West Africa, India,
Global Mission Pioneers
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and much, 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.
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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.
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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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Today we will be
talking with Joe Watts,
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Disaster Response Coordinator
for Adventist Community Services
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in North America.
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We will be talking
about how the Adventist church
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helps when people's lives
are disrupted by disaster.
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And we will talk
with Delbert Pearman,
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Pioneering
Director for Global Mission
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about Global Mission Pioneers.
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Pastor Pearman knows firsthand
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about the challenges of mission
after serving as a missionary
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in Asia, Africa
and the Middle-East.
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But first up, let's
visit a school in West Africa
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and find out what happened
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when they were hit
by a surprise storm.
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Not far from the main
street in Divo a small city
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in the country of Côte d'Ivoire,
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students are studying
hard in their classroom
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in a Seventh-day
Adventist school.
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The school was
started 50 years ago
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by a Seventh-day
Adventist who had a dream
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about what Adventist
education could do for people
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in this West African country.
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Today, the school has
grown to more than 450 students,
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most of them will
never forget what happened
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nearly a year ago.
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School day seem like
any other day that April.
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The morning had passed quietly,
and teachers and students
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at the Divo Adventist School
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had finished lunch and
were settling back into classes.
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Every thing
started in April 2008,
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it was 2 in the
afternoon when the rain started.
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There was only one classroom
that was full of students
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and when it started the
children came out and ran
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to take refugee somewhere.
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The wind was blowing so
much that everyone was afraid.
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Unfortunately for us,
the front two classrooms
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were empty.
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That afternoon a
mighty storm whirled across
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the campus ripping the roof
from a couple of the classrooms.
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Students and staff at the school
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praise God that the two
classrooms that were damaged,
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the most were empty at the time.
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They look forward to the day
when the roof will be repaired
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and they can use the
classrooms once again.
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Thank you for
supporting Adventist education
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and thank you for supporting
the mission offerings.
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My guest is Pastor Joe Watts
who heads up disaster response
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for the North American Region
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist church.
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Thanks for joining us Joe.
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Hey, it's my pleasure.
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Now, disaster response,
when we think of disasters
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we think of floods, hurricanes,
they are the sort of things
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you are dealing with?
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Well, those and
lot of other things,
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anything human beings
are not able to take care
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and sustain themselves
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and that's really
considered disaster.
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So, it can be a lot
of different things.
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For example in Newtown
we had that terrible tragedy
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with the young
children that were killed.
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That's a tremendous disaster,
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it was not a
flood, it's not a tornado,
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it's not a hurricane.
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But, it's a tremendous disaster
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and we've been
able to help with that.
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And this is when people
are at their most vulnerable,
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they are looking for
help and the Christian church
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sometimes turns a blind eye.
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Yes and we need to reach
out because after all ACS is
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a ministry of compassion.
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That's Adventist
Community Services
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Right, yeah, I use acronyms.
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And Adventist Community Services
is a ministry of compassion.
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And that's what we
as-- as church members
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should be thinking about
and doing in our communities
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of how can we help people that
are hurting in our communities.
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We don't have to wait
for a disaster to happen,
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to look for needs and people
that need help in our community.
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Can you give me some examples
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of some of the people's lives
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that you have been able
to help in recent times?
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Well, I think
about a year or so ago,
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we had a tornado
on Woodward, Oklahoma.
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And we had a couple
there they had been studying
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with the local pastor
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and I think they
had just been baptized
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and they went back to
their tornado ravaged house
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and you know as it was--
most things were blown away,
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one thing they found were
some pages of their Bible study
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and they were so thrilled
to find their Bible study pages
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because it
meant so much to them.
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And it's kind of
an interesting thing.
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Another one was
in Hurricane Sandy,
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one thing that we did
there or our people did
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and I'm so proud of our
laity, of our volunteers,
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because
Adventist Community Service
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is a volunteer organization.
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It's manned by volunteers,
it's mainly volunteers
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and laity making a
difference in people's lives
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and they went out and
did mobile distribution,
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took things in
trailers and trucks
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and went out to the people
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and the problem was
public transportation was down
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and so they didn't have,
couldn't have the ability
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to go and again a
lot of the organizations
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were setting up
good distribution centers
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with lot of good things
but people couldn't get there,
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and so it was very
interesting or very good.
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I know one man was a--
had a little grocery cart,
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one of the little
well, a pull cart,
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not a grocery
cart, but a little,
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a little two wheel
cart that he would take
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to the store to get his grocery.
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And he said, you know,
he said, I just-- I can't go
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two or three miles to
where they are giving out stuff.
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He said I have heard
there is a lot of good stuff
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being given out.
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But I can't get there and
if-- if I could, you know,
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and he said but
you brought it to me.
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And so that's and
so we did that a lot,
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our people, our young people
did a lot of running upstairs
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with water to get
water and food to the people
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in high-rise buildings,
with the elevators without,
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with electricity
out and they dug sand
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out of basements and
just all kinds of things.
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Are there any particular areas
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that Adventist Community
Services specializes in.
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Are there any areas that
you particularly good at?
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Well, disaster response
of course is the big one
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just because
disasters are increasing.
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But we have some other
ministries that are really,
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really excellent in
tutoring and mentoring.
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Where we take and
help young children
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mainly in the area of fourth
and fifth grade that age group.
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Andrews University
wrote a curriculum,
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it's a tremendous curriculum
to help those young people
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as you work with
those young people
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on a regular basis and
tutor them and mentor them.
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Its makes a real
difference in their lives.
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Crisis Care, one of
the newer ministries
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where we are
training our pastors
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and other professionals how to--
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how to help people
after a tragedy or a disaster.
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We have a...
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elder care is one of
our newest ministries
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also where we are
thinking about senior citizens
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and the senior
citizens not only this
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the senior citizens
but also the caregiver
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and helping that
caregiver and helping them
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find ways to help
and also to make through
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with their own
thinking and their own feelings.
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We have, let me see,
I have talked about then
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community development
which is urban ministries
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and your food
pantry comes under there,
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your all time
Dorcas comes under there
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and we haven't forgot Dorcas.
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For our viewers
who have never heard
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of Dorcas, what is that?
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Well, Dorcas
was a kind of a term
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that we use
because of the Dorcas
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in the Bible that
helped other people
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and we kind of
that became a term
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that we use to
describe our ministry
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to the churches
ministry where may be they
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had a place where
they were clothing
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and may be food
and it was you know,
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and we learned an awful lot
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from our grandmas that taught
us about Dorcas and caring.
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And then the last area
is youth in power to serve.
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You know, we need to
make sure that our youth
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understand service.
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And if youth understand
service at the very beginning
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of their lives
when they are young.
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Statistics and
studies have shown
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that they will continue to do
service throughout their lives
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and so that makes
a tremendous impact
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and we've got a good
young man down in Florida,
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that Justin Wilbert
that's leading that out
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and doing a terrific job.
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Wonderful.
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Now, how many Adventist
community service centers
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are there in North America?
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I think there is about
1,250 service community centers,
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you know, every
church should have one,
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but they don't.
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And but we-- from
the big to the small,
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we've got some huge centers
but also just the food pantry
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may be in the church.
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Now, if people want to
find out more information
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about ACS can
they go to the web?
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They can go to
the web Adventist,
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I mean communityservices.org
with an 's' make sure
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you put an 's' on
the community services.
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Fantastic.
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Joe, thank so much
for joining us today.
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It's my pleasure, it's great.
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Viewers at home,
perhaps you might find someway
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that you can be
involved in community services.
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If you want to find
out more information,
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don't forget that
you can go to the web.
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Go to communityservices.org
may be there is a place
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for you to be able to connect
with people in the community
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to help them, perhaps
when they are most in need.
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I'm delighted to
welcome my colleague
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Pastor Delbert Pearman,
who is going to talk to us
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about Global Mission Pioneers.
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Delbert, for me it's
always a privilege to meet
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a pioneer in the field
because I see sacrifice,
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I see dedication and
it's usually a wakeup call
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or a reminder to me about,
you know, where are my values.
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Tell us about
Global Mission Pioneers,
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who are they?
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Well, Global
Mission Pioneers are workers
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who people who work
among their own people group
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and they are some
advantages to that.
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Number one, they don't
have to learn a new culture
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like traditional missionaries,
they don't have to leave home,
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they don't have to
learn a new language
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and they are all ready
well known in the community
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and so as a
result they can reach
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their people very quickly
and through support from the--
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through the church structure
they are able to witness
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and raise up a church.
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And the work of the
Global Mission Pioneer
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is to plant a church
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among a people group
within their own community
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that probably
did not have access
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to Christianity or
to the Adventist message
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before that.
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Now when you say they don't
have to leave their own home,
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you mean like
their own cultural group.
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But they may have
to travel someway to.
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Yes, that's correct.
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Yeah, they-- yes, they might
have to travel some distance
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but they're already established
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among that people group.
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Yeah.
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Now, Delbert, these
people, these are trained
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for four years in a
theological seminary
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before they're sent out?
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No, that's the beauty
of the Pioneer program
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is that you don't have to
have any academic training,
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theological
training, you just have to have
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a love for the Lord,
a passion for reaching
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the people target
group and once you have that,
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you have the support
of the organized church
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with resources to
help you to get started.
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So, most Global Mission
Pioneers will go through
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a basic training course.
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Covering the
fundamentals of witnessing
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what to do when they are
going to the community etc.
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But it's not like a 12
month course or anything.
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No, that's
correct, that's correct.
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And through this
program, with the support
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of a local church
they are able to do
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so much more because they are
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as it can be considered.
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They don't come as a
threat coming from outside
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of the people group
but they are already there.
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Now, Delbert, you
have met many pioneers.
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Tell me a story about a pioneer?
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Well, there is one pioneer
working in a particular country,
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a very difficult
country who is a physiotherapist
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and he decided that
he wanted to dedicate
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his physiotherapy practice
to not only reaching the people
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within their
community but also to win them
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to Christ and to help
them through their problems.
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This part of the
world is known for war
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and there are lot of
people who are stressed
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and so he practices,
he has won the confidence
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of this community and
there where he has opportunity
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he shares with
them health principles
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which further leads
them to further questions
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and then he is ready
and prepared to share
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even about Jesus
and his love for them.
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And so that's one
that has excited me.
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Another example is in a
country in Inter-America,
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and here they
have purchased the boat
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and the local church organized
by this Global Mission Pioneer
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would take tracks, food supplies
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and he travels up and
down this river on this boat
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and they to all the
villages along the river.
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He would stop
witness to this community,
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help them in their needs
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and even helps them with their
children who are illiterate.
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Many times he would take them,
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have like little vacation
Bible school programs for them
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on that particular day
and this is another project
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that we are happy to support
and there are several projects
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like that.
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We are even working
among in one particular country
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where the commercial
sex trade is very popular,
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that we have a
Global Mission Pioneer
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working among
these men and women
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and we have a group
that's just recently graduated
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with the discovery Bible lessons
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and there are others in
other brothels are saying
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come over and teach us.
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And so we reach people
in so many different ways.
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Most of our church
planting comes through,
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most of our Global
Mission Pioneers are
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involved in church planting.
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And they will go about
in the community offering
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Bible studies,
giving prayers in their home
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and also for visiting them,
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when they are sick
offering small remedies
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to help and winning
confidence and as a result
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are very
successful in that area.
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They always remind me of
Jesus' incarnational ministry
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that He came and He
lived among the people,
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He didn't just come
and visit and then leave.
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He actually stayed there
and that's what the pioneers do,
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they will stay there for
years, they will become part
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of the community though.
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Work in the
fields with the people,
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they will play
soccer with the kids,
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they mingle and as you
said they win confidence.
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Yes, you know, the
book Evangelism says
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that 3,000 will
be converted in a day
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and this is making reference
to the time of Pentecost
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which will be
repeated in these final days of
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this world's history.
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And today the Adventist church
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baptizes over 3,000 in every day
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of the year and we
baptize over 1.1 million
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people annually
and we have been doing
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that for the last 7, 8 years.
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Many of those
baptisms can be traced back
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to the work of our
Global Mission Pioneers.
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Their activity is
contributed significantly
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to the number of
people who are being baptized
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into the Adventist church.
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Now you witness that firsthand,
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when you were a missionary.
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Yes, in two
countries I served as secretary
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as well as treasurer.
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Acting secretary and treasurer
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and one was as a secretary.
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And I was
responsible for keeping track
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of the membership
and also the baptisms
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and discovered that
in both of the countries
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the majority of
the baptisms are coming
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through our
Global Mission Pioneers.
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And so that's a
testimony to the work
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of our Global Mission Pioneers.
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Wonderful.
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Delbert, thank you
so much for sharing
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with us today.
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I really appreciate it.
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And to our viewers at
home, please continue to pray
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for Global Mission Pioneers,
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they are doing a wonderful work.
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They are doing at
a sacrificial level,
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they are only
receiving a basic living stipend
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enough to rent a small room,
00:18:24.60\00:18:27.80
enough to feed their family,
00:18:27.83\00:18:30.71
enough to have a few materials,
00:18:30.74\00:18:32.63
a few resources to use
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and so they are
sacrificial church planters,
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usually young people, always
lay people usually young people.
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Thank you for your
continuing support for them.
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From my childhood, I
have felt very close to God.
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Sobana is a lay
evangelist working in India.
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While her husband is in
class at the Adventist seminary,
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she travels to
homes in remote villages
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to hold Bible studies.
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One day this small
group invited a man named
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Kishore to their meeting.
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Kishore was a respected
priest in several temples
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in the city, so the Bible
study group was new to him.
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Kishore had many
questions to ask.
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I asked, "I've
read in our holy books
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about a holy man
who was highly praised.
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He was referred to as a man
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who was
inflicted with five wounds.
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Who is this person?
00:20:02.68\00:20:04.52
As Kishore
learned more about Jesus,
00:20:07.40\00:20:09.97
with time and
study he became convinced
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of the truth of what he
was learning from the Bible.
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Without failure I continued
to have Bible studies with him.
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Eventually Kishore
decided to be baptized.
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But it was a difficult decision.
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When he left the
priesthood in the temple,
00:20:29.73\00:20:31.58
his wife left him and
took their daughter with her.
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The rest of his
family disowned him.
00:20:35.86\00:20:37.83
Old friends no
longer speak to him.
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Kishore finds
strength in sharing
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the love of Jesus with others.
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Now, because of
Kishore, nine others have
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chosen to be baptized.
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Please continue to
pray for Kishore and Sobana
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as they share Jesus
with those around them.
00:20:54.32\00:20:58.54
Because of your financial
support of the world budget
00:20:58.57\00:21:01.53
in mission
offerings, people like Sobana
00:21:01.56\00:21:04.41
are reaching people like
Kishore and starting new groups
00:21:04.44\00:21:08.40
of believers in India.
00:21:08.43\00:21:11.08
Thank you for your
support of the mission
00:21:11.11\00:21:13.46
of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
00:21:13.49\00:21:15.74
To find out more, please
visit AdventistMission.org.
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I grew up hearing
stories and praying
00:21:27.39\00:21:29.59
for missionaries,
serving in the islands
00:21:29.62\00:21:31.73
of the South Pacific.
00:21:31.76\00:21:33.40
And I think it's
so important to teach
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our children to
look beyond themselves
00:21:35.47\00:21:37.86
to a world in need.
00:21:37.89\00:21:39.37
Here at Adventist mission,
00:21:39.40\00:21:40.96
we have created
missionary cards for kids.
00:21:40.99\00:21:43.79
They feature
pictures of children
00:21:43.82\00:21:45.53
from around the world.
00:21:45.56\00:21:47.32
They are specifically
designed for Sabbath school
00:21:47.35\00:21:49.58
teachers to give to
each child to take home.
00:21:49.61\00:21:52.89
If you like to see a
sample set of these cards,
00:21:52.92\00:21:55.28
just call us or
visit our website
00:21:55.31\00:21:57.35
and ask for
mission cards for kids
00:21:57.38\00:22:00.06
or you can ask
for offer number 302.
00:22:00.09\00:22:03.35
Please remember to
clearly state your name,
00:22:03.38\00:22:05.81
your mailing address
and be sure to mention
00:22:05.84\00:22:08.70
mission cards for
kids or offer 302.
00:22:08.73\00:22:13.59
Well, that's about
it for today's program.
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And I hope
you've been challenged,
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I hope you've been inspired
by what you've seen and heard.
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We will leave you
with this music video.
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For Adventist
Mission, I am Gary Krause
00:22:22.10\00:22:24.57
and I hope you
can join me next time
00:22:24.60\00:22:26.60
here on Global
Mission Snapshots.
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[Singing in Foreign language]
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