Welcome back.
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Next up we
travel to Bergen, Norway
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where Rick Kajiura
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is talking to Claus Nybo
the president of LifeStyle TV.
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Thank you, Gary.
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I'm here in Norway right now
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and I'm talking with Claus Nybo
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who's the
president of LifeStyle TV
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which is based in Sweden
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but you cover all of Scandinavia
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with your broadcast.
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What exactly is LifeStyle TV?
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LifeStyle TV is a satellite
and internet broadcasting
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where we cover as you
say all of Scandinavia.
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So Denmark, Sweden and Norway
and we broadcast 24 hours a day
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and I've done that
now for nine years.
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And this is
amazing to see really
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the result we get
'cause this is you may know
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this is a very
secular area of Europe
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where you have few
people attending church.
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People talk about
somewhere down towards
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even two percent
of the population
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attending church.
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So it's a very
secular area to reach
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and create its own challenges
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which is I think
why we're choosing
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the word also
LifeStyle TV trying to reach
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from a lifestyle approach
and a strong health approach
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into a secular
area of the world.
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Okay and you
must be having people
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respond to what
you're broadcasting.
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Can you share
some of the stories of
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what impact you're
having on people's lives?
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We do get response.
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We've people
who have write us in
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and we've a lot
of anonymous viewers
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that just simply
watch and watch and enjoy it
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and then all of a
sudden they'd contact us
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and I mean we have
people that will contact
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like almost out of the
blue come to the church and say,
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"We want to get baptized.
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We've gotten to
learn to know about Jesus
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and we want to accept
Him as our personal Savior."
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And those are exciting people.
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I'm thinking
this summer we had one
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that was actually in Finland
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and a viewer
that had been watching
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for several
years on LifeStyle TV
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and then got contact
with a local bible worker.
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It was in the Vaasa
area and it was really unique
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very quick as in that
very area we have the church
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has like a center of hope.
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A restaurant that is
working as a mission station
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to reach people to share people
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with people
about healthy lifestyle
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and one of their
bible workers got contact
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with this viewer of
ours that had been watching.
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And see the Christ of
baptism as result of this
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wanting to give
her full life to Christ
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and to see these connections
with a local ministry
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and the work they do and
how they can take a contact
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and follow up
on a personal level
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and make those connections
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and then sit down
with the last questions
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you know on how
to explain the Bible
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and lead them to the
point where they're ready
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to give their
life full to Christ.
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Now, we're here in Bergen
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'cause we're looking at
may be a center of hope here.
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But the one that's there.
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Can you tell us
what they're doing?
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There's this a newer
center there in Vaasa, Finland.
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It's an area of Finland
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that is partly Swedish speaking
and partly Finnish speaking.
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And so they have
set up a restaurant
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in a shopping center
where they're serving
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total vegetarian
food six days a week.
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And for about four
hours there is a lunch buffet
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and so they've coming in there
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a little over hundred
people every day that eat
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then in the
often in the evenings
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they would have
different kind of seminars
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where they invite
people to come in.
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They'll have health
lectures or social lectures
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or different things
that connect with lifestyle.
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And so they try to give
people more than just good food
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but also things
that can really help them
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in their life to go
home and make changes
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and start
improving their lifestyle.
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And so from these things
you have people that are asking
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of course, you know,
what is the background
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why do you do this?
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Right.
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And then they get
into the whole discussion
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about their spiritual
background from the church.
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We know that they
often use LifeStyle TV
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as a reference point
and so working with that
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and can refer their
customers to watch TV
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which is a great way,
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because a lot of people
have spiritual interest.
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Sure.
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But living in an
area where it's more like
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taboo to talk about
it you watch at home.
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And so when you sit in
comfort of your living room
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in the privacy
of your four walls
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then people engage.
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They would watch in
internet they watch in satellite
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and then they will look
and they will find something
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that start changing their life.
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And then they may come back
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and start asking
more spiritual questions
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and that's where these
centers are so important
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that can make those
connections with people
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because this is
all sort of searching
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to define spiritual
meaning in their life.
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And so to have people
like that is gold worth.
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I guess everybody in
their life has questions
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about the greater
meanings of the life.
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Now, when you talk
about vegetarian restaurants,
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why vegetarian?
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I think especially
here in Scandinavia
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it's in the time, you know,
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people are very
health conscience.
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They are
environmentally conscious
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and so realizing that
this is a great choice
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for even the environment
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to go on a vegetarian
diet or total vegetarian.
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Those are things
people are interested in.
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And especially that one
is one that really connects.
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Animal rights are strong
so how do you treat animals
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and in that way
also going vegetarian
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that resonate to a
lot of people over here.
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So there is a strong room
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and especially by young
people to move towards that.
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And so I think if
restaurant like that
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is very much in and in this case
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the name of the
restaurant is Vegana
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and so already the
name is strongly indicating
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that here's a
restaurant that focuses
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on total vegetarian
diet and that's something
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that connects and resonate
with specially young people.
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Now, you've eaten at
the restaurant I assume
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and when people come in there,
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you know, what
are they expecting
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and how do they
think the food tastes?
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I mean just
sitting and observing.
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I've been there twice
and I love to sitting there
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quiet at a table with my food
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and just
observing customers come in.
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You see that
they're enjoying it.
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They're thrilled with the food.
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They bring their friends,
they sit and chat at the tables
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and you can see in
their smiles their laughter
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that this is the
place they like coming.
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This is like a
little sanctuary for them.
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You know a little
breathing home where they come.
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And so these are
the kind of people
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they worked with
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and it's a wonderful atmosphere.
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The food is great.
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They've had
different kind of cooks there
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but the one that
is the project leader
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Hulda Carlson is
doing a phenomenal job
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and really leading.
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She is a young girl
but she had a vision
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and she didn't
let people deter her
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because when she
first started sharing it
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you know people was like,
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"No, the
restaurant is a big work.
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You can't do it."
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But she was like,
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"Well, if God
wants me to do it."
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And so by faith
and a lot of prayer
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she and her husband
Jonathan ventured out
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and got people excited
around them step by step
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and then they moved out
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and what God
has done is amazing.
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Well, it sounds like
a wonderful partnership.
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LifeStyle TV
that is reaching out
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at the homes in a broad
way and a center of hope
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that is in a local
community so people can connect
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and enjoy a healthier lifestyle
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and also get to know some people
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who can help them
may be learn about Jesus.
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Exactly and I
think that's the synergy
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we want to try and see
between our media outlets
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and local
churches, centers of hope
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different
connections between people.
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If we can learn to work together
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we have so much we
can share with people
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about a new lifestyle
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that's gonna help
change their lives.
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Claus, thank you so much
for talking with us today.
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And now back to you, Gary.
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Well, we continue our
360 degree view of mission
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around the world
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with true form of
missionaries to Africa.
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Doctor Arthur
Bergman and Dorothy Brennwald
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reminisce about
starting a mission hospital
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in Koza, Cameroon.
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A hospital that has
brought hope and healing
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to thousands of
people through the years.
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In 1950, Seventh-day
Adventist church members
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came together to
support medical missionary work.
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Through the 13th
Sabbath offering,
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members like you, gave to
help send doctors and nurses
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to the village
of Koza in Cameroon.
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Soon after, a hospital
was built to serve the people.
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Meet Dorothy Brennwald
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and her brother-in-law
Dr. Arthur Bergman.
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In the early years,
they and their spouses
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worked at Koza hospital.
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These were many people
in the Mandarin Mountains
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who had absolutely no
means of medical help.
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It was very sad.
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We saw things here
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that we never
studied at all, in school.
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Before we were there,
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they were
crying for three nights
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just almost constantly
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because somebody
was always dying.
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And that's one
thing the hospital did.
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I think that's one
of our frustrations,
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they wouldn't come at
first, they were afraid of us.
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And they would wait
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till they get deathly
sick before they'd come.
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They were quite
overwhelmed with Koza
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because it was so fresh, so new
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and they were amazed.
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Yeah, they're
bringing a patient in.
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He came with his car.
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Sometimes they came in trucks.
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Yeah.
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They bring their entire family,
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they bring somebody
to cook food for them
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in case they need to stay.
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They'd stay
right there with them.
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They would feed
them, they would help them,
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they never left
them, they usually stayed.
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Koza hospital quickly grew
to an eight room dispensary
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with operating room,
obstetrical unit and pharmacy.
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As hospital expansion took place
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the reach of
invaluable medical service
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also crossed borders.
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Sometimes Fred and I
would go on our bicycles
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to an area about a
mile away or something.
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We'd hold bush clinics.
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Well, we're gonna
get there pretty soon
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not really many good roads.
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Wasn't it once a
week? I think so.
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We couldn't take a
lot of medication along.
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We took the things we
thought we would need most
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and encourage them
to come to the hospital
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if they needed more care.
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As Dorothy and
Arthur spent their days
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serving the people of Koza,
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they had fun
learning a new culture
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and observing
the different customs
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of the local people.
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That's how they dressed.
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And the men wore
a smile remember?
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They were very gentle
people. I like that about them.
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That's the kind of
hut that we lived in,
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except we had
three, three together.
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And some of the walls were stone
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and others just mud.
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Most of them were mud I think.
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When we went there,
we went there for life,
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until Jesus would come.
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Since those early years,
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many other
Adventist missionaries
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have taken up the
challenge to support Koza
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and other
hospitals around the world.
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Through medical mission,
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people have been
blessed here and now,
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and for eternity.
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And when we went back in
1985 and that was 25 years after
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we had been there, we
went back for four months.
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There were tens of
thousands of many more people
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who had been baptized
and that just thrilled me.
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Your prayerful
support and mission offering
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continue to assist
thousands with health,
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truth and hope.
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Well, thank you so
much for joining us today
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on Global Mission Snapshots.
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I hope that you've
been inspired and challenged
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by what you've seen and heard
from mission around the world.
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And thank you so much
for your continuing prayers
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and financial
support for mission,
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it does make a difference.
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Before we go,
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we'd like to send
you a special offer
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as just a small thank you
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for your continuing
support of Adventist Mission.
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It's a book called
"God's Great Missionaries"
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and in here you'll find
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lots of different stories
of mission around the world
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and you'll also read chapters
focused on Bible characters
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and how they were
involved in mission
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and are an example for us today.
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Well, that's it
for today's program.
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I'm Gary Krause
for Adventist Mission
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and I hope you
can join me next time
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right here on
Global Mission Snapshots.
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