Young people
involved in one year
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in mission in New York City
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and the president of
the General Conference
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of Seventh-day Adventist,
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that and much
more coming up next on
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"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, I'm Gary
Krause and welcome to
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"Global Mission Snapshots."
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Thanks for joining us as
we look at front line mission
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around the world.
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Today we'll be
talking to Pastor Ted Wilson
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about centers of
influence and how they help
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advance mission in the
major cities of the world.
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We'll also talk
with Kleber Goncalves,
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senior pastor of a
rapidly growing church
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in the heart of Sao Paulo,
the largest city in Brazil
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and one of the
largest cities in the world.
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Dr. Goncalves also heads
up with Global Mission Center
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for Secular and
Postmodern Studies.
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But first up, let's find
out more about young people
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from around the
world who spent one year
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ministering in New York City.
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It is hard because it was
to everybody is more open.
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They are friendly,
you can talk to someone
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in the bus, in the subway.
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And then you can try to make
connection and say something.
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It's my first time
when I live with someone,
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who I don't know really.
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Sometimes it's difficult
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because you need
like your own space.
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I try to be
humble, I try to be patient
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to understand them more.
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You are having to navigate
through all kinds of individuals
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coming with the
different culture beliefs
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and cultural
ideas and it's made me
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a little bit more patient.
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It's different back home because
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you can see the needs of people
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because you're
familiar with them
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and you know the
circumstances back home.
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And yeah, it's
hard to read people,
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it's hard to understand them.
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People are very busy and maybe
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we haven't had a chance
to connect with the people
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that we really
need to connect to.
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I understand that God
can't depend on feelings
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but I like to feel my
God when I look at the sky,
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when I see nature but
here it's more difficult
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because big
buildings and so peace of--
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a little peace of sky
and so I can't see stars here
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because big street
and all the lights.
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Need to get it
with all these people,
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it is not always easy.
It involves challenges.
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And it teaches you patience.
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When God, He brought me here,
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in the
beginning I was struggling
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if I really could go
here because I didn't feel
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capable of doing this project.
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It has been challenging to come
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and just leave
it in God's hands.
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But God, He's trying
to show me really that.
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In my weakness He is strong
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and to trust Him
with all the things
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that will happen
here that He will work.
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First I came here
and I thought like
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I will not grow
spiritually as I was growing
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between in my work in Lebanon.
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But when we
started the real work,
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how we go to disaster
area, how we help the homeless.
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I see like myself
like God taking me down,
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down to communicate with
these less level of people
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in order like to show
me all the kind of people.
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In general, the
call to ministry is
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even more within me.
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So there's so
much that we can do,
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so many ways that
we can reach our world.
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And it's just a
reminder and also you know,
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to go forth and to
do even more you know,
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I just keeping a broad
way even here in America.
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I've seen God answer prayers.
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I've seen God provide me
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comfort especially
being away from home
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and away from my daughter.
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We have different personalities
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and different
cultural backgrounds
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but I am just amazed
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that because of
the one same faith,
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we can work like this together.
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One of my favorite
verses that's from Isaiah 6:8,
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where God says, you
know, "Whom shall I send?
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And who will
go?" And he answers,
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"Here am I. Lord, send me."
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And I feel that, that's my call.
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My prayer is, God I want to be
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a Christian who makes You happy.
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Wherever You
lead me, I'll follow.
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I just want to
fully dedicate everyday
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and I want to do
something for You.
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(Speaking in foreign language)
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God help me a lot
to like to brick myself
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and to know
whose really Jesus is
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who washed the
feet of His disciples
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and who ate with them
and who sat with the sinners.
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This just means, helped
me a lot to be more humble.
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(Speaking in foreign language)
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Everyday had been a
blessing, everyday, everyday.
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The more I see
the challenge the more
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I realize that I am unworthy
and I need God and only Him,
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that is sufficient.
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It's my pleasure
to welcome my friend
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and colleague
Pastor Kleber Goncalves
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who is a pastor in the
heart of Sao Paulo, in Brazil.
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Welcome, Kleber.
Thank you so much, Gary.
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Now, tell me about Sao Paulo.
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I've flown over Sao Paulo
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and it seems like it takes
forever to get over the city.
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It's a huge sprawling city.
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What sort of size
are we looking at?
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Well, its amazing Gary,
Sao Paulo has grown best
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in two or three decades.
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Right now we are approaching
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two million people in
metropolitan area of Sao Paulo.
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Right in the very
heart but the whole area
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is not more than 2 million.
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Yeah, close to,
close to 20 million people.
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Oh, sorry, I thought you said
2 million people, 20 million.
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I was gonna say,
it shrunk itself in.
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So and your church
that you planted is where?
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It's right in Downtown.
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We are one block away
from Avenida Paulista Avenue,
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the heart of the
financial center.
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Oh, not alone--
not only from Sao Paulo
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but for the whole South America.
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So it's a huge challenge for us.
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Just try to mingle
with that type of people
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who live around us,
the community around us.
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Yeah, now the
Adventist church of course,
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I am guessing has
hundreds of churches
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in Sao Paulo but
they tend to be more
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on the outskirts or
certainly not reaching
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the sort of
demographic where you are.
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Just for you to have an idea,
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Sao Paulo has right
now close to 600 churches
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in these among
these 20 million people.
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Six hundred
Adventist churches? Yeah.
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Wow. That's in
three conferences.
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But the challenge
for us is how to plant
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churches in Downtown.
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In the past 47 years we
have not been able to start
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church plants in that area.
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So one of our Semente
was one of the projects
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focusing specifically
in that geographic area.
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So that's the
name of your church,
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Nova Semente
which I happen to known
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it means New
Seed. I like it. Okay.
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So we started
almost nine years ago
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with the church plants trying
to change a little bit the way
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we look at the urban challenge.
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One of the challenges for
us is how to build bridges
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with that type
of profile of people
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because they have
different ancestors
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and different way
of looking at life.
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Now you say that for 47 years
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there have been no
church plant there,
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but you got
hundreds in the city.
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Why is it so hard to
plant a church in that area?
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Well, I think one of
the challenges for us is,
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we are looking for
quick ways of doing things.
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And a project
like this takes time,
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its effort, takes people
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who are really
willing to change the way
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they do church, in the way
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they experience church
in order to reach people.
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So I think this hurry
sometimes we have to do things,
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you know, very fast
way does not help us
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that much in that regard.
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Describe the people
in the community around
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where the church is.
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Well, right now we are--
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actually it's a
very heterogeneous,
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that's urban life.
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You cannot simply say well,
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this is the type of
people have in there.
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We can find any
type of person in there.
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But usually in
the blocks around us
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we see people who are
between 35 to 55 years old,
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people who have kids.
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Usually they are
happy with their jobs,
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they are happy with their lives.
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They don't feel
they need a church.
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That's pretty much
what we have around us.
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So that's quite a challenge.
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So you started nine years ago
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and what did you
do differently to
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what you would have done
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if you'd been a
pastor at in some rural area?
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Well, at the
beginning I was concerned
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to view a new
vision for church members
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and the way they can
really get involved in ministry.
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Because pretty much
what we face is people,
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I mean, church
members they come to church,
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they are there just to see well,
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what this
church has to serve me.
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To serve me.
Yeah. That's the case.
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We need to change this attitude.
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So at the very
beginning I was concerned
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with this type
of vision, you see.
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How can we serve this church?
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How can we serve this community?
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So we built the church
around this through discipleship
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and through the
concept of mission.
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What is mission all about?
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Are we here to be served
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or are we here to fulfill
God's mission to reach out,
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to make
disciples, wherever we are.
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So that's pretty much
one of the differences
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in the context we
are right now. Yeah.
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Now you actually
in the introduction,
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I say that you are a person
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who preaches what you practice.
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You not just
practice but you preach.
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You preach what you practice
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because you
researched post-modernism
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for your Ph.D. thesis,
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you looked at
ministry to post-modern
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and you saw that the urb--
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I mean, I've
looked at your thesis
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and the urban areas
are actually the place
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where post-modernism flourishes.
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It's the home of post-modernism.
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So you've planted a church
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to reach these
people nine years ago.
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How-- what's happened?
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Well, it's been a
wonderful experience.
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Nine years ago we started
the church with 16 people,
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8 families and the
Lord has blessed us
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beyond our wildest dreams.
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And right now Gary,
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we are having an
average of close to 1,200 people
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attending the church,
four services on Sabbath.
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We just started last
weekend our fourth service.
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Two in afternoon
and two in the morning
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in order to reach the members
we are having because we--
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as I have mentioned to you
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too many Adventist
people live in Sao Paulo.
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So they want to
know this church,
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they come to visit
and it's a concern to us.
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They are always welcome
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but they-- we want to make sure
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they understand
why we are there.
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So those who are
trying to simply come
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and fill the seats,
they need to understand
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we have a purpose as church.
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At the same time we are
receiving hundreds of visitors.
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Right now we have
close to 200 people
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willing to study the Bible.
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Fantastic, Kleber.
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Thank you so much for
sharing with us today.
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My pleasure.
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And viewers at home,
please pray for Pastor Kleber
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and his team in Sao Paulo.
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And if you want to find
out more about the church
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that is growing rapidly,
you can go to novasemente.org.
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That's novasemente.org.
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And Dr. Goncalves
is also the director
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of the Global Mission Center
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for Secular and
Postmodern Studies.
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And to find out more about that,
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you can go to
secularandpostmodern.org,
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secularandpostmodernstudies.org,
right?
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Sorry,
secularandpostmodernstudies.org.
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Please look for opportunities
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where you too can be a
minister in your community.
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It's my pleasure to introduce
our guest Pastor Ted Wilson
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who is president of
the General Conference
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of Seventh-day Adventist.
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Pastor Wilson,
thank you for joining us.
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Thank you, Gary.
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I am interested
to hear more about
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what the
Seventh-day Adventist church
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is doing in mission
to the cities and why.
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Why is there such a central
emphasis of your leadership?
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Well, let me just began
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by painting a
picture in our minds.
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Jesus on His
triumphal entry to Jerusalem,
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people just proclaiming
Him the son of David, Hosanna,
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Hosanna, palm branches weaving,
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people throwing their
garments in front of Him.
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He's riding on a humble donkey
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and yet they are treating
Him as a king, and He is a king.
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And yet things
would change dramatically
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within just a few hours.
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But He comes to the brow
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of the hill
overlooking Jerusalem
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and all of this excitement,
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you think He would be
happy and joyous and He stops.
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And everybody stops
and they kind of look
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and here Jesus is
just staring at the city.
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And then in Luke 19:41 it says,
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"He beheld the
city and wept over it."
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And as you see
that scene in your eye,
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your mind's eye you
see Jesus standing there
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while He's sitting on the donkey
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and He starts to cry.
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And, you know, people, I
am sure were just wondering
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what's going on.
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He was crying for
the people of Jerusalem.
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He knew what
was going to happen.
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He was crying for those people
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in that urban area
because as He looked at
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and He saw the
glistening top of the temple
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and the beauty,
people would normally be
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very proud and excited and happy
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and yet He was
crying because the city is
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not just buildings
and gleaming cement
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and steel and glass.
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The city represents people
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and He was
crying for the people.
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And I suppose I'd want to ask
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the question of each of
us, are we weeping with Jesus
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for the people of the cities?
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And as we look at how
to try to reach people
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in the cities,
we have to remember
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to use His methods.
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And those methods
were to rub shoulders
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with them, to find out
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where they were
hurting, to meet their needs.
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Jesus was always
compassionate in the way
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that He went about trying to
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alleviate the results
of sin and difficulty.
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And that's really
what Seventh-day Adventists
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are called to do.
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When we go into the cities,
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we are supposed to
use all kinds of methods
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that will help
people on a very basic level
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and then draw
them closer to someone
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who can truly give
them a much broader picture
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of who they are
and why they are there
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and give them a
hope for the future.
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Because of course
that's what Christ soon
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coming provides for each of us
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as Seventh-day
Adventist Christians.
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One of the ways in
which we are finding to be
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the most successful
is to use the approach
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of what is termed as
centers of influence.
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Centers of
influence helped to touch
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the lives of people
in a variety of ways.
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Center of
influence could be something
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where you have a very
strong health outreach.
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You have cooking classes
that will show a wonderful way
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in which to live
a vegetarian life
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not because you can
earn your way to heaven
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but because it's a
healthier way to live,
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you'll live longer and
your mind will be brighter
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as you are able
to share with others
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about Christ and His love.
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It maybe an area,
maybe it's a health clinic,
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maybe it is a community
outreach in helping families.
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Maybe it's a creative way
of helping to tutor children
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who need assistance in school.
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Maybe it is a daycare center.
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I've visited one of those
recently in the Middle-East.
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It thrilled my heart to hear
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this little four
year old children
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singing songs
about Jesus and praying.
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It was an amazing thing,
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repeating
memory verses, I guess.
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It was just
marvelous to hear them,
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verses from the Bible.
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You know, centers of
influence can be anything
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that provides you with
a touch to the community
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and to people, helping
them where they are hurt.
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Now there's a
beautiful text in scripture
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which tells us
what Jesus' mission was.
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In fact, it comes
from the Book of Isaiah.
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Jesus went into the synagogue
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and He stood up
to read in Nazareth
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and He actually chose a passage
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from the Book of Isaiah
that spoke about himself,
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it's a marvelous passage.
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And in verse 18
of Luke 4, He says,
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"The spirit of
the Lord is upon me
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because he's anointed me
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to preach the
gospel to the poor,"
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lot of poor
people in the cities.
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"To heal the broken hearted,"
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there are enormous amounts
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of broken
hearted people in cities.
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"And to preach
deliverance to the captives,
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recovery of sight to the blind,
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to set at liberty
them that are bruised."
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Lots of people are captive
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to all kids of the
devil snares in the cities.
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A lot of bruised
people, people who need healing,
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not just physically but
emotionally and spiritually.
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So that's why
Seventh-day Adventist
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need to follow Christ's example
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as He read
about His own ministry
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in dealing with people
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whether its in
centers of influence,
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whether it is at work in
a busy metropolitan area,
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whether it's in the
home, in an apartment building
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wherever people live.
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Follow those methods of helping
to bring bruised, captive,
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broken hearted people
to the foot of the cross
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and you do that
through compassionate love
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and care
following Jesus' methods.
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Fantastic.
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I wish we had 70
minutes instead of 7 minutes.
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Thank you, Pastor Wilson.
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And viewers at home,
Mission to the Cities
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to find out more you can
go to adventistmission.org
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or you can go to
missiontothecities.org
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and there you'll find
stories, resources, plans,
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how you can be
involved, what you can pray for.
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Please pray for
Mission to the Cities.
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Pray for these
people that Elder Wilson
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has reminded us
that God loves so much.
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On a cold Sabbath
morning in Macedonia,
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a small Adventist
group gathers for worship.
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A wood burning
fire keeps them warm.
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They are meeting in this house
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because there is
no Adventist church
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building in the city.
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This is the city of Ohrid.
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This city is known in the summer
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for being a tourist destination.
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The lake serves as a
center point for activities.
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Boating, fishing
and lounging around
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are just some of
the regular activities
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that happen here.
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European tourists
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visit the city each year.
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But on this cold
day local residents are
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the only ones in sight.
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Although the air is cold,
this group warms up the room
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as they continue
their church service.
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Each week they meet
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faithfully discussing
the Sabbath school lesson
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and then waiting eagerly
for the sermon to follow.
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Each member plays a
special role on Sabbath morning.
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Leading out in lessons,
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preaching and even
adding fresh logs to the fire
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are important roles
in this home church.
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After the service, the
group shares a meal together.
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The owner of this
home cooks a traditional
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Macedonia meal for the group.
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As they say a prayer
they reflect on the message
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that was given earlier.
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The food warms their
bodies as they share stories
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and
conversation with each other.
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Some of the members
discuss their plans to invite
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neighbors to worship with
them in the following weeks.
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The church members
pray for a chance to worship
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in a new church building,
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a building that can be
used to invite their neighbors.
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They have
purchased this old building
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with hopes to renovate
and create a community center.
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We want to build this
center not just for a church
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but also for mission projects.
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We can share books, have
meetings and reach the people.
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It is located in a
very attractive place
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in the downtown area.
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Here visitors can
come and feel welcome.
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It's an ideal spot for tourist
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or community members walking by.
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It is a special feeling to know
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that we are a part
of a big organization,
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the Seventh-day
Adventist church.
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It's a big family
and we are happy to be
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a part of that family.
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Please pray for
the church in Macedonia
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that they may
reach their neighbors
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and have a
permanent place to worship.
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As we look at
countries such as Macedonia,
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as we see the
see the growing urban
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and secular world and as we face
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the need of engaging
our young people in mission,
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we see tremendous
opportunities and challenges.
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And I want to thank you so much
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for your support
of Adventist mission
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for your tithes,
your mission offerings
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and your
donations to Global Mission.
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And thank you, for your prayers
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for missionaries, for
Global Mission pioneers
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and all the people that
you meet on this program.
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As a small token of appreciation
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we'd like to
send you a small gift.
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It's an Adventist
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And we hope that
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So that every time you see it,
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you will be reminded to pray
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for the many mission
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Well, that's it
for today's program
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and we'll close
with this music video.
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For Global
Mission, I am Gary Krause
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and I hope you
can join me next time
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right here on
"Global Mission Snapshots."
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Oh the sweetness
of being here with You
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All of the day, Oh I pray
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Help this
wandering heart to remain
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In You I am blessed
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In You so content
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Guide my feet Cause them to keep
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Walking in Your perfect way
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Your perfect way
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Your loving selfless way
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Let me not negotiate With
the old man that I now hate
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Let him be nothing else but dead
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That I might exist as alive
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Only in Christ I am free
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Only in Christ so happy
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Refining fire, healing my mind
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Mould me into the image of love
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The image of love
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Beautiful image of You
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Who is love
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Here is the life
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That I longed for Here
is the place that I adore
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I'm not in prison anymore
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For you've brought me
out into Your marvelous light
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Come my friend let
me remind you again
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Forget the dark
places you've been
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For now you are a child of His
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A child of His
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A recreated child of His
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