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Mission SONlight Chatt Extra 14 MS2Q26 ECD · Mission SONlight CHATT

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Welcome to Mission Sunlight Chat from the media
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missionaries of Network 7. We are here in our
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studios in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and my name
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is Christopher Beeson, your host for Mission
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Sunlight, our director of production and engineering.
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You handle the technical side of everything here
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at Network 7, Jordan. And Jordan Wagner, great
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to be on the program. We've missed a few weeks,
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so yeah. This quarter, it's been a bit since
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we've been together. For those of you that may
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not know, Mission Sunlight is a nonprofit Christian
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you're listening. We appreciate you and how you
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feel led to connect with us. So thank you so
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much. As we share the story of Jesus through
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the stories of... Mission Sunlight. And this
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particular episode we call Mission Sunlight Chat,
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where we're sharing the stories behind mission
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and ministry, Jordan. And recently... We traveled
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to the East Central Africa Division back in January
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of 2026. Some great things happening there. Yeah,
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exciting stories coming out of that region, specifically
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from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Which
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is a place you've been to a few times. I've been
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there. I used to live across the river in the
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Republic of Congo as a kid growing up there.
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My parents worked for the church there and did
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mission work there. And the differentiation is
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because they're both Congos. One is considered
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Congo -Kinshasa or Brazzaville? Kinshasa -Congo
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and Brazzaville -Congo, that's correct. Okay,
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and you were on the Brazzaville side? We were
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on the Brazzaville side. Okay. One is the French
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side and one is the Dutch side. Okay, okay. And
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so they were colonized by those two different
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places and have come out of that and are self
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-governing now. Okay. Had experience as a missionary
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kid on the Brazzaville side. We visited on the...
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Kinshasa side. All right. So tell us about the
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interviews in that division, which, of course,
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we're in Kenya, which is where the division is
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headquartered. Yeah. So we're going to start
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with the overview. It's kind of an overview of
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the whole division, what's happening there. And
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we spoke with Elder Riguri, who is the president
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of the division. He's actually the longest serving
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president currently for the World Church of any
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of the divisions. And he took time out of his
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schedule to talk to us about what's happening
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in his division and how the members have. just
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gotten this desire to be self -sent. They have
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a burning desire to serve Jesus and tell the
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story of Jesus to their friends and the communities
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where they live. And that phrase self -sent comes
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really into play in our third story, which we're
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going to get to. But first, let's listen to Dr.
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Riguri. All right, let's listen to it. The East
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Central Africa Division is one of the three divisions
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of the General Conference of Seventh -day Adventists
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serving the African continent. ECD's ministry
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spans 11 countries, including the Democratic
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Republic of Congo, Burundi, Tanzania, and Kenya.
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Together, the 11 nations are home to more than
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393 million people. Across the division, over
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4 .2 million members worship in nearly 29 ,000
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churches and companies. And these numbers continue
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to grow weekly. God is doing many, many interesting
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things in some of our countries. East Central
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African Division has been very vibrant in the
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areas of evangelism, outreach, and all kinds
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of... activities that bring people to Christ.
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For many years, the membership expected and accepted
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that missionaries came from abroad to work among
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the Native tribes and people of this division.
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However, in recent decades, that has transformed
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significantly, and now they look to themselves
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to train, disciple, and baptize their neighbors,
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family, and friends. When it comes to the church
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members going out themselves, We call them self
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-sent. Our people have sent themselves. In other
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words, they do not wait to be agitated by anyone
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to go out. There was a time we had a big problem
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to bring an awakening to our people to participate
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in a mission, in evangelism. No more. That is
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not our problem anymore. All we need is to come
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up with a project or a program. This 13th Sabbath,
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the projects chosen for the offering demonstrate
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that there is an intrepid group of laity partnering
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with leadership to move the three angels' messages
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forward. In the last two decades, the 13th Sabbath
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offering in the ECD has been directed to many
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projects, almost 30 projects in the areas of
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education. health services, and also different
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other outreaches in the community. Some of the
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projects that the 13th Sabbath Offering has been
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directed here in ECD are in Congo, where we had
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a construction in the university, Goma University,
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and also in Rwanda, we have the Adventists of
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Central Africa in Rwanda, AUCA, and also the
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medical school in Rwanda. We call it a SOME,
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benefited also from this offering. And also in
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South Sudan, we had a project for training children,
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teachers for children. In Tanzania, we had a
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Mwanza Adventist Hospital. And in many other
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places, this offering has been very beneficial.
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The division has 12 countries and almost everywhere
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we have been feeling the impact of those. offerings
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that we have been receiving from the General
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Church and the World Church. During this second
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quarter, 2026, there are several projects across
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this division. A school for lifestyle and traditional
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education for Maasai youth in Kenya. Health clinics
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in both Tanzania and Burundi. Two other projects
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dealing with media and health evangelism are
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reminders of the recurring focus across this
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division. the Democratic Republic of Congo's
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unions have picked up that mantle and complete
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that focus this quarter. First, we visit Lukenga
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Adventist University, where they are building
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a training lab with modern technology for the
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nursing students. And therefore the students
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who will go through this education, they come
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from all walks of life. And therefore, it is
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a great privilege for us as a church. to equip
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this institution so that it can meet its needs.
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So part of the funds that you will be giving
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this second quarter will be directed to go and
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rehabilitate that nursery school. Next, we take
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you to the western portion of Congo to see the
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plans for media evangelism. Part of the offerings
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that we will be giving will be directed to Congo,
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to Kinshasa. where we are building a mega media
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center. We are building a comprehensive media
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facility that will allow our union and our neighbors
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to create content that truly expresses the Three
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Angels message through media, which we know breaks
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through barriers to touch the heart. East Central
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Africa division is characterized mainly by our
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push. for mission. We leave no one behind. We
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start with our children, we go to our young people,
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we go to our ladies of the church, and then we
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go to our men, our pastors, our church elders,
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and our leaders at all levels of the church.
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In both Lukenga University and Kinshasa Media
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Center, leadership has partnered to begin the
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projects in faith. They are seeking your willingness
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to come alongside them to finish the work, and
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they have grateful and full hearts as you join
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them. Hear them sing this praise hymn, for like
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you they know Jesus is coming again. Sabbath,
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June 27th, is the 13th Sabbath offering for this
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second quarter, 2026. I want to assure you, your
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offering is going to accomplish much more than
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you can imagine. Jesus is calling you to give
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so that your portion of blessing will make a
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difference to the life of one of your brothers
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or sisters in Africa. I thank the world church.
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I thank everyone of you. who are committed to
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give for these projects. The offering that we
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are awaiting from you will help us immediately
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equip this building. We await your hand and thank
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you for your support. May God richly bless each
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and every church member as you participate in
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giving your 13th Sabbath offering. The East Central
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African Division is expanding their work in evangelism,
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making a major commitment through medical missionary
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work. media missionary work, and through Adventist
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education. This 13th Sabbath, they're inviting
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you to join them on this special mission to sharing
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the gospel of Jesus into all the world. The only
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question that remains, what will your gift be?
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For the Seventh -day Adventist Church on the
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African continent, from Nairobi, Kenya, and the
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Network 7 media missionaries, this is Mission
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Sunlight. It's always an inspiring conversation
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when we talk to Elder Aguri. He's very excited
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about ministry, and he just kind of makes you
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want to get out there and do more. What were
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the other places that we went and told stories?
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So we intended to travel to Likenga Adventist
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University, which is way in the far northeast
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of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and
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see and hear what students are learning there.
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Specifically, there's a need for a new medical
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science learning laboratory. So as we got closer
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to our travel window, We kind of found out that
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travel there was prohibitive. They were not encouraging
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us to book plans and they would help us when
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we get there. It wasn't quite clear. Well, the
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bottom line was for an American flying from the
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United States to Kenya, then to Kinshasa, the
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Democratic Republic capital. then to this eastern
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city that we were to fly to. Then we were to
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take a 12 -hour ride that required leaving the
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Democratic Republic of the Congo on a northern
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road that's kind of parallel to the border, but
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it's outside of the Congo, through another country,
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then back into the DRC and along a very long,
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narrow bush road. It's pretty complicated for
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someone who's local, but then with our complications
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being from another country and having traveled
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through another country to get to the country,
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it... It was messy. And they said, wait a second,
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wait a second. It takes too long to get here.
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It takes a lot of time. And for an American,
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a lot of expense. Some may not realize, Jordan,
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and you and I have experienced this, there can
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be discrimination in other countries. Sometimes
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we... maybe tend to think that in America is
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the only place there's discrimination. But some
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of these countries we travel through, and I'm
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not pointing the finger at any one African country,
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Asian country, European country, just there is
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discrimination, sometimes because you're an American,
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sometimes because of the color of your skin,
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because you're white. Imagine something we don't
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think about often in America. But there can be
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discrimination in other countries. Not pointing
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the finger at anybody or anything in particular.
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It just happens. Oftentimes where you and I see
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it is when we go to like a... museum or a park
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even in a more developing country because they
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see that they will charge us more there's a non
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-national fee so that just happens it's it's
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not you know something that we dwell on But it
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is everywhere. Discrimination can happen anywhere
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and everywhere. It's present in some places.
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So it made more sense for their leaders, in this
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case, to come to the union to let us interview
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them. And then they provided some rough footage
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for us to cover with. And then we completed the
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package with some of the archive footage, of
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course, that we have from East African schools
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and churches. So all that explanation. That's
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how we got to our next story. Let's check it
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out. Northeast Congo is one of the most difficult
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fields to serve God from across the African continent.
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The terrain makes travel difficult, borders are
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blurry, and cross -tribal and cross -country
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conflict creates existential crisis daily. Yet
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these leaders press on toward the mark for the
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prize of their high calling in Jesus. Despite
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of other challenges that the church is meeting,
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we know that even the days of the Apostle Paul,
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The church had to face a lot of persecution and
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other issues. Mission activities are in various
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categories. Therefore, a North East Congo Union
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mission is impacting the society with a mission
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of the church. And that is to go into all the
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world to make disciples of the kingdom of God.
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The church is growing. and therefore it is meeting
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its mission, despite of other challenges that
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the church is meeting. DRC, the Seventh -day
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Adventist Church, has many schools. Education
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in that union is being considered as a key for
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enhancing evangelism in that part of the country.
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In fact, currently we can say that North East
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Congo Union Mission has The largest percentage
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of students in the entire East Central Africa
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division. And therefore, it attracts a lot of
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needs and therefore a lot of commitment from
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the church. Almost 70 % of the students for the
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entire division come from Northeast Congo Union
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Mission. The Adventist University here, since
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its inception, has been an education leader in
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the nation of Congo. Lukanga Adventist University
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is a church institution that started in 1996
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and this institution started very very slowly
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and now it is becoming bigger and bigger. Lukanga
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is the first university in DRC. The nursing school,
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starting with 39 students in 2012, has now 400
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students as of today. The impact of university
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graduates has even reached into the Congolese
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government. The Lord is blessing the Adventist
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University of Lukanga. The institution is growing.
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It is impacting the whole country. You know now
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we have more than now I think we can count the
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four members of the parliament that have gone
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through Lukanga. The sedition is growing and
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we praise God that the impact is being felt.
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In second quarter 2026, your 13th Sabbath World
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Mission offering overflow will bring the Lukanga
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campus a modern nursing laboratory and simulation
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classroom for nursing students to practice their
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learning life skills, similar to what we see
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here at their sister institution, Southern Adventist
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University's School of Nursing in the United
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States. Lukanga Nursing School is an institution
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that started to solve a problem. Students are
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coming out of, you know, look of the nursing
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school and they are doing wonders wherever they
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are going. The only problem that we have, you
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know, nursing schools, they need expensive materials,
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expensive laboratory, expensive simulation materials.
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So the clinic being also equipped will also help
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impact the community at the same time help the
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student for the training. When we want to do
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the internship for students, we are compelled
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to send them very far, even out of the country.
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Thirteenth offering for that university will
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help so much because From there, it will impact
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the entire country. They need that nursing school
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of Lukanga for their training so that they can
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become medical missionaries from that school
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being trained to serve the entire DRC and even
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outside the DRC. The nursing school will also
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help the mothers in terms of nutrition of their
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children. And the impact will be very, very great.
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The 13th Sabbath offering will help the nursing
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school to operate well, helping students to have
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good training. You know, we are preparing our
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students to be missionaries, medical missionaries.
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Leadership reminds us of the true evangelistic
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purpose of the university and its nursing school.
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Jesus was preaching and healing. So we would
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like to use this school in all our means to advance
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the mission, to impact the life of people, teach
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them about the love of God, and prepare them
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for the soon return of Jesus Christ. The medical
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mission work is our entering wedge for sharing
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good news. This 13th Sabbath, you can join these
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students. as they become gospel -bearing medical
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missionaries. I would like to thank all our leaders
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for such a thing. We appreciate so much, not
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only us who are working in the church, even the
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community outside the church appreciates so much.
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I want to thank you all for your donations that
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will help to enhance the Three Angels message
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through the medical or activities and I believe
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and trust that God's work will be also will improve
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in this part of the world. So we are excited
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that the World Church is prepared to meet the
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needs of Lukanga University and more specifically
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the School of Nursing. The equipment which will
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be there will transform the university. On Sabbath,
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June 27, you can assist in training the next
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generation of medical missionaries with modern
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medical equipment in Central Africa. What are
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you planning for your 13th Sabbath offering gift?
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From the Network 7 Media Missionaries and the
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Lukenga Adventist University in Northeast Congo
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Union Mission, this is Mission Sunlight. What
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a great bunch of guys sharing what's happening.
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These leaders have some excitement happening
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on their campus, and they're excited for that.
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And, of course, some of those leaders are from
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the union. And as we said earlier, they traveled
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over to meet us in Kinshasa. And you probably
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didn't know it, but in the background of some
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of those shots is a new. ministry that's happening
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in Kinshasa. And that, of course, leads us to
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our to our next story. Yeah. So as as we talked
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about earlier, Elder Aguri was talking about
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how the members are self -sent or self self -organized,
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self -motivated, self -activated to do ministry.
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And they are just excited to tell what God is
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doing for them and their lives. And so in our
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next story, our final one for this month, this
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quarter. One of the episodes we learned about
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the Adventist Media Center and how they started
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in a studio about the size of ours here. It's
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our studio. This one that we're working in right
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now is about five feet by nine feet or two meters
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by three meters. And the goal is to expand or
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they have expanded into a larger studio. It's
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still not very big. It's only. 25 feet by 25
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feet. So for studios, that's pretty small. But
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you can do amazing things in small spaces too.
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So that's like 7 to 8 meters for those using
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the other measuring system. That's a very small,
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tight space. Many of our living rooms in the
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U .S. are bigger than that. But they're doing
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amazing things. And so let's look and see what
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their story is and what they're doing in that
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space. Okay. Kinshasa is the capital and largest
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city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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It's one of the world's fastest -growing megacities
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with an estimated 18 .5 million residents. Kinshasa
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is the third largest metropolitan area in Africa
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and fourth most populated capital city in the
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world. The city stretches along the southwestern
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shore of the Pool Malabo on the Congo River.
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Across the river lies Brazzaville, the smaller
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capital of the neighboring Republic of the Congo,
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forming the world's closest pair of capital cities
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despite being separated by a two -mile -wide
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unbridged span of the Congo River. This 13th
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Sabbath, you will be invited to join the West
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Congo Union Mission leaders in Kinshasa as they
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outfit this brand -new media facility. built
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in the heart of the city with all new media tools
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to broadcast to Kinshasa, DR Congo, Central Africa,
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and the world. The work to reach the people across
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Congo is greatly complex, and the distance to
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the fields is far. Eighty percent of the Adventist
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members are actually in the central and eastern
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part of our country because the work began on
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the easier border by missionaries coming from
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Rwanda. and then to the south. Here in the west
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in Kinshasa is the largest French -speaking city
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in the world with 18 million residents here.
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There are only 20 ,000 Adventist members, so
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it is a new field of work here in the city. West
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Congo Union Mission is home to intrepid Adventist
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laity working to maximize the use of media to
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share the truth as it is in Jesus with their
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neighbors near and far. This 13th Sabbath, you
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are invited to join them to complete this four
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-story media center to begin broadcasting from
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radio, television, and internet here and around
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the world. The Adventists love the gospel and
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are happy to work for Jesus. They volunteer to
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serve in missions and giving up salaries elsewhere.
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Here you can see the current media facility.
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It's about 25 feet by 25 feet, housing both the
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joint Adventist World Radio and Hope Channel
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Studio and the control center for both broadcast
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entities. Through our small budget and volunteers
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on a subsidy, we've built the work here, including
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the media center, reaching people with the local
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radio and television channels that we have. As
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you can see, it is very small and inadequate.
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Yet we have been able to grow the church with
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the leading of the Spirit. It has been astounding
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in a short time to see people come to know Jesus
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and even some other denominational pastors have
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come to love Jesus in the Adventist message and
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have brought their entire churches too. The church
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wanted to start a radio station so they set aside
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the funds to start a radio station using a license
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that had been inactive. They began in a small
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studio and continued for many years. Then the
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church started the television station and the
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result was this small media center. We lacked
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means to operate them separately so they were
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in cooperation with each other. It was important
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to reach the population of this vast city. The
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church is small here. The idea we had here, we
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had a team working together for radio and television
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starting in a very small house a studio that
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we had you you could see maybe in other videos
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here but now we bless the lord because you see
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with this big major center which is coming up
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we are able now to to work we will not separate
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people but we will work together as a family
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to spread the gospel Despite this humble setting,
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the nearby new building will open soon to adequately
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house Adventist World Radio, Hope Channel DRC,
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and the Adventist Media Center. We were quite
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surprised when the World Church saw what we were
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doing and offered this building behind us. It
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is a gift of the General Conference, the Hope
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Channel, Adventist World Radio, and the East
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Central African Division. Our union, conference,
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and local members' role was to provide the laborers
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and also the new equipment for recording. This
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seems like an easy task, but many of our workers
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are already volunteering for free. They don't
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have much, if anything, more to give. But our
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members gave some, and as God promises us, He
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met us where we were. This project has been funded
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by the GC Adventist World Radio. Hope Channel
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International and the East Central Africa Division.
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The church members have also contributed to this
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project. We are opening the media center on faith.
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The World Church and Division have allowed us
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to build an adequate building. Our local members
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have put their shoulders together to work too.
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This 13th Sabbath, we know we have done all we
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can. Now, we are asking you to join us. We are
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just waiting on your hands to help us equip this
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building with cameras, cables, microphones, switches,
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and all the studio accessories. Equip our studios,
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not only the studios, also we have media boxes
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whereby we need technology equipment to be used.
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And also... to equip our tower. They are doing
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a great deal with so little. Your gift this quarter
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will mean so much. People very committed here
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were performing miracles and doing their best
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to create contents and stream good programs.
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It is important to understand that the work is
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not just affecting the church growth in the city.
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We connect through satellites and the internet.
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We have many radio and television licenses in
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the country, more than 20. And we are reaching
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thousands, even millions. And then you can see
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with the internet that we are unlimited to reach
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those in French and English languages in Africa
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and around the world. Your 15 Sabaf offering
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will help us to equip this building with a good
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quality of equipment and be able now to work
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and bring out the message we have. to reach out
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to millions of people in the city and frog out
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Africa and frog out the world because we will
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not work only for Kinshasa or for DRC but also
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for all French -speaking Africa and all the French
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-speaking world. We will equip with modern quality
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of equipment and our media team will reach far
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beyond these walls with the messages of the three
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angels. We will be able to lead many people to
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Jesus through the French language, Ngala, Chaluba,
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and Swahili dialects too, to have the maximum
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impact. This is just a new building, nearly complete,
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and very soon, with your gifts, it will be equipped
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to share the Three Angels messages across the
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internet, AWR and Hope Channel, in the East Central
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Africa Division, and beyond. We acknowledge the
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world church members in their Sabbath pew. This
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offering will save many. You are impacting the
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kingdom, have no doubt. This project behind me
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is a blessing from the World Church to our union,
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not only to our union, but to Africa as a whole.
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We are thankful that Mission Sunlight is here
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and that through them you will hear our story.
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Please contribute with what you have and together
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the kingdom will grow. We want to thank all of
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you that is supporting us. Kinshasa can move
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the world and can do many things through this
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building you can see. The time for the 13th Sabbath
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is now. What will you give to finish the work
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here at the new Adventist Media Center in Kinshasa?
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For the Seventh Day Adventist Church in East
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Central Africa Division and the Network 7 Media
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Missionaries, this is Mission Sunlight. So a
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lot is happening in that space. It's great to
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see them moving into the larger space and being
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able to utilize that. Some people may not have
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caught, but Hope Channel is housed in that new
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studio and AWR. And so the Word of God is actually
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being... broadcast out of there to the region,
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and a lot is being done in that little space.
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So this new building is going to be extraordinary
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for their ability to just carry on production.
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We think of television, Hope Channel, we think
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of radio, AWR, and of course they're using the
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internet. And not only that, we don't think about
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it so much in the U .S., but they use WhatsApp.
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They send episodes and stream on WhatsApp and
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other messaging applications. The work that those,
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it's not just television and radio, the work
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that those two are producing is going out in
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extraordinary other venues and ways. And being
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able to reach people in a personal way, not just
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they hear it over the radio, but you have a relationship
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with people if you have their WhatsApp number,
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and so you have a relationship, you can send
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that to them, and you're actually making contact
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with people that you may know. And so as we sit
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here and record this, it's summer 2026, they're
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actually beginning to produce content from that
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new building now. I've just been in touch with
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the... treasurer from the union there and looking
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forward to seeing how all of this develops. Jordan,
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thanks so much for being a part of our program
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today, front and center here as we talk about
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the stories from the inter -European division.
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Not the inter -European division. I'm jumping
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ahead on another project we're working on, the
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East Central Africa division, which, by the way,
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next quarter we'll be talking about that inter
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-European division. They all kind of merge together.
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When you're working on two, three, four at a
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time, they run together. So we're looking forward
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to sharing those stories. It's been a blessing.
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to share these stories as well today. Thank you
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so much to our listeners and our viewers who
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have been a part of the program today and are
32:43
a part of the program every week. drop a new
32:47
episode of Mission Sunlight Chat. Thank you so
32:49
much for being a part, and we look forward to
32:51
hearing from you and sharing with you as we go
32:54
on. Don't forget, you can stay connected with
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for you. This is Mission Sunlight Chat. This
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has been a Beeson Brook production in association
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with Network 7 Media Center. Executive Producers
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Christopher and Rebecca Beeson Roddy Scarborough
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Don and Nancy Van Ornum Associate Producers Jordan
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33:28
Beeson, Director of Production and Audio Engineer,
33:31
Jordan Wagner. To suggest guests, topic questions,
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