I sing the mighty power of God.
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I love this song.
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We have lived beside the ocean,
we have lived in the mountains.
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I'm not sure which I love best.
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But I can't wait to
thank our Lord Jesus
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for making it all.
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Let's sing this together
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and we'll stand
on the last verse.
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I sing the mighty power of God
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That made the mountains rise
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That spread the
flowing seas abroad
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And built the lofty skies
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I sing the wisdom that ordained
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The sun to rule the day
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The moon shines
full at His command
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And all the stars obey
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I sing the goodness of the Lord
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That filled the earth with food
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He formed the
creatures with His Word
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And then pronounced them good
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Lord, how Thy
wonders are displayed
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Where'er I turn my eye
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If I survey the ground I tread,
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or gaze upon the sky
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Let's stand on this last verse
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There's not a
plant or flower below
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But makes Thy glories known
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And clouds
arise, and tempests blow
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By order from Thy throne
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Creatures that
borrows life from Thee
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Are subject to Thy care
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There's not a
place where we can flee
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But God is present there
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Thank you. You may be seated.
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Good morning.
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Let us stand for
a word of prayer.
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Our Heavenly Father,
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we ask that
You'd be with us today
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as we hear the presentations
that are gonna be made.
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Open our hearts and minds
and receptive to Your will.
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Guide and
direct us and bless us.
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For we ask in Thy name, amen.
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I have the
privilege of introducing
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two gentlemen this morning.
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The first gentleman
that will be speaking to us
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is Homer Trecartin.
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And he is the managing
director and the in charge
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of planting for
our world church.
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And he has a
presentation this morning
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that you will be
extremely excited about
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and it will be an
inspiration to you.
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And of course,
our second speaker
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is Pastor Mark Finley,
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who needs no introduction,
who is a friend to ASI.
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As I worked with these
gentlemen through the years,
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the thing that has
impressed me the most,
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is their love for Jesus
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and they are wanting
to do everything they can
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to see the Lord come very soon.
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Thank you.
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In 1926, in 1926,
Elder William A. Spicer
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published a book, "The
Gospel in All the World."
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Its premise, the
signs of a time show
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that Jesus is about to come
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and one of the greatest of these
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is the rapid spread of
the gospel to all the world.
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Elder Spicer said there
was just a little more to do.
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If all would accept
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the Macedonian
call to be involved,
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we could finish the
work and Jesus would come.
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But time went on.
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Jesus didn't come
and in the late 1980s,
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our church went through
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a period of
serious heart searching.
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The work wasn't finished yet.
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Many countries
were still unentered.
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Huge parts of the world
had no Adventist presence.
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Those discussions
eventually resulted
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in the
establishment of Global Mission.
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Its purpose, planting churches
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in the unentered
parts of the world,
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reaching the
unreached with hope.
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And Global
Mission hasn't gone away.
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It's now being
combined with mission awareness
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and placed under the
umbrella of Adventist mission.
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So what's changed
in these last 20 years?
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I'm gonna be leading
you through a PowerPoint
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with a number of slides
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and I need to ask
them if they can put
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that PowerPoint up
on my monitor here,
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so I can make sure
that I'm giving you
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the same thing that you
are seeing on the screen.
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Thank you.
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What's changed in
these last 20 years?
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Well, a lot, really.
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New words have been
added to our vocabulary.
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Twenty years ago, we
had never heard of Google,
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text messaging, email.
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In 20 years, traffic in
Moscow is gone from 300,000 cars
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to more than three million cars.
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In just the last 12 years,
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gasoline prices
in the Netherlands
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have jumped from $4.32 a gallon
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to $8.36 a gallon.
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Twenty years ago, there were
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no World Wide Web
servers online, not one.
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Today, there a more
than 100 million servers.
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Twenty years ago, there
were zero internet users.
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Today, there are
between one and two billion.
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And in these last 20
years, we now have podcast
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and video podcast, chat
rooms, Skype, blogs, YouTube,
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Facebook, Myspace.
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Nineteen years ago,
the Berlin Wall fell.
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Seventeen years ago,
the Soviet Union imploded.
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And we have all changed.
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In the early 80s
two young teachers
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worked together
in a small school
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in Southern Indiana.
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Today, Ella
Simmons is a vice president
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of the General
Conference and I worked
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for the General
Conference Office
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of Adventist Mission.
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Back then Ella Simmons
and I, both had little boys.
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And my baby girl was
born in New Albany Indiana
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in March of this year.
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That baby girl
had her first child,
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my third grandchild.
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Back then, Ella and I
talked often and prayed about
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how near we were to
the second coming of Jesus.
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We wanted our children
and our students to be ready.
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We longed for that day to come.
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We still do.
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But it's been 20
years, we're still here.
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What now?
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Some who were with us
in the 80s aren't anymore.
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But even those of
us who are still here
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have changed,
at least, a little.
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Maybe some of you recognize
this handsome young pastor,
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administrator from Ghana.
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Matthew Bediako is secretary
of the General Conference.
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And I can assure
you that Elder Bediako
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isn't the only
one who is matured
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in the last 20 years.
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How about this
well-known speaker, writer?
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Any one recognize
Clifford Goldstein?
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And I don't know when
this picture was taken,
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but if you don't
recognize Herald Lance there,
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then try this one.
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And oh, my.
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Do you know this young family?
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Maybe this picture of
Henry and Robin Martin,
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a few years later will help.
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I'm not sure which
of the Horton family
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has changed the most.
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I'll leave that
to your decision.
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But a certain amount of,
shall we say, maturation,
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has definitely affected
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at least two of the
people in this picture.
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I still recognize Donna McNeilus
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but the other two, my,
what a few years can do.
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And even Elder
Paulson has changed a bit.
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But you know, we
aren't the only ones
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that have changed,
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the world around us has changed
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dramatically over
these last 20 years.
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In 1985, only 41 percent
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of the world's
population lived in cities.
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But last year,
for the first time
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in the history of this earth,
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more than half the people
on the planet lived in cities.
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In 1988, the world had
5.1 billion inhabitants.
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Today, there are
more than 6.6 billion.
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Church membership has gone
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from 5.8
million to 15.4 million.
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Twenty years ago,
some parts of the world
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seemed almost impenetrable.
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How would we ever reach
difficult areas like Cambodia,
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Mongolia and Sudan?
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But we moved ahead and
God poured out His Spirit.
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Many made tremendous sacrifices.
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Some even gave their lives.
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And look what God has
done in these last 20 years.
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Twenty years ago,
Cambodia was still reeling
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from the horrors
of the Killing Fields.
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We had no Seventh-day
Adventists inside the country.
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Today, we have
nearly 6000 members.
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Twenty years ago, we
had no members in Mongolia.
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The climate was harsh,
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healthful food was
scarce or nonexistent.
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But some AFM
missionaries made the sacrifice
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to go learn the language,
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make friends, and share Jesus.
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And today, we have more
than a 1000 members in Mongolia.
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Twenty years ago,
we had 955 members
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in Africa's largest country.
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Today, we have more
than 13,000 members in Sudan.
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Our God specializes
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in accomplishing the impossible.
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Around the world, the
church has been growing
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rapidly through these years.
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Look at these ratios.
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In 1863, we had one
Seventh-day Adventist
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for every 373,000 people.
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Less than 50 years
later, in 1900, we have one--
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had one Adventist
for every 21, 000.
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Another 50 years, and
it was one for every 3300.
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By 1988, it was one
Adventist for every 882 people
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and 20 years later, today,
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it's projected
to be one Adventist
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for every 407 people on earth.
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Praise the Lord.
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So are we almost there yet?
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Remember asking
that question as a kid?
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Do you ever ask it today
as you sit in the committee
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or a board or wrestle
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with some
insurmountable problem?
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Are we almost there yet?
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The United Nations says,
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there are now 14 more countries
than there were back then.
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Adventists are
working in 19 more.
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That means in 20 years
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we have entered five
of the remaining countries
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and political areas.
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We have only 26 left to go.
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At that rate, we should
have entered every country
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and political area of the
world in the next 104 years.
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What does it mean
to enter a country?
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Have we finished the work
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when we have one church
worshipping in each country.
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What does it really
mean to share the message
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with the multitude or
preached the everlasting gospel
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to every nation
tribe tongue and people?
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Recent research has shown
some deeply troubling trends
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are around the world.
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Did you know
that in North America,
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77 percent of the
Hindus living here
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don't know a single
Christian personally.
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Sixty four
percent of the Buddhists
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and 32 percent of the Muslims
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don't know even one Christian
they can call a friend.
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They may run our hotels,
be doctors in our hospitals,
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wait on us in the restaurants,
take our dry cleaning,
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drive us to and
from the airport.
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But they don't really
know us and we don't know them.
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And we live in a free country.
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The situation in
Europe isn't any better.
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The same research shows
that most of the Muslims
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and Buddhists living in Europe
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don't know even one
Christian personally.
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And whose fault is that?
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Is it their fault
for secluding themselves
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in ethnic communities?
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Or is it our fault
for not finding a way
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to go to them in a free country?
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Almost half the million--
almost half a million Buddhists
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live in Australia
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and three quarters of them say
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they don't know a
single Christian personally.
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This picture is from Kuwait.
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We can't work freely
with Muslims in Kuwait.
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But we can in
the United Kingdom.
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And there are more Muslims
living in the United Kingdom
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than there are in Kuwait.
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What are we doing to reach them?
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And what are we doing to
reach the six million Jews,
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and five million Muslims,
three million Buddhists,
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and one million
Hindus living around us
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in the United States?
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I'm going to be
talking more about
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the massive
unreached areas of the world.
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We desperately need
to focus more attention
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on the 10/40 window.
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But I don't want us to
forget that we also have people
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living all around us
that we could be reaching.
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And we're doing
little if anything for them.
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Who was it that said,
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"If you can't keep
up with the footman,
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how will you ever
run with the horses?"
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It was God talking to Jeremiah.
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If we can't get
to know them here
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and become their friends,
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if we don't have
the heart or the stomach
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to go into their
communities and reach them here,
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how do we expect to ever
be able to take the gospel
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to the countries they came from?
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By the way do you remember
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what the rest
of that verse said?
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We often quote the first part.
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"If you have
raced with men on foot
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and they have worn you out,
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how can you
compete with horses?"
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But we rarely look
at the second part.
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It says, "If you
stumble in a safe country,
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how will you manage in
the thickets by the Jordan?"
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We desperately need to do
more in the difficult areas,
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the thickets of this world.
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But how can we hope
to be effective there
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if we're still stumbling
around in the safe places?
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If we look at the
unreached people of the world,
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that's the
population minus the membership,
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in 1988, there were 4.4 billion
unreached people in the world.
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Today, there are more than
6.5 billion unreached people.
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That's an
increase of 2.1 billion.
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And that doesn't
count the 1.3 billion
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that died during
the last 20 years.
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But let's break that
2.1 billion down a bit.
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Nigeria has 33
million more unreached people
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than it did 20 years ago
when we started Global Mission.
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The Adventist church in Brazil
has had tremendous growth.
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But there are 44 million
more unreached people now
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than there were in 1988.
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Fifty five million
more unreached people
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live in the United States.
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And while house
churches multiply in China,
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so does the population.
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There are now 224
million more unreached people
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than there were 20 years ago.
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And in India, even with
the explosion of growth,
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even with the
work of Global Mission
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and Gospel
Outreach and many others,
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the number of
unreached people has increased
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by 323 billion people
during these last 20 years.
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Think about it.
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The increase in
unreached people in India
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is more than
the total population
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of the United
States, just the increase.
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If we thought we had a lot
of work to do 20 years ago,
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look at the picture now.
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There are 2.1
billion more people
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to reach than
there were in 1988,
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when we were
starting Global Mission.
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Twenty years ago,
when plans were being laid
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for Global Mission,
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one of the key
targets was to plant a church
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in every population
group of one million people.
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So how are we doing?
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Well, back in 1988,
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we didn't count
companies, just churches.
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Now we count both
churches and companies
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and we have about
equal numbers of each
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for a total of a 123,000.
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That makes our average,
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one church for every
53,000 people in the world.
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Or 8.1 churches for
every million people.
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Obviously, even back in 1988,
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we had already reached our goal,
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if we just looked
at the world averages.
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We had way more than one
church for every million people.
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But we knew then and we know now
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that we have to look
deeper than world averages
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to really see how
we're doing as a church.
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Looking at the division levels,
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looking at the
division levels, we began to see
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that not all areas
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have 8.1 churches
for million people.
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But if we just look
at the division totals,
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we are still over
that original goal
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of one church for
every million people.
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So have we finished the work?
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On the next slides,
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we'll look at a
few of the divisions.
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In order not to
keep you here all day,
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we're just going to look at
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countries with more
than a million people.
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But even then they're too many.
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So we're just going
to look at the countries
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with the most and
the least churches
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for every million people.
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Remember that the world average
is eight Adventist churches
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and companies for
each million people.
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Papua New Guinea has a little
bit higher ratio than that.
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Five hundred fifty
churches and companies
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for every million
people in Papua New Guinea.
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Australia is still
above the world average,
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but has only 23.8 churches
and companies for each million.
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In the Southern
Africa Indian Ocean division,
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every country of
more than a million people
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is way above the world average.
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Zambia is close to
matching Papua New Guinea.
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But even Madagascar has almost
nine times the world average.
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East Central
Africa is quite a mix.
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Rwanda and Kenya have hundreds
of churches and companies
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for each million people.
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Tanzania and Uganda
have more than ten times
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the world average.
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But Eritrea has only three.
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And Somalia has zero.
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In the Southern Asia
division, none of the countries
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come up to the world average.
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India is almost there.
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But Nepal has barely
one church or company
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for every million
people and Bhutan isn't listed
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because it has a population
of less than a million.
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But we all know
that if it was here,
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it would show a big red zero.
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Here's another mixed bag.
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The West
Central Africa division.
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Average is 21.3
churches and companies
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for each million people.
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But Senegal,
Nigeria and Mauritania
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don't have even one
church or company per million.
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The Europe Asia division
ranges from Moldova with 59,
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let's see, we've
skipped one here.
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The Southern Asia
Pacific division has Philippines
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with nine times
the world average
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and eight countries with
less than five per million.
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Two of those don't even
have one church or company
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per million people.
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The Euro Africa
division has seven countries
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of at least a
million who don't have even
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one church or
company per million people.
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These are the
Trans European divisions,
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most entered countries.
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But look at the
rest of their list.
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Eight countries with
more than a million people
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and not even
one Adventist church
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or company per million.
00:20:10.11\00:20:12.27
And around the
world, most of the churches
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and companies
are in rural areas.
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If we go to the cities,
the figures are even worse.
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For instance,
while the world average
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is one Adventist
for every 407 people,
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India's ratio is one
for every 903 people.
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But among Calcutta's 13 million,
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the ratio is one for
every 23, 000 people.
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But even in the cities,
00:20:37.33\00:20:38.67
where the need is
so incredibly huge,
00:20:38.70\00:20:40.87
if you analyze carefully
the members we do have,
00:20:40.90\00:20:44.07
you would see that
they come almost entirely
00:20:44.11\00:20:46.37
from one or
another ethnic group,
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economic strata or
region of the city,
00:20:48.31\00:20:50.88
and often missed
completely the rest of the city.
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Anthropologists
and missiologists
00:20:54.58\00:20:56.45
have calculated that
there are 13 more than 13, 000
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distinct people
groups around the world.
00:21:00.26\00:21:03.12
Some of them are tiny.
00:21:03.16\00:21:04.53
But if we look at the
groups of at least a 100, 000,
00:21:04.56\00:21:07.76
there are 394 that
don't have a single known
00:21:07.80\00:21:11.37
Christian among them.
00:21:11.40\00:21:12.97
And if we look at
the really big groups,
00:21:13.00\00:21:14.90
those with at
least a 100, 000 people,
00:21:14.94\00:21:17.17
there are a 118
with not one Christian.
00:21:17.21\00:21:21.31
That's Christians
of any denomination.
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Think of what it would be
00:21:23.75\00:21:25.08
if we were
looking at the figures
00:21:25.11\00:21:26.45
for the Seventh
day Adventist Church.
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And then there are
the language groups.
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Around the world
there are more than 13,000
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spoken languages.
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Adventist World Radio is
broadcasting in 70 of those.
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That's half a percent.
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Adventists have
other forms of work
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in 805 more languages,
that's a whopping six percent.
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But there is no
administers work of any sort
00:21:49.47\00:21:52.61
in 12,665
languages of the world.
00:21:52.64\00:21:57.01
For 94 percent of
the world's languages,
00:21:57.05\00:21:59.81
we have to hope
00:21:59.85\00:22:01.18
that those who have
them as their mother tongue
00:22:01.22\00:22:03.12
also speak another language.
00:22:03.15\00:22:05.29
If they don't, we
are not reaching them.
00:22:05.32\00:22:09.06
But that's the spoken languages.
00:22:09.09\00:22:10.93
Well, how are we doing
00:22:10.96\00:22:12.29
with the written
languages of the world?
00:22:12.33\00:22:14.00
There are 8500
written languages.
00:22:14.03\00:22:16.97
But some of them are quite small
00:22:17.00\00:22:18.53
so let's just look
at the bigger ones.
00:22:18.57\00:22:20.64
Let's look at
those that have at least
00:22:20.67\00:22:22.47
10, 000 people speaking them.
00:22:22.50\00:22:26.01
There 2937 of those
larger written languages.
00:22:26.04\00:22:31.08
And only 13 percent of
them have the entire Bible.
00:22:31.11\00:22:35.38
Another 23 percent
have the New Testament.
00:22:35.42\00:22:38.72
Another 14 percent
00:22:38.75\00:22:40.49
have at least a
portion of the Bible,
00:22:40.52\00:22:42.36
a chapter, or a book.
00:22:42.39\00:22:44.13
But 50 percent of
the largest spoken
00:22:44.16\00:22:46.73
and written
languages on-- in the world
00:22:46.76\00:22:49.26
don't even have a
scrap of the scripture.
00:22:49.30\00:22:52.53
If Adventists are
people of the book,
00:22:52.57\00:22:54.77
what are we doing
about these groups?
00:22:54.80\00:22:57.57
Remember we aren't talking
about illiterate people here.
00:22:57.61\00:23:00.84
We're talking about
people who read and write
00:23:00.88\00:23:03.04
but have no piece of the
Bible in their mother tongue.
00:23:03.08\00:23:06.48
For that 50 percent
00:23:06.51\00:23:08.02
of the largest written
languages of the world,
00:23:08.05\00:23:10.42
we have to hope that
they can read another language
00:23:10.45\00:23:13.59
or we aren't sharing
God's word with them.
00:23:13.62\00:23:17.73
Back in 1600, a
massive mission movement
00:23:17.76\00:23:21.16
was sweeping
through the Catholic Church.
00:23:21.20\00:23:23.40
The Jesuits
recruited, trained and sent out
00:23:23.43\00:23:26.13
8500 full time
foreign missionaries.
00:23:26.17\00:23:30.51
What was the world
population in 1600?
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It was 545 million.
00:23:34.01\00:23:36.34
About half of what
just India has today.
00:23:36.38\00:23:40.18
No matter what we
think of their theology
00:23:40.22\00:23:42.28
or missiological practices,
those Jesuit missionaries
00:23:42.32\00:23:45.85
were undertaking a mammoth role.
00:23:45.89\00:23:49.79
If we were to
duplicate their ratio today,
00:23:49.82\00:23:52.49
we would need to 20,
000 Adventist missionaries
00:23:52.53\00:23:56.00
to China, 17, 000 to India,
00:23:56.03\00:23:59.03
4000 to the Trans
Mediterranean territories,
00:23:59.07\00:24:01.90
3600 to the Middle East Union.
00:24:01.94\00:24:05.37
How many missionaries
would we need around the world
00:24:05.41\00:24:07.88
to match that ratio?
00:24:07.91\00:24:10.45
Well, we obviously don't have
00:24:10.48\00:24:12.15
a 102 million
missionaries to send.
00:24:12.18\00:24:15.48
We don't even have
close to that many members,
00:24:15.52\00:24:17.95
even if we count
kids and visitors.
00:24:17.99\00:24:21.29
But let's look
at what we do have.
00:24:21.32\00:24:23.49
We have 919 IDEs.
00:24:23.53\00:24:26.93
If you count spouses,
00:24:26.96\00:24:28.33
those are the full time
missionaries that are funded
00:24:28.36\00:24:31.13
and sent out by
the General Conference.
00:24:31.17\00:24:33.60
We have 2293
Global Mission pioneers,
00:24:33.64\00:24:37.67
544 long-term volunteers
and student missionaries.
00:24:37.71\00:24:41.78
A 100 His Hands volunteers,
200 trained tent makers,
00:24:41.81\00:24:46.11
2500 Gospel
Outreach evangelists,
00:24:46.15\00:24:49.28
64 Adventist Frontier
Missions' missionaries,
00:24:49.32\00:24:52.52
23 AFM student missionaries.
00:24:52.55\00:24:55.32
Even if you count, even
if you add in some others
00:24:55.36\00:24:58.33
that I don't have figures
for, we still don't come up
00:24:58.36\00:25:01.03
to the raw numbers the
Jesuits had back in 1600,
00:25:01.06\00:25:04.83
let alone their ratio.
00:25:04.87\00:25:07.00
Why is that, with a
remnant in time message.
00:25:07.04\00:25:10.34
why is it that we have
so few missionaries today,
00:25:10.37\00:25:13.48
when the needs are so great?
00:25:13.51\00:25:16.95
Well, back in 1930,
for every ten dollars
00:25:16.98\00:25:20.42
that someone put into
tithe in the Adventist church,
00:25:20.45\00:25:23.62
they put another six dollars
00:25:23.65\00:25:25.69
into the World Mission offering.
00:25:25.72\00:25:28.06
By 2005, that had
decreased to the point
00:25:28.09\00:25:30.99
where for every ten
dollars someone put into tithe,
00:25:31.03\00:25:33.86
they put 35 cents into
the World Mission offering.
00:25:33.90\00:25:38.27
I praise God that
there's been a slight change
00:25:38.30\00:25:40.64
in the last two years.
00:25:40.67\00:25:42.24
For the first time in decades,
00:25:42.27\00:25:43.97
the mission offering
has begun to increase
00:25:44.01\00:25:46.21
a little more than tithe.
00:25:46.24\00:25:47.84
I long for the day
when we can have a 1000,
00:25:47.88\00:25:50.95
not just a 1000 missionaries
but 5000 or 50, 000.
00:25:50.98\00:25:55.78
And remember,
the mission offering
00:25:55.82\00:25:57.52
doesn't just send missionaries.
00:25:57.55\00:25:59.89
It also provides
appropriations to divisions
00:25:59.92\00:26:02.62
so that they can
hire teachers and pastors
00:26:02.66\00:26:05.26
to watch over the churches
00:26:05.29\00:26:06.66
that you raise
up in your projects.
00:26:06.70\00:26:09.23
It provides funding
to help print materials
00:26:09.26\00:26:11.57
and prepare broadcasts
and fund local portions
00:26:11.60\00:26:14.50
of Global Mission and
Gospel Outreach projects.
00:26:14.54\00:26:18.37
If the mission
offering dries up,
00:26:18.41\00:26:20.58
there will be
little that we can do
00:26:20.61\00:26:22.54
in the way of projects.
00:26:22.58\00:26:24.28
What good would it
be to build a church,
00:26:24.31\00:26:26.85
if the mission can't afford
to help nurture the members
00:26:26.88\00:26:29.72
who come into that church?
00:26:29.75\00:26:32.35
To illustrate the
challenge we face,
00:26:32.39\00:26:34.52
let's pretend
that we're standing
00:26:34.56\00:26:35.96
on a busy street corner,
00:26:35.99\00:26:37.33
watching people
pass at 60 per minute.
00:26:37.36\00:26:40.16
If we could wear a
special pair of glasses,
00:26:40.20\00:26:42.73
so that the
Adventists feet would stand out,
00:26:42.76\00:26:45.43
how often would we see
a Seventh-day Adventist
00:26:45.47\00:26:48.10
walking past us on
that busy street corner?
00:26:48.14\00:26:52.84
We're going to
show you a short video
00:26:52.87\00:26:54.84
that gives you some figures
for the Adventist walking past
00:26:54.88\00:26:59.28
around the world.
00:26:59.31\00:27:01.48
If we had the entire
population of the world
00:27:07.69\00:27:10.23
rushing past us,
00:27:10.26\00:27:12.69
including all the
Seventh-day Adventists,
00:27:12.73\00:27:15.76
we would see one
Seventh-day Adventist
00:27:15.80\00:27:17.60
walk past every 7.2
minutes around the world.
00:27:17.63\00:27:21.04
In Jamaica, at 60 a minute,
00:27:24.51\00:27:27.08
we would see an
Adventist every 12 seconds.
00:27:27.11\00:27:31.91
In Kenya, an
Adventist would be walking by
00:27:31.95\00:27:35.28
in just under a minute.
00:27:35.32\00:27:36.89
In Central and South America,
there would be less than
00:27:39.75\00:27:43.59
two minutes between
each Seventh-day Adventist.
00:27:43.63\00:27:47.70
On the continent of Africa,
00:27:47.73\00:27:49.53
we would see an Adventist
walk by every three minutes.
00:27:49.56\00:27:54.67
Here in North
America, at 60 a minute,
00:27:54.70\00:27:57.41
we would see an Adventist
walk by every five minutes.
00:27:57.44\00:28:02.58
In India, it
would be fifteen minutes
00:28:02.61\00:28:05.51
between each
Seventh-day Adventist.
00:28:05.55\00:28:09.95
And in China, not
knowing how many Adventists
00:28:09.98\00:28:13.15
are going to the Olympics,
00:28:13.19\00:28:14.62
there would one
Adventist walking by every hour.
00:28:14.66\00:28:19.09
In Israel, one Adventist
00:28:19.13\00:28:22.76
every two and a
half hours walking past.
00:28:22.80\00:28:26.47
Twenty four hours a
day, 60 people a minute
00:28:26.50\00:28:28.90
in Central Asia, one
every two and a half hours.
00:28:28.94\00:28:32.27
And if you were to go to Egypt,
00:28:32.31\00:28:33.68
and we had the people of
Egypt walk past 60 a minute,
00:28:33.71\00:28:36.95
24 hours a day,
00:28:36.98\00:28:38.58
it would be a
little over one day
00:28:38.61\00:28:40.18
between each Adventists.
00:28:40.22\00:28:41.92
In Turkey, it would be 12.9 days
00:28:41.95\00:28:45.75
between every Adventist.
00:28:45.79\00:28:48.79
In Morocco, one Adventist
would walk by every 28 days.
00:28:48.82\00:28:55.20
In Iran, we have
a few Adventists,
00:28:55.23\00:28:57.83
one would walk
by every 38.8 days.
00:28:57.87\00:29:02.80
In Somalia, it would be
00:29:02.84\00:29:04.77
one Adventist every 102 days.
00:29:04.81\00:29:10.35
In Afghanistan, one
Adventist would walk by
00:29:10.38\00:29:13.35
every 119 days.
00:29:13.38\00:29:17.62
In Syria, we used
to have a strong work.
00:29:17.65\00:29:19.92
We have nothing now.
00:29:19.95\00:29:21.29
One Adventist would walk
by every 225 days in Syria.
00:29:21.32\00:29:25.99
In Yemen, it
would be one Adventist
00:29:26.03\00:29:28.13
every two 250 days.
00:29:28.16\00:29:31.27
And in Saudi
Arabia, 60 people a minute,
00:29:31.30\00:29:34.10
24 hours a day one Adventist
would walk by every 279 days.
00:29:34.14\00:29:39.67
As I watched her singing hymns
in the little Adventist church,
00:29:42.11\00:29:45.41
in one of the stance of
Central Asia last summer,
00:29:45.45\00:29:48.65
I had no idea
that four years ago,
00:29:48.68\00:29:51.15
Igul was not a Christian.
00:29:51.19\00:29:53.49
After the services that morning,
00:29:53.52\00:29:55.16
she poured out her story
to us and what a story it was.
00:29:55.19\00:29:58.86
Ten or twelve years
ago, she had a baby boy
00:29:58.89\00:30:01.96
but somehow he received a
brain injury during delivery.
00:30:02.00\00:30:05.50
Her husband and family
told her to put the baby
00:30:05.53\00:30:07.67
in an institution
and forget about him.
00:30:07.70\00:30:09.54
But her mother's heart
wouldn't let her do that.
00:30:09.57\00:30:11.94
So her husband left her.
00:30:11.97\00:30:13.94
She moved back
to her parents' home
00:30:13.98\00:30:15.58
but her stepmother
didn't want the baby around
00:30:15.61\00:30:17.65
and made life
terribly difficult for them.
00:30:17.68\00:30:20.85
Finally, unable to
bear it any longer,
00:30:20.88\00:30:22.65
Igul and her sister
moved to another city.
00:30:22.68\00:30:25.52
She worked days while her
sister took care of the baby.
00:30:25.55\00:30:28.66
Several years went by
during which a Christian,
00:30:28.69\00:30:31.43
a Catholic lady, co-worker
begin to reach out to her.
00:30:31.46\00:30:34.96
This Catholic lady
kept encouraging Igul
00:30:35.00\00:30:37.40
to go to the church.
00:30:37.43\00:30:39.03
But Igul had never been
in a Christian church before.
00:30:39.07\00:30:42.17
And even though
she had already been
00:30:42.20\00:30:43.54
thrown out of her family,
00:30:43.57\00:30:44.91
she just couldn't bear to leave
the religion of her heritage.
00:30:44.94\00:30:49.54
Finally, one day in desperation
00:30:49.58\00:30:51.45
Igul decided to go
visit the Catholic Church.
00:30:51.48\00:30:54.25
But on the way
there, she gotten lost
00:30:54.28\00:30:56.52
in the maze of little alleyways
00:30:56.55\00:30:58.29
that you find in
Central Asian cities.
00:30:58.32\00:31:01.09
Just then, she
passed a group of people
00:31:01.12\00:31:03.26
standing by a gate.
00:31:03.29\00:31:05.03
She stopped and asked them.
00:31:05.06\00:31:06.43
"Can you tell me
where the church is?"
00:31:06.46\00:31:08.96
At that point in her
life, she didn't realize
00:31:09.00\00:31:11.80
there was more than one
kind of Christian Church.
00:31:11.83\00:31:15.20
The group looked questioningly
at each other for a moment.
00:31:15.24\00:31:17.94
Was this a trap?
00:31:17.97\00:31:19.31
Was this woman a spy?
00:31:19.34\00:31:21.04
But finally, they said,
"Well, this is a house church.
00:31:21.08\00:31:24.78
And we're
getting ready to go in.
00:31:24.81\00:31:26.25
Would you like to join us?"
00:31:26.28\00:31:28.85
Igul did join them.
00:31:28.88\00:31:30.49
And she's never
gone to the church
00:31:30.52\00:31:31.95
that she was looking for.
00:31:31.99\00:31:33.82
Four years ago,
she was baptized.
00:31:33.86\00:31:35.89
Now her sister is studying
and they alternate Sabbaths.
00:31:35.92\00:31:38.89
One stays with
the little boy at home
00:31:38.93\00:31:40.86
while the other
comes to our little church.
00:31:40.90\00:31:43.13
I praise God for His timing.
00:31:43.16\00:31:45.60
Ten minutes, either way,
and she would not have seen
00:31:45.63\00:31:48.27
the group standing by the gate.
00:31:48.30\00:31:50.71
I also thank the
Lord for the dedication
00:31:50.74\00:31:52.84
of a German missionary
who went to Kyrgyzstan
00:31:52.87\00:31:55.71
50 years ago and
planted a church.
00:31:55.74\00:31:58.75
Soon that struggling little girl
00:31:58.78\00:32:00.42
began to send missionaries
to other parts of Central Asia.
00:32:00.45\00:32:04.29
I'm so glad they had planted
a small light in Igul's city,
00:32:04.32\00:32:08.86
one that she could
join when she was ready.
00:32:08.89\00:32:11.79
But you know what haunts me?
00:32:11.83\00:32:14.00
It's all the other Igul's
00:32:14.03\00:32:15.73
who have no Adventist feet
walking through their streets
00:32:15.76\00:32:18.70
and market places.
00:32:18.73\00:32:20.54
Who will they turn to
when the Spirit begins
00:32:20.57\00:32:23.20
to work on their hearts?
00:32:23.24\00:32:25.37
I don't want to leave
us in a state of despair.
00:32:25.41\00:32:27.81
I believe it's time
for Jesus to return.
00:32:27.84\00:32:30.61
The signs all foretell that.
00:32:30.65\00:32:32.75
But if all we do is
pat ourselves on the back
00:32:32.78\00:32:35.15
for how much we
have accomplished,
00:32:35.18\00:32:37.29
we show that we
are indeed Laodicean,
00:32:37.32\00:32:40.06
asleep and in need of nothing.
00:32:40.09\00:32:43.26
God has given us a task.
00:32:43.29\00:32:45.29
It may seem
impossible, but it isn't.
00:32:45.33\00:32:47.76
The Jordon River looked
impossible to the Israelites
00:32:47.80\00:32:50.77
but it wasn't.
00:32:50.80\00:32:52.13
As they believed God's
promise and obeyed His command,
00:32:52.17\00:32:54.90
as they stepped into the water,
00:32:54.94\00:32:56.64
God opened it up
and they crossed over.
00:32:56.67\00:33:00.11
And today, I want
to challenge all of us,
00:33:00.14\00:33:02.01
me included, to wade
into the Jordan River,
00:33:02.04\00:33:04.81
to really get serious
about finishing the work
00:33:04.85\00:33:07.58
and doing anything
necessary to send people,
00:33:07.62\00:33:10.85
to be lights in
every city and suburb,
00:33:10.89\00:33:12.95
village and town on earth.
00:33:12.99\00:33:15.02
We can't just keep
going toward the places
00:33:15.06\00:33:17.36
where it's easy.
00:33:17.39\00:33:18.73
We are a world wide
church with a responsibility
00:33:18.76\00:33:21.43
for every human being on earth.
00:33:21.46\00:33:24.10
We have a responsibility
to take them the message.
00:33:24.13\00:33:27.70
As you plan projects and trips,
00:33:27.74\00:33:30.07
as you raise money for the work
in various parts of the world,
00:33:30.11\00:33:33.34
don't forget the dark places.
00:33:33.38\00:33:36.44
Igul now has a
blessed hope and peace.
00:33:36.48\00:33:39.11
She has a new
light in her dark life.
00:33:39.15\00:33:41.72
But millions like her
still can't see that light.
00:33:41.75\00:33:45.69
When will we light their world?
00:33:45.72\00:33:47.52
There is a candle in every soul
00:34:13.48\00:34:20.16
Some brightly burning
00:34:20.19\00:34:23.53
Some dark and cold
00:34:23.56\00:34:27.00
There is a
Spirit who brings fire
00:34:27.03\00:34:33.64
Ignites a candle
and makes His home
00:34:33.67\00:34:40.44
Carry your candle
00:34:40.48\00:34:43.91
Run to the darkness
00:34:43.95\00:34:47.12
Seek out the
helpless, confused and torn
00:34:47.15\00:34:53.82
And hold out your
candle for all to see it
00:34:53.86\00:35:00.70
Take your candle,
and go light your world
00:35:00.73\00:35:07.37
Take your candle,
and go light your world
00:35:07.40\00:35:14.31
Frustrated brother,
see how he's tried to
00:35:24.29\00:35:31.26
Light his own
candle some other way
00:35:31.29\00:35:37.77
See now your sister,
she's been robbed and lied to
00:35:37.80\00:35:44.57
Still holds a
candle without a flame
00:35:44.61\00:35:51.15
So carry your
candle, run to the darkness
00:35:51.18\00:35:58.02
Seek out the
lonely, the tired and worn
00:35:58.05\00:36:04.76
And hold out your
candle for all to see it
00:36:04.79\00:36:11.57
Take your candle,
and go light your world
00:36:11.60\00:36:18.41
Take your candle,
and go light your world
00:36:18.44\00:36:23.85
Hey, now, na, na, na, na
00:36:23.88\00:36:26.72
Hey now Hey, now, na, na, na, na
00:36:26.75\00:36:29.28
Hey now Hey now Hey now
00:36:29.32\00:36:35.32
Cause we are a family,
whose hearts are blazing
00:36:35.36\00:36:41.86
So let's raise our candles
00:36:41.90\00:36:45.50
and light up the sky
00:36:45.53\00:36:48.94
Praying to our
Father, in the name of Jesus
00:36:48.97\00:36:55.58
Make us a
beacon in darkest times
00:36:55.61\00:37:02.18
So carry your
candle, run to the darkness
00:37:02.22\00:37:08.92
Seek out the
hopeless, deceived and worn
00:37:08.96\00:37:15.83
Hold out your
candle for all to see it
00:37:15.86\00:37:22.50
Take your candle,
and go light your world
00:37:22.54\00:37:29.24
Take your candle,
and go light your world
00:37:29.28\00:37:34.65
Hey, now, na, na, na, na
00:37:34.68\00:37:37.69
Hey, now, na, na, na, na
00:37:37.72\00:37:40.96
Hey, now, na, na, na, na
00:37:40.99\00:37:44.29
Hey, now Hey now
00:37:44.33\00:37:46.46
Hold out your
candle for all to see it
00:37:46.49\00:37:52.83
Take your candle,
and go light your world
00:37:52.87\00:37:59.71
Take your candle,
and go light your world
00:37:59.74\00:38:06.38
Take your candle
00:38:06.41\00:38:09.88
And go light your world
00:38:16.62\00:38:21.83
Hey, now, na, na, na, na
00:38:21.86\00:38:24.83
Hey, now, na, na, na, na
00:38:24.87\00:38:28.17
Hey, now, na, na, na, na
00:38:28.20\00:38:31.41
Hey, now Hey, now
00:38:31.44\00:38:36.21
When I look at the challenge
00:38:36.24\00:38:39.35
of the vast world's populations,
00:38:39.38\00:38:43.22
it's clear to me
00:38:43.25\00:38:45.52
that unless the Holy Spirit
00:38:45.55\00:38:47.49
works powerfully
and dramatically,
00:38:47.52\00:38:51.93
God's work on earth
00:38:51.96\00:38:54.03
will not be
finished any time soon.
00:38:54.06\00:38:57.00
Technology is not
going to finish God's work.
00:38:57.03\00:39:01.30
Television is not
going to finish God's work.
00:39:01.34\00:39:05.51
Radio is not going
to finish God's work.
00:39:05.54\00:39:09.14
All of the technological genius
00:39:09.18\00:39:11.51
of the brightest
minds of the church
00:39:11.55\00:39:13.85
will not finish God's work.
00:39:13.88\00:39:16.18
God will reveal that He alone
00:39:16.22\00:39:20.86
through the
outpouring of His Holy Spirit
00:39:20.89\00:39:23.93
will finish His work.
00:39:23.96\00:39:25.69
I long for meetings
00:39:25.73\00:39:28.26
when the Holy Spirit is
poured out in abundance.
00:39:28.30\00:39:31.87
I long for the
sameness and the routine
00:39:31.90\00:39:34.80
of the church to be broken up.
00:39:34.84\00:39:37.24
And that the
power of the living God
00:39:37.27\00:39:39.57
be poured out upon His people
00:39:39.61\00:39:41.84
because it is
Spirit-filled people
00:39:41.88\00:39:45.11
that'll finish
God's work on earth.
00:39:45.15\00:39:47.18