Welcome back.
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Next up, we traveled
to the country of India,
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and Rick McEdward
has a story there.
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Thank you, Gary.
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I am here in India
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and we're talking with pastors
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about the great
mission challenge
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of the big cities.
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India, of course,
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has some of the
largest cities in the world.
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And I'd like to
introduce to you, Pastor Sharma,
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who is in one of
these large cities.
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Pastor Sharma,
welcome to our program today.
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Thank you.
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Can you tell us, sir,
which city you work in?
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I work in the national
capital region of Delhi.
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Oh, really?
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Yes.
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Now Delhi is the large city,
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about how many people are there?
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Oh, there are
about 17 million peoples,
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but if you
compare from other cities,
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it's quite big.
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If you take into
account the close by vicinities,
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the suburbs of Delhi,
actually the population
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would total up to
about 22 million in all.
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Making it one of the
largest cities in the world.
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One of the largest
cities in the world.
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So in terms of how we
work in such an environment,
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I mean you are surrounded
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by masses of
people on a routine basis.
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Oh, yes. Yes, yes.
Vehicles, traffic...
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I was in the Delhi
market just the other day
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and it was crowded,
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It is. It is.
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So how in that
kind of environment...
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how do you kind of
taken the mission challenge?
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What do you...
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Well, how do you
look at what's there?
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Well, it looks
quite chaotic at times,
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but we are pretty focused
on our mission and what we do.
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We should say that,
we work with people.
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That's our primary objective
to spread the good news,
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the gospel news to people.
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We tell them about good things.
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We tell them about God.
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We tell them about good habits.
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We tell them
about different things,
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which help to live a better life
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for each of them.
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Now, some of
this is obviously done
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through community
outreach, community events,
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helping people
right where they are.
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What kind of things
are happening in Delhi,
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that would be
really is illustrative
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of the way God loves us?
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Well, I'll tell
you an illustration.
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See, we have a community there,
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a Nepalese community.
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And we have a special focus
on this Nepalese community.
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We have just
raised up a congregation.
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And if you say
by way of outreach,
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community outreach,
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I would say that we are focusing
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on this Nepalese community.
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They are people who
have migrated from Nepal
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and they are staying there
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for livelihood
purposes in Delhi.
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Do you feel like
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they're more like
refugee or emigrant community,
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they're coming for
helping their income level?
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Yes, yes. Okay.
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They're little
better than refugee.
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Refugee hardly
have any rights and all,
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but they're pretty
established people.
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All right.
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So we are
targeting the kids there,
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so we can teach the kids
and educate the kids somehow.
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Provide them basic
primary level of education
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and than they can go on
to study something else.
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So that's one way we are doing
community outreach from Delhi.
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So is this a literacy
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or is this actually a school
that we have in that area?
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We don't have a school.
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It is just a
rudimentary form of education
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we give, just the basics.
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So there is a platform for them,
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they can move on
to higher education.
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And that's one way we tell us...
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we tell them about
the word of the Lord,
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about good things
of gospel message.
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Helping people
right where they are at.
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Yes, yes.
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So I suppose in Delhi
that the challenge is large,
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so that there is a need
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for many different
ways of evolvement...
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Yes, there is.
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How you think
community service etcetera...
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Yes.
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Can you tell us anything else
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about the work that's going
on in the Delhi metro area?
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Well, this particular place
I am talking is Baljeet Nagar,
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and we have an incharge here,
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who is a lady and who
is of Nepalese origin.
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And then we also...
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So she can
communicate in the language,
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she understands the situation.
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You wouldn't
believe, we don't have
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any Sabbath
school supplies for us,
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but we get them over from Nepal,
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so that these
people could be benefited
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in this place.
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So they can learn it
in their own language.
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Yes, in their own language.
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So we are specific,
we are people specific,
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we are situation specific.
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Let me tell you
one more example.
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There is a place
called Aaya Nagar,
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and we have a
sewing center running there
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to help the
ladies, the poor ladies.
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We also have a sanitation class
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running in that area.
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So the sewing center
is teaching ladies to sew?
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Yes.
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And then they can stitch things,
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and make a little
income from sewing.
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Yes. Very good.
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That's in consonance
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and in
partnership with the ADRA,
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where we have provided the place
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and they have
provided us the resources.
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And tell me little bit more
about the sanitation program
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that you are mentioning?
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Well, actually the sanitation
is pretty bad in Delhi.
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Some of the
problems we face in Delhi is
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of sanitation, of sewerage
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and one is of the income
of our workers is pretty low.
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So because of that,
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the health aspect is little bad
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and we need to work
on that with our people.
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So we have volunteers,
who we give training,
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we impart training to
them on basic health courses,
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and then they teach of the field
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in the community at large.
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Wonderful, so you would have
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a wide variety of
community projects going on?
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Yes, we have.
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As a way of sharing
God's love with the community.
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Yes, we have. Yes, yes.
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You know, just the other day
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I was in the market in Delhi...
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Yes, sir.
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Probably hundreds of
thousands of people around me
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at any given moment,
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and the wide variety of colors
and products and the dry goods
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and the
mechanical parts, etcetera.
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Some may look at it as
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maybe like you said
you reference chaotic...
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Yes.
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But in actual,
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I would see there is an
organization to the cities,
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that actually
helps in some ways,
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'cause there's natural networks.
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What's our church membership
in the metro area of Delhi?
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Our church
membership in metro area
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is about 3,500 people,
that's the membership we have.
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So there we have
22 million people
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and only about 3,500 members?
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Yes, so the challenge is large.
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So sharing person by person...
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Yes, sharing person by person.
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Is the way to go.
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We go on small group dynamics
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and that's the method we follow.
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And I think that
suits us in Delhi.
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Sure, thank you so much
for being with us today,
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Pastor Sharma.
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I want to encourage all of
you to pray for our big cities.
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The challenge is there.
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There're many people
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in whether it's
the wealthy areas
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or the slums,
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they need to
know in practical ways
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the love of God.
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Next up, we travel
to the South Pacific
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into Suva, Fiji.
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A place that's
kind of special to me,
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because that's where I
was born a few years ago.
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And we're gonna visit
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a 13th Sabbath offering project,
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that your offerings
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will help support this quarter.
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Meet Nemaia,
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he is a Seventh-day
Adventist church member,
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who lives and
works in Suva, Fiji.
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Nemaia has a passion for health
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and wants to share health
tips with everyone he meets.
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Today, he is visiting
a local school to educate
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the community about
nutrition and dental health.
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So I am here this
afternoon with a dietician
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to deliver to them
some health information.
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Members of the local
community were invited
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to this free meeting
to learn basic principles
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that will improve their lives.
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His dental
instructions are helpful
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for the young and older like.
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And Nemaia has fun doing it.
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I enjoy doing this,
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because we promote to
people how to live daily,
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from all age groups.
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We're starting from the womb,
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right up to the senior citizens,
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everybody is special.
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And everybody need to know
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how to live a healthy lifestyle,
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and have hope in
their life everyday.
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It's important for Nemaia
to share a message of hope
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to the people he educates.
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He promotes a
holistic method of living,
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so that the people can
live a healthy balanced life.
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A health is our--
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It's everything...
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since it deals
with the physical,
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mental, social and spiritual.
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And we just can't sort of divide
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or make it
compartmentalize everything
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because it has to be in holiness
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and wellness is holiness.
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And when we promote
health, we're promoting,
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trying to touch the
people's thinking or lifestyle.
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And what they think
about, how they perceive this,
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sort of directly or indirectly,
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they're touching
whole aspect of a person.
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In Fiji, the rate of
non-communicable diseases
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is quickly increasing.
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Fiji's ministry of health
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is working hard
to educate the nation
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on how to live a
healthier lifestyle.
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They work closely
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with the
Seventh-day Adventist church,
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to teach
quickly and effectively.
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Nemaia now works directly
for the ministry of health,
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to present how to
make lifestyle changes
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and prevent disease.
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So if the disease
is caused by lifestyle,
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then the
solution must be oriented
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towards lifestyle at least,
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we know that 80
percent of the solution
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to any non-communicable
disease is lifestyle
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and 20 percent medicine.
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So that's where
we're currently working.
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As the Adventist church
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and Fiji's ministry of health
continue to work together,
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they have hope
for a bright future.
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They're putting a major emphasis
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on nutrition and healthy eating,
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because this will
make a huge difference
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on the population's health.
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Isimeli is the national advisor
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for non-communicable
diseases and awareness,
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although he is not an Adventist,
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he is enthusiastic
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about collaborating
with the Adventist church.
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Not all Fijians smoke, it's one,
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only 17 percent
of Fijians smoke,
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so that's not
much of a issue to be.
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Not all Fijians drink alcohol,
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it's just about 30
percent, so 70 percent don't.
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Not all Fijians
are physically active,
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but all Fijians eat
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and I think
nutrition is the power house
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist church.
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And I feel because
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is that common
denominator that I am
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rather than
reinventing the wheel.
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I believe if the
Seventh-day Adventist church
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comes in with the message
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that is health message
that's strong in nutrition,
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it should really help in that.
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For me NCD in
Fiji which is a crises,
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it's a nutritional issue.
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As you can see,
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the well being
of the Fijian people
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is becoming a major
emphasis throughout the country.
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In Fiji's capital Suva,
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the Seventh-day Adventist church
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is already
conducting health seminars
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through church
members like Nemaia.
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As we continue
to promote health,
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people notice the
church's principles and values.
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It's a platform
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for the
Seventh-day Adventist church
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to improve the
quality of life in Fiji.
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This quarter, a portion of
your 13th Sabbath offerings
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will go towards
building a center of influence
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focused on health and wellness,
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where the community can
come to learn and be treated.
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They already have
the site picked out
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and they're eager to
expand their health ministry.
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And here is the
proposed or the possible site
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for our wellness center
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that the Fiji mission wants
to have the wellness center
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based in Suva,
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so you can see
the site behind me.
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Please pray for
the church in Fiji.
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Pray that it will
continue to reach its community
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through health and wellness.
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I just want to
thank all the churches
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throughout the world
for their contribution
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that they're going to give
in order for the city of Suva,
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and especially Fiji
mission to have a site
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or to have a building
for the wellness center.
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Oh, thanks so much for
joining us on 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 and heard,
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from the South Pacific,
to India, to here in Manaus.
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Many men and
women, boys and girls
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are sharing the
light of God's love
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and touching the
lives of many, many people.
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And I want to thank you
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for your
continuing support of mission,
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your prayers, your finances,
and your personal involvement.
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Before we go,
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I'd like to offer
you a small money bank.
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This is just a free gift,
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it's a little reminder
that you can put in your home,
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teach your children,
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you can use it
in Sabbath schools.
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But basically,
it's the old fashioned,
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putting some change,
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putting some money for mission.
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Collect it together,
bring it to the Sabbath school
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or wherever for
the mission offerings.
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And it's just a weekly reminder
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of the importance of giving
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from what's God has
given us to help others.
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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
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right here on
Global Mission Snapshots.
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