Just the single encounter
with another human being
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can make all the
difference in someone's life.
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What people have
impacted your life?
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Let's find out
how one man's life
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was completely
changed by an encounter
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with an Adventist
missionary many years ago.
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That's coming up next on
"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.
This is our "Global Mission."
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Hello and welcome to
"Global Mission Snapshots."
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I'm Gary Krause.
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Imagine packing your bags
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and moving half
way around the world
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leaving your friends
and family right behind.
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Now imagine moving to a country
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where the
culture, customs, foods,
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languages are
all vastly different
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from what you are used to.
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Now depending
on your personality
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that could either
sound scary or exciting.
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But every year hundreds
of Adventist missionaries
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and volunteers answer
God's call to serve us
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and they do exactly that.
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They aren't all
from North America
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or Europe or Australia,
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they come from
all over the world
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but they all have
one thing in common,
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they're answering
God's call to serve us.
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On today's program we will meet
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two missionary
doctors serving in Nepal,
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a land locked country sandwiched
between India and China.
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And we'll talk to G. T.
Ng, the executive secretary
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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A long time advocate of mission
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Dr. Ng served in
Cambodia, Malaysia,
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the Philippines and
his native Singapore.
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But first up, let's
meet a teacher in India
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whose life was
completely changed
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by an Adventist missionary
and an Adventist school.
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In moments like
these I sing out a song
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I sing out a love song to You
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Today is a normal day
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like any other at
this Adventist school.
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Parents drop off
their children and students
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gather in the
courtyard for morning worship.
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This is the Busy Bee
Adventist School in Goa, India.
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While most of Indian
was under British rule,
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Goa was one of the few areas
colonized by the Portuguese.
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Goa gained independence
from Portugal in 1961
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and this heavily catholic area
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became India's
25th state in 1987.
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But that seems
like ancient history
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to the young
students in the school today,
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as they start
another day of classes.
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Just as he does
on any other day,
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Reuben Doddamani
goes about his business
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as the first assistant
principal of the school.
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Like the students he teaches,
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Reuben was once a Student
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at a Seventh-day
Adventist school.
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Reuben was a young boy
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when his father learned
about Seventh-day Adventists.
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My father heard the messages
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that were
broadcasted on the radio--
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so he was able to listen
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to these messages of
Seventh-day Adventists
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and he corresponded with them,
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he was enrolled for
the Voice of Prophecy.
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Reuben's father
invited an Adventist missionary
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to come to the
village to hold meetings.
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When the missionary
left, he took Reuben,
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his brother and
three other children
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to the Adventist
school in Bangalore.
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Leaving home at such a
young age was hard on Reuben.
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I was missing my mother
and my parents, father also
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but my father would tell us
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that you be near
the gate I'll come back
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with some
chocolates and he would go away
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and so we would
be in the hostel.
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Thinking back to that time
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Reuben knows how
hard it was for his father
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to let him go and
how he was misunderstood
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by others in the village.
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Other accused him
for selling the children
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but now they praise him
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for the good
work that he has done.
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As Reuben grew so
did his love for Jesus.
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He was baptized
when Pastor Gordon Jensen
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another Adventist
missionary came into his life.
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This was the year 1980,
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when Pastor Jensen came
to Lowry Memorial College
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where I was studying
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and he conducted week of prayer
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and I felt that God
has-- the right time
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He has called me to
be part of His church
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so I decided to take baptism.
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After finishing high school,
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Reuben longed to
become a minister.
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But he didn't have the
money to go to seminary.
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So he became a teacher.
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Today, Reuben realizes that God
had another plan for his life,
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a plan that had him
ministering to students.
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I feel that God has
chosen me for this ministry.
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And so through this institution
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I can be a witness for Him.
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The children are
our future citizen.
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And it is, here
we can teach them
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about the love of Jesus.
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Even outside of school,
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Reuben still
ministers to others.
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He visits
families, talking with them
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and sharing his
faith in practical ways.
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One family lives on the beach
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and fishes for a living
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from their round basket boats.
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We have some fishing communities
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which come from other states,
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Karnataka,
during this off seasons
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where they do
fishing at the coastal areas.
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And we do visit them
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and have prayer with
them and talk to them.
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They are
illiterates, they do no know
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to read and write.
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But we talk to them
about the love of Jesus
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and how He died for us
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and how He is coming back again.
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In his own way
and in his own place
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Reuben is doing his part
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to tell the world
about Jesus' love.
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I've chosen the right path.
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I'm so happy that
during that early age
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my parents were able to
send me to the boarding school.
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So I'm so thankful
God has chosen me to be
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in His vineyard to serve Him,
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in the capacity of
teacher in this school.
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As he goes about his daily work,
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Reuben is thankful
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that Adventist
missionaries came to India
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and made a profound
difference on his life.
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Their work lives
on through Reuben
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and their work lives on
in the lives of the students
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he is teaching to love Jesus.
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Thank you for
your faithful prayers
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and support of
the mission offering.
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To learn more about mission,
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please visit
AdventistMission.org.
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I'm happy to
welcome, Dr. G.T. Ng,
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the executive secretary
of the General Conference
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to talk with us
today. Welcome, Dr. Ng.
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Thank you.
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You know, as we look
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at the mission
challenge that faces
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the Seventh-day Adventist Church
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we think of the 10/40 Window,
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we think of the growing secular
and postmodern populations,
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but we also look at
the big urban areas.
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What sort of a challenge
are the cities to us today.
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Statistics have shown
that more and more people
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are migrating to
urban centers in the world.
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People from Africa
migrating to Europe and America,
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people from Asia are
migrating to Australia.
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But even within countries,
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people having
internal migrations.
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You know, China,
for example rural area
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many peasants
are moving to cities
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because lives are better
or perceived to be better.
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They can find job, they
have conveniences all there
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and so internal
migration is a very real part
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of different
countries around the world.
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India is a same thing.
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Brazil having the
same experience as well.
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As a church our
previous missionary strategy
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has been to work
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among the
villages and the islands.
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For 50 years, for 60
years, for 100 years,
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we have been concentrating
on those areas which is fine.
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Villagers and
islanders they need to be won
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to the kingdom of
God, no question about it.
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But in doing so we
have been neglecting
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people living in cities
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and as we witness in
the world situation today,
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more than half of the
world's population live in city
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and what do we do as a church
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which almost
with that exception.
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When we go to a certain country
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you go to the capital city
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for example, you find
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very few
Seventh-day Adventist Churches
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with exception of
Jakarta, for example,
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which has 110 or
112 churches right now.
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This is a rare exception.
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Sao Paulo is
another rare exception.
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One of the highest concentration
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of Seventh-day Adventist
believers in any one single city
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but aside from that
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we have very weak
presence in cities
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and we have to do
something about it.
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Is that because Adventists just
like to live in the country?
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Why have we
neglected the cities?
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There are many reasons for that.
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Number one, we
tend to concentrate
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our mission strategy in areas
that has the least resistance.
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That's easier.
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Money can go a
long way in villages,
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you just pitch a tent
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and people will come
for evangelistic meeting
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but not in cities.
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It calls for
different methodology
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and is expensive
and when money is tight,
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you tend to spend
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where money goes a longer way.
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Right.
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You know, so that's one reason.
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Another reason is because of
our publications in the past.
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We used to publish
from the white estate.
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You know, the
beauty of country living
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and which is fine.
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You know, there's no question
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that city has many evils.
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Ellen White has
a lot to say about
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city being areas
where young people
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should not find themselves
if they can help it, you know.
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Even evangelist
people who work in cities
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they have to be
specially chosen,
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because they may be
subject to temptation in cities.
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Cities are just like
evil and we cannot deny that.
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But-- and so because of
all this different philosophies
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we tend to neglect cities.
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So, as we look at the challenge
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and we feel the need to respond.
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What methodology, what approach
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should we be considering
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when we talk about
ministry in cities.
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We have thought about
this question many, many times.
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I used to teach a
course in urban mission.
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I now wrestle, I
wrestle with the best models
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that we can find.
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So I sculpted the world,
I read all that I could read
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and of course we
do have successes
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in different
corners of the world.
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You know, where
they have been very good
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in reaching
people living in cities.
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Australia is one,
Brazil is another one,
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but there are very few
models for us to follow.
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And so I've come
to the conclusion
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that the most
defective methodology
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of reaching people in city
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is total
mobilization of our membership.
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I think that's a key to success.
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Many times we look
for the silver bullet.
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We say, what is that methodology
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that I can adopt that
will win people in the city?
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It's just not there.
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The silver bullet
is just not there.
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We have to
mobilize our membership
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making sure that everyone
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is a working
member of the church.
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We ask the question,
where is the church on Sabbath?
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The church is in the
sanctuary on Sabbath.
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Where is the church
on Monday? Where is it?
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Members say, I don't know.
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But little have they realized
that they are the church.
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They represent the
church in the workplace
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during the week days.
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So what have we
done to train them?
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And I think this
is one key components
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without that link to the world
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we are getting nowhere.
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So to me, members
are absolutely critical
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in the success of urban mission.
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They have to bring
friends and relatives
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and their loved
ones and their colleagues
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to the church
because we as ministers,
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we cannot depend on public
evangelism to do the trick.
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It's just not going to work.
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And we're
reminded of Ellen White
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talking about Christ
messages of the holistic method,
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long term on the
ground commitment.
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So it is a long term process.
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It is not a drive by
night kind of venture.
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So the traditional public
evangelism is not gonna work.
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I just came back from Zambia
two weeks ago and thank God
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we have 800,000
members in Zambia.
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And evangelistic
method is still working there.
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You pitch a
tent, people will come
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and you can baptize
people by the hundreds,
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is still working there.
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But that's not true
elsewhere around the world.
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So we need to have
many different approaches
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and we need
church members involved.
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Certainly, certainly. Yeah.
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Dr. Ng, thank you so much
for sharing with us today.
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It's my pleasure.
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My guests are
Aaron and Sally Sartin
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who are missionaries
to the country of Nepal
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and with them
we have a young man
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here by the name of Caleb.
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And who is this precious little
bundle in your arms, Sally?
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This is Hannah.
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Hannah looks to me
like she is not very old.
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Nope, she is 16 days old.
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Sixteen days old
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and I guess she is an
American, born right here.
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Yes.
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So you just came back from Nepal
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for some short
vacation and to have the baby.
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Little Hannah is now
going to be traveling
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to the country
of Nepal with you.
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Looking forward to that
I'm sure that plane trip.
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Tell me you are in Nepal,
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how long have you
been serving there?
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We have been serving there,
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we started the
first of May 2011,
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so little over 13 months or so.
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Okay so you are
both medical doctors,
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and you're at
Scheer Memorial Hospital.
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Tell us little bit
about the hospital.
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The hospital Scheer Memorial,
it started all from the work
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of an Adventist
physician missionary,
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a first missionary to
Nepal, Stanley Sturges.
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He and his family were there,
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just shortly after
Nepal actually opened up.
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Nepal is a
kingdom for a long time
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and around 50's or so
opened up to outside help.
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Before that
there were no hospitals
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or anything in the country.
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So he approach the king,
it was a kingdom at that time
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and the king told them
to go to a certain district
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to set up a clinic.
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And at that time that was
the only medical--medical care
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that people
receive at that time.
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And from that his clinic
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eventually more
work was established
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and in time
donations to the Scheer family,
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the hospital was
started and that was in 1960.
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And it's continue
to grow since then,
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now it has 150 licensed beds
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and it provides a
whole range of services
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to the people in that area.
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Okay, so you both
trained at Loma Linda
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and you both shared a vision
that we want to be involved
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in mission, overseas mission.
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What is the most--
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Up or down.
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Yeah, Caleb, up or
down whatever you want.
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What's the most
rewarding aspects
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of what you were doing in Nepal.
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How many up or down. Up, down.
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I think the
rewarding things are seeing
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whatever sign of
appreciation the people have.
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Yeah.
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And the people in
Nepal are extremely friendly.
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They live a very difficult
life as the average, you know,
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salary per person is
less than $1.25 a day.
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So it is still third
world country in many respects.
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We're just
seeing certain patients
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that you do your duty
as a medical professional,
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hopefully you're also
planting seeds for the gospel.
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But then you see their
appreciation at the end
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and so we just give
glory to God for that.
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Yes.
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Now what about
challenges that you face?
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What are the
major sort of challenges
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to your work, Sally?
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You're up and down. Up and down.
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Well, I would say one
of the major challenges
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that I've seen
just over the last year
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would be just having
updated medical equipment
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for example supplies
and things like that,
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that, the
hospital needs to provide
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the best idea of
care we can. Yeah.
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As a mission
hospital. That's right.
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To effectively reach
our patients in anyway
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we can, you know,
introduce the gospel to them.
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Yeah.
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Now, can you tell
me an example, Sally,
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you've been able to-- Yeah,
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where you've been able to
touch the life of somebody
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or Aaron may be you could share.
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Sure.
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I think of one
particular patient
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who had come into our hospital,
he was on a medical ward,
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he came up with the
diagnoses of pneumonia
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and we on x-ray we saw that
he had fluid around the lungs
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which were required
removing that through a needle
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and we did that procedure,
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he got better in a
few days and went home.
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I remember that in
subsequent probably some months
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or two later he was back
again with the same problem.
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And he was seen very discourage
that his condition had worsened
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and we treated him
with the antibiotics
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and we removed the fluid again.
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And he felt after that
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removing fluid
second time we did--
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he felt significantly
better in his breathing.
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And I don't remember him
having a smile on his face
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the first time he
was in the hospital,
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he had a big smile
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and he was very
appreciative telling the nurse
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who translate for us
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how much he was
thankful for feeling better.
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And for me I was just doing--
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the first time didn't
seem to work for him that well.
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But then now he is so
appreciative and thankful,
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I thought hey,
that's the great opportunity
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to share and plant a seed
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and so we actually
had some literature,
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I went back where we
live, our living quarters
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and then I
brought back that book
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which just tells
about Jesus Christ.
00:20:03.20\00:20:05.14
And he was very
happily accepted this.
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So I was very thankful to be
able to share in that situation.
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Now because of course in
Nepal the majority of people are
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what like Hindu and
Buddhist, is that correct? Yeah.
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Probably about 80, 90% are Hindu
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and the rest are Buddhist
00:20:20.23\00:20:21.26
and then Christianity is very,
very a small minority there.
00:20:21.29\00:20:25.40
And then the Adventist
church is even smaller still.
00:20:25.43\00:20:28.86
Yeah, but making
a tremendous impact
00:20:28.89\00:20:31.39
through Scheer
Memorial Hospital.
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Can you tell me what are
the one of the most challenging
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cases that you've had
with treating patients?
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Oh, that's--that
would be quite a long list
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if we go through all those.
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We've had a lot of situation
where we just have to do it,
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things we haven't seen before.
00:20:50.75\00:20:52.61
We weren't
trained at medical school
00:20:52.64\00:20:53.74
for like
lightning injuries. Yeah.
00:20:53.77\00:20:56.40
Well, it seem to
have a lot of those
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and there's lightning
around but in Nepal over the--
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just in the few months before
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we came on our
annual leave we had storms
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and at least in one week may be
four or five lightning strikes
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who come with
burns and so we have to--
00:21:09.78\00:21:12.26
how do we really
treat this, you know.
00:21:12.29\00:21:14.10
And our general
surgeon at the time
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and they're having a surgery
00:21:16.84\00:21:18.37
complication from
the lightning strikes.
00:21:18.40\00:21:19.70
So he learned also to
treat that effectively so.
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Yeah.
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So people who might
be watching this program
00:21:24.71\00:21:27.57
and they think yeah, I think
00:21:27.60\00:21:29.60
I might like to get
involved in mission service
00:21:29.63\00:21:31.76
but I'm not sure what advise
would you give them, Sally?
00:21:31.79\00:21:35.76
One thing for sure is if you're
interested in mission service,
00:21:35.79\00:21:40.46
it's definitely a commitment.
00:21:40.49\00:21:42.91
You'd have to have
passion and a vision,
00:21:42.94\00:21:45.88
those two things for sure
00:21:45.91\00:21:47.69
and then a little bit of maybe
a sense of adventure in you.
00:21:47.72\00:21:53.22
But I would
encourage as many people
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especially if you're
in your young age still
00:21:57.03\00:22:02.93
and anybody
could be a missionary.
00:22:02.96\00:22:04.47
But if you have the stamina,
00:22:04.50\00:22:08.14
if you feel like
you have the stamina
00:22:08.17\00:22:09.76
and the commitment and
the passion for mission,
00:22:09.79\00:22:12.57
for sure definitely we
would need all the help
00:22:12.60\00:22:16.92
we can get out in the third
world countries especially.
00:22:16.95\00:22:20.60
We certainly need
stamina to take a new born
00:22:20.63\00:22:23.42
and a
two-year-old back to Nepal.
00:22:23.45\00:22:25.25
Thank you so much
for joining us today.
00:22:25.28\00:22:26.98
Thank you. Thank you.
00:22:27.01\00:22:28.05
And to our viewers back home,
00:22:28.08\00:22:30.22
I want to thank you so much
for your continuing prayers,
00:22:30.25\00:22:33.92
your personal involvement
and our financial support
00:22:33.95\00:22:37.54
for mission around the world.
00:22:37.57\00:22:39.10
Yes, the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
00:22:39.13\00:22:41.55
still does send missionaries.
00:22:41.58\00:22:43.58
Yes, missionaries
still need your prayers,
00:22:43.61\00:22:46.30
they still need your support.
00:22:46.33\00:22:48.19
And thank you so
much for keeping mission
00:22:48.22\00:22:51.04
a number one
priority in your life.
00:22:51.07\00:22:52.78
Oh the sweetness
of being here with You
00:23:41.51\00:23:48.76
All of the day, Oh I pray
00:23:48.79\00:23:53.26
Help this
wandering heart to remain
00:23:53.29\00:23:57.87
In You I am blessed
00:23:57.90\00:24:01.76
In You so content
00:24:01.79\00:24:05.72
Guide my feet
00:24:05.75\00:24:07.66
Cause them to keep
00:24:07.69\00:24:10.67
Walking in Your perfect way
00:24:10.70\00:24:16.21
Your perfect way
00:24:16.24\00:24:20.07
Your loving selfless way
00:24:20.10\00:24:27.80
Let me not negotiate
00:24:30.55\00:24:34.26
With the old man that I now hate
00:24:34.29\00:24:38.14
Let him be nothing else but dead
00:24:38.17\00:24:42.36
That I might exist as alive
00:24:42.39\00:24:45.92
Only in Christ I am free
00:24:45.95\00:24:50.44
Only in Christ so happy
00:24:50.47\00:24:54.53
Refining fire, healing my mind
00:24:54.56\00:24:58.93
Mould me into the image of Love
00:24:58.96\00:25:05.32
The image of Love
00:25:05.35\00:25:08.83
Beautiful image of You
00:25:08.86\00:25:13.72
Who is Love
00:25:13.75\00:25:17.24
Here is the life
00:25:35.83\00:25:38.32
That I longed for
00:25:38.35\00:25:40.24
Here is the place that I adore
00:25:40.27\00:25:44.44
I'm not in prison anymore
00:25:44.47\00:25:48.89
For you've brought me
out into Your marvelous light
00:25:48.92\00:25:53.86
Come my friend let
me remind you again
00:25:53.89\00:26:00.90
Forget the dark
places you've been
00:26:00.93\00:26:05.16
For now you are a child of His
00:26:05.19\00:26:11.31
A child of His
00:26:11.34\00:26:15.21
A recreated child of His
00:26:15.24\00:26:23.21
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