I am walking down
Lechaion Road in Greece,
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this is the
ancient city of Corinth
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where Paul came to
preach about 2,000 years ago.
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There's a lot of
history to this place,
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so you want to stay tuned
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because Global Mission
Snapshots starts right now.
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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 am Gary Krause
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and welcome to
Global Mission Snapshots.
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As we just saw Earley
Simon recently visited
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the ancient city of Corinth
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where one of
God's great missionaries
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the Apostle
Paul lived and worked
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while on one of his
missionary journeys.
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Today we'll be talking
with Earley about Corinth
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and how those ancient
streets relate to mission today.
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We'll also be talking
with Marshall and Rosemary,
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a young couple serving
in a very challenging area
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of the 10/40 Window.
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We'll learn how Adventists
are touching lives in that area.
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But first up,
let's watch a video story
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shot by Todd Gasley
called My Greatest Find.
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When I am on
vacation, lots of times
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come out here to
Montana and always told myself
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I am gonna live
out here some day.
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And in 86, I decided I'm gonna
work my way around the country
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and this is where I ended up.
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A husband, in 1993 a
husband and a daddy found me
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and that was as far as I
went with Lewistown, Montana
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and today I am in
Whitehall to picking up garbage.
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Other people's trash is
other people's treasure.
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You know. There's
never a boring moment.
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One time I picked
a bag out of a barrel
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what sort of we used to
have the 55 gallon drums,
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there was a
black bag, it was heavy
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and I thought it
was kitty litter,
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I didn't think too much of it,
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and I flung it in
the back of the hopper
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and it broke and
pennies went all over.
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And I shovel pennies into a box,
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put them in the
truck and took them home
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and I washed them all off.
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And I think my wife
took them to the bank
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where the counter, she
had some like $134 in pennies.
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There were three
gallons of pennies.
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Well, and that
happens quite frequently
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were you find stuff like that.
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I've known Zeke
for some years now.
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We both worked in radiator shops
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and even asked me to check out,
I am way with him at one time.
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I failed to talk
to him about Jesus.
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And now I often
wondered you know,
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why he never knocked on my door
five, six, eight, ten years ago.
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Yeah, I even actually one
day roll over to Zeke's place
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and chickened out,
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turn around, went home.
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My biggest find, I
believed the most valuable thing
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to me that I have ever found
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was the "Conflict of the
Ages" series by Ellen white.
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Because we grew up with my
dad had one years and years ago
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but it was probably 10,
12, years old a German one
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but it was only the first book,
the Patriarchs and Prophets one.
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And I remember with kid--
as we were kids growing up
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my brother Paul and
I, my sister Margaret
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and we would read
those that book and grew up.
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So I was kind of
familiar with it.
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I was born and
raised on Hutterite colony
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in northeast
corner of South Dakota
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and I had a
very strong religious
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upbringing that kind of stuff.
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I did a lot of
work on the colony.
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They taught communal living
and communal lifestyle that--
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we have all
things in common kind of
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out of the second
chapter of the Book of Acts.
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They have all
things in common, you know,
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they're goods and everything.
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They're sold and
they shared with everybody
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so nobody had want or need.
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When I was 17 years of
age, I run away from home
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and I got into
all kinds of trouble.
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I drink a
bottle of whiskey a day
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and there was a time in
my life, I had reached a time
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when I was miserable drinking
and I was miserable being sober
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and there was no not much
use left to live, why live?
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For a long time, the
Lord has put on my heart to go
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and see him and I chickened out.
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Dad always talked about
that there was a series of them
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and he never had
the others, you know.
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So that to me
was a valuable find.
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That was priceless
to me. Thank you, Lord.
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Yes. That was worth it.
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You know, that tremendous wisdom
and knowledge of the scripture,
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I should say the Father's word
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because He's is our Father,
you know, we are His children.
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The Father's word and
the interpretation thereof,
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that wisdom in
un-- it's priceless.
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I still got them at
home. I read them daily.
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I was teaching at Sunday
school one time at a church
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where I went to and we
went through the Book of Ezekiel
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and I came to Ezekiel 20, okay.
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And where God says,
the Sabbath day is a sign
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between you and Me,
that you may know who I am.
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Okay. God's speaking.
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And I brought this up in
the church and I never knew
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leaders in a church
could be--could get so upset
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because I dare bring up
the Sabbath day, you know.
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I like that, Ezekiel 20:20,
Ezekiel 20:20 vision, you know.
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Some day I am going
to get a license plate
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and its going to
fit just perfect.
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Well, that's what
I planed, you know,
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That has been my walk.
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I've gone to a lot of different
churches over the years
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and I would always hear this,
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where the law was done
away with at the cross,
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the Ten commands do not apply
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and then I'm like, why
are they in there then?
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One preacher
even told me one time,
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you may not even
be welcomed here,
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you know, because of some
of the questions that I asked
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pertaining to the
Sabbath day, for number one.
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I have always thought about
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going to the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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and a minister told me one time,
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the last pastor that I
had, "If you really want to get
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into legalism, that's
what you'll get into."
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And I got to thinking you
know, how can that be possible?
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When they teach the
Father's word you know,
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"Thy word is a light unto my
feet and a lamp unto my path."
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The Father's word and God
spake all these words saying
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and you
considering Sunday School
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and talk about we ought to be
obedient and not to sacrifice.
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It's better to
obey than to sacrifice.
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Obey what?
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The Father's word and God
spake all these words saying,
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"I am the Lord thy
God who brought you
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out in the land of Egypt."
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I know that Ten
Command by heart.
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Yeah, I learned them.
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And, so, why don't they
apply? That's been my question.
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There was another
week before I went back.
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Hey, hey, Karl. Hey, Zeke.
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Nice to seeing you. All right.
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How you've been? Come on in.
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All right. Yeah.
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Don't want to stand outside.
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All right. Anyhow what's up?
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Oh, I just coming By, you know,
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it's like we've been talking
and stuff about doing some study
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and stuff
together and everything
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and I was just kind
of coming over to see
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how we got this
seminar going on.
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And I just like
to invite you to it.
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Oh, like that prophesy seminar
thing I read about, the big--
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Yeah, the pro--
Yeah, that's the same one.
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Hey, what took you so long?
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You know, I am here for
eight years or better, you know.
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Yeah, I'd love to. All right.
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And then we sat for around
about for a couple of hours
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and we talked
about different things
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from the scripture
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about the law and the commands.
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I just had a fantastic visit
that whole evening with him.
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I'm a janitor
for Fergus Electric
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and Courtesy
Chevrolet in Lewistown Montana.
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I became Christian 14 years ago
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and I don't want
anybody anymore to come to me
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and say what was it
that took you so long
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to come and visit me.
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You don't want that
happening to you either.
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So I just implore you today,
when the Lord speaks to you
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just get out there
and do what He asked,
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what He tells you to do.
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When He tells
you to invite someone
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to some of these meetings,
get out there and do it,
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don't be a chicken
like I was, don't be afraid.
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There's nothing to be afraid of,
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the Lord is there and
He's gonna go before us.
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I'm sure glad Karl
finally decided to do that
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and did that and I was
so excited to be coming
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to their prophesy
seminars that they were having.
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And what I
realized, didn't realize this
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and I found out from that
is Jesus is coming back soon.
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This past Sabbath
day when I got baptized
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it was...
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it was very, it was
a very relaxing time.
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I was nervous, I will say that
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because had all
those people watching
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and I get stage
fright really easy.
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And after baptism it
was like this garbage can
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that's I just dumped,
it's empty, it was light.
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Moving it back, compare to
the way it was pushing it in.
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And once I came out of
that water I was refresh,
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I was--I felt
empty, I felt renewed,
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a new creation in Christ Jesus.
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What a tremendous feeling.
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And the biggest thing I
like about the whole thing,
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there's my wife and
children were there to see that.
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That in itself was
just a tremendous peace.
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Who is the Lord putting
on your heart right now?
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Who are you going to go and ask?
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Don't be afraid, okay?
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To learn more about mission,
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please visit
adventistmission.org.
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I am very happy to welcome
Marshall and Rosemary McKenzie
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who are visiting
from the Middles East
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where they are serving
in, doing what, Marshall?
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We are doing several things.
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We try to provide literature
that meets relevant needs
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because there's many different
needs in the Middle East.
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And it's exciting to be
able to meet with the people,
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find out what those needs are
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and then be able to
supply them with materials
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that can help them
to grow personally,
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it helps them
to grow spiritually
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and then at the same time
to work with the young people.
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You realize in the Middle East,
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there's lots of young
people and they are very active,
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they are always
wanting to learn.
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And we are learning from them
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as much as they
are learning from us.
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And so it's exciting to
put those two things together.
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Fantastic.
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Now the Seventh-day
Adventist church is focusing
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very much on what can
we do in the large cities
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and I know in the Middle
East you have huge cities.
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I was very interested
to hear about a center
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that you've been working
with, a center of influence.
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I think you call it
For Your Life Center
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or something like that.
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Yeah, it's all about health
and it's about health awareness.
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But the center is also there
to help people with English,
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if they want to learn English.
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The center is there to
help them overcome smoking.
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You know, where we
live in the Middle East
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they passed a new law that you
can't smoke in the buildings.
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Oh, good.
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But a lot of the
population still smokes.
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And, but as we are
meeting people at the center
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they wanted to
stop, they wanted to quit.
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And so we offer
you know, stop smoking.
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We do general health screening.
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So there are just different
things that we exist there
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for to just help the
community with their needs.
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The mayor of the community was--
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he came actually
for the opening of it
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and they were
excited about the potential
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of us just
helping our neighbors.
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And it was exciting to see
the response of our neighbors
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as we had the
opportunity to open this center.
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Excellent. Now, tell me about
some of the responses, I mean--
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We had responses, matter of fact
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we had some of the
young people that came in
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that weren't from
Middle East University.
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They came through
with their parent,
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one of them was a
senior in high school
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and she saw what was happening
and she said, "Can I translate?"
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And so here we now
have this relationship
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with an 18 year old, who
is a senior in high school
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and she's-- we
keep contact with her.
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And she actually helped
us translate for three days.
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And so we have young people
that were making contact with.
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We also had other people,
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there's a lady that
came in to the center
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that didn't
realize she had diabetes.
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And when she found
she actually had diabetes,
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there was a lot of
stress she was carrying.
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And she just let it all out.
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And she spends literally an
hour or more there just in tears
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and some of our young
people were next to her
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and they were helping her.
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And now they
visit her every weekend.
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They go to her home
to just encourage her
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and see if she needs anything
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and they just want to provide
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those needs that she hasn't.
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So they are
developing that relationship
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and so we met that.
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So we've had--
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Matter of fact
construction workers,
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they were on the
job and they were like,
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they came over
and they went through
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the health screening and
in the process they said,
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"Hey, here's my
friend, take care of him.
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I got to go back to work."
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So it just, I mean, taxi drivers
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that were saying you know,
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I'll take you in your taxi
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but you need to come
into the center first.
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So it's just a lot
of different experiences
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we had down at the center.
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So, Rosemary, it's all about
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making connections with people.
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That's right.
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And it's really exciting to see
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how those connections are made.
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We are able to
because of that center help
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in a special way displace people
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that are in the country
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because of war in their region.
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They've come into our country
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and so we're able to
provide a special opportunity
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to provide screening for them
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and help in some
of their other needs.
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There's a lady that was--
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That needed to have a surgery
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so that she could keep her baby
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and so because of this center
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we're able to connect with her
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and help her
provide the medical care
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that she needed,
not at our center,
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but to help her to
get the care she needed.
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Now these refugees coming in
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from a war torn countries,
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are we talking
like tens of people,
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hundreds of people, thousands--
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How many people?
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Hundreds of thousands. Wow.
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So that really makes things
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very interesting looking at it.
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It does and you
see the needs are real
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and the needs are deep.
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It's not just, you know,
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can you give me $5 or whatever
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because I need some food.
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It's in multiple
areas of their life.
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And to be able to be there
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and help them with that,
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that's really
what it's all about.
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You know, connecting with them
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and making those
relationships eventually.
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Now, Rosemary, you
have a three-year-old,
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a six-year-old
and a nine-year-old,
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I know you are vitally
involved in this ministry.
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How do you juggle every thing?
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That's a very good question.
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You know, my first focus
is our home and our children
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and so then after that
then I have opportunities.
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You know, some days I am like,
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I look at the week I am like,
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I didn't really do anything
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other than just take
of my kids and my house
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but then other weeks
like, every thing like
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pours in and I am like, wow,
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I did this and
this and this and this,
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all in this one week.
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So it kind of comes and goes
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which makes it easier, you know,
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better for our family.
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Yeah. Now there
maybe a young person
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watching this program and
if they are thinking about
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maybe going for
overseas mission service
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what would you say to them?
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I would say definitely take
advantage of the opportunity
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while you are
younger and really look at it
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as a long term
commitment eventually.
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You know, the
short-term is wonderful,
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but you want to--
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You see, if it fits you
and really pray about it
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because the need
is just tremendous.
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And we need young
people to be involved in these
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service
opportunities around the world.
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Rosemary and Marshall,
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thank you so
much for joining us.
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And viewers at home,
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please pray for
Marshall and Rosemary,
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their children
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and the hundreds
of mission workers
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all around the world.
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It can be lonely,
it can be discouraging,
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but it can also be
tremendously exciting
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and it's
wonderful for them to know
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that a world church
is praying for them.
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It's my pleasure to introduce
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our guest Earley Simon.
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Earley, thank
you for joining us.
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My pleasure. Now you are
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one of the video
producers at Adventist Mission.
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Responsible for many
of the beautiful videos
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that we see on this program.
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Thank you for that. Now, Earley,
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I am kind of jealous
because not so long ago
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you went to the city of Corinth.
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Tell us about Corinth.
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You know, it was
an amazing experience
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just to be there
because you read those
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stories in the Bible and
sometimes you can't really
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place where this is
unless you like geography,
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go look in the map
which is not the case for me.
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All right, so being there
is-- it was really amazing,
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the Bible is
like coming to life.
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And I actually went
back and read the chapter
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where Paul visited Corinth.
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And now I know
because I was there,
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I actually got to walk down
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some of the ancient streets
from 2,000 years ago there.
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So it's pretty
amazing experience.
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It's a beautiful place,
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it's located in the
middle of two ports.
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So there's a port where it
connects to Italy and Europe
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on one side and
there's a port from Asia.
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So it's a pretty central
hub for a lot of the trading
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there that would happen there.
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They still
happens there but that
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happened in
ancient days as well.
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So Paul came to that city,
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a huge city, a metropolis.
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They said there were estimated
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700,000 to 800,000
people that lived there.
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And so Paul is
going there to do mission
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to the cities, you know.
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He's not going to
talk to small groups
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he's going to
talk to the masses.
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And the Bible tells us
when he reaches that city
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he looks for people
that he can connect with.
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And I don't know who were
the first people he found there
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but he met Aquila and Priscilla
and that he stayed with them.
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And one of the connecting
factors that maybe linked
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Paul and Aquila and
Priscilla so well is that
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they were tent makers.
Paul is also a tent maker.
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And a tent maker
means that they made tents
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so they might have
shared a lot of you know,
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secrets of the trade
and special ways of making
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different types of tents.
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But that wasn't
what Paul went there for,
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to learn new techniques,
he went there to evangelize.
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And this was just
his way of supporting
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his ministry as he was there.
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And just to be able
to see those surroundings
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and where he
preached was pretty exciting.
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On the beginning
of the program you saw
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Lechaion Road
from the ancient city.
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And that's a pretty
well preserved area.
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When we were
there, they were actually
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renovating this center
square which is a high platform
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where people preached there.
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And that's the
place that is believed
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that's where Paul
preached to the people.
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And from the surroundings
that's so there of the remains
00:21:01.06\00:21:03.43
you can still tell
that this like was downtown,
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you know, center of the town.
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And Paul probably came there
00:21:07.08\00:21:08.11
many times and
preached to the people.
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As you walked down
those roads you see shops,
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you see places where people
00:21:12.57\00:21:14.13
took baths because
there is a mountain nearby
00:21:14.16\00:21:15.84
that the water
would come down and
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people took baths there
in the middle of downtown
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which is pretty different
concept for us nowadays.
00:21:20.13\00:21:23.15
But there also
prisons that's something
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that caught my attention.
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There were several prisons
there and I guess at that time
00:21:26.67\00:21:29.50
it was the point
to bring people there
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for being judged
if they were going
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really go to jail, if
they really had committed
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the crime or if
they are gonna be freed.
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And they brought
those people there
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so at the center of
town they would be recognized
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and they
would-- people would see
00:21:42.77\00:21:44.73
the crime that they did.
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It was suppose to
bring shame to them.
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So there's a lot
of stuff happening
00:21:47.43\00:21:49.40
at that one place
that we got to visit there.
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And that's the
location where Paul preached.
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You know Earley, you
remind us of something
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very important that Paul
00:21:57.62\00:21:59.54
was planting
churches in urban areas.
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And when you read
through the Book of Acts
00:22:02.38\00:22:04.12
it's basically the
story of urban mission
00:22:04.15\00:22:07.42
and the Christian churches
were established in the cities
00:22:07.45\00:22:11.30
because these are the
places where the people were
00:22:11.33\00:22:13.22
and there were also
the places of influence
00:22:13.25\00:22:15.24
from where the gospel would go.
00:22:15.27\00:22:16.88
And in fact the word
pagan meant from the country.
00:22:16.91\00:22:20.56
That's kind of interesting.
00:22:20.59\00:22:22.63
I remember visiting Ephesus
00:22:22.66\00:22:25.51
and again Paul
ministered there as well.
00:22:25.54\00:22:28.08
And it just struck
me, how closely people
00:22:28.11\00:22:29.94
were living
together and these churches
00:22:29.97\00:22:32.31
were meeting in people's
homes in the heart of the city.
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They didn't have a
church building like we do.
00:22:35.18\00:22:38.05
Now, Earley, when
you left that place
00:22:38.08\00:22:41.95
what sort of
feelings did you have?
00:22:41.98\00:22:44.22
I felt part of the story.
00:22:44.25\00:22:49.53
I felt like it really
happed and it helped me
00:22:49.56\00:22:52.71
to focus on some of
the things that Paul did
00:22:52.74\00:22:55.11
in reaching the
cities, you know.
00:22:55.14\00:22:56.32
Sometimes we think that we just
00:22:56.35\00:22:59.26
connect with people
on Facebook or Twitter
00:22:59.29\00:23:01.39
or we tell them to
go watch a TV program
00:23:01.42\00:23:03.59
like this one
which is a way for people
00:23:03.62\00:23:06.04
to get connected with
Jesus and to know Jesus
00:23:06.07\00:23:08.85
and for us to make
connections with people.
00:23:08.88\00:23:10.70
But I think Paul's example
is very unique in a sense
00:23:10.73\00:23:13.40
that he went
there, he was there.
00:23:13.43\00:23:16.07
He went where people were,
00:23:16.10\00:23:17.87
he preached from
there, he wasn't afraid,
00:23:17.90\00:23:19.44
he made special connection
with individuals and it worked.
00:23:19.47\00:23:24.37
The Bible tells that
there's a lot of a baptism
00:23:24.40\00:23:26.62
that he reaped from there.
00:23:26.65\00:23:28.27
He followed Jesus' example
of mingling among people.
00:23:28.30\00:23:31.64
Yeah. Earley, you mentioned
00:23:31.67\00:23:33.79
tent making and I
am glad you mentioned
00:23:33.82\00:23:35.88
that because
today, viewers at home,
00:23:35.91\00:23:37.98
we need more tent makers.
00:23:38.01\00:23:39.59
This is a term we use for people
who support their ministry
00:23:39.62\00:23:43.52
through their own trade,
00:23:43.55\00:23:45.00
their own business,
their own profession.
00:23:45.03\00:23:47.28
Many parts of the world,
we cannot send missionaries,
00:23:47.31\00:23:50.12
we cannot do
traditional evangelism
00:23:50.15\00:23:52.74
but we need tent makers.
00:23:52.77\00:23:55.10
And Earley, I
want to talk to you
00:23:55.13\00:23:56.88
a little bit too
about this magazine,
00:23:56.91\00:23:58.52
Mission 360, full of stories.
00:23:58.55\00:24:01.09
Brand new magazine,
00:24:01.12\00:24:03.05
you can find it
online at Mission360mag.org
00:24:03.08\00:24:07.27
and there you can
download it on to your iPad,
00:24:07.30\00:24:11.03
down to your iPhone,
to your Kindle whatever.
00:24:11.06\00:24:14.51
But this is full of stories
00:24:14.54\00:24:15.98
and there will be tent
maker stories here as well.
00:24:16.01\00:24:19.28
Earley, thank you
so much for sharing
00:24:19.31\00:24:21.16
with us about the Apostle Paul.
00:24:21.19\00:24:22.68
The Apostle Paul is like Jesus,
00:24:22.71\00:24:25.32
he's our example of
coming among the people,
00:24:25.35\00:24:28.31
ministering to them,
mingling, showing sympathy,
00:24:28.34\00:24:30.94
winning confidence and
leading people to Jesus.
00:24:30.97\00:24:34.87
I hope your hearts were
touched by that music video
00:27:06.53\00:27:08.89
all the way from
Krasnodar, Russia.
00:27:08.92\00:27:11.15
Let's pray that God
will melt our hearts
00:27:11.18\00:27:13.94
and make us even more receptive
00:27:13.97\00:27:16.03
to His words in our lives.
00:27:16.06\00:27:18.16
There are so many people
00:27:18.19\00:27:19.42
whose hearts are
longing to learn of God's love.
00:27:19.45\00:27:22.32
Here at Adventist
Mission we've created
00:27:22.35\00:27:24.69
mission cards for kids
featuring pictures of children
00:27:24.72\00:27:28.41
from all around the world.
00:27:28.44\00:27:30.31
They were especially designed
for Sabbath school teachers
00:27:30.34\00:27:32.70
to give to each
child to take home.
00:27:32.73\00:27:36.09
Perhaps you might like to order
some but you'd like to also see
00:27:36.12\00:27:38.78
a sample set of cards first.
00:27:38.81\00:27:40.90
No problem, just call
us or visit our website
00:27:40.93\00:27:43.57
and asks for mission
cards for kids or ask for
00:27:43.60\00:27:46.81
offer number 302.
00:27:46.84\00:27:49.17
Please remember to
clearly state your name,
00:27:49.20\00:27:51.24
mailing address
and be sure to mention
00:27:51.27\00:27:53.87
mission cards for
kids or offer 302.
00:27:53.90\00:27:58.43
Well, that's about
it for today's program.
00:27:58.46\00:28:00.20
I hope you've been challenged
and I hope you've been
00:28:00.23\00:28:02.94
inspired by what
you've seen and heard.
00:28:02.97\00:28:05.18
For Adventist
Mission, I am Gary Krause
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and I hope you
can join me next time
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right here on
Global Mission Snapshots.
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