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NSD 2020-2025 Strategic Focus NORTHERN ASIA-PACIFIC DIVISION The Most Challenging Field www.nsdadventist.org January/February 2021 NSD 2020-2025 Strategic Focus The NSD has decided to embark on the strategic plan of I Will Go, the mission initiative the Adventist World Church launched for the new quinquennium. INSPIRATION I Will Go: The Holy Impulses of Those Who Accept Jesus Christ The holy impulse that naturally rises in the spirit and conditions. On the contrary, this mission project and behavior of those who accept Jesus Christ and we should implement becomes clearer and more obey His words is the desire to lead people to Jesus. distinct. Therefore, a true Christian is reborn as a missionary Here is God’s word, Deuteronomy 6:4-7: “The at the same time he becomes a Christian. Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your “Every true Christian will possess a missionary God with all your heart and with all your soul and spirit, for to be a Christian is to be Christlike. The with all your strength. These commandments that I very first impulse of the renewed heart is to bring give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress others also to the Savior” (Testimony Treasures, vol. 2, them on your children. Talk about them when you 126). “No sooner does one come to Christ than there sit at home and when you walk along the road, when is born in his heart a desire to make known to others you lie down and when you get up.” This Bible verse what a precious friend he has found in Jesus; the emphasizes the importance of the word of God, but saving and sanctifying truth cannot be shut up in his it can be applied to the importance of the practice of heart” (Steps to Christ, 78). the I Will Go mission today. In Lamentations 20:9 Jeremiah the prophet cries I Will Go missionaries, they live thinking of out, “If I say, I will not mention him or speak any missionary work. Having had an amazing experience more in his name, his word is in my heart like a fire, a of salvation through the cross and the crucified Lord, fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; they always think of missionary work when they lie indeed, I cannot.” Jeremiah was a true Christian and down, get up, sit at home, walk along the road and missionary. talk to people. Just as it is natural for salt to taste, The apostle Paul confesses in 1 Corinthians 9:16, and just as it is natural to brighten up when there is “Yet when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, for I light, missionary life appears natural in their daily am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach lives. They have received God’s love. They have God’s the gospel!” He is also a Christian and a missionary message for people. They have a prayer request list like Jeremiah. Therefore, a missionary is a person to pray and manage. They have a distinct mission who lives a missionary life with every missionary in schedule. They have missionaries to support. They mind and prepares for and responds to the needs of have a promised Holy Spirit. They have a place to the mission field. Missionaries who obey and follow go and share the good news with others. They are where the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Mission, leads, live blessed and precious people living missionary lives as a “missionary life” where they faithfully carry out true Adventist Christians in this last era. All of you what they can do for missionary work every day. who read this The new year, 2021, has already dawned. During article are the this quinquennium from 2020 to 2025, the NSD will missionaries focus on the I Will Go mission project. Of course, of I Will Go. since the global COVID-19 pandemic has not ended NSD MISSION yet, it is expected that there will be lots of obstacles, STATEMENT restrictions, and challenges in various missionary activities. However, no matter The mission of the Northern Asia- what barriers and constraints lie ahead Pacific Division of Seventh-day of us, the I Will Go mission that God Adventists is to call all people within entrusted to us in this last era will its territory to become disciples never disappear, never be canceled, or of Jesus Christ, to proclaim the change depending on the environment everlasting gospel embraced by the three angels’ messages (Revelation 14:6-12) and to prepare them for Christ’s soon return. Kim SiYoung, President Northern Asia-Pacific Division Seventh-day Adventist™ Church Northern Asia-Pacific Division Officers INSPIRATION I Will Go: The Holy Impulses of Those Who Accept Jesus President Kim SiYoung Assistant to the President Stanley Ng Christ / 2 Executive Secretary Yutaka Inada Treasurer Joel Tompkins COVER STORY Seventh-day Adventist Strategic Plan 2020-2025 / 4 Under-Treasurer Lyu DongJin NSD Strategic Planning for I Will Go / 6 Departmental Directors Korean Union Conference I Will Go Strategy / 8 Adventist Mission Joo MinHo Children’s, Family & Women’s Ministries Japan Union Conference I Will Go Strategy / 9 Lisa Clouzet Communication, HHMM Han SukHee Mongolia Mission I Will Go Strategy / 9 Education, Sabbath School & Personal Taiwan Conference I Will Go Strategy / 10 Ministries Richard Sabuin Health Ministries Yutaka Inada Relationship Between I Will Go and Total Member Ministerial Association, ACM Ron Clouzet Mission Training Center Hong KwangEui Involvement / 10 Planned Giving and Trust Services, I Will Go Exemplary Activities / 11 Publishing Stanley Ng Public Affairs and Religious Liberty NEWS FOCUS The Last Concert of Golden Angels 17 / 12 Joo MinHo Stewardship Ministries Kwon JohngHaeng Testimonies of Golden Angels 17 / 14 Youth, 1000MM, Golden Angels Kim NakHyung News & Views Editorial Team DEPARTMENTAL & REGIONAL NEWS Editor Han SukHee NSD Annual Council 2020 Takes Place Online KUC Session 2020 Ends Safely in Assistant Editor Baek YoungShim 16 Contributing Editors Daniel Jiao, Norihiko Thorough Quarantine during the COVID-19 Pandemic 17 Creation Sabbath in Mongolia Hanada, Uhm DeokHyun, Yure Gramacho Chinese Correspondent Daniel Jiao 19 NSD Mission Revival Week 20 Perfect Combination 21 Tusgal School Keeps Shining Japanese Correspondent Norihiko Hanada during the COVID-19 Pandemic 22 Opening of the New SEKC Mission Center 24 Mokdong Korean Correspondent Baek YoungShim Mongolian Correspondent Yure Gramacho Church Experiences Revival 26 Jonah and Us 27 Designers Baek YoungShim For free subscription or news items, send an e-mail to Special Feature I Didn’t Know How to Say No / 28 [email protected] [email protected] 1000MM Standing in the Presence of God / 31 or 67-20, Beonttwigi-gil, Paju-si, Gyeonggi-do, God’s Plan Must Surely Be Fulfilled / 32 Republic of Korea Family of God / 34 Villages Struck by Super Typhoon Rolly/ 36 PCM Third PCM Missionaries Dedication Ceremony / 37 PMM 19th PMM Dedication Service / 38 Golden Angels We Are One in the Lord: Online Ministry of Golden Angels / 39 News & Views is published bi-monthly by the Northern Asia- Pacific Division (NSD) of the General Conference of Seventh- day Adventists. Its mission is to share the news of mission activities and views of mission of the NSD with the world church so that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ will be hastened. C OVER STORY Seventh-day Adve ntist Strategic Plan 2020-2025 4 • News & Views Will Go is the mission initiative the General Conference I launched and shared with all Divisions and world churches for reaching the world. It encourages all church members to be involved in God’s mission by using their God-given spiritual gifts in witness and service for Christ. This initiative is the brand-new strategic plan of the Seventh- day Adventist Church for the next five years until 2025. In support of this directive, there are two key passages in the Bible: Isaiah 6:8 and Matthew 28:19, 20. “Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?’ And I said, ‘Here am I. Send me!’” (Isaiah 6:8). God is still calling His faithful servants to go and deliver His message. All members should have the voluntary spirit as Isaiah did. Before His ascension, Jesus gave His last command to His disciples. “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age” (Matthew 28:19, 20). As His church we should respond to His continuous calling and His last command. Also, as the end-time people, we should spread the Three Angels’ Messages to our neighbors and community. TheI Will Go strategic plan encourages all members to do missionary work in the place where they live. To Seventh-day Adventists, missionary work means going to their neighbors, helping them, and meeting their needs to make friends for God. “Many are waiting to be personally addressed. In the very family, the neighborhood, the town, where we live, there is work for us to do as missionaries for Christ. If we are Christians, this work will be our delight” (The Desire of Ages, 141). This plan comprises three major themes—Mission, Spiritual Growth, and Leadership—and ten objectives. Under the ten objectives, there are 59 KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) for each Division and even each local church to design action plans for reaching the world.
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