In 2007 and 2011
your mission offerings
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helped fund two
schools projects in India,
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both Raymond Memorial School
and Lasalgaon Adventist School
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benefited from
your generous supports
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of the mission offerings.
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We are very happy
to have this building
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on the campus
and because of the,
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the world contribution,
world church contribution
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towards this new
classroom building,
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the face lifting of the campus
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has gone very high.
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And there are so many
students who have enrolled,
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newly enrolled for the school
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and the admission has increased.
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These classrooms
would not have been possible
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without your faithful giving.
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Student smile
fill the classrooms
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to learn a variety of subjects.
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There smiles are a testament
to how grateful they are.
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At Raymond Memorial School
this boys dormitory building
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was also built as a
result of your giving.
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It gives students
a safe place to live.
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The school is even
adding on to the dorm
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due to the
increase of enrolment.
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The students and
faculty at Raymond Memorial
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and Lasalgaon are so
thankful for your contribution.
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And we are thankful to God
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that He has given
us this opportunity
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to spread the Word of
God through education.
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And therefore, this
is such a nice thing
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to stand and tell and witness
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about the new
building which is come up.
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Thank you so much.
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Well, we just saw a past
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13th Sabbath
Offering project in India
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and I'm glad that
Charlotte Ishkanian
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has joined us to tell
us more about this project.
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How did it touched
some lives, Charlotte.
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You know, we never know
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when we're building something
how it will impact people.
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But God has a way.
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I would like to tell you
story of a mother named Usha.
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She is very poor.
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She lives in Mumbai
in the, in the ghetto.
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She makes her
living selling garlic
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and little bits of
rubbish that she can pick up,
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cleaning
peoples houses anything.
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Her husband was an alcoholic
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and he took everything he earned
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and bought alcohol
and if that wasn't enough
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he took her earnings as well
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and if she
resisted he'd beat her.
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Sometimes she
actually came home and found
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that he had gone through
the meager basket of clothing
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and sold their
cloths to buy alcohol.
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All this alcohol
eventually killed him
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leaving this woman
with three small children
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and no way to make
life better for them.
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Her dreams of sending
them to school wore dust.
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Then one day she
is outside her home
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and she hears singing.
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She shies so she doesn't go
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and look for the
source of the singing.
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But after two or three days
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she feels led and goes
next door to another little hut
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where she is invited
in and is asked to sit
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and listen to
stories about Jesus.
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And there she learned
how much Jesus loves her.
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And she gave her heart to God.
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Now she is still with poor
and she is still struggling
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and she still doesn't
have a dream for her children.
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But one day her
pastor comes to talk to her.
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And says I want to
talk about your children.
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I want them in
an Adventist school.
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Usha hung her head
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because she could not
afford an Adventist education.
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She couldn't even afford
the local language schools.
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But the pastor
said there is a way.
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We can get your
children a half scholarship
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if you can pay the other half.
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And with hope in her
heart Usha said, let's try.
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So she and he went together
and enrolled her children
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in the Adventist School
that we just saw Lasalgaon
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and they began living
there learning about Jesus,
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studying in English.
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She is the thrilled
today because her children
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are learning to
love God in a school
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that will teach
them to be good citizens,
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will teach them good
occupations for their future
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and they're learning English
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so that they have a
head start over anyone else.
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Now the beauty of our schools is
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they don't just
appeal to the poor.
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They have the rich students,
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they have
Christians and non Christians
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because teaching in an English
language is very deserved.
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We can't know what our offerings
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will do for a school or a church
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or whatever we're building
until we examine the individuals
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whose lives are being changed.
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And Gary, in India
probably nothing has affected
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the work we're doing as
much as Adventist education.
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It's reached across our borders.
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Now Charlotte,
when we see a video like
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that we see the hard way.
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You're saying the
people behind the story.
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Yes.
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So when people give
their mission offerings
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what can they expect will
happen with those offerings?
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We divide those
offerings up amongst
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the projects that
are being featured
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on the back of
mission quarterly,
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the back of our lesson quarterly
to that tells what they are.
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We divide that funds up.
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And whatever we have
given for projects goes directly
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to those schools, those
churches, those hospitals
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for the project
that was specified
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and it is our obligation
here in Adventist Mission
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to follow up and make sure
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that everyone of
those is fulfilled completed
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and is making a
difference in people's lives.
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Now, I saw the
classroom block at Lasalgaon
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before they rebuild it.
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It was sad.
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It was broken
down, the roof was leaky,
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it was a
dangerous building to be in.
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Today, it is a clean,
modern, safe building.
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The school is able to, to
handle hundreds more students
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who've been
wanting to go but couldn't
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because now they
have the classrooms
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to make it possible.
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So portion of that offering
goes to this specific projects
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then the rest goes
toward helping with missionaries
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with schools, hospitals, a
broad range of mission work.
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Everything that
our tithe doesn't cover
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our mission
offering has to cover.
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And that's why it's so important
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that we continue
giving our mission offerings
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every week or every
quarter methodically.
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Do you have to be a
Seventh-day Adventist
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to give a mission offering?
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Oh, no. Okay.
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Oh, no.
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Yeah, so
Adventist can give it at
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that in church but
people can go online
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to AdventistMission.org
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and can donate by credit card
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to make a
difference in people's lives.
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Yes, and it does
make a difference.
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Thank you, Charlotte, so
much for joining us today.
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Thank you. Appreciate it.
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And viewers at home,
there is so much happening
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in mission around the world
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and you can go to
AdventistMission.org,
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there you can find
videos that you can download.
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You can find pictures,
you can find missionary blogs,
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you can find stories, everything
you need to know about mission.
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Let's go back to Southern Asia
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to see more missions in action.
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Because of the size of India
there are Adventist schools
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scattered
throughout the country.
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Flaiz Adventist
College is just one of these
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growing Adventist institutions.
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On the campus of Flaiz students
are focused on learning.
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The theology
department is especially full.
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Students travel
from all over India
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to study theology here.
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The professors make the lessons
clear and easy to understand.
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With open Bibles
students are eager
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to learn as much as they can.
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Many of them want to
become Adventist pastors
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to take up the mission
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist church.
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Students and faculty
know that we are here
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to share the Gospel
with the whole world.
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Many students have to
travel great distances
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from home to get to Flaiz.
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Some students
travel for more than a week
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on buses and trains to get here.
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With the study
increase in students
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Flaiz is running out
of space to house them.
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This quarter's project at Flaiz
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is to build a
mens housing facility
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for theology students.
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Currently, they
live in spare rooms
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wherever they can be found.
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Mixed in with the
primary and secondary students
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they need a place they
call home for the school year.
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They have already
begun construction
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of this new space
because of the urgent need.
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Please pray for these students
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as they continue
to answer God's call.
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Along the India-Bhutan border
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a congregation
sings praises to Jesus.
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In Bhutan less than 50% of
the population is literate.
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They rely on songs and stories
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to teach about Jesus.
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Those who can
read share the words
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from the Bible with
those who cannot read.
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This congregation
has been gradually
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adding members to their church
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in this very challenging area.
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Along with most of India
there are few Christians here.
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A variety of world
religions dominate this region.
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In Bhutan,
Christians have been persecuted
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and mistreated
because of their beliefs.
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Although this congregation
stands strong in their believes.
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They know the challenges
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that exist right
across the border.
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The Himalayan Mountain range
runs straight through Bhutan
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creating a beautiful
yet dangerous landscape.
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Bhutan's terrain and
legal restrictions make it
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one of the least evangelized
countries in the world.
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There is a hunger for the gospel
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that is crying out
from the Bhutanese people.
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Because of the
challenges anyone interested
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in Christianity
has to come to India
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or come into
contact with a lay member.
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The Bhutanese
people have no place
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to meet for worship,
meetings and programs.
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This quarter part of your
13th Sabbath Offering will go
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to a building a meeting hall
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on the border of
Bhutan and India.
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This will be a place to educate
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and train more
laypeople from Bhutan.
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They need this
building to continue
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to reach the thousands
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who have never even
heard the name of Jesus.
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In addition to helping
share the message with Bhutan
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your 13th Sabbath
Offering will go toward
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building classrooms in Kollegal.
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It will also go toward
building a mens dormitory
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for theology students
at Flaiz Adventist College.
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Please pray for these projects.
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Pray that God will
use that everyone involved
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to advance His work.
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And thank you for
supporting the mission
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on the
Seventh-day Adventist church.
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A recent article in
Christianity Today Magazine
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featured the work
of Robert Woodberry
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a sociologist who
worked on a statistical study
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of the connection
between protestant missionaries
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of the past with the,
"current health of nations."
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According to this
fascinating article
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areas where protestant
missionaries had a significant
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presence in the
past are on average
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more
economically developed today
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with comparatively better health
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and lower infant
mortality and less corruption.
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Although Dr. Woodberry has
identified multiple factors
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one of the most important is
higher educational attainment
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especially for women
and greater literacy.
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To learn more about
Adventist missionaries,
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Adventist Mission
and other opportunities
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to support mission work
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please visit our
website at AdventistMission.org.
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Well, thanks
for joining us today
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and thank you so
much for your prayers
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and your
continuing financial support
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of mission around the world.
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I leave today with this
music video called "Morning."
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Until next time, I'm Gary Krause
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for Global Mission
Snapshots, God bless.
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