Hello, and welcome
to Jesus for Asia Now.
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I'm Natalie Wood
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and I'm here
with my husband Jon.
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Hello, love. Hi,
darling, how are you today?
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I'm doing fine.
You look beautiful.
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Oh, thank you. Where
did you get that dress?
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This is from India. Really?
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And where did you get yours.
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This is from India also.
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All right. What's that called?
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It's called a saree.
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Yeah, this is a
sherwani in some languages.
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Yeah.
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So are we talking
about India today then?
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We are talking
about India. Right.
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Yes and our viewers
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that were watching
on our previous show
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know that this is part two.
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Yep.
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And we promised, in fact we gave
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a little spoiler on that show
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and we promised that we
would share some more videos,
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this time the
story of a little girl
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that goes to one
of our evening school
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so that video is
coming up in a little bit.
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Yep, in that video Jonathan
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who is our
foreign correspondent,
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he actually went to her home
as she went home from school,
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the evening school,
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and then he came
back in the morning
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and documented her getting
up how she starts the day,
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cooks the meal and
works with her family
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and then heads off to school.
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Okay.
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So it's going to be
pretty amazing to see the life
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that she lives
and her family live.
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Okay. This is an epic night.
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This is an epic
event to see, you know,
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because how often do you get
to go into somebody else's home
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that's so far
distant removed from us.
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Right.
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Let's see what it's really like.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Well, I didn't get
to be there for that.
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I've gone into
some of those homes,
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but I wasn't there for that,
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so I'm looking
forward to that video.
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Yeah, it's pretty
amazing, pretty moving.
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But first, we're talking
about our evening schools.
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Yes.
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And for those of our viewers
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that did not see
the previous episode,
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our evening schools
we have, in the evening
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tutoring in the local language,
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the school work
that they receive
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from the local school,
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and then a worship time
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where they learn
memory verses and sing songs
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and hear
character building stories,
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morals stories as
well as Bible stories,
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and then they have a free meal.
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That's correct.
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And some, some of these
kids don't actually go to school
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during the day.
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Some of them do and they
get help in their studies,
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other kids don't go to school,
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so this is all they get.
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Okay. So they just get a
little bit in the evenings.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, but they do
get that nutritious meal
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which is so
important in a country
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where that has one
third of the world's
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undernourished people in it.
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7,000 Indians die
every day due to hunger.
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And so the kids
growing up, you know,
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sometimes families
have more than one child
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or even one extra mouth
to feed is a huge strain
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on the family's
ability to provide.
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And so...
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They make so
little most of them.
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There are so many
that make a dollar
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or just barely
more or even less.
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The schools also are to
battle literacy of course.
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Yeah. Literacy
is a big challenge.
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So what is the literacy
rate in India, do you know?
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According to the best
statistics that we could find
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37 percent of all the world's
illiterate people live in India
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which means that about
280, almost 300 million people
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in India don't know
how to read and write.
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Wow. Yeah, that's huge.
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Yeah, it is.
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Can you ask him
how he likes his work?
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Since they don't
have any proper job,
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they hate to do this
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but they still go ahead
and perform the activities
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of collecting the
waste from the streets.
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They consider this is
their fate to do this.
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If they had a proper job
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they wish they do
that job than this.
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So he was picking
through the trash and he'd gone
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and collected it
from the side of the road.
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What was he doing?
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He was like
taking some pieces of it
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and putting it in that other bag
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and then some he put
behind him I noticed.
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Yeah, he's looking for
things that he can recycle
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that he can sell for recycling,
so plastic things like that,
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he can take it down
to the local recycle shop
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and sell it for money
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and then that's
how he can buy food
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and survive through the day.
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Okay.
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The clothes that they wear,
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the clothes that
he wears right there
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he found in the trash.
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I saw, I saw a stack of clothes
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that had bugs
crawling all through it
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and that was for the
daughter not of this boy
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but someone else's family,
and this is what they have,
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you know, whatever they
can find is what they use
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and whatever they
can sell on the recycle
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is what they run
the family for the day,
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and we did a episode
of India face to face
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from this particular settlement
which is right near the river.
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And this is one of
the things that caused us
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to really want
to start the school
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is this kid doesn't
have the opportunities,
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and so maybe if he had been
able to go through our school,
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we would have connected with him
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and been able to
help him find other,
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other options in life.
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And given him the hope
and given him, you know,
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what he needed to
not just to survive,
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barely survive through the day,
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but actually
you know go forward.
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Right. And to
know about eternity.
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Absolutely.
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Yeah that's the
biggest thing obviously.
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As Christians that we know
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that there is a
life beyond this life
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and it isn't just
another life like this one.
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Right.
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Or another thousand
lives like this one,
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but there is eternal life
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without end and joy unspeakable.
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Right, to share
that with all these kids.
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Yeah. That's
right. That's right.
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So our next video is the one
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we've been
telling everyone about.
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Yes.
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Where we follow Kalijavi home
and see what her home is like.
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Yeah. And it wasn't actually
me going, it was Jonathan.
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He's our foreign
correspondent. Yes.
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He's currently living
at the moment in Thailand.
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Yes. But he went
to India with you.
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So you'll hear
his voice in the video
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talking about his experience.
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Okay.
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Amen. Amen.
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Bethel Evening Schools
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have been
helping children in India
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by providing
tutoring, a good meal,
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and most importantly
teaching them about Jesus.
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Tonight, join me as
I go home with Kalijavi
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to see what her
life is like at home.
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It's customary in
India to remove your shoes
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before entering
your home or church.
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But when I got
to Kalijavi's home,
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I almost walked
right in with my shoes on
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because the floor of the
hut was dirt just like outside.
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As I watched
Kalijavi study her homework
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and get ready for bed,
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I wondered what impact
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the evening
school has had on her.
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It didn't take
long to see one result
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as she knelt down and
prayed before going to sleep.
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In a country where about
one billion people are Hindu
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and most homes
have a Hindu shrine.
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It was wonderful to see
this girl and her parents
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serving God in the
midst of spiritual darkness.
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It's a simple
life this family lives.
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They don't have
many of the conveniences
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that we often take for granted.
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I mean, does your
kitchen look like this?
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Kalijavi's father
is a daily laborer
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which means he's
hired on a day to day basis.
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He drives 20 kilometers
to work as a coconut husker,
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and this is the tool he
uses to remove the husks.
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It was an incredible privilege
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to step into the
home of this family
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and see what life is
like in an Indian village,
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and I'm so thankful that
Kalijavi and the other children
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in this village
have the opportunity
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to go to the evening school.
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As Kalijavi leaves for school
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and my time with her
family draws to a close,
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I can't help but think
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how many other children in India
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don't have the
opportunity to know Jesus.
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I hope and pray that more
evening schools can be started
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so that more children can hear
about Jesus just like Kalijavi.
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She is beautiful. Yeah.
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Very different life
though isn't for her.
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It's very, very different.
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And to provide
just that little extra.
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You know in the
footage as we were,
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as I was going
through the footage
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that Jonathan captured there,
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you know, the morning breakfast.
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She built the fire
and then she put the rice
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and she sat
there for a long time,
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it took a long time
to do the vegetables and
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so that was probably a
45 minute or one hour time
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just to cook breakfast.
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You know we come
out of the morning
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and pour bowl of
cereal a little bit of milk,
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in 15 minutes the
whole thing's done.
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Yeah.
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So the kind of life pace
is very different for them
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and to be able to see that
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and see you know
with such, with such...
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When you have this much
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and somebody
gives you this much,
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it's not that much difference.
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But when you have this much
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and somebody
gives you that much,
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it's like a lot of
difference for someone.
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Yeah.
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That's a privilege
to be able to help them.
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Yes, and a privilege to be able
to be a part of their lives.
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Yeah, that's neat. Yeah.
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Well, we want to
go to a joyful video
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after this too
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and that is
reopening the Monotones school.
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Now what's...
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You know, you mentioned joyful,
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to me this is even though
it brings tears to my eyes,
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I'm very happy for
her she knows Christ.
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You know, she...
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Some people in this world
don't have a very good life,
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but we all have the opportunity
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for a really good
life in the next life.
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And so if I can spend my life
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giving that
chance to other people
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what better way to live.
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Yeah.
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And you, you get touched
by Christ in a special way
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when you're helping them.
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Right.
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Because it's
just such a blessing,
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to be a blessing to
others it's such a blessing.
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I see Christ
reaching out to these people
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every single day.
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And if I can be a part of
that then we become co-laborers
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which is huge you know,
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it's a blessing
to work with Christ
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that I believe this is
what he calls his yoke,
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his yoke you know
where you team up,
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the yoke is for two,
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team up with him
and work together.
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And when I read the
Bible, this is the way that
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Christ has laid out
to draw closer to him.
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You know it's more
than just a prayer and,
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and Bible study, it's
more than just those things
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that we do in our
minds by ourselves
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but it's, it's
entering into labor,
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actual working with him to,
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to help him accomplish his goals
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and he has spirit, he
needs physical flesh and blood
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to do the work
that he longs to do.
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Yeah.
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And, yeah, so that's
why we love these schools.
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We love all of our
projects. Absolutely.
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And we talk about
all of them and...
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Yeah, the
missionaries that go out
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and represent Christ in
their own flesh and blood
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and then the evening schools
and the Bible workers and,
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and all the
opportunities where we see
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Christ being made available
and manifested to people.
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Right, and especially to
people that had no idea before.
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And they think that
all the gods are like them.
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There's no help there, they
go and pray and nothing happens.
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They think the gods are angry.
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They have to spend their life
trying to appease the God's,
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you know these things.
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For the honest
seeker his life is vanity,
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life is a game
and you live, you die,
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repeat, repeat, repeat
forever and ever and ever.
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That's, that's and so this,
this God for people that can,
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they can see it, they
can surrender and accept it,
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you know, it means a lot.
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Yeah.
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The God that loves
them and died for them.
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Yes. Yeah.
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Well, it is, it is so
much a part of the joy
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and we're told in scripture that
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this fellowship with
Christ and his sufferings
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is the gateway to joy and,
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and yet his
fellowship his sufferings
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or when he came
here and he worked
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and he sacrificed everything
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for the sake of the
lost which was all of us.
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Yes.
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And so to join with him in
that is a great source of joy.
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Yeah.
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No matter how hard it is
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or how
inconvenient it is, whatever.
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Yes.
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It's worth being a
part of Christ's joy.
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Right.
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And taking them the
blessing of knowing Jesus.
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Yeah.
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And even, yeah, and even he was,
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even Jesus was pursuing
joy when he went to the cross.
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You know for the sake of the joy
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that was set before him,
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he endured the cross despising
the shame going after those
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people that he
would find great joy in.
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I guess that's,
that's what it is.
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The purpose of the cross
is to bring more people into
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awareness of fellowship
and back to the family of God
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and that's where
he finds his joy.
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Yeah. So...
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So we have a joyful
event we want to share next.
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And that is the opening
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or actually reopening
one of the evening schools.
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We had a school
in this church before
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and it's going to be
talked about in the video
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but the roof
was falling apart...
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Yeah.
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And they were afraid
it would collapse on them,
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and so they couldn't meet
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there in the evenings
to have the children they,
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they weren't meeting
there in the evenings
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for the evening school,
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they weren't
meeting there for church.
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Basically the
building was unusable.
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And now with
your blessing Father,
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we pronounce this place open.
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In Jesus' name...
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Amen. Praise the Lord.
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Okay, they can go on inside.
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Okay, so what you're witnessing
and what just happened here was
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the grand opening
of the Marattukalam
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or the reopening
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of the
Marattukalam evening school.
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So I have Brother
Israel here with me to explain
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some of the history and
some of the background of
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why this place
has to be reopened.
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And first of all it has to
do with the church structure.
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Yes.
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It was shut down
because of the building,
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because of the
church structure...
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The roof was...
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Fully collapsed
and when it rained
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the water would just come inside
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and not only that,
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the roof was cracked
and even the church members
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were so frightened to
worship inside so it was,
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there was a time
there when I came,
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we had the Saturday
worship here outside.
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That's just right here
in this little tiny spot.
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Yeah, the members
were gathered here
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and then from
there I spoke and it was,
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you know, they were crying,
they were crying, they said,
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"We want a church."
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We are scared to go inside.
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We cannot have a
peaceful worship.
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Please do something.
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You know Brother Israel,
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my home church in America
had a very similar problem,
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is like an 80 year old
church and the ceiling,
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the roof was going like this.
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And so it cost
$160,000 to replace that roof.
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How much did it cost
to replace this roof?
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$2,300 to completely
take off this because
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previously the
roof was very low and
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there was no
ventilation, it was so low and
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so they have
completely taken out the ceiling
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and now they have raised
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nearly about
four to five feet high
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and they have
put metal sheet now.
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And there's good
ventilation, air circulation,
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so now the members are so happy!
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And after they reopened
the church they were asking
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for the reopening of the school.
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What happened to the
school in the meantime?
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Because we moved this school
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to another village
called Bahrady Nagar
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because there they had
been asking for a school like
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this for many years and
I said, "please pray, pray"
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and God answered their prayer
through this and they were...
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With this disaster. Yeah.
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And they got the
school and they were enjoying.
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So what would happen
if we took the school
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back from there and put it here?
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Oh, they won't allow definitely.
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I think the children,
they won't, will not...
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So then this school
has been closed for a year.
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Yes.
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And tonight is
the first reopening.
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Yes, tonight is
a first reopening.
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Yeah, another school
opened. That's wonderful.
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Well, you guys
also had a privilege
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of getting a testimony
of one of the young people
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that used to go to our school.
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He's grown up now, he doesn't
go to the school anymore,
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but thanks to the school.
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Well, let's shed...
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This is a beautiful thing
because we often ask ourselves,
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does a school
really make a difference?
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And I think this
video answers that question.
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Okay.
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Do you think that this
school helped your life,
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helped you in your life?
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Yes, it was.
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What was the best part of
it? The food or the teaching?
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He loved to sing
songs. She was his teacher.
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He was this size when
she came to teach him.
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Wow. Okay.
00:21:09.56\00:21:13.80
He will recite
Psalms 15 very well.
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And kids at his
age used to do what?
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In this age the
children are smoking, drinking
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but sitting here and
there teasing the girls
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but he is very, very respectful
even today, till today
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he used to say,
"Akah, how are you?
00:21:42.83\00:21:45.07
How is
everything" very respectfully.
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He has no bad habits now.
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So do you think he
learned a lot of that
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in, in the school?
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Yes.
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All what he learned
was from this school,
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the Biblical thing
really has helped him
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to be a witness in this village.
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So he'll be a
success in life now.
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Even now after his
work, he used to come
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and stand and listen
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to the Biblical things even now.
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Praise the
Lord. Praise the Lord.
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What is your name?
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Kali Muthu. Kali Muthu.
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Well, praise the Lord.
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Thank you so much
for your testimony.
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Romba Nandri.
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What does that mean?
00:22:27.94\00:22:28.98
Romba Nandri? Yeah.
00:22:29.01\00:22:30.11
It means thank you very much.
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Yes, and what does this mean?
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That means yes most of the time.
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That's right, so
he was going like this
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and she was going like that
00:22:38.72\00:22:39.72
and they were
saying the same thing.
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Right because she
was talking American
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and he was talking Indian.
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So what does he do for a job?
00:22:47.13\00:22:48.73
He drives a backhoe
with the shovel in the front.
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They call it a JCB because
most of them are made by JCB.
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Okay.
00:22:54.40\00:22:55.44
So it's like, he's a
backhoe driver, so...
00:22:55.47\00:22:57.44
So he's got a good job then.
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Yeah, big, big time job.
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Praise the Lord, and
that's neat that he comes
00:23:00.84\00:23:02.51
after work to hear
the stories of Christ.
00:23:02.54\00:23:05.08
Yeah, well he just dropped by
00:23:05.11\00:23:07.18
while we were done
with the evening program.
00:23:07.22\00:23:09.48
He just dropped by
and met his teacher.
00:23:09.52\00:23:12.55
By the way that
teacher Jennifer,
00:23:12.59\00:23:15.19
she was baptized in 2007
00:23:15.22\00:23:17.53
when we did an
evangelistic series.
00:23:17.56\00:23:19.49
She along with
her husband who is now
00:23:19.53\00:23:21.30
the overseer of all the
evening schools in that area,
00:23:21.33\00:23:24.67
they were both baptized
00:23:24.70\00:23:26.03
during that evangelistic
series back in 2007.
00:23:26.07\00:23:29.17
So it's neat how
the seeds are planted,
00:23:29.20\00:23:31.41
grow up some 30 fold,
some 100 fold and you see this.
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And the seeds sprout
00:23:35.88\00:23:38.28
and then those seeds
start spreading seeds
00:23:38.31\00:23:40.35
and the work goes forward.
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Yeah, it's exciting.
Yeah, that's really neat.
00:23:42.22\00:23:45.05
And what's cool
about these evening schools
00:23:45.09\00:23:46.89
is like one of the cheapest ways
00:23:46.92\00:23:48.46
to get involved with God's work,
00:23:48.49\00:23:50.23
$7 a month takes care
00:23:50.26\00:23:53.19
and provides education and food
00:23:53.23\00:23:55.83
for one child
for the entire month.
00:23:55.86\00:23:58.67
Wow. Yeah, that's amazing.
00:23:58.70\00:24:00.40
Yeah. God is good.
00:24:00.44\00:24:01.47
That's about a
quarter a day. Yeah.
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Twenty five cents for
education and meal event.
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We have had people approach us
and ask for a self-denial boxes
00:24:07.94\00:24:11.41
or make their own
self-denial boxes.
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A self do what?
A self-denial box.
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What's a self-denial box?
00:24:16.69\00:24:18.29
It's a box where
you put the funds
00:24:18.32\00:24:21.49
when you deny yourself
something that you wanted.
00:24:21.52\00:24:24.36
Like if you're going to spend
a dollar on an ice cream cone.
00:24:24.39\00:24:27.73
A dollar? You would put...
00:24:27.76\00:24:29.23
Well, okay more than
that, you would put that dollar.
00:24:29.26\00:24:32.37
This is a figurative, you know,
00:24:32.40\00:24:34.37
this is an example, there we go.
00:24:34.40\00:24:36.40
You would put that
dollar in the self-denial box.
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And then you would put
that to the evening schools
00:24:39.37\00:24:42.21
or you know to the
evening schools project.
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Where do you get this idea?
00:24:44.61\00:24:45.68
It's from Mrs. White.
00:24:45.71\00:24:47.12
She actually says that
every member of each household
00:24:47.15\00:24:49.75
should have their
own self-denial box.
00:24:49.78\00:24:51.65
So instead of buying
something for themselves,
00:24:51.69\00:24:53.89
they can put it in there.
00:24:53.92\00:24:54.92
Right. And what
does that look like?
00:24:54.96\00:24:58.09
Well, we have one right here.
00:24:58.13\00:25:00.43
Ours looks like a little church,
00:25:00.46\00:25:02.93
and on it, it has instruction
where to send the funds
00:25:02.96\00:25:06.70
when it gets full and
it has a Bible text on it,
00:25:06.74\00:25:09.24
which text is on there?
00:25:09.27\00:25:11.57
This says, "In as
much as you have done it
00:25:11.61\00:25:13.44
unto the least of
these my brethren,
00:25:13.48\00:25:15.14
you have done it unto me."
00:25:15.18\00:25:16.38
Matthew 25:40.
00:25:16.41\00:25:18.68
So it's reminding us
that God wants us to help
00:25:18.71\00:25:22.18
the least of these our
brothers, his brothers.
00:25:22.22\00:25:25.22
Has anybody done this?
Has anybody filled this up?
00:25:25.25\00:25:27.06
A lot of people have done
it, and a lot of money has gone
00:25:27.09\00:25:30.96
to help these evening
schools and our orphanage,
00:25:30.99\00:25:33.56
various children's ministries
00:25:33.60\00:25:35.46
because of these
self-denial boxes.
00:25:35.50\00:25:37.43
I have people that
come to our camp meetings
00:25:37.47\00:25:39.23
in the summer
00:25:39.27\00:25:40.30
and they bring the
whole box crammed full
00:25:40.34\00:25:43.10
and they handed to me,
00:25:43.14\00:25:44.71
and I have Ziploc bags
and I put it in the Ziploc bag
00:25:44.74\00:25:47.68
and I hand them
back their church.
00:25:47.71\00:25:49.14
I remember carrying
those things always.
00:25:49.18\00:25:50.88
What's in here?
00:25:50.91\00:25:52.08
Yeah, my suitcase is always
very heavy after camp meeting
00:25:52.11\00:25:54.58
because of all the
change but it's such a privilege
00:25:54.62\00:25:57.72
and people are
amazed when they see
00:25:57.75\00:25:59.25
how much they actually saved
00:25:59.29\00:26:00.82
during the year for
these children's projects.
00:26:00.86\00:26:03.59
Just dropping
one quarter in here
00:26:03.63\00:26:05.06
will provide a meal
and two hours of education
00:26:05.09\00:26:08.23
and maybe another
memory verse for a child.
00:26:08.26\00:26:11.90
Yep. That's pretty cool.
00:26:11.93\00:26:14.37
So can people get
these things can they...
00:26:14.40\00:26:16.27
Yes we have, we
have, we have them,
00:26:16.30\00:26:18.64
we can share with people.
00:26:18.67\00:26:20.41
We have them, we
can send out to people.
00:26:20.44\00:26:22.14
Okay, because these are nice
00:26:22.18\00:26:23.55
but you don't have
to use one of these.
00:26:23.58\00:26:24.95
No.
00:26:24.98\00:26:26.05
We've had people that
took a canning jar, a quart jar
00:26:26.08\00:26:29.08
and decorated the outside,
00:26:29.12\00:26:31.12
wrote a special
thing, painted on it,
00:26:31.15\00:26:33.12
you know, in various
ways of decorating it.
00:26:33.15\00:26:35.19
We had people that
took little wooden boxes
00:26:35.22\00:26:37.96
and painted on them
and put a sticker on them
00:26:37.99\00:26:41.16
saying what they were for
00:26:41.20\00:26:42.73
and that same Bible verse just
to remind, to remind themselves
00:26:42.76\00:26:48.00
what it was for and
to make it personal.
00:26:48.04\00:26:50.24
This is an excellent
thing to do for your children
00:26:50.27\00:26:52.81
to teach them to
start thinking about others
00:26:52.84\00:26:55.21
rather than themselves.
00:26:55.24\00:26:56.81
Yes, we've had
Sabbath schools take them
00:26:56.85\00:26:59.05
and fill them in
their Sabbath schools
00:26:59.08\00:27:02.22
and anyway it's a neat
way to remember the children.
00:27:02.25\00:27:07.16
Yeah.
00:27:07.19\00:27:08.26
So this is an amazing way
to help and amazing project
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because we don't take
anything out for overhead.
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So if somebody sends a
dollar for the evening schools.
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How much do we send to India?
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We send on the
dollar. The whole dollar.
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Well, whatever's
taken out for like PayPal.
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Yeah, any bank fees. Right.
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But, but other than
that everything goes.
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Because we have
made a commitment
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to that a long time
ago and the Lord has...
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Matthew 6:33. Right.
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"Seek first the
Kingdom of God..."
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"And he will provide
for all of our needs."
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Right. Yeah.
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Praise the Lord.
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If you would like
to be a part of helping
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God's other children,
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you can send your
tax deductible love gift
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to Jesus for Asia PO Box 1221,
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Collegedale, Tennessee 37315.
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If you would like to call us
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and ask for your
free self-denial box,
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you can call 423-413-7321
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or check out our
website at Jesus4Asia.org.
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May God richly bless
you until we see you again
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on Jesus for Asia Now.
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