A missionary hat preparing
for short term mission trips
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and Bible
correspondence schools,
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that and much
more coming up next
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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. 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 I'm Gary Kruase.
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Thank you for joining us as
we look at a world of mission
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on Global Mission Snapshots.
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On today's program, we will
be talking with Wagner Kuhn,
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Associate
Professor of World Mission
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Seventh-day Adventist Seminary,
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Andrews University in
Berrien Springs, Michigan.
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Now, that's a mouthful.
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We will be talking to Dr. Kuhn
about how we can best prepare
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to be an effective
witness cross culturally.
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We will also be talking
with Pastor Kurt Johnson,
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Discovery Bible School
Director about what's happening
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with local churches that
partner with the Bible school.
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And we will visit
a school in India,
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that struggles to find
room for all the students
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that are wanting to attend.
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But first, let's
meet a missionary hat.
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Felipe lives in
the city of Lima, Peru.
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He has dedicated his life
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to sharing the love
of Jesus with others.
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But there was a time when Felipe
was searching for his purpose
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and did not know where to look.
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He now knows that God's plans
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can come from the
most unexpected places.
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Felipe was
working at a university
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where he was
constantly searching for a sign
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of what God wanted for his life.
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Every day he walked to work
passing by some homes and shops.
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One day on his way to work,
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Felipe was in a store and saw
something that caught his eye.
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There was a unique hat and
Felipe loved interesting hats.
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He bought the hat and wore
it proudly the rest of the day.
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Felipe was unaware
of the significances
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of the
Adventist logo on the hat.
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In my work, people asked me
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if I knew the
meaning of the cap.
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And I said, no.
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They asked me if
I was an Adventist.
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And I said, no,
I'm not an Adventist.
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Felipe was curious about
what being an Adventist meant.
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So he went looking for a
Seventh-day Adventist church.
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When I went
looking for the church,
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I asked the man
selling orange juice
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on the street about
the Adventist church.
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He answered me
that he is an Adventist.
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This was just the sign
Felipe was waiting for.
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After talking, the
two men became friends
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and visited the church
together the next weekend.
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Felipe felt
welcome in the church
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and returned again each week.
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He now knows that God
has a plan for his life.
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My life is not only
complete, it is more than that.
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When I ask God something,
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He gives me
everything that I ask of Him.
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So, now, I help other people
to know about the word of God.
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Felipe is thankful that he found
the hat that lead him to be
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a part of the Adventist
church and to know Jesus.
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He knows that God can use anyone
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or anything including a
hat to reach His people.
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Please pray for
those still searching
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for a relationship with Jesus.
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And thank you for your support
of mission around the world.
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I'm delighted to
welcome Dr. Wagner Kuhn,
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from the department of
World Mission Adventist Seminary
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in Berrien Springs, Michigan.
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That's a mouthful.
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Welcome, Wagner,
glad you can join us.
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Thank you.
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You have a very
important role in many respects
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but to shape future
pastors in the way--
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and present pastors in the way
they are thinking about mission.
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That's quite a responsibility.
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It is indeed you know
and I take it very seriously.
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Are you saying that
there is an interest in mission
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among pastors
that you are training?
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More and more, you know,
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you see pastors coming to
the seminary for example, Gary
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with avid desire of
trying to understand more,
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you know, cross cultural.
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And because the places
where they minister, you know,
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they have members that
come from all walks of life.
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You know, from Asian background,
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from Latin American background,
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from you know,
different types of cultures
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and it is more and more
with this interest in mind
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that we try to
provide certain way of helping
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of training pastors and
young ministers in our days.
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Very interesting.
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Now, Wagner, I want to talk
to you about short term mission.
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It seems today that
almost every Adventist church,
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every
organization has some sort of
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a short term mission opportunity
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that they are
involving church members
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and can you describe
this growing phenomenon?
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Well, it is certainly
a very huge phenomenon
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that nobody really can
catch and define very well
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for example, since
statistics are saying right now,
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that between four and
five million Americans
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or North Americans are involved
in short term missions annually
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and these I'm talking
about Christians in general
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that go out to
do medical missions,
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you know, orphanage missions,
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vacation Bible schools and
all kinds of types of ministries
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you know, evangelistic
meetings and so forth.
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Out of that it is estimated that
about between 14,000 to 40,000
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and even some 70 or 80,000
are Seventh-day Adventists.
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We don't have
very good statistics.
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You know, North
American division reported in,
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you know, couple of
years ago about 45,000 people
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involved in short
term missions in one year.
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That ranges you know,
from less than two weeks
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to about you know,
close to two years,
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but nowadays short term missions
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are even less
than two weeks only.
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Being certain
mission trips only for about
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six or seven days
including travel days.
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So, that's a challenge.
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So how does that
compare short-term mission
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with people who are devoted,
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sort of like make a
career of being a missionary,
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who go for long term,
how do those numbers compare?
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Oh, for example, Gary, I
would say that statistics
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are telling us some
who are doing research
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that for every one
long term career missionary,
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you have about sixty or
more short term missionaries.
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You know, are short
termers as they call it.
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So, you know the proportion
and everyone that goes
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will spend about 2 or
$3,000 you know, average.
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You know, the whole
Christian tent makers
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are those who are
Christians out of North America
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are spending
$2.2 billion a year.
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We don't have precise statistics
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for the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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but those who are
studying it are saying that
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at least 2 or $3,000
each person will spend.
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Okay, now, what
are the advantages
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of short-term mission?
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What benefits is that
bringing to the church?
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Short term mission can
bring a lot of benefits.
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One of them is
that it can create
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good
partnerships for the long run.
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And if those good partnerships
for the long run are developed,
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then a lot of benefits come.
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Both for those who go
and for the ones who receive.
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I think, Gary,
we need to be aware
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that short term
mission trips are only good
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when they are
good for both parties,
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those who go and
those who receive.
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So we need to have that in mind.
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So what council would
you give to organizations
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and people involved
in short-term mission?
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What are the things
they need to keep in mind
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to make it effective?
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Well, first of all I think
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they need to look at
and ask the questions.
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Those that I'm going to
serve what do they need?
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Am I the one to
tell them what they need
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or should I ask them
questions of what is their need?
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Because many of us who
go on short term missions,
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we have a personal agenda
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and we want to do what
we think it's important,
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but we don't
often ask the questions.
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Also and this is
very, very important.
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Research is being done
and very few of the groups
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that go on short
term mission get,
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they get good training.
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Usually there is
no training involved,
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there is a couple of hours
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of certain
explanations of logistics.
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And very little is done
in terms of serious training
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and this is very
important in order to avoid
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major blunders
and serious problems
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you know, with--
especially with teams.
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What sort of damage can be done?
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One is that for
example short-term missions
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can create spiritual hyper
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and usually this
spiritual hyper is short lived.
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It fades away
after a couple of week,
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you know, or a
month, people return.
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So this can be kind
of a distorted picture,
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you know of what can be done
in the long term partnership.
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So again if
partnerships are developed
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and you go two or three or four
or five times to the same place,
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then you will know
the people who are there
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and they will know you.
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There is a bond of
trust being created
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and a spiritual development
being effected on both sides.
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For somebody who
wants to do it right
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and wants to know
how to do it better,
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are there sort of
resources to help train them?
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For example, I have
a book here you know,
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it's called Effective Engagement
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in Short Term
Missions, doing it right.
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There are
several books, you know,
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for example also
Passport to Mission
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which is a book done
by the General Conference
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or the Institute of World
Mission on how to be prepared
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and being sensitive to
minister cross culturally,
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you should go out
of your comfort zone
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and then minister for
those that you aim at.
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Fantastic, Wagner,
thanks for joining us today.
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And viewers at home, you
can go to adventistmission.org
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to find out more resources
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for how you can make
short term mission work best.
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I'm delighted to welcome Pastor
Kurt Johnson to our program.
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Pastor Johnson, cares for
Bible Correspondence schools
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around the world.
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He also directs the Bible
school at the Voice of Prophecy
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in the North American
Adventist Media Center.
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Kurt, thanks so
much for joining us.
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This is a ministry
that blankets the globe,
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but you have an interest
in getting as many churches,
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local churches as possible
involved, how does that work?
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Well, we call them
discover Bible schools.
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And our goal is that to become
a branch of the media center
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and they--as we go
and we help a local church
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to set up basically
a Bible study ministry
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as an outreach to
the local community.
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And we help the church
members to be able to go out
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and find people to
study the Bible with.
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And then we share with them,
there're five different ways
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that we teach them to give those
Bible studies to those interest.
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And that's
personally a one to one
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Bible study
small groups in a home,
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correspondence by mail
out of the local church.
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They can study online on
the internet and use of DVD's.
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So in North America,
how many church members
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would you estimate
get involved in this?
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Well, we have 2,500
churches in North America
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that have branch
Bible schools. Wow.
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And so, as far
as the total member,
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it varies per
church from a handful
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to you know, a lot more people.
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Now, recently you had
a major effort in Alaska,
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tell us about that?
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One of the things we do
with our discover schools,
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like what we did in Alaska
is we will go into a conference
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and we will set
up a discover school,
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a Bible study ministry in
every church in that conference.
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And then we mass mail a
Bible study in roma card
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which offers free
Bible lessons to the person.
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We mail that to every residence
in that entire state. Wow.
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And then we help
the church members
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to follow those
Bible studies up.
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So like in Alaska the
population is just under 800,000
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and there is about 300,000 homes
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and so we mailed
a card to every home
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and then we also
showed the church members
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how to invite their
friends and other people
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to study and
then the combination,
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all that combinates
into a graduation at the end.
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So in Alaska we have about
2,000 active church members.
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And we ended up with around
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2,500 requests
for Bible lessons.
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They followed up. That's great.
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Yeah, in one of
our photos here shows
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the group of church
members in the Fairbanks
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and also in the
North Pole area of Alaska.
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They were following up
the Bible study request.
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The North Pole area,
I hope there are few.
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Did you go up there?
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Yeah, well, the North Pole
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it's a little
community that's near Fairbanks.
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But, I went to the--our most
northern city in North America.
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It's called Barrow, Alaska.
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It's a village of
about 4,500 people
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I was there
February of last year.
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Wrong time of the year.
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Yeah, it was like
between 30 and 40 below.
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And I always wondered what
it would be like to experience
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those temperatures
and I got to find out.
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But in Barrow,
our church membership
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again varies
between 5 to 10 people
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depending on the
time of the year,
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different circumstances there.
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In that village
there were 28 people
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that requested
free Bible lessons. Wow.
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And I was excited
just a few weeks ago
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I received an email from Penny,
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who is the
coordinator for the Bible school
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and one of the
ladies, one of the families
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have just finished
their Bible lessons
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and they were ready to
give them their diplomas.
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So that was a great
excitement about that. Yeah.
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So 28 people in the
village signed up for lessons?
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That's correct. Yes.
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You know in another village
that you only reach by areoplane
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is called Togiak and it's near
Dillingham, near Bristol Bay.
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In the summer
time when it's thawed,
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you can go in by
boat otherwise you fly in.
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A village of about 800 people
and we have a church there at--
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when I was there a year ago,
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the man that
was Dan Radoff was--
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is a layman in his 80's
he was the lay pastor there
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and he had about 12 to 16 people
that would come to the church
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for a small group
Bible study on a weekly basis
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and they began to study,
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they went through
the discover guides.
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They went through the
Daniel in Revelation of course.
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And all of
those people graduated
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and four of them made a
decision to be baptized.
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Is that right?
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And when we had a
graduation in Anchorage,
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they all came in and we
gave them their diplomas.
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Heard their stories and
then they made their decision
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and were
baptized at that meeting.
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Wow, so what sort
of impact do you see
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it making on church
members who get involved?
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Well, you know, there is
no greater joy that comes
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than from inviting someone to
make a decision to follow Jesus.
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And so when you share
Bible studies with someone
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you know, those
promises and those teachings
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that have changed your life.
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You know, really
makes a difference
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and so it impacts
them dramatically.
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There is an another story
of a lady out of Anchorage,
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her name is Jeanette and
she had found in her life
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that she had difficulties
with drugs and alcohol
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and have a little video
clip I would like to show
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of Jeanette sharing what God
has done for her in her life.
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Great. Let's watch that now.
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I had addictions and depression.
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I had it for 27 years.
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I walk with the Lord everyday
and He is the one who helps me
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to get off the addictions
like alcohol and drugs.
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When Reach
Alaska picking a project
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for the Alaskan's
Seventh-day Adventist churches,
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I asked Jeanette, I
said, would you like to study
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the native new
day Bible studies,
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and she said, what's that?
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And I told her there
were set of Bible studies
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and that they would encourage
relationship with Jesus for her
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and she said yeah, I
would really like that.
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And so I started
sending them to her.
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And she just started
really answering them
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getting the
answers sheets back to me,
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just back and forth really fast.
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And so, she was
all excited about it
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and the Holy Spirit has really
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put those Bible
truths in her heart.
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I was lost, I was
into the world, I was.
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I'm glad I'm no
longer in the world now.
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There is
nothing for me out there
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as long as I have the
Lord in my heart, I'm happy.
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Our efforts in Alaska culminated
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in a live graduation
program from downtown Anchorage,
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where Jeanette and
several others were baptized.
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Bible studies are continuing
across the state today,
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with many more
baptisms and lives changed.
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Amen.
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That's a great story.
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Thanks so much
for sharing, Kurt.
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Viewers at home, you
can go to biblestudies.org
00:19:41.31\00:19:44.24
to find out more about
Bible correspondence lessons.
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King Solomon wrote
in the Book of Proverbs,
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that we should train a
child in the way he should go
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and when he is old,
he will not turn from it.
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For more than a hundred years,
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Adventist education
in the country of India
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has been following this
advice with great success.
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Across the country our
Adventist schools are regarded
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as sources of
high quality education.
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But they are
also known as centers
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that build strong
Christian character.
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These are mission schools.
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The majority of
students who attend
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are not Christian when
they begin their education.
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One of the oldest
Adventist schools in India
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is the James Memorial School.
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If you train up the
child in the early age,
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when the life is formed
in a very concrete faith.
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And we teach Bible here.
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We teach them
stories from the Bible.
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So they are attracted
and they will get converted.
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Even the boarding also, every
year we used to have baptisms.
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Children accepting Jesus.
00:21:41.62\00:21:43.02
This culture of excellence
is attracting families
00:21:47.78\00:21:51.59
who want the very
best for their children.
00:21:51.62\00:21:54.41
Now the school is having
more than 900 enrollments.
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Actually the facilities
what we have at present
00:22:06.72\00:22:09.84
is to accommodate
only 5 to 600 students.
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At present we're
having more than 300.
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And in the coming years
we may get more students.
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So we need classrooms.
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We are going to built
10 classrooms with veranda
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and each classroom
will have 20x20 measurement
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and staircase and
also both the side
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we will have the toilets
and urinals for students to use.
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With your financial support
00:22:45.17\00:22:46.70
of the world budget
and mission offerings,
00:22:46.73\00:22:49.18
new class rooms can be
constructed on school campuses
00:22:49.21\00:22:52.62
across India like the
James Memorial School.
00:22:52.65\00:22:56.16
Thank you for your
support of the mission
00:23:00.55\00:23:02.71
of the
Seventh-day Adventist church.
00:23:02.74\00:23:05.12
To find out more, please
visit adventistmission.org.
00:23:05.15\00:23:10.23
If you enjoy video stories
of Global Mission Pioneers,
00:23:21.77\00:23:25.00
missionaries and
mission in general,
00:23:25.03\00:23:27.48
then we would like to send you
00:23:27.51\00:23:29.04
a copy of the mission
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It says it's for kids
but it's for everyone.
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So if you live in North America,
00:23:35.73\00:23:37.20
please call our toll
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00:23:42.84\00:23:44.86
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00:23:44.89\00:23:48.87
or you can ask
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00:23:48.90\00:23:52.30
Please remember to clearly
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Well, that's it
for today's program.
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I hope you've been
inspired yet challenged
00:23:58.36\00:24:00.96
by what you've seen and
heard on today's program.
00:24:00.99\00:24:04.57
On behalf of the Adventist
Missionaries and church planters
00:24:04.60\00:24:07.62
such as Global Mission Pioneers
00:24:07.65\00:24:09.64
who are serving
all around the world
00:24:09.67\00:24:12.05
thank you for
your continuing prayers
00:24:12.08\00:24:14.98
and financial
support of Frontline Mission.
00:24:15.01\00:24:18.61
And thanks for joining us
on Global Mission Snapshots.
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Until next time, I am
Gary Krause, God bless.
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(Speaking in foreign language)
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