Small mission offering projects,
making a big difference
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and helping missionaries
bridge the cultural divide,
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that and much more coming up
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next on "Global
Mission snapshots."
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Just before He
went up to heaven,
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Jesus gave us a command.
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He gave us a mission.
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Jesus said, go.
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Go unto all the world,
telling them of His love.
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This is our mission.
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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 am Gary Krause.
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In today's
program, we'll be talking
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with Cheryl Doss, director of
the Institute of World Mission.
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She and her family
have a long family history
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of overseas mission service.
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Now Dr. Doss and her
team train missionaries,
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international cross cultural
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workers for the
Adventist church.
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We'll also talk with
Pastor Delbert Pearman,
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planning director
for Adventist Mission
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about projects funded
by the mission offerings
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collected every week
in Seventh-day Adventist
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churches around the world.
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We'll also meet a pastor
whose background gives him
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a unique ability to minister
to prisoners in the Philippines.
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But first up, let's meet
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a medical
missionary serving in Malawi.
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In 1908, a small hospital
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was started near
Makwasa, Malawi as part
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist church's
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medical mission program.
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For more than 100 years,
this hospital has provided
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physical and spiritual healing
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to one of the
poorest countries in Africa.
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Malawi is home to more
than 13 million people,
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many of whom live in poverty
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and are in dire
need of medical care.
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HIV and AIDS are rampant
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and are changing
the face of Malawi.
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People young and old
are affected by a disease
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that shows no
mercy in regards to race,
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religion or social status.
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Today Malamulo Adventist
hospital has more than 200 beds
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and runs numerous
community outreach
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and outpatient programs.
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The hospital also
runs a medical school
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that trains lab technicians,
medical officers and nurses.
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The school attracts students
from all over the country
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and is an important
part of the hospital's
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outreach to the community.
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Students learn skills that
will help them earn a living
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as well as saving
lives of those in need.
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It's impossible to
count the number of lives
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that have been saved and changed
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by the holistic
ministry of the dedicated
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staff at the Malamulo.
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One of the newest additions
is Dr. Crischelle Shank,
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she has been at
Malamulo for less than one year
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and part of her job is to
train medical officer students
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from the
hospital's medical school.
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She says the opportunity
to work with students
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was one of the attractions
to coming to Malamulo.
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Because as one person you can
only do a set amount of work,
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you can only get
so many things done,
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but if you are
teaching, then you have a chance
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to have a much huger impact.
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As Dr. Shank
works with her students,
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she shows
patients as they struggle
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to find the
answers to her questions.
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As the young doctor herself,
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she can relate to the training
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and the
struggles they are facing.
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She went through it
not too long ago herself,
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after finishing the
student's patients rounds
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and training
sessions, Dr. Shank checks
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in on her own patients.
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She's on high dose.
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Yeah, she does.
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Okay. This woman is HIV positive
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and has given birth to
twin daughters a few weeks ago.
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She has pneumonia
and can't breathe.
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Her oxygen saturation
level is dangerously low.
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Dr. Shank calls for medicine
to relieve the woman's pain
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and to help her relax, so
that she can breathe easier.
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None can be found since supplies
at the hospital are very low.
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Dr. Shank relies on
the one treatment method
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that all mission doctors
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are never in
short supply of, prayer.
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Dr. Shank says that
HIV and AIDS patients
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are a large part of
their patient population.
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And it's incredible
here because we estimate
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that probably 50
to 60% of our adults
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were admitted either
have HIV as the main cause
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of their
problems or also have HIV
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that may be related
to why they're here.
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Despite the high
number of HIV and AIDS cases,
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the hospital is
often able to help
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transform their patient's lives.
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Because we can
take really sick people,
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diagnose them
properly, start them on medicine
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and they improve dramatically.
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Your faithful
support, the mission offerings
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each Sabbath help
make it possible to train
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and send medical
doctors like Dr. Shank,
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who are willing to dedicate
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their lives to
treating the sick,
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poor and
helpless, just like Jesus
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did when He was on this earth.
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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 out to for me.
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It's my pleasure to
introduce Dr. Cheryl Doss,
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who is the director of
the Institute of World Mission
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for the Seventh-day
Adventist church Cheryl,
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thank you so
much for joining us.
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Thank you, it's a pleasure.
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Institute of World
Mission, what is it?
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What does it do?
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Its main responsibility is
the training of the missionaries
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that the General
Conference sends out.
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And also
providing training materials
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for other
missionaries, volunteers,
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supporting ministries and so on.
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As well as influencing
the areas of mission,
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issues and of mission
strategy and that sort of thing.
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That's a full load, I'd say.
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Yes, actually it's
rather broad, isn't it?
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Yeah. Now the
training of missionaries
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before they go
overseas to another assignment.
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How long does it
take, half a day, a day?
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Would that, would that it would.
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This is really major transition,
we are asking families
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to take because we mostly send
married couples with children
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and the children can be anywhere
from babies to teenagers
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and you know,
moving a family anywhere
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in the world is
difficult, but especially
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when we ask them to
move to new country,
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new language,
new school systems,
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living arrangements, and food,
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everything
different, new work assignment.
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So we spent three
weeks with the missionaries.
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We do about three of those
three week institutes a year,
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two of them outside the U.S.
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And the families come there,
anywhere from 15 to 30 families
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at a time, that are going out
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and they come from
all over the world.
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It's just an
amazing group of people.
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So, Cheryl, you
are a missiologist,
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you are a trained
academic but you are also
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trained through experience.
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Tell us where you've worked?
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Well, I am a missionary kid.
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My parents were
missionaries in South Africa
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and later in the Philippines
and then my husband and I,
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who is also-he is
also a missionary kid,
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went to the country of Malawi,
very soon after he finished
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with the
seminary, so we were young,
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our children were born
there and grew up there
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and we served
there for 16 years.
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And the influence is going
on in the family too I believe.
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Yes, our
daughter and her husband
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are in the Philippines at
IS, it's their fifth country--
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our grandson who is seven years
old has lived in five countries,
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so this is the fifth country
they've lived in...in mission.
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And our son and his wife are in
Kenya with their two daughters
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and will soon
be moving to Egypt.
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So it's a we are
missionary family.
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So why is that
so important to you,
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why is missionary
so important to you?
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Well, because I
think its God's heart.
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God is the missionary God.
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He-- from the very
beginning in the Garden of Eden,
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He came down to meet with humans
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even after they were lost.
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And He sent His
son to this world.
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He has a message for the
world of His love and care
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and His desire that we'd
all be His sons and daughters
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and join Him one
day in Hi s kingdom.
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And that's what
mission is about.
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So, Cheryl, when you
are training missionaries,
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you are training
them to do something
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that's very important to you.
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Very important.
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We get people who are, as
many have worked for the church,
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others have
not, but we hope that
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when by the time
they finish our training,
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they all want to
be God's mission--
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taking God's
mission to the world,
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not just going as
doctors or dentists or others.
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Let's see a video right
now of that mission institute.
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The Institute of World
Mission is one of those
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very special tools that
God has placed in the hands
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of the Seventh-day Adventist
church to prepare missionaries
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to go into all kinds of cultures
settings and situations.
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Mission now is
family, say good bye.
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Mission now is
family, please don't cry.
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Mission now is
family, go our way.
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Tell Jesus say, we love today.
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I'll never forget that song.
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From the institute of
World Mission in 2007,
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when I came to United
States for the first time
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to work at the
General Conference.
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One of the enduring things about
the Institute of World Mission
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is the comradery that you have
with others who are going out
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for the same purpose and it was
so exciting to pray together,
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to meet together,
to mingle with people
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and you develop
life long friendships.
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Some of those people
you may never see again,
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but I want to tell you
one of these days soon,
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I will see them, and
a lot of other people
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who have been the results
of the missionary efforts
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of those people for we
will meet them in heaven.
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It was an amazing experience.
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I think that was
one of the best seminars
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that I had in all my life.
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To know about people, its roots,
and food, and ideas, and dreams.
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And having that
understanding I really believe
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that it's helping
me to look to people
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differently with more respect.
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I highly recommend
this Mission Institute,
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as a tool for everybody
because in the global world,
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we need to have that
kind of understanding.
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Well, I am very thankful for
the Institute of World Mission.
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It was a meaningful experience.
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The things that I
learned, how to communicate
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in a setting, in a
cross cultural setting
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and also for the leaders
who helped me to with focus
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my mission in my
service in my new position.
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It was almost a year
after Barbara and I had returned
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from the mission field
when the General Conference
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asked us to go to mission
reentry and we said, why?
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What difference would it make?
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We already know where to shop,
we know what clothes to wear.
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We're not misfits anymore.
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But we went and it was a
life changing experience for us,
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that mission reentry
program was powerful,
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that help us learn
how to deal with issues
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we didn't even know
we were struggling with.
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We appreciate what
Institute World Mission did.
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The best benefit that the
Institute of World Mission
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can bring to the church, helping
prepare people to go out,
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share this precious
advent message and invite
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them to be ready for Jesus'
soon coming through his power
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so that then we can
be together for ever.
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Thanks so much for
joining us, Cheryl.
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Please remember to
pray for missionaries
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who are serving
all around the world.
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I am pleased to
welcome as a guest,
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Delbert Pearman who
is a colleague of mine
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in the office of
the Adventist Mission.
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Pastor Pearman,
thank you for joining us.
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Yes. Now you have--
your and your family
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have had extensive mission
experience, living and working
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in the Middle
East, in Asia, in Africa.
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And we often talk on this
program about mission offerings
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that the
Seventh-day Adventist church
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uses to support
its mission program.
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You would not have been
serving in those fields,
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if it were not for
the mission offerings.
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Tell us what are mission
offerings used for in general?
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The mission offerings are
used to foster the work in parts
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of the world that normally
are able to generate sufficient
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money locally in order to
carry on the mission work.
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And so the mission
offering is a critical component
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of the church's
outreach to the world.
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We annually when you look
at just the mission offering
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by itself, the
undesignated mission
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offerings it's about $80
million and that is used to help
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to sponsor
missionaries, cross culturally
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to take expertise
from one part of the world
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to send it to
another part of the world,
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where expertise
may not be available.
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Expertise can be
administrators of hospitals,
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it could be
physicians, airplane pilots,
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even administrators,
local church administrators
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but it's a varied program.
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Also in helping also
to build infrastructure
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to help build
dormitories for schools,
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to build radio
studios and others
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so it's a varied operation that
the mission offering serves.
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Now within the Adventist church,
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we also talk about
13th Sabbath offerings,
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what specifically are they?
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The 13th Sabbath
offering is a special offering
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that's lifted
once every 13th week.
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And this offering is set
aside to 25% of this offering
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is used to sponsor or
support a special project
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in some part of the world.
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It could be
equipment, dormitory,
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some major capital project
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and then the other 75% goes
into the general mission fund
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to support ongoing missions
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and sustainability
of those programs.
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And through the years,
that 13th Sabbath offerings
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has supported some
wonderful projects.
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I think for example
of the Pitcairn which
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was a special boat that
went into the South Sea Islands
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that helped start the
Adventist work in that area.
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The general mission offerings
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that are
collected every Sabbath,
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can you give some examples
of the types of projects
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that it helps to support?
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Yes, while the general
offerings of course go towards
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sustaining the
missionaries and their work.
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At one time the
church used to send pastors
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and administrators
to actually carry out.
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Today they still
do that, but most
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of it is for
training local workers.
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Another program is building,
helping to build universities
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around the world,
so that local workers
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can be trained and developed
to carry on the work lessening
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the need to
bring in missionaries
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from other parts of the world.
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So our major focus of
the mission offering today
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is looking toward to
what we call the 10/40 Window.
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And this is an area of the world
where very few Christians live,
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and so we feel that
we have a responsibility
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to reach the 10/40 Window,
so many of the missionaries
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and the funding is moving
toward that and less toward
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the other parts
of the world because
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they are becoming
more self-sustaining.
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Some of the smaller projects
that the mission offering
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has supported, can you give
me some illustrations of those?
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Yes, in one country, in
Asia and in different countries,
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but I can think of
one particular country
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where we've set up a
help to support a health,
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vegetarian
restaurant and helping with that
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and this is the way
of reaching the community
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and out of this restaurant
comes health training,
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they do health
screenings, so people can come
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and get information about how
to be healthy and stay healthy
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as well as eat healthy foods.
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Another on the
continent of Africa,
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we do help to set up
a radio studio to reach
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the masses of a
particular locality.
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Another in Europe, we
can think of a setting up,
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what they call, I know, in
Bermuda they call a tack shop
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but this is almost
like a second hand shop,
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where they sell good second hand
clothing as well as they have
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a restaurant
where people can come,
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it's right in the
middle of an urban center,
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where businessmen can come in,
they can get some nice herb tea,
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and once a, once or
twice a week the local pastor
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would actually be
there to meet the patrons
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and to discuss with them,
you know, some of their concerns
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and to pray with them, so
there are lots of opportunities.
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And another I can think
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of is a boat in
Poland supporting
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some young people at a
church which had kayaks
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and they would
go down this river,
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we help to
provide the translation
00:19:17.77\00:19:20.89
and the production of
tracks when it comes to health
00:19:20.92\00:19:23.87
as well as religious
material, and they took a week
00:19:23.90\00:19:28.07
to travel down on this
river and they would stop
00:19:28.10\00:19:30.03
by the communities
along the river banks
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and they would stop and
hand out tracks and make friends
00:19:32.55\00:19:36.62
and then they would move along,
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so these are some of the
ideas of how the small projects
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that the mission
offering helps to support along
00:19:42.47\00:19:45.91
with the large
projects of building dormitories
00:19:45.94\00:19:48.66
and schools and
hospitals and others.
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Delbert, you've had extensive
experience as a missionary.
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Someone asked you,
can I be a missionary?
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Well, how do you respond?
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Oh, yes. God calls us
all to be missionaries.
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One you can start,
right where you are at home
00:20:01.88\00:20:05.21
or talk to your
pastor or your conference
00:20:05.24\00:20:08.56
and ask how can I
get involved in missions.
00:20:08.59\00:20:11.06
So there are tremendous
00:20:11.09\00:20:12.12
opportunities
available for missions.
00:20:12.15\00:20:14.49
Delbert, thanks so
much for joining us. Yes.
00:20:14.52\00:20:17.13
Viewers at home, God has
some sort of a call for you.
00:20:17.16\00:20:20.79
It may not be to go to
foreign lands but may be a call
00:20:20.82\00:20:24.31
to just be more
faithful in supporting
00:20:24.34\00:20:26.13
mission work that is happening.
00:20:26.16\00:20:27.28
But thank you for your prayers
and your financial support
00:20:27.31\00:20:30.00
for mission that is taking
place all around the world.
00:20:30.03\00:20:33.17
Not many pastors
wake up their family
00:20:44.35\00:20:46.22
by sounding like a
rooster, but Eugene dela Pena
00:20:46.25\00:20:49.48
is not your typical pastor.
00:20:49.51\00:20:51.55
The smile on his face
today has replaced the anger
00:20:51.58\00:20:54.97
and hate that filled
him more than 20 years ago.
00:20:55.00\00:20:57.88
Eugene used to be a gang member
00:20:57.91\00:21:00.00
and was first
arrested at the age of 13.
00:21:00.03\00:21:03.12
In all he was thrown
into jail more than 20 times.
00:21:03.15\00:21:07.26
Well, in court
awaiting trial Eugene escaped.
00:21:07.29\00:21:10.14
He spent the next several
years running from the law.
00:21:10.17\00:21:13.87
One day Eugene was introduced
to Pastor Nelson Paulo.
00:21:13.90\00:21:17.92
Pastor Paulo wasn't fazed
by the Eugene's rough past,
00:21:17.95\00:21:21.44
with true Christian
love, he accepted Eugene
00:21:21.47\00:21:24.32
and helped him
turn his life around.
00:21:24.35\00:21:27.58
So I was a little hesitant
but I know God provided a way
00:21:27.61\00:21:31.17
that I would make
friendship with him.
00:21:31.20\00:21:34.05
Pastor Paulo
taught Eugene how to pray.
00:21:34.08\00:21:36.69
And a decision to
accept Jesus soon followed.
00:21:36.72\00:21:39.70
Eugene then made another choice.
00:21:39.73\00:21:43.53
During the time my perspective
was changed my desire,
00:21:43.56\00:21:46.88
my priority, so I
decided to go back
00:21:46.91\00:21:51.26
to school despite of my age.
00:21:51.29\00:21:55.78
Today Eugene is a
pastor and a youth director
00:21:55.81\00:21:59.09
for a conference
in the Philippines.
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Once a week he visits local jail
cells and reaches out to people
00:22:01.53\00:22:04.74
that were once just like him.
00:22:04.77\00:22:07.45
He can relate to them in a way
that most other pastors can't.
00:22:07.48\00:22:10.61
Eugene knows where
each of these men have come
00:22:10.64\00:22:13.43
from and the
journey that they are on.
00:22:13.46\00:22:16.06
He has been in their
shoes and can tell them
00:22:16.09\00:22:18.37
that there is a God who is
willing to change their lives,
00:22:18.40\00:22:21.49
to forgive them for all their
sins and past transgressions.
00:22:21.52\00:22:26.01
The prisoners react
positively to Eugene's message.
00:22:26.04\00:22:29.45
Some ask him to pray for
them that they will find peace
00:22:29.48\00:22:32.23
and forgiveness from
their troubled lives.
00:22:32.26\00:22:34.88
Eugene feels that the prisoners
accept him and a message
00:22:34.91\00:22:37.74
that he freely shares with them.
00:22:37.77\00:22:40.76
You know in the midst of
their own invented lingo,
00:22:40.79\00:22:43.09
they have their own language
so I can easily have access
00:22:43.12\00:22:47.06
to their hearts because,
because I know their language,
00:22:47.09\00:22:50.90
may be because I was there.
00:22:50.93\00:22:54.65
Pastors around the world
are changing lives everyday.
00:22:54.68\00:22:58.99
Each one brings a unique
gift that God has given them
00:22:59.02\00:23:02.24
to be a part of their ministry.
00:23:02.27\00:23:03.93
Eugene's life changed when
he decided to accept Jesus,
00:23:03.96\00:23:07.81
and when he decided to
go to an Adventist school.
00:23:07.84\00:23:10.88
When you support
the mission offering,
00:23:10.91\00:23:12.57
you are helping to provide
educational opportunities
00:23:12.60\00:23:15.36
to people like Eugene.
00:23:15.39\00:23:17.67
This quarter the 13th
Sabbath offering will go to help
00:23:17.70\00:23:20.91
Adventist schools
all over the Philippines,
00:23:20.94\00:23:23.25
where young people
can hear God's call.
00:23:23.28\00:23:26.24
Thank you for your
prayers and support of mission.
00:23:26.27\00:23:29.86
I love to hear about
how global mission pioneers
00:23:35.06\00:23:38.18
are starting new congregations
00:23:38.21\00:23:40.12
in new areas and
among new people groups.
00:23:40.15\00:23:43.25
If you are like
me and would like
00:23:43.28\00:23:44.42
to receive a monthly newsletter,
00:23:44.45\00:23:46.86
packed with stories and
information about pioneers
00:23:46.89\00:23:50.07
and their work around the world,
then simply call us or visit our
00:23:50.10\00:23:54.06
website and ask
for Frontline edition
00:23:54.09\00:23:56.88
or if it's easy to remember,
just ask for offer number 301.
00:23:56.91\00:24:01.66
Please clearly state your name,
your mailing address and be sure
00:24:01.69\00:24:05.06
to mention
Frontline edition or offer301.
00:24:05.09\00:24:09.57
Well, I hope you've
been challenged and inspired
00:24:09.60\00:24:11.57
by what you've
seen on today's program.
00:24:11.60\00:24:14.08
If you are a
Seventh-day Adventist,
00:24:14.11\00:24:15.67
please remember to support
the mission offerings collected
00:24:15.70\00:24:18.44
each week n your church.
00:24:18.47\00:24:20.63
But anybody can give online
at anytime by simply visiting
00:24:20.66\00:24:24.29
our website at
www.adventistmission.org.
00:24:24.32\00:24:30.12
Well, that's about
it for today's program.
00:24:30.15\00:24:31.99
We'll leave you with this music
video called 'No other name'.
00:24:32.02\00:24:35.83
Until then next
time, I am Gary Krause,
00:24:35.86\00:24:38.06
wishing you
God's richest blessings
00:24:38.09\00:24:40.04
and I hope you can join me
00:24:40.07\00:24:41.34
next time on
"Global Mission Snapshots."
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Beyond the
darkness I see your face
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Shining down your lighting be
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As Jesus hear my plea
00:25:13.73\00:25:17.87
I accept your mercies every day
00:25:17.90\00:25:22.47
But I don't know other name
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Who can wash my sins away
00:25:25.15\00:25:28.44
And I know no other lamb
00:25:28.47\00:25:31.46
Who would die for sinful man
00:25:31.49\00:25:35.07
And we could
knock you mercy father
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My [2540] ashamed
00:25:37.78\00:25:40.87
When we would mock the holy one
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They're standing
in the crowd that day
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I felt [] I come to you
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Unworthy and to blame
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I nailed the to
father The wanted one
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He takes away
the guilt and blame
00:26:09.29\00:26:13.49
But I know no other name
00:26:13.52\00:26:16.33
Who can wash my sins away
00:26:16.36\00:26:19.31
And I know no other lamb
00:26:19.34\00:26:22.59
Who would die for sinful man
00:26:22.62\00:26:25.67
And when we could
Knock your mercy father
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[]
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When we would mock the holy one
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They're standing
in the crowd that day
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Yet still they come to you
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In open arms I find
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You're my Savior
00:26:46.22\00:26:49.51
Every single time
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But I know no other name
00:26:52.41\00:26:55.12
Who can wash my sins away
00:26:55.15\00:26:58.13
And I know no other lamb
00:26:58.16\00:27:01.36
Who would die for sinful man
00:27:01.39\00:27:05.06
And when we could
Knock your mercy father
00:27:05.09\00:27:07.65
[]
00:27:07.68\00:27:11.11
When we would mock the holy one
00:27:11.14\00:27:14.09
They're standing
in the crowd that day
00:27:14.16\00:27:19.21
But I know no other name
00:27:19.24\00:27:22.41
That takes my shame away
00:27:22.44\00:27:25.53
And I know other lamb
00:27:25.56\00:27:27.96
Who accepts me as I am
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