Hello and welcome
to Jesus for Asia Now.
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I'm Natalie Wood,
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and I have my
husband with me today
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and we're going
to be talking about
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one of our favorite projects,
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actually, it's
from when we started.
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Yes, it is the
beginning of Jesus for Asia.
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Yeah, and it's exciting
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because God has
grown the program,
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and He's shown us so much fruit,
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and we know there is other fruit
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that we don't even know about.
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Absolutely.
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But in case our
viewers are wondering,
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we're talking about our
native Bible worker program
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in India today. Yes, in India.
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It started out on a beach
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right after the tsunami of 2004,
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and people saw the need
there and they started donating.
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And we had found out
that you can sponsor local
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Indian Bible workers and
so we started doing that.
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And from that humble beginning,
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I still remember
the feeling of Lord,
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there are so many
unevangelized people in India,
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I mean, hundreds of millions,
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I mean, 400,000
towns and villages
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still have no
access to the gospel,
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never heard the
gospel before in their lives.
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And it's like
just few Bible workers,
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it's like what difference
is that going to make really?
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And...
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But it makes the
difference for one.
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Exactly.
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And it makes a
difference for the next one.
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And that's the key. Yeah.
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Christ would have
emptied all of heaven
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for just one or two. Right.
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So that gave us
courage to go forward.
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Right, right, and to
see the value of the soul
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as Christ puts it
in, in perspective.
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Huge.
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So we started just hiring a
few and now we have over 250.
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Yeah, and they're scattered
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throughout
different parts of India,
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the northeast, the
northwest, the west, the north,
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the south, southeast, southwest,
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and some
islands in the far east,
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so there is a lot of
different places with needs.
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And most of the
places are small,
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like what they'll do is in India
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they have a unit
like either conference
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or a section or a region,
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then they'll take a section
that is grown and they'll see,
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"Okay, we've got
a lot of work here,
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got very little work
here," so they'll split in half
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and they call that bifurcate.
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Okay. Like two parts out of one.
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And then they'll
put like a pastor,
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the president, and a
secretary in that one field...
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Where there is
nothing happening.
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Where nothing is
happening and they'll say,
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"Okay, you start the work."
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And then we start
getting phone calls,
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our director in India tells us,
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"We've got a
request from over here..."
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Correct. "For Bible workers."
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And sometimes we
are able to move forward
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and say, here,
and they start off
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with five Bible workers.
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I know in
Rajkot, they started out
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with 10 Bible workers
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and they had those three people,
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the secretary, the
pastor, and the president.
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And within five years,
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they now had 15
different church groups
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throughout the
state, throughout that area
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and it was flourishing.
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Yeah. And it's
so rewarding to see.
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I mean, I can
understand when Paul says,
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you know, I want to go over
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where no one
has preached before,
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build on no man's
foundation because...
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That's where the
gospel is needed the most.
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Right, right,
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where there's no
one else sharing it.
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Exactly.
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So at this point, I mean,
this isn't where they started,
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but today a Bible
worker makes $90 a month.
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And that's less
than some other places
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and that's
really a lot less than
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we'd like to pay them. Yeah.
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But at this point
that's what we're paying.
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And it's a lot less
than I could survive on...
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Right. Even in India.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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So that's a
little over $1000 a year
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and if you think about it
I mean, that's so effective
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because a airplane trip
for me just to go there,
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just for one person to go there
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would finance a Bible
worker for an entire year.
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We have a lot
of different donors
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that give either part of that
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and so God adds it together
enough to pay each worker
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or they give the whole amount...
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But a lot of our
donors have set up
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monthly automatic donations
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and so, we have
several different ways
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that people can do that but...
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Right, so they don't have
to remember to write a check...
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Right, and they can always know
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that their Bible
worker is sponsored.
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That's right.
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And so their part is
going in automatically.
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Yeah, and every
time they go to bed,
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they can pray
for the Bible worker
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and know the Bible
worker is getting up
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and going out to
witness for Christ.
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Right, there are some areas
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where they don't have the
Bible in their local language,
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and then there are many
areas where they don't have
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any portion of
Ellen White's writings.
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Correct, very few
pastors actually have
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on Ellen White Book. Right.
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And very few in
their local language.
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Right, so they
don't have a depth
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of understanding
of Christian theology.
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They don't have
all the knowledge
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that we take for granted.
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Take for
granted, yeah, absolutely.
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How many translations
of the Bible do we have?
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Yeah. Yeah. You know?
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And if we want to know
what the origin of the word is,
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we can just do a right click
and, oh, there is the Strong's,
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you know, this is what it
means in the original Hebrew.
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Yeah. Those kinds
of tools are not...
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And then the rich
history of Christian history
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of our country
goes back centuries
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that when you grow up
in a non-Christian country
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that kind of what we
take for granted a lot
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really isn't there.
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Yeah, I mean, I know many places
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people get excited to
send the Great Controversy out
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in these different
languages... Right.
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But they don't
think about the idea
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that there's a lot in there
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that it's based on
a Christian culture...
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That's based on Western history.
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Right.
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Now these people don't
study, when they study,
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they study their
own country's history,
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they don't study the history
of America or even of Europe.
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Correct.
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So they don't understand,
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so some of those basics
that we take for granted.
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Right.
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They don't even have
any sort of exposure to it.
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Yeah, in addition to
their soul winning work,
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the Bible workers
are often asked to carry
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the church responsibilities
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and to fill the roles of pastors
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because there
are so few pastors.
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So this next clip
is from the secretary
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of one of these regions at
Coimbatore, Tiruppur region
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and let's listen
to what he has to say.
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A Coimbatore, Tiruppur
region was started in 2009.
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This region was under
North Tamil Conference
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and it was fabricated
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from North Tamil
Conference in the year 2009.
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We have two
districts in our region,
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Coimbatore and Tiruppur.
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Coimbatore
district has more than
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35 lacs of people.
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From 35 lacs of people,
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we have about 7.5% of Christians
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in Coimbatore district,
rest on the people are Hindus
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and some of them are Muslims.
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And also in Tiruppur
we have 25 lacs of people.
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In Tiruppur district we
have only 2.5% Christians.
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In our field, we
have nine regular pastors,
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two administrators,
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and 20 Jesus for
Asia lay Bible workers.
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When our region was started,
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we had 2,232 members.
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At present as
of March 31st, 2017
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we have 4,342.
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I must say that
around 60% baptisms
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came from Jesus for
Asia lay Bible workers.
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Pretty amazing, huh!
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Yeah, 60% of the church growth.
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Right. Wow.
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Okay, so in their
region which is two provinces,
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they've got six
million people...
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Right. They have nine pastors...
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Wow!
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Out of six million people,
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and then they have
20 JFA Bible workers.
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Wow!
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That's all the workers
they have for that entire
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six million people.
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And they need more. Yeah.
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And so we figured out
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that it would cost
about $113 per soul.
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If those
numbers are all correct,
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it's about $113 to bring
somebody into the church.
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Wow! That is
awesome, that is a God thing.
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Yes.
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And God's money
converted into souls.
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Yeah, and so
this is why we believe
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that this is one
of the most effective,
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cost effective
ways to bring the gospel
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into people's homes
and into people's lives.
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Today, we want to talk
about a worker named Jayseelee.
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And can you tell us
a little bit about her?
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Oh, she's been
working for us for many years
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and she's always a quiet one,
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when we have
Bible worker meetings,
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she's always quiet.
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But I love to listen her pray.
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When she starts
praying, it's just the faith,
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the strong faith and
just the passion for God.
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You can tell that she
has a connection to Him,
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She's got a
connection and she knows
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God is going to hear her
and she knows God will respond.
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And just the faith is
there, just really, I love to...
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I don't
understand what she's saying
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but her spirit
is just beautiful,
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and so this is a
story of Jayseelee.
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Okay.
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Hinduism is the
major religion in India,
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that somewhat build the
walls to reach the Hindus.
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Nevertheless, one
of the powerful ways
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to get in touch with
them is through prayer.
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Jayseelee, a Bible worker
has significantly influenced
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people's lives
through her earnest praying.
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Everyday she would travel by bus
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to Indranagar
Village or Kadhathur Village
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because of her desire to
show that there is a living God.
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She would visit the sick
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and those who
are in difficulties.
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She would usually
open the Word of God,
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fervently pray with
them and God would answer
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in His most
miraculous and marvelous ways.
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That is why most of the
people would rather call her
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to pray for them
than go to the doctors.
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And, with the answered prayers,
people eventually believe
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that there is one
living God who cares for them.
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As a result,
Jayseelee's answered prayers
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have brought more
souls to the feet of Jesus.
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Ain't that beautiful?
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It is beautiful to see
how God can move when we pray.
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Their hearts, the
people's hearts were moved.
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There was tears
and just needing God...
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Yeah. And finding Him.
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So Jayseelee is in
charge of three churches
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and she visits people
in all those villages,
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but our next video is showing
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how she travels
from village to village.
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Yes.
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We think about
traveling as getting in a car,
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but this is a
little bit different.
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Yes.
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It's just a small church there
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that she goes to here and there.
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But sometimes there
would be a lot more members,
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sometimes there
would be a lot few members,
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that really depends.
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You know, the people
don't have very many things
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to nourish them during the week.
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They don't have
Bibles to read, usually,
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they don't have
Christian radio programs
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or television shows or anything,
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anyway to bolster
their faith during the week
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and so they just depend on her
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for their entire spiritual food.
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Right.
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And she has to make a commitment
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and it's quite
a bit of travel...
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And walking three kilometers,
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that's like a
mile and a half, right?
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That's a big
investment in the morning to go
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and meet those people, you know.
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Right.
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So this next
video we're going to see
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what the traveling
has done to her feet.
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Yes.
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Long...
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Indranagar, long walk,
going, coming, going, coming.
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For a long time she's been
going and coming like that.
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Yeah, she looks like
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she's walking in
pain a little bit.
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Yeah, so pray for her.
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I talked to Israel
about getting her motorbike,
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but he says that she
probably won't use it
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'cause the longest part
of her travel is by bus.
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It's the bus ride.
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And riding a
motorbike on those roads
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is kind of a challenging.
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And so this next
story is a story of a lady
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that was brought to Jesus
by Jayseelee and her prayers.
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Amen. Okay, here we go.
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Her name is Karthamal.
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After she accepted
Jesus, took baptism,
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they have named her Elizabeth.
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Now she's no more called
in that Hindu name Karthamal,
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her name is Elizabeth.
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Previously, before
coming into this church
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and accepting Jesus,
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she was very,
very thin, very weak.
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She cannot go for her work.
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She was at home,
couldn't do anything,
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couldn't even do
her personal work,
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she was very sick.
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That is when our
pastor Mrs. Jayseelee
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went and met her in her home
and she shared the love of God.
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And, you know, that
is her younger daughter
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and that is her elder daughter,
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the man next to
her is his son-in-law,
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the whole family.
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And the younger
daughter Amuda was the one
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who accepted Jesus Christ first.
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And through her, her
whole family accepted Jesus
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as their personal savior.
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And now she is
called the Elizabeth,
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and God has
restored her health back,
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she's in normal condition now.
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She's going
every day for her work
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and she can work
as normal ladies,
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like other ladies.
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God had blessed her,
so she's very thankful
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that just Jesus
Christ had given her
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this healing in her life.
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So notice how he talked
about the Lord healed her,
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that's like
that's a normal thing,
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like everyday occurrence there,
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but Jayseelee went and
shared the gospel with her
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and the whole
family accepted it...
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Yeah. Which is beautiful.
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It started with
the younger daughter
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and then went through
the rest of the family.
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Yeah, so praise
God. So God is good.
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All time. Yeah.
00:17:04.02\00:17:05.22
Now Jayseelee also
has another ministry
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that she does
besides Bible working...
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Okay.
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So she collects
clothes from people
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to give to other
people that need clothes.
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Awesome.
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Oh, that's beautiful.
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Yes, all out of love.
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Yeah. And people can see that.
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Right, right, it
shows God's love too.
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But you notice,
she's not asking outsiders,
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she is just with her
friends looking for clothes
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that they can then donate.
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Right.
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So they're part
of this ministry,
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they invest in this
ministry themselves,
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they're not
there just for the pay,
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they're there
because they're called...
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Right.
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And they love Jesus
and God puts that love
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for others in their hearts.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Well, last time
when we were in India,
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we got to go to one
of Jayseelee's churches,
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the church at Kadathur...
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Yes.
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And they were asking
for an evening school there.
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Yes. Now what is
an evening school?
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An evening school is
where the children come
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for several hours in the evening
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and they receive an
hour and half to two hours
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of tutoring in
their local language.
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There is class work
from the government school.
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Arithmetic, social
studies, things like that.
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Language.
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And 'cause the
first evening school
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and many of our viewers
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may remember hearing this before
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that the first evening
school out of 60 children,
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only 12 could read and write.
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Right.
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And so it's very important
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and it makes the
difference for their community.
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Correct.
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For their education
and their livelihood.
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Yeah.
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So then they have a worship time
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where they learn
Bible verses and songs
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and all these children.
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It's wonderful to go to
one of the evening schools.
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Yes.
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And then at the
end of the evening
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they have a meal,
and their meal includes
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rice and vegetables.
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So it's a
healthy meal, nutritious.
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It's a full nutritious
meal. Full of vitamins.
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Right. Right. Yes.
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So there and this
church in Kadathur was selected
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and we've been asked
to come and look at it
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and so we went to
look, and what we found was
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that the church
needed a fence...
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A toilet and a kitchen. A
toilet and a kitchen, right.
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Yes.
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And they were
cleaning it up while we were
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and they were
burning a pile of leaves
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while we're talking there.
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So this video is with us there.
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So we're at Kadathur
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and this is a
village about 30 minutes away
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from the main town of Udumalpet.
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And we are here because...
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We have a donor
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that wants to start
another evening school.
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So we asked Brother Israel,
our director here in India,
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what would be a good village
and he talked to Brother Thomas
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who is in charge
of our evening schools
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in this area and he
suggested this village
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because there are a
lot of children here.
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Yeah.
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We had a group of young
people from Ouachita Hills
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that came and do the
evangelistic series here
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and there were so many children.
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Yeah.
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So they would
like to do in here.
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Yeah.
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So anyway there's a great
need for an evening school here,
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especially out in this village.
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The education
probably wouldn't be
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as high as in
the city and stuff,
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so the challenge though is
that there are several needs
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before we can
really do this well.
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Right.
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They need a toilet
area, they need a kitchen
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because with the evening school,
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there is a cook and
there are meals provided,
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so we need a kitchen.
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And then also this
church needs to be fenced.
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Yes.
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We've been told that
because the church is out here
00:21:18.37\00:21:21.41
kind of away
from a lot of houses,
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there's no light
here and so at night
00:21:23.45\00:21:26.38
the alcoholics in the
village come and drink here.
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So they're cleaning the
church property right now,
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you might see
them behind us and...
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See the smoke from the
fire and they're burning
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all the leaves,
and trash, and stuff.
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Yeah, just the
basic evening school
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usually cost $300 to
$400 depending on where we are
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and we're going to be...
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Right, and how many kids.
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So we're going to be doing
this in an Adventist church,
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so that saves rent.
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But we do help
pay the electricity
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because normally
the church doesn't open
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six nights a week extra...
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Yes.
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So we'll be
paying the electricity
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and things like that.
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It's usually about
$7, $7 to $10 per month
00:22:01.45\00:22:04.79
per child which is amazing.
00:22:04.79\00:22:08.29
We figure that
we serve right now
00:22:08.29\00:22:10.36
about a thousand meals
per month in our project.
00:22:10.36\00:22:15.26
And so God is really moving,
we've seen, we're starting,
00:22:15.26\00:22:17.97
it's been in
operation long enough,
00:22:17.97\00:22:19.80
we're starting to see
the fruit of this investment,
00:22:19.80\00:22:23.74
young lives, some of our
kids are now chief of police
00:22:23.74\00:22:27.38
in the towns and
villages that they grew up in.
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And so pray for Kadathur...
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Right.
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A brand new evening school
that we're praying the Lord,
00:22:33.85\00:22:36.05
we can fix up and open.
00:22:36.05\00:22:38.15
So we're excited to see
what God's going to do here,
00:22:38.15\00:22:40.52
but God is moving in this area.
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Isn't that
awesome? Yeah, that's great.
00:22:44.93\00:22:46.43
And, you know, a
fun story that happened
00:22:46.43\00:22:47.96
right after when we were there.
00:22:47.96\00:22:49.53
It's like we had to
leave and then they told us
00:22:49.53\00:22:52.33
that like the next
day or the day after,
00:22:52.33\00:22:54.67
all the children had heard
00:22:54.67\00:22:55.70
that there was going
to be a school there,
00:22:55.70\00:22:57.14
so they showed up at
the church in the evening.
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Yes. They were ready.
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It was locked.
00:23:00.58\00:23:01.64
It was locked
'cause there was no wall,
00:23:01.64\00:23:03.55
I mean, no fence yet,
and no toilet and no kitchen,
00:23:03.55\00:23:06.11
nothing had been built.
00:23:06.11\00:23:07.15
And so, they went to
another Bible worker's house
00:23:07.15\00:23:10.62
that lives nearby and they said,
00:23:10.62\00:23:12.39
"Where's our school?
We're here for school."
00:23:12.39\00:23:14.19
So the Bible worker heard
it, hears a knock at the door,
00:23:14.19\00:23:17.13
he opens the
door, there's 45 kids,
00:23:17.13\00:23:19.86
"Where's our evening school?"
00:23:19.86\00:23:22.60
So I think they just
had some kind of like
00:23:22.60\00:23:24.63
school there at his house
00:23:24.63\00:23:26.23
and I think I'm
not sure what happened,
00:23:26.23\00:23:27.97
but I think they
went ahead and opened
00:23:27.97\00:23:29.40
and started providing
food somehow for those kids.
00:23:29.40\00:23:33.78
Yeah, that was awesome.
00:23:33.78\00:23:35.31
And since then it's
been opened in there
00:23:35.31\00:23:36.98
and they're doing
regular evening meals,
00:23:36.98\00:23:38.88
and the whole program,
and so the kids are loving it.
00:23:38.88\00:23:41.08
Yeah, the Lord
provided for the fence
00:23:41.08\00:23:44.09
and everything like that.
00:23:44.09\00:23:45.12
It was amazing how He provided.
00:23:45.12\00:23:47.32
Yeah.
00:23:47.32\00:23:48.52
So it's really neat,
I can't wait to go back
00:23:48.52\00:23:50.46
and see that school
actually in operation.
00:23:50.46\00:23:52.36
Yes.
00:23:52.36\00:23:53.36
And see those kids
singing and hearing their...
00:23:53.36\00:23:56.53
Their memory verses in Tamil
00:23:56.53\00:23:58.67
and seeing their
bright little eyes
00:23:58.67\00:24:01.44
looking up at the
teacher, learning more.
00:24:01.44\00:24:04.41
And their excitement when
they get to share with us,
00:24:04.41\00:24:06.94
the songs, and the Bible verses
00:24:06.94\00:24:08.88
that they've been
learning in the schools.
00:24:08.88\00:24:11.05
Yeah, I love it there.
00:24:11.05\00:24:12.28
My favorite Friday evening
00:24:12.28\00:24:13.88
is sitting in one of those kids,
00:24:13.88\00:24:16.85
one of those schools,
00:24:16.85\00:24:17.92
the kids singing at
the top of their voices,
00:24:17.92\00:24:20.82
songs I have no idea
what they're singing,
00:24:20.82\00:24:22.66
but some of them we've
learned over the years.
00:24:22.66\00:24:25.56
Yeah.
00:24:25.56\00:24:26.63
And, well, I can
demonstrate that right now.
00:24:26.63\00:24:28.13
No.
00:24:28.13\00:24:30.40
But some of my favorite memories
00:24:30.40\00:24:32.37
are being with those kids.
00:24:32.37\00:24:33.54
Yeah.
00:24:33.54\00:24:34.64
Just gives me joy to know
that these kids are learning
00:24:34.64\00:24:36.40
about Christ
and they're getting,
00:24:36.40\00:24:38.17
they're fighting malnutrition.
00:24:38.17\00:24:39.54
Right.
00:24:39.54\00:24:40.54
They're not having to
succumb to malnutrition.
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Right.
00:24:42.41\00:24:43.55
And so this, the evening
school being in this village,
00:24:43.55\00:24:46.41
in this church
where Jayseelee works
00:24:46.41\00:24:48.22
will help to extend
her ministry even further.
00:24:48.22\00:24:51.62
Correct.
00:24:51.62\00:24:52.79
And, so we're excited
about that combination,
00:24:52.79\00:24:56.22
the pairing together of
the Bible worker being there
00:24:56.22\00:24:59.33
and the evening school being
there to encourage the people
00:24:59.33\00:25:02.80
and be a witness in
the village day after day.
00:25:02.80\00:25:05.93
Right, and
that's the key is like,
00:25:05.93\00:25:07.57
if you send a pastor
there, they're like once a week,
00:25:07.57\00:25:12.01
but with an evening school,
00:25:12.01\00:25:13.31
you're in the
village every single night.
00:25:13.31\00:25:15.68
And over the
course of 5, 10 years,
00:25:15.68\00:25:18.01
you break down the
prejudices towards Christianity
00:25:18.01\00:25:20.98
that are very
strong in many villages...
00:25:20.98\00:25:22.92
Yeah.
00:25:22.92\00:25:24.02
And it opens the doors
and it makes an impact in ways
00:25:24.02\00:25:26.65
we'll never know
until we get to heaven.
00:25:26.65\00:25:28.96
Right. Yeah.
00:25:28.96\00:25:30.26
So we just enjoy
that program so much.
00:25:30.26\00:25:32.93
Yeah, so
combining the Bible worker
00:25:32.93\00:25:35.63
with the evening school
00:25:35.63\00:25:37.67
and, of course, the
television, it's a win-win
00:25:37.67\00:25:41.14
and it's a powerful combination.
00:25:41.14\00:25:42.77
We need to remember to
pray for our Bible workers...
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Yes.
00:25:44.91\00:25:45.94
Because they are
on the front lines
00:25:45.94\00:25:47.44
and there's a lot of possibility
00:25:47.44\00:25:49.28
for discouragements,
00:25:49.28\00:25:50.91
there's a lot of
challenges for them.
00:25:50.91\00:25:53.55
And, you know,
people like Jayseelee,
00:25:53.55\00:25:55.85
it's physically
challenging as well.
00:25:55.85\00:25:58.55
Yes, they face challenges
that we don't know about.
00:25:58.55\00:26:01.19
Right.
00:26:01.19\00:26:02.32
Persecution in different ways
00:26:02.32\00:26:04.53
and I mean,
we've had Bible workers
00:26:04.53\00:26:06.19
that people
demanded that they not live
00:26:06.19\00:26:08.00
where they were living
because they were Christian
00:26:08.00\00:26:10.43
and things like that.
00:26:10.43\00:26:11.67
So we don't
understand that kind of thing
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'cause that hasn't
happened to us yet.
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Yeah.
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But those days are
coming for us also.
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And they're also going out there
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with very minimal material.
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Right.
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They have a Bible,
they know how to pray,
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often that's all they have.
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Right.
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And they may not have
things to share with the people
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and leave a track or pamphlet
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or series of Bible
studies, they don't have those.
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Yeah.
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They don't have a
series of Bible studies.
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Sometimes they'll
have the Steps to Christ
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or something like that
that people can read through,
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but it's mainly just the Bible
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and so pray that we
can have more literature.
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A few years back,
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some people donated
funds for literature
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and that was a huge blessing,
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so pray for more,
pray for the Bible workers,
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pray for literature,
pray for the evening schools,
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pray for television
ministry, all those things.
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Yeah.
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If you want to be
a part of sponsoring
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your own Bible
worker, it's only $90 a month.
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And any partial
amount adds together,
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God adds it all together
and pays the worker's stipends.
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Don't forget also
that 100% of your gift
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will go to pay their
Bible worker stipends.
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We don't take
anything out for overhead.
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Everything goes
over and enables them
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to devote their
full time to God's work.
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When in earth's
history has this been so easy
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and think of
our reward in heaven
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for being a part of His work.
00:27:29.98\00:27:31.78
What an exciting
thing that will be
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to get to meet the people
that we've been a small part
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of bringing to the feet of Jesus
00:27:36.82\00:27:38.99
when we get there.
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Only a little bit of
sacrifice on our part,
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but eternal reward.
00:27:43.66\00:27:48.03
If you would like to be a part,
00:27:48.03\00:27:49.20
you can send your
tax deductible love gift
00:27:49.20\00:27:51.23
to Jesus for Asia,
00:27:51.23\00:27:52.97
PO Box 1221,
Collegedale, Tennessee 37315.
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Call us at (423) 413-7321.
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Or visit our
website at Jesus4Asia.org.
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May God richly bless you
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until we see you again next time
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on Jesus for Asia Now.
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