Welcome back to Nigeria.
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In 1959,
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when the Adventist college
of West Africa was established,
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this was the
first building on campus
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and it was the cafeteria.
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They had their priorities right.
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At the time the
government required them
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to expand before
they could be accredited.
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And thanks to the
faithful offerings given,
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the 13th Sabbath Offerings
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of church
members around the world,
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it was able to expand
into Babcock University.
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Next up, let's
travel to Southeast India
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to learn more
about mission there.
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Today, we are in India
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and we have the privilege
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of talking with one of
the mission leaders here
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in this territory,
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Pastor Masih.
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Pastor Masih,
thank you very much
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for being here with us today.
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Thank you very much.
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Pastor Massey,
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this is a very
diverse territory.
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Can you describe a
little bit about this place,
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the people and the
backgrounds present here?
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Well, Southern
Asia Division has a...
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Under division we
have four countries,
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India, Nepal,
Bhutan, and Maldives.
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And India, we,
Christians are just 2.3%
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and Nepal is less than that,
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and very few members in Bhutan,
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and it's a very less work
we have in Andaman Island.
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So this division, they
speak different languages.
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They have different challenges,
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but God has been good to us.
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Work is great.
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I'm sure, like in
the rest of the world,
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there are some
challenges for mission.
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Can you describe
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what are the specific
challenges here in India,
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Bhutan, Maldives and Nepal?
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Yes.
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I would like to tell you,
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we have a lot
of challenges here,
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especially challenges
this that we are in minority
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and other religions
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they don't allow us
to spread the gospel.
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Many times they
create problem for us.
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And a second
challenge I feel that there are,
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people are not very educated,
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so they are
less educated people.
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They are not as receptive
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so we face the
problem like this.
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I'm sure there are
some beautiful stories
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happening here
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on how the Adventist
Church has been reaching people.
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Do you have some special
story to share with us today?
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Yes, I would like
to share my own story
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how God helped us in our work.
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There was two
girls, Adventist girls,
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they married to non-Adventist
and after some time,
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one of our pastor,
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he went there and
talked to these two girls
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who were married
to non-Adventist.
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They said,
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"Can we hold the
evangelist meeting here?"
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And they were very happy one,
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but their husbands,
they were not happy.
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They were not very receptive.
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They were finding some excuses.
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So later on, they agreed.
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So after some time
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we started
meeting in that village,
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for two days
meeting was going on well,
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there was no problem at all.
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Third day, some
of the young people,
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they came with the long sticks
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and this, they
disturbed our meeting.
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And later on, they said,
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"We don't want that,
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you shouldn't
continue holding meeting here."
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And one of the
boy, grown up boy,
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he came and hit our projector.
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Our projector was broken
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and we were very much disrupted.
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Then same day, we have
to wind up our meeting.
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Next day, we went to
the head of the village
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and we told him all the story.
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And we said,
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"We are telling,
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we are preaching
here the Word of God,
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how they can live good life."
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And head of the
village he promised with us.
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He said,
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"Okay, you can go ahead
with your meeting from today
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and nobody will
come and disturb you."
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God helped us.
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We continued our
meeting for 15 days.
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And after 15 days we
got precious 22 souls.
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And now we have a
very good church there.
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This is how
sometime we get disturbed
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when meetings are going on,
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when people are working
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and some of the
people they disturb us.
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Yes.
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Yes. That's beautiful.
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I'm sure God has
a dream and a plan
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to reach many more souls.
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Yes.
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What are your dreams
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and your goals
for this territory?
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Well, my goal as a
leader in the church,
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I want that,
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people should get the gospel
and they improve their life.
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They have their
relationship with God,
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first relationship with God.
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And the way we are adopting is
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we are trying to involve
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all of our
members in God's work.
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And many of our members,
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they are excited
with this program.
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I'm sure that
they will participate.
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We are adopting many ways
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how they can
participate in God's work.
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That's beautiful.
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Thank you, Pastor Masih.
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And I'm sure God
has many, many blessings
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for this territory.
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Thank you very much. Thank you.
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But I want all of you
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and the whole Adventist
Church should pray for India,
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because there's
great challenges are there
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and it...
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We can be successful
when all of our people,
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they pray to God
and God will help,
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and we will be able to spread
the gospel in this territory.
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Wonderful.
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Pastor Masih,
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may God bless your
work here in India.
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And I'm sure He will.
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Thank you very much.
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God bless you also,
bless your ministry.
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And you take our
message to around the world
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and people pray for us.
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Thank you very much. Thank you.
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This is Flavio Ferraz
reporting for Mission 360.
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Welcome back to the
campus of Babcock University.
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And I hope that
you're enjoying the program,
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but if you're interrupted
or if you miss something,
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just go to n360.tv,
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and there you can find
missed episodes, stories,
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and you can keep
up-to-date with Mission 360.
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Next up, we
travel to Bangladesh.
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Greetings from Bangladesh.
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I'm here today as we're
doing a food distribution
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to the Rohingya refugee camp.
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This week we'll
be providing food
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and I've just
been to another camp
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where we're providing shelter.
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As I sit here and I
look at the needs that exist,
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and I feel the pride
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that comes to me as I
see the staff at work,
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that reminds me
of the great work
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that ADRA does.
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As I pass through this camp
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and I'm
reminded of the ingenuity
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of the Rohingya people,
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their ability to survive
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and still etch out
some kind of a living
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in these difficult conditions.
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And I came across here
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with this, with
this fish market.
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And as I looked
at the fish market,
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it reminded me of
the story in the Bible
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of the five loaves
and the two fishes.
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Where the people were
hungry and they came to Christ
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and He blessed the
food and He multiplied it.
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We are distributing
food to 19,000 families.
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That's around
about 100,000 people,
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but all up
there's 800,000 people
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in these refugee camps.
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All of them hungry,
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all of them in
need of a blessing,
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all of them in
need of a miracle.
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And perhaps it reminds me that
maybe we can be that miracle
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that through our generosity
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that we can help
to modify this fish,
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that we can help to bring
food to the starving people
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here amongst
these Rohingya camps.
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It's a great honor and privilege
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to be able to feed
100,000 people this week,
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bringing them
food for two weeks.
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But what about
beyond those two weeks?
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And what about those
who we're yet to touch?
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And so, as I'm
reminded of the way that
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God blessed in the Bible,
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I'm reminded
that He is still a God
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who blesses today,
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that He's placed us here
with a reason and a purpose.
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I'm also reminded of
the woman at the well
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where she met Jesus and
He offered her the water
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that shall never run dry.
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In this particular refugee camp,
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we have a difficulty
with the supply of water.
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At the refugee camp
that I visited yesterday
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was more inland
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and there was a number of wells.
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But if we sink
wells in this region
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where we're close to the coast,
all that we get is salty water,
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which is not drinkable.
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And so we're
dependent upon shipping
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by gravity fed water system,
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piping water from
the mountains nearby
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to try and bring clean water.
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But unfortunately
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the water
supply is not adequate.
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And so we actually
have a water shortage
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in this camp
around 100,000 people
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and we have a
great need for water.
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And so, just as we
need to provide people
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with a water well,
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water from the well
that shall never run dry.
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We also need water
here because water is life.
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Before we can talk to
them about life in general,
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we have to meet their needs.
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And first is a very real need
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of the people here in this camp.
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And so I choose to ask you
to be generous in your support
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for ADRA in this work,
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as we try and help these
people who have suffered much,
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who've suffered much trauma
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as they've been
driven from their homes,
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where they had comfort,
where they had businesses,
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driven with automatic
weapons fired at them,
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losing family
members as they fled.
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And now they come here to
the situation of dire need.
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Well, thanks so
much for joining us today
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on Mission 360.
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And I hope that
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you've enjoyed our
360 degree view of mission
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around the world.
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And I hope that
you've been inspired
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and challenged by
what you've seen and heard.
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I hope that you've also
enjoyed our special focus
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on Babcock University.
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Babcock is a special place.
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It's a place where students
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are not just
educated for careers,
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they're educated with
a vision for human need.
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And so the influence of Babcock
extends to the community here
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that surrounds
the university campus.
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It extends throughout
the continent of Africa.
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And, in fact, literally
to the ends of the earth,
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as graduates leave here
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with a vision to
share the love of Jesus
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in every way that they can.
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I want to thank you for being
a part of Adventist mission.
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And you may ask,
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"Well, how am I a part
of the Adventist mission?"
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Well, we consider
you part of our team
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because you pray for mission.
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You support
mission through donations,
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to global mission in other ways.
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And many of you are also
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able to be
personally involved in mission,
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I want to thank you.
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Before I go, let's listen
to a beautiful mission video.
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And as we listened to the songs,
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as we follow the words,
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let's quietly meditate,
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let's pray to the Lord
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about how we
can be more involved
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in mission for Him.
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For Mission
360, 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 Mission 360.
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