We are here in
Thailand right now,
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a country that is
well known for its name,
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the land of smiles.
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It's hard for the
church to do work here.
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It's a bit challenging.
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But we are here
to meet some people
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who are making a
difference and to hear
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about the kind of the
work that they are doing
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in this urban city of Bangkok.
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Welcome to Global
Mission Snapshots.
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Just before He
went up to heaven,
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Jesus gave us a command.
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He gave us a mission.
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Jesus said "Go, go
unto all the world,
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telling them of His love."
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This is our mission.
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This is our Global Mission.
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Hello, I am Gary Krause
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and welcome to
Global Mission Snapshots.
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Did you realize that as
many as one billion people
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in today's world don't have
access to basic medical care?
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On today's
program we will be looking
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at what Seventh-day
Adventists are doing to help
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provide clinics in remote areas.
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We will also be
traveling to Russia,
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Thailand and the South
Pacific and we will be talking
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with David Trim the
director of Archives, Statistics
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and Research for the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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We will be talking about
various aspects of mission.
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This and so much
more coming up right here
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on Global Mission
Snapshots but first lets look
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at healing South Pacific.
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On this early morning a mission
pilot warms up his plane,
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he is preparing for the day.
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As he flies over some
of the most remote jungles
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of Papua New Guinea, he prays
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for the great
need in this region.
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The people here are in
need of medical attention.
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As the pilot
approaches a village
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he knows that
God is working here.
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In Mengino village
the Seventh-day Adventist
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has set up a
small medical clinic.
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This clinic offers the people
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in the village
medical attention.
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The people here constantly
struggle with such things
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as malaria, broken
bones, the flue and pregnancies.
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For a majority of these
people this is only access
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to medical care
they will ever have.
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You can begin to see
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the importance of this service.
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People travel
great distances on foot
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from other villages
to the Mengino clinic.
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Roy Lowly walked here with
his parents from other village.
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They came in search of
treatment for his mother
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who was not feeling well.
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After trekking for hours
through the jungle to get here,
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this family is very appreciative
of the work being done
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and hopes for a clinic
in their village someday.
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We have a privilege
to have the SDA mission
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to come up here
and set this hospital
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so that all the people around
the bush places like here,
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we usually come and take
medicine here for treatment.
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As the mission pilot prepares
to leave he sees first hand
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the work the God is doing here.
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These clinics are an
opportunity for the people
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in the village to see Jesus.
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The work here is
plentiful and the Mengino clinic
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struggles to tend
to the high demand
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of those seeking
medical attention.
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The Mengino clinic
is just one example
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of the clinics through
out the South Pacific region.
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Other clinics
in Papua New Guinea
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in the small island of Tanna
face the same challenge everyday
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as you can see this
is a big challenge here.
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This quarter a portion of
your 13th Sabbath Offering
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will go to help build
remote medical clinics in areas
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where people are in great need.
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These clinics will
help hundreds of people
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through out the
South Pacific region.
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Please pray for the work
being done here and thank you,
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for your support of mission.
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My guest is Nancy Kyte
who is a colleague of mine
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from the office of Adventist
Mission at the Adventist
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world
headquarters and Nancy Kyte
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is marketing for
Adventist Mission.
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Welcome, Nancy.
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Thank you, Gary.
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Now, before we start
talking about Thailand,
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you are the recent
author of a cookbook entitled--
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A Taste of
Travel. A Taste of Travel.
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Now this is
exclusively soups and stews
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from how many countries?
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For more than a 130,
they are all vegetarian.
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Now I have to ask
you, what motivated
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you to do cook book from a
130 countries of the world?
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Well, I have to say that I
had the idea had its beginnings
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even back when I
was a little girl.
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Basically I loved the mission
stories at Sabbath school
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and that's
something that I have carried
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with me all my
life and now it's,
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I have just kind of
turned that into a cook book.
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Fantastic. Well, I
will talk a little bit
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more about that later. Okay.
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Let's go to Bangkok, Thailand
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one of the world largest
cities and for several years
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now Global Mission has
been focusing on church planting
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in the city because it has
presence there for more than
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a hundred years but
only a handful of believers.
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What did you find
when you visited there?
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Well, first of all I found out
that the Global Mission pioneers
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are very busy and
not only are they busy
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they are well liked by the
people they associate with.
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Okay, I am going
to stop you there.
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Global Mission pioneers
define for me what a pioneer is?
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A pioneer is a person who
works in his or her own culture.
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They work frontline.
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This is not a-- a
missionary type of situation.
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Although they go into areas
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where there is no
Christian presence.
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Right and so
the church planting.
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Exactly Because you met
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some of these
pioneers and some of the people
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had been working with?
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Yes, and you
know, it's a blessing
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to me some of the pioneers
because we see how inspired
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they are but this time
we had a chance to meet
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some of the people that they
have gotten to know first hand
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and its exciting
to see how their work
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has made such a difference.
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I met a lady by the name
Effan and she her husband
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was very ill and so they had to
move away from their small town
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they moved towards
the outskirts of Bangkok
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so that they can be
near the veterans hospital.
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And so while he was getting care
there they were forced to live
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or I shouldn't say
force but economically
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they had to live in an area
that was, that was affordable.
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So they lived in a slum area
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she was able to
find a place to live.
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Her husband was
admitted to the hospital
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for a long term care.
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While she was
living at this village,
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there was a rice distribution
program sponsored by the church
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and so she showed up
on the day that the rice
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was going to be distributed
to pick her allotment.
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And there on the table
along side the rice she spotted
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a picture it was
picture of the Ten Commandments.
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Mosses receiving
the Ten Commandments,
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and that immediately
resonated with her because back
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when she was 13
years old she saw
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an old Hollywood movie
called the Ten Commandments.
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Oh, well. And
she had never really
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had an opportunity to
learn how to read very well
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and so she was
very visually oriented.
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So she saw the picture
of the Ten Commandments
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and she asked what it was
all about and they told her
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that there were Bible lessons
being taught at the preschool
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in the evenings after, after
the classes were shut down.
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So she immediate
wanted to go to these classes
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and learn more
about these pictures
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and they had a
picture rolls there.
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We sometimes thing there
is no place for picture rolls
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anymore but for
certain places its,
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its extremely appropriate.
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So she went, she
loved the stories,
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she got to know the pastor
and some of the church members,
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the Global Mission
pioneers that would come.
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And she began to
learn more about the Bible
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and her faith began
to grow at the same time
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her husband's
health started to weaken
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and because they
weren't near any family
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they had to travel and relocate
to be near this hospital.
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She was really struggling.
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And medicine that
she-- herself needed
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often would cost a day's wages.
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So she was starting to
fell little overwhelmed.
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So the pastor and the
pioneer and the church members
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began to go with
her to the hospital
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and visit her husband.
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They began to care for
him, visit with him, support her
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emotionally and to even
helped her with some of her cost
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for medicine and so on.
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So they were able to help
her in a very practical way
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and then when her children
that last were able to afford
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the trip to Bangkok to see
how their father was doing,
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they were comforted--
comforted--comforted because
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the Christians
in the neighborhood
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were helping their
mother and they felt relieved
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to it that she
was being cared for.
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So that was one of
the ladies that I met.
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Very nice, you got
another story for me.
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I do. Good.
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This lady Effan became baptized
just in the spring of last year.
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And then when she would sit out
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in front of her house
on a little plastic chair
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she would started to chat
with some of the neighbors
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and she made a friend
called Fallon Wong another lady
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who lived in the neighborhood.
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And you know they
would chat as neighbors
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do and I had a
chance to meet this lady
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and talk with her a little bit.
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She shared how she
came from a very poor family
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from the
country side and her job
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growing up was
to her-- the cattle
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that her family owned.
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She didn't have a
chance to ever go to school
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so she also did not
have a chance to read
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but she would chat with
her friend Effan and Effan
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would tell about these wonderful
stories she was hearing
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and these pictures
that she was also seeing.
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So Fallon Wong also
decided to go these meetings
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that were held at the preschool.
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And I asked her I
said what really made
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you want to take
these Bible classes
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and learn more
about spiritual things?
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And right away she said I was
concerned about eternal life.
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So she was very
afraid what would happen
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to me when I died.
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And so when I went
to these Bible classes
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I started to learn
that God has a place for me
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and when my time comes I
had a place to be when God
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resurrects me, I
have a place to be there
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where I will be happy.
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I have friends there
and I will be looked after.
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Fantastic To her
that was extremely
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important and she was
baptized just one month ago.
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Fantastic, Nancy,
thank you so much.
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We could listen to more stories.
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Next time. Yeah,
those at home thank you
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so much for your continuing
support for Global Mission
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pioneers around the
world they need your prayers.
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My guest is Dr.
David Trim, an historian
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who is the director of Archives,
Statistics, and Research
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for the Seventh-day
Adventists church based
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at the world head
quarters in Washington D.C.
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Dr. Trim, thank you
very much for joining me.
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It's a pleasure to
be with you again, Gary.
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Today we are going to be
talking about the Middle East.
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Yes. Now the
Seventh-day Adventists
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churches had a
presence there for how long?
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Since, well the first
missionaries they were 1879
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they leave in
1882 and don't go back
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again until about 1890.
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And so we have
roughly a 120 years
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of constant presence in
the Middle East and sadly
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we don't have a huge amount
at the end to show for that.
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We earn quite a lot of property
and a quite number of buildings,
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unfortunately we don't
have the people to fill them
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and I think we have to
be honest about that and say
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this is an area
where we have to do better.
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This is an area
with 250 million people
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and most of them have
never even heard of Jesus.
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Much less of the
Seventh-day Adventists church
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because it's such a
heavily Islamic area.
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Now, David,
recently the Adventist church
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has done some
restructuring organizationally
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and to help us
being more effective in,
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in this area of the world,
what's, what is being done?
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Well previously Gary,
various parts of North Africa
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and the Middle East
were divided amongst
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several of that world
divisions but historically
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they had been once
Middle East Division
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and some of your
viewers may remember
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that from Sabbath
school lessons in 13th Sabbath
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since they held in the past,
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there was a Middle East
division from 1950 to 1970.
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And when we
looked at it historically
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we realize that the church
had done best in the Middle East
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when the whole of
the Middle East was under
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one structure that could operate
very strategically with planning
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for dealing within a
area that has you know,
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the same language almost across
in Arabic the same culture,
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the same predominant religion
and so there is the realization
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that probably the decision
in the Middle East division
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in 1970 had been the
wrong one and we should go back
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to having all that
territory dealt with as a unit.
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And so that was what was done.
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All of North Africa,
all of the Middle East
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including Turkey and Iran
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which had been
in separate areas,
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these are all
been put together now.
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And I think you know
that we-- we hope into pray
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but I think there is reason
to be optimistic for the future.
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Now, this new union
Middle East North Africa union.
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Yes I saw some plans
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that they have
sent into head quarters,
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well they have a very ambitious
goal to start for example,
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dozens of urban
centers of influence
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where they can serve
the needs of the community.
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They have sent out a
very intentional plan.
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Yes, and I think that's one
reason we can be optimistic,
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but you know
again this in some way
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is learning from
the lessons of history.
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Yeah When the church in Egypt
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first started to grow
it's under the leadership
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of a missionary
called George Keough
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who very emphasized
that you have to connect
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with people and
meet their needs.
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You couldn't go
to them and tell them
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what their needs were accepting
the sense of need in Jesus,
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we are obviously beyond that.
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And it was about connecting
with them and helping them
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in their lives and when
people saw that the missionaries
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were genuine
wanting to be you know,
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to be part of their lives.
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You know I talked to Egyptians
who can remember missionaries
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of the 50s who went out
into the fields with them
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to help them grow their crops.
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Europeans never did that
because Europeans and Americans
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of that time were arrogant.
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And that made a huge impact
that people still remember
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that was that why
they become baptized.
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So this is that
lesson but then we also,
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you know in the 60's there
was a man called Robert Darnell,
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who was passionate
about mission and the church
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the Middle East division paid
for him to do a PhD on Islam
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and he traveled
around the whole region
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investigating the history,
the culture and he identified
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a series of
methods that he believed
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would be more effective.
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And it was a recognition Gary,
that you can't go into a large
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Muslim city in the Middle East
and conduct public evangelism
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in the way that you
would in North America.
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It was a recognition that
if you want to talk to Muslims,
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to make friends with
them, you have to be sensitive,
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you know, you have to be
sensitive to peoples ideas
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and the way they
brought up where ever you go.
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And so it wasn't the matter
of saying where on you are going
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to talk to other
Christians which is sometimes
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been our history
in the Middle East.
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We have to be honest you
know sometimes in the past
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we concentrated on
trying to convert people
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from the native
Christian churches to Adventism
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and that's we are introducing
into a fuller and richer form
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of Christianity of
course a truer form.
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But these people
were already Christians
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and we were not
breaching not--we were not even
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talking very often to Muslims.
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And so that was where
Darnell he said here are methods
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that we could use to talk
to Muslims to make friends
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so that we can be witnessing
to everyone in that vast region.
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Yeah, so he was a
very creative person.
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Darnell was an
exceptionally creative person
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and you know in the
GC archives in Washington
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which I have the
privilege to direct.
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We have some of the
documents that he created.
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A book of sermons, a
book of sample sermons
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that were sort of
sensitive to the--the context
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which any pastor
could use to preach.
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You know trying
to give resources
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in that way and unfortunately
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for various reasons the
church sort of lost sighted
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some of those methods that
he pioneered in the mid 70's
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and I think its really
fruitful that we are reengaging
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of that and rediscovering it.
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Yeah, I think when we
look at the Global Mission
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study centers today I
think they have inherited
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some of that tradition
of local Contextualization
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talking to people
in their language.
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I think that's right,
Gary, and you can trace
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that very directly in
that Darnell certainly
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knew and influenced men
like Borge Schantz Whitehouse
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and several who were directors
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of the Centre for
Islamic Studies, its founded.
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But I think you are right
there is a wider inheritance
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as well of that concert.
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In some parts of the world
you can just stand up the front
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and preach your
people and in other places
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that isn't going to work,
so you don't give up though.
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You find ways of talking
to people connecting with them
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and telling them
about Jesus Christ.
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David, thank you so much.
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It's a pleasure, Gary.
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I wish we had a lot
more time to talk to Dr. Trim
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but our history as Seventh-day
Adventists is very rich.
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We draw from the tradition
of Christianity in general plus
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our own particular
history and we pray that God
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will continue to give us fresh
methods to touch people for Him.
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This is Alexander.
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He serves as the
head of elder of the Tomsk
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Seventh-day Adventist
church in Serbia, Russia.
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Alexander loves to help lead
the small group of believers,
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every Sabbath they
meet in a small house church
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down the back alley
on the outskirts of town.
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More than a 120
people pack into a room
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not much bigger
than a living room.
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They read the
Bible, studying God's word
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as they grow closer to Jesus.
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Many members in
congregation has seen tremendous
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changes takes
place in their lives.
00:19:01.24\00:19:03.42
But none has created
an impact as the change
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that took place in Alexander's.
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(Speaking in Foreign language)
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For the first five years
of my marriage every thing
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was fine with my husband,
00:19:16.75\00:19:18.77
but then he
started to drink alcohol.
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It caused some
problems in our family
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because I didn't
like his constant drinking
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and he was not a good
example for his young sons.
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And I didn't want them to
start doing the same thing.
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(Speaking in Foreign language)
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I grew up in a small village
and when I received a job
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working for the communist
government I was very proud.
00:19:42.80\00:19:47.39
Then when communism
fell I lost my place.
00:19:47.42\00:19:51.39
My pride was gone
and I became depressed
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I started to drink heavily.
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One day I decided to
kneel down on the floor
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of my apartment and I
was crying out to God saying
00:20:01.95\00:20:05.98
if you truly exist then help me.
00:20:06.01\00:20:09.08
You know what is
happening with my family.
00:20:09.11\00:20:12.73
A few days later
I was given a flyer
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for an evangelistic meeting
that was taking place soon.
00:20:15.23\00:20:20.60
The flyer said that if
you had any family problems
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do come to the meeting.
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I decided to go
because I was praying
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that this was the
solutions to all my problems.
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Lubov attended the
meetings and soon became
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a member of the Seventh-day
Adventists church in Tomsk.
00:20:37.79\00:20:40.58
Alexander didn't
like this and he knew
00:20:40.61\00:20:43.89
how to handle the problem.
00:20:43.92\00:20:46.30
(Speaking in Foreign language)
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I was going to save my wife.
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I went to the
church to cause a problem
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but when I
arrived I was shocked.
00:20:53.83\00:20:56.42
The members were
rejoicing that I was there
00:20:56.45\00:20:59.94
and I didn't know what to think.
00:20:59.97\00:21:05.82
I came there as an
enemy, I came to create a war
00:21:05.85\00:21:09.51
but God showed me his
love through those brothers
00:21:09.54\00:21:13.74
and sisters in the church.
00:21:13.77\00:21:15.79
I decided that I need to follow
this lifestyle like my wife.
00:21:15.82\00:21:21.60
Alexander was
baptized, and today
00:21:21.63\00:21:24.38
he and Lubov live in
a loving Christian home.
00:21:24.41\00:21:27.96
What was once a place
poisoned by depression
00:21:27.99\00:21:30.55
and alcohol became a
place of love and peace.
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A portion of your mission
offerings will go to build
00:21:35.45\00:21:38.90
a new church for Alexander,
Lubov and their fellow
00:21:38.93\00:21:42.45
Seventh-day Adventists in Tomsk.
00:21:42.48\00:21:44.54
Their lives were changed
and now you have the opportunity
00:21:44.57\00:21:48.41
to help them
change the lives of others
00:21:48.44\00:21:50.97
who are searching
for peace and love.
00:21:51.00\00:21:53.39
Please pray for our
fellow Adventists in Tomsk.
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Please think of them
when you are faithfully
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giving your mission offerings.
00:21:59.88\00:22:01.74
Trust in the Lord
00:23:01.47\00:23:02.79
with all your heart
00:23:02.82\00:23:06.92
And lean not on
your own understanding
00:23:06.95\00:23:12.52
In all your ways acknowledge Him
00:23:12.55\00:23:17.92
He shall direct your paths
00:23:17.95\00:23:23.75
Do not be wise in your own eyes
00:23:23.78\00:23:29.38
Fear the Lord
and depart from evil
00:23:29.41\00:23:35.12
It will be health to your flesh
00:23:35.15\00:23:40.24
And it will be
strength to your bones.
00:23:40.27\00:23:46.31
Honor the Lord
00:23:46.34\00:23:51.44
Honor the Lord
00:23:51.47\00:23:53.19
With all you have to offer
00:23:53.22\00:23:59.59
Even small
00:23:59.62\00:24:02.95
Even small
00:24:02.98\00:24:04.79
Is enough to bring honor
00:24:04.82\00:24:10.84
Trust in the Lord
with all your heart
00:24:35.84\00:24:40.12
And lean not on
your own understanding
00:24:40.15\00:24:44.50
In all your ways acknowledge Him
00:24:44.53\00:24:49.26
He shall direct your paths
00:24:49.29\00:24:53.83
Do not be wise in your own eyes
00:24:53.86\00:24:58.40
Fear the Lord
and depart from evil
00:24:58.43\00:25:02.85
It will be health to your flesh
00:25:02.88\00:25:07.34
And it will be
strength to your bones
00:25:07.37\00:25:14.96
Honor the Lord
00:25:14.99\00:25:17.74
Honor the Lord
00:25:17.77\00:25:19.52
With all you have to offer
00:25:19.55\00:25:25.71
Even small
00:25:25.74\00:25:28.57
Even small
00:25:28.60\00:25:30.27
Is enough to bring honor
00:25:30.30\00:25:36.58
Honor the Lord
00:25:36.61\00:25:39.21
Honor the Lord
00:25:39.24\00:25:41.15
With your humble service
00:25:41.18\00:25:47.59
Honor the Lord
00:25:47.62\00:25:50.23
Honor the Lord
00:25:50.26\00:25:52.05
This is your purpose
00:25:52.08\00:25:57.46
Well, I hope you have
enjoyed the program today.
00:26:30.06\00:26:32.16
One of our guests
Nancy Kyte recently
00:26:32.19\00:26:35.01
wrote a cookbook
entitled "A Taste of Travel."
00:26:35.04\00:26:38.29
It's a beautifully illustrated
book that features soups
00:26:38.32\00:26:41.31
and stews from
more than 130 countries.
00:26:41.34\00:26:45.19
And Nancy and her
husband personally
00:26:45.22\00:26:47.62
taste tested each
one of the recipes.
00:26:47.65\00:26:50.76
Many of them are exotic
sounding like sweet mango soup
00:26:50.79\00:26:54.70
from Jamaica, tomato
basil soup from Latvia,
00:26:54.73\00:26:58.23
and sweet potato
stew from Guiana.
00:26:58.26\00:27:01.91
Today, we have a
special offer on this program
00:27:01.94\00:27:05.09
we suspect that our
viewers who have mission
00:27:05.12\00:27:07.82
and allow the
different peoples cultures
00:27:07.85\00:27:10.24
and places from
around the world.
00:27:10.27\00:27:11.63
And so if you live in
North America we would like
00:27:11.66\00:27:14.54
to send you a free
copy of this cookbook
00:27:14.57\00:27:18.30
simply call our toll
free number 1800-648-5824
00:27:18.33\00:27:24.30
or visit our
website AdventistMission.org
00:27:24.33\00:27:27.32
and ask for your copy
of "A Taste of Travel."
00:27:27.35\00:27:31.45
And if you can't remember that
name just say the soup cookbook.
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Supplies are limited.
00:27:34.90\00:27:36.91
This book is completely
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a donation we will
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00:27:39.56\00:27:41.98
Don't forget to clearly
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and we will send you a
copy while supplies last.
00:27:45.04\00:27:49.46
Well, thank you, so
much for joining us today
00:27:49.49\00:27:51.36
and a special thank you to
those who call us or go online
00:27:51.39\00:27:55.29
to financially support
global mission around the world.
00:27:55.32\00:27:58.61
You are helping to make
a difference and helping
00:27:58.64\00:28:01.96
you reach the
unreached with hope.
00:28:01.99\00:28:04.66
Until next time I am Gary Krause
00:28:04.69\00:28:06.52
for Adventist
Mission. God bless.
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