A special anniversary
for Adventist Mission
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in a village of the
southeast coast of Africa.
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That and so much more coming up
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right here on
"Global Mission Snapshot."
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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,
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.
On today's program,
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we'll be
talking with Nancy Kyte,
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marketing director for the
Office of Adventist Mission.
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Nancy recently
traveled to the island nation
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of Madagascar
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where she visited a church
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made up of people
from an outcast tribe.
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We'll also talk with her about
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something that
happened 100 years ago
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that's still
impacting mission today.
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The very first
13th Sabbath Offering
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took place in 1912.
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But even before that,
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there was a project that
inspired these offerings.
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It was a
collection to carry the gospel
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to the descendants of the mutiny
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on the bounty
on Pitcairn Island.
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But first, let's
head for Siberia.
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I have a friend,
her name is Alicia
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and she invited
me to this group.
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Sometime ago my house
was damaged in a fire.
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And the church helped
me rebuilt part of it.
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And I decided that
I would like to have
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this house dedicated
to God and to serve Him.
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So for the past year, I've
been inviting a small group
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to come and meet in my house.
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Alicia lives in a
town of Krasnoyarsk,
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deep in the heart of Siberia.
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Life here can be cold
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and for the small number
of Seventh-day Adventists
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that make their homes here,
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reaching out to
others has not been easy.
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But then a new
approach was taken.
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One that has
proven to be successful.
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At our church we
were discussing ways
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that we can
share our love for God
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and friendship with others.
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One of my friends suggested that
we've a small group meeting.
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Because of our group,
now Ruslan and Marguerita
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are the fruits of our meetings
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and I'm so happy
that they have joined us.
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Ruslan is the
newest member of the group
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to join the church
and he started attending
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the group for a specific reason.
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I came to this group,
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because they were
studying the Bible.
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Now God is my
life and my friend.
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Getting a small
group established
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isn't an easy task.
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So the group was thankful
for some help in the beginning.
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When we started our group,
our pastor Vladimar joined us
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and he helped
us to get us going.
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He was very helpful.
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This group is successful
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because they are
united and are like a family.
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They help each
other and I'm sure
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that if something were
to happen to one of them,
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the others would support
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and help each
other grow spiritually.
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The members of this
group have been changed
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through their new friendships
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as well as continual
study of the Holy Scriptures.
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God has changed me a lot,
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because before I
never used to listen
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to other peoples opinions.
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I was selfish and
everything was my way.
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But when I went to
church and got to know God,
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I can now listen to people
and consider their opinions.
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Small group
evangelism has been proven
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to be successful
all over the world.
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For many it is the best
way to truly grow the church
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and build strong congregations.
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I'm sure this model of
outreach is one of the best ways
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to reach people
and grow as a church.
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People become like family
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and their relationships
help to unify the church.
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The church members who
started the small group
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are happy that they
have found a way to reach out
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to those people
in their community
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who are searching for the truth.
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For Ruslan and Marguerita,
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their lives have
been touched by people
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who are willing to let
them in to their church family.
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I am so happy that
they have found the truth.
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They both used to
be different people,
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but now their
lives have purpose.
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I used to be the same way,
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but when I found
God, my life changed.
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Your mission
offerings will help provide
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a new church building
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for the Seventh-day Adventist
members in Krasnoyarsk.
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Currently they have
to rent public buildings,
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so that their members
can meet each Sabbath.
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This new church will provide
a stable place of worship
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where they can invite their
friends and families to worship.
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Please keep the members
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in Krasnoyarsk in your prayers
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as you give your
mission offerings this Sabbath.
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Move from Siberia, we
now travel to the somewhat
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warmer climates of Africa
and my guest is Nancy Kyte.
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Nancy, thanks for joining us.
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Now you're the
marketing director
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for Adventist Mission
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and recently you
visited Madagascar,
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I guess that's
how you pronounce it.
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Yes. Describe this island?
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Madagascar is a
beautiful island.
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It wasn't quite as developed
as I thought it would be.
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People there work extremely hard
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just to make a
living and just to survive
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from one day to the next.
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You find a lot of people
just doing subsistence work
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or subsistence
farming just to stay alive.
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And the life
expectancy isn't all that long.
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Maybe around 53.
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So if had lived there
under those circumstances,
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I would be long gone by now.
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Well, not that long
ago. A little while.
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Yeah, but that's, you
know, this is the challenge
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in many parts of
the developing world.
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Now, Madagascar
is French speaking,
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a former French
colony I guess. Yes.
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Now, describe the Seventh-day
Adventist church's presence?
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Well, the presence there
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is actually
larger than I expected.
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It has been growing quite a bit
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and while we were there,
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we had a chance
to visit a church,
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it was a new church.
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It'd only been built
for maybe couple of months.
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It was in the
south part of the island,
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so we went down
to see this church
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which had been started
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originally by a
Global Mission pioneer,
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so he had been sent to this area
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specifically to
make friends in the area
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and offer Bible study to
those who were interested.
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He went to a very
difficult people group though.
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Now, you describe
them as an outcast tribe.
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What do you mean by that?
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Well, it so
happens that centuries ago,
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there were some
superstitions that
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meant that this
particular people group
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were the
descendants of only one human
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and not two humans.
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And so there is
a lot of disgrace
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and discrimination about that.
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So this group,
they live in isolation,
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although they can go out
and join the community for work
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and that sort of thing.
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So it's almost like
they were lower cast.
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Exactly. Exactly.
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So the Global
Mission pioneer went there
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and established
this congregation.
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Describe the
church, the building?
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Well, the church
was very interesting
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and we had a little
opening ceremony there
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and I was talking with
some of the members afterwards
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and I said, well, now how
did this church get built.
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Did you have, you know,
you hire someone to build it
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and they immediately went
to chattering among themselves
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because they
did not hire anyone.
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They all did
the work themselves.
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In other words
for the foundation,
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where the concrete of
the church was, the floor.
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They all hiked by foot
and went to the mountain
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and chipped out rocks by hand,
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carry them on their heads
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and brought
them into the village
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and mix them with cement
and that laid the foundation.
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They also used
about 250 Ravenala trees.
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Now Ravenala tree is
similar to a banana tree, only,
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you know, it fans out like this.
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250 of those trees they
cut to take care of the walls
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and that sort of thing.
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So incredible amount of labor,
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but they did it
knowing that it was going to be
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their first church
in that area. Amazing.
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Now, did you actually meet
the Global Mission pioneer?
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I did. Describe him?
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He is a young man,
not married that long.
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His wife is also young
and they have a little baby.
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I think even he was surprised
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at how fast the
work was growing,
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because they started just,
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you know, with
the handful of people
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and that group soon
jumped to like 22 and then 50.
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So I think even he was surprised
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at how fast the work was taking
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and how much
interest there actually
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was in learning about the Bible.
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And learning about a God
who gives everyone dignity.
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Very important. Now
when the pioneer went there.
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Did he talk about
how he started the work,
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I mean, did he--
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had he come from
that area himself? No.
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He was not from that area
but he moved into the area
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and started with
activities for children,
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you know, games after
school and that sort of thing.
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And then became
acquainted with the parents,
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and you know,
offered to teach the lessons
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from the Bible if
they were interested
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and since he was
new and he was a person
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that had an attractive
personality, they liked him.
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And they recognized that
he was an educated person
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and they wanted
to learn from him.
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So it kind of
started from there.
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And also along with the support
of a nearby Adventist church
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what was established
in the next city over.
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Okay, very good.
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So got a lot of
support from them.
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Good, good, and now,
perhaps you should back up,
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because there
maybe some of our viewers
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who don't know what a
Global Mission pioneer is?
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Can you describe what a
Global Mission pioneer is?
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Yes, a Global
Mission pioneer is a person
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who works as a missionary
within his or her own culture.
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There are some places
where it doesn't work very well
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or it's not as
effective if a foreign person
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comes into work in that area.
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So a pioneer
already knows the language,
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he knows the
customs, the traditions
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and it's a lot faster,
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it's a lot
easier for them to make
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inroads into a community.
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Yeah, and they--
because they speak the language
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and they know the culture,
they know what they should say
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and what they
shouldn't say. Exactly.
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And they always humbles me
when I visit these pioneers,
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because they are
not living in luxury,
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I mean-- No, they are not.
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In fact we went
to the pioneer's home
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and shared a meal
that his wife had prepared
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and pitch dark, you
know, very little light,
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but there isn't much light
in the neighborhood either,
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so they lived the very same way,
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so for us it seemed
a little bit precarious
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to go down the
path in the darkness
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and find our way into his home.
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But they were lovely hosts
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and I found that
people in Madagascar
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themselves to be
extremely friendly and kind,
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especially considering
the hard day to day life
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that most of them
seem to have. Exactly.
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Now are there any large
cities at all in Madagascar
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or is it all rural?
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Most of it seems to
be rural from what we saw
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and it seem like they were
a lot of intersected highways
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and if you get down the
road and you drive and drive
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and then the next day you
turn around and come back,
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at least that's
the route that we took,
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but such a beautiful country,
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so full of natural
beauty. It was lovely to see.
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Well, thank you much, Nancy,
for sharing with us today.
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My pleasure.
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And viewers at home,
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please remember
Global Mission pioneers
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working around the world,
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sometimes in very,
very difficult circumstances
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and remember the
people in Madagascar
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as they learn about
Jesus and His love for him,
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for everybody and that He came
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and died for
them. Don't go away.
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We'll be coming back
in just a few seconds
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to talk about a very
important mission anniversary.
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Some 50 years ago,
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Adventist
missionary spent 40 days
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traversing the rough
jungles of Papua New Guinea
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to reach out to people
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who have never before
heard the name of Jesus.
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They healed the
sick, fed the poor
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and provided spiritual
healing to God's children.
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Today this same trip
can be done in 15 minutes.
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Thanks to a mission
plane that was paid for
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with your mission offerings.
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The mode of
transportation may have changed,
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but the message of hope
in Jesus is still the same.
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Welcome back.
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Nancy Kyte is still
with me to talk about
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a very important
anniversary this year which is?
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It is the 100th anniversary
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of the 13th
Sabbath Mission Offering.
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Okay, now the
13th Sabbath Offering
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is familiar to
Seventh-day Adventist.
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Describe it for
some of our viewers
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who may not have
heard of it before.
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It is a special
offering that is collected
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at the end of each quarter,
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so in other
words the 13th Sabbath,
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once a quarter
and that offering goes
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to fund new projects.
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In other words work that
isn't already being supported
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by other
offerings in the church.
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Okay, and so this
special mission project,
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but sometimes it can be to help
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refurbish mission
hospital or something like that.
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Sure, yes.
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Now, I mentioned
earlier that the real beginnings
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of Seventh-day
Adventist mission offerings
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go right back to the Pitcairn.
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Describe that for us
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and the offering
that was collected?
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Well, the offering
that was collected,
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it was actually
quite historical.
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Now the
Adventist Church had been
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sending offerings for
mission projects previously,
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but this was first
time that they had done it
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in organized fashion.
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And so Adventist Churches
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everywhere
started collecting money
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to raise enough funds to send
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a ship over to
the Pitcairn Islands.
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So there were kids who
were making popcorn balls
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and selling them
for penny a piece.
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Everything to raise money
just for this important project.
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And that was the
beginning of the organized
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13 Sabbath Mission
Offerings from that point on.
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So for 100 years,
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Adventists have been
giving to specific projects
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as well as just to
the general mission fund
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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Yes, I remember
doing that as a little girl
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and you probably did
too. I certainly did.
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Well, thank you so much for
joining us to talk about this
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because it is
special anniversary
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and we have a
video clip coming up soon
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to focus on this, but
if you are interested in
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how you can give
your mission offerings,
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you can give it to
church every Sabbath
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or you can just go
to adventistmission.org
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and there you can give
your mission offerings online.
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And mission
offerings go to all aspects
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of the mission of the church.
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It helps missionaries to work
in different parts of the world,
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Global Mission
pioneers, our internet work
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media work, humanitarian work,
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everything is
supported in someway
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through the
various mission offerings.
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But let's now go to this video
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that focuses on
this historic occasion
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and this 100th anniversary.
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The 13th Sabbath Offering
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doesn't mark the beginning
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of mission giving in
the Adventist Church.
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Adventists have been
giving mission offerings
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for more than 25 years.
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The General
Conference School Department
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decided that there
ought to be this project
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to send a vessel
out to the Pacific Ocean
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to go to the islands
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and so they got an appropriation
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which didn't cover the
cost, but then they invited
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the mostly the
children of the church,
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to help raise
funds to build the ship
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that would go out
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to all the islands
of the Pacific Ocean.
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And in 1890,
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that ship sailed
from San Francisco
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and a month later
landed at Pitcairn,
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its first stop.
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Virtually everyone on the island
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above the age of
majority was baptized.
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The truth is that
all of the Pacific Ocean
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was affected by
the ship Pitcarin
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and the
missionaries who went out.
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Nearly 100 missionaries
in the different voyages
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about went on Pitcairn.
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So it was, it was
a momentous project
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that grew from just an idea
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and one man having the
burden that we must go.
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tells us to do. Go, go, go.
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Of course the
offering for the ship Pitcairn
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was the first Sabbath
school project of the church.
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And years later when
the church decided that,
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that had been a good thing,
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they then took up the idea
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of a periodic offering
that would be very special
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and the special
needs in the church
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and that became the
13th Sabbath Offering
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of the Sabbath
School Department.
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But in 1912 the
General Conference voted
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to start a special project
called 13th Sabbath Offering
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in which the church would focus
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on a special
project every quarter.
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When we have a special offering
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that we're all going
to come together to give.
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We get closer to
each other in doing that.
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The first 13th Sabbath projects
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tended to feature
general areas of the world
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such as the work
in Central Africa.
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But very quickly the work began
to focus on specific projects
00:19:12.66\00:19:16.97
such as the River
Plate secondary school
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which eventually
became their college.
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And on the Adventist
training school in Chile
00:19:22.37\00:19:25.61
which eventually
became their university.
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Well, the mission quarterly
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actually started as a
simple eight page leaflet
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in which the mission
offering was focused on
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and a couple little
stories were initiated
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and most of it
was encouraging people
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to give to mission offerings.
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This helped the
church in the world know
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that they were not
isolated that they--
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that we needed to grow
00:19:53.89\00:19:56.02
and the 13th Sabbath Offering
because it focused on projects,
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helped us understand the need
00:20:00.83\00:20:03.02
to give to help specific people
00:20:03.05\00:20:05.46
in specific
places around the world.
00:20:05.49\00:20:08.37
Jesus reached
people through stories
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and today we reach
people through stories.
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The mission stories
are told in such a way that
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we can visualize the individual
or the group involved,
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so that we can feel
their pain and feel their joys,
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understand their challenges
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and rejoice in
their opportunities.
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The mission
stories are to make us
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identify with others,
to want to pray for them
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and to want to give
to make their challenges
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into opportunities
that will reach the world.
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Adventists have to
learn to be mission minded.
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It didn't come naturally.
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But once people
began focusing on mission,
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the work around the world spread
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and although the
church began in North America
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and in 1912
nearly all Adventists
00:20:58.69\00:21:01.23
were in North America.
00:21:01.26\00:21:02.78
Today only 6%
are in North America.
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94% of all Adventists
live outside North America.
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Most major Adventist
institutions started very small,
00:21:16.42\00:21:20.05
started with offering such
as the 13th Sabbath Offering.
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Imagine a little clinic
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on the shores
of the Amazon River
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that was instituted to
treat the indigenous people.
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Today, it is a fully
functioning medical center
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in a major city that influences
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thousands of people
every year for Christ.
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That's what our
13th Sabbath Offering
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and our mission offerings do.
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In the last 100 years,
roughly 500 institutions
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and plants have received money
00:21:53.49\00:21:55.56
from the 13th Sabbath Offering.
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Imagine the amount
of work that can do.
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Each offering was a
seed that is planted
00:22:00.86\00:22:04.20
somewhere in the world
00:22:04.23\00:22:05.89
and each of
those seeds has grown
00:22:05.92\00:22:08.43
from a tiny medical
clinic to a great hospital,
00:22:08.46\00:22:12.06
from a tiny church
00:22:12.09\00:22:13.32
to a great
institution of evangelism.
00:22:13.35\00:22:16.24
And each of those
institutions are like trees
00:22:16.27\00:22:19.36
that have grown from the seed
00:22:19.39\00:22:21.32
and those trees
have branched out
00:22:21.35\00:22:23.23
and planted more seeds.
00:22:23.26\00:22:25.22
So the cycle continues to
grow. Our offerings are seeds.
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Giving to 13th Sabbath Offerings
00:22:35.11\00:22:37.33
is even more
important today than before.
00:22:37.36\00:22:40.13
Imagine our church
at 70 million members
00:22:40.16\00:22:43.15
and many, many people
00:22:43.18\00:22:45.03
who attend who
are not members yet.
00:22:45.06\00:22:47.79
Giving to a specific focuses,
specific project every quarter.
00:22:47.82\00:22:52.92
Imagine what we could do
00:22:52.95\00:22:54.58
if we all gave sacrificially
to a specific project,
00:22:54.61\00:22:58.96
we can pray for that project
00:22:58.99\00:23:01.30
and we can understand the people
00:23:01.33\00:23:03.26
who need this work
00:23:03.29\00:23:04.77
and we can make a huge
difference in the world.
00:23:04.80\00:23:07.98
13th Sabbath Offering projects
00:23:08.01\00:23:10.24
are not just
about breaking mortar,
00:23:10.27\00:23:12.84
they're about
facilitating the outreach
00:23:12.87\00:23:17.30
to millions of
people around the world
00:23:17.33\00:23:19.29
who would never
hear of the gospel.
00:23:19.32\00:23:21.83
We may build a clinic
in some far off country.
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It's not the building,
it's the doctors and nurses,
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treating people in need.
00:23:28.77\00:23:30.77
And that's what
mission is about.
00:23:30.80\00:23:34.09
World mission
isn't just another pot
00:23:34.12\00:23:36.64
into which we cast coins.
00:23:36.67\00:23:38.53
It is God's
commission telling us to go.
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Every quarter
Adventist Mission produces
00:23:54.03\00:23:56.47
an inspiring collection
of video mission stories
00:23:56.50\00:23:59.98
and reports for the
Adventist Mission DVD.
00:24:00.01\00:24:03.90
If you live in North
Africa and would like to receive
00:24:03.93\00:24:06.23
a free sample copy of
the Adventist Mission DVD,
00:24:06.26\00:24:10.29
then call or visit our website
00:24:10.32\00:24:12.40
and ask for a sample
Adventist Mission DVD
00:24:12.43\00:24:16.05
or request offer number 303.
00:24:16.08\00:24:20.01
Please remember to
clearly state your name,
00:24:20.04\00:24:22.50
full address and
don't forget to mention
00:24:22.53\00:24:25.08
the Adventist
Mission DVD or offer 303.
00:24:25.11\00:24:29.96
Well, that's it
for today's program.
00:24:29.99\00:24:32.04
Thank you so much
for your continuing
00:24:32.07\00:24:34.57
prayerful
support of Global Mission
00:24:34.60\00:24:36.93
and your weekly
mission offerings.
00:24:36.96\00:24:39.57
As we finish this program,
please watch this music video
00:24:39.60\00:24:43.34
and take time to
talk to our Father
00:24:43.37\00:24:46.00
about how you can be
involved in His mission
00:24:46.03\00:24:49.41
to share the
good news of His love.
00:24:49.44\00:24:51.77
Until next
time, I'm Gary Krause,
00:24:51.80\00:24:53.75
wishing you
God's richest blessing.
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