Former General Conference
president and former missionary,
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Dr. Jan Paulsen and others talk
about their memories of mission
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and church planting
in East Central Africa,
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all that and much more
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right here on
Global Mission Snapshots.
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Just before He
went up to heaven,
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Jesus gave us a command.
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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 and welcome to
Global Mission Snapshots,
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I am Gary Krause.
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Have you ever wanted to
talk to a former missionary
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and hear their stories?
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Well, today we'll
be doing just that.
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I'll be taking
with Dr. Jan Paulsen
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about his time as a
missionary in Africa
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and the events in his
life that led his family
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from Norway to West Africa.
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We'll also be
talking with Ricky Oliveras
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who recently visited
church planting projects
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in the East
Central Africa region.
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And we'll visit a Global Mission
pioneer who's planting a church
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in a democratic
people's republic of Congo.
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But first up let's meet
some other former missionaries
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in a video we call
"In Their Own Words."
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Many words and
phrases are used to describe
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the missionary experience,
adventurous, compassionate,
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dedicated, patience,
open to exotic foods,
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new languages, willing to
transplant their entire families
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thousands of miles away
from friends and loved ones.
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And did we mention adventurous?
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Why would
someone leave everything
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that is familiar to them,
step out of their comfort zone
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and travel to far off lands
to share hope and change lives?
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How does someone decide that
they want to be a missionary?
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Some of the Adventist
church's pioneering missionaries
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shared their experiences,
challenges and triumphs.
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Here's their
story, In Their Own Words.
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The whole experience is humbling
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because we realized all along
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that what we were
doing was nothing,
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it was the things that
God did well, through us
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because we had
lots of hard experiences
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and lots of disappointments.
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But God overruled
in so much of that,
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that it was
really a blessing to us,
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probably more
of a blessing to us
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than most of the people
that we were working for.
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But we were certainly
happy that the Lord took over
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and did something for them too.
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So what was your thought
when you got that call from GC
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saying want you to go overseas?
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We just answered God, thank God.
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Take that as an opportunity.
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We said, where is it?
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We went to the
library, even to read about it,
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it was kind of a cultural shock.
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But I never once said, we
are not going there, are we?
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I mean, it just seem like well,
that's where we were going.
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Those earliest
missionaries still performed
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I think a very important task.
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They are people of incredible
courage and commitment.
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And certainly, certainly
living conditions were long ways
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from what it was
it is in the States
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in the old days
when we went over there.
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Just imagine no electricity
and no running water.
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Just lacking those two things
what a difference it makes.
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They made you feel
like asking the question,
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well, I did, what on
the world I am here for?
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But when these
boys made the statement
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if they would never knows Jesus,
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if weren't in
Borneo mountains of Laos.
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I knew what the
Lord took us there for.
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For me now, that I
am 92, going on 93,
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they want to know how
come you live so long, you see.
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And I said, look, I-- I'll
say it in Chinese, shall I?
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(Speaking in foreign language)
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Now I must do what
is right in God's sight,
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I must do the right
thing by other people,
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I must do the right
thing by my contentious
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and that gives us good
health and a longer life.
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Whatever we opening we can
have it should be something
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that's
understandable to them now
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and then they will
cultivate their friendship
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and we will talk
further about things like that.
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I was in the back of the jeep
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and I stood up there
and i looked at the sky,
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it was incredibly hot
and incredibly beautiful
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just as blue as it could be
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and I thought that same
sky is over Washington State,
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that's were my parents
were living and my sister.
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I said, oh, I
wished I was there.
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But you know, then after a
while you really didn't miss it.
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I mean, you just-- this is home
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and that's where you go to
visit where you go for furlong.
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It was hard for me at first,
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I don't about
know about him so much
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but I love him and he was there
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and without him I
couldn't have handled it.
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My first six years of life,
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actually it was
about seven years of life
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were spend in what we
would call a mission field
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in Thailand for
most of that time.
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And for a number of
years there in Thailand
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it was away from civilization
up in the mountains.
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And to see the way my
parents lived their lives,
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way they related to the people
that we were there to serve
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is still an inspiration to me.
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If I thought about it too much
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I could become emotional
even in thinking about it.
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With
missionaries trying to reach
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the most remote
corners of the world,
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the use of small airplanes
opened up endless possibilities.
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Dick Hall was one of the
first missionary pilots in Asia
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and the first in Laos.
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When we got
transferred up into Laos
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there was no other
transportation except by air.
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And, or you could walk.
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It might take you a
couple of weeks to walk in there
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but there was no river transport
and just only by airplane.
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And we saw really the need
of an airplane at that time.
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It's been thrilling to go over
there just couple of years ago
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and people come up to
me and tell me you know,
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if it hadn't been for us
take them out in airplane
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they would have die.
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And then also every
place we need an airstrip
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we raised up a church.
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And then several
churches from that airstrip
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we walked short distance to
other villages and raised it up.
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So the airplane is really was
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a God sent assets
to our mission work.
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And I was sorry
that mission flying
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didn't carry on
there in South East Asia
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because I still
believe that with an airplane
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they can go way into
the island of Borneo,
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places where they can't go
unless they can build airstrips,
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otherwise it takes days
and weeks to go into there.
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But not long after I left
they quit the flying program.
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And I felt that
was real mistake.
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So I believe the
airplane is still
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a valuable asset in
spreading of mission.
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I think early on
the church realize
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that there was
tremendous needs in the world
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and there was as greater focus
on trying to meet those needs,
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a greater focus on
trying to spread the gospel.
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And more recently,
again the shift is been were.
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We've done well, most
of the world already knows
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and so there's this idea
that it's not as necessary now
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when that could be
further from the truth.
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Tell you the thing
that I am most proud of
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and I can say its really proud
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is that the Lord
is able to use us
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and reaching some
of the mountain people,
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the people of Laos that
have went to early school
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and then they became pastors.
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And now they've gone
out, raised up churches,
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being mission
presidents, pastors
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and I feel that that is really
makes me feel good to think
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that the Lord was able to use us
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in helping to bring
the gospel to these people.
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If we are still interested in
mission and I pray that we are
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then mission offering
would still be needed.
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I don't know what I could
say it more bluntly than that
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and I am not a big sales person,
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I am not real good at
asking people for money
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but if we are
serious about mission
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then we need to put our
money where our mouth is.
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We would like to
encourage each one.
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Let's be liberal with
what God puts in our hands
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and use it to be a
blessing to help those in need
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and specially those that don't
know Jesus and mission service.
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Adventist missionaries changed
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not only the lives
of those they work with
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but their own lives are forever
transform by their experiences.
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Although the
role of missionaries
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has changed over the years
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they will always
be on the frontlines
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playing a vital role in
the mission of the church.
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Thank you, for you
prayers and support
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of missions around the world.
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For more
information about missions
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please visit
AdventistMission.org.
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It's my pleasure to
introduce Pastor Jan Paulsen
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who is known to many of us
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as the former president of World
Seventh-day Adventist church.
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Many of us known him as an
administrator and as a leader
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but he also
served for several years
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as a missionary in West Africa.
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Dr. Jan Paulsen, thank
you so much for joining us.
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West Africa, a long way away
for a young man from Norway?
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Yes. Yes.
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It is-- it is many,
many years now since we--
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since my young and my wife
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and our very young
daughter went tot Ghana, 1962.
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So it's over 50
years since that.
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1962 exactly, 50 years,
51 years since we went there.
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There was--Africa as a
whole went through the turmoil,
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they just come
out of colonialism
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and they beginning to
experience their freedom.
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And that had a
series of challenges also
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for people who
came from overseas
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to fit into the system
and to help them build nation.
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Now, what were you doing there?
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The first-- we were in
West Africa for six years.
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The first two
years we served in Ghana
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at a teacher
training college that we have
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up in outside
Kumasi in Ashanti country.
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Our church is very, very
strong in that part of Ghana.
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And for two years I taught Bible
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to students who were in
training to become teachers.
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And I was pastor also
for the local college church.
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So it was a mixture
of these two things.
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A wonderful,
wonderful time, wonderful life.
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And from Ghana you went to--
From Ghana we went to Nigeria.
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We had just
established a new institution
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for the training
of our ministers.
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It called Adventist College
of West Africa at that time.
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Today, 50 years later,
it is the largest university
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that we have as
a church globally.
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Is that right? With
10,000 plus students.
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Wow. It's a
wonderful institution.
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So if you have a good feeling
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about having being
part of the infancy
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or what has become an
incredible instruction.
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I came there to teach
theology to our students
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and within a fairly short
time I was also the principle
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or president of the
college for a short period
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before we went to Europe.
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Now, Dr. Paulson, it
must be very rewarding
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to see young men
that you helped train,
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start to take leadership
positions in the church.
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Yes, it is that.
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One of the things,
one of the remarkable,
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maybe not so
remarkable but it is reality
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that we should take note
of is when we came to Ghana
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there were 11, 000
Adventists in Ghana as a whole.
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And one organizational
structure a mission structure.
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Today, they have a union,
they have seven conferences
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and almost half a
million members in Ghana alone.
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The missionaries were
key person in establishing
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an infrastructure
for our church in Africa
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but the explosive growth that
we've seen as a church in Africa
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happened when National
Leadership and Ministry
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took control of the
development of the work.
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So it's been a
wonderful interplay
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between the work of missionaries
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in setting up a
strong infrastructure
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and the phenomenal growth
that our national ministers
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and leaders have
made possible in Africa.
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Now when you were serving as
president for some time there
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the secretary
for the World Church
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was one of your former students.
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Yes, that is right. Yes.
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The one at the
world headquarters
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when I served there as president
the one who was the secretary.
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You are right, Pastor Bediako,
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he was my student
at the Bekwae in Ghana.
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And then he was my
student for the four years,
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he was at college in Nigeria.
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And yeah, I have a wonderfully
warm feeling when I see that
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some of the current ministers
or leaders in our church
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whom I had the privilege to
have as my students back then
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have responded
wonderfully to the call
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that God has
placed in their hearts
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and taken hold of the
assignment He has given to them.
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Demonstrate the richness
of their spiritual gifts
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and their work has gone forward.
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Dr. Paulson, it's fashionable
in some circles today
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to speak very
negatively of missionaries
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that their cultural imperialist,
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that they have done
more damage than good.
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How do you view that?
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Oh, I think that is a
caricature which is unfortunate
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because that
generally is not true.
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You will find the odd one maybe
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who is not as wise
as he or she should be
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but by enlarge the workers
who go out as missionaries
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men and women they
do it because they have
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a strong calling in their hearts
and they love the assignment,
00:16:08.88\00:16:14.86
they love the
people, they love the Lord,
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they want to bring
up their best skills
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that training the talents to see
that the church is made strong
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and that the
name of God is on it.
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They have no agenda, they
are no politically driven.
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No, they go there
to serve the Lord.
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Look, we have only
one master, only one.
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And at the end of the
day we're gonna face Him
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and He's going to
say, how did you do this?
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And so there is a-- I
think a close attachment
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between the missionaries
and the one who has called them.
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And they go
there with pure hearts.
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Dr. Paulson, I
wish we had more time.
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Thank you, so much for
sharing with us. With pleasure.
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And viewers at home, there are
still hundreds of missionaries
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serving all across the globe.
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Even in West Africa
where Dr. Paulson served
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so man years ago.
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Please remember
them in your prayers.
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It encourages them to know
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that a world church is
praying and supporting them.
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It's my pleasure to introduce
our guest Ricky Oliveras.
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Ricky, thank you for joining us.
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Thanks for having me.
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You are one of
our video producers
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and you do some
beautiful video work that we see
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right here on this
program, thanks for that.
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I also see some of
your work on the front cover
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on this new mission
magazine, Mission 360.
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This is literally off
the press last week. Yeah.
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And more importantly
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this is not just going
to be a print publication
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but it is an
online digital magazine.
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So what sort of platforms will
be able to carry this magazine?
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You should be able to
find it on the iPad, on Kindle,
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on you know, all different
kinds of tablets and computer.
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Yeah, fantastic.
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So you just go
online to mission360mag.org
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and this is full
of stories of mission,
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exciting stories about church
planting, Adventist world radio,
00:18:52.59\00:18:56.67
Global Mission
pioneers, centers of influence,
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urban mission and
it's totally free.
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Okay, Ricky. Yeah.
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Church planting, the
heart beat of Adventism.
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You were recently
in East Central Africa,
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what did you see there?
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Well, I saw a lot but some of
the things I saw were you know,
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new congregations being formed
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and it was really cool to see
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because in East Central
Africa everybody is in favor,
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everybody is dedicated
to building new churches.
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From the administration
where they are trying
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to start new
programs to build new churches
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to the pastors
where they are you know,
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they are reaching
out to the community
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and down to the
members where the pastors are,
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you know, telling their members
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you know, go talk
to your neighbors,
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go, go bring them to church,
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you know, let's
build our churches.
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And so that was
really cool to see
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because it's not
often that you find
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everybody on the same
page about something so.
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So when you say build churches
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you are not talking
about building buildings,
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you are talking about
starting new congregations.
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Right. Exactly.
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Churches usually being
you know, in small groups
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and somebody going to
their neighbors' house
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and offering to pray with them,
reading the Bible with them,
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you know, something very simple
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and that builds up where
they invite another neighbor.
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And you know,
things like that can spiral
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and from there
buildings come up of course
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once you get enough people.
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Building will
come up in certain area
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I'll give you an example,
when I was in Mwanza, Tanzania,
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they have over 30 churches there
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but they didn't
start off with 30 churches.
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They started off
with a few churches
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and people there reaching out
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to their neighbors
building congregations.
00:20:48.24\00:20:52.01
And one person that I saw
there was, her name was Priska
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and she is really
adamant about out and visiting
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you know, doing
studies with people
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and just reading
the Bible with people.
00:21:04.14\00:21:06.14
And it's contagious because
you see the work she does,
00:21:06.17\00:21:11.08
you know, it's like a
chain to build new people.
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Now our
frontline church planters
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are called
Global Mission pioneers.
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Did you meet some pioneers?
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I did meet some pioneers when
I was in the city of Kinshasa
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in the Democratic
Republic of Congo.
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I always like
to try to you know,
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at least meet a couple pioneers.
00:21:31.71\00:21:33.58
So I asked the pastor
that I was with you know,
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tomorrow can we talk to
a Global Mission pioneer,
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maybe follow him
around for the day?
00:21:38.49\00:21:41.12
And he said, "Oh yeah.
Sure, it's no problem."
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So the next day
we get to the church
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where they are gonna meet us
00:21:46.49\00:21:48.71
and there were 20 or 30 Global
Mission pioneers in the room.
00:21:48.74\00:21:52.49
So it was overwhelming for
me to see that because you know,
00:21:52.52\00:21:57.09
I was expecting one
or two people to talk to.
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And so it was overwhelming
00:22:00.31\00:22:01.78
but also very
encouraging to see that
00:22:01.81\00:22:04.66
because there are so many
people who are wiling to go out
00:22:04.69\00:22:09.12
and serve and reach
out to their communities.
00:22:09.15\00:22:12.69
Tell me about
one of the pioneers.
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Well, one of the
pioneers I followed,
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his name was Serge
and he--we started off,
00:22:16.80\00:22:20.76
we met him at the
church and we went to his house
00:22:20.79\00:22:23.37
where you know, he
was getting ready for
00:22:23.40\00:22:25.83
to meet a group of
people that he witnesses to.
00:22:25.86\00:22:30.11
So we met him at his
house, he was reading his Bible
00:22:30.14\00:22:33.45
and what he does
everyday, every few days he goes
00:22:33.48\00:22:37.95
and meet this
group but he has to walk
00:22:37.98\00:22:40.08
you know, miles
and kilometers there,
00:22:40.11\00:22:43.10
kilometers and kilometers
to see his small congregation.
00:22:43.13\00:22:48.40
And they meet on this
property own by a church member.
00:22:48.43\00:22:52.62
This church
member donated some land,
00:22:52.65\00:22:55.32
their backyard basically
to build the little church.
00:22:55.35\00:22:58.22
And this church is pretty unique
00:22:58.25\00:22:59.86
because it's just made
out of sheets you know.
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Sheets of metal. No,
they are like bed sheets.
00:23:03.64\00:23:07.08
Oh, bed sheets. Yeah.
00:23:07.11\00:23:08.24
And so it's you know,
it's a humble church to me then
00:23:08.27\00:23:12.17
but to them you
know, that's their church.
00:23:12.20\00:23:14.39
They are very proud of it.
00:23:14.42\00:23:16.28
So to us you know, we
wouldn't normally see that
00:23:16.31\00:23:18.91
here in North America a church
made out of bed sheets. No.
00:23:18.94\00:23:23.67
To them that's their
house of worship. Yeah.
00:23:23.70\00:23:26.46
Well, we are talking
about a very poor area.
00:23:26.49\00:23:28.47
Very poor area, very poor area.
00:23:28.50\00:23:30.20
There's a-- the
houses are very small,
00:23:30.23\00:23:33.89
they are--the houses are made
out of you know metal sheets
00:23:33.92\00:23:37.04
and wood sometimes that
you just find flying around.
00:23:37.07\00:23:40.97
Whatever you can
patch your house up with.
00:23:41.00\00:23:42.92
Yeah. Amazing.
00:23:42.95\00:23:44.98
Ricky, thank you so much
for sharing with us today.
00:23:45.01\00:23:47.22
Yeah. Thank you.
00:23:47.25\00:23:48.45
Viewers at home, you know,
00:23:48.48\00:23:50.29
many of our brothers
and sisters around the world
00:23:50.32\00:23:52.64
are living below
the poverty line.
00:23:52.67\00:23:55.23
Some are earning
less than a dollar a day.
00:23:55.26\00:23:58.02
So it does make difference when
we give our mission offerings
00:23:58.05\00:24:00.71
when we make
donations to Global Mission
00:24:00.74\00:24:02.79
to help start and establish work
00:24:02.82\00:24:05.72
where otherwise it
would be a challenge to begin.
00:24:05.75\00:24:08.46
Please pray for
Global Mission pioneers
00:24:08.49\00:24:10.51
who are starting
new congregations
00:24:10.54\00:24:12.25
all around the world.
00:24:12.28\00:24:14.03
The city of Kinshasa,
00:24:22.94\00:24:24.55
the capital of a
Democratic Republic of Congo
00:24:24.58\00:24:26.85
and home to more
then ten million people.
00:24:26.88\00:24:30.28
Despite the size of this city
00:24:30.31\00:24:31.72
only about 8,000
Adventists live here.
00:24:31.75\00:24:34.74
Reaching the people here
comes with great challenges.
00:24:34.77\00:24:38.01
People here don't
want to stop and listen,
00:24:38.04\00:24:40.16
they don't want to
make time for religion.
00:24:40.19\00:24:42.76
But those who do catch a glimpse
00:24:42.79\00:24:45.57
of God's word
hunger to learn more.
00:24:45.60\00:24:48.31
This is Serge, he is
a Global Mission pioneer
00:24:58.05\00:25:01.00
working in this
challenging city to ensure
00:25:01.03\00:25:03.27
that more people
come to know Jesus.
00:25:03.30\00:25:06.12
Serge prepares at his home
00:25:06.15\00:25:07.68
to share a message of
hope with a small group.
00:25:07.71\00:25:10.54
He leaves his humble home
to face the vast urban jungle.
00:25:10.57\00:25:14.79
His motivation is reaching those
00:25:14.82\00:25:16.31
who have never heard
the Adventist message.
00:25:16.34\00:25:19.44
He walks far to
reach the makeshift church
00:25:25.87\00:25:27.84
where the people are
already waiting for him.
00:25:27.87\00:25:30.53
This humble church sits on
a local church member's land,
00:25:30.56\00:25:33.57
tucked away from the
busyness of the street.
00:25:33.60\00:25:36.61
Its walls are made
from sheets and tarps
00:25:36.64\00:25:39.75
but God welcomes all people
into His house of worship.
00:25:39.78\00:25:43.28
As our pioneer greets the
people he can see their hunger
00:25:43.31\00:25:46.23
to learn more of the stories
and lessons from the Bible.
00:25:46.26\00:25:51.09
As they worship and reads from
the Bible lives are transformed.
00:25:51.12\00:25:55.89
The small group
hears the stories
00:25:55.92\00:25:57.21
of how Jesus lived on
this earth to die for our sins.
00:25:57.24\00:26:00.55
This is the work of a
Global Mission pioneer
00:26:06.73\00:26:09.90
to help reach the unreached
people around the world.
00:26:09.93\00:26:13.44
As Global Mission
pioneers they were called
00:26:13.47\00:26:15.47
not only to tell of Jesus'
love ibut also to show it.
00:26:15.50\00:26:20.20
Although this urban setting
00:26:20.23\00:26:21.26
maybe a
challenging place to work,
00:26:21.29\00:26:23.58
Global Mission
pioneers like Serge
00:26:23.61\00:26:25.50
are willing to
accept the challenge
00:26:25.53\00:26:26.83
so others can learn about Jesus.
00:26:26.86\00:26:29.93
Please pray for Global Mission
pioneers here in Kinshasa
00:26:29.96\00:26:33.58
and thank you, for your support
of mission around the world.
00:26:33.61\00:26:37.91
Today, we've looked
at two models of mission,
00:26:41.49\00:26:44.05
Global Mission pioneer who plant
churches among their own people
00:26:44.08\00:26:47.66
and cross cultural missionaries
00:26:47.69\00:26:49.52
who traveled to another place
and work in another culture.
00:26:49.55\00:26:53.00
Many missionaries
learned to love the people,
00:26:53.03\00:26:55.32
cultures and foods of the
places where they've served.
00:26:55.35\00:26:58.51
And many of you who watched this
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Thank you so much for
joining us on today's program.
00:27:40.05\00:27:43.27
I hope this
program has inspired you
00:27:43.30\00:27:45.06
to pray for the people
and places you've seen.
00:27:45.09\00:27:48.21
And a special
thank you to those of you
00:27:48.24\00:27:50.24
who support
mission offerings in church
00:27:50.27\00:27:53.20
or who go online
at Adventist Mission
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to financially support
Global Mission projects.
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From the office of Adventist
Mission I am Gary Krause
00:27:58.83\00:28:01.16
and I can hope you
can join me next time
00:28:01.19\00:28:03.32
right here on
Global Mission Snapshots.
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