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2014 •QUARTER 2 • SOUTHERN ASIA DIVISION
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On the Cover: Although pressured to worship idols, Priya is faithful to Jesus. She wishes
she could take her grandmother to an Adventist church, but there isn’t one in her village.
This quarter our Thirteenth Sabbath Offering will help build many churches in India.
BHUTAN NORTHERN INDIA
4 Quietly Doing God’s Work 18 Renu’s Song | May 24
• Dema’s Answered Prayers | April 5 20 Who Is That Man? | May 31
6 Stronger Than Demons
• The True Sabbath | April 12 WESTERN INDIA
22 “I Won’t Bow Down!” | June 7
HIDDEN COUNTRY
24 Sanji’s New Song | June 14
8 Change of Heart | April 19
26 Father’s New Heart | June 21
NEPAL
RESOURCES
10 A Missionary’s Special Gift | April 26
28 Thirteenth Sabbath Program | June 28
31 Recipes
CENTRAL INDIA
12 From One to Many | May 3 32 Activities
14 The Seed Planters | May 10 35 Leader’s Resources
16 Yasiah’s Miracle | May 17 36 Map
Y o u r O f f e r i n g s a t W o r k
churches throughout the Southern Asia
Division. Although the new churches
are simple, they are far nicer than the
mud-and-thatch churches that some new
buildings replaced. For more information
and photos on the Thirteenth Sabbath
Offering projects, visit www.Adventist
Mission.org.
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Dear Sabbath School Leader,
This quarter features the Southern Asia primary school in Kollegal Karnataka.
Division, which includes the countries of Some of the best stories from past issues
Bhutan, India, and Nepal, plus the islands of Children’s Mission have been used in this
of the Maldives. issue. Many thanks to the previous editor,
The Adventist Church in the Southern Charlotte Ishkanian, for use of this material.
Asia Division has grown dramatically in
Language Fun
the past few years, and today has more
Songs and words in several languages of
than 1.6 million members. That’s a ratio
the Southern Asia Division are featured
of one Adventist for every 804 people.
throughout the quarterly and on our web-
Much of the growth can be attributed
site, www.AdventistMission.org. Click on
to outreach initiatives such as Global
“Resources” and “Children’s Activities.”
Mission. But the foundation for growth was
laid as Adventist schools were established Special Features
throughout India. Thousands have been
 Mission 360 DVD this quarter
baptized while studying in Adventist
contains stories featuring the
schools. As membership continues to grow
Thirteenth Sabbath Offering projects
in this division, so does the need for places
and other stories from southern
to worship. A portion of this quarter’s
Asia. Download or live stream from
Thirteenth Sabbath Offering will be used
www.AdventistMission.org. Share
to build seven churches in India and a
the website with your students and
meeting hall in Bhutan. Other projects
their parents.
in India include a boys’ dormitory at the
 Decorate the Room with pictures cut
Adventist school in Karmatar, a men’s
from magazines or travel brochures.
dormitory at Flaiz Adventist College in
Include hand-colored copies of the
Andhra Pradesh, and classrooms for a
flags of the Southern Asia Division and
garlands of paper flowers.
Opportunities
 Invite a Guest who has lived in
This quarter’s Thirteenth Sabbath Southern Asia to visit your class and
Offering will help build: speak to the children. Encourage them
 Boys’ dormitory for boarding school in to bring appropriate items for the
Karmatar, Northern India children to see and touch.
 Men’s dormitory for seminary students  More Activities are available on our
at Flaiz Adventist College, Andhra website at www.AdventistMission.org.
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 Classrooms for primary school in Activities.” Click on the current Missio
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Quietly Doing God’s Work
The Kingdom of started working
Bhutan is a tiny “Dema began to for the Bhutanese
country between
understand that there people in 1991, but
India, Tibet, and
is a living God who it was hard. Because
China. Even though
loves her—the God Christian missionaries
it is a tiny country,
who made everything, aren’t allowed into
Bhutan has very big
mountains! The people including her.” Bhutan, the Adventist
who live there (called missionaries started
Bhutanese) are friendly, telling the people
and many of them are farmers who grow from Bhutan living across the border
food or take care of animals. in India about Jesus. Two years later a
Most people (about 75 percent) who
n few of these Bhutanese people in India
Divisio live in Bhutan follow a kind of religion had become believers. Then some Bible
Asia called Tibetan Buddhism. The rest of the workers taught these people how to give
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Dema’s Answered Prayers
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Dema completed school through tenth Christ. The man told Dema about an
grade in her hometown. Her parents Adventist boarding school in northern
began looking for a school where she
India where she could complete her high
could continue her studies, but it wasn’t
school studies. Dema was excited to think
easy to find a school in Bhutan.
that she could attend a Christian school
About this time Dema met an
and began praying that her parents would
Adventist man who told her many
change their mind about sending her to
stories from the Bible. Through these
Darjeeling. She told her parents about
stories Dema learned about the creation
the Adventist boarding school, and they
of the world and God’s Sabbath day.
decided to send her there for her studies.
She began to understand that there is a
God answered Dema’s prayers, and she
living God who loves her—the God who
was able to study in the Adventist school,
made the earth and all the creatures in
where she learned so much more about
it, including her.
Dema’s parents decided to send her to Jesus than she could ever have learned in
Darjeeling, a city in northern India, to Bhutan. Now she can quietly tell other
study. But the Adventist man worried people in Bhutan about what she learned
that if Dema were to go to Darjeeling, she at the Adventist school and teach them
would forget what she had learned about about Jesus. 
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Stronger Than Demons
Bindya [BIHND-yah] lives on a tea Later when a Seventh-day Adventist
estate in India near the border of pastor visited the family, Bindya’s parents
Bhutan. A few years ago she became were so happy that she was getting better
demon possessed. When the demons that they asked him to take Bindya home
went into her, Bindya became totally
with him and pray for her until she was
helpless—she couldn’t do anything! It
completely healed.
was terrible. Then two Adventist men
The pastor took Bindya back to his
visited the tea estate where Bindya’s
home, and the following Sabbath he took
family lived and worked. They learned
the girl to church. That day Bindya told
about Bindya’s terrible problem and
everyone that God had healed her from the
visited her home to pray for her. The
evil spirits. She gave her life completely to
two men sang some Christian songs and
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Souther was getting better. They again prayed Bindya is now baptized, and many
on for her and told her parents to trust in families on the tea estate where Bindya
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who lives in Bhutan. There are and south by India. Bhutan is a small
some other small Christian churches country with an area of about 18,000
square miles (47,000 square km.).
where Mr. David lives. Not all of these
churches are Seventh-day Adventist. One  The capital city of Thimphu is
time when Mr. David was visiting people located on the western side of Bhutan
at an elevation of about 7,000 feet
in their homes, he met Mr. Bora, the
(2,350 meters). It is Bhutan’s largest
leader of another Christian church that
city and has a population of 104,214.
had about 60 members. Mr. David said There are no traffic lights in Thimphu.
that he was a Seventh-day Adventist, and
 Twenty-four languages are spoken in
Mr. Bora was curious. Who are Seventh-
Bhutan. Dzongkha is the official one.
day Adventists, and what did they believe,
he wondered? The two men talked for
a while, and Mr. David explained a few Sabbath day is the Bible day of worship,
things that Adventists believe. Mr. Bora he shared this wonderful news with all
was still curious, and so the two men of the people who went to his church.
began studying the Bible together. Soon Then, Mr. Bora’s whole church decided to
Mr. Bora learned about the Sabbath. begin worshipping on the true Sabbath!
After he carefully studied his Bible, he That was a very happy day for Mr. Bora
believed that the seventh-day Sabbath and everybody at his church. Mr. David
was God’s holy day. is happy too, as he teaches these new
After Mr. Bora was sure that the Sabbathkeepers more about the Bible. 
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Change of
Heart
In my country it can be very dangerous worship with my mother and sister.
to be a Christian. At my school, not My father drank and smoked, and he
very many people know that I believe in wouldn’t join us for worship or come to
Jesus. Some of my classmates steal from church with us. Sometimes when he saw
other students and even from the teachers. us praying for him, he grabbed our hair,
Their language is filled with profanity. forcing our heads to come up while we
Although I didn’t like everything these were bowed in prayer.
guys were doing, they were still my When we weren’t praying, and when
friends. However, my parents were worried Dad wasn’t drunk, he was wonderful. He
took us places and did things with us.
that the habits of my friends would rub off
It was only when we prayed or went to
on me and asked me to stop being friends
church that he would
with these classmates.
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out because the doors were locked from
the outside, so we stayed inside, praying Mission Post
and crying. Then Mother would lead
 Sharing God’s love with others is
us in our Sabbath School at home. We
what Jesus wants us to do. And when
sang, read our Bible lessons, and repeated we tell others about Jesus, people
our memory verses. Then, instead of a want to worship Him, too. This
sermon, Mother would read a Bible text means that we need more churches to
hold the believers and schools to train
and talk to us about it.
the children.
When my father would finally return
 This quarter part of our Thirteenth
home at 6:00 p.m., he would unlock
Sabbath Offering will help build seven
the doors and let us go out. But by then
churches in India and a meeting hall
Sabbath was ending, so after having in Bhutan. It will also help build
one more prayer to end the Sabbath, we classrooms and dormitories at three
Adventist schools so that many
would eat supper together with him.
more children can study and prepare
Once in a while when we were locked
themselves for service to Jesus.
in, we were able to open the lock by
shaking the door very hard. Then we
would quickly run to church and back
home again. On other Sabbaths my father
would stay home, making sure that we
My father still doesn’t come to church
wouldn’t go anywhere. However, when he
was sober, he allowed us to attend church. with us, but he comes to the room when
we pray, and he sits quietly. We can see
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him changing little by little into the man
Last year my father’s mother died. My
God wants him to be. Now that Father is
father and grandmother were close, and
no longer drinking, he’s a happier man.
after she died, my father began to change.
We enjoy spending time with him and
Mother often encouraged Father to pray,
being his children.
assuring him that God would help. Father
My father also talked with me about
began reading the Bible. When we were
the bad friends I had at school. He
having worship, he no longer pulled
warned me not to be their friend, because
our hair and made fun of us, but instead
they were a bad influence. Then one day
would come and sit in the room but not
I learned the hard way that my parents
in the circle, listening to our prayers.
Then we noticed that he had stopped were right. I got into a fight with those
drinking. He had promised to stop, and he classmates, and we are no longer good
kept that promise. But he still smokes. We friends. It’s interesting to see how God is
continue to pray about this, and he has working not only in the life of my father
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Kabita and Gita
A Missionary’s Special Gift
Kabita [kah-BEE-tah] and Gita her. Sometimes the missionary father told
[GEE-tah] are sisters. They live in the children Bible stories and taught them
a town not far from Kathmandu [kaht- songs about Jesus. Kabita and Gita liked
mahn-DOO], the capital city of Nepal. that, for in their family’s religion they did
[Find Nepal on the map.] Nepal is a small not sing.
country, but it has the highest mountains Kabita and Gita’s family did not mind
in the world. that the girls spent a lot of time with
Like most young girls in Nepal, they the missionary family, for they knew
enjoy playing games when they are not the missionaries were teaching the girls
helping their parents. But when it is time good things.
to plant or harvest rice, the whole family Then one day Kabita and Gita found
works in the fields until the rice is safely the missionary family putting their
dried and stored in their homes. Rice is belongings into boxes. “Where are you
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Asia many families must grow their own rice. that they must leave Nepal because of
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