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Series Code: MTS
Program Code: MTS002905B
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00:17 Welcome back to Singapore
00:18 and behind me you can see this very impressive structure. 00:22 It's the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Exhibition Center. 00:26 Next up, we traveled to Botswana 00:28 to visit a Global Mission pioneer. 00:52 I'm here with Matheo, Global Mission Pioneer. 00:54 Matheo, tell us where we are at the moment? 00:57 We are in Botswana, 00:58 in Ghanzi district in a settlement, 01:02 which is called Grootlaagte. 01:05 And you're Global Mission pioneer here. 01:07 Tell us, what is it like 01:09 to be a Global Mission pioneer here 01:10 in the settlement? 01:12 Actually I considered as a privilege, 01:15 the Lord has given me an opportunity to come 01:17 and witness for Him. 01:20 I'm talking to the people that are considered 01:22 one of the lowest people in Africa and the Bushmen, 01:28 but being a Global Mission pioneer's 01:29 a great thing to my life. 01:32 What is your day like being a Global Mission pioneer? 01:36 Actually, in my day, in my week, 01:38 I've divided my week 01:41 with visitations to the government offices, 01:46 I'd go to the court, to the clinic, 01:48 to the primary school, 01:50 into the [inaudible] shop 01:52 that helps you put some food 01:54 and pray with the leaders that side, 01:56 and then afterwards, I'll go and have my breakfast, 01:59 then after that going house to house, 02:01 check in some elderly people in some in their homes, 02:04 and pray with them. 02:06 And sometimes it's hard, 02:07 they don't even hear what I'm saying, 02:08 but the word of prayer, they understand it. 02:10 So we're here at your church, 02:12 the church that you're pastor 02:13 that you take care of in this community. 02:14 Tell us a little bit of what you do in this church? 02:18 In this church is a lot actually, I'd say, 02:22 I don't know if it's the right way to use, 02:24 I am the church. 02:26 I am the church to mean that 02:29 all of the activities that are running 02:30 are done in the church actually do them. 02:33 I think, the Lord that has gifted me 02:35 with the singing gift. 02:37 So I teach them some songs. 02:39 I chorus that and I conduct Bible studies. 02:43 And if I have an opportunity to preach, 02:47 I preach to them again. 02:49 And I will collect offerings 02:50 because there are still not organized. 02:53 I'm still bringing them back. 02:54 So that will be organized as a church 02:56 and all the things that I've done in the church, 02:58 actually, I covered them 03:00 I try and cover them 03:02 so that there wouldn't be anything 03:03 that is not been done in the church. 03:06 I notice you have a pathfinder law. 03:07 Yes. 03:09 Principles up on your on the church. 03:10 Do you have a pathfinder group here? 03:12 Yeah, I have over 20 pathfinders. 03:15 Wow, that's... 03:16 Pathfinders, they've been practicing around... 03:19 Yeah, this year, around February in January, 03:23 they were preparing to go to camp at Maun. 03:26 Unfortunately, they didn't managed 03:28 because of the money, 03:30 the church didn't have much funds to help them, 03:34 but we have pathfinders. 03:35 They've lent their laws, 03:38 the only thing they don't have enough for now is the uniform, 03:40 maybe that could encourage them 03:42 to get into the pathfinder thing, 03:45 pathfinder club. 03:47 And other than that we want to do 03:48 with our pathfinder this side, 03:50 we've been talking with our pathfinders, 03:51 that we don't wanna our pathfinder to be a club. 03:53 We want it to be a mission group of small young kids, 03:58 so be able to reach to others in their own languages 04:01 because for kids this side 04:03 is very easy for them to invite others, 04:06 they talk to each other say, 04:08 "This church is very nice." 04:09 And they come in large numbers. 04:11 And that is the big number of the church 04:14 this side is small kids. 04:16 Yes. 04:17 Do you go out in the community with them 04:18 with the kids and talk to others 04:20 especially because they know their language? 04:21 Yeah, I was started visit to Sabbaths 04:24 we went around the home singing at them some songs, 04:28 and we were seen praying with the elderlies 04:30 at the homes. 04:31 They're not that [inaudible] though. 04:33 They're not that [inaudible]. 04:35 They're learning. They're learning. 04:37 And they're loving the church, the kids. 04:39 So we've been learning about 04:41 what it is to be a Global Mission pioneer 04:43 here in the settlement. 04:45 What brought you to be... 04:47 What encouraged you to be a Global Mission pioneer? 04:49 Something came to my mind when I go to Ghanzi district. 04:53 I had left the church at that time 04:55 started drinking, moving around, 04:57 and the Lord will talk to me even when I was drinking. 05:01 I felt someone tipped me over asking, 05:03 "What are you doing? Hey, what are you doing? 05:06 Stop doing that." 05:08 And it just went out. 05:10 My uncle pick me up from Maun, 05:12 our home village and brought me to Ghanzi. 05:15 In Ghanzi, I started working with young people 05:16 from Ghanzi Senior Secondary School around 09. 05:20 Teaching them songs, giving them Bible studies, 05:23 they helped me grow up. 05:25 And my pastor was around that time 05:27 Pastor Sebuka, 05:28 he will take me around Ghanzi to the government offices, 05:32 we'll go together sing, 05:33 I'll sing for him some special songs. 05:35 And sometimes I'll preach. 05:37 He gave me a slot to preach. 05:38 He encouraged me. 05:40 He encouraged me a lot. 05:42 And it really motivated me. 05:44 And I wanted to become a Global Mission pioneer. 05:46 Before I became a Global Mission pioneer 05:47 he took me last year to Mmopane 05:50 and one of the places in Botswana called Mmopane 05:53 around Gaborone district that side, 05:56 to go and prepare for his crusade for a month. 05:58 And when that said, 05:59 and the Lord blessed me with many souls 06:01 who were trained souls in the church 06:04 came together and realized that 06:06 I believe I've been called to do this. 06:08 Now this is your second year now, 06:10 you just started in second year here in this community. 06:13 How's it changed 06:14 from when you first got here to now? 06:17 How has the church change? 06:18 How have you and the community looks at you now? 06:22 Okay. 06:24 When I first came here, 06:25 people doubted 06:27 because if we see a young boy 06:29 and more especially come to community 06:32 we have people who were pastors will be coming to serve 06:36 were old men and grown-ups. 06:39 People when they look at you come in this side 06:41 you're not married the first thing, 06:42 you're still a boy, 06:44 no doubt the work in the Lord has sustained me though, 06:48 the Lord has sustained me 06:50 because I buried them 06:52 most of them they said when their funerals are, 06:55 not even Adventists 06:56 most of the time I'll attend them 06:58 and try and preach to the families 07:01 and that has helped me a lot to connect with the villagers. 07:06 They now trust me 07:08 more than they never trusted me before 07:10 because there's some issues 07:12 that sometimes they raise about me 07:13 in the village. 07:15 In most of the parents they defend me. 07:18 Not even me knowing that someone is standing for me 07:21 that no don't talk about that boy, 07:23 that's a good boy 07:24 so that one really touched me. 07:26 Yesterday I had one of the ladies 07:28 coming to me saying that. 07:29 "I will stand for you in a court 07:31 if something goes wrong with you in this village." 07:34 And it was really something 07:36 that the Lord is fighting for me with these people. 07:39 There are those at home also already prayed 07:41 for Global Mission pioneers. 07:42 Do you have a special message 07:44 for those already praying for you? 07:48 I'd like to say thank you, thank you very much. 07:52 And when I hope that, 07:54 and they know and they believe that 07:56 what they've been praying for it is to succeed it 08:00 and because I don't think 08:02 we could make it without Adventist 08:04 or other Christians praying for us. 08:07 The more they pray for us, the more we see those open. 08:11 Sometimes we give up or sit alone in my house 08:14 say I don't give up now. 08:17 And I'd watch, sometimes they even Adventist Mission, 08:20 I would see 3ABN and see, 08:24 wow, 08:25 maybe the Lord doesn't want me to do it this way. 08:27 He wants me to do this other way. 08:29 The right way. 08:30 I don't waste my time, 08:32 I get out of the house and went try another thing. 08:35 Then you learn a new thing or try it. 08:37 And it works, 08:39 the prayers, they really work, 08:41 but they are praying for is working. 09:13 Next up, we traveled to Southern Asia 09:15 to see children involved in mission. 09:20 Rishon and his family were moving from the big city 09:23 to a small house on a mountainside in India. 09:26 Rishon had many toys 09:28 and his mom and dad needed to talk with him 09:30 about getting rid of some of them. 09:32 "You don't need all those big toys," 09:35 his dad said. 09:36 "You are going to be very busy doing things 09:39 other than playing with them." 09:40 His mom talked about the children living in the village 09:43 near the new house. 09:44 "The village children are poor 09:46 and don't have nice toys like you," 09:49 she said. 09:50 "Why don't you give them your big toys?" 09:53 Rishon was an obedient boy 09:55 and he didn't mind giving away his big toys. 09:58 He gave them to the boys and girls in the village 10:00 who were very excited to receive the gifts. 10:03 They had never owned such nice toys before. 10:06 Rishon was happy to see their joy 10:08 and it felt so good 10:09 to do something kind for others. 10:11 As the days passed, 10:13 Rishon saw that his mom and dad were right. 10:15 He was very busy. 10:17 He went to school at home 10:18 with his mom teaching him English, Hindi, 10:21 and other languages, 10:22 and his dad teaching him math and science. 10:25 When Rishon wasn't studying, he worked in the family garden, 10:28 planting, weeding, 10:29 and harvesting corn, potatoes, and other crops. 10:34 Every day he memorized three verses from the Bible. 10:37 After a few months, 10:39 he could recite many chapters by memory, 10:41 including Psalm 23 and Hebrews 11. 10:44 Rishon didn't have much time to play 10:46 even with his small toys, 10:48 so he also gave them away to the village children. 10:51 The children especially the little ones 10:54 quickly became Rishon's friends. 10:56 At first they liked him because he gave them toys, 10:59 but then they got to know him 11:01 and they saw that he was a kind, gentle boy. 11:03 They liked to visit Rishon at his house 11:05 on the mountainside. 11:07 Rishon like to play with the children. 11:09 Sometimes they played with Rishon's old toys, 11:11 but most of the time they played church. 11:14 You see, the children weren't Christians 11:16 and their parents weren't Christians. 11:18 They didn't know anything about God creating the world 11:21 or Jesus dying for people's sins. 11:24 They didn't know anything about praying to God. 11:27 But by playing church, 11:28 Rishon taught the children about Jesus. 11:31 They sat on the dusty ground as Rishon told them stories 11:34 about Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, David and Goliath, 11:38 and Daniel in the lions' den. 11:40 He told them about Jesus dying on the cross 11:43 to give eternal life to everyone 11:45 who believes in Him. 11:46 He invited them to pray to Jesus 11:49 and showed them how. 11:50 "Dear God," 11:52 he said. 11:53 "Thank You for being our very best friend. 11:56 Please give us a heart of love for You 11:59 and for others. 12:01 In Jesus' name, amen." 12:04 The other children began to copy Rishon's prayers, 12:07 and they told their parents about the Bible stories. 12:09 Then some of the parents even asked Rishon's parents 12:12 to know more about Jesus. 12:14 Now Rishon doesn't have much time 12:16 to play with his remaining toys. 12:17 He is too busy being a missionary for Jesus. 12:45 Well, thank you so much for joining us 12:47 on today's program. 12:48 And I hope that you've been challenged 12:50 by our 360-degree view of mission around the world. 12:54 We've traveled to Africa 12:55 and visited Global Mission pioneer working there 12:58 and we have thousands of pioneers 13:00 working around the world today, 13:01 often in many difficult circumstances 13:04 where they face many different challenges 13:06 and they are sustained by your prayers and support. 13:09 We also saw children involved in mission 13:12 and we praise God for the wonderful things 13:14 that are happening around the world, 13:16 but, of course, there are so many challenges 13:17 that still face us. 13:19 I think there are cities like right here in Singapore 13:22 in the middle of the 10/40 Window, 13:24 I think the growing number of people 13:26 in the secular and postmodern West. 13:28 And I think the fact that there are so many people 13:31 who have never even heard the name of Jesus. 13:33 I wanna thank you so much for your continuing support 13:36 of the Adventist Mission 13:37 with your donations to Global Mission, 13:39 your mission offerings, your prayers, 13:42 and your personal involvement. 13:44 Well, for Adventist Mission, I'm Gary Krause, 13:46 and I hope you can join me next time 13:48 right here on Mission 360. |
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