Welcome back to the
old city of Jerusalem.
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Traditionally,
the city is divided up
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into four quarters.
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I'm standing in
the Muslim quarter,
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over this way is
the Jewish quarter,
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over here is the
Christian quarter,
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and to the front is
the Armenian quarter.
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Now you won't
find any painted lines
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neatly dividing up
all these quarters,
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but it's divided religiously,
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culturally, and historically.
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Next up, we have a
story with Homer Trecartin.
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Maybe you grew up
like I did, reading books
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from the early
pioneer missionaries,
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mission stories, I loved them.
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I can remember
sitting enthralled for hours
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as I would read
stories by Eric B. Hare,
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or Josephine Cunnington Edwards,
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or Norma Youngberg.
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Turning page after page
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and wondering what
was going to happen next.
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I learned about the world
through these mission stories.
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I learned that there
are still miracles today,
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not just back in Bible times.
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I learned that no
matter what a person ate,
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no matter where they live,
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no matter what they
look like, God loves them.
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And so did I.
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But one thing I didn't
learn from the mission stories,
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at least I don't remember it.
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I didn't realize that often
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when a missionary
went to a new area
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where there had
never been anyone before
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to share the gospel,
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often they would find
that one group of people
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was more receptive than another.
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And, of course, they
focused on the receptive group.
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But time went on
and the church grew
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and became well
established and in many cases,
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it was still only among
that initially receptive group.
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Now, sometimes 100 years later,
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we still have large
areas where one group of people
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have been
receptive to the gospel
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and make up our church.
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But other
groups in the same area
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have never been touched.
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In one small country,
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the Adventist
Church has one member
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for every 21
people in the country.
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That's a pretty good average.
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By comparison, in
the United States,
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there's one
Adventist for every 285 people.
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And in Turkey,
there's one Adventist
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for every 691,000 people,
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but in this country,
one Adventist for every 21
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and it almost seems
like we've finished the work.
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But have we really?
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When we look a
little bit closer,
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we realize that there
are huge groups of people
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even in that country
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that have never been
touched with the gospel.
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Hundreds of thousands of people
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where there's almost
zero Seventh-Day Adventists.
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The Seventh-day Adventist Church
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started the
Global Mission centers
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to try and help reach people
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from non-Christian
backgrounds with the gospel,
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trying to see what can
we do to touch the lives
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in some of these
non-receptive groups.
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In this particular country,
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the Center for
South Asian religions
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was working with
the local conference
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to try and set up an
urban center of influence
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and begin to
hold health programs
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in the community in
hopes of touching the lives
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of these hundreds
of thousands of Hindus
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from Indian
background that had moved
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into that country
many generations ago,
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but who still
were not interested.
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Evangelistic
series had been held over
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and over again in that country.
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But nobody from
that Hindu background
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or hardly anybody
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was ever coming
to those meetings.
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As they held these health expos
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and other
programs in the community,
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they made many friends,
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but still nobody was interested
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in studying the Bible.
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So one day, they decided
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to try an
interesting experiment.
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One of the
things in that culture
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that people love
is called a katha,
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or storytelling.
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And so the Center for
South Asian religions,
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the Global Mission center
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helped the conference to set up
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and operate a
katha, a storytelling.
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It would last for a
week or so every day.
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To advertise it,
they had a parade.
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They went through
the city with floats,
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each float
depicting another story
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from the life of Jesus.
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They had big
banners that invited people
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to come to the katha.
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And on the first
night, hundreds of people
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came to this
storytelling, to this katha.
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That's amazing in an area
where we've never had people
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from the Hindu community
coming to our meetings before.
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They listened and
enthralled as each night
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they would hear Hindi songs,
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they would hear and see skits
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put on depicting
scenes from the life of Jesus
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and they would hear Bible verses
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that went along
with them being read.
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At the end of that series,
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many people came up
to our workers and said,
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"This was amazing.
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When is the next katha?
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I want to know
more about the Bible
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and this Jesus
you've been talking about?
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Can somebody tell me
more about the Bible?"
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Your faithful tithes
and mission offerings
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have been sending missionaries
around the world for years,
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but the work isn't finished yet.
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The Bible says this
gospel must go to every nation,
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and kindred, and tribe,
and tongue, and people group.
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And there are
still some massive groups
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that have not yet heard
the gospel in a way that
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they can
understand and relate to.
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If you would like
to know more about
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what the Global Mission
centers can do to help you love
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and live with your neighbors
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and others who are not
from a Christian background,
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then go to the website
globalmissioncenters.org
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and be praying for
the people around us
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who have still never heard.
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Missionaries aren't
just in the old books.
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You are a missionary today.
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Behind me is the
Church of the Holy Sepulcher,
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located in the Christian quarter
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of the Old City of Jerusalem.
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And for Orthodox Christians,
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this contains
their two holiest sites
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where they believe
Jesus was crucified
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and also where they
believe His tomb is located.
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Well, next up,
we're going to visit
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one of my
favorite mission stories.
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It's the story of
the Trumpet family.
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We call them the Trumpet family.
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And let's visit them
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witnessing in a unique way
on the streets of Kinshasa.
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Pastor Lobo is a
Seventh-day Adventist pastor.
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He lives in the city of Kinshasa
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in the Democratic
Republic of Congo.
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In a city with more
than 10 million people,
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sharing God's
Word can be difficult.
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But Pastor Lobo and his family
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have found a unique way of
getting people's attention.
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The family goes to the streets
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and plays homemade
trumpets for the community.
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As the children play
their trumpets in the street,
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their father
preaches the Word of Jesus.
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Hallelujah Amen.
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Hallelujah. Amen.
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People passing by are captivated
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by the unique sight
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and listen to
the pastor's words.
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The pastor brings out his piano
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to continue
praising in the street.
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The songs they play
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tell of the
wonderful things God has done.
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They share how
Jesus love is given freely
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to anybody who is willing
to accept Him as their Savior.
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The people standing by
soon join in the praise.
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We praise Our
only Lord Jesus Christ
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King of kings
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Their unique street
side Trumpet Ministry
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has allowed many
people to hear about Jesus.
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The children are thrilled
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to help their
father teach God's message.
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It's amazing to see
how God can use something
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as simple as a homemade trumpet
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and a willing family
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to be important
instruments for His purpose.
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This family
worships in their home
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so that they are spiritually fed
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and the children may
continue to grow serving God.
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Here in Kinshasa,
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the children are
on fire for the Lord.
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They want to serve
Him any way they can.
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But on Sabbath they
have no place to meet
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for Sabbath school.
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They sit in the
same area with the adults
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where they may not
understand the message
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or are forced to worship outside
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under the sometimes
harsh elements of Africa.
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A portion of your
13th Sabbath Offering
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will go to help build shelters
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for the children of
Kinshasa to worship.
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Here they will be
able to learn about
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the love of Jesus
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and grow to be
faithful servants of God.
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Please pray for these children
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and others in
East Central Africa
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who are being used
as instruments for God.
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And thank you for
your faithful support
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of mission around the world.
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We worship Jesus Christ
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King of kings
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Well, thanks so
much for joining us
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for today's program
and I hope that you've been
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inspired and that
you have been informed
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by what you've seen and heard.
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Around the world
today there are many people
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who are on the
front lines of mission,
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planting churches,
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sharing God's
love in practical ways
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in many
different areas in cities,
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in rural areas, older
people, younger people,
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and thank you so much
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for your continuing
support for mission,
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through your prayers,
through your financial support,
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and also through
your personal involvement.
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And as a small thank you
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for your
continuing participation
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in mission with us,
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I'd like to send you a copy
of the Mission Spotlight DVD.
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It's full of
stories just like you see
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right here on Mission 360.
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Well, that's it
for today's program.
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And 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 Mission 360.
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