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Series Code: MTS
Program Code: MTS002802A
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00:14 Improving children's nutrition in Africa,
00:17 women in mission around the world, 00:19 and a powerful story from Madagascar, 00:21 all this and much more coming up next. 01:02 Hello, and welcome to Mission 360. 01:04 I'm Gary Krause. 01:06 Today's program is coming to you 01:07 from the heart of the 10x40 Window. 01:10 I'm in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia. 01:13 And the greater metropolitan area 01:15 of this vast city has some 23 million people. 01:19 Many people are surprised to learn that Indonesia, 01:23 not some country in the Middle East 01:25 is the largest Muslim nation in the world. 01:29 And on today's program, we're going to be looking at 01:31 some of the sights and sounds 01:33 and some of the story of mission here in Jakarta, 01:35 but first up, let's travel to Mozambique. 01:46 This kind of project was actually created by 01:48 the government 01:49 because they need to scale up nutrition, 01:51 and there is a need in Mozambique. 01:54 Right now, the chronic malnutrition 01:57 rates are really soaring. 01:58 They are above 40%. 02:01 And this is generally across the country. 02:04 Although there are certain places 02:06 where it's higher, 02:07 in Maputo also they discovered that it's above 30%, 02:11 which also includes districts like Boane. 02:14 So that's why we feel like it's important that 02:17 the students should also get part of the meal 02:19 because they might not be getting enough. 02:23 When we started, 02:24 we had our school feeding funded 02:27 by ADRA International. 02:29 The other part of the donation was through the food, 02:32 that we are still receiving, through Rise Against Hunger. 02:38 Being part of this project, they receive rice. 02:41 The rice comes in a packet with soy 02:43 and dehydrated vegetables. 02:45 And inside each packet there is a multivitamin packet, 02:48 within the food that we distribute. 02:51 So every time they get a ration size 02:54 which is almost equivalent to 700 kilocalories. 02:58 It's in supplement to what they get from home. 03:05 When we started the project, 03:07 we did some anthropometry 03:08 where we were weighing the height 03:10 and the weight of the students, and we analyzed it. 03:12 And then we discovered that 50% of the students 03:15 were really underweight. 03:17 That was last year. 03:18 And we are going to 03:20 consequently weigh the students. 03:23 Right now we designed a cohort 03:24 that we would follow up each month, 03:26 so that we have concrete results to see 03:28 the changes are okay. 03:31 What we have noted so far, 03:33 there's been an increase in the number of students. 03:35 We started with 9,366. 03:38 Right now we have 13,453 students. 03:42 And last year when we ended, we had 11,656 students. 04:09 My guest is Arlaine, who is the Operations Manager 04:12 for the Chinese Ministry Center here in Jakarta. 04:15 Arlaine, thanks for joining us. Yes. 04:17 Now describe for us 04:19 what the Chinese Ministry Center is? 04:22 So the Chinese Ministry Center 04:23 is actually a supporting ministry 04:26 in SDA church that we want to focusly 04:30 to reach out to the Chinese community, 04:32 but through this several years, 04:35 we realized that because of the Chinese people 04:38 usually live in the cities. 04:40 So what God actually leading us is to the city of Adventism. 04:45 Oh, wonderful. 04:47 Now when did this start? 04:49 It was started in 2003 04:52 when the Jakarta local conference 04:54 gathered us together 04:56 and give us the vision to reach out 04:58 to the Chinese community in Jakarta 05:01 because as you know, Indonesia, besides the, 05:04 as a biggest Muslim countries in the world 05:08 is also the biggest population 05:11 of Chinese people outside China. 05:14 Yes. 05:15 And also, Indonesia also have like, 05:19 the national crisis on 1997-98. 05:24 And in that time, 05:26 most of the Chinese converted from Buddhism to Christianity, 05:31 but we don't have any one from 05:34 that conversion to Adventist Church. 05:37 So we as the Adventist Chinese in the church, you know, 05:41 are calling to bring the message 05:44 to the Chinese community. 05:46 Wonderful. 05:47 Now describe for me where we're standing 05:49 where in an urban center of influence, right? 05:54 Yeah. So tell me about it? 05:56 So this is one of the place of what we called Club Sehat. 06:01 Club Sehat is a healthy grocery store, 06:04 but actually, this Club Sehat is only our like 06:08 on front liner to mingle with people 06:11 so they can buy stuffs. 06:14 And also we have the restaurant, 06:17 vegetarian restaurant upstairs 06:18 so we can have the chance to meet with new people, 06:23 mingle with people, and then after that, 06:26 we ask them or offer them 06:28 to attend our other programs, you know, 06:31 which is health seminars and everything. 06:34 So this store actually is a, 06:38 we sell all the healthy food stuff, 06:43 which is sometimes 06:44 it's kind of hard to find like seeds 06:47 or nuts in even in the capital city of Jakarta 06:51 in Indonesia. 06:52 So we provide the healthy food here. 06:55 Wonderful. 06:56 Now this was not your first, 06:58 you started another center elsewhere. 07:00 Yeah. 07:01 How many centers do you have now? 07:02 Now in Jakarta we have eight centers. 07:06 And outside in Jakarta, we also have like, 07:09 I forgot it's like in Bandung, Semarang, Solo, Surabaya, 07:15 and also Bali, Jambi, 07:18 Medan, and Pontianak, Makasar, Manado. 07:20 Wonderful. 07:22 Now on this program I often talk a lot about 07:24 centers of influence, 07:26 why do you think they are so important? 07:30 For us center of influence is actually a showroom, 07:34 that in that showroom, we can, I mean, 07:38 everybody can come, and then they can see 07:42 who is Adventist, how they lives, what they eat, 07:47 how they get dress, you know, 07:49 and from that showroom 07:51 they were introduced to know 07:57 what is the Seventh-day Adventist Church 08:01 as the whole worldwide 08:03 and also in the center of influence 08:06 it's the place when we can practice 08:09 the Christ methods, 08:10 the five steps of the Christ methods only, 08:15 he mingle and so on. 08:17 Show sympathy, minister to needs, 08:19 win confidence... 08:21 Win confidence and them to follow me. 08:23 So we have the opportunity to meet new people 08:27 like through the health message, 08:30 and then from the center of influence they can come, 08:34 you know, freely without any 08:38 and they don't have to be afraid that 08:41 this is a church and we want to convert them 08:43 to one church, it's not like that 08:45 so they can easily come 08:47 and make them their like "second home" actually. 08:50 Yes. Wonderful. Yeah. 08:52 Now this food store of which 08:55 there are many now they are making a profit? 08:58 Yes. 08:59 What do you do with the proceeds? 09:01 The proceeds to? The profits. 09:02 Oh, the profits. Okay. 09:04 The profits actually... 09:06 So from the start, 09:08 we already have our commitment that 09:11 if we open this door, 09:13 the profits will not go to the investors. 09:18 So when we first start the store, 09:20 there are some of the church members 09:22 they're willingly to invest their money 09:24 to open the Club Sehat, 09:26 but start from 2008 until 09:31 and now 2019. 09:34 Actually, the investor didn't don't get any, 09:39 anything from the profit of Club Sehat 09:42 because they're already commit that the profit will go 09:45 to the development of the Club Sehat 09:48 so we can, the Club Sehat can help CMC 09:51 to build more center of influence in other places. 09:55 So that's actually our goal. 09:57 So it's used as a seed money to develop other? 10:00 That's right. Fantastic. 10:01 That's right. Yeah. 10:03 So we have featured this initiative some years ago, 10:09 but it's just so encouraging to see 10:10 how it has grown and multiplies. 10:12 Praise God for that. Wonderful news. 10:14 Yes, we also, we can see, you know, 10:18 how God really intervened all the works here, 10:22 you know, how that really blessed the ministry 10:27 and even brings healings to, you know, 10:30 customers and also our guests 10:32 who come to the center of influence. 10:35 Wonderful. 10:36 Arlaine, thank you so much for sharing with us today. 10:38 Thank you so much. 10:39 And viewers at home, 10:41 this is just an incredible initiative. 10:43 First an urban center of influence 10:45 was planted in one area of the city, 10:48 ministering to that community. 10:49 It's now started as we've heard 10:51 in various other parts of Jakarta, 10:53 and now it's spreading into other parts of Indonesia, 10:57 putting Christ method into practice. 10:58 Please pray for this initiative. 11:00 We'll be right back after this break. |
Revised 2020-09-04