Russia and Japan,
small groups, big cities
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and the Apostle
Paul's real profession
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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 am Gary Krause
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and welcome to
Global Mission Snapshots
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where we take
you around the world
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to experience mission in action.
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On today's program,
we'll meet to two little girls
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who learning to trust God
as they live with their parents
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who are sharing God's love
with people in Tokyo, Japan.
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It's one of the
world's most populated cities
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and its home to
some 13 million people.
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Only two percent
of Japan's population
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consider
themselves to be Christians.
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We'll also be talking
with Dr. Rick McEdward,
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is the Director of the
Global Mission Study Centers.
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And he will talk about
the Adventist churches plan
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to bring mission to the
great cities of the world.
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Dr. Wagner Kuhn, associated
professor of World Mission
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at the
Seventh-day Adventist Seminary
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who will also join us to tell us
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what the Apostle
Paul's profession has
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to do with mission today.
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But first up, let's
see how woman in Russia
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is using her home to minister
to a small group of people.
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I have a friend,
her name is Olesya
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and she invited
me to this group.
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Some time ago my
house was damaged in a fire,
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and the church helped
me rebuild 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 have been inviting
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a small group to
come and meet in my house.
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Olesya lives in the
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 Adventist
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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 our friendship with others.
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One of my friends suggested that
we have a small group meeting.
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Because of our group,
now Ruslan and Margeurita
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are the fruits of our meetings
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and I am so happy
that they have joined us.
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Ruslan is the newest member
of the group to join the church,
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and he started attending
the group for a specific reason.
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I came to this group 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 isn't an easy task,
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so the group was thankful
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for some help in the beginning.
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When we started our
group, our pastor, Vladimar,
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joined us and it
helped to get us going.
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It was very helpful.
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This group is successful
because they are united:
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and are like a family.
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They help each
other and I am sure
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that if something were
to happen to one of them,
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the others would support them
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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 the 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
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to listen to
other people's 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 proven to be successful
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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 am sure that
this model of outreach
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is one of the best
ways to reach people
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and grow as a church.
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People become like a 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
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to reach out to those
people in their community
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who are searching for the truth.
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For Ruslan and Margeurita,
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their lives have
been touched by people
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who were willing to let
them into 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
when I found my life changed.
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Your mission offerings will
provide 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
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and families to worship.
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Please keep the members in
Krasnoyarsk in your prayers
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as you give your
Mission Offerings this Sabbath.
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It's my pleasure to
welcome DR. Wagner Kuhn,
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to our program.
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Dr. Kuhn is at
the Adventist Seminary
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in Berrien Springs Michigan
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in the
department of World Mission.
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Welcome, Wagner. Thank you.
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What is that in-- involve you?
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You work in the
department of World Mission.
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You teach, you research,
what--tell us what you do?
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Yes, most of it
is-- involves teaching
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but and also reaching as
well and providing training
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as church asks us to do.
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Mostly you know going out
and interacting with people
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especially for example in a way
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that you involve
yourself into mission of God
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and you share with those
who are involved out there.
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You know, not
necessarily missionaries
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or career missionaries
but for example to make us.
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Okay, which is the
topic about conversation today
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but before we get to that
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you're from Brazil. Correct.
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You worked in Central Asia,
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you now working
in North America.
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Why is mission
so important to you?
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I think it is something
of the heart, you know.
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It's something that comes
by being raised by parents
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who instill new
stories of missionaries
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who told you many things
about what God has done for you.
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How good God is and what
He asks you to do as well.
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So you know this issues
of is being a missionary
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came from my parents I
believe first in foremost.
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Now you are not the
only member of your family
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who has served as a missionary.
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Tells us a little bit
about your wider family.
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Well, my older brother Ron,
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you know, he has worked in
several countries from Africa,
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South America, Asia,
you know, North America
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and he has serve most
of his life for with ADRA.
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Another brother of mine has
served in Asia, in Mongolia,
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back in South America and now
he is again back in Mongolia.
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So I have also served in
Central Asia in Nakhchivan,
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you know, the land of
Noah. And I served Azerbaijan.
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and I served in
North America as well
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with Institute of World Mission
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now with the seminary
the Missions Department.
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So it is somehow a business
of what God has done. Yeah.
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In us, you know
when I praise God
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for that it is
certainly a privilege.
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That's wonderful.
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Now we're
talking about tent making
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and this goes back
to the Apostle Paul.
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What it was the
connection there?
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You know, it seems
that the Apostle Paul
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comes to Corinth,
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you know, in Acts 8--Acts 18
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and he partners up
with Aquila and Priscilla
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and for a close to two years.
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He is a tentmaker,
you know, building tents
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actually with the his own hands.
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And as he's done
that in that trade
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he shares the gospel.
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Okay, so when we now
move it to the 21 Century,
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what is tentmaker it today?
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Well, I think it is
doctor, an architect,
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an engineer, a
nurse, a truck driver
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anyone who finds
access in his own profession,
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you know, access to these in
the restricted access country
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and mostly, you know,
we're talking about tentmakers
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in certain places
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where you cannot
normally go as a missionary
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or as pastor but you
go through your profession
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and developing that
profession with that skills
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you intentionally aim
at witnessing for Jesus
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and making disciples and
possibly planting churches
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or growing church.
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Now as part of your work
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you often travel to some
of these areas to encourage,
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to help train these
tentmakers who are out there.
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Tells us a little
bit about what you do?
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For example, we
go to certain places
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and we find ourselves involved
into meeting church members
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those who are for
example Seventh-day Adventist
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already leaving
in those countries
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and you know professionals
of all kinds of skills,
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you know, as I
mentioned doctors,
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nurses, you have
engineers, you have librarians,
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and you have housemaids,
truck drivers, businesses.
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And as we meet them
we try to come together
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on regular meetings you
know two, or three hours a day
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to share to encourage
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and to provide
certain specific trainings
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of how to
witness cross culturally
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and how to be very
sensitive and appropriate,
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you know,
effective in the context
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where they are
living and witnessing
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or working that's may of fact.
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Excellent, I know
that you can't names
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but can you tell us a story
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about the tentmaker
and what they're doing?
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Well, recently
I met a tentmaker,
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you know, he is a pilot
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and he is a trainer
of helicopter pilots.
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So he's there in a certain
country in the Middle East
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training and
suddenly his boss asks him,
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you need to come
and work on Sabbath.
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And he says no, I cannot
because I keep the Sabbath.
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I am a Seventh-day Adventist.
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And the boss, you know,
an Arabic man demands him
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that he comes
on Sabbath to work.
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And he says, no, I cannot,
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you know, I keep the
Sabbath as day of rest.
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And sudden, you
know, he finds himself
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thinking that he's
going to lose his job.
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Finally, you know,
after the boss demanding him
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so much about coming
and working on Sabbath.
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He says no, you can fire
me because I will obey God.
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And so Ed I will call him
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decides not to work on Sabbath.
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And finally the boss
comes and calls him and says,
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come with me
let's go to my home.
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I need you to talk to you.
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And he faces Ed and says, I
never met a person like that
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like that who will be
willing to lose his job
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but not to disobey God.
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I need you to work for me.
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And he makes such a friendship
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that the boss this Arab man
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calls him to his
home now to witness,
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to pray with him
and to talk about
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you know, his believes.
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So this is I call
tentmaker who is really willing
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to witness of his belief.
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Fantastic.
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Well, so when you travel
you are there to encourage,
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you are that to help them adop
to their circumstances better.
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Yeah, wonderful.
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Wagner, thank you for
join us today. Welcome.
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Viewers at home, tent making
can be a very challenging thing
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for those who are involved
in foreign circumstances
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in coaches that
may not be overlay open
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to the sharing of the gospel.
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Please pray for them
it's very encouraging for them
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to know that
there is a world church
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but they are people who
care and praying for them.
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If you like more information
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about tent making go
to AdventistMission.org.
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My guest is
Pastor Rick McEdward,
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who is the director of the
Global Mission Study Centers
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and the most recent addition to
the Global Mission Study Centers
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is new center
aimed at urban mission.
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Rick, welcome to the program.
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Thanks, Gary.
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Why these
emphasis on urban mission.
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We seem to be hearing about it
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from the General
Conference president
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we read about it in
church publications,
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Global Missions talking about.
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Why this emphasis?
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As pretty simple
it's where people live.
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As of 2007 more than 50 percent
of the world's population
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lives in urban areas
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and we see that all
of the largest cities
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of the world are
increasing in size.
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But haven't we been
ministering in cities
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for the last 100 or so years?
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Well, you know I
think we started that way.
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Certainly William
Millar and others of the famous
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early Adventist evangelist
certainly started that way
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but we have been most
successful in the islands
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and in the villages and
lot of our mission outreach
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has really been in
these kind of rural areas
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and we have neglected the cities
partly due to the complexity
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but partly
because we are not sure
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we should really be there.
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So when we're looking
at mission to the cities
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what sort of approach
should we thinking about?
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Well, you know, I
think mission to the cities
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really brings us
back to what the Lord did.
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Jesus touched people, we think
about the story of the leopard.
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What did He do for the leopard,
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He touched him, He heeled him.
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We think about Jesus
by the Pool of Bethesda
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with compassion
raising the man up
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who had been
waiting for so long.
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We think about Him
raising the dead girl
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and the mother-in-law of Peter.
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All of these
stories and many others show
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that Jesus was interested
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in much more
than just preaching.
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He was actually interested
in meeting the physical needs
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which open the door
to the spiritual lives.
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Can you give some
examples of how urban mission
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is going forward in
some parts of the world?
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I am sure,
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I think they are
some real exciting ones.
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I think of city
of Bangkok, Thailand
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where in 2006
there was five churches
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and now out of as
result of partnership
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between local
pastors, church members,
00:16:19.43\00:16:22.28
local leaders and
some missionaries.
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As out of this
partnership there is a 19 or 20
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new
congregations that have started
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in the past few years.
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Well, how did that happen?
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It happened as result
of meeting practical needs
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with English
language, with education,
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with consoling,
with health programs
00:16:40.83\00:16:44.24
and all of these
programs coming together
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to meet those real needs
of people and open it up.
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I know another story
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actually of one
pastor in Perth, Australia.
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Over the last eight years
has planted five churches.
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And how did he do it?
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He identifies who needs help.
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He goes in
system with the pluming.
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He goes in system with their
immigrant--immigration papers.
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He helps them with a variety
of needs transporting them,
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doing different things,
00:17:11.73\00:17:13.13
and one by one he
helps win their hearts
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over to the place where he says
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you know come and follow Jesus.
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Wonderful.
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Now, Rick, from the
office of Adventist Mission
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we have an
exciting initiative code
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Life Hope Centers
which is that name
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for what Ellen White
called centers of influence.
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Tell us about this initiative.
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Well, Life Hope Center
would really be a place
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where people who
may have a barrier
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to come inside of a
church with cross on it
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or what people might him
that some of these things
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where a person of
a another religion
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or a secular person
might be able to come in
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and connect
with other Christians
00:17:54.41\00:17:57.58
with Adventist who are
there to built relationships,
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who are there to
do community service,
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who may be--
could be around a cafe
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or a vegetarian
restaurant or reading room.
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There is a lot of different ways
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where we can
associate with people
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that don't have the
stipple problem with them
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or people make come
in from the community.
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So it's connecting
church members to the community.
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Well, you know, all
of is need to be involved
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in gospel commission.
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Ultimately we have had a very
successful evangelistic program
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that relies on professionals.
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And what a marvelous
invitation God gives us to say
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we want you to
come every person,
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every follower of Christ
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and connect with
others and be a witness.
00:18:46.77\00:18:48.96
But we haven't always provided
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the right
opportunities as a church.
00:18:51.23\00:18:53.45
And this provides an
account of a teacher,
00:18:53.48\00:18:55.81
a auto mechanic, a cook,
00:18:55.84\00:18:58.27
a place for connecting
with those in the community
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that shows that
even though I am disciple
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but not an evangelist.
00:19:05.45\00:19:07.04
I still have the opportunity
to share my faith that requires.
00:19:07.07\00:19:11.58
Can you give us an example to
where this is happening already?
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Yeah, I will tell
you excellent story
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in a largest city.
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One of the world's
largest stories--city sorry
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and where a group
started a health food store
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with a teaching room upstairs.
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This health food store
has a very nice health foods
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and different
things and as the community
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has responded to it
they've been invited
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to go through
health training programs.
00:19:37.69\00:19:40.13
And worship services
have been connected with that.
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So here this community
center that is multi-tiered.
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A worship, yes, life training,
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life skills and health
training and some place
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where people can come and go
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and lot of church members
are serving in those locations.
00:19:57.81\00:20:00.91
And so this is a place
that is so funded? How is it?
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Actually its supporting itself
through selling health foods
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but the marvelous part about it
00:20:08.21\00:20:09.71
is that they
have seen a hundreds
00:20:09.74\00:20:13.11
through these
ministries of people
00:20:13.14\00:20:15.97
connect with
other church members,
00:20:16.00\00:20:18.47
connect with Jesus,
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give their lives to
Christ and join the church.
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Rick, thanks so
much for joining us.
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And these Life Hopes Centers,
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urban centers of influence
have tremendous potential.
00:20:27.56\00:20:30.86
Ellen White had a
vision for seeing small centers
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in urban areas
all around the world,
00:20:34.53\00:20:37.43
may be its something that
could be started in your area.
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It starts with the needs
assessment of the community.
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What are the
needs of the people?
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How can we help them?
00:20:45.05\00:20:46.15
How we as church
to connect with them?
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And then put cross
method into practice
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where we mingle with the people,
00:20:51.15\00:20:52.54
where we show His sympathy,
00:20:52.57\00:20:54.73
where we
minister to their needs,
00:20:54.76\00:20:56.31
we win confidence
and then we can bid them
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to come and know Jesus Christ.
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Hi, my name is Yana.
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I live in Japan
with my father and mother
00:21:13.12\00:21:15.53
and my little sister Chana.
00:21:15.56\00:21:18.60
We came from Taiwan
to help tell the people
00:21:18.63\00:21:21.06
in big city of
Tokyo about Jesus.
00:21:21.09\00:21:26.14
One day my father
called Yana, Chana,
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I forgot the
cell phone in the car.
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Can you go get
the cell phone for me?
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Chana and I went to the elevator
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and I pressed the
button to go down.
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Suddenly the lights went out
and the elevator stop moving.
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It was very dark
inside the elevator.
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And we were scared.
00:21:45.96\00:21:47.61
We tried to open
the door with our hands
00:21:47.64\00:21:49.67
but it wouldn't move.
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"Let's pray," I said to Chana.
00:21:52.56\00:21:54.28
"God will help
us open the door."
00:21:54.31\00:21:56.52
And so we closed our eyes
00:21:56.55\00:21:58.28
even though it was very
dark in the elevator and prayed.
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Dear Jesus, father asked
us to give the cell phone
00:22:01.49\00:22:04.79
and now we're
stuck in the elevator.
00:22:04.82\00:22:06.81
Please help us get out
of the elevator, Jesus.
00:22:06.84\00:22:10.49
After we said amen
we turned to the door
00:22:10.52\00:22:13.66
and as almost no fuss
at all the door opened
00:22:13.69\00:22:16.53
and we were able
to get out safely.
00:22:16.56\00:22:19.39
We got the cell phone
and ran all the way home.
00:22:19.42\00:22:24.06
We told father and
mother what had happened
00:22:24.09\00:22:26.81
and then we all
praised the God together.
00:22:26.84\00:22:29.48
Father told us that the doors
00:22:29.51\00:22:31.13
we made to be impossible
to open with our own hands.
00:22:31.16\00:22:35.11
God must have sent an
angel to helps us open the door.
00:22:35.14\00:22:39.05
I am glad God heard us
even in the dark elevator.
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Then give your help to
children around the world
00:22:45.02\00:22:47.41
saying about Jesus.
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Do you have
children or grandchildren
00:22:54.99\00:22:56.85
who might be
interested in mission?
00:22:56.88\00:22:59.20
Would you like to help them
learn more about other children
00:22:59.23\00:23:01.85
in countries all
around the world?
00:23:01.88\00:23:04.19
At Adventist
Mission we want our children
00:23:04.22\00:23:06.07
engaged with the international
mission of the church.
00:23:06.10\00:23:10.17
So we've created mission cards
00:23:10.20\00:23:11.90
for kids featuring pictures
of the children featured
00:23:11.93\00:23:15.08
in the quarterly
Children's Mission Magazine
00:23:15.11\00:23:17.85
which is distributed
to Adventist churches
00:23:17.88\00:23:19.87
around the world.
00:23:19.90\00:23:21.24
So if you live in North America
00:23:21.27\00:23:22.70
and would like a free
sample set of these cards
00:23:22.73\00:23:26.03
just call us or
visit our website
00:23:26.06\00:23:28.37
and ask for
mission cards for kids
00:23:28.40\00:23:31.06
or ask for offer number 302.
00:23:31.09\00:23:34.35
Please remember to
clearly state your name,
00:23:34.38\00:23:36.57
your mailing address
and be sure to mention
00:23:36.60\00:23:38.95
mission cards for
kids or offer 302.
00:23:38.98\00:23:43.49
Well, thanks for
joining us today,
00:23:43.52\00:23:44.95
I hope you've been
inspired and challenged
00:23:44.98\00:23:46.84
by what you have seen and heard
00:23:46.87\00:23:48.81
for Adventist
Mission I'm Gary Krause
00:23:48.84\00:23:50.73
and I hope you
can join us next time
00:23:50.76\00:23:52.60
right here on
Global Mission Snapshots.
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You love me so much
more than I could ever know
00:24:06.71\00:24:11.98
Your love is deeper than
this world will ever show
00:24:12.01\00:24:17.36
And all of life's beauty
shines around this moment now
00:24:17.39\00:24:22.48
The sky and the cliffs they
seem to change my life somehow
00:24:22.51\00:24:27.97
And I will, will
never be the same
00:24:28.00\00:24:34.41
Never be the same
00:24:34.44\00:24:38.32
I will never be,
never be the same
00:24:38.35\00:24:44.78
Never be the same ever again
00:24:44.81\00:24:51.04
Here I am waiting
Lord, my life is just for you
00:24:53.90\00:24:59.27
Please unfold all the
plans that you would have me do
00:24:59.30\00:25:04.58
In all the worlds just a
breath and nothing here to stay
00:25:04.61\00:25:09.76
And all of the love we
feel will save us anyway
00:25:09.79\00:25:14.79
And I will never
be, never be same
00:25:14.82\00:25:21.45
Never be the same
00:25:21.48\00:25:25.44
I will never be,
never be the same
00:25:25.47\00:25:31.95
Never be the same ever again
00:25:31.98\00:25:38.04
I will never be,
never be the same
00:26:07.01\00:26:13.33
Never be the same
00:26:13.36\00:26:17.12
I will never be,
never be the same
00:26:17.15\00:26:23.85
Never be the same ever again
00:26:23.88\00:26:30.44
Ever again
00:26:31.64\00:26:37.02
ever again
00:26:37.05\00:26:42.03
ever again
00:26:42.06\00:26:47.32
Never be the same
00:27:48.41\00:27:54.52