Welcome back to
Ayutthaya, Thailand.
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Our next stop we talk to
General Conference treasurer,
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Pastor Bob Lemon
about the Give Them the Keys
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initiative empowering
young people for mission.
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Imagine young
Seventh-day Adventists
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turning the world
upside down for Jesus.
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Choosing,
owning and implementing
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life-changing outreach projects.
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Please support the 2015
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General
Conference Session Offering
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and help thousands of
youth driven mission projects
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around the globe.
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Give Them the Keys.
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Give them the keys is--
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I believe in new
philosophy in terms
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of how to engage young people
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in the mission of
the church, right.
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We are going
beyond the notion of--
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we have a plan and this is how
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you can participate in the plan.
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We're moving on to tell
them God has entrusted you
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with gifts with the Holy Spirit.
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Every one of you is
gifted through the Holy Spirit.
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Now we want you to prayerfully
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engage that spiritual giftedness
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with the needs
of your community.
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Too many time we
put the pause button
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because we said
they are too young,
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waited a little older,
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so we pressed the pause
button but we shouldn't.
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We should let them go
and come alongside them
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and get them involved.
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Young people are where
the church needs to put
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its emphasis and not just say
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they're the
future of the church,
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they are today of the church.
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And so we said this will
not only be used for them
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but they will make
the decisions on it.
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Now the way it works is
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that we would like to
encourage the division,
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or the union level
to set up a committee
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made of at least 75
percent of young people and--
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or younger 25 years old younger
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can be to
teenagers and early teens
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so that they become
involve and they are--
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with then in the committee.
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We want to
encourage them to be creative
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come up with new
novel ideas for evangelism
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and outreach that have
never been done before.
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The young people can
say one of the things
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we've had in the past
is the problem is well,
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this will be part of the money
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but there must be some
matching funds or something.
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We would be glad
to have the divisions,
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the unions and
conferences and missions
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match some of the money
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but it gets held
up when it's there
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at the local
church because well,
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we don't have the match so
we can't apply for the funds.
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In this particular case
the committee will decide
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how but we do not
want any restrictions
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that's say if
you have a good idea
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coming from some
young people that well,
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if you don't have
the matching funds
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you can't get out of this.
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It's to be used by
them to do outreach
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and bring people to Jesus.
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We would do not want to
limit them to one or two.
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If they are five, you know,
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in this group that
they think they could go out
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and reach out to
the community go for it.
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And we want to encourage them
if it is an ongoing project,
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we continue to support
it with their union funds
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and put aside a budget for it.
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But this offering is going
to be the one that launch them
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into beginning that
and we really encouraged
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because we know young
people are waiting to be,
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able to be used
that wonderful energy
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and creativity for the Lord.
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So come together
regions of the world
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with your youth leadership
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or administrative
leadership of your division,
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come together.
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Young people reflect on
the needs of your community
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and prayerfully work out ways
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in which through your
giftedness you can reach out
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and pursue the
mission of the church.
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So its giving them the keys,
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its giving them the initiative
under the jurisdiction,
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under the umbrella
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of the working
of the Holy Spirit.
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I'm here with Bob Lemon
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who is the
treasure of this world
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Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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And Bob, we just saw that video
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about the General
Conference Session Offering,
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Give Them the Keys.
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What can you tell
us about that offering?
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Well, you know every
General Conference Session
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we take offerings that
are for special projects
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but we decided this time
that not only would we take it
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for the young people
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and I'm talking about 25
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and under not
many of us 45 or more,
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think we're still young.
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But that they would be
able to use the offering
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for projects and things
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that word reach
people for Christ.
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Okay, before we even
get to that there may be
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people who don't know in
General Conference Session is,
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so every five years
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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has a world gathering
where major decisions are made
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and at that time there is
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a very special offering taken up
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with given a special emphasis.
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So that's all we're
talking about right now.
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So again why young people,
why this offering this time.
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Well, you know,
often we say young people
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are the future of the church,
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but the reality is young
people are the church of today.
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And what we want to do
is empower the young people.
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We want to be able to
give them not only the ability
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to do things
but also the funding
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that can help do that.
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And I think a lot of times
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we hear ideas from young people,
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we love to do
this, we love to do that
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and then when they go to
ask for permission to do it
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or whatever and
that's the answer they get.
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There's no
funding. So this is set up.
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So how will this
actually work in terms
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of how they get the money?
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Okay.
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The funds are
actually taken up worldwide
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from all of our churches
on several Sabbaths leading up
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and the Sabbath
of the first Sabbath
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of General Conference Session.
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We then track how much
came and from each division,
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each area of the world,
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each territory and two-thirds
of the money will go back
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to that area to
use and one third plus
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all that's taken in San
Antonio on the two Sabbath
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will be divided
equally among the territories
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and then they will
use that for young people
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with the young
people making the decisions
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as to how it's to be used.
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So as a young person, you know,
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this sends a certain
message while as a person--
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when I was a young person
it's under certain message
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that that we have a role to play
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and maybe we haven't always
sent that to the young people.
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As a church leader how do
you see this impacting the lives
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and young people in terms
of their relationship with God
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and their
relationship to the people
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that they live and
work with every day?
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From personal experiences
well as watching others
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there's nothing that
gets you more involved
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with the church or
with God in a spiritual way
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than going out and
actually doing the work.
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And we have a
tendency to say well,
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we planned this
for you and plan that.
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But let's let
them do the planning,
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let's them make--
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let's let them
make the decisions
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as to how it will be done.
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I know when I see young people
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who actually get
involved in something
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it really does strengthen
their spiritual relationship
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with Christ and
there's nothing like being
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asked a question
as to what you believe
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to get you back in and saying,
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you know, let me make
sure I got that right,
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I thought I knew.
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If you had a
message for people out there
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as to how they
could support the offering
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and support young people
what would you say to them?
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I think you know one of the most
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important things
in finishing the work
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of reaching people for Christ
is to support our young people.
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We can turn in the offering
through the local church
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and through but you
can also donate directly
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to the General
Conference Offering.
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But we need to
make those high profile
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and we need to make
it really say something
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and really do something.
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It's not just a
token thing of saying
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we want to see
great results from this.
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Thank you very much, Bob.
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You know, to
those of you out there
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if you really want
to support this offering
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you can also go to
adventistmission.org
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and make a donation online
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to the Give Them
the Keys Offering
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or supported in your local
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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The Seventh-day Adventist Church
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is committed to
training and equipping
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its young people for service.
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Our next stop is
Bangladesh where a portion
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of your 13th Sabbath offerings
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this quarter will
go to help a university
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to more effectively reach out
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and help the community
with their health needs
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in this very challenging
poor and needy country.
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Another year and its
graduation time again
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at Bangladesh
Adventist Seminary College
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or BASC for short.
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The school has been
operating in the outskirts
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of Dhaka since 1969.
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Here countless
students have graduated
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to serve both
God and their nation.
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Graduation is a special
time for students and parents.
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As the graduates
prepare to march down the aisle
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and receive degrees
many of them are thankful
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for more than just
academic education.
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Eddie Joydore is such a student.
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She came to BASC from a
non-Christian background
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and as she interacted
with friends and teachers
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at school she
noticed something different
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about the people here.
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My teachers behave and
teach with a different attitude.
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They care about us and
our development as people.
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The students in this campus
also pray in a different way
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and it makes this
campus a very special place.
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Eddie's interest
in the Bible grew
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and she began to study and pray.
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Her biggest fear was to
acknowledge her new faith.
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She did not want
her family to be ashamed
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or socially embarrassed
because of her faith in Jesus.
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So she decided to
keep this a secret
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but after Eddie's
father and mother passed
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she could no longer
wait so she was baptized.
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Now Eddie wants to use
what she learned at BASC
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to help and teach others.
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Eddie is graduating
with a bachelor's degree
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in office management
and a minor in teaching.
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Her goal is to use her education
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to be a blessing to others.
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BASC administrators have plans
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for an
additional school building
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where they will accept a
greater number of students
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and teach new field of study.
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Your 13th Sabbath offering
this quarter will assist
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with the construction
that is taking place at BASC.
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It will also build
Timor-Leste first Adventist
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educational institution
in addition to construction
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of a church in
Lakpahana University
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and materials for
children's programs
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in the southern
Asia Pacific Division.
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Please pray for
this quarter's project.
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Your generous support
continues to shed light,
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love and help around the world.
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Well, that's about
it for today's program
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and I hope that you've
been inspired and challenged
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by what you've seen on
Global Mission Snapshots.
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Around the world
today from remote areas
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such as Timor-Leste
to more populous areas
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such as Thailand and
Bangladesh we can see mission
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moving forward under the
power of the Holy Spirit.
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And thank you for
your continuing prayers
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and financial support
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and personal
involvement in mission,
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it is making a difference.
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Before we go I would like
to send you a free small gift
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as a small thank you for your
continuing support for mission.
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You can see the
details on your screen.
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It's the Mission
Spotlight DVD full of stories
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like you see on this program.
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Well, for Adventist
Mission I'm Gary Krause
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and I hope that you can
join me next time right here
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on Global Mission Snapshots.
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