So behind me is Pastor Sam,
a young pastor here in Britain
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who is one of the people
who came up with the idea
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of the Sabbath sofa,
which you can see here
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in the middle of the street.
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And pastor Sam has
this vision of introducing
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the concept of
the Sabbath to people,
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busy people
walking down the street
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and he and his
team have trialed it
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in many, many different places
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and it's just amazing
how people react and open up
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and talk about the
busyness of their life
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and how they're open to finding
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a little bit of
peace every week.
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And when the
concept of the Sabbath
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is shared with people,
the idea of 24 hours a week
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where you can be
immersed in family, friends,
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get away from materialism,
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get away from work,
markets, busyness, shopping
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and all that sort of thing.
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People really love the idea,
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which should be fairly natural
since it was created by God.
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So, Pastor Sam is
talking with some people,
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it's a very cold
day here in Watford,
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just outside of London
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and so most people are
just trying to keep warm little
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and stop and sit down at a sofa,
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but let's see what happens.
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Hi, My name is
Sam. What's your name?
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Liza. Liza.
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Terry. This is my friend Gary.
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Hi, Terry and Liza. Okay, hi.
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Yeah, so I'm assuming
that you saw the sign,
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did you notice what it said?
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Yeah, are you
tired? Have a seat.
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So are you tired?
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I'm a little weary,
I could always sit down
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when there is a
comfy piece of furniture.
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Well, you're looking
pretty relaxed actually.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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We've had a relaxed afternoon.
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Yeah we have.
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Well that's
good, a day off work?
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Half a day for me,
and you were working
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from home earlier.
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Yes, I was and
it's now half past four
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for any of my
employers who are watching
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so I am finished for the day.
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Okay.
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So can I ask in general,
in terms of your lifestyle,
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do you tend to work long hours?
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It varies. Yeah.
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You're nine to five
most days, aren't you?
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And I'm sort of
all over the place.
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I can work any
hours day or night really.
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Okay. All Right.
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We're trying to gauge whether
well, Watford in general,
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people in general
society are exhausted.
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If I was to say to
you, that we generally
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are like
machines that keep going
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and going and
going as a society,
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would you
disagree or agree with me?
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I'd say that every
machine needs fuel,
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and that that can be exhausted
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and I would agree that
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the majority of
western society is fatigued.
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I think the
serious issue is stress
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and exhaustion in general.
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I mean, a lot of people
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who I know have
genuine sleep issues.
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I'm lucky I still get,
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you know, a seven
or an eight hour sleep,
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and I can do that
effortlessly but I know that
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that's rare for a
woman of my years these days.
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Okay. All right.
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What do you mean of your
years, you're not that old?
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Well, late 30s.
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Yeah.
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You can quite easily
forget what a stop button is
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and that you're
actually allowed to press it.
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And I think we've
recently rediscovered
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our stop points haven't we?
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After being part of
the machine for a long time
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and getting ground
down within it and by it.
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But we have
recently discovered that
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we've got a stop point
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and we're fully
allowing ourselves
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to press it on a frequent basis.
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I had to wrestle him.
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Not literally.
I'm really, happy.
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I'm really happy that both
of you have identified that
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and you're
really making an effort,
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or it seems as so,
you're making efforts to try
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and, I guess I don't know
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if medicate is the
right word for it but--
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It is. It's self-medication.
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Okay.
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So its-- Not medical medication.
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It's very consciously done,
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you've got to
fight for it you know.
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So it's evident that in
society people keep going.
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What's the solution?
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To remember that
they've got a stop button
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and that their
allowed to press it regularly,
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I think, for me.
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Yeah, and of course it's
like socioeconomic factors that
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come into play there and
depending on the lifestyle
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you want to keep you've
got to be real with yourself.
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You know, just all these people
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busting their gut to
have immaculate homesteads
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and immaculate gardens
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and keeping up with
everybody's ideal expectations.
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So we've got a
concept that we'd like to,
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get you to think about.
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We'd like you to
imagine something.
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Gary, would you like to
tell them a bit more about it?
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Well, just if you would imagine
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that every week for 24
hours you could just switch off,
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so in that 24 hours
there's no shopping,
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there's no business,
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there's no
getting on the internet
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to check up on
your stocks and shares
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if you happen to have them
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and you just invest
that in family and friends
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and rest, how does that sound?
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It sounds like a wonderful idea.
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Yeah. Dream come true.
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Do you think it's feasible?
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Absolutely, it is.
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For most people.
For western society?
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The way it
functions at the moment
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I think you'd get
a lot of resistance,
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for individuals I
think it's feasible.
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To make
businesses is actually close
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for a specified 24
hours I think you would have
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your work cut out for you.
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Because we very much have a 24/7
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functionality don't
we, in many regards.
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But let's just say
that we could possibly try
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and opt for something like this
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would it give
much more positively
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to use as human beings?
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I think it would.
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I grew up in a time
when shops closed half days,
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Wednesdays and shops
were never open on Sundays.
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Nothing happened on a Sunday,
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we did have
telephone in the house,
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we did have a TV,
we did watch that,
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but it was very
much a family time.
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And yeah going back to that
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I don't think would
be a bad thing at all.
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In fact, we're quite a
rare breed in that sense
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that we actually don't have
we don't watch TV in our home
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and we still read books
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and our child has
very limited access
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to technology in general.
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We're aware of the
fact for our older children
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that they can get consumed
by this idea of being pulled in
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and actually we prefer our
families to have down time.
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So would you find it
strange to learn that
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in my entire life
for one day a week
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I have never watched television,
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I have never worked and
I went through university
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and I did absolutely no study
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and done exactly what
I just described to you,
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do that sound strange?
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One day per week?
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One day per week,
every week of my life.
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No, it doesn't
sound strange at all.
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That's like a
Sunday in our house.
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I mean, it sounds
like an excellent idea.
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Congratulations for
putting it into practice.
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Yeah, we are going to
definitely maintaining it.
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There actually 18 million of us
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who try our best
to do this globally,
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I'm one of them and some of
my team here are doing that.
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We try to adopt this ancient
concept called the Sabbath,
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have you ever heard of it?
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Yeah, it's a-- leads to Judaism.
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A holy day, a day of rest.
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So it well--
Judaism is Saturday isn't
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it usually in the UK?
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Christianity,
Sunday. Yeah, mainstream.
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We also believe
in from Friday sunset
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to Saturday sunset is the main
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and most busiest
time in western society.
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I believe it and I
think we believe it
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that it can really
dramatically change society.
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So we're here
today to introduce you
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to the Sabbath sofa,
which you're sitting on.
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It's been in
various different locations
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across the globe here and there,
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so you're fortunate to be on it.
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And we'd like to
inspire you today
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to experience the
Sabbath for yourself.
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You've described essences of it
in little ways in your own life
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and I commend you and
applaud you for doing that
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and we really hope
that you can discover
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the Sabbath in a
special way for you.
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So we're here
today to inspire you,
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to tell you you're not a machine
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and you can
experience the Sabbath too.
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So thank you very
much. Sounds very good.
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Thank you very
much. Yeah, thank you.
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Thank you. Nice to meet you.
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Thank you very much. Well done.
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The Sabbath sofa
is a creative idea.
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It was a brain child
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of just three young
pastors here in Britain.
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They got
together, prayed together,
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how can we make a
connection with the community
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and you don't make
much more of a connection
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than putting a sofa in
the middle of a busy street.
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And its just amazing
I've witnessed over and over
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how people come and
sit down, take a seat
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and then you just
start talking to them
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about the busyness of
life, the stress of life,
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and one after
another they say yeah,
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your life can be exhausting
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and when you introduce
the concept of the Sabbath,
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the 24 hour
rest that God gave us
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their faces light up
and they say oh if only.
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And this connection is continued
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because as you see afterward
Sam talks to the people,
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he makes sure that
they get a photo together
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and he says we're going
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to put this photo up
on our Facebook page.
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And so that connection continues
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because they'll go
to the Facebook site
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Sabbath Sofa to
see their photos.
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There's the links
where they can continue
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to keep in touch
via social media.
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So it's a
tremendous way to keep up
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that contact to
mingle with people
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and to make that
connection for Jesus Christ.
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Next stop we travel to Nepal
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and we hear the story
of how a man found Jesus
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through Adventist World Radio.
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Rajesh Hada is
the studio manager
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for Adventist
World Radio in Nepal.
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When he was younger he
had a strong interest in music
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and one day he decided to take
his interest to the next level.
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My family
background is very musical,
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family environment very musical.
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I used to sing a song playing
the guitar with my father.
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Then my, father, my
family suggested to me,
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why don't you
open your own studio?
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Rajesh took his
family's suggestion to heart
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and in 1996 he opened a studio
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in the capital
city of Kathmandu.
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Right from the
beginning business was booming
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and Rajesh was very busy.
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One day an
Adventist Radio World worker
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came into his
studio and asked if Rajesh
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could do some
recording for their programs.
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At this point he didn't
know anything about Jesus
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but he agreed to
do the job anyway.
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Over time he was
draw to the music
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and to the sermons that played
through his speakers all day.
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Rajesh decided to
give his heart to Jesus
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because of the
work he was doing.
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Now he has a passion to
reach the Nepali people.
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He knows that
the people of Nepal
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are open to hearing the message.
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In the country of Nepal
many stations are commercial.
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So if we put it on the
commercial radio station,
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then non-Christians also
listen to out programs also.
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And many of the listeners
will call in with requests.
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For prayer for them
and ask for books, Bibles.
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So they are very interested.
So it's very effective.
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I think it's very effective.
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Families like
Chinbahadur and Bijuri
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came to know the gospel message
through the radio broadcast.
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This couple owns a small shop
and farm to sustain themselves.
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A few years ago
their son was sick.
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They took him
to the local healer
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but the son's
condition got worse,
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and he eventually died.
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They fell into deep
depression until one day
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they heard
encouraging words on the radio.
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They wrote down the
number at the end broadcast
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and called
everyday to ask for prayer.
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The staff from
Adventist World Radio
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eventually came to
visit and bring encouragement.
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We can't read so we
learn more about Jesus
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by listening to the radio.
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In many cases people cannot read
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or don't have access
to Christian materials.
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The radio is
their only opportunity
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to hear the gospel message.
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Yes, we want to learn more
and we want to live for Jesus.
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The radio is a powerful tool
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for reaching the un-reached
in all areas of the world.
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Workers like Rajesh dedicate
their lives to God's mission.
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The result is that
people throughout Nepal
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have the
opportunity to hear the message
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and give their lives to Jesus.
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Please pray for the
work being done in Nepal.
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Pray for workers like Rajesh
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who play a key role
in supporting this work.
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And thank you for
your support of mission,
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through Adventist World Radio.
00:12:53.97\00:13:01.71
Well, I hope
you've enjoyed today's
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360 degree view of
mission around the world.
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From huge cities like
London to more rural areas,
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many people are
sharing the light of God's love
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and thank you so much
for your continuing prayers
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and financial support
for mission around the world.
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Before we go I'd love
to send you a small gift
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as a small thank you for your
continuing support for mission.
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If you live in North America
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we'd love to
send you a small gift,
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it's this book
God's Great Missionaries
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full of inspiring stories
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of God's
missionaries in the Bible
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and how the
principles of their life
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and work still apply today.
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For Adventist
Mission, I'm Gary Krause
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and I hope you can
join me next time here
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on Global Mission Snapshots.
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