2012 Priceless Gift Catalog

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THE ASAP PRICELESS GIFT CATALOG

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Have No Regrets!

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ave you purchased a gift for someone only to regret it later because of the cost, the quality, or the lack of an enthusiastic response from the recipient? When you choose a project from the ASAP Priceless Gift Catalog, you never need to fear that you will have regrets. By purchasing an ASAP gift, you invest in giving Jesus, the Priceless Gift, to the lost in Southeast Asia. These gifts ultimately last for eternity. May you experience the freedom of giving with no regrets, not only during the holidays, but each day of the year!

DO YOU NEED HELP MOTIVATING YOUR GROUP TO ADOPT AN ASAP PROJECT? Contact ASAP and we can provide you with resources, such as a video, PowerPoint presentation, brochures and a project poster for your bulletin board. After project completion, ask ASAP for a group certificate of appreciation and we will gladly send one.

“Let us thank God for His priceless Gift!”

2 Corinthians 9:15 gnt

the asap priceless gift catalog Adventist Southeast Asia

Projects

ASAP, P.O. Box 84, Berrien Springs, MI 49103 • 1-866-365-3541 • office@asapministries.org • www.asapministries.org

Adventist Southeast Asia Projects is fueled by missionminded, faith-filled individuals whom God impresses.

Be assured that 100% of your gift will go directly to the projects you specify. However, in the blessed event that the project you chose is fully funded, ASAP will use your gift for a similar project or where most needed to help spread the gospel and ease the suffering in Southeast Asia.

Because ASAP is a §501(c)(3) non-profit organization, your donations are tax-deductible.

EXECUTIVE EDITOR/DIRECTOR Judy Aitken EDITOR/ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Julia O’Carey COPY EDITORS Martin Kim, Wayne Labins and Linda Bauer DESIGN/LAYOUT Sarah Lee | ambientlightstudios.com PHOTOGRAPHY AJ O'Carey

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* Names have been changed for the safety of God’s workers.

ASI MEMBER ASAP has been a member of ASI (Adventistlayman’s Services and Industries) since 1996 and is grateful to be an ASI grant recipient.

Seven Simple Ways to Give!

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pray Your prayers are the most powerful gift you can give because they move heaven. Join the ASAP Prayer Team online: www.asapministries/pray

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mail in the remittance envelope with your check, money order, or credit card information to: ASAP, PO Box 84 Berrien Springs, MI 49103

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call our toll-free number: 1-866-365-3541

online to asapministries.org 4 go The online catalog includes more exciting projects!

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give in honor or memory ASAP has gift cards available for you to send to the individual(s) you are honoring.

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invest in a future gift You can share in the joy of saving souls through a planned gift such as designating ASAP as a beneficiary of your will, a gift annuity, a revocable living trust, an IRA, or 401(k).

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serve Join ASAP’s annual mission trip, become an ASAP ambassador, or a volunteer in the home office. Visit our website for more information.

God’s Blessings

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t took two days to arrive here at the training from my village. I thank God for the chance to come and learn. I learn so much at these training sessions. My biggest weakness is my limited education. I pray I can reach the leaders who come to my church. Right now I am facing the challenge of the village chief

TRAIN AN ASAP MISSIONARY

$200 to send one missionary to an ASAP training $108,000/year for local and national ASAP trainings

and the authorities trying to stop me from evangelizing. They saw my group grow from seven to seventeen families and they do not like it. Other ASAP missionaries here at the training are dealing with the same problem and we can help each other and pray for each other.

“For whoever desires to save his

life will lose it, but whoever loses

Empower an ASAP missionary by sending them to training. Most ASAP missionaries are simple, uneducated, yet willing individuals as Jesus’ disciples were. Coming together with other believers to pray and gain more knowledge of the Bible boosts their morale and strengthens their effectiveness in ministry.

“Let us thank God for His Priceless gift!” 2 Corinthians 9:15

his life for My sake will find it.” matthew 16:24

NATIONAL MISSIONARIES

BY LAY PASTOR LIS XEEB FROM LAOS

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SEND AN ASAP CHURCH PLANTER

$150/month in Cambodia $90/month in Myanmar $100/month in Thailand

ASAP church planters, filled with the Holy Spirit, sacrificially labor for souls amidst many challenges.

By financially supporting a church planter, you become partners in liberating many, bringing them from darkness into the Light.

DID YOU KNOW?

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ASAP supports over 550 national missionaries.

Though the monthly stipends are listed for each type of worker, feel free to give ANY amount you can to support these missionaries, ASAP’s highest priority! Pray that, God willing, the laborers will increase to 1,000 of each type of missionary in each country.

SUPPORT A LAY PASTOR

$80/month in Laos $70/month in Vietnam

Lay pastors in Laos and Vietnam often suffer persecution from family members, neighbors, and government officials. Your gift enables one lay pastor to courageously forge ahead in caring for house churches and planting new groups.

You can read testimonies of our missionaries at: asapministries.org/testimonies/

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“And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.”

Matthew 24:14

BRING GOD’S HEALING THROUGH A MEDICAL MISSIONARY

$100/month in Myanmar $150/month in Thailand $30/month in Cambodia

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Medical missionary work is so important and effective in reaching souls; it is referred to as the right arm of the gospel. Join medical missionaries in praying for the sick in Southeast Asia and support them so they can minister to them.

REACH OUT TO STRUGGLING REFUGEES

$20 will provide a refugee with a warm blanket $1000/month will help support a Bible worker’s expenses $5,000 will provide a van to transport refugees to church

Refugees coming to the U.S. from Southeast Asia struggle to survive, with limited language skills and resources. Your gifts will aid our Southeast Asian brothers and sisters during a vulnerable time in their lives. Remember this mission on your doorstep!

Search for Truth

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was taking a study break and happened to tune into Peace and Happiness radio broadcast. I reacted with fear because the message was so different than any I had heard before. However, a nagging emptiness in me kept me listening. Maybe what this pastor is saying is true, I thought. How could I find out? I borrowed a Bible from my priest and looked up the passages that came over the radio waves. Not long after this, my brother found a different version of the Bible in a crashed car he was fixing up at work. Being an avid book reader,

SHARE JESUS THROUGH RADIOS

$10 provides one radio to a village $100,000/year Vietnam (Peace & Happiness Radio/TV) [#501] $25,000/year Cambodia (Voice of Love Radio) [#502] $10,000/year Laos (LAMP) [#504]

he brought it home. I borrowed it and was delighted to find that this version matched Pr. Isah Young’s, the speaker on the radio. The Holy Spirit led me as I studied. One day, I knelt down beside my bed and committed my life to God, telling Him I would keep all the truth I learned from the radio. Since then, God led me to a wonderful house-church where I found a supportive family of God. I feel so blessed that God led me to truth.

Give a gift card in honor of your loved ones

Radio is still the most effective and economical media to use in communicating the gospel in Southeast Asia.

Consider how you and your church can support one of ASAP's radio/media ministries.

EVANGELISM TOOLS

BY ANH TUYEN* FROM VIETNAM

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PROVIDE THE BEST GIFT EVER, GOD’S WORD

$5/Vietnam, $10/Cambodia, $25/Lao $25/Karen, $20/Thai Bibles

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Give new believers a lamp for their feet and a light for their path. There is always a shortage of Bibles in the countries ASAP serves so give cheerfully and generously.

SPEED UP PROGRESS IN THE MISSION FIELD

$100 for a bicycle $1,000 for a moped

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Help meet ASAP missionaries’ vital transportation needs by purchasing a bicycle or moped. Help missionaries spread the gospel in villages and towns far from their homes and transport villagers to the hospital during medical emergencies.

FEED THE SPIRITUALLY HUNGRY WITH DVDS

$2/DVD filled with messages of truth $65/DVD player and sermon set for a house-church in Vietnam

You can put DVDs of contextualized sermons in Southeast Asian languages into the hands of ASAP missionaries who share them with those seeking truth.

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“The grass withers, the flowers fade, but the word of our God stands forever.� Isaiah 40:8

SPREAD THE MESSAGE WITH MEGAVOICES

$65 each (Thousands needed!)

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The Megavoice is a durable, digital audio player that can store and retrieve the Bible and sermons. These solar-powered units allow people who have no electricity to hear the gospel.

You can help nurture the faith of our new believers in countries like Vietnam through your gift of a Megavoice.

BREAK DOWN LANGUAGE BARRIERS, SUPPORT TRANSLATION PROJECTS

$100,000+ needed for additional translations $25/hour needed for Hmong Bible translation [#200]

Help support the translation of the Bible into the Hmong language. Give to this and other big translation projects as you feel impressed! You also can help us fund the translation and distribution of materials such as My Bible First lessons for children, the Cosmic Conflict and inspired writings into Southeast Asian languages.

You can find additional evangelism gift options online at: asapministries.org/resources/resources-catalog/

Finding My Way

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love my school because this is where I learned about God. I feel so happy going to church because I love to worship Him. Every Sabbath my parents scold me about wasting time at church. They tell me to not go. They say, “If you are a good son, you will help us work instead.” I continue to go to church because I love God and have Exodus 20:8 written on my heart.

I keep the Sabbath day holy.

PROVIDE LUNCH FOR 80 CHILDREN

$30/day, $150/week

One day when I was out alone, picking up garbage to recycle, I got lost. It was getting dark so I cried to God, “Please send someone to show me the way back home.” I saw a lady also picking up garbage and went up to her to ask for directions.

She was so kind to me. She showed me which way to go to get back home. I think this made my faith grow. I know that God always will show me the way in my life.

Become an ASAP prayer partner. Sign up at www.asapministries/pray

The nutritious meals served each day at the Feed & Read schools are often the only food the students get. Just think, for the price of a couple large pizzas, you can feed a whole school!

EDUCATION

BY SOVANARIT CHET FROM CAMBODIA

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SPONSOR AN AT-RISK CHILD

$20/month $240/year to help educate one student

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Combat evil by praying for and giving to help one or more children escape hunger, child labor, and possibly being trafficked. Your gift will give them a life-changing opportunity to receive a quality Adventist Christian education in an ASAP Feed & Read School.

BUILD A SCHOOL/CHURCH

$1,500 for a bamboo and thatch school/church $5,500–$25,000/permanent structure

ASAP is committed to providing simple yet sturdy literacy schools and churches. Though these structures are not covered with gold as Buddhist temples are, they hold much value in heaven’s eyes for Holy Spirit-filled prayer, praise, and Bible study that takes place in them. (note: Costs vary for each building project.)

“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.” Matthew 18:10

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GIVE THE GIFT OF LEARNING TO READ

$40/month stipend for a literacy teacher $50 for classroom supplies (white board, etc.) $250 for a generator to conduct evenings classes for farmers

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Your gift for the literacy program will help a woman or child learn how to read for the first time. This simple yet effective program also shares Jesus with illiterate women and children.

KEEP KIDS SAFE

$750/year provides shelter for one child $85/year training for one child

An alarming number of children in Asia are orphaned or physically and/or sexually abused. ASAP seeks to establish a Safe House which will provide certain Feed & Read students a safe Christian “home� to live and additional vocational training so they can get respectable jobs in the future.

You can support additional education projects online at: asapministries.org/resources/resources-catalog/

Dried Up Land

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hanna’s village carried the name “Dried Up Land” because people for miles knew that it was impossible to find water there, but this was not impossible for the God she served! One day God answered her prayers. She heard that ASAP donors gave money for a well for HER village! She could not wait to tell the church members, friends, and neighbors the good news. Unbelievers told her, “Don’t waste your time and their money Channa! There is no water here!” She told them, “Yes, it’s impossible for man, but everything is possible for my God.

“I am the Lord your God, who brought

you out of the land of Egypt; Open your

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mouth wide, and I will fill it.”

PROVIDE CLEAN WATER

$250 for a hand-dug well $1,500–$3,000 for a water system

psalm 81:10

I trust Him to do this!” She hired people to drill the well, but before they started she knelt down on the hard, brittle ground and prayed.

God indeed heard her prayer and blessed with a well that produced plenty of fresh, clean water for her, the church members, and the villagers. Many people come to get water from this well and they glorify God who made the miracle of changing a dried up village into a blessed place.

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Many live in villages where the water is unsafe to drink. In response to this need, ASAP builds or repairs freshwater wells, along with providing pumps, pipes and water urns. This gift opens villagers’ hearts to the One who says, “Whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life” (John 4:13).

HUMANITARIAN

BY PASTOR PEN NARITH IN CAMBODIA

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SUPPORT STITCHES FOR ETERNITY

$80/year provides materials for one student $5,000 supports one sewing school

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Through supporting ASAP’s vocational sewing schools, you can change the course of many young women’s lives. After they learn to sew, these women can generate a modest income to feed their children.

GIVE TO THE ZARAPHETH PROJECT

$250 for one Piteba machine $5,500 for one pilot project

Join in with an exciting new project to help ASAP national missionaries and church members support themselves and the work of God through producing and selling cooking oil through Pitebas. Pitebas are simple, manually-operated presses which expel oil from seeds. Many years ago, in the village of Zarapheth, God miraculously provided oil for a widow and prophet Elijah. Today you can collaborate with God’s workers to spread the “Holy Spirit oil” to a wounded world.

“And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones who is my disciple, truly I tell you, that person will certainly not lose their reward.” Matthew 10:42

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MINISTER TO THE SUFFERING

$40 will feed one family for a month $250 will build one family a shelter

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When believers in Asia encounter natural disasters or other crises, ASAP missionaries become a sermon in shoes by bringing them food and shelter.

Your gift and their service demonstrate Christ’s love in tangible ways.

ADMINISTER LOVE TO “THE LEAST”

$45/month per resident $30,000 needed per year

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AIDS in Cambodia is like leprosy in Bible times. Those with AIDS are completely cut off by family and society. Support the Sda Center and restore hope and dignity by providing a safe place, food, spiritual support and care to new SDA believers with AIDS (Sda means “to restore” in the Khmer language).

SOW SEEDS FOR SECURITY

$50 per small garden project

Help the underprivileged improve their health and boost their income by providing a garden project such as a rice bag garden in Cambodia or a small tree farm in Myanmar. This is a little project that makes a world of difference to a struggling family!

You can locate additional humanitarian projects online at: asapministries.org/resources/resources-catalog/

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