Hi, I'm standing in
the secretariat department
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in the world headquarters
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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And on today's program
we'll be talking to Dr. G.T. Ng,
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executive secretary of the World
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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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, I'm Gary Krause.
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Thanks for joining us on
"Global Mission Snapshots."
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On today's program,
we'll travel to Indonesia
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to see how
Seventh-day Adventists
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in this Southeast
Asian nation are ministering
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holistically to
their communities.
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We'll also be talking with
a medical missionary family
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serving at an
Adventist hospital in Nepal.
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Located just outside
the capital Kathmandu,
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Scheer Memorial
Hospital has been providing
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outstanding medical
care for more than 50 years.
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And we'll also meet Dr. G.T. Ng,
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executive secretary of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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to talk about--
you guessed it Mission.
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But first up
let's travel to Cambodia
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to meet Peng, a
Global Mission pioneer
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I had the privilege
of visiting recently.
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Prom Peng is a
Global Mission pioneer
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working in Central Cambodia.
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He goes door-to-door
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visiting the people
of his local community
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and telling them about Jesus.
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He shares the Gospel with them.
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He becomes their friend.
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Cambodia wasn't always open
to the teaching of the Gospel.
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Traditionally, a
Buddhist country,
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it has seen many
wars and years of turmoil.
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But about 15 years ago the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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started sending out
Global Mission pioneers
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to communities
where there was little
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or no Christian presence.
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The village where
Prom Peng works and lives
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is one such village.
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His wife, Long Chenda,
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runs a small
after school program
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in the building that also
serves as the local church.
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She plays games
with the children,
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teaches them songs
and tells them of a God
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who created them and
loves them very much.
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One of the people
that Peng and Chenda
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met is Un Soksavuth.
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Un worked at a local
hospital close to Peng's house
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and they became friends
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when Peng would
visit the hospital.
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Un invited Peng
to come to his house
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and teach him about the Jesus
he was always talking about.
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Un was
interested that this Jesus
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could forgive him from his sins.
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The local
traditional religion taught
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that sins could only be forgiven
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if a gift was given
at the local temple.
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Un was poor and
couldn't afford any gifts.
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The thought of a poor man
being saved intrigued him.
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He wanted to learn more.
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As they studied Un was converted
and soon his wife joined him.
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Un was able to share
the Bible with his mother
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right up until
the time of her death.
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Because of the Bible
studies taught by Peng,
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Un's life was changed.
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He stopped going to
clubs and getting into trouble.
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His wife is happy
because now she feels
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that Un cares for his family
and they spend time together.
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They have found peace
and new lives in Jesus.
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Global Mission
pioneers work all over the world
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to spread the Gospel to people
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who have never
heard the name of Jesus.
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Often times they work and
live in very harsh conditions,
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just so that they can
help lives become changed.
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Thank you for your prayerful
support of Global Mission.
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The Seventh-day Adventist Church
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sends missionaries
all around the world
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and it is my
pleasure to introduce you
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to Aaron and Sally Sartin.
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Thank you for joining us today.
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And Aaron and Sally are visiting
from the country of Nepal.
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Now please for those
of us who aren't too good
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in our geography where is Nepal?
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Well, an easiest
way to think of that is
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Nepal is sandwich right between
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India to the South
and China to the North.
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Okay. Now this is
not sea level, right?
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Not a sea level.
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India, of course you have
the Ganges plain coming up
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and that's the
southern border with Nepal.
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That is pretty
close to sea level
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but then very quickly get little
rise up quickly into hills
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and then at the
very north of Nepal
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along with China border
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we have the Himalaya mountains.
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Right.
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And so do you get
to see Mount Everest
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from where you
live on a clear day or--
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On the extremely clear day
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we can perhaps
see the peak of it
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now these thoughts
what the locals tell us.
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Okay. So we believe that.
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So, you're both medical doctors
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serving at
Scheer Memorial Hospital
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what do you do?
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What sort of
patients do you see?
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What-- I mean,
what's the typical day like?
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So, a typical
day we start out off
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with their morning
something called morning report
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where we come into the
conference like type setting
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and to talk about patients
that were admitted overnight.
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And then we go
round on our own patients
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in the hospital,
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clinic then we'll
start at around 10 a.m.
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Well, we would suppose
to start right at 10 a.m.
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And morning clinic then
ends at 1:00 in the afternoon.
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Then we're getting
an hour lunch break
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and then we start back in
there clinic from 2:00 to 4:00.
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And then we would
do our evening rounds
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where we go
check on our patients
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again in the
hospital in the evenings
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before we close the day.
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Now, when I say we
close the day that's,
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you know, our typical
office our businesses hours
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I guess you would say.
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But after that you know
we can get called any time
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from the emergency
room or from the ward
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to attend to our patients
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if they need more
medical attention.
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So that could happen any time
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in the night pretty much 24/7.
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So this is a fairly
full time commitment
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that you involved in.
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Now adding to the commitment
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is that you have
a two-year-old son
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and how old is
your baby daughter?
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She's a little
over two weeks old.
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Two weeks old.
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So, you came back
to the United States
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for some vacation
time and to have the baby.
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Yes.
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When do you get back to
Nepal? The 23rd of August.
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Okay, so, your family
will have increased in size.
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Now what made you
decide that you wanted to serve
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as medical mission workers?
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I think I'm at
least from nearly sides
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always thought
of the health field
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is a good way to
obviously to help people
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and touch them in a certain way.
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And later as my
spiritual life prove us
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that was in a great way
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to open the door
to sharing the gospel.
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That's the ultimate
goal in the missionary work.
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And how I came into
idea of serving overseas
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I met my beautiful life
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at Loma Linda
University medical school
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that where we went
to the school together.
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And it was in our first year
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that we both
assigned at for what's called
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the Deferred
Mission Appointee Program
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which means like students
who commit to serve overseas
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when their training is complete.
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And through
that we were assigned
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to eventually
Southern Asia Division.
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And then it would be a few years
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where we decide
exactly where we're going to go
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that ended up being
Nepal at Scheer Memorial.
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Wow, so, you were
both training at Loma Linda
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and you met each
other, you married
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and then you had a shared
vision for mission together.
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Yes.
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Wow, now of course
you could be back here
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in the states earning
a whole lot more money
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in working lesser hours.
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Are you tempted?
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Well, where we went to
fulfill our commitments
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that we made to the church
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and defiantly we
want to see the work
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continue in that country.
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Well, to be honest we think
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what's best for our
children and right now
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I think they're still
in a good place in Nepal,
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it's a great
experience for them to grow up
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with that vision that we hope.
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Oh, yeah.
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They'll be just so--
into their lives, yeah.
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But we certainly
enjoyed our annual leave.
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You don't say in
order that to catch up
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with family and friends again
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yet we've revive
to go back again.
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Now tell me can
you give me an example
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how you've been able to touch
the lives of people in Nepal.
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I guess I can share a little bit
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about my own
experience in the hospital.
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We have many
patients actually coming
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after having
attempted suicide unfortunately.
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It seems like that may have
stem from sense of hopelessness
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something that maybe their
religion doesn't provide hope.
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And so we've had
a lot of patients
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come through our
hospital end up in our ICU
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almost at the verge of death
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but survive and
it's at that point
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where I feel as a physician
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I can really trying
to reach out to them
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and provide some kind
of a sense of hope as,
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you know, talking to them about,
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you know, some of our
Christian values and beliefs
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and kind of the hopefully
pointing them to Jesus Christ
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as their personal
Savior and friend.
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And I remember this
one to particular patient
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he was a male patient
and basically his family
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because he attempted suicide
over and over and over again
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and their
families had to expense
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so much on him
with the hospital bills
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and so forth that they've
pretty much given up on him.
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And so I-- his son actually came
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to visit him in the hospital
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just to scold him
and just to tell him,
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you know, his worth
nothing and so on and so forth.
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And so I felt really
I-- bad for this patient
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and I really took the
time to talk to him and say,
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you know, you
can really your ways,
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you know, there is hope
and, you know, as a Christian
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we've find hope in Jesus Christ.
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And he actually said,
well, I'm open to Christianity
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I've always been
open to Christianity
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but these bad habits of
mine that have kept me down.
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Such as you know, smoking,
drinking and other things.
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So I did spend
that time with him
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and talk with him
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and he seem to be
very open to Christianity.
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But one thing
that I do regret is not
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I've had little
bit literature at home
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that I want to give to him
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but he was discharged
before I could get it to him
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but and I do keep
him in their prayers.
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And I think, you know,
once you make a connection
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with the patient, you
know, you always remember them.
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Oh, yeah, for sure.
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But we have many patients come
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through needing,
needing a lot of counsel
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and comfort and
encouraging words
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to keep them going.
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Now talking
about encouraging words
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are there times that
you find it a bit lonely
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that it can a
bit discouraging out
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there by yourselves?
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There are times in
that especially for me
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when we've had--
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maybe a string of
bad clinical cases
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like patients who
come in extremely ill
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and we in spite our
best efforts with resources
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that we have patients
do die there unfortunately
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and just in those
situations trying to comfort
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that the family and, you know,
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provide them some
sort of hope of hope.
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Sometimes it shows
a bit overwhelming.
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Oh, yeah.
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But I mean it was hope that
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with the Lord as
leading where you in the best
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we can and we're
planting seeds in their minds
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of what the gospel really means.
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But we've had the
blessing of having their Id's
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or their
missionary physician families.
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Working with them.
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With working with us
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who've been a
tremendous support.
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I'm sure. Yeah.
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Well, thank you so
much for joining us today
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and sharing your experience.
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Thank you.
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You know, you're welcome.
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And to our viewers at home,
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thank you so much for
your continuing prayers
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and support for
mission around the world
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that extends to
places like Kathmandu.
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My guest is Dr. G.T. Ng,
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who is the executive secretary
for the General Conference.
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And Dr. Ng, I'm so glad
you could join us today.
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I'm glad to be here.
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Now when I heard
the word secretariat
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over which you are responsible,
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I used to think
in terms of policy,
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procedures,
paper work, et cetera.
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I know that's all important
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but tell me what
is secretariat for?
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That's precisely the
question many people ask me
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and my answer has always been
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I'm still in the
process of finding it out.
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Secretariat is a complex
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department in the
General Conference.
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Most people think that
secretariat is the place
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where we shuffle
people and push them,
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you know, we do
a lot with policies
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and procedures
and rightly so we do.
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But secretariat is much
more than just to mending things
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that we do from day-to-day.
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Secretariat is
thrust to chart the course
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as far as the mission
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and the price of
the church is concerned.
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We are intimately involved
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in the training of missionary
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in the recruiting of missionary,
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in mapping out
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what we can do
with 10/40 Window.
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What do we do with
people live in cities
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and other needed
area around the world?
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So it is a much bigger picture
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that most people can
see secretariat to be.
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Now since you
took on this position
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almost three years ago
you are focused very much
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on the need for a
combined effort in mission
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and a mission board
has been established.
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Tell me the purpose of this.
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Okay.
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My observation of
the church has been
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that we tend to operate
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individually in
our separate silos.
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We tend to compartmentalize
the business of the church.
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You know, if I'm jealous
of the southern department
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I will get
whatever funding I can
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to enhance the
work of that department
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which is fine.
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You know, we
need to be progressive
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in whatever task
we are called to do.
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Unfortunately, there has been
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little integration
among this different entities
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and different departments.
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So one of my
burdens is to see that
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there is a greater
degree of consolidation
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and collaboration and
synergy among different entities
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so that we can be more
focused in the area of mission
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which is really the
business of the church.
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Without mission and
we may as well drive taxi
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and do some other things
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that are not related
to the gospel commission.
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So there has
been my great burden
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and it seems that
we are coming together
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with the
establishment of mission board.
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Now mission strategy is
not something accidental
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but is something
that is intentional.
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We are pulling together
the expertise in the church
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as far as mission is concerned.
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We are getting a level of input
from Institute of World Mission
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from ADVENTIST MISSION itself
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from Adventist Volunteer Service
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from Archive
Statistics and Research.
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All this different
components will help us
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to shape the
mission of the church
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and that's what
mission board is all about.
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Wonderful.
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Now Dr. Ng, you mentioned
Institute of World Mission
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and we still have
some Seventh-day Adventists
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to express
surprise when they hear
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that we are still
sending missionaries.
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How important are missionaries
to the mission of the church?
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By enlarge the many areas of
the world are self sufficient
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as far as the human
resource needs a concern.
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Areas such as
South American Division,
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Inter American
Division, the Asian divisions
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they have enough
personnel to mend the work.
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However there are
some areas of the world
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where we are very
thin on the ground,
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in the Middle Eastern
area, in the North African area.
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In some parts of
the African continent
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we do not have enough personnel.
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This is where cross
cultural missionaries come in.
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That's the reason
why we have 900 plus
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missionaries around the globe
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sponsored by the
General Conference.
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So missionaries are
still very much needed
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and they are
doing a tremendous job
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in various institutions as
well as frontline evangelism.
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Now what role does the
Institute of World Mission play?
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Institute of World
Mission or IWM is test
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with the training of missionary.
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So, once three times a year
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we have what we
call mission institutes
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where
missionaries before going out
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to the field come together.
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Husband, wife and children
if they have children with them
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they will come
together for three week duration
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either in Andrews University
or in Thailand or in Nairobi.
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These are the three usual
places where we have meeting
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when they receive instructions
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from IWM stuff on
what cross cultural
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and mission is all about.
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And how they can be prepared
themselves for mission field
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which is very different
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from what they
encounter in the homeland.
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Yes, yes, yes.
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Now they also do
something in terms
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of when missionaries come home.
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What's that?
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Once missionaries go
on permanent returns,
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they come back to North America
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especially in the
context of North America.
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They have what they call
special debriefing session
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for missionaries as
far as with the children.
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Because after
coming back from the field
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you feel that you have
lost touch with your homeland.
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Right.
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And so to be able to
be accepted back to the--
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to the society
from which you come
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from takes a little instruction.
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And so this is where your home
coming program is all about.
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Dr. Ng, thank you so much
for giving us a brief window
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into what is
happening in mission.
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Thank you so much. My pleasure.
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My pleasure. Thank you.
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The country of Indonesia
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is made up of more
than 17,000 islands
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and it stretches
from east of Thailand
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to the western part
of Papua New Guinea.
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Home to more than
245 million people
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it is the largest
Islamic country in the world.
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Its islands are
covered with volcanoes,
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jungles, sandy beaches
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and some of the
largest cities in Asia.
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The capital
Jakarta has a population
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of more than
nine million people.
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This quarter two
different medical projects
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have been chosen in Indonesia
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to receive a part of
our 13th Sabbath offering.
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The first is on
the island of Sulawesi
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in the northern city of Manado.
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Here the church is
operated the East Indonesia
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Adventist Medical
Center since 2007.
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It started off as a
small clinic many years ago
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and now has 90 beds
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and plays an important role
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in the churches
outreach to the local community.
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Two to three times each month,
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the hospital
operates health clinics
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at Adventists churches
in the greater Manado area.
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These clinics serves a means
of helping the local church
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connect to the
outline community.
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So that we want to
reach them through clinics
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and we want to introduce
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that Jesus love
them through the clinic
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or give healing to the
people when they come yearly.
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The church also holds
evangelistic campaigns
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that run
concurrent with the clinics
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and over the past three years
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more than 300 people
have joined the church
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because of the
witnessing ministry.
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Part of your
13th Sabbath offering
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will fund these continuing
community health clinics
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over the next 12 months.
00:22:17.62\00:22:19.93
This will allow
the hospital to extend
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Christ healing hand to
those who cannot travel
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to the hospital or
afford medical care.
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And we'll also introduce
many new people to Jesus.
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The hospital also
has a small church
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so that staff,
patients and the local community
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can worship each Sabbath
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as well as
attend worship each day.
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The staff here take
their role of serving
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as Christ healing
hands very seriously.
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They understand
the important part
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that they play in the
mission of the church.
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The hospital
operates a surgical unit,
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emergency room, laboratory
and pediatric and adult wards.
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Each one serves
as a connection point
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to the local community
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where people are
searching for peace
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as well as healing.
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Fardy Malanda, serves
as the hospital chaplain
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and he explains his role
in the hospitals ministry.
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I ask them for pray together,
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you know, and convince
them about the Word of God
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that I read the Holy Scriptures
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and especially
for healing prayer.
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Then I convince them
when you believe Jesus
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because Jesus said
that there's no problem,
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you know, for those who believe,
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yeah, that they will be healed.
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The East Indonesia
Adventist Medical Center
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has undertaken an
aggressive expansion plan
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to expand the
size of the hospital
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and increase its ability
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to reach the
communities health needs.
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A portion of your
13th Sabbath offerings
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will fund a new emergency room
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and service one of the
initial points of contact
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with the local community.
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I believe that this is
institution is belong of God.
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So that if you work
very hard and seriously
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and have faith in Him,
we will get more blessing.
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And this institution
to go full of successful.
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Up in the northern part
of the island of Sumatra
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lies the city of Medan.
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The church has operated a
hospital here for many years.
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Each morning the staff meet
00:24:58.03\00:24:59.74
and share worship together
before starting their day.
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They understand the
important role that they play
00:25:03.42\00:25:06.54
and not only treating
their patient's physical needs
00:25:06.57\00:25:09.84
but their
spiritual needs as well.
00:25:09.87\00:25:12.16
This hospital
operates a small clinic
00:25:20.45\00:25:23.16
where they offer
alternative methods
00:25:23.19\00:25:24.98
of treating cancer as
well as training people
00:25:25.01\00:25:28.12
about living a
healthy lifestyle.
00:25:28.15\00:25:30.84
The staff also go out
into the local community
00:25:30.87\00:25:33.56
and teach
vegetarian cooking classes
00:25:33.59\00:25:35.97
to help fight against
the high rates of diabetes
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and hypertension
that are common here.
00:25:38.58\00:25:41.31
Hospital staff also
visit outline communities
00:25:48.23\00:25:51.08
to teach not only
proper health practices
00:25:51.11\00:25:53.86
but to share the love of
Jesus through their ministry.
00:25:53.89\00:25:57.61
The Medan Hospital
understands the powerful role
00:25:57.64\00:26:01.01
that it can play in
reaching out to a community
00:26:01.04\00:26:03.85
where many have not
heard the name of Jesus.
00:26:03.88\00:26:07.44
This quarter a portion of
your 13th Sabbath offerings
00:26:07.47\00:26:10.65
will help provide
new medical equipment
00:26:10.68\00:26:12.80
for the Medan hospital.
00:26:12.83\00:26:14.77
They are in need of
updating the hospital
00:26:14.80\00:26:17.08
so that it can
continue its mission of outreach
00:26:17.11\00:26:19.61
to the people of Sumatra.
00:26:19.64\00:26:21.90
Please pray for
the people working
00:26:21.93\00:26:23.52
at the Medan Adventist Hospital.
00:26:23.55\00:26:26.24
Pray for their
patients and please pray
00:26:26.27\00:26:28.67
that the people of Sumatra
00:26:28.70\00:26:30.35
will be reached with
the good news of Jesus.
00:26:30.38\00:26:33.72
As a small token of thanks
00:26:35.63\00:26:37.20
to our Global Mission
supporters in North America
00:26:37.23\00:26:40.21
we'd like to offer a free
Adventist Mission tote bag.
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Well, that's it
for today's program
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I hope you've been
blessed and inspired
00:27:42.65\00:27:44.89
but what you've seen
and by what you've heard.
00:27:44.92\00:27:48.33
Thank you for
continuing prayers and support
00:27:48.36\00:27:50.98
for Global
Missions frontline work.
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For Adventist
Mission, I'm Gary Krause.
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And I hope you
can enjoy me next time
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right here on
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