On today's program we travel
to the Indian Subcontinent
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and to a
mountain village in China.
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We'll also learn
how one organization
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is touching the
lives of hundreds
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of needy women
and children in Asia.
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All that and more coming up next
on Global Mission Snapshots.
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Just before He went up to heaven
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Jesus gave us a
command, He gave us a mission.
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Jesus said, go.
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Go unto all the world,
telling them of His love.
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This is our mission.
This is our Global Mission.
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Hello and welcome to
Global Mission Snapshots
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I'm Gary Krause.
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When I speak at camp
meetings, sometimes I've someone
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from the Adventist
Mission staff come with me.
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When they do I like
to give them a quiz.
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And today I have a quiz question
ready just for you. Ready?
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What percentage of the
world's population is Christian?
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Is it A. 100%.
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B. 65%.
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C. 33%.
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Well, if you choose A 100%
you got a very optimistic view,
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if you said 65% you're
still pretty optimistic.
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You're right if you choose C.
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Just 33% or one
third of the world.
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That means that two
thirds of earth's population
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either has no religion
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or another
religion than Christianity.
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And many of these
people live in Asia.
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So today we'll be
talking with Greg Whitsett
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who heads the Global Mission
Center for East Asia religions.
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But first, let's
learn about Asian Aid
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an organization that's
making a difference in Asia
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through education
and through health.
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We'll be
talking with Jim Rennie,
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the CEO of Asian Aid, USA.
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But first, let's
watch this video.
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For over 40 years
Asian Aid is an organization
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giving hope to so many.
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Their outreach spans from India,
Bangladesh to Nepal and beyond.
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From remote
villages and empty fields
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to scrolling
centers of education,
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from nothing to
the unimaginable.
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Asian Aid's development projects
provide child sponsorship,
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fresh water, and medical care
for women and leper victims.
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They provide a high
standard of education
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to impoverished children.
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Asian Aid has a
vision driven by a woman
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humbly fulfilling
the Biblical principle
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that calls for us to
care for the least of these.
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This standard is
still true today.
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The need is still there.
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Less than 50% of India's
children get an education,
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one million women in Nepal
suffer from uterine prolapse
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and are in need
of immediate surgery.
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Over 5,000 babies die
everyday due to extreme poverty.
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These are better few
of the harsh realities.
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Asian Aid is
meeting these challenges
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and transforming the
lives of so many in need.
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Always sticking to their
core mission, giving hope.
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Asian Aid sponsors
thousands of children
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in slums, in destitute villages.
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They support over 100
schools and orphanages.
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They provide a
value spaced education
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and give them a
sense of place, a home.
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Well, in my dream
I was just thinking
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of a small boarding
school with maybe 50 children
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and that of course did
increased to 200 quite fast
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but now to see these buildings
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and this campus
is just so amazing.
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And now there are 750 children
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actually studying and learning
so much on this school compound.
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In Nepal over a million women
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suffer from an
epidemic of uterine prolapse.
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Through their
educational outreach programs
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and medical treatment clinics
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Asian Aid has
helped thousands of women.
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They also give
shelter and educate women
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who have escape from the
human trafficking business
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providing them a way
back to a better life.
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One of the most important
things that Asian Aid does
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is see that girls get care for,
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that girls get a
chance of education
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and girl get a chance
to come up in society.
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Asian Aid
supports premier school
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for the blind and the deaf
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preparing them for
success in the world community.
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It's easy to put a price
on what it cost to educate
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and feed a child for a day
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but how do you put a
price on transformation.
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Asian Aid graduates
serve important roles
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from nurses and teachers
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to top leading medical
and research scientists.
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All are contributing in positive
ways to the global community.
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I want to be a social worker.
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I want to become teacher.
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I want to become doctor
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because I want to help
the other of the people.
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These children are living proof
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that Asian Aid doesn't
just feed a child's stomach
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but fuels their desire to learn,
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to achieve and to
give something back.
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Asian Aid feeds a child's soul,
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but ultimately
what Asian Aid does
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is give hope, hope to
children, hope to women,
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hope to those
who needed the most.
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Asian Aid knows that
making an investment in hope
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requires a decision to act now.
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It's a principle
that can only pay off
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with help from
sponsors like you.
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Standing still is not an option.
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Asian Aid is hope in motion.
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As you can see
Asian Aid is doing
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a wonderful work
in parts of the world
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where there are just
tremendous challenges
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and I'm delighted to
have as my guest Jim Rennie
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who is the CEO
for Asian Aid, USA.
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Jim, thanks for joining us.
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Thanks, Gary, please to be here.
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On the video there we saw
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just a range of things
that you're involved in.
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Can you just give us
some of the highlights,
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some of the main
themes of what you are doing?
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Well, Gary, our main
activity is child's sponsorship.
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We take children based on need
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and place them in
an Adventist school
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and then sponsored
by a person or a group
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back either in
America, Australia,
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in fact in many
parts of the world.
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So that's our key activity
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and we have over six
and half thousand children
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sponsored in Adventist
schools predominantly in India,
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but Nepal and Bangladesh also.
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The next key
activity our orphanages,
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we have four orphanages
which are run by the church
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but funded by Asian Aid.
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And so once again the
children in those orphanages
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are sponsored by
a sponsor or a group
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back in one of many countries.
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Then we are also
active in helping schools.
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We're getting a big
demand for helping schools
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with medical
issues, building issues,
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and improving education.
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So that's a major challenge for
us in some of these countries.
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In India and Nepal we've started
to get involved in child rescue
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that's from
children involved in beggary,
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involved in prostitution,
involved in child labor.
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We got involved in one program
in Bangalore and one in Nepal.
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And then in Nepal we're involved
in women's health issues.
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We traditionally have
helped women in that area
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and have Asian Aid in total
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has done over 9,000
women operations in Nepal.
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Jim, you know,
that's a lot of people
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whose lives have been impacted.
How are these children chosen?
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For example the kids who come
to put into an Adventist school,
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how do you get
lucky enough to be chosen?
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Well, it happens
in a number of ways.
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First of all school may indicate
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that it wants applications
so we grant them applications.
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So either our field
worker or the principal
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literally
receives the application
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which is weighted by the
school and by us based on need.
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And so some times we
get leads from the church
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but in most cases I would
say 80-90% of the children
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have had no
exposure to the Christianity.
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So we're doing a key thing.
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We are giving
them a good education
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but we are also
introducing them to Jesus.
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Can you give me an
example of one of the children
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whose life has been
changed by Asian Aid?
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Yes, well, I visit a
lot of schools in India
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and sometimes I don't spend
enough time with the children.
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So one day I had noticed
a little bright young boy,
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he was always saying hello.
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I noticed he was very
attentive from the school
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and he was a day student.
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So we have day
students, boarders.
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And so a day student walks
from their home to the school
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so they are
normally pretty close
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sometimes they
might come on a bus.
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And his name was Riku,
R-I-K-U, no, Riku I think.
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So I asked them to
take me back to his home
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and so we walked
down through the town.
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Oh, it was probably a 10 minute
walked through the busy streets
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and then very quickly
out into a small village.
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And he was just so proud
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to take me back to his
tidy, small, dirty house.
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His mother was so
proud that I was there.
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It was--it was what I
call a tidy dirty house.
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To us we couldn't
think of living there
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but to them in
their own way it was tidy.
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She looked after it
and she was just so proud
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that her boy was
getting an education.
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So it was just an eye-opener
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to realize where
the kids come from.
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Now some of them live
in better houses than that.
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And so he gets home
probably around 3:30-4:00
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he busy helping his mother,
he has to go and get water.
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All the things you would
imagine on the mission field
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but for that boy to
walk me through the streets
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and to take me back to his house
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and to see the
reaction of his mom.
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So I probably don't
do that enough. Right.
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I think the other
things that are the orphans.
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See orphans have nothing
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and they are
always pleased to see you,
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they always call you sir
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and they want to sit
down and talk to you.
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And so when things are going
tough I go and talk to the kids.
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Yeah, Jim, somebody
viewing this program
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they say perhaps I
would like to sponsor a child,
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how do they go about doing that?
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Well, our key
way of contacting us
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is through our
website asianaid.org
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And child
sponsorship, not everyone
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can go to the mission
field, not everyone can travel,
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not everyone can
go in a building trip.
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But the great thing
about sponsorship is
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you know that every morning
you are making a real difference
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in the life of the child who is
over there in the mission field.
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And so you'll get school reports
sometimes good, sometimes bad.
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You can write to your child.
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So child sponsorship
is a very effective way
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of having real live involvement
in the mission field. Wonderful.
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Jim, thank you so much for
coming, sharing with us today.
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And viewers at home,
maybe God is calling you
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to make a difference
in the life of a child
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in India or Nepal or Bangladesh.
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Life is tough,
life is very difficult
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and there are
many kids whose lives
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have been changed
through Asian Aid.
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So go to asianaid.org
and see if this is something
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that you might
be able to support.
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I know my
daughter, my seven year old,
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receives letter from a girl
that she is sponsoring in India
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and helps open up her eyes
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to a world of need
and to connect with that.
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And please pray for Asian
Aid, pray for Jim and his team.
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When I was a kid, we
would go to camp meeting
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and part of the excitement was
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to meet "real
life missionaries."
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Well, I'm delighted to say that
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my guest today is a
real life missionary.
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And, Greg,
thanks for joining us.
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Greg, you work
with Global Mission.
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You are the director
of the center for east--
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The Global Mission
Center for East Asian Religions.
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It used to be called
the Buddhist study center
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but now we see
that it's actually
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bit more complex
than just Buddhism.
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Tell me a little bit
about the scope of the center?
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The center is working
with Buddhist of course
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that's our primary
group that's been working with
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over the last couple of decades.
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But it also encompasses
Taoism, and Confucianism,
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Shinto and other
East Asian religions,
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traditions that maybe
some of them are not so much
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a religion but it's a
mindset, it's a world view
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that certainly impacts
how people will understand
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the good news of
Jesus Christ. Sure.
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Now, Greg, you are
working in Bangkok, Thailand
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before that where were you?
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Well, I was working in
another part of Southeast Asia
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that is not open to the gospel
so it's actually a area that we,
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when we wrote articles and
things we always suited then
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because we didn't want
to disclose the location.
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But it's a
country, communist country
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that has beautiful people,
and beautiful place to live
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and enjoy these great
peace and that's sort of thing
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but not a lot of
religious freedom. Yeah.
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Now that's where I
first met you and at that time
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you were working for
the educational needs
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of the community and
making a lot of friends I saw.
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How long have you and your
family been in Southeast Asia?
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We've been there 11 years,
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10 years before
coming to the center
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and enjoyed all of that.
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It's just a beautiful place
to be involved in living a life.
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So 11 years and how long
have you and Amy been married?
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We've been married 17.
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Okay, so majority
of your life is been...
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That's right. Yeah.
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Now you have two children
and you're living in a place
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that is very different
from where you come from,
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what has led you to not only
go as a missionary but to stay?
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Well, we actually have
three children. Oh, sorry.
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You're right, we have two,
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we got our own children
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but we have a foster
daughter that's been with us.
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But that's all
right. How old is she?
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She is 13. Yes.
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That's between our
kids, who are 14, 11.
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And she is a joy to our home and
living with us now in Bangkok.
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But we first got
involved in missions was
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when I was a student
at Atlantic Union College
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as a colporter,
literature evangelist,
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and that's
mission, isn't it. Sure.
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Going out and going door to door
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and at that time I realized
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I really wanting
to focus my ministry
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on those outside the
church reaching the unreached.
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And so made that, my
wife and I got married
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that was our dream that that's
what we would focus our life on.
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And when we were at the seminary
felt the call to missions
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and with the help of
the mission's department
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we join with
Adventist Frontier Missions
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and enjoyed serving
for 10 years there in Laos.
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And it wasn't always
easy the first month I arrived
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I was in ICU,
almost passed away actually
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because I had maybe
dysentery with leptospirosis
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and all these other
kinds of tropical things
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I didn't have any
idea were so green
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but God spared my life
and we are still serving.
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What a amazing
experience it has been. Yeah.
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Now, Greg, I know that recently
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you went through
tragedy in the family.
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Tell us about that?
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Well, when we were in
our previous employment
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in the different part
of Southeast Asia there,
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there were two girls that we--
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I was involved in
children ministries in the field
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and did a lot of
work for children.
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I had the first vacation
Bible school in the country
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and all these
kinds of activities
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but during that time,
you know, I become aware
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of different needs
of different families
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and not only our own
daughter Seda but another girl
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that is much younger we
were also taking care of her.
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Her father had been
killed in gang activity,
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her mother who had been gone
since she was one month old,
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actually in
prison for dealing drugs.
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And so her grandmother
was trying to raise her
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and she asked us to be
kind of surrogate parents.
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So we fostered her and helped
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and that brought us a lot of joy
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but she had a health
condition called thalassemia
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which is a blood
disorder, and causes anemia
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it can cause growth stunting
and that sort of things.
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And she required a
monthly blood transfusion
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since the time she was about
four and a half. Oh, poor kid.
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And yeah, it was very
traumatic she was very unhealthy
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so my wife is a nurse and
would help her quite a bit
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with stabilizing her health
some and going to hospital.
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Well, it was very difficult
for us to leave a country
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and to accept this
call for one reason,
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for many reasons
but one of the reason is
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because of course this little
girl we'd have to leave behind
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and that was difficult and
the tragedy we went through
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it was actually just
in January we found out
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that she got a spinal meningitis
and they couldn't control it
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and she was in ICU so
we rushed to go be with her
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and hope to get her
better medical care,
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take her to better hospital
but she just didn't make it.
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We got to say goodbye.
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She was crying, she
was actually in a coma,
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but she woke up
for just about an hour
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able to say goodbye to her.
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Very heart wrenching, you know,
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and she coded when
we try to transfer her
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and while they were
doing a heart compressions,
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different chest
compressions that sort of thing,
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you know, just
watching that thing
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and holding the
grandma next to me
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and just saying
God why, why, you know.
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What a challenging
experience that was
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because here the
six year old child now,
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you know, she passes away.
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The grandma went
into a serious depression
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and didn't know why
was worth living anymore.
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God had taken her
son, now her granddaughter
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and as how she saw it.
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And to make a long story short
we told her after few months
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we said, please come
and spend some time with us.
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And we just began
to go back through
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the story of the
plan of redemption,
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but especially focusing
on the meaning of Sabbath.
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And on the picture the new earth
and what that was going to be
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where she can be
reunited and raise her daughter,
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her
granddaughter rather in heaven.
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And now she is excited
she's got her faith restored
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and she is sharing
the blessing of God's plan
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and the Sabbath with everybody.
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And so we find that
there is great comfort
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in the promises of the new earth
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and the time we reuntied
with our loved ones. Yeah.
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Thanks for sharing that
with us, Greg. God bless you.
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And viewers at home you know
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there are so many
joys in mission service
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but there is also challenges,
there's hurts and there is pain.
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And please remember the
thousands of missionaries
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who are serving
around the world today.
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God will remain close to
them and will comfort them
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and encourage them and
continue to support them.
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It's Sabbath morning on
this mountain top in China.
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Above the simple
village home stands a church.
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Every week
members of this village
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gather to study and worship God.
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Several years ago an Adventist
member started visiting
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the mountain tribal groups
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and he made the long
track up this mountain.
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He found this village
in a small group of people
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who believed in Jesus
and worshiped on Saturday,
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only they didn't have a
church building like this.
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The man kept coming back
and meeting with the people.
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Together they built this
church by hauling the materials
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up the mountain in baskets on
their backs, a 40 minutes hike.
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Years ago there was
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an Adventist
family in this village.
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This man's grandfather
was studying to become
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a worker for God at China
training institute back in 1940.
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Those were turbulent
times and the school closed.
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But through the years a
small group of believers
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remained faithful until one day
a visitor found his lost tribe
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and reignited the ember
of faith in this village.
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Today one third of the people
in the village are Adventists.
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Every Sabbath they
gather to sing, pray,
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and worship God in their church.
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The children especially love it
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when they share a
meal after church.
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Thank you for joining
us on our visit to this
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not so lost tribe and
meeting the lovely people
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