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Children's Mission Quarterly

1st quarter features the Northern Asia-Pacific Division

1st Quarter 2025

Happy Butterflies

January 4, 2025

Tears came to Tamir’s eyes. He wanted to play the violin and piano, and he didn’t give up. He asked again the next year when he was 6 years old. He asked when he was 7 and then 8. He asked when he was 9 and then 10.

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Prayer of Faith

January 11, 2025

He didn’t know when he would be able to go home, but he believed that God would heal him. He decided to keep praying. When he woke up the next day, he immediately prayed, “God please heal me quickly. I want to start walking on my own.

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The Biggest Decision

January 18, 2025

She remembered how her best friend had asked her to get baptized. She wondered, “Am I getting baptized because Enkhjin asked me?” She remembered how her cousin had asked her to get baptized. She wondered, “Am I getting baptized because the other Enkhjin asked me?”She remembered how Mom had suggested that she wait.

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Bullied Missionary Kid

January 25, 2025

She told Mom, and Mom spoke with the school principal. A security camera in Ninjin’s classroom had recorded the whole thing. Ninjin watched the video recording. It showed Ninjin leaving the classroom to go to the restroom. It showed several girls rubbing glue all over her chair. Ninjin could see their faces.

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Sticking Out Ears

February 1, 2025

He bent over on the bench, one hand clutching his stomach, which hurt. He closed his eyes and prayed, “Our dear Lord, thank You for always being with me. Thank You for always hearing me. Please hear me now. Help me to have friends who don’t tease me. Help me to have friends who are a good influence. Amen.”

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A Tale of Two Schools

February 8, 2025

Now Anar didn’t walk and talk like the other boys and girls at the school. For him, it was difficult to put one foot in front of the other. He has cerebral palsy. Part of his brain didn’t grow normally while he was still a baby inside his mother. As a result, when he walked, he sometimes stumbled. He also didn’t talk as quickly as his classmates.

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Who Dressed First?

February 15, 2025

The boy saw the startled expression on his teacher’s face. He knew that his answer did not come from the textbook. He had read the textbook. But he also had read the Bible at an afterschool program at the Seventh-day Adventist church. He believed that the Bible was more correct than his textbook.

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A Persistent Girl

February 22, 2025

Ee-un felt sad. She had looked forward to going with Saleng. She had thought that God had answered her prayer. But she was not discouraged. She decided to keep on praying and to keep on inviting her classmates.

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Getting to Know God

March 1, 2025

“You also would be different today if you knew God,” Auntie said. “If you had faith and went to church, you could teach your children to be kind to other kids and not be mean like those kids at your school. I want you to come to church with me.”

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Bugs, Lizards, and Cats

March 8, 2025

Haon and Sion were waiting for Jesus to come and take His children to heaven. Jooyoung had never heard that Jesus would come and take people to heaven. Haon and Sion wanted their friend to know and love Jesus. They began praying every night for her and her family to know Him. The girls couldn’t bear the thought of not playing with their dear friend in heaven.

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Not Giving Up

March 15, 2025

The next day, one of the girls said that she couldn’t go. Her parents had told her that she was too busy. But the other girl and the boy said that their parents had given them permission to go.

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“I Don’t Eat Pork”

March 22, 2025

One day, Yeseo brought her own lunch again because the cafeteria was serving pork. The children looked at her strangely as usual, and several teased her. She explained again that she was a Seventh-day Adventist.

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Hard Bible Test

March 29, 2025

Everything about the church was unusual and strange to Joon-woo. He didn’t understand many of the words that he heard from the Bible. He didn’t get along well with the other children. But because he wanted to study at the Adventist school, he came back to church the next Sabbath and then the next.

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4th Quarter 2024

An Extraordinary Garden

October 5, 2024

Then Mother heard about the extraordinary garden at the Seventh-day Adventist church. She heard that children could go to a fun program at the garden. She told Kaston that they would go.

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Scared of Ghosts

October 12, 2024

A few nights later, something strange happened again in Sarah’s bedroom. Sarah was scared, and she pulled the blanket over her head and began to cry. Tatum heard her crying and came to her room.

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“Ohhh-Ohhhh!”

October 19, 2024

“Well,” the boy said, “someone in our family will probably get sick and die, or die in a car accident. You never know how it’s going to happen, but someone will die in the next month.”

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God Loves Siberian Yupiks

October 26, 2024

As Great-Grandmother Harriette grew older, the church also grew older. It began to fall apart, and water dripped down the walls when the snow melted. Finally, the church was closed.

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“Deep and Wide”

November 2, 2024

She would snuggle in bed at 10 o’clock at night. It was a little difficult to fall sleep because her older sister was still up and wouldn’t go to bed until midnight. Many people go to bed quite late in Savoonga, and they also get up quite late in the morning.

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Homesick but Not Alone

November 9, 2024

Other girls wanted to pray for their parents and families. Some wanted to pray for themselves. They had friends back at home who took drugs, and they didn’t want to get mixed up in that.

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A Day at Camp

November 16, 2024

But no one was going to eat ground squirrel for lunch at the camp. If Kingston was disappointed, he didn’t show it. He joined the other children in heartily eating baked potatoes, brown beans, macaroni and cheese, and garlic bread.

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Tag, Climbing, and God

November 23, 2024

Kesia didn’t want to disappoint Josephine, but she didn’t want to go. It was still summer, and she wanted to stay outside to play tag and hide-and-seek and to climb on things.

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Missing Camper

November 30, 2024

Liam stopped smiling. He didn’t like being corrected. As Adiv was talking, he ran away again. But this time Adiv knew where he had gone. He and another camp counselor, Jacob, went into the bushes and saw Liam scamper up a tree.

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Mysterious Light

December 7, 2024

The boat riders kept praying as they headed in the direction of the camp. Finally, two islands appeared on the navigation screen. The islands were located right in front of the shoreline with the camp. The captain steered the boat between the islands and slowed down the engine.

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A Changed Heart

December 14, 2024

Now, helping out at Vacation Bible School was a friendly teenager named Isaac. Isaac was 16 years old and he had flown to Bethel to help the grown-ups teach the kids about God. He kindly told Nelson that his behavior wasn’t appropriate. “You can join Vacation Bible School and have fun, but you need to behave yourself,” he said. “Otherwise, we’ll have to send you away.”

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Big, Big Prayer Request

December 21, 2024

“We are interested in adopting the child,” Robin said. “Yes, we are,” Frank agreed. Joy promised that she would give Frank and Robin’s contact information to the mother. She cautioned, however, that one or two other sets of parents also were interested in adopting the baby.

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Amazing Alaskan Adventure

December 28, 2024

Matrona and the others did everything that they could to get the boat unstuck from the sandbar. They got out of the boat and, standing on the sandbar, tried to push it back into the water. The boat remained stuck.

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