A flying missionary an
accidental church planter
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and holistic urban mission
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all that and much
more coming up next
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on 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.
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Jesus said "Go, go
unto all the world,
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telling them of His love."
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This is our mission.
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This is our Global Mission.
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Hello, I am Gary Krause
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and welcome to
Global Mission Snapshots.
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Today we will travel to
Peru, to meet an Adventist woman
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who didn't plan
on planting a church.
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She just wanted people to
worship with her on Sabbath.
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And we'll talk
with Dr. Gaspe Kalone
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about Urban Mission.
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What makes it such a challenge
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and what can we do about it.
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Also when people
picture a missionary
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they might think of
a preacher or a teacher
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or may be a doctor or dentist,
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in reality there are
many types of missionaries.
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Some are builders,
some are librarians,
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accountants,
engineers, bakers, translators
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or even computer
and media specialists.
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Today we'll travel to Indonesia
to meet a missionary pilot
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who was called to fly
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and after that we'll talk with
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Adventist mission
video producer Ricky Oliveras
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who documented this
high altitude mission story.
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My name is Bob Roberts
and my job is mission pilot.
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Bob Roberts lives and
works in Papua, Indonesia.
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He has been flying with
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Adventist Aviation
Services in Indonesia
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for more than 20 years.
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He has seen all kinds of things,
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and met thousands of people
hungry to learn about Jesus.
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On a typical
morning Bob gets up,
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checks to make sure
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everything is
okay with the plane,
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and climbs in for a ride.
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He delivers
supplies, visits villages,
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and transports people throughout
the many islands of this region.
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If you look on the map
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you will see that the
island is split in half.
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The eastern side is the
country of Papua New Guinea,
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while the western
half is part of Indonesia.
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Here in Papua, there
are huge mission challenges.
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The first obstacle is
getting to the people.
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The terrain here
is extremely rough.
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Mountains,
rivers, and dense jungle
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make it nearly
impossible to walk through.
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To reach some of
these villages by foot,
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it can take weeks of hiking
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and chopping
through this terrain.
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That's where
Adventist Aviation Services
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comes to the rescue.
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Trips that used to take weeks
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now take hours
thanks to Bob's flying.
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These islands contain
more than 500 language groups.
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You can imagine
how difficult it is
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to reach so many
languages in an area
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made up of hundreds of islands.
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Almost 90
percent of these people
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have never even
heard the gospel.
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Bob flies to
reach the unreached.
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He has been flying for the
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Seventh-day Adventist
Church for almost 40 years now.
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He spent a number of
years flying in Africa
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before coming to Indonesia.
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His experience in the
air is extremely valuable
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to the mission
work in Indonesia.
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This is where he feels at home
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and where God has
called him to fly.
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When visiting this
small city in West Papua,
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Bob discovered that the
local Adventist pastor's
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father was very sick
and had no way to see him.
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If he took a boat
to visit his father,
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it could take days.
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The pastor was very disappointed
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that he may never
see his father again.
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Bob offered to fly
him to the nearby city
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to visit his father.
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With the services of the
Adventist Aviation plane,
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the Pastor was able
to see his father again
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and share
encouraging words with him.
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Bob often transports sick
people to get medical attention.
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Many of the small cities
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and villages have
no medical facilities.
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Commercial planes rarely
or never fly some places.
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Even with small
commercial planes,
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it is very expensive
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for a villager
to afford a ticket.
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We fly a lot of sick people,
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and when we do fly sick
people we fly them for free
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if they're really sick.
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Bob's flying is a ministry.
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He cares about
the people he visits.
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He wants to bring the
message and hope of Jesus
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to the people of Indonesia.
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So those are the kind of things
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that make you glad
you're a mission pilot
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helping people that would
not have a hope otherwise.
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And that's why we're here.
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Please pray for Bob
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as he continues
to fly for Jesus.
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Pray for the hundreds
of workers around the world
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who have left the
comforts of home to serve.
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Thank you for
supporting the mission
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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My guest is Ricky
Oliveras video producer
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who actually produced
the video that we just saw.
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Ricky, thanks so
much for joining us.
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Thank you, for having me.
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Now what an amazing
experience to go to Irian Jaya.
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And to fly through
that sort of territory.
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What were the
filming opportunities like?
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Oh, there're many
filming opportunities.
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It's been, you
know, for years actually
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I wanted to go to
that region of the world.
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So for me I was
just soaking everything
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and it's such a
visual opportunity.
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Yeah.
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And being in the air with Bob,
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being on the
ground with the people,
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there is just- you
turn left you turn right
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and there is always
something to point my camera at.
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Yeah, so Irian Jaya borders
Papua New Guinea same island,
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part of Indonesia.
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Now in this region
there's large territories of it
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that really haven't
been explored, right?
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Oh yeah, absolutely,
this is a very remote area.
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You have to- to get
some of the villages
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you would have to hike
in the jungles for weeks
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literally chopping through
with the machete for weeks.
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And so that can show
you how remote it is.
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Yeah.
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And you have to find to
get to some of these areas
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and there're still
places that haven't been
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you know seen before.
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Well, so there're potentially
there are tribes they are
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that have never been
reached from outside world.
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Exactly.
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So Ricky, tell me about
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what Bob Roberts is
doing there as a pilot.
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Well, Bob he is
an incredible person.
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He is being
flying in small airplanes
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for the Seventh-day
Adventist Church alone
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for about, you know,
more than 40 years now.
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Wow.
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He is been flying in Irian Jaya
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or West Papua its now called-
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For more than 20
years. Is that right?
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He has so much experience.
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I felt very
safe flying with him.
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If I was gonna fly with anybody
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in that remote
location it was with him.
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Now, I don't know what
it's like in West Papua
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but in Papua New Guinea
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some of the
airport landing strips
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are pretty treacherous.
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Did you have any there
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that made you catch your breath?
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I was personally
fortunate enough.
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He took me to some
of the nicer runways
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and then we made our
way inland from there.
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But you know
looking down from the plane
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we passed the few runways
I saw that were, you know,
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a little you know questionable.
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Yeah, exactly.
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So yeah it can be a
tough place to fly, to work
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and that's why his
experience is so important.
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Yeah and another his missionary
has spirit has been passed on
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because he has a son who
is a missionary part as well.
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That's right.
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Ricky, when you
talked with Bob what did you-
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I mean your
feelings, what motivates him,
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what keeps him going out there?
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Well, for him he just
really loves the people
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and to me I thought that was
really cool, really valuable.
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I noticed when we
are on the ground,
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he is not just
sitting in the background
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he is the first one into
a home talking to the people
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and he's been
there for 20 years now.
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So he speaks little the
Indonesian with the people.
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And they get a kick out of it
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and so he is just
really motivated by
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you know sharing
God with the people
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and just getting to
know them personally.
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And for him he gets to know them
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and that really opens
the door to share about God.
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Yeah.
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He doesn't go in
preaching or and you know
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immediately you know
with the Bible in hand.
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First thing first he goes and,
you know, gets to know them.
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Sees, what they
need and actually he is
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as a side job to piloting
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he is also a
dentist on the side.
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So that gives you an idea
you know one of the basic needs
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that he helps to fulfill in
all these remote communities.
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He goes and pulls teeth,
does basic dental work there.
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Okay, so he and
his wife working there,
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they wouldn't be there
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if it wasn't for
mission offerings
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and tithes so
they're supported from that.
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What about
Global Mission Projects.
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What sort of, are there
any Global Mission projects
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happening there?
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Well, this region of the world
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is officially
just getting launched
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with Global Mission Projects.
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But there are still lots of
church planters in this area.
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And its really cool to see
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because like in many
remote parts of the world
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it starts from small
seed where one person you know
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has a gospel in
hand and they really,
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you know, they spread
it to their community.
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They go some
times from door to door,
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some times they you know
talk to a group of people
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and it really
helps to grow the church.
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So I visited one
church with a church planter
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who's been there for
about you know 30 years
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and they have a beautiful
church on the top of the hill
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and the church
is growing so much
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that there are
starting another church,
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a whole new building
because people having to travel
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from the other
side of the island
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to come to this one church.
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And so they are
starting a church
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on their side of the
island and its really growing.
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I mean, people are
hungry to learn about Jesus
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to learn about the Gospel.
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And it's pretty amazing to
see because it's a remote place
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hence you would wonder, you know
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have they heard
about Jesus there.
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And I didn't know before I went
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so I was really impressed to see
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how much work they're
doing but that being said
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there is still a
lot of work to be done.
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Yeah. It's not over.
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No.
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And through church
planters, through Global Mission
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which is getting off the
ground there in that region now
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and through you know many-
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Bob's flying through
all these various ways
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you know people are learning.
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Yeah.
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Ricky, that was
a fantastic video
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and it appears on this
one- not this particular one
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but this DVD
called Mission 360 DVD
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and Ricky produces
this DVD every quarter
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and if you'd like a free
sample view at your home,
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if you'd like a
free sample of this DVD,
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Mission 360 DVD
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just the information is
on your screen, you can call,
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you can go to our website
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and you can see
these missions stories.
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Where can these
mission stories be used?
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Obviously, at
home you can watch them
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but how else can
you use these really?
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There are a lot
of different ways
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you can use this.
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You can use it
in Sabbath school,
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you could use in a church
setting between, you know,
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any slot of time
you have in a school.
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Yeah.
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At home and
pretty much anywhere.
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If you want to see
really interesting things
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that are happening with mission
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in the
Seventh-day Adventist Church,
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you have the
opportunity online on the DVD.
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Fantastic, yeah that's right.
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You can actually go
to AdventistMission.org
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and download stories from this.
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But if you'd like a
copy a personal copy
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the information
is on your screen.
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Well thank you so
much for joining us.
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Hey, Ricky, I
really appreciate it.
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And viewers at home
please pray for missionaries
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such as Bob Roberts
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and pray for Global Mission
work all around the world.
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