Welcome back to
Global Mission Snapshots.
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I'm talking with Earley Simon,
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who is the
producer of this program.
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Welcome, Earley.
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We're talking about Euro-Asia,
but I also want to talk about
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a mission initiative
called One Year in Mission,
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tell me about that.
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One Year Mission is part
of the focus of the church
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into entering the cities
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and reaching
people in the cities.
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This is the program
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where 13 people
have been selected
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from all over the world.
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They come from each division,
each region of the world
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and they met in New York
for six months, it's one year
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because they will
spend six months in New York,
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they will take what
they've learned there
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and bring that back home
and teach all their leaders,
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so that they can keep
passing to knowledge on.
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Right and so-- so these
while these are 14 including
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representatives
from the Middle East.
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These 14 people
came to New York,
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and the ideas is this--
this one now multiplies are they
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young people give
a year of their life.
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That's right.
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And as I was visited
Euro-Asia I met Anna.
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Anna was one of the people
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who were selected for
the One Year in Mission.
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Sort of very interesting story,
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she went to a very
good school in Russia.
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It was a state
school and she knew that
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God had led her
there for the studies
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and she is now-- was graduating,
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she was ready to go out.
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And she was excited to
put her knowledge to work
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and so she applied everywhere.
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Sent resumes all over the place
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and she expected
to get a job quickly
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but that wasn't the case.
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She tried and
tried and even though
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she had the qualifications
the studies were there
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she couldn't get a job
and she didn't understand why.
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So she began to pray, she
knelt down and said, Lord,
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please help me to
find a job you know.
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I know, You've
led me up to here,
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I know You've let me to
school and my diplomas here
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and what do I do with this now?
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And as she
prayed she encountered
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the youth director
for her conference.
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And they started
talking and sharing ideas,
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she shared her experience
she was looking for job.
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And he remember that
One Year in Mission Project,
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so he mention
that to her and said,
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you should apply you know.
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There is probably
lot of people applying,
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there is only one
person that will go
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and represent our
division but you should apply.
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And she did, she
didn't expect much of it.
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And I don't know how much
later she got a call from him,
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saying you know, you've been
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the one selected
to go represent us.
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So she was super excited.
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And she went to New
York spent six months there.
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And what they did
is, when they got there
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they received a lot of training
in medical missionary work,
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evangelism you know,
door to door approach
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and how to give Bible
studies and pray with people
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and communication skills
and bunch of other things.
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And they didn't only get
lectures but they actually,
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were encouraged to
put that into practice.
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So the 14 people got together
and said, what do we do now
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to connect with the community?
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And what they did was
they would go door to door
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in their
neighborhood and ask people
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if they had any needs--
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if no, if they
wanted to be prayed for.
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And they would even stop
you from street giving hugs
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if they wanted to
and pray with them.
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They just started really
interacting with the community
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you know, trying to spend time
with them and befriend them.
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And when they did that,
they got names, contacts,
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they started doing
the cooking classes,
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stop smoking programs
and-- and a few other things
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just to help the
community you know.
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And all those ideas
that they've got there
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and some others they were
able bring back to their region
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and Anna was super excited
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because she
learned a bunch of things
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and now she was
trying in her area.
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And some of these things were--
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these are people
would think of them
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is not this won't work here.
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But they tired it
anyway and it's amazing
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those things are
working and not only working
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and bringing more
people to the church
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but as they trained
others in their region
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they also try new ideas
and passing this knowledge on.
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This work like a springboard
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you know to
whole bunch of leaders
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they come out of one
program in New York City.
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Fantastic, now how
long will she be working
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as a volunteer back on them?
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The project was
six months in New York,
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six months in her region
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but this is volunteer
work so she can continue on
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and that's what she wants to do.
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Now I had a couple
of days up in New York
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with these young people
and tremendous young people,
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variety of backgrounds
and we spend a couple of days
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talking about
Christ's method of the ministry
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and I think the
holistic method of ministry
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is really the only way
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that we're going
to have any success
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whatsoever in the cities.
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That's what the thing that
I think they took away as well
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is that personal
touch in relating to people.
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We often hear the verse
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"Go ye--go you
into all the world."
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Sometimes you think
oh, I just send a book,
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I'll just send the donation
or I'll send a TV program,
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but that's one thing
that I felt from Anna.
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She really got that
she needs to be involved,
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she needs to be the one to
go to spend time with people
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to meet their needs
and to befriend them
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and only then you can safely
ask someone to follow Jesus
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after they know
you that you trust,
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you have won their confidence.
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Now when you're visiting
in the Euro-Asia region,
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you know, when the
full of communism came
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it seem like people very open
to hearing the Christian message
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and the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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had many baptism et cetera,
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today it seems secularism,
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materialism
it's pretty dominant.
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How did you find
things? You put it very well.
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The church is working hard
to reach the people in the city.
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One thing that
struck me, quite a bit was
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when I arrived there
you see these beautiful
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church buildings, cathedrals
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and you know mosques and
like and the Adventist Church
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doesn't have a lot
of those big buildings.
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So it really
comes down to the level
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where you have to befriend
people and interact with them,
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they are not gonna
come to the Adventist Church
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because of what
we have to present
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these
infrastructure and buildings.
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Right. But the
church is growing.
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I met a couple of mafia
people or former mafia guys.
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Good they are former.
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And these are not
typical guys like my size,
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these are the
big guys with scars
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and you can see that
they really had a tough life.
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But the church is
reaching to those individuals
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as well as other individuals
in many different ways.
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But put some of the bad thing
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that we don't have too
many of the big structures
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because it takes spec
to the New Testament model
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where the church grew
meeting people's homes it wasn't
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because that will come
into some magnificent cathedral.
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Right, right.
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Well, Earley, thank you
so much for joining us today
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and telling us that story.
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My pleasure.
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And viewers at home,
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please pray for the young people
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involved in the One
Year in Mission Program,
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going to New York City
they had the opportunity
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to hear a lot of
things, to pray a lot,
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to actually be involved in
various models of ministry.
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And now they back home
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putting Christ
method into practice
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where they're
mingling with people,
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they're showing sympathy,
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they are ministering to
needs, their wining confidence
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and they're leading
people to Jesus Christ.
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If you want to find out
more about Adventist Mission
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and One Year in Mission
you can go to our website
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@AdventistMission.org.
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Don't go away we'll be
right back after this break.
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