On today's program
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mission projects
that you can reach by boat
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and one place that you
will never reach by boat.
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That and much more
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coming up next 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 and welcome to
Global Mission Snapshots,
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I'm Gary Krause.
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Today's program is coming to you
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from the capital of
Maryland in the United States.
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And Annapolis as you
can see is a port city.
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We think today of
international travels
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starting and ending in
international airports,
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but back a few years ago
this is where it all happened.
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International
travel started and ended
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in places just like this.
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And today, we
could hit out on a boat
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through the Chesapeake
Bay and out in to the ocean
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and we could
visit many of the places
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that we're going to
see on today's program
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but it will take too long.
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So instead we
gonna do a quick trip,
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we gonna go to Bergen
in Norway, a port city
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and we're gonna
talk to a pastor there
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about the many
challenges of urban mission.
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Particularly in a country
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that is becoming
more and more secularized.
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We also travel to Chicago
right here in North America.
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It's a port city
but it's in inland sea,
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and the great lakes.
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But first up
let's travel to Alaska
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and we'll visit a
Global Mission pioneer.
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Togiak, is a small
village in the south of Alaska.
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It lies north of Togiak bay
and south-west of Anchorage.
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You cannot drive to Togiak,
this is a very remote place
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and it takes a couple of
airplane rides to get there.
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About 800 people
live this rural community.
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This village is mostly made up
of two Native American families
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and the people
here are very close.
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In this part of Alaska
you can have nearly 20 hours
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of sunlight in a summer day
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and close to 17
hours of complete darkness
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in the winter months.
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Chad and Liz arrived
here straight out of collage.
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They came with a
goal to plant a church.
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Can you imagine
leaving your family and friends
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to go to a
completely strange place?
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Well, what they didn't know
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is that God had already started
to pave the way for them.
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Chad's grandmother had
built a very strong relationship
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with people of this
community, many years ago.
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Although Chad and Liz
would have a rocky road ahead,
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they were warm
welcomed by a some
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who remember their
grandmas dedicated work.
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Chad isn't any
Inuit/Aleut and he understands
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the way of life in
this region of Alaska.
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Like many of the
men in this village
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he is a fisherman.
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Chad is
connecting with his roots
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as he needs the people of Togiak
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inviting them to study the Bible
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and get baptized.
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Before long pioneer Chad and Liz
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realized God had a
special work for them here,
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they were called to specially
minister to God's little ones.
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Besides they work as
teachers at the local school,
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they extend their
ministry beyond school gates,
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all the way into
the church facility.
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Kids are the
future, and I said Lord,
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if you have given my wife
and I gift to love these kids,
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like You love us,
we're gonna do it.
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The kids love to
hear Bible stories,
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play games and
experience the love of Jesus
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first hand through the
ministry of Chad and Liz.
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We are here for them
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but its like God's
love is known here,
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they want to be here.
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Everyday they will
come and knock on the door.
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The kids simply love it here.
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They often come with the excuse
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to get a drink of water
or use the churches bathroom,
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but really they want
to visit Chad and Liz,
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spend time and eat a
special meal together.
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We love you, we
take you, may we all say.
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Amen.
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Well, summer days
are warm and exciting
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winter days bring a challenge.
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The sun rises
about 10 in the morning
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and sets around 5 pm.
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It's difficult for any one
to focus on healthy activities
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and avoid common problems
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such as drug
abuse, drinking, smoking
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and even overeating
as people grow depressed
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for lack of options.
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But even in the winter,
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the children have
a place at the church
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to learn and
sing Christian songs.
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Never in my life
have I seen a church
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where kids bring
themselves, it changed me.
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It's told me that
when the love of God
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is what it supposed to be
in the church unconditionally,
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no bias, no judgment
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that kids can see
that at such a young age
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and it will inspire them
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to point where they
will bring themselves.
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And they want it.
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Chad and Liz continue to focus
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on the kids of this community
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but they never
forget that there are others
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who are also
hungering for the love of Jesus.
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On a daily basis Chad
uses the VHF radio frequency
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to spiritually
feed hungry souls.
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I'll turn on the VHF
radio and its channel 68
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so the pretty much all of Togiak
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is in this network through VHF
channel 68 on that frequency.
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After noon Togiak,
this is Pastor Chad Angasan
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist church
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and it is about four
minutes till 3 o'clock,
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it is the 15th of July, Tuesday
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and it is time for
the reading of the day.
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And now I tell them
what that verse means to us.
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What it means us personally
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and why and how it applies
to our lives and what we can--
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how we can use that
verse in our daily lives.
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God is using pioneer
Chad and his wife Liz,
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to touch Inuit
people who like Chad,
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who can connect with
them through their ancestry,
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but most
importantly through the love
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they communicate from God.
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Please participate in
this important mission
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right where you are among
your people and your friends.
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God can use you to communicate
love to a world and need.
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Please also pray
for pioneer Chad and Liz
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as they do their part
to share the hope of Jesus.
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My guest is Frank
Hardy who is a specialist
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in the Navajo people and culture
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and he is also
fluent in their language.
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Frank, thank you so
much for joining us.
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Very good to be here.
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The Navajo people of course
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a Native American
people here in North America.
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What sparked your
interest in these people?
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I have always been
interested in languages
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and I had a
pastor, who worked so hard,
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he had eight or nine churches
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in the southern
part of New Mexico.
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And I thought I wanted
to study for the ministry
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and if I worked
anywhere I wanted to work
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there for them with those needs.
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And so I
finished at Union College
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and one part of Central Union,
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they called it Central Union
at that time that overlapped
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with the Texico
Conference was Farmington.
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So I went there to
sell books after school
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and they invited me
go to La Vida Mission.
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What did you discover
about the Navajo people?
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What what's
special about them to you?
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Oh, they're just so quiet,
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it's impossible
to shout in Navajo.
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And they have so many needs,
they are just very dear people.
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I love them.
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They are kind of gentle people?
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Would you describe them, yeah?
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Now, but not before. Right.
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The reason for the long walk
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was because they made
themselves such a terror
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in the southwest stealing
sheep and attacking saddlers
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that they were marched
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over to the
eastern part of New Mexico
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and then they came
back that was the long walk.
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So why did you
learn their language?
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Well, when I went there
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I wasn't thinking
of learning of Navajo,
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I was only thinking of
gaining some experience
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before I went on
to do graduate work.
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And when I got
to the reservation
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I purchased a copy
the Navajo New Testimony
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which I have here.
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This is the copy that I brought.
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This is the 1956 edition
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and it was just so
strange, so different
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and it became an
objective of fascination to me.
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I read this book three times.
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Yeah, so give us an
example of Navajo language,
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perhaps a Bible verse in Navajo.
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Okay, Isaiah 1:17--
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This is the passage that says
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"Come, let us reason
together, says the Lord.
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Though your sins be as scarlet,
they will be white as snow,
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though they be like crimson,
they will be white as wool."
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But the Navajo does
not say as white as wool.
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That would be--
that's not what they say.
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They say--
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which means as
white as white wool.
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Because not all well
under reservation is white.
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So they clarify it.
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They clarify.
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So Frank, the gospel
among the Navajo people
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because their
traditional believes
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would be very
different I imagine?
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Yes.
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How has the gospel
entered among the, the people?
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There is a long history
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of Christianity
on the reservation.
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Catholics where established
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in early presence at
St. Michaels, Arizona
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and also the Dutch Reformed
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have had a congregation in
Shiprock for like forever--
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it's a very old congregation.
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Seventh-day--
well, I should mention it
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about half the
tribe is Christian
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now, about 50 percent.
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All their religion is maintained
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at about five percent
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the remaining 45
percent is peyote,
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the Native American church.
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And the Adventist
work in the Navajo,
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how would you describe that?
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I-- we have an established work.
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First I have to
give you some geography.
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The box of the
reservation is in Arizona.
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So think of a box of your
favorite breakfast cereal,
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and then if we
go down from the top
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we go a third of
the way down the box
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and halfway over
toward the middle.
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Now that's
almost the reservation
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form the right
edge you have to go
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little bit further
right over in to Arizona
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and from the top you
have to little further up
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in to Utah,
that's the reservation.
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Now our work is in two
bands, two parallel bands,
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one across the
north of the reservation
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the other across the south.
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So across the north
you would start in Shiprock
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then Monument Valley then Page
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and this is late
breaking news the work in Page
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is just starting out
and this is exciting stuff
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Allan and Kelley
Fowler heading that up.
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But then across the
south you have a Gallup
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and Window Rock and Kinlichee
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and I think they might
have some work in Ganado also
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and then Chinle halfway between.
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Now do we have Navajo believers
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who are leading the work there?
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Do we have any Navajo pastors?
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Yes, at Monument Valley
Pastor Charlie Whitehorse
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is a native speaking Navajo
and he has his D.Min. degree
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from the Andrews
University Seminar,
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a layperson working
in Page is Allan Fowler,
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Allan and Kelley.
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Both men left the
Reservation temporarily
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Allen to work,
Pastor Whitehorse to steady.
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But these people are
not submission assignment
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they are home.
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This is their place.
Among their own people.
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Among their own people.
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So Frank, as we finish up here
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what is the
importance of speaking to people
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in their own language?
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The importance is speaking
to people in their own language
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is they can understand it.
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Right.
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In the 2000 census,
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I'm sorry don't have
numbers from 2010 census
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the Navajo people reported
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over 7, 000
monolingual speakers of Navajo.
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Now not every one is
a monolingual speaker
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but that 7,000
rounds up to eight.
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Their actual number was 7,616
monolingual speakers of Navajo
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who is going to
reach those for the gospel.
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Well, I can tell
you it's gonna be,
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it's gonna be somebody
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that speaks among
the language they know.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Now you have a couple of
books that you have written
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in Navajo there,
Frank, Load of Wood?
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Please do describe those.
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Okay, this is the first one,
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and this is not the reason
the reason why we are here.
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Right.
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This book, I'm sorry this book
is the reason why we were here
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but this book is the
first one to come out.
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This was published
in 1978 Christ Bihigii
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that's means things
that belong to Christ,
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and it was
little missionary book
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that published in 10,000 copies.
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And then this one
Jesus Hol Yi'ashgo
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is an adaptation not a
straight up translation
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but in adaptation
of Steps to Christ.
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The copyright
holders the white estate
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it was printed at
the Review and Herald.
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Wonderful.
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Frank, thank you so
much for sharing with us
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and among the
people that most of us
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have heard little
or no contact with
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or we know that they are very
special in the heart of God.
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Yes, they certainly are.
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Let me just mention my
personal desire and hope
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would be that our
Navajo Adventist people
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and that Navajo people
generally will learn to know
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and to appreciate this book,
this is the 2000 Navajo Bible,
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the complete Bible
in the Navajo language,
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it is beautifully well done.
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Wonderful.
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Thank you so much, Frank.
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And we'll be right back
straight after this break.
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