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Mission SONlight Chatt Season 4 Ep. 33 Orian Lawrence - AFM Missionary · Mission SONlight CHATT

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Welcome to Network 7's Mission Sunlight Chat.
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We are at the General Conference Session here
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in St. Louis, Missouri in the United States.
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The General Conference Session is the business
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meeting of the Seventh -day Adventist Church
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that's held every five years handling various
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business activities. But also there is a huge
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exhibit hall, and you are looking at that exhibit
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hall now as there are hundreds of exhibitors
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from across the world, both lay ministries, lay
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businesses that are sharing with us. other ministries,
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what they have to offer to ministry, and then
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the institutional ministries of the Seventh -day
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Adventist Church, division -wide, divisions from
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around the world. And so it's just a blessing
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to be here and connect and network with others
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and hear what Jesus is doing in people's lives
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around the globe. And literally, we are going
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around the globe with our interviews this time.
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As you watch over the next few months and maybe
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even a year plus, we have had the opportunity
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to talk with many international guests. And some
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of those international guests, well, one of them
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is right here with us. Adventist Frontier Missions
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is an entity that is, I would say, ubiquitous.
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You touch every continent except one, I guess.
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The very, very cold one. But you're really reaching
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people for the world. And Orion Lawrence, you
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are one of the missionaries of Adventist Frontier
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Missions. Yes. And the AFM is a ministry organization
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that we've interviewed some of their other missionaries.
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And we're going to talk more about AFM specifically.
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But before we get to that, I would like to hear
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your story and learn a little bit more about
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your journey. But I want to do two things before
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we do that. One, I'm going to adjust your mic
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because you are taller and bigger than we gave
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you credit for. I want to get you a little closer
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to the mic. And then also I want to ask you if
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you would just have a word of prayer for us.
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Yeah, see, you're familiar with the mic. You
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know how to get it closer there. Okay. Would
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you pray for us? Certainly. Dear Lord, we thank
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you for your love and your strength, your power
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that you use. to bring people to you. And I just
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pray that the stories that we share will encourage
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other people to put their trust in you and to
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move forward in any way you lead in reaching
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others and enhancing your work around the world
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so that you can come quickly. This we pray in
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your name. Amen. Amen. Thank you for sharing
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that. The journey you've been on, tell us about
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that from your childhood to deciding to become
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an AFM missionary. Tell us about your youth growing
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up and how you connected with Jesus. Well, I
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was born and raised as a self -admonished Christian.
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I can remember as a little child having family
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worship and singing a little children's song
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that was... In one of the children's song books
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that we had back in the day, it was missionary,
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missionary, goodbye. And my brother and I would
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pack up little suitcases and march down the hallway
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and wave goodbye to our parents. And so I remember
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also visiting my grandparents and my grandmother
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would sit us both down on the couch as soon as
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we got in, you know, the first evening. And remember,
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God has a special work for you to do. And so.
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While my parents didn't say you have to be missionaries
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or whatever, I grew up always knowing that as
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Christians, we are here on this earth to serve
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God in whatever way he calls. And then later
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on, when I was in boarding school, we had a week
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of prayer by a missionary that was from AFM.
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I think I just, at that point, chose to direct
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my life, my training, my education, so that I
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could be a missionary. And so I served with Adventist
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Frontier Missions as a student missionary in
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Papua New Guinea. And then God called us later
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on after I was married, my wife and I. We first
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spent six years. at an orphanage in Kolkata,
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India. And then after that, God called us back
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to Papua New Guinea. Okay. So you, growing up,
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you kind of had the Christian connection. Yes.
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Tell me about your siblings. I have one twin
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brother, and we both have... We've served in
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different places, different times as missionaries,
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and our parents have always encouraged that.
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So just one sibling. Yes. Your parents had twins
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and said, oh, enough's enough. Basically. So
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my first wife, my late wife, and I had an older
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daughter, and then two years later we had twins.
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Our intent was to have four children, but that's
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what we did. When we had the twins, we said,
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okay, enough's enough. Having two at a time is
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a wonderful blessing. But that also kind of evens
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the playing field for having any more. It may
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not be that way for all parents. I actually had
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an elder in a church whose mother was a twin,
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and they had multiple twins in that same line
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of kids. So, yeah, it may not be the same principle
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for everybody. Having had twins, I kind of think
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it's a neat connection because people see one
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of my daughters and think that she's the other
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daughter in like totally different states or
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different settings. And they find that. So here's
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a backstory for you, for our listeners and for
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our viewers. And you can't see Orion, but if
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you go back to a Mission Sunlight episode from
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about a year ago, we interviewed someone who
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looks just like Orion. And I didn't know until
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he sat in the chair here beside me, there's a
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reason why he looks like him and talks like him.
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Because it's your twin brother that I interviewed
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in Bethel, Alaska. Yes, yes. So you truly do
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have a rich family history of mission work, you
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and your brother for sure. Yes. And what were
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you saying before we came on the recording about
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hot and cold? Well, my brother and his wife are
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in Alaska where it's really cold. And my wife
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and I are in Papua New Guinea, where it's always
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hot. I wonder if you guys could trade places
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and if the people would notice. The brothers.
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I know the wives would notice. I think they would.
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For one thing, I wouldn't be able to. For either
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one of us, we don't know everyone in other places.
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Okay. It wouldn't be as hard for me to impersonate
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him for a little bit in Alaska, speaking English.
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He would have a harder time speaking pidgin English.
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Gotcha. Are you pretty proficient? Yeah. How
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long have you been there? Seven years. Okay,
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seven years. For our viewing audience, you can
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see the articles of clothing that Orion has on
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him that include various Papuan traditional garb.
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But for our listening audience, you're going
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to have to dial us in on YouTube or Facebook
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and see the video because he is dressed well.
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I want to hear about what you have on when we
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get to the second segment. We're talking more
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about AFM and your work there at P &G. P &G,
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of course, being short for Papua New Guinea.
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But before that, here's a little further trivia
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of the story. I met your brother a year -ish
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ago in June. a year ago, and interviewed him
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for the story in Bethel, Alaska. And then after
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meeting your sister -in -law, his wife Robin,
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she said, hey, could you do some video for our
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family so that our parents, the twins' parents,
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could record some greetings, kind of some legacy
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video for after they're gone. So sure, we were
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glad to do that. And again, not knowing you.
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A few months ago, Jordan and I recorded them.
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We've just sent them the video here a few weeks
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ago, and so they have that. And so now they talked
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about their kids, and I only casually made the
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connection with your brother Frank, right? Yes.
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But then now you're sitting in my chair. I've
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met the whole family. Wow. It's a small world.
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It is. In the Christian world, in the Adventist
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world, it's a small world. What a blessing. Amen.
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So, Orion, thank you for sharing your story with
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us. I want to hear more about what you're doing
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today. We're going to take a break and come back
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in just a moment. But to our listeners and viewers,
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it. And otherwise, it might just be very interesting,
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especially if there's a kid involved who might
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be thinking about becoming a missionary, like
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you were telling us, Orian, packing up the bags
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and just kind of catch a spirit for the mission
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field. However it may happen, please click the
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more Mission Sunlight Chat. Being a media missionary
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can mean many different things. It means the
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love of a home at the heart of the planet. The
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intrepid spirit of a village and the vibe of
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a great metropolis. It means camera one and camera
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two. It means transforming a school, orphanage,
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or hospital. It means fire, rain, ice, and snow.
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It means gifts by the dollar and by the check.
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it means donations that roll and donations that
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fly it's a movement on a trail or down a motorway
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it means family all of us together and individually
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it's who you are or who you are becoming and
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to her it's a simple gesture that means hope
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whatever it means to you being a media missionary
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means more than you might think. Welcome back
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to Mission Sunlight Chat. We are talking with
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Orion Lawrence, who is a missionary for Adventist
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Frontier Missions in Papua New Guinea. What,
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first of all, is AFM for those who may not have
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heard before? Adventist Frontier Missions sends
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missionaries. to hard to reach or unentered areas,
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tribal areas or sometimes other but people groups
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that do not have a functioning church in their
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area or have a struggling church but where the
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regular general conference has not been able
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to effectively for one reason or another. grow
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a church in that area. And so it's an unreached
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area. And so AFM missionaries apply and then
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raise their own money to go work and support
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the church. We don't take tithe money. We don't
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get funding from the General Conference. But
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we work very hand in hand with the General Conference
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in furthering the work of the gospel. Amen. And
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the General Conference being, of course, the
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main body of the Seventh -day Adventist Church,
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the administrative body. And we call this the
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General Conference Session, where they're having
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their meeting, where we are right now in the
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exhibit hall. So AFM, Adventist Frontier Missions.
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My sister -in -law, brother -in -law, worked
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with AFM in Mali. Okay. And so I'm a little bit
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familiar with the work. I've also traveled extensively
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shooting mission videos. And so run into a number
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of AFM missionaries. You folks, the name Frontier
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is not to be taken for granted. You truly are
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Frontier, right on the front lines for sharing
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Christ around the globe. All right, before we
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go any further, I'm sorry to our listening audience.
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They do not get to see this. I hope you will
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take the chance to tune in on Facebook or on
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YouTube. But tell me what... we're seeing here?
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Well, I have on a necklace of cowrie shells.
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That's the centerpiece. The pendant is a crocodile's
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tooth. I have a little string bag that men use
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to carry whatever it is they need to carry. Men
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carry smaller bags that are centrally located.
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Easy to full movement for fighting or whatever.
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Women carry the heavy loads and so their bags
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are much larger. So your bag We would call that
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a man purse. Yeah, it's a man's belem. All their
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bags are called belems. Okay. And so this is
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a man's belem. Okay. And you can get them a little
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bit bigger, but they're not very big. You carry
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your phone, your money, your spoon, your pen.
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Yeah. Going back to the necklace, what are the
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shells attached to? Is that just... The backing
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is made out of bark. And it's what they also
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traditionally make the Belem bag out of. Okay.
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Bark just off the trees. Yes. So I also have
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a string Belem that's made out of yarn that's
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been retwisted. Okay. And same traditional way
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of making it, but now with all the different
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colors. So this is in the colors of the Papuan
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flag. Okay, and that would be more for the ladies,
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or would a man carry that too? A man can carry
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this one. This is sort of either one. I was given
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this by a man, so I'm assuming that this is also
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a man's Belem, but it's just a larger one for
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carrying more documents and things. And I noticed
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the way it strands around you. It's got this
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nice decorative pom -pom, for lack of a better
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term, right there at the top on your shoulder.
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So it kind of forms a little bit of a... Kind
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of an adornment on your shoulder. That's kind
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of neat. Yeah. Okay, and tell us what's on your
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head. Okay, on my head I have a headdress made
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out of shells, and again, cowrie shells and some
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other shells, and then pig's tusks, wild boar.
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Pigs are very important in Papua New Guinea culture,
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both as money and as food. And then on my arm
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I have a bone knife from a leg bone of a cassowary.
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And this would have been traditionally actually
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the humerus bone of an enemy. But nowadays, human
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bones, that's taboo. That's not used. So they
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switched to the leg bone of a cassowary, which
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is a large flightless bird that we have in Australia
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and New Guinea. Jordan, I'm going to ask you
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to grab a shot of his headdress there. And while
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you're doing that, I'm going to ask, would you
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mind pulling the knife out? Would you call it
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a knife or a dagger? A dagger, a knife, yeah.
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But it's supposed to be just close to hand so
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that you have it underneath this armband on my
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left arm. Yeah, I see it. So that's been carved
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up a little bit for decoration. Wow, that's really
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nice. And so on your head, do you have that headdress
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shot, Jordan? So on your head, you can see the,
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you call them what, cowrie shells? Cowrie shells.
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Okay, these smaller shells. Yeah, the smaller
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shells. And then the pig tusks have been dissected.
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To make them lay flat against the head. Yeah.
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And so that's really just one pig's tusks there.
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Because they had two snouts coming off, and you
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just cut them in half. I'm not sure exactly how
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that, whatever they collected. Okay. All right.
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And, Jordan, if you want to pan down, I'm going
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to give him the dagger back, and you can just
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show a shot of, hold that up by your microphone,
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if you will, and then you can see that knife.
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It has an interesting head to it there. Is that
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part of the joint, do you think, to carve that
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down? Yeah, there's the knee joint of the cassowary
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bird, and then they've put carving on it. Okay,
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and then show us the point, too, if you can.
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Flip that out toward the camera. Yeah. That's
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really interesting, the way they've carved it.
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And you said it's the... It's a bird's leg. It's
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from the leg of a bird. It has to be a pretty
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significant size bird then. These are similar
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to a size of an ostrich, just a little smaller.
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And then you've got a little sheath that you
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can just slide that in to hold it in place. Is
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almost everybody walking around with one of those
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so they have it handy? They used to, not so much
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anymore. But when you have people building a
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house and they're sewing on the shingles that
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they've made out of tree leaves, then they'll
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use this. constantly to poke holes through the
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tree leaves to sew the jungle vine for tying
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the shingles onto the roof. I see. Wow, it's
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just a valuable tool. It's as important as like
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a pocket knife or a pin flashlight for us here
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now. Very cool. So, okay, the truth is you're
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a missionary. What are you doing in the mission
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field? What are you doing there? Working with
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the people, encouraging the local leaders, training
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them, mentoring them, discipling them. and helping
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to grow the church, plant new churches, but especially
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focused on giving the local church leaders that
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are already there a firm foundation from which
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to grow and further the gospel. Are you seeing
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baptisms in the work that you do? Yes. People
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that were here have heard of the... evangelistic
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program that was done in Papua New Guinea last
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year. I spoke for our area and we had 43 baptisms.
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We had about 45 more that signed up. I said from
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our area at least we were not baptizing people
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that just gave their hearts to Christ just now.
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I want them to have some time to understand the
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truth. Our people are very much in a culture
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that worships and tries to manipulate the spirits.
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And when people grow up from that culture, it's
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very easy for them to accept a loving Christ
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as a God to worship. But because they have been
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controlled by the spirits and lived in fear of
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the spirits their whole lives, they still keep
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all that thing sort of in their back pocket.
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Make sure to say, I'll pray to God, but I'll
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also do the traditional things just in case.
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Just cover all my bases. And so getting them
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to the point where their trust in God is firm
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enough that they're not going to the witch doctor
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when the child gets sick. Make sure they're anchored
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in what they are committing to. Yes. Fantastic.
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You mentioned, what did you call it, P &G for
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Christ? P &G for Christ. I want to talk a little
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bit about P &G for Christ because it was a tremendous
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blessing to the island, I understand. We'll talk
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about that more. My wife and I were actually
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supposed to be over there for part of that. Unfortunately,
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for transportation, we... ran into some issues
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and couldn't come. But we'll talk about the outreach
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at missionsunlight .org. Ori and Lawrence, you
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are with us today from AFM, Adventist Frontier
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Missions. You mentioned in our previous segment
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about a PNG for Christ. That was a pretty significant
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success for sharing the gospel, for sharing Jesus
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with the island nation of PNG. You mentioned
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about 40 or 50 baptisms where you were, people
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coming to Jesus, and even more still attending.
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probably have some growth and some continued
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baptisms out of that, if I understand how evangelism
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usually works. That's not always the end. That
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initial meeting is often followed up with more
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studies and more baptisms. But PNG for Christ
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was a major, major event for the country. Tell
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me about that. Well, their aim was, I don't know
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how many, but they had simultaneous meetings
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throughout the entire country. People came in
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as guest speakers from around the world as well
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as local pastors, elders, and things. And so
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for our area, we live on a big river system.
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And so I was able to just help send my big canoe.
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I have a 60 -foot long dugout canoe. And use
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that to go and bring people from other areas
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up and down the river. within our sphere of influence
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to camp out and have the two weeks of meetings.
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And we had about, on the second Sabbath, I'd
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say we had over 700 people in attendance. And
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in Papua New Guinea, prior to this, and what
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was part of, aided, I think, in the tremendous
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amount of baptisms that occurred, is that during
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COVID, Because the churches were shut down, they
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had broken out into a lot of small groups. Each
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church was broken up into small groups, and they
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met in their different local neighborhoods. And
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this helped to foster a larger, a stronger sense
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of community among the members and among new
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interests. This, I believe, also helped in the
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number of people that were baptized as well as
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I believe will continue to help in the retention
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of new members. So there's a plan. It's not just
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let's get them baptized so we can say they're
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Christians or converts or any of that. It's how
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can we make disciples who will make disciples.
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What happened in 2024 was supposed to have happened
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in 2020. And so because of COVID, this delay
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has allowed for a stronger development and buildup
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of the groundwork necessary before the meetings
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that I believe really had part of the impact
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in the harvest that we had. I know we don't want
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to just be focused on numbers, but it certainly
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is telling to us when we hear the numbers and
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we know that. People made decisions, and some
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people will slip away from their decisions. That's
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the reality. Do you know what the number of people
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who professed Christ at the end of the meetings?
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I did not try to research that ahead of time.
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I do not have that number on my hand. It was
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a large number. It was very large. I did hear
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a number. I won't mention it since you can't
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confirm it. But there was in the tens of thousands.
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Yes, yes. And so significant impact on. The country
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of Papua New Guinea for Christ. Yes, yes. Orion,
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I know you have a story to tell to wrap up our
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program. Just a short testimony. Would you go
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ahead and share that now? Where my wife and I
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are serving, we're very remote, and there's two
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villages that are across from land that belongs
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to the government, and the government has given
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one -third of the hill to the Adventist Church
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Mission, and two -thirds they control. And a
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few years ago, a death occurred because of drunken
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fighting, and one village burned down the other
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village in retaliation. And this had also happened
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right around the time that I was having specific
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Bible studies with my church elders about curses.
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And Satan did not want these to go on, and so
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he helped stir up this trouble. Fast forward
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from 2019 till 2024 and February of 2025 and
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I was just giving out to the baptismal candidates
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Bible study lessons in the language for Papua
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New Guinea, the trade language, Tok Pisin. And
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that same night... Satan did not want people
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to have the chance to study these things in their
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own language. He stirred up memories amongst
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the young people, especially of the village that
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had been burned, to retaliate against the Upper
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River Village. And so the next morning, my canoe
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driver came up and he said, I want you to stay
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in your house today. We've agreed you're safe,
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but you stay in your house, and don't be alarmed
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if you hear bombs going off and gunfire and things.
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But I didn't feel that was what I should be doing.
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So my wife was busy packing in case we needed
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to evacuate, but I said, I'm going down. I went
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down to the riverfront and sat right by our fuel
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shed and prayed and read my Bible while... I
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could watch the young men arguing with the village
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elders across the river from me. And the shouts
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sometimes got louder or less and things. And
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I just continued praying, reading my Bible. Eventually,
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it became like 2 in the afternoon. The sun was
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now, I was no longer in the shade. And so I...
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Things had quieted down. I went back to the house.
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My wife met me at the door. What's happening?
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I said, I don't know. But they're not fighting
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right now. Right. And two days later, it was
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the next day. Everyone was just staying in their
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houses that whole night. The next day, no one
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was moving around because everyone was sort of
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not sure if there was a fight going to happen
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or not. But on Tuesday, my boat driver came back
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up and he said, You did just the right thing.
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God led you to do this. You didn't know it, but
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where your boat shed is is the dividing line
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between the two villages. And I already did know
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that where our house is is where the jail used
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to be when Australian police were posted in our
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location to keep the peace between the warring
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villages. And so... the headman of the village
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was able to say to all the young men that wanted
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to fight, say, no, Orion is sitting there on
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the line between our villages, and he represents
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the government and the mission, and you have
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to go through him to attack the upper village
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so you can't fight. And that was enough of a
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logical... Conclusion in their minds. To diffuse
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the whole thing. Yeah, everything just quieted
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right down. And, you know, sometimes God calls
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us to just wait and see that I am God. Literally
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stand still and wait. And so God calls us in
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many different ways to work for him. Amen. And
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sometimes it's to do something great. Sometimes
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it's just to sit still. Stand still and wait
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on him. But when we put our trust in God, he
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will look after us. Amen. Amen. Orion, let's
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have prayer as we wrap up this episode. Heavenly
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Father, we thank you for the way you lead us
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in moving forward and maybe turning around, but
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also in the waiting. We thank you that sometimes
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you point us in the direction that we just need
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to sit and pray. And that's what you have planned
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for us for right now. And help us all to be aware
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of and listening for your voice to tell us when
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we need to wait and follow you in that. It's
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not easy as humans to do that. We want to move
31:28
ahead and we want to move forward and fix things,
31:31
but sometimes that's what it takes. Thank you
31:33
for your guidance in AFM and all of the regions
31:36
that they work in, Lord. They're reaching so
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many people for your kingdom, and I pray that
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you'll continue to bless them, especially bless
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Orion and his wife as they work in PNG, and they
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further the gospel there so that people can hear
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of your soon return and your love for them. And
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we pray this in your name, amen. Amen. Amen.
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Thank you so much for sharing, Orion. Thank you,
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Jordan, for your... persistent pursuit of excellence
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over there in the broadcast booth and for having
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