Bibles for children,
long distance Bible studies
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and a report on the
state of mission today,
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all coming up next on
"Global Mission Snapshots."
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Just before He
went up to heaven,
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Jesus gave us a command.
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He gave us a mission.
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Jesus said, go.
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"Go unto all the world,
telling them of His love."
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This is our mission.
This is our "Global Mission."
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Hello, and welcome to
"Global Mission Snapshots."
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I'm Gary Krause.
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For more than 70
years the Voice of Prophecy
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has been offering
free Bible studies
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to people all around the world.
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Today, we will be talking
with Pastor Kurt Johnson,
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who heads up Bible Correspondent
Schools for Voice of Prophecy
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and the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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We will also talk with
Pastor Delbert Pearman,
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planning director
for Adventist Mission,
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about the state of mission today
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and the
challenges we still face.
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And we will find out more
about mission to the cities
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and just how
the Adventist church
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is addressing
that growing challenge.
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But first up, let's see
a project to help children
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in the South Pacific
have their own Bibles.
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Do you like
listening to Bible stories?
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The children here on the
islands of the South Pacific
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love to listen to Bible stories.
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Lately, the stories have
been even more interesting
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because the teachers
have Bible story picture rolls
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with pictures to go along
with the stories they share.
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A few years ago children and
their parents around the world
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helped collect
a special offering
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that helped buy
these picture rolls
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for the children's teachers.
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They use them all the time
and the children love them.
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The teachers love them too.
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But did you
know that even though
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they love hearing the stories,
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most of these
children don't own a Bible
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so they can read the
stories for themselves.
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In some of the outer
villages of the South Pacific,
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if you see ten children
only one will have a Bible.
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When grown up's have gone
into some of these villages
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to help teach parents
how to study the Bible
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with their
children, they found out
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that the parents
didn't have Bibles either.
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Not only is it
important for the children
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to be able to read the
stories for themselves,
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many of them will be able to
read the Bible to their parents
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who have never learned to read.
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Many children in
the more remote villages
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are the first in their
families to go to school
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to learn to read and write.
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So, next time you hear a Bible
story or pick up your Bible
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remember the
children who are hearing
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and seeing the Bible
stories in the South Pacific.
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Thank you, for helping
others learn about Jesus.
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My guest is Pastor Kurt Johnson,
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who is the Director of the Bible
School for Voice of Prophecy
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and for the North-American
Adventist Media Centre
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and he also cares for
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Bible Correspondence
School around the world.
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Thanks for joining us, Kurt.
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That's a pretty long
title, like a busy man.
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Tell us what is a
Bible Correspondence School?
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Well, a Bible Correspondence
School is basically
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around the world they are
in-- located in union offices
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and in many
places and media centers
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and we receive
Bible lessons requests
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that come to
people in communities
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and we send
them to them by mail.
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We're also on the study
with them on the internet.
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So the correspondence
is mail and internet.
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So these Bible lessons are like
a question and answer format
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that actually people physically
filling and send back in?
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That's correct and so
you-- what normally happens is
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if you are a student I
would send you probably
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five, six lessons at a time
and there is a response sheet.
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So you look up the
Bible text, you study it,
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you fill it out, you
mail that back in to us,
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we correct it and
send you your next lessons
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and at the end
you get a diploma.
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And we do the
same on the internet
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except, obviously it
comes via email or the web
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rather than by a physical mail.
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What a great
idea. How did it start?
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Well, you got to
go clear back 1942.
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H.M.S. Richards Sr. was speaker,
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director for the
Voice of Prophecy
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and a man by the
name of Fordyce Detamore
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who was an evangelist joined
the team as the announcer.
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And Fordyce had that idea
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of the
correspondence school by mail.
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And so back in 1942, in fact
the day was February 1, 1942.
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They began what they call
the Bible School of the Air.
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And its an idea that caught
on like wildfire. Oh, sure.
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In fact, within the
first probably about seven,
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eight months it was like 60,000
requests for Bible lessons.
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Wow. Yeah.
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Now, tell me
about how many people
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have graduated over the years?
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Well, in North America we
had over 12 million students.
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In fact, back in 2010 we
had our one millionth graduate.
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Her name was Victoria Fulbright,
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she was a college student.
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And she said, she
doesn't even remember
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how the Bible lesson--
she never even requested it.
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She is not sure how it
even ended up in her mailbox,
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except one day she went
out there and there it was.
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And at that time in her
life, she was growing through
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a very difficult period, she was
struggling with lot of issues.
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And the very first lesson
was "Can I Believe in God?
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And she picked that lesson up,
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she read it and
spoke to our heart.
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It was a message
that convicted her
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and so filled out the answer
sheet and mailed it back in,
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just like we talked
about and got her next lessons.
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And one Sabbath morning she said
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she wasn't quite
done with her lessons yet,
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been studying
three or four months,
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she got up that day
and she was just convicted,
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she needed to go to
church and she knew that
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through the correspondence that
it was Seventh-day Adventist
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that she was
receiving these lessons from.
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And she went to her computer,
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looked up the address of
the local church where she lived
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in North Carolina
and went to church.
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When she walked in she said
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the church
members are very warm.
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The moment she sat
down another lady came
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and sat down beside her,
introduced herself to her
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and stayed with
her the entire time.
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And the pastor,
sermon spoke to her heart,
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she kept coming to
church and the sprit spoke,
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she made that
decision and she was baptized.
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Well, blessings upon that church
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because so often you
hear negative stories.
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That's so good to
hear a positive one.
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Yeah, I was
excited to think you know,
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when you think of
the combination there was
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you know, the
greeters were warm,
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someone sat down beside her
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and then the
pastor ministered to her
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and then the Bible lessons.
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Because you can only do
so much from the Bible school
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it takes people on the
ground to connect with that
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to bring them into
fellowship, that's wonderful.
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I can remember as a kid,
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I did one or two
courses just for the fun of it.
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And how many different
types of lessons do you have?
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Oh, well, we have in English,
we have in North America
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we have about seven
different sets that we offer.
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The main ones that we
use are the discover guides
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which are full doctrinal course.
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We have kid zone for junior age
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and the we have set on Daniel
and Revelation on prophecy.
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Now, we have Shema Yisrael
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which is also for
people of Jewish background
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who have an
interest in Christianity.
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We have Native New Day
which is for Native Americans.
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So these are just
some of the other courses,
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some on the life of Jesus.
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We have on our website
Bible lessons available
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in about 47 different languages.
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Wonderful and the website is?
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It's BibleStudies.com.
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That's easy to
remember BibleStudies.com.
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Now, differ
regions of the board church
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would have their own
lessons as well in addition?
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That's correct.
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There about a 130
countries that have Bible--
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the Correspondent Bible
Schools around the world.
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And so, each of
them within their region,
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each school then
would have you know,
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the other lessons
in their languages.
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They decide which ones would
be the most culturally sensitive
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to their needs
and they translate.
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They also make a-- so
they are more indigenous,
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you know for the
local population.
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Wonderful, share with
us another story of someone
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who's life has been touched.
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You know, about
just a few weeks ago
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I came back from a
World Bible School meeting
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that we have every five years.
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In fact, you've
attended that one
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in South Africa five years ago.
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And we get
together and we talk about
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strategies of working with
radio and television ministries
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and as far as the
follow up and from India
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one of the stories
that's just were shared.
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They just opened a new language
school Marathi, a language.
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And what took place
there, there was a gentlemen
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he's about 25
years old a salesmen
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and by chance he was
listening to the radio
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and he came across
Adventist World Radio
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and he said that the
music and the speaking
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just touched his
heart, it spoke to him.
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And as he listened to that music
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and that sermon they also
offered free Bible guides.
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He sent for the
lessons, he studied them
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and went and began to
visit other churches in cities
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trying to find out
more about the message.
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And God began to
speak to his heart
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and he made a decision
and was baptized. Fantastic.
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Kurt, thanks for
joining us today.
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Our viewers at
home, biblelessons.com.
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Wonderful stories
of lives being changed
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through Bible
correspondence schools.
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My guest is
Pastor Delbert Pearman,
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who is the Planning Director for
the office of Adventist Mission.
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One of my colleagues.
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Welcome, Delbert. Thank you.
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Now, Delbert, you and
your family have severed
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as missionaries in
many parts of the world
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tell us a little
about where you have served.
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Well, before I was married right
after graduating from Oakwood,
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I went to
Malawi as an accountant
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at a leprosy project
run by Malamulo Hospital
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and from there I received
an apatite for mission service
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and after that I always said
I wanted to be a missionary.
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Well, the opportunity to
get back into mission service
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came after 12 years of marriage
where I went to Sri Lanka
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as a treasurer for
the Sri Lanka mission.
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And had a wonderful
experience from there
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after almost four years
to the Middle East there
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and worked in Lebanon, Jordan
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and occasionally
traveled through Syria.
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And then after that I
got a call to Ethiopia
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and served as a mission service,
served a mission service.
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After that I got a
call to the United States
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as a conference treasure and
then to the General Conference
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so I had opportunity of working
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among many
different people groups
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and got a fascination a personal
interest in World missions
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and that's where my
mission journey has taken me.
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So, you've served in
Africa, Asia, the Middle East
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and now in your
current position,
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you are looking at
the over view of mission
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and you see lots of Global
Mission projects coming in.
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When you look at the
state of mission today
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for the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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what are some of
the bright sports,
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where do we see
mission growing strongly?
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Well, we do see
Mission going strong
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in the Southern Hemisphere,
especially in Africa,
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South America, Inter-America
and these countries
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were traditionally
missionaries were sent
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but now they're
very strong there.
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I see opportunities for
us now in the urban centers,
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tremendous
opportunities are waiting for us
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in those areas there.
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But we are very strong and
in the Isles of the Pacific,
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the Islands of the
Atlantic, the Caribbean
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and through out the islands
we're very strong in those areas
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so missions are
going well there.
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So, you mentioned one of
the-- I like the way you put it
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the opportunities, you know,
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depending on how you look at it,
the challenges of urban mission.
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What are some of the
other areas that we see as--
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areas that we need to
address more strongly?
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Well, in addition
to reaching the cities
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approximately two-thirds
of the world's populations
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are non-Christian and
so we have an obligation
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to take the gospel to
every nation, kindred,
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tongue, and people that
includes non-Christians.
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So we do have an obligation
to take the gospel to them
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and there are opportunities
that are opening up
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because of Global Mission
focusing on these people groups
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and these religious segments
that we are able to reach them.
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Now, Global
Mission as we all know
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focuses on church
planting in new areas.
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You get to meet some
Global Mission Pioneers.
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Can you tell me
about the work of pioneers?
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Yes, pioneers are people,
from within the community
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who in turn
dedicate their time to reach,
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un-reached people
within their people group.
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And there are lots of
opportunities available.
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I can think of one.
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I just recently
traveled to one country
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where there was a
pastor of another church.
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He attended one of
our Adventists schools
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because he wanted to prefect
his abilities in agriculture.
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Many of these
pastors and all the churches
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are self supporting pastors.
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And while he was
there he became attracted
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to the Advent message.
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Was converted baptized gave
up his agricultural pursuits
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and returned back to his village
as a Global Mission pioneer
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and he has raised up a church.
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And so we see
opportunities for people to work
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among their own to
carry the gospel to them.
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Now, projects from
different parts of the world
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come across your desk regularly.
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How many projects does
Global Mission support?
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Well, in the past
when you look at going back
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may be ten or more years
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we have supported
over 14,000 projects.
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Today, we have 3,500
active Global Mission pioneers
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actively at work in 106
countries around the world
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and these are countries which
are traditionally challenging
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to Christianity but yet there
they are carrying the banner
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of Christ soon
return to their own people.
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Now, these
Global Mission Pioneers,
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how are they
supported financially?
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Well, we have a sharing program
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where the divisions would
contribute a certain amount,
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the General Conference
contributes a certain amount
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and the unions and many times
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the local
conferences will contribute.
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So we have a shared program.
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Okay, so--so I'm
going to interrupt you there
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interpret this for any viewers
who are familiar with the world,
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the Seventh-day
Adventist World Church
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is divided up into regions,
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and so we have 13
regions actually 14 regions now
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and then underneath that there
are some further organization.
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So each level is
contributing to the project.
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Yes, to the project.
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Yeah, it is makes
it a shared vision
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and also there is ownership,
so that when the church
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a new church as established
already that local conference
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is ready to
embrace that is part of
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the sisterhood of
churches' local conferences.
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And then we can release those
projects to that organization
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and those funds can be used
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to establish new
projects in new areas.
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So it's a ongoing our program.
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So there is a lot
to be done, Delbert.
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Yes, yes, we still
have quite a challenge
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ahead of us as I mentioned.
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Over three quarters of
the population of the world
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are non-Christian
and so this our burden
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to carry the gospel to them.
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Delbert, thank you so
much for joining us today.
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Yes, thank you.
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Pastor Pearman has given us
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an overview of the
challenge that remains.
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We are thankful
for what God is doing
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in so many parts of the world.
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We rejoice to
hear of large baptisms
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but there are so many
areas that still we need
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to under the
blessing of the Holy Spirit
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be faithful in going to share
the wonderful love of Jesus.
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Please continue to
remember in your prayers
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Global Mission Pioneers,
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missionaries the board range
of mission work of the church.
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What do you mean
you don't have time?
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She's your child too.
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You know, this
really isn't fair to me.
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Please don't leave me
as the single parent here.
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No don't hang up, don't hang up.
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No, no, no, don't hang up.
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Don't hang up.
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Taxi.
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Hey mom, it's me.
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I was hoping that we could talk.
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I'm just in a bind right
now and I'm feeling so helpless
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I don't know what to do.
00:18:30.24\00:18:32.58
Please call me as
soon as you get this
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because I really
need to talk to you.
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About four years ago the world
reached a very interesting point
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where it crossed
the point of having
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50% of the world's population
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living in these large
metropolitan areas of the world.
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The Seventh-day Adventist
Church has a very unique
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opportunity of following
the Spirit of Prophecy council
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and Biblical
principals in reaching
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the people in the cities.
00:19:19.17\00:19:21.59
Ellen White has
given tremendous council
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through the inspiration of God
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about how to reach
people in the cities
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with sustainable programs,
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programs that
will definitely try
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and reach the hearts
and the needs of people.
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Our great challenge
is to put that together
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in a comprehensive
urban evangelism approach
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and we're hoping by God's grace
that you will be involved in it.
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That every
division, every union,
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every conference and mission,
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every church and church member
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will not only pray for
the people in the cities
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but that they will definitely
gear themselves towards trying
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to reach those
very precious souls
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who simply don't
know about Jesus.
00:20:02.93\00:20:05.19
Jesus loves the cities
and the reason He does is
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because that's where people
live and Jesus loves people.
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In Matthew 9:35 the Bible
says, "And Jesus went about
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all the cities and villages
preaching in their synagogues,
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teaching and healing
the diseases of the people."
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Jesus had a comprehensive
plan of physical, mental,
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spiritual, and emotional
wholeness for the cities.
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The Seventh-day
Adventist church is launching
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a comprehensive plan to
reach people in the cities.
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It will begin in
New York City, 2013,
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a series of
evangelistic meetings
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but before that
time each local church
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becoming actively involved,
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pastors and lay
people uniting together
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to reach the
cities for Jesus Christ.
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Divisions around the world
are sending representatives
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to New York City so
that they too can participate
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in this comprehensive plan.
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Then, each of the 13 divisions
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will have chosen
a particular city.
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Union representatives
will come and participate
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in these division
meetings then the unions
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and conferences
will choose cities.
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In all over 630
cities will be targeted,
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the major cities in the world.
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All of heaven is
rejoicing and the Father, Son,
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and the Holy
Spirit I am convinced
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are anointing this project
with their grace as we reach out
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and touch people in the cities.
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As Seventh-day Adventist leaders
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and Seventh-day
Adventist members,
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we often like to
focus on the impossibility
00:21:48.43\00:21:52.03
of taking mission to
cities and yet we know
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that in our history the Lord
has provided us with miracles
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and examples of how
this has been possible.
00:22:01.91\00:22:03.90
I think of South
America, Inter-America,
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the southern half of
the continent of Africa,
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Papua New Guinea,
and many places in Asia
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like Korea, the Philippines.
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And you can look at
cities, the city of Sao Paulo
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with more than 1,000
churches in that city,
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the city of Lima with hundreds
of churches in that city.
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Mexico City we've
made advances there
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but what about the 10/40 Window
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where we find
multiple millions of people
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living in cities where
the predominant religion
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comes from something other
than a Christian background.
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Yes, the Lord has given us
examples of we can do this.
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I think of Phnom Penh,
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more than 50 worshiping
congregations in that city.
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Bangkok, for years we
had five worshiping churches,
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today have 13 congregations
that are worshiping in Bangkok.
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Jakarta, located in the
most populous Muslim country
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in the world more than 100
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Seventh-day Adventist
churches in that city.
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India, we have placed
churches in many places there.
00:23:04.82\00:23:08.13
You know the Lord has
given us plenty of evidence
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that it's possible
to go to the cities.
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We can do this but
its going to be through
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the power of the Holy Spirit.
00:23:18.06\00:23:21.01
The gospels tell us that
when Jesus looked at the crowds,
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He looked at
them with compassion.
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And that describes the stance,
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the attitude with which we
need to look at the cities.
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Do we simply care for people?
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Do we care for the fact that
most people live now in cities
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and most of our church resources
are going outside cities?
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Jesus had a particular
method for reaching people.
00:23:41.94\00:23:45.41
He looked with compassion
00:23:45.44\00:23:47.07
and then He cared
for them holistically.
00:23:47.10\00:23:49.67
Ellen White summarizes
it beautifully when she said
00:23:49.70\00:23:52.29
that Christ's method
alone will bring true success.
00:23:52.32\00:23:56.18
And she says that first of all
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Jesus mingled with people
as one who desired their good.
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Secondly, He showed
compassion, He cared for people.
00:24:02.43\00:24:06.30
Thirdly, He
ministered to their needs.
00:24:06.33\00:24:09.24
Fourthly, He won confidence
00:24:09.27\00:24:11.83
and then and only
then He bid them follow me.
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And today if we are
going to reach the cities
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we need to
follow Jesus' example.
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There's no rocket science,
there's no secret methods.
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It's that holistic ministry
that Jesus himself showed.
00:24:23.27\00:24:27.34
He cared for people in a
way that touched them physically
00:24:27.37\00:24:30.24
and socially but
He also taught them
00:24:30.27\00:24:32.69
about the
kingdom that was coming.
00:24:32.72\00:24:34.69
So today, we can't just
care for people's physical needs
00:24:34.72\00:24:38.18
and ignore
telling them about Jesus.
00:24:38.21\00:24:39.80
That's going to
short-circuit the message.
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But we also can't come
in and just preach at people
00:24:42.82\00:24:45.13
without caring
for them physically.
00:24:45.16\00:24:47.21
It's that holistic
ministry that Jesus calls us to
00:24:47.24\00:24:50.51
and it is the only way
that will bring true success.
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As pastors we
must in our mission
00:24:54.92\00:24:57.57
seek to reach the cities.
00:24:57.60\00:24:59.29
That's a calling that we
have. Jesus loved the cities.
00:24:59.32\00:25:01.31
He sent Jonah to get Nineveh
and He's calling each of us
00:25:01.34\00:25:04.77
to be involved
somehow in reaching over 50%
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of His people
that are in the cities.
00:25:07.11\00:25:09.12
And we're not doing as well
as we should in many places.
00:25:09.15\00:25:11.78
So I would like to challenge
you today to think about
00:25:11.81\00:25:14.17
how and pray about
how God can I help,
00:25:14.20\00:25:17.34
how can my church help
perhaps reaching the cities?
00:25:17.37\00:25:20.31
Matthew 24:14 says
"This gospel of the kingdom
00:25:20.34\00:25:23.05
shall be
preached in all the world
00:25:23.08\00:25:24.83
and then shall the end come."
00:25:24.86\00:25:26.85
The fact is as a
pastor I didn't expect
00:25:26.88\00:25:29.19
to be here with grey hair.
00:25:29.22\00:25:30.63
I wanted to see
Jesus come long ago
00:25:30.66\00:25:32.52
but we're not
going home until we reach
00:25:32.55\00:25:34.02
every one of
those children He loves
00:25:34.05\00:25:35.44
with the 3 angel's messages
and with the opportunity
00:25:35.47\00:25:37.61
to know Jesus and experience
a living walk with Him.
00:25:37.64\00:25:40.70
Will you pray about it?
00:25:40.73\00:25:41.96
Will you see what you
can do to reach the masses
00:25:41.99\00:25:44.11
of the cities in
the days to come?
00:25:44.14\00:25:46.20
As Jesus crested that hill
00:25:46.23\00:25:49.49
and looked at the
city of Jerusalem,
00:25:49.52\00:25:53.41
the Bible says, He wept.
00:25:53.44\00:25:57.19
I want to implore
each of you to weep
00:25:57.22\00:26:01.21
for the people of
the cities of this world.
00:26:01.24\00:26:04.80
And do more than weep.
00:26:04.83\00:26:06.43
Ask the Holy Spirit
to give you the power
00:26:06.46\00:26:08.82
to join in
comprehensive urban evangelism
00:26:08.85\00:26:12.45
to reach these precious
souls of these many cities.
00:26:12.48\00:26:17.08
God bless you in this
very important endeavor
00:26:17.11\00:26:20.69
as we look forward
to Jesus soon coming
00:26:20.72\00:26:23.09
and where we can meet
with people from the country,
00:26:23.12\00:26:26.44
from the rural
areas, and the big cities
00:26:26.47\00:26:29.32
and be with our Lord in the
New Jerusalem, the Holy City.
00:26:29.35\00:26:34.23
Today, we have a
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Well, I hope you've
enjoyed our program today
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and I hope it's inspired
you to pray for the people
00:27:55.36\00:27:58.66
and places you've seen.
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And a special thank you to
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and support
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Thank you for helping
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Until next time I'm
Gary Krause, god bless.
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