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Series Code: GMS
Program Code: GMS000061A
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00:01 Global Mission pioneers in India and South Africa,
00:04 three things every missionary should know, 00:07 and one of the most popular Adventist mission music videos, 00:10 all that and much more 00:12 coming up next on Global Mission Snapshots. 00:27 Just before He went up to heaven 00:29 Jesus gave us a command. He gave us a mission. 00:35 Jesus said "Go, go unto all the world, 00:40 telling them of His love." 00:42 This is our mission. This is our Global Mission. 00:52 Hello, I'm Gary Krause 00:53 and welcome to Global Mission Snapshots. 00:56 On today's program we'll be talking with Laurie Falvo, 00:59 a managing editor from Mission 360 Magazine. 01:02 Recently, Laurie visited South Africa 01:05 to visit Global Mission projects 01:07 and she met a pastor who had to make a life changing decision 01:11 to himself, his family, and his church. 01:15 We'll also be talking with Cheryl Doss, 01:17 director of the Institute of World Mission 01:20 to find out what you should know 01:22 before you head overseas for mission. 01:25 As a former missionary and now a trainer 01:27 of cross culture missionaries 01:29 Cheryl has a wealth of experience 01:31 and personal knowledge to share. 01:33 But first, let's travel to India 01:36 to meet a Global Mission pioneer. 01:46 This small group of believers makes up 01:48 the Seventh-day Adventist church in a small city in India. 01:52 This city lies at the foot 01:53 of the Himalayas on the border of Bhutan. 01:56 People here may not have a lot of material possessions 01:59 but once they get to know Jesus 02:01 they know they have everything they need. 02:04 This group loves to sing and worship God. 02:11 Over the years the group has grown 02:13 to include people with many different stories 02:16 and backgrounds. 02:18 This congregation exits 02:19 thanks to the work of Global Mission pioneers. 02:22 Global Mission pioneers plant churches 02:25 and share Jesus with people in communities 02:27 who may not know Him. 02:32 Asha is one of these Global Mission pioneers. 02:35 Her favorite thing is to introduce people to Jesus. 02:39 She visits people in their homes where they feel most comfortable 02:42 and willing to ask questions. 02:44 When people have questions about the Bible 02:46 Asha is able to answer them confidently. 02:49 She studies her Bible a lot. 02:53 She has no formal training, no degree, she just has a desire 02:57 to spread God's message to her neighbors. 03:01 Her children are also interested 03:03 in reaching out to the community. 03:06 Today, they are joining Asha as she visits a home. 03:10 They have visited this home a few times already. 03:14 As they approach the door a smiling face greets 03:17 and welcomes them in. 03:18 The owner has been waiting for their visits 03:20 and is eager to learn more about the Bible. 03:24 Asha reads stories to the man 03:25 who has never heard them before. 03:28 A simple lesson, a song, and a prayer are enough 03:31 to make a huge impact. 03:34 The owner of the house is thinking about being baptized. 03:37 Without Asha's efforts, many people 03:40 would not have heard about the love of Jesus. 03:42 Your faithful support of Global Mission is 03:45 what brings Jesus to areas like this. 03:47 Global Mission pioneers have planted seeds 03:50 in this part of India, which have now grown 03:52 into a healthy group of believers. 03:55 Please pray for this group as they continue to grow, 03:59 and pray for Global Mission pioneers, 04:01 like Asha, who are reaching those around her 04:04 and teaching them of God's love. 04:16 I'm glad to welcome our guest Dr. Cheryl Doss. 04:19 And Cheryl, you are the director of the Institute 04:21 of World Mission, thanks for joining us. 04:24 Institute of World Mission is a institute set up 04:27 by the World Church to train missionaries 04:30 to be effective in their ministry. 04:32 What does that involve? 04:34 Well, it involves bringing together people 04:37 from all over the world who are being sent out 04:39 by the World Church into cross cultural settings. 04:42 Families, parents, children, and working through 04:47 a three-week series of classes together 04:50 as we think about their call and what God asked them 04:53 to do in mission, what they need to be. 04:55 So, I mean, we're just called to preach the Word right, 04:59 so why do we need to have this sort of training? 05:02 Because people are different from everywhere 05:05 and tasks are different. 05:06 Peoples tasks are different and it's not an easy thing 05:09 to move a family of cross cultures. 05:12 It's not an easy thing to pick your profession up 05:16 and do it in another place. 05:19 And we tell people we're not here 05:20 to make them better doctors or better humanitarian workers 05:24 and that's the professionals skills 05:26 they probably are or well-versed in 05:29 but we are there together to think about the mission. 05:32 What does it mean to be a missionary. 05:34 And even if you're skilled doctor in this culture 05:38 you have to do it differently in a difficult culture. 05:40 Right. People are different. 05:42 The task will be definitely different impacted 05:45 by the social and economic levels 05:49 and every, every kind of thing it's different. 05:51 I mean just thinking out what people eat 05:53 in a new culture can be a challenge. 05:54 You are right. Exactly. 05:56 Now you have three major areas that you summarize 06:00 in terms of teaching people to a cross-cultural. 06:03 What are those three areas? 06:04 Yeah, well, we always tell missionaries 06:06 that the three most important things 06:07 they need to be or to do to have is 06:10 to be adaptable, adaptable and adaptable. 06:13 So adaptability is very important thing 06:15 but we have five, five areas that we actually emphasize 06:18 they are kind of objectives for our training. 06:22 The first one is that missionaries need 06:24 to be people who are growing spiritually. 06:26 Unless you have been impacted by the gospel 06:29 and growing in discipleship you have little or nothing to share. 06:32 Second one is to be missionaries 06:34 who meet people who are thinking biblically. 06:36 Everything we do needs to be grounded on the Bible. 06:40 Thirdly, we need to a be reasoning missiologically 06:43 that is as a missionary as- 06:45 that's kind of the anthropological 06:47 look at these people in these contexts. 06:49 How do we, how do we meet them? 06:51 Fourthly, we need to be people who are living holistically. 06:55 In our family life, our interpersonal relationships, 06:58 our physical health and so on holistic people. 07:02 And lastly of course, the whole goal of this is 07:05 that we will be serving incarnationally, 07:08 serving as Jesus served. 07:10 Sure, sometime people are concerned when we talk 07:13 about how we have to adapt 07:15 the message in different circumstances. 07:17 I think we're talking about compromise et cetera, et cetera 07:20 which would not what is the danger of 07:22 not doing this of just going 07:24 and preaching like we would here somewhere else? 07:27 Well, people will understand what we say 07:30 from their own context and culture 07:33 and as anybody who has talked 07:35 to somebody in a different language group 07:37 or in a different culture you- 07:39 just even sometimes in our own culture 07:41 we know how easy it is to miss-communicate 07:43 and people take it given their own frame of references 07:47 and their own understanding. 07:48 So unless we're willing to learn 07:51 their frame of reference unless we're learn willing 07:54 to take the time to understand 07:56 what they're actually hearing 07:58 we may be giving a completely wrong message to them. 08:02 We may actually not be giving the gospel. 08:05 Can you give me an example? 08:07 Oh, well, there are many of course, 08:10 I suspect you could give an example from 08:12 even discussions with your wife, right 08:14 as where the miscommunication happens 08:16 but in the sense of witnessing there's a very 08:21 interesting example and hymnology in Thailand. 08:25 Thai is a- has a tonal language 08:28 so that a word can be mean completely different things 08:31 depending on whether it's a rising tone or falling tone. 08:35 And when English hymns are translated into Thai 08:39 and just sung with English tunes 08:41 you can actually be singing the song near, 08:44 still near for example is actually 08:46 the way the tune make its go is farther still farther. Okay. 08:49 So somebody walking by and here's an Adventist singing 08:52 that is hearing the completely wrong message. 08:55 It has a min contextualized for that contact. 08:58 Yeah. So you have so many people coming in for training, 09:04 do you have people who come in kind of skeptical 09:06 why am I here or you know three weeks 09:09 I have to go through and then they have a light bulb 09:11 movement where they see what it all means. 09:13 Can you tell me about that? 09:15 Yeah, we- not in frequently 09:17 we have people who come wondering why they have 09:19 to take three weeks out of a very busy schedule 09:21 because I tend to tell them, you know, 09:24 where else in the church are you given 09:26 the opportunity to spend three weeks 09:28 thinking about the path God's called you to. 09:30 Really having a chance to study 09:33 and fellowship with other people 09:36 who are also being called into that paths, 09:38 building the kind of relationships in the training 09:40 that we hope they can build outside 09:42 because we have- like this last one we just had 09:45 eight families from seven different countries, you know. 09:49 So a very international group that comes together 09:52 and spends the time talking through 09:55 the issues so that in the class are actually practicing 09:58 some other skills that am that they will need later on. 10:03 But the aha moments come at different places 10:06 for different people. 10:07 I remember one a long serving missionary 10:10 who was coming for the second time Mission Institute 10:14 and we got to the point part of cross-cultural conflict 10:17 and we're talking about the different types, ways 10:20 that people handle conflict 10:22 based on different cultural norms. 10:24 And he suddenly put his head in his hands 10:27 and started shaking his head and I said you want 10:29 to add something to this 10:31 and he said, you know, he said I have been doing- 10:33 I come from a indirect culture but I've been yelling 10:38 at the people in the culture I'm at. 10:40 You know, he said I just so frustrated 10:42 between all the cultural, you know, constraints 10:47 and the feeling of overwork and so on. 10:50 He had been- he got into a yelling mode 10:51 in an indirect culture. 10:53 He just realized and so we got an email afterward 10:56 saying I've quit trying to change them 10:59 and guess what, my stress level is so much lower. 11:02 Isn't that interesting? 11:03 Yeah, so that sort of thing we hear frequently. 11:05 Yeah. Cheryl, thank you so much 11:07 for joining us today and for sharing 11:09 some of the excitement of what happens 11:10 in the Institute of World Mission. 11:11 Yes, it's a wonderful thing. 11:13 If you get a chance to come you're welcome. 11:15 Thank you so much. 11:17 Viewers at home, please remember 11:19 the Institute of World Mission as they train missionaries 11:22 to go all around the world 11:24 and also please remember Global Mission pioneers 11:28 who are planting new churches in new areas. 11:31 And we have a free offer for you. 11:33 It is called the Global Mission Pioneer 11:35 Stories DVD with much more on it. 11:38 Full of wonderful heartwarming 11:40 encouraging stories about Global Mission. 11:43 And so if you would like to receive this DVD 11:46 and you live in North America 11:47 the details are there on the screen. 11:50 We will be right back after this short message. |
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