From Bangkok, Thailand
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to Krasnodar, Russia
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to Chicago in the
United States Adventist Mission
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today and yesterday
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coming up next on
Global Mission Snapshots.
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Just before He went up to
heaven 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'm Gary Krause.
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And welcome to
Global Mission Snapshots.
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I love to read and
love reading history
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and the biographies
of great men and women.
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Our next guest
Daivd Trim will be sharing
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that some of the
inspiring early missionaries
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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David, a historian
is director of Archives,
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Statistics and Research
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for the
Seventh-day Adventist church.
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And he uncovers
many fascinating facts
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about the history
of Adventist mission.
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On today's program
we'll also be talking
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with an urban
church planter in Chicago.
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But first up let's
travel to Bangkok, Thailand.
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About two hours outside of
Thailand's capital city Bangkok
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lies the town of Sriracha.
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The Seventh-day Adventist
church is growing here.
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This is a
global mission pioneer,
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a church planter
dedicated to sharing God's love
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with the people in this area.
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[Speaking foreign language]
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This global mission
pioneer and other Thai pastor
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visit people in their
homes to teach them about Jesus.
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This small group is just handful
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of those interested
in studying God's word.
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Many who attend
these small groups
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are not Christians.
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They ask questions
because in their hearts
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they see the truth of the
Bible and want to know more.
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When somebody is interested
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and like to learn
more about Christianity
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actually we feel so very happy--
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even they not so
much but there's only one,
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two people only but we
feel like they are interested
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and we thank God for that.
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Not long ago
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this church and community
center was built in Sriracha.
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The global mission
pioneer and church members
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reach out to the
community in various ways.
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They run language classes,
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play soccer and
hold Bible studies.
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And people have
responded positively.
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We would like to
provide this place
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for the community here around.
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The people here
that they're nonbeliever
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and then it will like
to serve the congregation
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by having school,
having the soccer board field
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and also at the same
time we have a center
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to service the community.
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Seventh-day Adventist
church members around the world
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help fund this
church and community center.
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These buildings
have a great impact
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on reaching the needs
of the people in Sriracha.
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Just a few hours from Sriracha
in the city of Ayutthaya
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another recent projects
funded by your mission offerings
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actively works to
reach the community.
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Ayutthaya is a city
known for its ancient temples
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and vast history.
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Here centuries ago
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the Burmese armies
destroyed this city
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leaving behind
remains of the destruction.
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Now the church here is growing,
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the project here
as a church building.
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The church here is creating
a foundation of members.
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On this Sabbath the
pastors leaves and worship
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and the members
take part in the service.
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It is a special
Sabbath because on this day
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they will participate
in communion service.
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Members humbly
wash one another's feet
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and pray together.
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As they reenter the church
their thoughts are with God.
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The members ask
God for forgiveness
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and courage to serve
Him each and every day.
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They eat the bread
and drink the juice
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that represents the
body and the blood of Jesus.
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This congregation has
a passion to serve God
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and share Him with others.
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This congregation would
not have place to worship
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if it was not for
your faithful support
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of mission offerings.
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People all over Thailand
are eager to learn about Jesus.
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With the help of
Adventist pastors
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and global mission pioneers
they will come to know Him.
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Please, pray for
these small projects
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located throughout Thailand.
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And thank you, for
your support of the mission
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist church
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through your
Thirteenth Sabbath offering.
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Dr. Daivd Trim joins us
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periodically to
share biographies
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of Adventist pioneers,
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Adventist missionaries
who have been very significant
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in the development of mission
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in the
Seventh-day Adventist church.
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Daivd you care for archives,
statistics and research
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and you dig up a lot
of interesting facts.
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And who are we
going to talk about today?
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Today, Gary, we're going
to talk about George Keough
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and briefly about a
man called Frank Oster.
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Wonderful, tell
us about Elder Kuo.
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George D Keough
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is one of the perhaps forgotten
heroes of Adventist mission.
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But he is the man who probably
more than any other helped
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to put Adventist
mission in the Middle East
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on a solid footing
and he also experimented
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with ways of what we
called contextualization
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of adapting of the
medium of presenting the message
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to local people in a way
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that nobody else not
the Seventh-day Adventist
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but other
Christians weren't doing.
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He went to the
Middle East in 1908.
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He went to Egypt.
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And he said when he arrived
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there where it wish where
to go out to learn Arabic.
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And they said oh you don't.
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You know we can't
reach the local people.
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It was not surprising
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when they weren't speaking
to the men in their language
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but you know in
Cairo at that time
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they were only trying to
reach European expatriates.
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Keough learned Arabic
and he went out of Cairo.
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He went into the countryside
with the villages were
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and I have spoken
to the descendents
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of some of the
people he worked with
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and they described
their fathers and grandfathers
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telling them how
this European came in
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and sat on the
dirt floors with them
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and ate their food.
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How he washed their feet.
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Now this is the ear of
empires and colonialism, Gary.
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Europeans never did that.
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No, no, no.
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So, you know, if you can
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so there is so much
we could say about him
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but we can say Keough modeled
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what we called
incarnational ministry
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that is
representing Christ to people.
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He was Christ to ordinary
people and they responded.
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You know, he served in
the Middle East for 20 years.
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Wow.
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He went back to England
to teach Newbold College
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for eight years.
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In 1937, he got called
back to the Arabic union
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as it was then called
where he was president.
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Where things had gone
things hadn't gone so well
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since he left.
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He put things
back on a good footing.
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He was called to Washington DC.
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The SDA Theological
Seminary had just been founded.
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It's now at Andrews University.
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Then it was in Washington DC.
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And they had a
program in Arabic language
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and Islamic religion.
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Gary, that was in
1944 it was founded
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and it ended sadly in 1947
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and there was nothing
equivalent again for 40 years.
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But he taught a
whole group of students
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including a man, many
of viewers will remember
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Neal Wilson the senior,
former president of the GYC
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who worked as a
missionary in the Middle East.
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And then he went back to
the Middle East for a third time
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when he was 65.
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When most men would
retire he went back again
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and served for another ten years
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before then starting
another career in his 70s
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as a teacher at Newbold way.
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He influenced probably
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all the leading
Adventist theologians.
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Just an amazing man and
an extraordinary example
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to us all I think.
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Now when he first went to Egypt
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what was his
background before that?
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He'd studied at-- it
wasn't called Newbold in
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but a college in
England and he'd been inspired
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by the stories
of Daivd Livingston.
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That's the stories of mission.
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He'd been inspired
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and he wanted to be a
missionary. It's funny.
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He was preparing in fact to
go to Africa as Livingston had
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and then at the
last moment he got call
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saying no Brother
Keough was sending you to Egypt
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and he writes
about it later and says,
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I said, but we
were going to Africa.
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And then they said
well Egypt in Africa.
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So he'd been thinking of
course East Africa or somewhere.
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But you know
that's what the stories
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of mission can
do. They can inspire.
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Now I'm interested he went
as a very a young man to Egypt.
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Now he had family
with him when he went?
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His children his oldest
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two children were born in Egypt
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and, you know, we
forget the sufferings,
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you know, the isolation
that lot of mission families
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had to endurance and
still have to endure.
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His wife would be
left alone for weeks on end
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because he
traveled through Upper Egypt
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where there was
no communication.
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Even railways were limited.
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And, you know, there
are extraordinary stories
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of surviving on prayer.
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Essentially in God
working miracles to feed her
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and her small children.
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Wow, very inspiring.
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Thanks, Daivd.
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Now pastor Frank Oster.
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Just briefly because our
time is getting away from us.
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Frank Oster is interesting.
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Now he is not sort of a
titanic figure like Keough
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but he is significant.
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He is the first
Adventist missionary to Iran.
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May 1, 1911 he enters Persia.
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As Adventist called
then and he leaves--
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he left a series of letters
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which enable us to
reconstruct his life
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and also he wrote a
series of gripping articles
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for church
periodicals at that time
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describing his very
difficult and dangerous journey
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even just to get into
the-- get to the border of Iran
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and then across it.
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But it's interesting he sets it,
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you know, different example
because his first year in Persia
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he and his wife just studied
the local language and culture.
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So where as
Keough mission officials
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are saying oh don't
worry with the local language
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there you get a
better model which in saying,
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if you want to
reach the local people
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you have to know their language.
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You have to able speak
to them in their language.
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But also of
course, you have to know
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something about their culture.
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His wife also, you know,
had an extraordinary story
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when the First World War came
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they had to be
evacuated to Russia.
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And she had just
a young newborn baby
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and a letter
graphically describes them
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riding across this mountain pass
and being attacked by bandits.
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And one of the bandits sees
this bundle in Mrs. Osters arms
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and thinks its money
and ceases it and of course,
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it's just a baby
and lets the baby
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dropping disgust
and it rolls to the edge
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of a precipice but no further.
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So, you know,
these are the experiences
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that shaped our
missionaries and they shaped
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and created
worldwide Adventist church.
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Wonderful.
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Thank Dr. Trim,
for sharing with us.
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Pleasure.
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Viewers at home the
Seventh-day Adventist church
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began in sacrifice.
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It is continued in sacrifice
and it will only continue
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as we wait for Jesus to come.
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It will only move forward
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as we continue to
sacrifice for Jesus Christ.
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You may feel a call
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that you may be
used as a missionary.
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May be your children,
may be your grandchildren.
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Let's pray that God will
continue to raise workers
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because the harvest is
ripe but the workers are few.
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Urban mission is one
of the biggest challenges
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facing the
Seventh-day Adventist church.
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As you look at our history
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we have tendered to
focus on rural areas.
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But there is a
renewed focus today
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on what can we do
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to touch our lives
of people in the cities?
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And I'm delighted that Andres
has joined me because Andres,
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I'm talking about it
you're involved in it.
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Chicago a district where there
is a wide variety of people
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and you have a team
that is working there.
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What are the major challenges
you face in urban mission?
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Trying to find ways to be
incarnated in the community.
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To be real to a community.
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To be authentic.
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Not to play church
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the temptation to go back
into our little statistical game
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so big but finding
ways to be authentic,
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to be real, to be
incarnated in the community.
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Of course, the
financial issues are important
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because doing
some of the missions
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in Chicago is
very expensive. Yeah.
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But we know the Lord provides
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more than that
is how we do that.
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Well, being authentic and real
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and really revealing
Jesus to the community.
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Yeah.
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Now you have been working
there for less than a year
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but I know that you
have already touched
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the lives of various people.
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Can you tell me a
story of somebody's life's
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who has been changed?
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Sure absolutely.
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I'm just going to call him Hwan.
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Yes.
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And he was a cage fighter.
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What's a cage fighter?
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Cage fighter, they basically,
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it's like an
alternative of boxing.
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With fewer rules.
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With fewer rules, it's just raw.
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It's just--two weeks
before he came to Epic
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for the first time he
was shot at several times
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and not one bullet touched him.
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His life was spared.
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And then somehow I
think through his family
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he was connected to Epic church.
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Every week we have
been ]meeting with him
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and he has been
attending worship services.
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And his skipping the Sabbath.
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But last weekend
this last Sabbath
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he came back himself
not even with his family,
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even his family was not there.
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He came back
himself he worshipped.
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He went to the
outreach activities with us.
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He went to prepare
meals for children in Africa.
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And at the end of
the day he was expressing
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to couple of the young
people how blessed he was
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and how his life
is being transformed.
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This week I'm
receiving a text message
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from him saying you know
I'm blessed have a blessed day.
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And he is really
engaged into Jesus.
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This is a non Seventh-day
Adventist non Christian
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that is he sees how his
life is being turned around
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for Jesus Christ in Epic church.
00:15:49.27\00:15:51.94
Cage fighter and now in church.
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Now giving free hugs.
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Yeah, head of security for Epic.
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Yeah he becomes to be a bouncer.
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Yeah.
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Remind me what Epic stands for.
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Every Person in Christ.
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Every person in Christ.
00:16:04.07\00:16:05.58
Now I understand
you've also connected
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with some gang members.
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Yes, of course.
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Yeah, I mean we have
people that used to be in gangs
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now they're in the
family of Jesus Christ,
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bringing more ex-gang
members to Jesus to Epic church.
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Now how is the contact
made with these people?
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Through people
in the core group.
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Some of the people in
the core group invited them
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and they are really
serious about reaching people
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not just in the urban centers
and places like weaker part.
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But also in the future
some of them are even planning
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and doing more activities
and more outreaches in places
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like the ghettos in Chicago.
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Okay.
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Because the neighborhood
where you are working
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has a lot of
wealthy people as well.
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Yes it does. Yeah.
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It's a pretty diverse neighbor.
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Diverse neighborhood.
00:16:56.10\00:16:57.13
And our church
matches the diversity
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in the neighborhood.
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So your core group
of Adventist involved--
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they are finding ways
to mingle and connect.
00:17:04.11\00:17:08.00
Yes.
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Sorry, I know
about the hug program
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where you offer
free hugs on the streets.
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What are other sorts of things
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people doing to
make friendships?
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Through out the week we try
to establish contact with people
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on the park on the Wicker
Park trying to talk to them.
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Sit with them. Sit by them.
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Establish
relationships with them.
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Establish relationship
with the business owners.
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Letting them
know where are they.
00:17:36.09\00:17:38.06
And I know it
will a very important
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when you've social media
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where we have a
social media committee.
00:17:41.36\00:17:44.02
And these guys act
like electronic evangelist.
00:17:44.05\00:17:47.45
Right.
00:17:47.48\00:17:48.51
And all of them
are young people.
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That are connecting
with people in the community.
00:17:50.18\00:17:52.98
And a couple of weeks ago
00:17:53.01\00:17:54.28
we had a family an entire family
that came as a result of that.
00:17:54.31\00:17:59.08
And they live two
blocks away from the church.
00:17:59.11\00:18:03.00
And they invited me to
meet with them tomorrow
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because they have
questions about the Sabbath
00:18:06.37\00:18:08.55
and our church and Jesus.
00:18:08.58\00:18:11.05
They want to
know more about this.
00:18:11.08\00:18:12.95
And their initial
contact was in social media.
00:18:12.98\00:18:15.21
Their initial contact
was actually through people
00:18:15.24\00:18:18.00
passing flyers on the streets
00:18:18.03\00:18:19.81
and then went
to the social media
00:18:19.84\00:18:21.62
and they really
love the concepts there
00:18:21.65\00:18:25.34
and they came to Epic.
00:18:25.37\00:18:27.36
Now describe for me
00:18:27.39\00:18:28.99
a typical Epic
service on Sabbath.
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What do you do in the service?
00:18:31.61\00:18:34.80
It's highly energetic.
00:18:34.83\00:18:37.76
We contextualize our terminology
00:18:37.79\00:18:41.67
which means we
don't assume people know.
00:18:41.70\00:18:44.61
We explain what we
mean by happy Sabbath.
00:18:44.64\00:18:48.49
We have hymns.
00:18:48.52\00:18:50.33
We have prayer songs.
00:18:50.36\00:18:51.65
We have worship songs.
00:18:51.68\00:18:53.13
But every person
that participates
00:18:53.16\00:18:55.46
is very intentional
about communicating clearly
00:18:55.49\00:18:59.36
what it means to follow Jesus
00:18:59.39\00:19:00.90
and whatever
happens in the service.
00:19:00.93\00:19:02.93
And we have a very
diverse crowd of people.
00:19:02.96\00:19:05.70
We have people from
every ethnic background,
00:19:05.73\00:19:07.76
worship, leading worship
00:19:07.79\00:19:09.22
and participate in
the service as well.
00:19:09.25\00:19:11.33
Fantastic.
00:19:11.36\00:19:12.82
Andres, thank you so much
for sharing with us today.
00:19:12.85\00:19:15.26
It is my pleasure.
00:19:15.29\00:19:16.42
And viewers at
home please remember
00:19:16.45\00:19:18.89
Pastor Andres his
team the church members
00:19:18.92\00:19:22.47
and the community to
whom they're reaching out.
00:19:22.50\00:19:25.15
Right there in
the heart of Chicago.
00:19:25.18\00:19:27.45
The sunsets along the
river in western Russia.
00:19:29.50\00:19:32.43
Fishermen cast
their lines in the water
00:19:32.46\00:19:34.49
hoping to catch one more
fish before the day ends.
00:19:34.52\00:19:38.16
The locals take a
stroll across the bridge
00:19:38.19\00:19:40.29
that extends
across the wide river.
00:19:40.32\00:19:42.71
Here people
take the time to stop
00:19:42.74\00:19:44.96
and enjoy the warm evening air.
00:19:44.99\00:19:47.91
Next to the river a
group of people are gathered
00:19:47.94\00:19:50.21
around a street performer.
00:19:50.24\00:19:52.05
He tells us stories and
draws pictures on an easel.
00:19:52.08\00:19:55.43
People laugh at his jokes
00:19:55.46\00:19:56.88
and smile as he makes
the connection with them.
00:19:56.91\00:19:59.27
His name is Michael
00:19:59.30\00:20:01.03
and he is a
Seventh-day Adventist.
00:20:01.06\00:20:03.77
He and a team of young
people from the local church
00:20:03.80\00:20:06.87
come here several times a
week to do art evangelism.
00:20:06.90\00:20:11.23
Michael uses
his artistic talents
00:20:11.26\00:20:13.08
to tell a story to those
who will stop and listen.
00:20:13.11\00:20:16.41
A story of someone
who loves them very much.
00:20:16.44\00:20:19.77
Someone who died for their sins
00:20:19.80\00:20:21.57
and wants to
make their lives hold.
00:20:21.60\00:20:24.03
As Michael tells his stories
00:20:24.06\00:20:26.08
young people from the church
00:20:26.11\00:20:27.36
pass out a
newspaper called the Gazette.
00:20:27.39\00:20:30.30
The paper tells
readers of Christian values
00:20:30.33\00:20:32.65
and how to better their lives.
00:20:32.68\00:20:35.15
It may seem like a simple
thing but it has changed lives.
00:20:35.18\00:20:39.61
It has brought
new life to people
00:20:39.64\00:20:41.50
who have been
looking for something new.
00:20:41.53\00:20:43.87
Something to make
their lives complete.
00:20:43.90\00:20:46.69
In Russian town of Krasnodar,
00:20:48.50\00:20:51.00
the Seventh-day Adventist church
00:20:51.03\00:20:52.45
is an active part
of this community.
00:20:52.48\00:20:55.01
Here lay members
have taken Jesus call
00:20:55.04\00:20:57.69
to spread the gospel to heart.
00:20:57.72\00:21:00.17
Through their
outreach the church is growing
00:21:00.20\00:21:02.35
and spreading Jesus love.
00:21:02.38\00:21:04.82
They found new and
creative ways to reach people.
00:21:04.85\00:21:08.17
Small groups meet in
homes and church members
00:21:08.20\00:21:11.14
share their faith with
their neighbors and friends.
00:21:11.17\00:21:13.97
Entire families are
coming into the church
00:21:14.00\00:21:16.40
and they in turn
share the story of Jesus
00:21:16.43\00:21:18.99
with those they
come in contact with.
00:21:19.02\00:21:21.46
Hundreds of
lives have been changed
00:21:21.49\00:21:23.92
and many of them can
trace it to one thing,
00:21:23.95\00:21:26.98
the Gazette newspaper.
00:21:27.01\00:21:29.21
One of these people is Leanna.
00:21:29.24\00:21:32.42
One day she found the copy
of the Gazette outside her door
00:21:32.45\00:21:35.53
and decided to read it.
00:21:35.56\00:21:36.92
It changed her life.
00:21:36.95\00:21:39.23
She says that without the
church her life would be empty.
00:21:39.26\00:21:43.61
[Speaking foreign language]
00:21:43.64\00:21:46.37
It would be a like darkness.
00:21:46.40\00:21:48.21
It would be like my life
would not have a purpose.
00:21:48.24\00:21:53.15
Through the simple act
00:21:53.18\00:21:54.23
of sharing a
printed piece of paper
00:21:54.26\00:21:56.10
to Seventh-day Adventist church
in Krasnodar is changing lives.
00:21:56.13\00:22:00.61
They're directly touching
people and giving them hope.
00:22:00.64\00:22:04.29
A portion of your
Thirteenth Sabbath offerings
00:22:04.32\00:22:06.77
this quarter will go to build
00:22:06.80\00:22:08.35
new churches in
the Krasnodar region.
00:22:08.38\00:22:11.21
These buildings will
serve as houses of light
00:22:11.24\00:22:13.80
to reach even more people
00:22:13.83\00:22:15.63
and bring them
out of the darkness.
00:22:15.66\00:22:18.48
Thank you, for your
support of Adventist mission
00:22:18.51\00:22:21.21
and thank you, for supporting
the Thirteenth Sabbath offering.
00:22:21.24\00:22:24.34
Your prayers and
financial support
00:22:24.37\00:22:26.59
are making
difference in peoples lives
00:22:26.62\00:22:28.71
around the world.
00:22:28.74\00:22:30.35
To learn more about mission
00:22:30.38\00:22:32.19
please visit
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and I hope you're
blessed by this music video
00:24:01.37\00:24:03.86
to finish our program.
00:24:03.89\00:24:06.44
You love me so much
more Than I could ever know
00:24:16.08\00:24:21.52
Your love is deeper Than
this world will ever show
00:24:21.55\00:24:26.60
And all of lives beauty
shines Around this mornent now
00:24:26.63\00:24:31.92
Sky and the cliffs have
seem to change my life somehow
00:24:31.95\00:24:37.29
And I will never be,
will never be the same
00:24:37.32\00:24:43.82
Never be the same
00:24:43.85\00:24:47.77
I will be never
be, never be the same
00:24:47.80\00:24:54.28
Never be the same ever again
00:24:54.31\00:24:59.86
Here I'm waiting Lord
my life is just for you
00:25:03.35\00:25:08.55
Please unfold other
plans that you would have me do
00:25:08.58\00:25:13.95
And wallowed out just a
breath and nothing here to stay
00:25:13.98\00:25:19.19
And all of the love we
feel will save us anyway
00:25:19.22\00:25:24.27
And I will never
be, never be the same
00:25:24.30\00:25:30.88
Never be the same
00:25:30.91\00:25:34.94
I will be never
be, never be the same
00:25:34.97\00:25:41.31
Never be the same ever again
00:25:41.34\00:25:47.71
And I will be never
be, never be the same
00:26:16.25\00:26:22.78
Never be the same
00:26:22.81\00:26:26.69
I will never be,
will never be the same
00:26:26.72\00:26:33.28
Never be the same ever again
00:26:33.31\00:26:39.21
Ever again,
00:26:41.03\00:26:46.20
ever again,
00:26:46.23\00:26:50.13
ever again
00:26:51.30\00:26:56.39
Never be the same
00:27:58.01\00:28:04.77