Children's Magazine - Adventist Mission

36 Pages·2014·1.73 MB·English

MiCsH IsL DiRoE Nn’ S
2014 •QUARTER 4 • INTER-AMERICAN DIVISION
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On the Cover: Adriel, 9, and his twin sister come from a big family in Belize. One
day Adriel became very ill. His family and church members prayed for him and now he is
better. Adriel is very happy and loves to tell people about his love for Jesus.
BELIZE CUBA
4 Church or Soccer | Oct 4 22 One Too Many Students | Dec 6
6 Down but Not Out | Oct 11
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8 God’s Miracle Baby | Oct 18
10 “Just One Day” | Oct 25 24 A Safe Place to Learn | Dec 13
12 “No Fighting Here” | Nov 1 26 Helping Hungry People | Dec 20
14 Saved Through Prayer | Nov 8
RESOURCES
THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 28 Thirteenth Sabbath Program | Dec 27
16 Divine Appointment | Nov 15 30 Activities
18 Making Friends for Jesus | Nov 22 35 Mission Resources
20 Letting Our Light Shine | Nov 29 36 Map
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Dear Sabbath School Leader,
This quarter we are focusing on the very
Opportunities
active and fast-growing Inter-American
Division (IAD). This division of the world
This quarter’s Thirteenth Sabbath
church is made up of the countries of
Offering will help:
Central America, the four northernmost
countries of South America, and the  build an evangelistic center in
Belmopan, Belize
islands of the Caribbean. There are nearly
12,000 Seventh-day Adventist churches  provide a much-needed youth camp in
within IAD, and 3,714,790 members. Northern Belize
With a division-wide population of
 establish a maternal health care
284,351,000, that’s a ratio of 1 Adventist center and dental clinic at the Good
for every 76.55 people.* Samaritan Inn, Jamaica
We have some amazing stories for you  CHILDREN’S PROJECT: Help
this quarter, coming from the beautiful provide a dental chair reserved
northeastern coastal country of Belize, for children in the new
dental clinic at the Good
from the lovely island of Jamaica, and
Samaritan Inn.
from a few other countries in IAD. In
Belize, where more than 70 percent of
the church members are young people, provide a maternal health/wellness clinic
evangelism is high on the priority list. and a dental clinic.
However, in this small country there are May the Lord bless and inspire you as
very few large auditoriums. One of the
you share these stories with the children
Thirteenth Sabbath Offering projects is to
in your Sabbath School, and as you
build a large auditorium on a choice piece
encourage them be a part of God’s mission
of land in the capital city of Belmopan.
to the world!
The other project in Belize is a much-
needed youth camp, where the young
Wishing you God’s richest blessings!
people can go for recreation as well as
evangelistic training.
Gina Wahlen
In Jamaica, members have been
ministering and restoring dignity to Editor
some of the neediest people in Kingston
through the Good Samaritan Inn. You PS: Did you know that you don’t have
won’t want to miss the stories we have to wait until the end of the quarter to give
near the end of the quarter describing toward the Thirteenth Sabbath Offering
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Thirteenth Sabbath Offering project is to the Make a Gift section on our secure Missio
to expand the Good Samaritan Inn to website at giving.adventistmission.org and ntist
choosing “13th Sabbath Offering” from Adve
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This quarter we’ll hear stories about in your class, and have seven of them
people who live in some of the step forward.]
countries of the Inter-American Division
Tyson and Alexandro
of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Our story today is about two brothers,
[Show the map of the Inter-American
Tyson and Alexandro,* who are from
Division]. This area has 3,714,790
Belize City. Both Tyson and Alexandro
baptized Seventh-day Adventist members.
enjoyed school, and they especially loved
That’s more Seventh-day Adventists than
to play soccer, which met every Tuesday
in any other division of the world church!
after school.
Belize [point out on map] is a small
One day as the boys were walking
country located between Mexico to the
home they passed a nearby Seventh-
north and Guatemala to the west and
day Adventist church. The doors of the
n south. Its east side is along the Carribean
Divisio Sea. More than 334,000 people live in church were open and they could hear
n young voices inside singing and talking.
America Bdaeyli zAe,d avnend tcislotss.e to 40,000 are Seventh- The next week the brothers walked the
nter- Most of the Adventists in Belize same way home, and again they could
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Missio are young. For example, if you lined was curious and said to his brother, “Let’s
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and Creole, known as Kriol, or “Belizean The boys looked at each other. “Oh,
Creole,” and Spanish. The three main
yeah, the soccer game,” they sighed.
languages spoken in Inter-America are
What were they going to do? After
English, Spanish, and French.
thinking about it, Tyson and Alexandro
 Belize is the birthplace of chewing gum. decided they would rather go to the youth
 Most of the countries of the Inter- meetings at the church than play soccer
American Division border the Gulf of at the school. “The kids were so nice,
Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.
and the activities so interesting,” they
explained to their mom.
After school the following Tuesday,
the boys went straight to church for the
a good idea, but followed Tyson to the youth meeting rather than going to the
front door of the church. Slowly the two soccer game. While there, another boy
peeked around the corner, hoping no one invited them to come to Sabbath School
would see them. the following Sabbath, and they came.
But someone did see them! It was From then on Tyson and Alexandro
the group’s leader. “Please come in!” began attending Sabbath School and
he warmly invited them. The two boys church every week, and before long their
sheepishly came in and sat down, but mother joined them. After a while the
before long they felt at home and were boys took Bible studies and were baptized.
having a wonderful time. Tyson and Their mother is back in the church
Alexandro were invited to come back serving the Lord, and their father comes
again the next week. to church regularly.
The boys hurried home and explained The youth in Belize are very strong in
telling others about Jesus, and they love to
to their mother where they had been. “It
get together to sing, study the Bible, and
was so interesting,” they told her. “We
learn many useful skills. The challenge for
sang some songs, played games, and even
them is that there is no place where they
read from a Bible. There were many other
can meet with other young Adventists
kids, and we were invited to come again!
from around their country. They really
May we go back next week?”
need a youth camp where they can all
Rather Be at Church come together, have fun, learn more about
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Seventh-day Adventists because she had can help them by contributing to this Missio
grown up as one. When she was older, quarter’s Thirteenth Sabbath Offering. ntist
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BELIZE | October 11
Jerome
Down but Not Out
I’m the second of twins—born 20 The Fall
minutes after my brother. We grew up
When we were old enough, my twin
in the country of Belize, in a little village
brother and I started climbing poles for
named Burrell Boom.
our dad. It’s very hard and dangerous
My grandfather was a pastor, so my
work. One day as I was climbing, the
dad grew up as an Adventist, but later
safety strap was biting into my leg. I put
he decided to leave the church. But my
my weight on it, hoping it would stop
mother raised us as Adventists, and I
hurting, but then I fell 40 feet onto a rock
was baptized when I was around 13 years
and was knocked unconscious. When I
old. We traveled eight miles [12.8 km] to
awoke, I tried moving but couldn’t. After
church each week. That might not seem a long, hard journey to the hospital,
so far, but in Belize travel isn’t always we finally arrived. The doctor put a big
easy. We were glad when my father built a needle in my foot, but I didn’t feel a thing.
n house nearer to the church. They said I would never walk again.
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took more pictures, telling me that they
 Belize has a land area of 8,867 square
would send them to me by e-mail. They
miles (22,966 sq. km.), and 320 miles
sent the pictures to others as well, and
(516 km) of coastline.
soon someone from our Belize TV station
 Belize is divided into six districts: called me for an interview. That gave me
Belize, Cayo, Corozal, Orange Walk,
the opportunity to tell my story and share
Stann Creek and Toledo.
my faith with the entire country!
 Tourism is the largest revenue
generator in Belize, although Raising Awareness
the country does export some I also wanted to raise awareness of
agricultural products, including
disabilities, and partnered with Care
bananas, cacao, citrus, sugar, fish,
Belize, an organization that works with
cultured shrimp and lumber.
people with disabilities and their families.
I planned to bike across Belize—a
faith that something good would come 90-mile (144.84 km) trip. A business
out of it and that I would be OK. from Germany heard about my plans
and sponsored materials for me to build
Building a Bike
another bike, as the first one I had made
One day while on the Internet at home
was very heavy. I trained on the heavy
I found a picture of a hand-pedaled bike.
one, then made the actual 90-mile trip on
Downloading the picture, I saved up some
the new, aluminum-frame bike. I did the
money to buy materials, and then built
ride in just three days!
my own bike. When it was ready, I was
Since then, I’ve done lots of bicycle
surprised by how everything worked so trips, traveling on all of the major
perfectly. No one knew what it was. As highways Belize. My message is: Don’t
I rode places everyone was waving at me look at someone who has a disability as
and I felt happy. if they aren’t able to do anything. With
One day I met some Americans who God, if you put your mind to it, you can
were riding their bicycles in Belize. They do anything He wants you to do! 
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BELIZE | October 18
Jeremy
God’s Miracle Baby
Jeremy is a miracle baby. He was born from his mother, so she used a little doll’s
three months early, and he was so bottle to feed him. Because they didn’t
small that the doctor thought Jeremy have an incubator, each day the mother
wasn’t going to live. But Jeremy’s mother carefully put her baby in a safe place
believed that her baby was a gift from outside where his little body could absorb
God, and that if it was God’s will that the the warmth of the sunshine.
baby lived, He would help him. Every day the baby grew a little bit bigger
So she took a washcloth and carefully and a little bit stronger. He kept growing
wrapped her precious baby in it and put for several months, but one day he became
him in her pocket! When she got home, very sick. The mother took him back to the
the baby’s nine brothers and sisters hospital, and the doctor and nurses were
asked their mother, “Where’s the new very surprised to see him still alive. Because
baby?” They were so surprised when she he was so sick, the baby needed a blood
carefully pulled out the little bundle from transfusion, but even with this the doctor
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before long he had his first birthday. But City. Then he went on to the Adventist
then he became sick again and had to academy and junior college in Belize. E
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go back to the same hospital, where he Jeremy loves to tell others how God
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a very bad disease. He will never be able
is still doing miracles for me and others,”
to walk, and by the time he is 2 years
he says. “My dream is to see millions of
old, he will be blind. And he won’t live
people saved in the kingdom of God. By
past the age of 5.”
His grace I have been able to lead out
But the faithful mother didn’t give
in many evangelistic meetings and have
up. She took her precious son home and
had the joy of seeing hundreds of people
kept praying for him. She prayed for him
baptized through this outreach. I believe
every day, and little Jeremy kept growing
that many young people and older people,
bigger and stronger. By the time he was
if we come together, can hasten the
2, Jeremy could still see perfectly, and he
coming of Jesus.
enjoyed running around with his brothers
“My mother, whom I love so much,
and sisters. Then he turned, 3, then 4,
and then 5 years old! By the time he always reminds me: ‘Never forget that you
was 6 years old Jeremy was a big, strong, belong to God. He preserved you, and
and healthy boy, ready to start school. you are here to bring Him glory.’” Jeremy
He joined his brothers and sisters at hopes to finish his education soon and
the Adventist primary school in Belize become an ordained pastor. 
F u n W i t h C r e o l e
English is the primary language of public education, government and most media
outlets in Belize. However, most Belizeans also speak Belizean Creole (also called Kriol),
which they use when speaking with friends or family. Similar to French, vowels are
pronounced as follows: ah as in father; ai as in eye; ay as in hay; ee as in bee; eh as in bet;
ih as in tip; oh as in toe; oo as in boot; uh as in cup. The accented syllables are written in
capital letters.
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BELIZE | October 25
Olga
Just One Day
Olga comes from a very big family— Saturday, you won’t graduate, and you
she is the youngest of 13 children! won’t be able to go to high school!” her
Even when she was still very young, teacher told her.
Olga’s parents began teaching her about “Really?” Olga asked. Then she went
Jesus and His Word, the Bible. One of home and asked her father about it.
the things Olga learned about was the “No,” he told her. “You don’t have to go
seventh-day Sabbath—about how God to school on Sabbath. God will help you
blessed it and made it holy, and how it is with your classes.” Olga was happy to go
a special time when God wants us to rest to church with her family on Sabbath, but
and come together to worship Him. going back to school on Monday was hard.
When Olga was old enough to go “Why weren’t you here on Saturday?
to school, she wanted to attend an You missed out on some really important
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