I'm here in one of the
major cities of Southeast Asia.
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Behind me stands
a health food store
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but this health
food store is unique,
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it is becoming a
center of influence
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for the people
of this community.
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And we are going to talk about
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centers of influence
more in just a moment.
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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'm Gary Krause
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and welcome to
"Global Mission Snapshots."
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On today's
program we will be talking
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with Rick McEdward
about a center of influence
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that's touching the
lives of thousands of people
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in the heart of
Jakarta, Indonesia.
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Ellen White championed
these centers of influence
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saying that they should
be located in all our cities.
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We will also visit a
project in the Czech Republic,
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which involves Adventist
young people reaching out
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to other young people on
local university campuses.
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The Czech Republic is one
of the most secular countries
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in the world with the highest
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proportion of atheists
of any country in Europe.
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And today we will also learn
more about a supporting ministry
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that's touching
the lives of countless
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women and
children in Southern Asia.
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We will be talking with
Asian Aid USA CEO, Jim Rennie.
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But first, let's
watch this video.
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India is a land
full of contrast.
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It's a land of
great mystery and beauty.
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It's a land of
unspeakable despair.
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But traveling through
India one thing is for sure,
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it's a land filled with people
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who should never
be underestimated.
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For the last 40 years Asian Aid
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has invested in
the futures of people
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who have never been
given such a chance,
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and their investment
has proven infinite returns.
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Driven by the
vision of Helen Eager
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dedicated to helping
those who have the least.
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Asian Aid is an organization
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implementing diverse
development projects,
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and sponsoring
thousands of children.
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Their outreach spans
from Bangladesh to Nepal,
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Sri Lanka and
beyond from remote villages
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and empty fields to
sprawling centers of education
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from nothing to
the unimaginable.
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Now Asian Aid
decided to document the work
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it has been doing
in all these years
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with a desire to show
the world what is possible.
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By digging wells
in remote villages
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for clean drinking
water, and bringing much needed
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healthcare to
the women of Nepal.
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By providing an
education for orphans,
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deaf and blind children,
giving them a sense of place,
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a home but what
we really discovered
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was being given was hope.
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Giving hope to
children, giving hope to women,
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giving hope to the
ones who needed the most.
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This is Hope in Motion.
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On today's program we
are focusing on the work
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of the supporting
ministry Asian Aid
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and I'm delighted
to have as a guest,
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the CEO of Asian
Aid USA, Jim Rennie.
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Thanks for joining us Jim.
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Just doing amazing work in
--in the world's poorest areas
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and what does it mean
to you to be leading out
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in such an important ministry?
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Well, my background was
I have been in marketing
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all my life so to be suddenly
involved in a non-profit
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and to be involved
in the mission field
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was only a new
experience it came to me over
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four and half years and
I think it's connected me
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with the people
at the other end.
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I see the difference we make,
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there are
challenges, there are problems,
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but it is just so satisfying
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to win a little child
or a boy or a girl comes up
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and thanks you, it's powerful.
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And to know that
they are supported
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or sponsored by
someone back in America
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or Australia or New
Zealand or wherever.
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It's just touching that
to see what actually happens.
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Yeah, Jim, you
brought some more video,
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tell us what we
are going to see?
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Well, we are going
to play two videos,
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the first is about
a young boy in Nepal
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whose life has been
totally turned around.
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And the second one is about
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a special little
girl in Hyderabad, India.
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I was actually
there when this was filmed
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and after you see it, I
will share some thoughts.
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Great, let's see
those videos now.
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My father's friend, he
killed all of my parents.
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It was God's will that I
alone could survive there.
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So, he is very bright.
He supervises everything.
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We call him Junior Pastor.
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When I was very
small I used to say,
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surely I'll take
revenge but when I came here
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I got very good lessons here.
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I should not take revenge.
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I want to give him
and even others that
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God could change
heart, God can change heart.
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When she came first
I used to be after her
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but now she is after
me and after all the kids
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and she is very playful
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and she says now
she is very happy.
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Jim, those are
very moving videos.
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Tell us a little bit
more about what we have seen?
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Well, I think the first
boy Nima who is in Nepal
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where an uncle
killed both of his parents.
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Revenge is a way
of life up there,
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so the pressure on that boy
even for his family for revenge
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was significant
even at that age.
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But he has forgiven them
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and that is
just a powerful story
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for a child of that age.
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The second one,
Keerthana is very special to me
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because I was actually
there when she arrived.
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She was been dropped off
by a pastor a total orphan
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and the emotion of a child
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that's been seen
from house to house
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who is living
now in a proper home.
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When they brought her in
it actually got so emotional
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we started filming, we had to.
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But she settled and
the house mother said,
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I said how long
before she will settle in.
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She said she will
be fine in a week,
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and I just didn't believe it.
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We went back two weeks
later she was running around,
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she was smiling and happy.
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And just last
month, while I was in India
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with Pastor Mrs.
Lomacang we visited Elem home
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and we saw Keerthana
and it's an amazing story.
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The child that
literally taken off the streets,
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now loves the Lord
but she is so happy
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and it was so
exciting to see her.
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Jim, how many young people,
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children are you
supporting through Asian Aid?
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In total in India, Nepal
and Bangladesh just over 6,500.
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Wow, now, to any of our viewers
who would like to support
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the work of Asian
Aid, what can they do?
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Oh, Gary, probably the best way
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is to go our
webpage asianaid.org
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and there you will
see contact numbers
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for the USA office
and the Australian office.
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The key way you could get
involved is child sponsorship.
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Even on the web
you can see children
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that are available
for sponsorship now.
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We always have
a pool of children
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available for sponsorship.
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We do support them,
but they need sponsors.
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And they are at
different levels.
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There's a day
student who walks to school,
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in the USA that's $23 a month.
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Then there is a boarding student
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who you support
with their education
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and their boarding
which is 35 a month.
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And then an
orphan or a deaf child
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or a blind child is 45 a month.
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You will get
their school reports,
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sometimes it's good
news, sometimes it's bad news
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just with your own,
like your own child.
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And most of the time they write.
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And you can write to
them sometimes help a child,
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so you will have
contact with your child.
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We also have various projects
which are listed on the website
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that you can get involved with.
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So, Jim most of these students
are coming from villages
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and towns and going into a
Seventh-day Adventist school.
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What does the sponsorship cover,
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I mean is it
covering their food,
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when they are boarding student,
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I mean how much does it cover?
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That child is
totally dependant on you,
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so you are paying
for their education.
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We supply them book, money,
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boarding student gets a uniform
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and their food and sometimes
assistance for transport.
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But now for a boarding
child all their education
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and all their living expenses
are paid full by the sponsor.
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I remember some years ago,
I visited Sunshine Orphanage
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which is one of the
Asian Aid orphanages
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but there it's not really
one of the big once now, right?
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No. Tell me about
some of the others?
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Well, with the
help of supporters
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we have just in
fact, we are completing
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the last building
now of Sunrise Orphanage
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in a town of
Bobbili in Andhra Pradesh.
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Where we have
currently 80 children
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with capacity now to go to 180.
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It's a lovely
orphanage, it's in the country,
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it's got ten acres of land,
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so they have got an element
of their own sustainability.
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So that's been our major project
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and we are looking at renovating
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and improving
Sunshine in the next few years.
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Now, on the Asian Aid website,
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it will list various projects
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that you
involved in at the moment
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and I guess these
pictures and video
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and all that sort of thing?
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Yes, on the website you can get
involved in sponsorship online.
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You can go in and choose a
child and sponsor the child.
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If you want to talk
to-- talk to us call USA
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or call the
Australian office. Excellent.
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And there is also
a list of projects
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and all our videos
are there to watch.
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Fantastic. Jim, thanks so
much for joining us today.
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Thanks, Gary.
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And viewers at home
please pray for Asian Aid,
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pray for thousands of children
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who are being
touched through them,
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this wonderful ministry.
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And to close, let's go to India
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and let's visit the Asian
Aid Blind School right there.
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In the darkness we
have to live all the life.
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My name is Usha Kumari.
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At the age of seven
years I lost my sight.
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I feel so sad.
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I want to study like
others, don't neglect me.
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I want to become
a computer teacher.
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And God has provided this chance
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and to get education here.
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I will never
think that I'm a blind
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because I have everything
instead of seeing everything,
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we can hear
anything and we can learn
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and we can go anywhere.
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As we look at the
various mission challenges
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facing the
Seventh-day Adventist church.
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One that looms very large
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is the growing
urban areas of the world.
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And here to talk to
me about that challenge
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is Dr. Rick
McEdward who is the director
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of our Global Mission Centers.
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Rick, thanks so
much for joining us.
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Glad to be here, Gary.
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I was very
pleased to see you out
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exercising early this morning?
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Yeah, it's good.
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You are supposed to say
that you are pleased to see me.
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Yes. Rick, urban areas
just growing so rapidly.
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Yeah. Not so long ago, you were
in the country of Indonesia.
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Tell us about
what you found there?
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Well, you know Indonesia has
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I think 16
cities over a million.
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So there are vast
cities in Indonesia.
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Especially on
the island of Java,
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there are just so many
cities and what we saw there
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is that Adventists are reaching
out in very creative ways
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to share God's love in
the great cities there.
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Ellen White wrote many years ago
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about what she
called centers of Influence
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and she said that in every city
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we should have these
centers, tell us about that?
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Well, you know,
centers of influence
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really ought to be
where the people are
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and that's what
we saw in Indonesia
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is that the
Adventist they are really
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trying to be a
resource to their community.
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They are trying to help to
reach out to share God's love
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and they are doing
in such beautiful ways
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that it really
describes its concept
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of being a center of influence.
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So basically what
she was describing
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was a platform to put
Christ method into practice
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where we would
mingle, show sympathy,
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minister to
needs, win confidence
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and lead people to Jesus Christ.
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We know it
provides a great opportunity
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for church
members to be involved.
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So often church members
don't have a connection,
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a vital connection
with their local community,
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but if we do
Christ method guess what,
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there is natural
organic connections
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that happen all around us.
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I don't know if we have
time but I would like to share
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a couple of the
different snapshots
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that I saw in Indonesia.
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One of them was,
was kind of incredible,
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it was a not a wealthy area
in a large city in Indonesia.
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It was actually may be
you would call it a slum,
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primarily it was
people not from Java
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who were immigrated into Java
and there was a large canal.
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The basic mode of
transportation is on foot,
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on bicycle and on
motorcycle and this little area
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had thousands and
thousands of motorcycles.
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In fact over this little canal,
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dirty canal was a small bridge
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no wider than a
motorcycle handle bars,
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that had constant flow
of motorcycles across it
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and some brothers and
sisters have basically said
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we want to do something
that will help these people.
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So what did they do?
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They started right
near the bridge a place
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where they wash motorcycles,
where they fix flat tires,
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where they do all
these practical things
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for that part of
the large city there.
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And guess what? Out of
that they now know people.
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People are coming back to
them. They minister to them.
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They share the
bread of life with them.
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And they have been able to start
a small group in that area.
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That is really developing
into a small congregation.
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Why? Because they have
something that people need.
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And they are meeting the need.
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It's not a need that we
would ordinarily think of,
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a flat tire
though is a real need.
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True. When you need it.
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Exactly, yeah, so basically
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it's a center of
influence can be anything
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that connects to
needs in the community.
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That's right, that's right.
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I think sometimes as Adventists
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we sometimes think we
know what people need,
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but we don't take the
time to listen to them first.
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Yeah, you know, I hate to say it
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but we are really
good at providing something
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that we have never
identified that people need.
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We like to tell
them our message.
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Which is good.
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Yeah, we need to,
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but we need to
connect with people first.
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And we need that
connection point.
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Okay, now, another
center that you discovered?
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Yeah, well, very interesting
across Southeast Asia
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our huge populations of Chinese.
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In fact, the
Chinese are the businessmen
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of Southeast Asia for centuries
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have been running the
businesses and what not.
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But the church really realize
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that they have not done much
in connecting with this group.
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So about seven years
ago, there was a group
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that prayed thought hard,
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what would
connect with the people
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who have Chinese background.
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They are in the large cities.
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And they realize
that Chinese people
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have a deep concern for their
health many not all but many.
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So they started
a health ministry
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that has a health food store
right there in large cities.
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In fact, they have multiplied
these health food stores.
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Up stairs from
the health food store
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they have a place where
they do seminars and teaching.
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They have started radio programs
and a television program
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that connects
to the health needs
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and it's in an area that
is predominately Chinese.
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And they have gone from
just a handful of people
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who have responded to the gospel
00:21:13.86\00:21:16.60
to now having several
churches filled with people
00:21:16.63\00:21:20.60
who have said you know
they are meeting our needs.
00:21:20.63\00:21:23.78
We see what's going on here.
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We understand the Bible truth
00:21:25.62\00:21:27.55
and we want to join the
Adventist in fellowship.
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And so we some really
exciting things happening there
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in some of the large cities.
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So, Rick, this one
that you are describing
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there is a worship
center in one level,
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what are the other levels?
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Well, on the ground
floor is a health food store.
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Right. The next level is a
teaching and a worship center.
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It's kind of combined so
that they can use for seminars,
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family life and
health but on the weekends
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on Sabbath it's
really used for a church.
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So how many people do
they have coming through?
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Ah, you know, I was
there just for a little while
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and there were many
customers coming through.
00:22:04.42\00:22:09.12
But they have about
70 coming to the church
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but this is replicated
in four different sites.
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Not only that,
but this is reaching
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what you would call
the elite of the city.
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So, this is something
that again is connecting
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with the needs of the people.
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That's right and different
people have different needs.
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Exactly. Thanks,
Rick, for joining us today.
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Happy to be here.
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Viewers at home,
Centers of Influence
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what a tremendous
method, a model of reaching out
00:22:32.62\00:22:37.04
to people in large urban areas.
00:22:37.07\00:22:39.60
Putting Christ
method into practice
00:22:39.63\00:22:41.38
connecting with
real needs involving,
00:22:41.41\00:22:44.87
mingling and leading
people through these steps
00:22:44.90\00:22:48.09
to come to know the
beauty of Jesus Christ.
00:22:48.12\00:22:51.56
In cities throughout Europe,
00:22:56.85\00:22:58.67
sharing Jesus is
a growing challenge.
00:22:58.70\00:23:02.12
One of these challenging
countries is the Czech Republic.
00:23:02.15\00:23:07.53
In recent years,
people have cited studies
00:23:07.56\00:23:10.21
showing that the Czech Republic
00:23:10.24\00:23:11.65
is one of the most
secular countries in the world.
00:23:11.68\00:23:14.91
But Adventist
groups are finding ways
00:23:14.94\00:23:17.00
to connect with
people in their communities.
00:23:17.03\00:23:19.49
A program, known as INRI Road,
00:23:27.76\00:23:30.17
has had great success on
college campuses since 2006.
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In the Czech Republic
most people leave the church
00:23:34.92\00:23:37.57
during their university years.
00:23:37.60\00:23:39.92
INRI Road is a
youth driven program
00:23:39.95\00:23:42.05
that allows youth
to refuel their faith
00:23:42.08\00:23:44.31
and gather together for worship.
00:23:44.34\00:23:46.26
The acronym INRI represents
00:23:49.90\00:23:52.61
the Latin inscription,
which in English reads
00:23:52.64\00:23:55.46
as "Jesus the
Nazarene, King of the Jews."
00:23:55.49\00:23:58.91
This is the
inscription the Romans
00:23:58.94\00:24:00.80
nailed to the
top of Jesus' cross.
00:24:00.83\00:24:04.01
INRI Road was developed
to be a path for young people
00:24:04.04\00:24:07.01
to build a
relationship with Jesus.
00:24:07.04\00:24:11.70
Here in the city of Brno a
church specifically designed
00:24:11.73\00:24:14.89
for INRI Road
runs weekly meetings.
00:24:14.92\00:24:17.83
This group is mostly made up of
university students in the area.
00:24:17.86\00:24:21.95
They look
forward to the fellowship
00:24:21.98\00:24:23.70
and creative
methods of worshiping God.
00:24:23.73\00:24:26.10
Blanca is a volunteer who helps
prepare the weekly programs.
00:24:32.53\00:24:36.63
She feels that INRI Road
is important to her life.
00:24:36.66\00:24:40.44
INRI Road is like
my kind of family.
00:24:40.47\00:24:43.67
They are people,
we know each other,
00:24:43.70\00:24:45.89
we help each other with
things, we support each other.
00:24:45.92\00:24:49.95
It's like everyone
has his own way, own life,
00:24:49.98\00:24:53.62
own personalities,
but we have only one God.
00:24:53.65\00:24:59.63
Those who are a part of
INRI Road are passionate
00:24:59.66\00:25:01.98
about the programs
and feel very strongly
00:25:02.01\00:25:04.89
that this is an important
part of their communities.
00:25:04.92\00:25:09.68
We would like to help
them to grow personally
00:25:09.71\00:25:11.90
and spiritually and
become a strong part
00:25:11.93\00:25:14.11
of our church in the future.
00:25:14.14\00:25:17.13
INRI Road is meant to
reach three groups of people.
00:25:17.16\00:25:20.51
The first group
includes members of the church.
00:25:20.54\00:25:23.65
It is meant to get
them involved in ministry.
00:25:23.68\00:25:26.11
The second group
includes students
00:25:26.14\00:25:28.74
from surrounding universities.
00:25:28.77\00:25:31.21
The third group includes
all of their friends and family.
00:25:31.24\00:25:36.01
I had opportunity
to serve the others.
00:25:36.04\00:25:39.24
To help the others to
find Jesus through INRI Road.
00:25:39.27\00:25:43.98
I had opportunity to
establish new friendships.
00:25:44.01\00:25:49.21
Other groups throughout
Czech Republic are passionate
00:25:49.24\00:25:51.85
about bringing
people to know Jesus.
00:25:51.88\00:25:54.73
We can invite our
friends and we can tell them
00:25:54.76\00:25:58.63
that we are believers,
and this is normal for us.
00:25:58.66\00:26:03.76
I want to do something for
God and so I'm in INRI Road.
00:26:03.79\00:26:11.33
Please pray for INRI
Road, that it may grow
00:26:11.36\00:26:14.80
and be used to share Jesus
00:26:14.83\00:26:16.72
with the youth
in Czech Republic.
00:26:16.75\00:26:19.06
And thank you for supporting
00:26:19.09\00:26:20.86
the mission of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
00:26:20.89\00:26:24.29
As we look at countries
such as the Czech Republic,
00:26:31.14\00:26:34.20
as we look at the
big cities of the world
00:26:34.23\00:26:36.75
as we look at the 10/40 Window,
00:26:36.78\00:26:38.51
we see tremendous
mission challenges.
00:26:38.54\00:26:41.69
We thank you for your support
00:26:41.72\00:26:43.02
at mission work
through your tithes
00:26:43.05\00:26:44.70
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00:26:44.73\00:26:47.85
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00:26:47.88\00:26:49.59
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