that
lived there so I thought
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that it would be all right.
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My mother even
warned me not to be tricked
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by the Adventists
and their beliefs.
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I went to Zurcher
and worked on the farm.
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I really enjoyed it since
the university is located up
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in the mountains
and the air is clean.
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The tall pine trees
on the campus created
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a beautiful and
peaceful setting.
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At the end of my first week
of work my supervisor told me
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to go and take
Friday afternoon off work
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so that I could
prepare for the Sabbath.
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I was shocked since I thought
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that I must work a full
day to fulfill my internship.
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I went to the small house
that I shared with my cousin
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and didn't know what to do.
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I asked him about the
Sabbath and what it meant.
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We discussed what he
believed and then he invited me
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to study the Sabbath
School lesson with him.
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I agreed and found
that I really enjoyed
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what I was learning.
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As summer passed I found myself
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spending more time
studying with my cousins
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and learning about
what Adventists believe.
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My mind was full of questions
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and I felt that I
had so many things
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that I needed to know.
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I enjoyed reading the
Bible and discovering the truths
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that I found there.
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The peaceful
setting of the University
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helped me to focus
on what I was learning.
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Eventually, I
decided to be baptized
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and to join the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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I praise God that
He sent me to Zurcher
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so that I could learn about Him
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and the blessing
that is the Sabbath.
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After I finish my
agriculture degree,
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I plan on returning to
Zurcher and studying theology
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so that I can learn how to share
my new found faith with others.
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Without this University,
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I would not be a
Seventh-day Adventist today.
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Your mission offerings
help to support the work
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being done at Zurcher
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and the students whose
lives are being transformed,
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just like mine.
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Thank you for
your faithful support
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of the worldwide mission
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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My guest is Rick Kajiura
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who is the Communication
Director for Adventist Mission.
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Good to have you along, Rick.
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It's good to be here, Gary.
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So communication
director, what do you do?
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Lot of people ask that.
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Especially your boss.
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Well, we tell the story
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of what's happening in
mission around the world
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with Global Mission and with
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where the mission offerings go,
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what's happening with
Adventist missionaries
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and student missionaries
and also let people know
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the tremendous challenges
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that still exist
out there in mission.
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Right, so you have websites,
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TV programs,
Adventists mission DVD,
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Publications the
list goes on and on.
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And Facebook.
Yeah, Facebook as well.
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So Rick, tell me
what are the challenges
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that you see as you
travel around the world?
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What would you say the
major mission challenges
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that we are facing?
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Well, there is
still tremendously
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large populations out there that
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have never really
heard about Jesus.
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They've-- and what's more
they have never really had
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the opportunity
to learn about Jesus.
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They are living in
societies and cultures
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where there are
very few Christians
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and when there are Christians
just like that you don't
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really inter mingle much.
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So their opportunities
to learn about Jesus
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just don't exist for large
population in the world today.
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So Rick, you recently
returned from the Madagascar
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which is a small
island of the south-east tip
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of the continent of Africa.
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I got it-- that's right.
That's right, yeah, absolutely.
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Okay, I have trouble
pronouncing the name little.
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So, so this island--
tell us about the nation.
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Well, the nation--
well, first of all,
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you know, you look
at the map of the world
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and you see this
Island of Madagascar
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and you think its small
but it's actually very large.
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So when we landed there
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we landed in Antananarivo
which is the capital
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and if you think
Madagascar is hard to say
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try the name of the capital
and the names of the people
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because they have
very long names over there.
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But then we drove and we
sat at the Adventist university
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just outside of the city there
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and then we drove
well, seem like days
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but we went down to
the central conference
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and we visited a
church down there
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and we have got some video here
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if you want to
show some of this video
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but we visited this church
in a place called Mandoto.
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And this is where a Global
Mission pioneer is working.
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And so they had
a baptism that day,
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more than dozen
people were baptized
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and we had a chance
to watch that baptism
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but one of the
interesting things to me was
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how they fill
that baptismal tank.
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Because down the road there,
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there is a
water pump a hand pump
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and they are bringing
in these yellow jerry cans
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and they would go there
and they would fill it up
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so the baptismal tank
just had about enough water
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for somebody to
get full immersed.
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And that's where they
are doing their baptism.
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But that church
was crowded that day.
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I think people would
come from all different places
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and they had
baptism after baptism.
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And it was interesting
because somebody was there
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from the national press
as well and they covered it
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for the national
press in Madagascar.
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Now, this nation is it
a Christian country what?
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No, the majority are
traditional religions
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more than 50%
traditional religions
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and then there are,
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you know, a
handful of Christians.
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So it's kind of a novelty
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to see this baptism
ritual taking place.
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Well, I think the
majority of the people
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who are there in the church
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are from
surrounding Adventist churches
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who would come in for this
special day for the baptism.
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One pioneer-- we met a
pioneer named John Luke
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he has been working there.
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He said that since
he was a little boy
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he is wanted to be a pastor
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and so he went
and studied theology.
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Now they have hired him
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as a Global Mission
pioneer to work there
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and so he works for the
district pastor who has,
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you know, a lot of churches
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and so it's really good to
have a pioneer working with him.
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Now you use the term pioneer
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but for somebody
who may be watching
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this program for the first time
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what is a
Global Mission pioneer?
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A Global Mission pioneer
is somebody from the country
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who already speaks the language,
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who understands the culture,
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who gets a small
stipend to go out
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and spend a year or more
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planting a new
group of believers
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or helping a
newly started church
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to grow and establish itself.
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Now it always fascinates me
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when I meet pioneer to see
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what approach
he or she is taking
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because in
different parts of the world
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they try different methods
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because it can be hard
work moving into a new area
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or among new
people group even start.
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What sort of
methods did you find them
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using in Madagascar
for planting churches?
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They are visiting homes and--
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and meeting
people where they are.
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And so this
particular pioneer John Luke
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he has been meeting with people
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but also there to get an active
pathfinder program done there
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so children come in.
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And I think there
was a shot in there
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of somebody in a
pathfinder uniform
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and there are a lot of children.
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Madagascar is an economically
challenged country right now.
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They have had some problems
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in terms of relations
with other nations there
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and so they had
some economic sanctions.
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So they are struggling
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and if you go to the
Adventist University there
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they are building-- I met
a missionary couple there.
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They are from the
Philippines, Roger and Evelyn
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and they are working
there helping to build up
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the
infrastructure the university.
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His background is
building and so he is there
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and helping them
to get new buildings.
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They had a typhoon hurricane
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come through there recently
knocked over bunch of tress.
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So they have cut them all
up stacked them on the campus
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and they are using
those to make boards,
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to make wood so they can build
new buildings on the campus.
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Now Rick, we hear reports
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from the southern half
of the continent of Africa
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of the church booming
with thousands of baptisms.
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Is this the case
in Madagascar as well?
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You know, Madagascar
is more of a challenge.
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You know, when we
saw the pioneers--
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I have visited
pioneers in other areas
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where they get
a much harder time
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but to say that this is booming,
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you know, you go to
some of the countries
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in South Africa they really are.
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They are doing
extremely well. Sothern Africa.
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Yeah, Sothern Africa but because
of the economic challenges
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and the high number of enemies.
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One of the things they said was
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they struggle
with those who do come
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from certain backgrounds
with ancestor worship.
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And the cult of
the dead they call it
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where after a year they dig
up the bones of the ancestors
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they consult their
ancestors and different thing.
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So that was one of
the mission challenges
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they said they
were facing there.
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Yeah, because once
they moved to Christianity
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there is such a
whole raft of social
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and family pressures that--
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they have to cut
ties with lot of that.
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Yeah and I think
we discount sometimes
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living in either Christian
or post Christian areas
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where families have a hard time
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because so much of everything
that you do culturally
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is tied to
religion in many countries.
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And so to make a
choice to become a Christian
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or to become a
Seventh-day Adventist
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can prove a lot of
pressure with your family.
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Sure and there are
other challenges too.
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You know, we
visited another church
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and they have a
building they don't have a floor
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but one of the
families walk six kilometers
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which is about three
and three quarter miles
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to get to the church.
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And when I said well,
you know that's incredible
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they said others
and other families
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that walks 12
kilometers. Oh, well.
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Well, we are
running of time Rick,
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but thanks so much
for sharing with us.
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Thank you, Gary.
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And viewers at home,
please continue to remember
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places like
Madagascar in your prayers.
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God is working but there
are still tremendous challenges
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to share the love
of Jesus and the hope
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that can only come
through Jesus Christ.
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My guest is Pastor Conrad Vine
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and Conrad is the president
of Adventist Frontier Missions
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which is a supporting ministry
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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Conrad, pleasure to
have you with us today.
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Now you have a
mission initiative
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that focuses on planting
new congregations, where?
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AFM began in 1985 Gary,
and grew out to realization
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that also may be 9,000
people groups in our world
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over 7,000 of them have
to yet to hear the gospel
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in any way shape or form.
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And so we focus our energies
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on sending missionaries
to proclaim the gospel
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in those
un-reached people groups
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where there is as yet
no Adventist presence.
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So you are specifically focused
on the where Adventist are not?
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Absolutely, yes.
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Now can you give me
some sort of an idea
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of the spread, the
width of the initiative.
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How many countries
are you working in?
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We operate currently
in about 20 countries.
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Some of those
countries are in Africa,
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some are in South East
Asia and the sub-continent,
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others are in Europe
post Christian countries
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and we operate-- we
operate in some countries
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where one is not
suppose to send missionaries.
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They are closed
countries and in those countries
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we had to be very careful about
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how we do our mission work
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and it requires a very dedicated
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individual team to
work in those places.
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Now Conrad, you yourself
have been involved in mission
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in many different
parts of the world.
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You have a rich
history of the involvement now
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why is mission
so important to you?
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Because, I want
Jesus to come back soon.
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I take joy having my devotions
with Jesus every morning
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and because I find joy
being with Him every morning
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I want to see Him
one day face to face.
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And Jesus said that
"This gospel of the kingdom
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will be
proclaimed to the whole world
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and then the end shall come."
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And so my part in bringing
about the coming of Jesus
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and ending human suffering
and bringing in a new heavens
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and new earth is to work
for that kingdom of God myself.
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Wonderful, now Conrad,
Adventist Frontier Missions
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to be a missionary
with your organization
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that's not some
sort of casual decision
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you can just make
on this at the moment
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it's a pretty
strong commitment, right.
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Absolutely, we have
student missionaries
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who go out for one year.
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We have Korea missionaries
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who go out for may be six
to fifteen years in some cases
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and they learn the language
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they study the local culture,
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then they prepare contextualized
evangelistic materials
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and raise local churches.
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And we are also just
rolling out as we speak
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to new missionary models.
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One we call the Explorer
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and that is for baby boomer
to spend two or three weeks
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to do initial
research for new missionary.
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And the other is
called the Waldensian model
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and we are looking for people
once can may be retires to
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serve for a year or two in
an overseas language institute
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and share their faith
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in on a basics of
friendship evangelism.
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So we have missionaries
from not around the world
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but a third of our missionaries
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come from outside
of the United States
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and we have sending officers
in Canada and South Africa
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and we are
registering in Britain
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and by God's
grace Latin America.
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And we want to open
the door to mission service
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to Adventists around
the world to feel called
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and gifted by God to
this particular ministry.
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Now, how do you work
with the Adventist church?
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We work very closely
with the Adventist church.
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We don't enter a project
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unless we get the support of
the local church administration.
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We have agreements
with almost every division
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of the
Adventist church worldwide
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and with each of our projects
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we have steering committees
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in which the local church
leadership can have involvements
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and input from the very
beginning of our projects.
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And our goal is to
raise up bodies of believers
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into Adventist churches
awaiting the coming of Jesus
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and then our
missionaries withdraw
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and we hand over
those bodies of believers
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to the local
Adventist church leadership
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whether it be a conference
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or a mission or
a field leadership.
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Yeah and another--
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you are working
with global mission
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on some projects where
some of your missionaries
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can help supervise
Global Mission pioneers
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in certain areas.
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Absolutely, we are
all on the same team
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and there are parts of the world
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where AFM Missionaries
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their ministry
will be strengthened
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by having Global Mission
pioneers working with them.
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And so we have
instant on agreement
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as you say with
the General Conference
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to share our missionaries
and Global Mission pioneers
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were appropriate to
strengthen the cause of Christ
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in our local community.
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Share with me one of
your favorite stories
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of your missionaries.
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One of my favorite
stories of missionaries well,
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I just love hearing
about people coming to God
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and I have some good friends
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who are now
Adventist AFM missionaries
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who are serving in Africa
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who came a very
resistant religious group
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and they gave up a lot
when they accepted Jesus
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as their Lord and Savior
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and God spoke to them in dreams
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and convicted them
that He want to them
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to serve as
missionaries in turn.
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And so with that
family now serving Africa
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as missionaries in a
very resistant people group
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and by God's
grace they have a large
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and a very growing
ministry in that community.
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Wonderful, now by choosing
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to go to un-entered
area and difficult areas
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you are not going to be
having the thousands of baptisms
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that we see in
other parts of the world
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but your
ministry is so essential.
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Absolutely, when you
consider the history of missions
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in the 10/40 mission window
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when Adoniram Judson died
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there were may be less
than 30 converts in Burma
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and yet Burma
today is a major source
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of Christian
growth and spiritual gifts
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based on his mission work.
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And we see in
other parts of world
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such as Burkina
Faso in West Africa
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and in South East Asia
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where a small seed
grows into a beautiful flower.
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And so we do have
growing congregations of people
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from almost every
major religious background
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as a result of
our AFM Missionaries
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ministry in their service.
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And these converts
they take many years to win
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and but really at
the heart of the matter
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when we do our human work
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the work of the conversions
the work of the Holy Spirit
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and may be the most powerful
thing we can do as missionaries
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and may be our viewers can do
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is to choose a
people group of the world
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and pray that
Jesus will be manifest
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in a powerful way in that group
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and let God bring the conversion
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our missionaries are there
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to walk with new
converts to mentor them
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what it means to be a Christian
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and to nurture that
growth in the Holy Spirit.
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Wonderful, now how
can our viewers find out
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more information about AFM?
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Well, they can check out
our website www.AFMonline.org
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and they can
call into our office.
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They can receive a regular
magazine it's free of charge.
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It has missionary stories from
around the world every month
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and we are launching a new
website in a couple of months
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and then viewers
will be able to follow
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their chosen
missionaries around the world,
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follow that blog pages
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and receive their
regular updates directly
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from the missionaries themselves
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and we would
encourage your viewers to pray
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to be prayer
warriors praying that
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God Sprit be poured out
among the un-reached today.
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Thank you so much
Conrad, appreciate it.
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And viewers at home,
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as Pastor Vine
has just pointed out
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there are so many people groups
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that have millions of people
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who still have not even
heard the name of Jesus Christ.
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Please remember AFM
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and their
missionaries in your prayers.
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[speaking in foreign language]
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By firelight, an Adventist
pastor tells a Bible story.
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[speaking in foreign language]
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Most of his captive
audience cannot read or write,
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but they are eager to learn.
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[speaking in foreign language]
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In the desert
flatlands of northern Namibia
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lives the tribe of the Himba.
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These simple people
have lived the same way
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for hundreds of years.
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Families form small communities
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where fathers,
mothers, children, spouses
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and grandchildren
all live together.
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Their houses are simple huts
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that are
surrounded by thorn bushes
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that create a wall to protect
the families from predators.
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The Himba live on milk
and meat from their livestock,
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as well as corn, pumpkin
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and other produce they can
grow in their small gardens.
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The young men of
the family work all day
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herding the cattle and goats,
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while the smaller children
head out in search of water.
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There are not many opportunities
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for these children
to obtain an education,
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so their
education is passed down
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as it has been for centuries.
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They are an oral culture.
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[speaking in foreign language]
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About 15 years ago,
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Adventist
Frontier Mission's workers,
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Gideon and Pam Peterson
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started working among the Himba,
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but they found the
work to be very difficult.
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Gideon ran into many roadblocks.
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I was perceived
as a young person,
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I was young, but I was perceived
as a child I should say,
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and I didn't know
that until much later,
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and they don't respect
children teaching an adult.
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And so that-- that even though
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I didn't see it at the time,
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it became a big
challenge eventually.
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The Himba are
taught to respect the views
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and opinions of their elders.
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When an elder shares knowledge
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it is accepted
by the whole tribe.
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The Himba worship the
spirits of their dead ancestors.
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The family elder
will sit by a fire
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and consult with
the dead family members
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to obtain their
wisdom and guidance.
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It is only the elders
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that are allowed to pass on
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any new
knowledge or information.
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All of this
information is passed on
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through the telling of stories.
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Every night they
sit around the fire
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telling
stories, sharing stories.
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When people meet,
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it's important to share my story
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where I come from,
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to hear the story
of the other person,
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so stories have a very
important bonding method
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to build community.
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Gideon was finally accepted
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and was allowed to
join the fireside sessions
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and was even able to
share of stories of his own.
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But when the Petersons
tried to share the gospel,
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they found that the
Himba had no concept of sin
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or many of the
other biblical teachings
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that we take for granted.
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For years they struggled
to reach the Himba people.
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Then they
discovered a simple solution.
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[speaking in foreign language]
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The methods that
we have been trying
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to use over the
last four or five years
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experimenting
with, is oral methods
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using the Himba
music, the Himba poetry,
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Himba singing,
dancing, chanting,
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story telling methods and then
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putting that into
a biblical world view
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or the biblical world view
into those kinds of styles.
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Gideon has trained a
local lay pastor, Kapitongo,
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to oversee the
production of the audio files
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and they are now using solar
panel devices called God-Pods
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to distribute the
audio Bible stories
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to the Himba communities.
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[speaking in foreign language]
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The Petersons have now
moved onto another assignment,
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but Kapitongo will
continue the outreach
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to the Himba tribes.
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Your faithful support
of the mission offering
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will help to pay
for the production
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of the audio files
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as well as buy the
solar powered players
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that will be distributed
to the Himba communities
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throughout all
of Northern Namibia.
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Thank you for
supporting the mission
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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[speaking in foreign language]
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The office of Adventist
mission produces many recourses
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to help keep the spirit of
mission alive in your church.
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Quarterly magazines and DVD's
filled with mission stories,
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mission cards for kids
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and the constantly undated
Adventists mission website
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and a whole lot more.
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If you have
children or grandkids
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who are interested in mission
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we have produced a
brand new collection
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of Mission Stories
for Kids all on one DVD.
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If you live in North America
and you would like a copy
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of this new Mission
Stories for Kids DVD
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simply call our toll
free number on the screen
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1800-648-5824 or you
can visit our website
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and ask for the
Mission Stories for Kids DVD
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or offer number 304.
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And worry if you are not a kid
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and you want a
copy that's fine too.
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Don't forget to clearly
state your name and address
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and be sure to mention
Mission Stories for Kids DVD
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or offer 304 so we will be
sure to send you the right DVD.
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Well, that's it
for today program,
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thanks so much for joining us
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and on behalf of the thousands
of Adventist missionaries
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and Global Mission pioneers
serving all around the world
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thank you so much for
your continuing prayer
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and your financial support.
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Until next time
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I'm Gary Krause
for Adventist mission.
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