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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

GYC 2007 Plenary Sessions

Israel Ramos

Andrea Oliver

Be Nonconformists

Steve Kasperbauer

A Journey of Faith

Mark Finley

Paul Ratsara Sr.

Evangelism Focus

Steven Conway

Staci Osterman

Alan Parker

Eugene Prewitt

Allison Waters Fowler

1888 Panel Discussion

A Divine Key

Reasons are that they will be fulfilled according to your purpose in our lives.

Transform us, Lord, into your image, into your likeness.

And Jesus, we just pray that you'll be with each attendee, Lord.

He needs your prayers right now as he's in the hospital.

We want to keep that before our minds, Lord.

And we just pray that, that your Holy Spirit will come down and do for us what we cannot do for ourselves.

Send it Lord Jesus we pray, in your holy and precious name.

Samuel Korenteng Pippin and he says that over and over again.

And sometimes we come here and what's happening, what's happening, Nothing's happening.

The point of this session, something is happening, it's called something's happening by the way, is to let you know what?

And we want to get young people involved as well.

I'm gonna invite the love it couple here as you can see they are She's beautifully dressed and he's interesting here What is happening with you guys what is happening with you guys who are you guys I want you to introduce you guys and and let us know who you are.

And we have been church planting among the Gorkha people in India for the last 2 and a half years.

Now, I understand these are missionaries, but These are not your normal missionaries.

They are a special class of missionaries.

And as you can see with the uniform that Jonathan's wearing, he is a special elite class of missionaries.

Before you became missionaries, what were you guys?

Tell us about you guys before you went into the mission field.

Before we applied and joined AFM, Adventist Frontier Missions, I was involved in social services and my husband was building houses.

What was this drive or what is the traction or what caused you to cross the pond and go over to the other place across over there?

I heard a very, very compelling presentation by another missionary of where the resources are in the world, where do most of the Christians live, where are the Bibles, where are the Christian literature, where are the radio programs, All the resources that we're so used to, where are most of those things located?

And where are the unreached people and those that don't have the books and the radio and all those kinds of things.

And I could see that I was also a resource.

And so I had to pray and ask God, help me to know, Can you use me somewhere else where there's fewer resources available?

Okay, so here you're convicted to use your resources that you have, and you want to use it to people who don't have as many resources.

Now where were you guys serving for the past 2 years or so?

We actually live in an elevation of about 7, 000 feet, so it's quite cool there.

So you're 7, 000 feet above sea level in India.

Can you describe what are the people like there?

What was it like when you first got there?

We've never, I mean, I've never been to India.

Well, the predominant people that we work with are the Gorkha.

And they are basically ethnically Nepali.

They speak Nepali, they have Nepali traditions and actually this is a Nepali hat and I'm sorry.

Okay so you're wearing a Nepali hat and these are people from Nepal who have come down into India and you're there to do what?

Before 2004, there were no Seventh-day Adventists in Darjeeling, India.

And now there's a small group meeting and we want to see a self-sustaining church movement begin there that can go through the surrounding Darjeeling Hills and into Nepal.

Let me get this straight, you were the first Seventh-day Adventists in this area?

Let me clarify, the first Seventh-day Adventist was baptized in 2004.

Now these are, now AFM is looking for a subtype of missionary to go out and wear these interesting hats and clothes and to get into the culture.

What are some things you're learning or putting together or stuff like that?

We've spent the last 2 and a half years studying the language and the culture, and we've put together a book that we've written on the culture, which is about 500 pages long.

And the goal of that is as soon as we get back, we're going to begin to write a series of lessons that is specifically targeting the Nepali people, their minds, and the way they think and what they value.

I understand you're also learning the language.

Hey, you know, maybe Americans have kind of a bad reputation for being monolingual and that was me.

And I went over there and had to become bilingual.

Now, you're an American, you're Caucasian, you're white, but you have red hair.

This is off the record, so if you know, whatever.

They do sometimes comment on my hair, but more frequently they comment on my freckles.

Nobody wants something incurable foreign disease.

So there's a high learning curve, you've got to engage the culture, and you're there for Jesus Christ.

Can you explain what is AFM really trying to do?

Well, at AFM, what we try to do is we try to look at the places in the world that are not growing.

Maybe the country is growing as a whole, but perhaps there are particular parts of that country that are not having any type of growth.

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