Understanding other
cultures and world religions,
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education in India and a family
with mission in their genes,
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all that and more coming up
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right here on
"Global Mission snapshots"
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Just before He
went up to heaven,
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Jesus gave us a
command. 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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If you have ever
traveled to another country
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you know there are often
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major differences in
language and culture.
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Those differences impact our
ability to shop, eat, socialize
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and most important our
ability to share the gospel.
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Today we will be
talking with Cheryl Doss,
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director of the
Institute of World Mission.
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Every year Dr. Doss and her team
train the Adventist churches
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international mission
workers how to be more effective
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when they are living and
working in other cultures.
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We will also talk
with Dr. Rick McEdward,
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director of the
Global Mission Study Centers
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about how to
communicate with people
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whose understanding of religion
is totally different to ours.
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Where do you even start
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if they don't believe
in the Bible or in God?
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But first up, let's visit a
family with a heart for mission
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who have passed on the spirit
of service to their children.
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As a physician,
as you are trained,
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your primary goal in
training is to take good
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medical care of
people to make sure
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that their health is
cared for in a proper way.
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But as time is
gone by I realized that,
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that's really not
the primary issue.
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That my primary goal is to give
people to Jesus and to know Him,
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and so I began to
see medical practice
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as a tool to
lead people to Jesus.
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And so I tried
to focus on somehow
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using our medical practice not
only as a tool to help people
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have a healthier life
until recover from disease
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but even more
importantly to come to know
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the one who can
provide eternal life.
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Greg, our oldest he
always wanted to be a physician.
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He has ended up being trained
as a surgeon and served overseas
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and many different places
most recently in Cameroon.
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I would say it was probably
somewhere in high school
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that I decided I really wanted
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to be a missionary and
specifically a physician.
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I guess it was in
medical school in Loma Linda,
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where it was really solidified
and I choose to be part of
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the Deferred
Mission Appointee Program.
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I did three and
half years of residency
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in family practice training
and haven't seen anything here
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that I ever saw in
family practice training.
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As a missionary my
goal is too pronged,
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I mean of course I'm a
physician so I want to aspect,
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I want to reach
their physical needs
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but more importantly we need
to reach their spiritual needs.
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And there are certain
people at the hospital
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that we've been
able to minister to
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and we have seen
people who've had tetanus
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who have been sick in
hospital for many weeks
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and then for a long
recovery period after that.
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And with time and praying
every single day with them,
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they have come to know Jesus
and give their heart to God
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and I think that's
the most encouragement
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is individual
lives have been changed.
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Cristy, our middle daughter
also wanted to be a physician
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since she was young and served
in Malamulo Hospital in Malawi.
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I love the chance
to come to a place
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and care for people who know
what we are really caring for.
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I find that intensely satisfying
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and I think that's why
I've always wanted to do this.
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If you stop working at
home, your patients get upset
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and they go see someone else.
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Here people die
and I think that's what
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I find truly
gratifying about being here.
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I feel like it touches
into what Jesus talked about
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when He saw the multitudes
and He had compassion on them.
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I think that's really
what it comes on to for me.
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We always think of blessings
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as being safe or
happy or things like that.
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But I think you can be blessed
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by loneliness and
by being homesick.
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I think God Jesus will
bless you in a different way
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and by being here I'm
getting to be molded by God
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and you don't often get to see
that very clearly in your life.
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Heather, our youngest
has taken a different track.
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She really was not
interested in medicine,
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which was fine with us,
so she trained as a teacher
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and taught
elementary school for many years
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and now is married to a
pastor, and she and her husband
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are pastoring
four churches in Kansas
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and I guess I see that, she
is just as much a missionary
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as our other children because
she is there helping people
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study the gospel,
just in a different form.
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I mean that is God's mission
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to go over and help
people wherever we are,
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whether we are here in the U.S.
or whether we are out of U.S.,
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go and help people and
teach them about the Lord
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as well as helping
their physical well beings.
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( praying in foreign language )
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There are certain
people that I felt I have made
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a real difference in their
life both in a physical aspect
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and in being able to have the
chance of witnessing to them.
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Since I have been here probably
the verse that comes to me
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the most to me is 1
John 3:18 and that says,
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"My dear brothers,
let us not love in word
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or in tongue but
in deed and in truth"
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and that's really
what I have been talking
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to my employees here about.
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Let's love in truth
each other our patients,
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let's really share
what God is like here.
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Donna and I have learned
to pray for our kids a lot.
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We say Lord, we can't
take care of these kids,
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we can't provide
for them, You are gonna
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have to take care of
them, I'll over-do in Your work.
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You go to the
point where you realize,
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Lord, they are
Yours they are not ours.
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They never will be ours
they have always been Yours.
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And you let them go that doesn't
mean you don't miss them,
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that doesn't
mean it doesn't hurt,
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that doesn't mean you
don't miss family times of them,
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special occasions like
Thanksgiving and Christmas
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or you know Easter or
things like that are family,
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traditions that you realize
that they are doing something
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far more
valuable that's eternal.
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I'm delighted to
welcome my friend and colleague
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Dr. Cheryl Doss who is director
of Institute of World Mission
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for the
Seventh-day Adventist church.
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Cheryl, thanks so
much for joining us.
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Institute of World Mission,
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briefly what is
it, what does it do?
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Its main responsibility
is for the training
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of the missionaries of the
General Conference centers.
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You still send missionaries?
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Oh, yes. I know that question,
that's very painful to me.
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Some people don't
realize it but yes, we do.
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At least 100 families go
out a year, often more than that
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and there is probably
between 715 to 1,000 at anyone--
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missionaries at
anyone time in the field.
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Now why do they need training?
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They don't just
go out in faith and--
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Yeah. Hopefully they
do go out with faith,
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but as you can imagine
moving a family overseas
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is a major adjustment time,
major transition for families.
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Most of them go
as married couples
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with children aged from
tiny babies to teenagers
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and sometimes several children,
and this always quite an issue
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just they are moving a
family within a home country.
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Not only taking them
to a foreign country,
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foreign foods,
foreign-- a new language,
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a new living environment
and work and all the rest.
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And it gets even more complex
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when you think about how
different each family is.
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Well, that's a wonderful thing
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about the General Conference
Mission Services that it truly
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does send missionaries
from everywhere to everywhere.
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The last mission institute
we held in Brazil last month,
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had 14 families from 12
different home countries.
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Six different continents
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who represented at
that mission institute.
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Different languages, they
come with different skills,
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of course they go out to
do different types of jobs.
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But most are highly
qualified professionals
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going to do our specialists
type work where they go.
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Doctors, dentists,
church administrators,
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teachers and professors
and so agro workers and so on.
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Can you introduce us to
some of the missionary families?
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Yes, I can, you
know, there are so many
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I hate to pick any one
out. So I will just kind of take
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a smattering from the
last mission institute.
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We had a family there,
the Lichtenwalter family
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who had spent 27 years
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pastoring a church in
Berrien Springs, Michigan.
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And now, Larry is going
out to be the theology dean
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there at the school
as they try to develop
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their theology program
at Middle East University.
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So going to a Muslim
context, moving with his wife
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and leaving
their children at home,
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this is a major
transition for a family.
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Where is the university?
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In Beirut, Lebanon.
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Another family at the
other end of the family spectrum
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came with very small
baby just four months old.
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And they are
serving in Colombia.
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And they have another
little boy, Vanston Archbold
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and his wife Ketsia and they
had been there for short time.
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Actually, they came
originally from Columbia
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but immigrated to the
U.S. and so having spent
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many years in the U.S. now as
young people growing up there,
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they are going
back to this country
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to a rather mission post
on an island off the coast.
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And so this is
another kind of adjustment.
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Often times, missionaries find
that returning to a home country
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can be more difficult
than the initial going out
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into a host
country. That's interesting.
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We had families from Australia
that are serving in the islands.
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Families from Africa
serving in other parts of Africa
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and so it's a
wonderful mix of people
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that we put together
at the Mission Institute.
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Yeah, well, Cheryl, you
are training for how long?
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How long is their training?
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It's a three
week training program
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and one of the things we do is,
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we hope to kind of
model in the institute
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both the attitudes
and the experiences
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that people will face when
they get out into the field.
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Because it's not enough
just to think about something
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logically one must be able to
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actually
practice what one learns.
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And so we ask the
group to mix themselves up
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by different nationalities, by
different types of profession,
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by work assignments
and family age groups,
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some experience overseas.
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And then we set
learning tasks. They set tables
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and we set learning tasks
for them to discuss together.
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And I think one of the
most beautiful things for me is
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to watch these families
from so many different places
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come to really love
and appreciate each other.
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So little peace of heaven.
At the last institute I had one,
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one table there was a family
from Norway going to Israel,
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a family from Albania
in Australia going to Fiji,
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and a family from
Zimbabwe serving in Tanzania.
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Towards the end of the institute
one of the woman at that tables
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was with one of the other woman,
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the African and one
of the European woman
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and they were
sitting, walking along and
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the European woman said to
me, I would never believed you
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if you told me that
we would be best friends
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at the end of three
weeks. Is that right?
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You know, so they
can pray for each other,
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they can support each other.
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And I always say if you
can learn to love somebody
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from another culture
while at Mission Institute
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then probably you
know at least it's possible
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to do that when
you get out there.
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Yeah. Now do you ever
have somebody come to training
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and you decided well, you
know, recommend, we actually
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don't think that you are
well suited for this assignment.
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That's not really our
responsibility, but we do
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what we do at Mission Institute
is try to empower people
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for whatever assignment
God has called them to.
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We have a psychologist who
comes to every mission institute
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and interviews each
family if there are needs,
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particular family needs that
they want to talk about with her
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they can do that,
they can raise the issues.
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And we have seen
families greatly blessed.
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Marriages improved and so
on during Mission Institute.
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One of the journals I read
the Fact Institute at the end,
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the woman said, this institute
has brought me closer to God,
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than I ever thought
possible. Fantastic.
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Cheryl, thank you
for you and your team
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doing at the
Institute of World Mission.
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Thanks for joining
us today. And thank you
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to the missionaries
who are willing to go.
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Exactly And viewers at
home, please pray for Cheryl
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and her team in
this very important work
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and thank you for your
continuing mission offerings
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that make it possible
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for missionaries to
go out into the field
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and don't forget
to pray every day
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for missionaries
serving the Lord.
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My guest is Dr. Rick McEdward,
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who is the director of the
Global Mission Study Centers
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and works in the office
of the Adventist Mission.
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Welcome, Rick. Thanks, Gary.
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Briefly describe the
Global Mission Study Centers?
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Well, there are
six study centers,
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these six study centers address
understanding for Adventist,
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the various world religions
and also urban setting.
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So there is
different to all religions,
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we really haven't done
much in addressing our faith to,
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so it's trying to
help people understand
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and be a positive witness.
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Now, Rick,
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when we look at the
history of the Adventist church,
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most new members have
come from among anamist
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or among from other
Christian believers.
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How well equipped are we,
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I mean how well trained are we
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to be able to talk to
people from other religions?
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Even in countries that are
majority from another faith
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honestly, we still focus
our efforts on Christians,
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Christian groups and we
really haven't done much
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in sharing our
faith in a positive way
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with these other groups.
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What a challenge it is
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because we are tend to
use a message that is--
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that is really geared for
sharing with other Christians.
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Right, now, somebody might
be viewing this and saying,
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well, this is
all very interesting
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but I never
planned to travel overseas
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that's not an issue for me.
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Well, you know, the
great part of that is
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you don't have to go overseas
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to find somebody
from another religion.
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If there are 37
million immigrants
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even in the
country of United States
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there are 14 million
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non-Englishspeaking
households in North America.
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There are three
quarters of a million students
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from other parts of the
world who may speak English
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but come from other
religious backgrounds
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so you don't
have to look very far
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to see that there is
people from other walks of life
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even our next neighbor and
that's true of United States,
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it's certainly trip to
Canada, parts of Europe
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any where, where
people flock too for
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both economy and education.
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There is gonna be opportunities
that we haven't taken.
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And some of the
statistics show that
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people from other
world religions feel that
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Christians are in a
different world to them
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here in the Untied States.
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They don't have any contact.
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They don't have any
friends with any Christians.
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Yeah, it's amazing to think that
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in places like
Europe, United States,
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that around 70 percent of those
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from a Hindu background
have no Christian friends.
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Now, 65% of those
from a Muslim background
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don't know one
other Christian person.
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So I mean we are talking about
a stat that are shaming to us.
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Yeah, so we might
meet them in a store
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they may be
cleaners at a laundry,
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they may be driving a
taxi, they may our dentist
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but we don't make
friends with them.
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That's right, and I
think that--that shows us
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that we may be reluctant
based on may be stereo types,
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may be other reasons
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but we don't know how to
build those first few bridges.
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Okay, so, one of
the viewers says,
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okay, I see the
importance of this
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I have a neighbor
from a different religion,
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I don't know where to start.
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Well, the easy place
is- where my family started
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we have neighborhood that has
a wide variety of people in it.
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We are in a urban setting and
we have neighbor from Kuwait,
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we have neighbors from Taiwan,
we have neighbors from Africa,
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so we have a wide variety
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and you know, my wife
and kids they just said,
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well, let's
bake some bread, mom.
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And they went holiday time
or anytime and they delivered
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loaf of bread to
various people in the community.
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And you are telling
me just earlier that
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how you made contact with your
neighbors from another country.
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Well, we just gotten
back from a trip to Thailand.
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I traveled there for my
work and this particular trip
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I took my family along.
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While we were there we
thought of our neighbors,
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we picked up a few
things that would be special.
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We asked in Thailand,
what would be special?
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And when we come back
we went pay them a visit.
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And as we gave them just
a few little bag of things
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as they unpacked it I saw tears
well up in the ladies eyes,
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saying I haven't seen
these things for 20 years.
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These are special to me,
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and we formed a special
bond of friendship through that.
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So Rick, what are
some of the principles
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that we should keep in mind
when we are talking with people
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when come from a
different faith, tradition?
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Well, you know, first of all
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love covers a
multitude of friends, right.
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So I think we ought to practice
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the gift of
love and hospitality.
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You know, inviting
somebody to your house,
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loving them in someway
that's the obvious one.
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Second is may be
we don't understand,
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but may be we
can listen and learn.
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If we try to
tell before we accept,
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before we even
understand who people are.
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Then we make the
first mistake and that is
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we are not willing to allow
somebody to share their heart.
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I think there is a third
one and that is pray and pray
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not only for them but
pray for the right opportunity
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for you to share of
whatever witness now.
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Whatever witness is complicated,
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it's not so simple
with just everybody
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but you want to
have the right timing
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and you don't want to
be preaching at people
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you want to share with them.
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So, you are
talking about a testimony,
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a personal testimony?
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Actually I think a testimony of
what God is doing in you lately
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is one of the most
powerful stories you can tell.
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I like to use that
because people often are looking
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for an answer for
something in their lives
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and if you say
well, God did this for me,
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they might say well,
tell me about your God.
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Now, not everybody will say that
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but there is a chance to
build that friendship that way.
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And you can't argue
with somebody's experience
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if you talk at the level
of concept that's one thing
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but when you share your
experience that's true for you.
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Its absolutely true and you know
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what I find is that
lot of people will say
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they are open to praying,
after you share you experience
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because they have
needs in their lives too.
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Exactly. Rick, thanks so
much for sharing with us today.
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And viewers at home, God
may be calling you to make,
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take that step of contact
with some of your neighbors,
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people that you meet everyday.
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It might be in your
street, it may be at school,
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it may be work whatever it is
take time to pray and say Lord,
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how can I be Your
instrument in this situation.
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How can I stop from
this keeping to myself
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and build a bridge
of love to these people?
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Pray please for the
Global Mission Study Centers
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they have a
tremendously challenging task
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to find ways,
methods, models for us
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to be more
effective in our mission
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in sharing with our brothers
and sisters around the world.
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Each day after classes,
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students at Lasalgaon
Seventh-day Adventist school
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carry out assigned
duties around the campus.
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This work program can be found
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at Seventh-day
Adventist schools across India.
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Ever since we
started the school system
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we introduced the work program.
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And there are
students would refuse to do
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certain kinds of manual work.
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Agriculture, yes
fine-- I wouldn't mind being
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involved in growing
plants, growing vegetables.
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That's a very dignified work
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but to sweep the
hostel, clean the toilet,
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do some other kind of
work no, no that's not mine.
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That's menial.
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That's not for my
status in the community.
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So this has been
the division, you know,
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but the Adventist
system has somehow
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broken this in our schools.
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Work, any work
is God's gift to us.
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God has given us gift of work.
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Take care of the earth.
Be stewards of the Earth.
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So that philosophy
that whatever you do
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you are a steward of something.
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Whenever a student gets
goes through that manual labor
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he becomes more
mature, more responsible,
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and ready to take on the
world when he leaves the school.
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This focus on strong work
ethic has made Lasalgaon School
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an attractive place for
parents to send their children.
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The shortcoming
of this school is
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we have insufficient classrooms.
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We have very big playground,
but we don't have science labs,
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we don't have physics, chemistry
and biology separate labs
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which is a essential
part of a growing school.
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In the early years of schooling
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if a parent likes to
look at value education,
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will my boy, will my girl
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turnout to be the
very finest in character?
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When it comes to character
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Adventist
education are the best.
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But then when they come
to a higher level of learning
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late in high
school, people are looking
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for excellence in
academic learning.
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Lasalgaon currently
has classroom facilities
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for grades one through ten.
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The school needs to
build more classrooms
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to be able to
accommodate grades 11 and 12.
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If this school opens 11 and 12
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we would like to study here only
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because outside we
don't get chance to go for
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church and other
activities as we do here.
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Because of your
financial support
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of the world budget
and mission offerings,
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a new classroom block
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including new physics,
chemistry and biology labs,
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will be constructed on
the Lasalgaon school campus.
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Your offerings are
building more than classrooms.
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They are building a
future for these children
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for mission in India.
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Thank you for your
support of the mission
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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To find out more please
visit adventistmission.org.
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For the office of
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I'm Gary Krause and I
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right here on
"Global Mission Snapshots."
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