Welcome back to
the historic city
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of Mainz, Germany.
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And we continue our journey
to various parts of the world
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to see how the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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is using various media
to touch the lives of people
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where they live
and where they work.
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Next up, Gina
Wahlen visits South Sudan
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and 94.0 Salvation FM.
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Thank you, Gary.
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We're here in South Sudan.
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And I have the
wonderful pleasure
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of introducing you to Dominic.
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Dominic is the chair
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of the only Seventh-day
Adventist radio station
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here in the
country of South Sudan.
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Dominic. Yes.
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Could you tell us
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how did the vision for this
radio station 97 Salvation FM,
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how did it begin?
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Well, the vision of this radio
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has started with
our retired pastor,
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Pastor Fulgensio Okayo.
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And he thought that it
was good for the ministry
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to be accomplished quicker
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by having a radio
station and television
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at the same time.
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But the
government gave us a license
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for the radio station
until the radio is on,
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then they can be able to give us
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a television licence.
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So this is how it all
begun and he begun to actually
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give these
things from his family.
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He start contributing from them,
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bring it to the church
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and the church board
form a formal committee
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that I am part of
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and then to see the
work continue to go ahead.
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Now I heard something
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about loud speakers
on top of his house.
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Could you tell me a
little more about that?
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Yeah, the time we
begun, he was imitating
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what Muslims were doing,
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having horny
speakers on their mosques
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and they, every morning at 6
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they begin to share a message
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and people wake up
and disturb people around,
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sleep-- no sleep well.
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So he also bought
his loud speakers,
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these horny speakers
and put them on a tree
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and then his room has
become his broadcasting room
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where he broadcast
from, the living room.
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And then many people listen
early in the morning at 6.
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They wake up to
listen to the message.
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And from there,
that's when he began to think
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we need to develop this
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just more than this
horny speakers a home
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to add frequency and go wider.
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And so now you have gone wider
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and how is the
community here in South Sudan.
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How they reacted
to Salvation FM radio?
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Well, the community
are very much blessed
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and it is the only radio station
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that gives a pure,
clean music, music,
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Christian music, not mixed
with any other secular music
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and they also give
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a spiritual
messages that builds people
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and give hope and
family life and health.
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All these messages,
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you can't get them in
the other radio station.
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That's why we became very
much popular in the country.
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And can you tell us
about some of the feedback,
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some of the reactions
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that you have
heard of community people
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who have listened to
the radio station and what,
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how that it has
changed their lives?
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Well, some of them have
been hearing to this message
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and some of them
came to the radio
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and get some counsels for
their marriages that are broken.
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Some of them, they
are being prayed for,
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it was long time
they are not giving birth.
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Like a woman have been 17 years
but after being prayed for,
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she came with the
child to the church
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to be dedicate it.
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And we have one
presenter now working with us
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who also came through
the radio and got baptized
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and now we trained him
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and he got his
certificate from AWR
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and now he is
working here with us
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in then program for the youth.
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And so we are very much blessed
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with what the radio is
doing to the community.
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Most of them even like
our international program
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which we relate from
Hope Channel directly.
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And these programs are
programs for Mark Finley,
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programs that are
for Sabbath school,
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Hope Sabbath School
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and programs also
for Elder Douglas.
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These programs,
people like them so much.
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And they always
attend to these programs
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and some preachings
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that are coming
from Hope Channel.
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We have that slot in our radio.
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Fantastic.
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Now this radio station
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that started in
this pastor's home
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with loud speakers in the trees.
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I see you are no longer
broadcasting from the trees
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but from this lovely building.
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Could you tell us a
little bit about what this is
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and how you've transformed it?
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Well, this
shipping container, we,
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our former chair
person Pastor Clement,
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when he was a associate
country director for ADRA.
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So he requested from ADRA
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so that we can be
able to start to begin.
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It was hard to collect money,
the same time to get frequency,
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to get equipments
from US based company
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and then to build
a house for a radio.
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So we just
thought we can be able
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to start with this container,
fabricate it into three rooms.
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We have the control
room where all the machines
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and there a controller sits
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and then we
have an on air studio
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which is in the middle
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and then we have a
reception slot for reception
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to cause our
guests that will come
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before they go to
their time for their studio.
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So we had to paint it
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and it has to
communicate to itself by--
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when somebody comes here,
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he knows this is
94.0 Salvation FM,
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the voice of hope and
they contact all here.
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So and then we had to put a roof
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because this is a container.
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Somehow this roof reduces
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the level of heat
that also comes in.
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So this roof, we have put here
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so that we can be
able to at least see that
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it's a bit
cooler and then they AC.
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We have put ACs
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and to put also
the sound proof inside
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so the room is, the temperature
is very cold as in here,
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anywhere, any building.
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So how creative.
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You take a shipping
container and you transform it
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into a wonderful radio station
for Salvation, Salvation FM.
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You've painted,
you've put your information,
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a roof over it and
you are ready to go.
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Yes.
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And then on
date, by the 12th of,
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the 1st of December 2012,
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that's the day
that we went on air.
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Okay. Yeah.
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And each year we celebrate
because of what God has done
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through all of
us in the ministry.
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Dominic, thank you so
much for being with us
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and for sharing
what you're doing
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here in South Sudan.
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Amen. Thank you.
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And it's been a privilege
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and I bounce it
now back to you, Gary.
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Thanks, Gina.
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As you can see mission is
on the move through print,
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radio, television
and so many other means.
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Our last stop on today's program
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is the country of
Switzerland, the place where
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the first official Seventh-day
Adventist missionary,
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Pastor J.N. Andrews was sent.
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I realize words
like rogue and missionary
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don't seem like
they should go together.
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But Michael Czechowski was
like Indiana Jones or Han Solo.
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He was, "a
stubborn, impetuous man
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who refused to take
advice from Ellen White."
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History gives us the sense
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that he was a
charismatic swindler.
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Yet, without him,
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many Adventists would
have gone on believing
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what the Review and
Herald printed in 1869.
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"It may not be
necessary to preach the gospel
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in any country besides our own.
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Since our land is
composed of people
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from almost every nation."
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If we reach the
immigrants within the US,
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they'll witness to their friends
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and families overseas,
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the Great
Commission will fulfill itself.
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The church's first big push
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for foreign
missions came in 1871
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when GC delegates
voted to send J.G. Matteson
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to witness to the Scandinavians
and Danes of Wisconsin.
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Czechowski,
however, was no Millerite.
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He was an
ex-Catholic Polish priest
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turned obsessive Sabbatarian.
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He was young, idealistic,
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fluent in seven
or eight languages
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and terrible with money.
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James and Ellen White were
so besotted by his personality
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that they helped
him pay all his debts
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and funded his travel from
Battle Creek back to New York.
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Later, Ellen
would receive a vision
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telling her to
stop supporting him.
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Czechowski left a
wake of burned bridges
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and bad business
deals behind him.
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Though he hated taking advise,
he didn't mind taking money.
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So when the SDA
church wouldn't support him
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as a missionary to Europe,
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he found another
denomination that would.
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Czechowski used their money
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to share Adventist's
beliefs in Switzerland.
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However, he failed to inform
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the Swiss congregation of
the home church in America.
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It wasn't until a church elder
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found a copy of
the Review and Herald
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that
Czechowski's secret came out.
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The congregation was shocked.
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Naturally, their
trust was bruised.
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The Swiss
leaders wrote to the GC
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asking for a
replacement missionary.
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Adventist
historian David Trim writes,
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"Adventists in
America were actually
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sort of embarrassed to learn
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that there were already
Adventist believers in Europe."
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The Americans
invited the Swiss Adventist
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to send a delegate
to the 1869 GC Session.
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Though he arrived
too late for the session,
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he stayed long enough to
return as an ordained minister.
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Elsewhere, Czechowski's tactics
finally caught up to him.
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His bank roll was revoked.
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Disgraced, he left his
family and moved to Hungary
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where he would later die at
57 reportedly from exhaustion.
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But the Swiss church
still sort a missionary.
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And that is how
John Nevins Andrews
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became the first official
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Seventh-day
Adventist missionary to Europe
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as a replacement for
the rogue missionary.
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The spirit of spreading
the three angels' message
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began to intensify
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within the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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Even J.G.
Matteson got to move on
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from the wilds of Wisconsin
to his home country of Denmark.
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His work would lead
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to the first international
Adventist Conference,
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the
Scandinavian Publishing House
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and Mattson
Institute in Mysen, Norway.
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The American
Adventist Church was beginning
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to catch a glimpse
of the possibilities,
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the gospel
preached to every nation,
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kindred, tongue and
people, a world church.
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But we still
lacked a key component.
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Well, thank you so
much for joining us
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on today's program
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and I hope that you've
been inspired and challenged
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about what
you've seen and heard.
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Here in Mainz, Germany,
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we see the tremendous history
going right back to Gutenberg
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and his printing
press and it reminds us
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of the importance of
media of communication.
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And we're bringing
this as far as South Sudan
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and various places of
the globe where the good news
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about Jesus Christ is being
shared in very creative ways.
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And thank you so much for your
continuing support of mission,
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through your prayers,
through your personal finances
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and through
your own involvement.
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Before we go, you
may have been wondering
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what I am
holding in my hands here.
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Well, these are chopsticks.
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And I'd like to send you a pair.
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These are not expensive but
a little reminder of Mission
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and so next time
you're eating a tofu
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or stir-fried
vegetables or whatever,
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you can remember Mission.
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It has the
Adventist Mission website
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on it too to remind you.
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Thank you so much for joining us
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on today's program.
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And I hope that you can
join us next time right here
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on Global Mission Snapshots.
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