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well thanks for coming and this is really difficult for me
you know I have really enjoyed working with you for the past several years
and have been a great team
but you've heard the rumor is that the church
may be closing down its international mission work
we've put out all our brochures, our DVDs trying to inspire mission, but if it closes down
that's the end of what we're doing and
none of us will have jobs, not just you, but me as well
so, the office will cease
and I have nothing to offer you. i do hear that the North American Division will
be hiring but I don't know that for sure
I sorry
i am very concerned of the fact that there's been a very great
decline in mission offering giving
back in the 1930s
a person who would give ten dollars in tithe
also gave six dollars in mission offerings
today a person getting ten dollars and tithe would give only 29 cents
i'm not a mathematician, but
I'd say you can grow our mission program worldwide that way
i have to reporters working on this story
i can confirm that yet but sources told me that the general conferences executive committee
could vote today to end international mission work
and it seems like the delegates
had no choice mission offerings of employment for decades economy is down that church shouldn't
be entering the areas where it can maintaining that already has
according to my source proposals that ties in mission offerings will now stay in the
countries that collect them.
We talked to several people and this is not bad news.
I mean not everyone is unhappy about it.
You know that an interesting though as i think about it.
Having worked in two academies, two conferences and two unions,
i think about some of the benefits
that might be accured if that happened
because of hiring additional pastors additional teachers
perhaps additional personnel at our colleges and universities maybe even the youth program
but you know as I think about it
they're really funded pretty well as it is.
We would turn inward if we were to do that kind of thing.
This scenarios is simply is not true
I mean the church, its very existence was for mission,
that's our purpose. At this very time we have a unprecedented opportunities
and %uh is this the time to back away from mission
i mean look at ten forty window many of these countries we made a significant difference
in
there are thousands of new congregations
%uh present today that weren't there fifteen years ago even five years ago
all international mission work
all international mission were camper how can we be seventh-day adventist rework all
fit relation to grip on the people as around the world
how can we be advertised without that we can just medieval gazing which is busy worrying
about ourselves and keeping ourselves fact happy
and what is your desktop mission hospitals would though
mission church planting would go all of the global missions stuff all those people all
over the world but not the hospitals as the school
the churches i mean what what's left for going to have nothing all overseas where they don't
do that and repair
it doesn't just make a whole lot of sense to me thomas i get rid of this error
activity
that's all that they're going to lose your car for sale date
fighting
we might try to get the government always dreamed up
this whole thing
maybe three angeles maybe three stolid golden angels on top of that
the seventy evans headquarters in allen white in bronze in the front lawn and
and you know the most recently put in the grad student loan from small to use
we can do the whole second coming clean lifestyle
it could really be there
well it was very difficult decision
%uh but it was one that
seem to be necessary given the lack of funding
but as i reflect on it
%uh it brings a great deal of sadness of personal sadness
%uh since missions was such a part of our history
it's %uh tragic to me to see that your passing away
well they're not going to be in your book next year
nobleman
initial decision won't be in there
there was a long period of ten of the message tree
when mission
was our top priority
without that
our church was not
eva stein
it just won't
davis and co