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Fruto

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Asia and the Loud Cry
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Asia was the last theater for SDA pioneers to enter, and yet the first to be "left to fend for themselves" by the late 1950's.
ADventist hospitals and language schools pepper the lanscape, but where are the missions, health restaruants, and sanitariums? Why do the schools not teach a trade?
What happened? Did SDAs lose their faith during hard times there? Did Asian politics run the Westerners off???

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daniel

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Very good question Fruto-san,


I too wonder what is with the Asia-averse attitude of most SDAs in N.America.  I've been looking at old books, and see that many of the early pioneers went to Europe first, then South America, then Africa.  Asia, being physically the fartherest away, got last billing.


But finally around 105 years ago they came to Japan, and perhaps even earlier to India and China, i don't know.  One reason they left Japan, was WWII when the govt. basically kicked them all out.  A few returned after the war, but then when Japan got rich, the SDA administrators basically kicked out all the missionaries!  The pride level is very high here.


With over half of the world's population, it would seem that we would be doing more here.  Unfortunately, the attitude of many American SDAs is like what i experienced this last trip back: "We need bigger and better".  I caught a cold from the A/C :( 


If they could just experience for a month what it is like in India or China, having a tree to worship under, or having the family travel different ways to a meeting house to avoid detection, and wonder if you were going to get interrogated by police.....


At least there is more interest in Asia than in the Middle East.  But hopefully that is changing --- forcibly by God


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Ed White

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Fruto said this. "What happened? Did SDAs lose their faith during hard times there? Did Asian politics run the Westerners off???


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Brother you just hold on a while longer in being faithful to God as He is about to take the reins into His own hands. Much of the messages that the "Westerners" taught to those in Asia was not from the word of God anyway, so it places the honest in heart over there on advantage ground to not need to UNLEARN the memory work of of the "westerners" that never did apply as truth.


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Sherman de Silva

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To highlight the discrimination and the step-motherly treatment meted out to the South Asian church by the opulent West, late Dr. Brian de Alwis, a Pune-based Sri Lankan SDA scholar, propounded a new school of theology by the name 'Bullock-cart Theology---a dialogue between the GC(not Great Controversy):) and the Southern Asia Division(SAD--the acronym tells it all!). He dwelt on the themes of practical contextualization and the true autonomy. His insightful contributions and arguments effectively invalidated the propositions of the GC-dictated theories. Unfortunately, when his theology was gaining foothold in the Indian soil, death snatched away his precious life.  Had he been alive, he would kept the topic alive! 

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