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YOUTH AND ADULT MAGAZINE
2012 •QUARTER 2 • SOUthern ASiA-PAcific DiviSiOn
www.AdventistMission.org
C o n t e n t s
On the Cover: Oo Jyaw rides home after worshipping at a house church in Myanmar.
CENTENNIAL SpECIAL 18 A School for Edel | May 26
4 The First Mission project | April 7 20 Someone Who Loves Me | June 2
22 Burma’s pure Gold | June 9
INDONESIA
6 God’s Healing Hands | April 14 MISCELLANEOUS
8 A Crowd of Witnesses | April 21 24 Light in the Darkness | June 16
10 The Little Literature Evangelist | April 28 26 A Gift of Love | June 23
12 Mission Outside the Walls | May 5
rESOUrCES
14 The Headhunter | May 12
28 Thirteenth Sabbath program | June 30
MYANMAr 31 Leader’s resources
16 Meeting the Loving God | May 19 32 Map
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Yo u r O f f e r i n g s a t Wo r k
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School in southern Philippines say a
big thank-you to all who gave to the
Thirteenth Sabbath Offering in 2008
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Dear Sabbath School Leader,
This quarter features the Southern The Challenges:
Asia-Pacific Division, which includes Indonesia is made up of more than
the countries of Bangladesh, Brunei, 13,000 islands stretched along the equator
Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, between the Indian Ocean in the Pacific
Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Ocean. Many distinct cultures and
Sri Lanka, Thailand, East Timor, and religions developed among the different
Vietnam, and islands of the Pacific, ethnic groups living in Indonesia.
including Guam, the Federated States of Although Indonesia is not officially an
Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Northern Islamic state, more than 85 percent of
Mariana Islands, Palau, and Wake Island. Indonesians are Muslim.
Almost 800 million people live in this The Adventist Church serves the
region, of which almost 1.1 million are people of Indonesia through several
Seventh-day Adventists. About one schools and medical facilities. Hospitals
person out of about 700 is an Adventist. and medical clinics offer valuable services
to Indonesians, and many have come to
Special Yearlong Celebration
know Christ through them.
This year marks the centennial of
the mission quarterlies, which were first Myanmar (Burma) is the second-
produced in 1912. Throughout the year we largest country in Southeast Asia, with a
will feature at least one story that appeared population of about 54 million. But years
in Children’s Mission over the years, and of military rule and civil war have isolated
some additional stories relating to the the country from global and economic
history of the mission offerings. Look for influences and left many of its citizens
these special features each quarter. in poverty. However this same isolation
has helped preserve some of Myanmar’s
traditional culture and customs.
Opportunities Religion usually follows ethnic lines,
and ethnic groups haven’t mixed well
This quarter’s Thirteenth Sabbath
in Myanmar. While a small percentage
Offering will help:
of Myanmar’s population is Christian,
 enlarge the Adventist hospital in the majority (more than 80 percent) is
Manado, Sulawesi, in eastern Indonesia Buddhist. Because they don’t interact
easily, they don’t yet know of Christ’s love
 provide medical equipment for a hospital
in Medan, Sumatra, in western Indonesia for them.
 enlarge the Yangon Adventist Seminary
(a K-12 school) in Yangon, Myanmar Yours for the kingdom, n.org
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Centennial SpeCial | april 7
Setting Sail

The First Mission Project
Pitcairn
United to Tell the World
Adventist Church members were excited.
Catherine and Elisha* sat in the stiff Mothers baked bread and cakes for their
wooden pew of their small-town children to sell. One boy helped his mother
church on Sabbath morning. Catherine pop popcorn over the family’s wood-burning
clutched three coins. Her brother fingered stove to make hundreds of popcorn balls to
the coins in his pocket. The children had raise $15 for the Pitcairn fund!
worked hard all week to earn 16 cents† Everyone worked hard to raise money
to give to the special mission offering. to build the ship. It was almost impossible
Catherine had helped her mother bake to imagine raising the $12,000 needed to
bread, and then had sold it to their build the missionary ship.‡
neighbors. Elisha had washed windows
A Boyhood Dream
and delivered purchases for the owner of
the general store. Many years before there was a ship
At last the pastor announced the called the Pitcairn, a young man named
mission offering. As the children slipped John Tay heard the story of a rebellious
their offering into the special box, the crew on a British ship who had mutinied
n pastor reminded everyone that the offering and put their cruel captain and a few of
Divisio would help build a mission ship. “We’ve his crew aboard a lifeboat and sailed away
Pacific earned enough to buy a board!” Elisha told on the mother ship, the Bounty. The
Asia- the pastor, his eyes shining. mutineers had then taken refuge on a tiny
hern Others came forward too with their island in the South Pacific called Pitcairn.
Sout offerings. “My offering can buy some It was so small and so far from shipping
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Missio nails!” one boy said excitedly. lanes that the mutineers were sure they
t “Maybe my offering can help buy some would never be found.
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them had hoped. Within a few years island, virtually everyone on Pitcairn was
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alcohol nearly destroyed the islanders keeping the Sabbath.
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as the men fought among themselves. “Please baptize us!” the people begged. I
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John Adams, remained alive to care for he couldn’t baptize these people. He
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Sharing the Passion
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all the women and children on Pitcairn Tay returned to San Francisco and told
became Christians. the story of Pitcairn. His passion inflamed
believers, and eventually church officials
Discovery
voted to raise funds to build a ship that
After some time news of the discovery
would sail to Pitcairn and other South
of Pitcairn reached the world, and John
Pacific islands to share the gospel with the
Tay vowed to visit the island and share
people there.
the Adventist message with the people
Sabbath School members across
there. He traded his skills as a carpenter
North America—for that’s where most
for passage aboard a ship that took him to
Adventists lived at the time—united to
the South Pacific. Four months and six
raise money to build the mission boat that
ships later John Tay arrived on Pitcairn.
was fittingly named Pitcairn.
Tay showed the islanders Bible truths
In 1890, four years after Tay had first
they hadn’t known. Some people
visited Pitcairn Island, the Pitcairn sailed
recognized the truths from tracts that had
toward Pitcairn Island with a crew and
been shipped to the island years earlier.
three missionary couples, including John
By the time the next ship docked at the
and Hannah Tay. One month later the
little ship approached Pitcairn. How
warmly the Adventist visitors were
Mission Post
greeted, especially John Tay!
Within a few days 82 Pitcairners were
 The ship Pitcairn was built with the first
mission offerings taken in the Seventh- baptized, and the Adventist Church was
day Adventist Church. It took six established on Pitcairn. Just 100 years after
months to raise the funds. Adults and
the mutineers had stepped onto Pitcairn
children alike worked to raise money for
Island, virtually the entire population of
the first mission ship.
Pitcairn Island had become Adventists.
 After the Pitcairn left Pitcairn Island,
Our mission offerings continue to reach
it sailed to other islands of the South
around the world with the gospel of Jesus
Pacific. John Tay and his wife stayed in
Fiji to share God’s love with cannibals Christ, just as they did 100 years ago. 
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the islands of the South Pacific is an 1886 a loaf of bread sold for less than five cents. Adve
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God’s Healing Hands
IndonesIa | april 14
Dr. Eddie Antou
“His tonsils are infected,” she said. “The
doctor will help him feel better.”
The doctor greeted Paku with a smile.
Then he looked into Paku’s mouth. “Those
are really swollen tonsils you have, Paku.
I bet your throat hurts a lot.” The doctor
turned to Ana and said, “I’ll order some
pills that will help Paku feel better. But his
tonsils need to come out, or he will keep
getting infections. Can you come to the
hospital in Manado in three weeks?”
The line of villagers shuffled slowly Ana’s face twisted. “Doctor, I can’t pay
toward the village hall. Ana’s son, for— I-I don’t—.”
Paku, moaned in his half-sleep as Ana “Don’t worry,” the doctor said. “Just
shifted him in her arms. Paku often was bring Paku to the hospital. Once those
sick, and Ana hoped that the doctors and tonsils are out, he’ll feel a lot better.”
nurses who had come to her village could Ana left the clinic marveling that these
help him. doctors and nurses had treated her son
At the front of the line a smiling and given her medicine without asking for
woman asked Ana a few questions and
money. For the first time in months she
wrote Paku’s name on a paper. She
felt hopeful.
directed Ana to some chairs inside the
n building. Ana sat down and nestled her Manado Adventist Hospital
Divisio son’s head against her shoulder. Manado Adventist Hospital has grown
Pacific A nurse squatted in front of Ana. “Is from a medical clinic to a highly respected
Asia- this Paku?” she asked. “I need to take his 95-bed hospital in just four years. Quality
hern temperature.” Ana nodded, and the nurse care and a staff dedicated to being God’s
Sout slid the thermometer into the boy’s mouth. hands and heart have led a number of
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Missio “He has fevers and sore throats,” former patients to ask to know more about
t Ana said. Adventists. Nurses and doctors pray with
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is an intimate part of our ministry,” says Dr.
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Antou, director of the hospital. “We pray Fast Facts
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over every patient in Jesus’ name, every S
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most patients appreciate that.”
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Even staff members are blessed by the
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hospital’s caring mission. Corry came
living in Indonesia are Muslim,
to Manado Adventist Hospital asking making Indonesia the world’s largest
for a job. She had worked overseas as a Muslim country.
housekeeper to support her family until she
 Several Adventist hospitals serve
learned that her husband had given the population areas across Indonesia. In
couple’s children to her mother and had addition, hundreds of simple medical
clinics serve the needs of people in more
spent the money she’d sent on gambling
isolated areas.
and alcohol. Corry wasn’t an Adventist,
but she was a dedicated Christian. She  For more on this and other Thirteenth
Sabbath projects this quarter, see the
applied for work and was hired.
Adventist Mission DVD.
“I feel a sense of peace here,” she says.
“The workers have a joy I had not seen
before. The chaplain often stops to chat.
I have been a Christian and a student town or village outside the city. They offer
of the Bible for years, so I enjoyed these health talks, provide medical screenings,
conversations. I began to learn what dental, eye, and medical check- ups, and
Adventists believe, and during a Week of treat common medical problems. If a
Prayer held at the hospital I asked to join client, such as little Paku, has a medical
the Adventist Church.”
problem that the staff cannot treat on site,
Corry loves working at the hospital. “I
they are invited to receive the treatment
could get a better-paying job elsewhere,”
at little or no cost in the hospital.
she says. “But I love working here.
These medical clinics open doors for
Although my job is lowly, I’m treated as a
outreach efforts in the area. In three years
daughter of the King.”
some 360 people have been baptized as
Effective Outreach a result of the outreach sponsored by the
Adventist hospital. Reaching out to the
Paku and his mother arrived at the
hospital, and Paku’s surgery went well. community and being Christ’s hands
Before Paku and Ana returned home, Ana of healing and love have helped make
found Dr. Antou and thanked him for Manado Adventist Hospital a lighthouse
helping her son have a better life. in Indonesia. Part of this quarter’s n.org
The hospital’s charity clinics have Thirteenth Sabbath Offering will help Missio
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A Crowd of Witnesses
Western IndonesIa | april 21
Manado Adventist Hospital
Adventist hospital. He said that Haji had
told him about the Adventist hospital.
Abdul needed surgery. When Chaplain
Ferdy introduced himself to Abdul, the
man smiled. “Haji told me you’d come,”
he said. Ferdy asked permission to pray
with Abdul, and the man eagerly agreed.
One day when Chaplain Ferdy entered
Abdul’s room he found several family
members visiting. Abdul greeted the
chaplain and said, “Don’t talk—just pray. I
want my family to know that Isa—Jesus—
has power to heal.”
Haji* [HAH-jee] had money. He could Abdul’s surgery was successful, and he
go to any hospital that he wanted was able to leave the hospital on his way
for treatment. He chose the Adventist to health. A few days later he called the
hospital in Manado, Indonesia. chaplain and announced that already he
Every day Chaplain Ferdy prayed with was back in the office and working. “It
Haji. When Haji left the hospital, he was your prayers,” Abdul said, “and the
told the chaplain, “I’m impressed that the healing power of Isa.”
nurses always prayed with me when they
Dirk
gave me my medicines. And I didn’t have
Dirk scowled when the chaplain
to worry about being given unclean meat
visited him in his hospital room. When
since the hospital serves only vegetarian
Division fvoeogde.t aIrni afnac fto, oId’m!” lHeaer npianugs etdo ali kmeo ment, FDeirrdky r eassiksetedd p. e“rPmraisys ifoonr mtoy pwraifye ,f obru ht inmo,t
Pacific and then added, “I’ve never been prayed for me.” When Ferdy asked Dirk about
Asia- for before. I appreciate your prayers for his religious beliefs, he responded, “I
hern me. When I get home, I’ll tell the people have no religion.”
Sout about this hospital!” Every day Ferdy visited Dirk; he prayed
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t allow him to pray for him. Ferdy talked
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an atheist. Ferdy prayed that God would Thomas, but he gladly wrote down several
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touch Dirk’s heart. Bible texts that spoke about the Sabbath.
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After Dirk was released from the Thomas mentioned that his home was S
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while he recovered. With time on his that Adventists were honest-hearted
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day he told his brother-in-law, “You he had never been to a worship service.
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should read this Book and follow it!” He added that every time Adventists held I
When Dirk had recovered enough, evangelistic meetings, his own church
he and Emily flew home to Europe. One held meetings, so he couldn’t go. “But I
day several months later, Dirk called want to know about the Sabbath while I
his brother-in-law and told him, “I’ve have the chance,” Thomas said.
become an Adventist! I’m following Ferdy explained the beauty of spending
God. Now it’s your turn.” a full day with God once a week. “Pray for
us,” Thomas asked as he left the hospital
Thomas
to return home. “We’d like to keep the
When Thomas was admitted to the
Sabbath, but it will be difficult for us.”
hospital, the chaplain visited him. He
More Hungry Souls
learned that Thomas was a leader in a
Protestant church. Thomas welcomed In addition to serving patients who
the chaplain’s visits, Bible promises, come to the hospital, the hospital staff
and prayer. One day Thomas asked reaches out to towns and villages for miles
Ferdy for Bible texts about the Sabbath. around through free medical clinics that
Ferdy hadn’t mentioned the Sabbath to are tied into evangelistic efforts being
planned in the same areas.
“The hospital provides wonderful
Mission Post opportunities to minister to people we
wouldn’t otherwise meet,” Chaplain Ferdy
 The Manado Adventist Hospital began says. “It’s a powerful way to introduce
as a medical clinic several years ago and
others to God’s plan of salvation and the
quickly grew. It became a full-fledged
beautiful message we love.”
hospital in 2008. Its up-to-date facilities
and caring, praying staff set it apart from This quarter part of the Thirteenth
other medical facilities in the area. Sabbath Offering will help fund outreach
clinics sponsored by the Manado
 Because the hospital serves only
Adventist Hospital to towns and villages
vegetarian food, Muslims, who follow
similar health laws as Adventists, come in eastern Indonesia. Your mission
to this hospital for treatment, for they offerings and your Thirteenth Sabbath
know they will receive food that meets
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thousands of lives.  Missio
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The Little Literature Evangelist
IndonesIa | april 28
Cecilia
office building, where Cecilia watched as
Christy talked to the people. “This book is
about God and how He works in people’s
lives,” Christy said. “And this one is about
Jesus’ great sermon on the mountain.
I also have books on health and other
spiritual books.” Christy took orders for
several books and promised to bring them
the following week.
Next it was Cecilia’s turn to talk to
the people. Eagerly she told some people
Cecilia is just 11 years old, but she’s
about the wonderful books the girls
an experienced literature evangelist.
were selling. One afternoon as the girls
Cecilia lives with her father and her
collected money for the books they were
younger sister in Manado, Indonesia.
delivering, Cecilia had an idea. Maybe I
When she was 8 years old, her friend
can sell enough books to help pay my tuition
Christy invited her to become a
to the Adventist school! Cecilia’s father
literature evangelist. “What’s a literature
couldn’t afford to send his daughters to
evangelist?” Cecilia asked.
the Adventist school. Perhaps Cecilia
“It’s someone who sells Christian
could earn the money and attend the
magazines and books to people so they
Adventist school after all. Cecilia began
will learn about Jesus,” Christy said.
saving her money toward her next year’s
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Pacific God’s love appealed to her. Cecilia asked A Special Customer
Asia- Christy to explain to her father what she Christy’s brother began working with
hern does. Father saw Cecilia’s determination Cecilia. One afternoon the two met after
Sout and eventually agreed to let her become a school and prayed about where they
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Missio literature evangelist. should go to sell books that day. They
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ventis A Budding Evangelist passed a soft-drink company. “Let’s try this
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A Christy took Cecilia to a government business,” Cecilia said. The two walked
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