I'm Leigh Rice,
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leader of
Discipleship Ministries
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for the South Pacific.
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I'm in Port Moresby today
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and excited to be
with Pastor Kove Tau,
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leader of the church in
this city of 800,000 people.
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Discovery Bible reading is
at the heart of our disciple
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making process.
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Members invite family,
friends, work colleagues,
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fellow students to come
together to read the Bible.
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We ask Peter and Phil to come
and do some training for us.
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Peter has thought
us the method of Jesus,
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which is simple,
anybody can do it.
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It's reproducible at no cost.
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We decided to restructure
the way we do ministry
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at our churches.
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And we follow the
model in the Book of Acts
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out the New
Testament Church grew.
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With 10 of our
Sabbath school classes
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into discovery
Bible reading groups,
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we've restructured our
church Sabbath school classes
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according to the place
where the members are living.
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We bring the
church to the houses
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and the houses becomes church.
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My name is
Nathan, I got excited,
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seeing the method in which,
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we can share
God's Word to others.
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My head of that
idea and we decided
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that I had to bring
that idea to my home.
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Now this is where
we meet every Sabbath.
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When we started this discovery
Bible reading with my family,
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and my neighbors, it
really had a big impact
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on our spiritual life.
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My family and my kids,
all the three teenagers
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were able to discuss
the Bible for themselves.
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And we were having fun with it.
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Starting with
the Gospel of Mark,
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read one story at a time,
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commencing with
a prayer obviously,
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second person reads it,
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and then one person in the group
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retells the story
in their own words.
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The process is built
around five simple questions.
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What is new?
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What surprises?
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What don't you understand?
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What will you obey
or apply to your life?
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And what will you share
with someone else this week?
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After discussion,
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we pray, Father,
thank You for being with us.
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Please help us as we
follow Jesus this week.
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I work for a large
construction company
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as a building supervisor.
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After running
that group in my home,
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I decided to bring
that idea to my workplace.
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It had a very big
impact on my boys.
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I know an old
blind man called Vinegar.
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I found out he lived in
a makeshift sort of house.
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I had this idea
of building a house.
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I went and
discussed that with my boys.
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They got excited
and their voluntary
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put their hand up to help me.
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I believe in Jesus my Savior.
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I trust Him.
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One day He will
return I go with Him.
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Every Sabbath is day two,
three baptism in each churches.
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By way of record this quarter,
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this has been the
biggest baptism ever
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taken place in
Central Public Conference.
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I am seeing a paradigm
shift in the way we do church.
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Because the church is now seeing
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that we have to bring the church
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to where the community is.
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God uses ordinary people
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to carry out his
extra ordinary plan.
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Welcome back to
Singapore and behind me
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you can see this
very impressive structure.
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It's the Marina Bay Sands
Expo and Exhibition Center.
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Next up, we travel to Zambia
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to visit a
Global Mission pioneer.
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Thanks.
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I'm here with the
Global Mission pioneer.
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These are one of the
fun people we like to meet.
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I've traveled
about 20 hours by plane.
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Maybe close to four
or five hours by car
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to come to central
location where we can meet.
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Where the nearby church here,
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it's the closest
church to the area
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where the pioneers working.
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But my traveling
here is nothing compared
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to what he has
had to do to get here.
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Welcome.
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Thanks so much
for being with us.
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Just to begin this interview,
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what is a
Global Mission pioneer?
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As far as I'm concerned, a
Global Mission pioneer is one
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who goes in the areas
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where we hear
for no SDA presence,
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to talk about Christ.
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And there's a
very important part
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of a Global Mission pioneer,
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which it is that
you're here, you live locally,
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you understand the culture,
so you're the best person
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to go reach your
brothers and sisters?
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You see this is the beauty.
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What I would like to find out
from you is what motivated you
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to become a
Global Mission pioneer?
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When I saw that
there were many people
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who are not going
to the SDA church,
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I got encouraged to
share with them the truth.
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Especially, what I
was reading from the Bible
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it really encouraged me
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to embark on this mission
of sharing the good news.
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What's the name of the
region that you working in?
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We call it Wurrumiyanga.
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Wurrumiyanga. Yes.
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And how far do you
travel to reach Wurrumiyanga?
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Sixty five.
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Sixty five kilometer? Yes.
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Do you go by foot or by bus?
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I walk on foot.
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And how long does
that take you by foot?
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It takes 12 hours.
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Twelve hours? Yeah.
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Do you have a family here
locally that goes with you?
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Yeah.
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Does your family go with you?
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So what I do, I
leave the family,
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I go and work alone.
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But when it is rainy season
because generally in this place
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that's when we plant the corn.
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So I'd come back
to join the family
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to help them in planting.
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What are some of the methods
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that you use to
reach the people?
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The method that I use,
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I first go to
the village headman
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and ask for permission.
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And when I'm given permission,
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I will begin visiting
families in that area.
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So I'll go to this
family, I'll speak to them,
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share from the Word of God.
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And oftentimes,
they're very welcoming.
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Then afterwards when I'm through
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I'll go to another family again.
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Do you find that
people are usually receptive
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to the message that
you're bringing them?
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Sometimes people
accept, sometimes they do not.
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But at the moment those
who have already accepted
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the message they are about 60.
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That's a big number.
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I imagine that it's not
all success all the time.
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Can you share with us
some of the challenges
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that you encounter
in reaching the people.
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The challenge that I
face is that sometimes
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I'm welcomed by the people,
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sometimes they don't welcome me.
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But it looks like these
days it is becoming a bit easier
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than it used to be.
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Is this the first time
that you work as a pioneer?
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So I started in 2004
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in a different area,
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they also there was
no church representation
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I started the work there,
until it grew to the level
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where there were church elders
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that's when I moved now
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to a new area
called Wurrumiyanga.
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How do you feel when you go back
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and you visit the church
that you helped to build?
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I feel very happy
when I go to see that.
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The current elders
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they are really
pushing the work forward
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I feel very
happy filled with joy.
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Have you had a
chance to maybe go back
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and preach at the church
that you helped establish?
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So when I have time I go back
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and they give me time to preach.
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That must be really nice.
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It must be a really
heartwarming feeling.
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Can you share with
us in the new location
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that you are some
stories of success
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that you've had in
reaching the people,
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maybe a conversion
story that stood out?
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Yes, I can share with you.
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I would love to hear it.
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In that area when I went there
was one New Apostolic Church.
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And also UCZ.
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When I went to that area,
the area where you only find
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the New Apostolic Church
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and the United
Church of Zambia, UCZ,
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I had one person who accepted
the message first, only one.
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Through that one person
we started visiting together.
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So the church started growing
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until we built a
grass at such church.
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That's how the
work is growing there.
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You want to move
your family there.
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You said that
you have 60 members
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already in that location.
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Now how much more
work is there to do?
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In that area there are
about 15 village headmen.
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But I have so far penetrated
only one village headman.
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So the reason why I
want to move with my family
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there to go and live among them
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is also to take the message
to these other village headmen.
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So the work is
nowhere being done yet,
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there's still a lot more to do.
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Is there a message that
you could leave to the people
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who have been
praying for you as a pioneer?
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And even the ones
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who have supported
this work financially?
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Yes, I have a
message to the donors.
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The work they
are doing is great.
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Many people still want to
hear the message like the area
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where I'm working.
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We only have
penetrated one spot.
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So we still have
other spots to penetrate,
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where there is no SDA presence.
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So we really encourage
them to continue supporting
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the work of
Global Mission pioneers.
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It's clear that there's
still a lot of work to be done.
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It's clear that
we need to pray more
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for the work that you do
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and many other
pioneers around the world.
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If you'd like to support
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this ministry of
pioneers like welcome.
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This is projects
that you can invest in,
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you can choose them
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specifically where you'd
like to send your donation.
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But most importantly,
we encourage you to pray,
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your prayers will go a long
way your prayers can do miracles
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that even
financial support may not.
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So we encourage you to do both.
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Pray for us.
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If you'd like to
financially support
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these projects,
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you can go to
administration.org.
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Back to you in the studio.
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Next up, we learn more about
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the Adventist Development
and Relief Agency initiative
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called Every Child
Everywhere In School.
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This kind of project
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was actually
created by the government
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because they need
to scale up nutrition
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and there is a
need in Mozambique.
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Right now, the
chronic malnutrition rates
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are really soaring.
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They are above 40%.
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And this is a
generally across the country.
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Although, there
are certain places
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where it's higher.
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In Maputo also they
discovered that it's above 30%,
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which also includes
districts like Boane.
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So that's why we
feel like it's important
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that the students should
get also part of the meal
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because they might
not be getting enough.
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When we started
we had our school
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feeding funded by
ADRA International.
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The other part of the
donation was through the food
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that we are still receiving
through Rise Against Hunger.
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Being part of this
project, they received rice,
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the rice comes in a packet
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with soy and
dehydration vegetables.
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And inside each packet,
there is a multivitamin packet
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within the food
that we distribute.
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So every time
they get a ration size
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which is almost
equivalent to a 700 kilocalorie.
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It's in supplement to
what they get from home.
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When we started the project,
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we did some anthropometry
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wherein we were weighing
the height and the weight
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of the students
and we analyzed it.
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And then we discovered
that 50% of the students
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were really underweight.
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That was last year.
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And we are going
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to consequently
weigh the students.
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Right now, we designed a cohort
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that we would
follow up each month
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so that we have concrete results
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to see the
changes that are okay.
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What we have noted so far,
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there's been an increase
in the number of students.
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We started with 9,366
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right now we
have 13,453 students.
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And last year when we
ended, we had 11,656 students.
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Well, I hope you've
enjoyed today's program,
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and I hope that
you've been challenged
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by our 360 degree view
of mission around the world.
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We've traveled to Zambia
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and visited a
Global Mission pioneer,
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and there are
thousands of pioneers
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working around the world today,
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starting new
groups of believers.
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We've seen children in mission.
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We've also seen the work of ADRA
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in trying to get every
child involved in education,
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every child in school.
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We've seen so many
mission opportunities,
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and we praise God
for the wonderful things
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that are
happening around the world.
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But of course,
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there are still many
mission challenges facing us,
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I think of territory
right here in the 10/40 window.
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I think of the
growing cities of the world.
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I think of the
secular and postmodern
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with so many challenges,
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but I want to
thank you for the part
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that you play in
Adventist mission.
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You might say,
"How do I do that?"
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Well, every time
you pray for mission,
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you're part of
Adventist mission,
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every time you
give your donations
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to Global Mission or
your mission offerings,
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you're supporting mission
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and thank you for
your personal involvement.
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Well for Mission
360 I'm Gary Krause.
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And I hope you can join me
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right here on
this program next time.
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