A church reaching out to their
community after disaster strikes
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and a medical missionary couple
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in the West African
country of Cameroon,
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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. Jesus said, Go.
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Go unto all the world,
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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and welcome to
Global Mission Snapshots.
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On today's program
we'll meet Christina
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a returned missionary,
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who shares a touching
story of how she reached out
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to a family in
their time of loss.
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We'll also be
talking with Myron Iseminger,
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undersecretary
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for the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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and a former missionary.
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But first up, let's find out
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how a congregation
of Seventh-day Adventist
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reached out to others in
the aftermath of a tornado.
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On April 25 to 28, 2011 a
strong series of tornadoes
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swept through seven states
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in the south eastern
part of the United States.
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More than 330
tornadoes were observed
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and more than 320
people lost their lives.
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Hardest hit was
the state of Alabama,
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where more than 280 people died.
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The cities of Tuscaloosa,
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Birmingham and
Huntsville were hardest hit.
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For many it was a day
they will never forget.
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On April 27,
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that was really
a day that changed
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a whole lot of
people's perspectives,
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not only physically but
also spiritually as well.
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Adventist Community
Services along with many local
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Seventh-day Adventist churches
immediately sprang into action
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and answered the call for help.
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Local pathfinder
groups helped to deliver
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food and water to
the affected areas.
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Church members also worked
in their local communities
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to help those in need.
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Pratt City on the
outskirts of Birmingham, Alabama
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faced some of
the worst devastation
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caused by the storms.
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More than 200
homes were destroyed
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in a few short minutes
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forever changing the
lives of those who live there
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and those who responded.
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Your heart go out to the people,
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it helps you to
grow as a Christian
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and it also allow you to be
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a better witness to the people
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you've been
through the couple of days
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and so I was just
excited to go out and help
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and be like a
missionary to the poor.
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Adventist members were
not immune to the damage
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that the storm
brought to Birmingham.
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Many lost their homes
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but they still made
the best of the situation.
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One of the members
at our church was Abel,
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he lost his home
but he was able to help
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rescue other
people out of their homes
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in light of the
tornado that came.
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Because we could
begin hearing the cries
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of our neighbors
help, help, help.
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So I ran across the street
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and the neighbors
directly across from me
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their house had
pancaked on top of them
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because they were told to go out
to the basement of your home,
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but if you do that typically
if something is going to fall
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is gonna fall on top of them.
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And I began to
dig through the rubble
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and I got a
mother and her son out
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because her
husband who was a doctor
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was working at one
of the local hospitals.
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Adventist Community
Services was able to arrange
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the use of a large
warehouse in Birmingham
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to help coordinate the
sorting and distribution
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of the relief supplies
that were being donated
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to those in need.
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Wayne Blanding serves
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as the
coordinator of the warehouse.
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Well, we distribute from here
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everything from food
items to personal care items
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to large items like
mattresses, water, tarps
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with the whole
spectrum it comes through here.
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The tornado changed
many people's lives,
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both in good and bad ways.
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But for those who were involved
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in helping
their local community,
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they came away with a new
sense of pride in their church.
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And I think
that's just the general
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question attitude
that which we have.
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I think beyond being Adventist
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our call is to
be great Christians.
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And in the
calling of Christianity,
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and not only in
forms of Adventism
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but it makes
our Adventist church
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stand out so much more not only
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because of the
message that we preach
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but the way that we live.
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We were alive, they
were folk who were in danger.
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So it was not even a
second thought to try to help
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because again that's what we're
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here for to help one another.
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Your support of the world
budget and the mission offerings
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help to support
organizations like
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Adventist Community
Services as they strive
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to reach out to a world in need.
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Thank you for supporting
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the mission of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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It's my pleasure to
introduce Bill and Trixy,
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who are working as missionaries
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in the country of
Cameroon in Africa.
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Thanks very much for joining us.
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You know, the word missionary
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has a bit of a
negative feel for lot of people
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because of, you know,
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in past history and
even today sometimes
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people are not very sensitive
of other people's culture
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and come and hit people
over the head with the Bible.
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I'm guessing that's not
your approach to ministry.
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I don't believe--
No, it is not, it is not.
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Let me just get a bit of context
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here that Bill and Trixy
are working at a hospital,
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a mission
hospital in the Cameroon.
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And I guess most of your
day is just busy, busy, busy
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seeing patients and making sure
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everything flows correctly.
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Largely, I would say
Trixy, has the patient for.
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My day has seeing patients.
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And my day is looking
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at how we were
growing making sure
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we're breaking even,
what do we need to do
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to make movement
towards the future.
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And so for me that's been
creating mission statement,
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we are looking
at value statements,
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things that will
last long after we go
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and that don't even represent
us but the institution.
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Wonderful. Yeah.
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So, Trixy, you
could have settled
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in the United States of
America, worked as a doctor.
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You could have had a
very comfortable life
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earning more money than I do.
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But why did you
choose to go to Africa
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to work at a mission hospital?
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I have always wanted
to go since undergraduate
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and I felt that
God gave me a desire,
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He put that in my heart
and He kept that desire going
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through medical school
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and even through
residency training.
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And, you know, God
fulfills you where you are.
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And I might just think that's
where He has called me for now
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and I'm happy
where He called me.
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Now, Loma Linda University
is a tremendous support
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for Adventist
Mission around the world.
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How did it help you
spiritually and in your goals?
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Loma Linda is a very
nurturing environment
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for teaching young
doctors how to interact
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with patients and
colleagues on multiple levels
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including how to
minister to people
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spiritually,
physically, mentally.
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It also leaves you
with people in your life
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that you will
forever be in contact with,
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mentors, friends, colleagues
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that are always there you know,
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there are people I know
for the rest of my life.
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And so that's a
big support as well.
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Sure.
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The day to day
rush of your work,
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there must be times
when you get discouraged.
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How did you, I
mean, are there times when
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you are lonely or why am I here,
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do you have those moments?
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Yes, we do. Sure.
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Don't know about lonely
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but definitely why am I here?
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What gets you through that?
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I mean, part of it is
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for me it's looking
back and going, okay,
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this is where God called
me and looking back and seeing
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how He calls us,
that's pretty miraculous.
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If you look at
all the various steps
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that brought us to Cameroon
and that have kept us there.
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It's just amazing.
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So part of it is
just looking back
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and being very sure that
this is where God's called us.
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And part of it, you know,
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it's just also trying
to step back sometimes
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and you know, do your own
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personal searching on
your own talk with God.
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And then also from
friends, friends and family,
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colleagues, you know,
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there are people sometimes
you just have to reach out to
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and it would be like
why am I doing this again?
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Can you share a story of someone
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where you feel that
you were able to make
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a positive impact on
through your ministry there?
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Wow. One?
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Well, I think you probably
have more health stories.
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Health stories, yes.
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But you have many people
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you have also impacted.
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A lot of for me because I don't
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do the health sector.
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It's looking at
the conversations.
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And sometimes you don't realize
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the impact you
have until much later
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and sometimes
through someone else
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and so when you
have the opportunity
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to explore life with someone.
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One of our volunteer friends,
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independent volunteers, atheist
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and she was having
dinner with us and saying,
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I needed you today
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because there were
these two people conversing
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and they were basically beating
each other up with the Bible
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and I know enough to
know that it's about love.
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I need a Jew there to help
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give me the right text you know,
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to help and so then
you have over dinner
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basically invitation to
Bible study without Bible study.
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Yeah.
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And those happen
actually more often
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than I actually have counted.
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I mean, it's frequent,
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where you just
have the opportunity
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to explore what
the scripture says
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about love and
compassion and service.
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Great.
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Thank you so much
for joining us today.
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I appreciate
your sharing with us.
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Thank you.
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And to viewers at home, please,
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remember people
such as Bill and Trixy,
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who are in the
frontlines of mission
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face challenges everyday.
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They need your
prayers, they need your support.
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My guest is
Pastor Myron Iseminger
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who is the undersecretary
for the General Conference
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of Seventh-day Adventist.
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This means Myron,
that you are very involved
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in the mission program of
the church around the world.
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I had a lot of questions
to ask you but first up,
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what's this shirt
that you are wearing?
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Well, this shirt
comes from the Philippines
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and it looks cool
and it is a little cooler
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than wearing a jacket
but it is their formal wear.
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Yes, so you get
to preach in that
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when you are in the Philippines.
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That's right, no ties there.
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Any plans for introducing
that to the United States?
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I would love to.
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I wear this often as
I have an opportunity.
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I'm sure you do.
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Now you were working for
sometime in Southeast Asia.
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You were based in
the Philippines but your
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jurisdiction was
much of Southeast Asia.
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Now what was your role there?
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My role was more
of a supportive role.
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I got the privilege of
supporting the missionaries
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who are working across
that region of the world.
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That which brings
up an interesting point
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that many of our
missionaries are involved in
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what we call frontline work
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in terms of
their church planting.
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They are starting new
groups, groups of believers,
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there are
overseeing pioneers etcetera.
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But others like you
were in that area were
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playing a support
role, how do you keep your,
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the balance between a desk job
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but still being
involved in mission?
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Well, one thing I did besides,
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you know, the normal day to day
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getting acquainted
with your neighbors
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and the people you interact with
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was that I tried every year
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to conduct at least one
series of evangelistic meetings
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somewhere within the region.
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Okay, tell us a
bit more about that.
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Well, I had some
great experiences.
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One year we started the
night after the largest typhoon
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for years that
come through Manila
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and so we spent a whole
week without electricity.
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So we ran our power
basic projector off of the car
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and then inverters there.
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And that was an
interesting experience.
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Oh, sure.
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But another year I went down
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to the southernmost island
of the Philippines, Mindanao
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and had a series
of meetings there
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based on the academy campus.
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And it was a great experience.
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There were of course
a lot of young people
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coming to the meetings.
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It was right at the
close of the school year,
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so many of them were
quite busy with their studies,
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but we also had
a lady that brought
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a whole jeepney
load of college students
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that were finishing up.
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And there was one in
particular that really
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stood out in my mind
and experience I had there.
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Tell me about that? Okay.
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We had been going
through the series for probably
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about ten nights total and
I had scheduled a night off.
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Well, the pastor
came to me and said
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the people don't
want a night off,
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they want, you know,
to hear another sermon.
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And so I prayed
about it and said well,
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what topic
should I preach about?
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The previous weekend
I preached about baptism
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and had a call and
many of the young people
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had come forward to be baptized
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and we had a
small baptism there,
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but I felt impressed
to preach again explaining
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the importance of
baptism and we actually
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focused on Paul and Silas
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when they were
in jail in Philippi.
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The earthquake
came, the jailer was ready
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to kill himself
'cause he was sure
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that his prisoners had escaped
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but when he found
that they were all there,
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Paul had a
chance, a teachable moment
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and he was converted
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but he wanted to be
baptized that night,
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they couldn't wait
until the next day.
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And so as I shared
that I again called
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and this time
one of the students
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that had not come
forward before came forward,
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her name was Jenalyn.
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And I found out later
that she had been raised
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in an Adventist home
but had drifted away.
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She gotten into college
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and just too
many things happening.
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Her final exam
was the following day
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and she was planning to
go back to her home territory
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which was quite
sometime place away.
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And but that
night the Holy Spirit
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really spoke to
her and as a pastor
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visited with her after the call,
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he found out that she wouldn't
be there to be baptized later on
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and that story that you know,
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there is water,
let's be baptized
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really touched her heart.
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And so she asked can
I be baptized tonight.
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We went and
checked the baptistery
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because we didn't know
if there was water there,
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but there still was
water from few days before
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when we had
conducted the baptism
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and the choir was
still there practicing,
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so they gathered around
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and we were able to
baptize her that night.
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She of course knew
the beliefs and doctrines
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but really the
Holy Spirit spoke to her
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and it's so neat to be a channel
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that the Holy
Spirit can work through.
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And just icing on the cake
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when we were filling
out the paper work you know,
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she put down her
birth date and so forth
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and I looked at
the date and I realized
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that that date was her birthday.
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So it was not only her birthday
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but it was her
new birth day as well.
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Wonderful.
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This sort of
memories that you cherish
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from your time
in mission service.
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Myron, the
Seventh-day Adventist church
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runs a large mission program.
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How do we care for missionaries?
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For example,
how are missionaries
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prepared before
they sent overseas?
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One of the programs we have is
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part of the
Institute of World Mission.
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And there is a
quite extensive training
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that goes to the
missionaries before they go.
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They spend at least three weeks
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in a live in
program that teaches them
00:18:28.56\00:18:31.53
how to relate to the
culture and so forth.
00:18:31.56\00:18:34.68
We also give
opportunity for language study
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which varies on the
length of time for that.
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Okay, now when
they are in the field,
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what sort of
support do we provide?
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Well-- We pay for them?
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Right. Yeah. We support them.
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We try to visit them
when we have opportunities
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and we do give them opportunity
00:18:55.72\00:18:59.05
to have a vacation
every year to go back
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and spend some
time with their families
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who are also
sacrificing when the missionary
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goes out you know,
00:19:07.74\00:19:09.09
grandparents can't see
their grandkids and so forth.
00:19:09.12\00:19:12.14
Now what about them
when they finally come home,
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do we do anything to help them
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prepare for coming back home?
00:19:17.27\00:19:19.72
We do also again through
the Institute of World Mission
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have a reentry
seminar that many of them
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are able to participate
in and they have said
00:19:25.86\00:19:29.43
that that's very
important as well,
00:19:29.46\00:19:31.46
the reverse culture shock
of coming back to your culture.
00:19:31.49\00:19:34.67
Myron, thank you so much
for sharing with us today,
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I appreciate it.
00:19:37.38\00:19:38.50
And viewers at
home, please remember
00:19:38.53\00:19:41.85
the missionaries around
the world in your prayers
00:19:41.88\00:19:45.17
and there are so many
opportunities for missionaries,
00:19:45.20\00:19:49.04
but we don't have
the funding in place.
00:19:49.07\00:19:50.91
Pray that God will provide
means for this to happen.
00:19:50.94\00:19:54.07
She had been pushing
at home for 10 hours.
00:20:05.31\00:20:08.12
The family brought
the woman to the hospital.
00:20:10.07\00:20:13.01
I talk to the nurses they
said that they were trying
00:20:13.04\00:20:16.14
to call for a
doctor and they couldn't
00:20:16.17\00:20:19.56
find a doctor that could come.
00:20:19.59\00:20:21.59
Kristina
Muehlhauser, has just returned
00:20:26.26\00:20:28.43
with her family to
their home in Maine.
00:20:28.46\00:20:30.49
For the past seven years she,
her husband and their daughter
00:20:34.85\00:20:38.70
have been
working as missionaries
00:20:38.73\00:20:40.33
in the country of Uganda.
00:20:40.36\00:20:42.55
Kristina volunteered
00:20:42.58\00:20:43.75
at the government
clinic as a midwife.
00:20:43.78\00:20:45.90
Two hours later a doctor arrived
00:20:50.21\00:20:52.85
and they began
cesarean operation.
00:20:52.88\00:20:55.10
They put her
completely under anesthesia
00:20:56.34\00:20:59.65
and they delivered a
healthy fat baby girl.
00:20:59.68\00:21:05.68
And the next
morning when I came back,
00:21:12.31\00:21:15.11
I went to check on
her and her mother,
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the grandmother
of the baby was there
00:21:19.56\00:21:22.26
and the grandmother of the baby
00:21:22.29\00:21:23.84
couldn't speak
English but by signs she told,
00:21:23.87\00:21:28.34
you know, showed me the baby
00:21:28.37\00:21:30.85
and with tears
that that baby was dead.
00:21:30.88\00:21:34.84
She was in her
room with 20 other women
00:21:36.39\00:21:39.10
that had also given
birth with their babies.
00:21:39.13\00:21:42.60
And she just
was lying on the bed
00:21:43.69\00:21:46.97
with her eyes closed tight
00:21:47.00\00:21:49.39
not acknowledging
anyone else in the world.
00:21:49.42\00:21:53.03
I hurried home
and got a little hat
00:21:55.88\00:22:00.12
that I had knitted before.
00:22:00.15\00:22:02.30
It's a white hat with two ropes.
00:22:02.33\00:22:04.66
And brought it back and together
00:22:04.69\00:22:07.69
that grandmother of the
baby and I was only Christian
00:22:07.72\00:22:13.33
we put the hat on the baby...
00:22:13.36\00:22:15.35
with tears
coming down our faces.
00:22:17.34\00:22:21.55
Our hearts and our hands
00:22:21.58\00:22:23.11
touched as we carried
that baby to the mother
00:22:23.14\00:22:27.60
and told her to open her eyes
and see her baby one last time.
00:22:27.63\00:22:32.25
She opened her eyes saw her baby
00:22:32.28\00:22:35.76
and then she closed them again
00:22:35.79\00:22:37.45
to shut out the world.
00:22:37.48\00:22:39.73
To My gentle searching eyes
00:23:02.85\00:23:08.18
there have been no disguises
00:23:08.21\00:23:13.90
Nothing that you have done
00:23:13.93\00:23:17.57
that you can hide
00:23:17.60\00:23:23.76
I've seen you in
your darkness sin
00:23:23.79\00:23:26.83
and know the
pain and guilt within
00:23:26.86\00:23:30.48
But the question on your mind
00:23:30.51\00:23:33.31
am I worth saving anyway
00:23:33.34\00:23:37.77
I see you child for who you are
00:23:37.80\00:23:40.78
Know that sin has
left its ugly scars
00:23:40.81\00:23:44.79
But I know who
you were meant to be
00:23:44.82\00:23:47.77
And my love will set you free
00:23:47.80\00:23:53.37
So come weary child
rest beside Me for awhile
00:23:53.40\00:24:01.16
I know your care the
burdens that you bare
00:24:01.19\00:24:07.21
Abide in My love hide in My love
00:24:07.24\00:24:14.51
Don't push Me
away ashamed and afraid
00:24:14.54\00:24:20.53
I know who you are And
I love you anyway My child
00:24:21.98\00:24:29.98
So bring Me all
your wants and needs
00:24:38.28\00:24:41.79
I promise they can't burden Me
00:24:41.82\00:24:45.57
Most desperate one
cannot exceed My care for you
00:24:45.60\00:24:50.72
And bring Me all
your doubts and fears
00:24:52.34\00:24:55.65
The hurt you
haven't faced in years
00:24:55.68\00:24:59.15
The wounded heart
you stuffed inside
00:24:59.18\00:25:02.67
The tears you've
tried so hard to hide
00:25:02.70\00:25:09.58
So come weary child
rest beside Me for awhile
00:25:09.61\00:25:15.86
I know your care the
burdens that you bare
00:25:17.60\00:25:23.93
Abide in My love
00:25:23.96\00:25:27.53
hide in My love
Don't push Me away
00:25:27.56\00:25:34.00
a shamed and afraid
00:25:34.03\00:25:37.21
I know who you are And
I love you anyway My child
00:25:38.41\00:25:46.41
So come to Me
just the way you are
00:25:48.02\00:25:51.39
Though your fallen
hard and wandered far
00:25:51.42\00:25:56.94
Stop trying to be
so brave so strong
00:25:56.97\00:26:00.12
It's okay to cry
child tears aren't wrong
00:26:00.15\00:26:06.79
So come weary child
rest beside Me for awhile
00:26:06.82\00:26:13.25
I know your care the
burdens that you bare
00:26:15.04\00:26:21.00
Abide in My love hide in My love
00:26:21.03\00:26:28.18
Don't push Me
away ashamed and afraid
00:26:28.21\00:26:34.81
I know who you are And
I love you anyway My child
00:26:35.88\00:26:43.88
Yes I love you always My child
00:26:45.36\00:26:51.34
Well, that's it
for today's program.
00:27:13.96\00:27:15.89
But before we go if you
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00:27:15.92\00:27:19.33
from around the
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I hope you've
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00:27:55.50\00:27:58.17
Thank you again
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For Adventist
Mission, I'm Gary Krause
00:28:05.54\00:28:08.18
and I hope you
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