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- Hello and welcome
to Jesus for Asia now.
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I'm Natalie Wood and today
my husband John is with me.
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We're going to take you
to a little village in India.
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Welcome to the show, dear.
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- Hi, darling,
it's good to be here.
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- You know, we're going to a
little village in India today.
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But it's an
outcast, very poor village.
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- Yes.
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- And the only reason
we could go there was...
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- One of our Bible
workers put in many months
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of reaching out to
connect with this village.
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- Okay.
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- Because the first time she
went, they were afraid of her.
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they've been abused
and taken advantage of
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by the outside world
and so when she came in,
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they didn't trust her.
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And so they
wouldn't talk to her.
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And they wouldn't work with her.
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- Wow.
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- And so we've actually,
we learned about this village
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a couple years ago.
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And we really wanted to
go in and help this village,
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but they were afraid of us.
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And so over time, we've
established a relationship
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with this village
through our Bible work.
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And it's an amazing story,
what she ended up having to do
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to actually gain their trust.
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- Right, and it
shows the power of God.
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- Yes.
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- And the power of the
love that God has given
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to this Bible worker,
that we're meeting today,
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for these people.
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- And that's exactly
where this comes from.
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That's the
origination of the story.
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Is in the heart of God
there is love for people
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that we don't even know.
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- Right.
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- In fact, that's the
origination I believe, of
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missions is that love
that's in the heart of God,
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for a people that
don't know that He exists.
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- That's true.
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- And when we get close to him,
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then he puts that love in us.
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And we go for him.
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Then after we meet them,
often we fall in love with them.
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But many times people
or all the time people that
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start that journey, have
no idea who they're going for,
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or don't know the individuals.
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They may have
an idea of the type
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of people that that's there.
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- Right, some
vague understanding.
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- Right.
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- Of the culture,
maybe and the lifestyle,
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but to really put
names and faces together,
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you have to go there.
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- You have to go there.
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And and until you
go there, you know,
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all the mission
statistics are just numbers.
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- Right.
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- But after you've been there,
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- Then they have
names and faces and stories.
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So we're going to go
with our Bible worker.
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Her name is Salvi.
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And we're going to go to
the village of Amaravathi.
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- Yes.
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- We have a picture of it here.
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And you can see the
kind of village that it is.
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- That's not much of a village.
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There's about 45
families that live there.
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All in small huts like that.
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- Okay.
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So Selvi, the Bible worker.
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We're going to
meet her in this video.
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She went back after a year.
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And well, let's
start with her story.
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Let's watch the video.
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- All right.
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- My name is Selvi.
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I teach Bible for the
children in this evening school.
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In the beginning, it took
three months of time for her
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even to get the
ladies to talk to her.
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That if she could
come, they would all go away.
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They would hide themselves.
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It took three months of
time for her in the beginning
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for them to understand
that she has come to help them.
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I go to each house.
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I put my hand on their shoulder.
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I tell them, I am also
like you a human being.
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I'm a female like you.
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Don't be scared, don't feel shy.
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I have come here to
tell you good things.
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So I am one of you.
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That is how they
became very friendly.
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Now they're
very friendly to her.
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And she used to
bring the used saris
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and some dresses
for the children.
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And that is how
she became very close
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and acquainted with
these community people.
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Before we could
even start this tuition,
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I used to bring rice and
cook for them and feed them.
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Now this has
become a great blessing
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for the children
and the community here.
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They are very happy about it.
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She has a request.
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This is shed built with
some Sunday-worshiper's help.
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They have given us
like a rent you know,
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like to use the shed.
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The pastor said, "you
can use this for any cause,
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but for the biblical cause."
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But we are the remnant people.
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We need to have
a shed of our own.
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So that is her request.
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Through that we can boldly
tell them about the truth.
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Now we are in need of
their help and their support.
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She's saying, "we are
teaching them Bible more,
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"and they are also learning."
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She says, "we cannot
teach them doctrines."
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We need to tell
them small small stories,
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like Esther like Naaman.
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You know those stories.
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They really
love to hear stories.
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So through that we
are giving Bible study.
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- Are you tearing up already?
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- Getting close.
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- This is the
beginning of the show.
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- It's just so
beautiful, so beautiful.
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She won them over.
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And what the video does not tell
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is that she went
every day for three months,
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to this village,
and she took food
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to share with the people.
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- That she cooked them food.
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- Right?
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- Yes.
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- And she won them over.
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Can you imagine cooking
for people every single day,
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that didn't want to talk to you
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- Wow!
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- That's such an amazing
show of patience and love.
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- Persistent love.
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- Right. - Yeah.
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- And they were afraid of her
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because she had
such a nice sori on.
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- Yes.
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And her sori, was probably $5.
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- Yeah.
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- It's not a fancy sori, by
any stretch of the imagination.
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- Right.
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- Anyway, we're
just really thankful
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that she was persistent.
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Because now
there's opportunities.
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- And this is
what's amazing to me
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is that we talked about
what reaching to the poor
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having the gospel
preach to the poor.
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It's very difficult
actually to get to the poor.
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It's difficult to find them.
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And it's difficult
to talk to them because
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there's such a vast gap between,
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you know, like an American,
if I showed up in India,
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you know, I'm automatically
a super wealthy man
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because I bought a plane ticket.
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- Yeah. - You know.
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- It's true.
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- And so having these
Bible workers that live there
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that speak the language
that understand the needs,
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understand the culture.
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They can go into places where
that we never really could.
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- That's true. - Yeah.
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- That's true.
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- Though we got to go there.
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And that's what's exciting.
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We fell in love
with this village.
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- Yeah. - Yeah.
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Now that we get a
chance to see the people.
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They're comfortable with
us, because of our Bible worker.
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- Right.
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We fell in love with them.
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- Yeah.
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And it's neat to see the
changes in the children also,
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but I'm getting
ahead of the story.
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- Yeah.
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- First, we want to find
out more about Amaravathi.
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- Okay.
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- So we have a little
video that was put together
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about how they work
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and how they earn a living.
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- And a little bit
of their lifestyle.
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- Right. - Okay.
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- This place is
called Amaravathi.
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You can see there is
a lot of mountains here.
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These people
has been living here
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for more than 60-70 years.
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They are just surviving
living with a nature here.
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35 families are
living in this village.
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She says our main job is
collecting woods from the
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forest. If you
don't do that, no food.
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We go into the
village here nearby.
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People come and get
those woods from us.
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They pay money for that.
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She went morning to
collect that piece of wood.
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She took so long because,
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there are so many
wild elephants here.
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They would fearfully take
gather and see here and there.
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And it took the
whole day to gather this
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small bunch of wood.
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So, pity to see these people
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how much they are
suffering in this forest.
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Her name is Palaniammal.
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she and her husband they
are staying in this house.
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For more than 25 years,
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we are staying in this house.
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A very small, tiny house.
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The kitchen and
everything is together.
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So this is their lifestyle here.
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- What a life.
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I mean to have
to collect firewood
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and it took her half the
day three quarters of the day.
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And she's having to watch out
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for wild
elephants the whole time.
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And she comes back
with a bundle of firewood.
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- Yeah.
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- I mean, it's...
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- And that lady's house.
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- I know.
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- That's actually
kind of the head woman.
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- Wow.
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- And so...
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- So she's
important in this village.
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And this is how she lives also.
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- Yeah.
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And when it rains
they have to sit on a rock.
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Because their ground,
their floor turns into mud.
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It's like wow,
to live like that.
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We have no concept.
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- Yeah.
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- No clue. - No.
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- But to bring hope
to people like that.
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I mean, I can't imagine
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the look on their eyes
when they come into heaven.
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- It's gonna be awesome.
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- It's gonna be
really good. - Yeah.
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One thing we wanted to mention.
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And right at the
end of the video,
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it was talking about how
two children die every year.
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- Oh, yes.
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- From poor
nutrition and poor food.
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And we saw this also, in Mindora
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in the Philippines
in the project there.
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How children
would die every year.
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And then we
started a lunch program
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where they get a good
meal every day at lunch.
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And now children haven't died
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and they haven't
had so much sickness
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in the village.
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So we're looking
forward to seeing the results
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of our evening school,
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- Providing that.
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- Providing food
for the children.
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Of course, we're
getting ahead of ourselves,
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because we're
not quite there yet.
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Anyway, I just
wanted to mention that.
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That when we can
give them better food.
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- Right.
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- Then this changes completely.
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- So it doesn't just
help them economically.
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- Right.
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- It actually saves.
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And there's a
street children's lives.
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- Right.
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- But then
there's the children that
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grew up
developmentally disabled.
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They may not have
died from lack of food,
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but they grew up with
some kind of disability.
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- From the poor nutrition.
- From the poor nutrition.
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- Right. - Yes.
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And so that
saves, who knows how many
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of those kids
from that situation.
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- Right, right.
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Now, the next
part is kind of sad.
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And it's a look at what happens
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to the girls in this village.
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And, you know, the
government education
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for the poor villages.
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From what we've seen is very sad
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if there is any
government education.
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And so we want to be a part
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of making a
difference for their lives.
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And this is part
of the reason why.
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- Yeah, a lot of these
kids, when they go to school,
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if they go to school,
they'll have to sit in the back
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because they're
not of the same class.
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- Right?
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- And so they
don't learn very well.
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And so they get
up to fifth grade,
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in a very poor school system,
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and they don't have much hope.
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So we'll play this
little clip about these girls.
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- They get married
when they are 12 years,
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15 years here in this community.
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They allow one only
for elementary education.
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Once they
complete the fifth grade.
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The next stage is marriage.
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The girl who is sitting
there with the baby there,
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she has three children,
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but her age now was 16.
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During rainy season,
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these people have
very difficult time.
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Because you can
see the roof here,
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it's completely broken.
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It pours inside.
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They tell me that
they gather all the bricks
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and big stones
they put it inside.
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They would sit on
those big stones and rocks
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because that
floor will be fully wet.
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They say during that
time till the rain stops,
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we would be just
sitting under the roof
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which is broken completely.
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What to do, this is our life.
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We eat morning and
in the evening night,
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if there is food we'll eat,
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but afternoon we
have never eat any food.
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Per year two children die.
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Without proper nutritious
food, two children die.
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And there was a year,
maybe four or five years ago,
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four children died
without proper food.
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- It's amazing.
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I mean to be in a
village and look around
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and see a 16 year old girl,
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who was the age of
my daughter at the time.
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Already had,
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- Three kids. - Three kids.
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- When you think
about her life, from now on.
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It will just be
that of a mother.
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a wife and a mother.
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- I mean, not that that's bad.
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Being a wife and a mother.
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- Oh, no, but it's like
she's a child raising children.
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- And she's got no choice.
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- Right.
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- That's all she can do.
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- Right. - yeah.
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- And this happens over
and over again in the village,
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as we saw,
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in the video. -
Generation after generation.
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We saw what
kind of work they do.
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But this village is blessed
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because nearby is a
government water source.
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- It's not on all the time.
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Comes on maybe once a
day or once every few days.
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But they don't have to
walk far to get their water.
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And I've never really seen
somebody put water on their
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head. So I want to
play this little clip again.
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This frail, thin, young lady.
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This is how she does this.
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I could not do this.
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- No.
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- Just saying I
could not do this.
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Look at that, she's just like,
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Oh, I think I'll put this other
35 or 40 pound water thing.
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I'll pick that up
and put up on my head.
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- Yeah.
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- And then walk as
if everything's fine.
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- She's carrying
70-80 pounds right there.
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- Yeah.
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And she's walking and
not even holding on to
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what's on her head.
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It's just balanced there.
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- Amazing. - Yeah.
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- Really amazing.
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And unless you think
that the men don't help.
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I had to put this
picture in there too.
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Because he's
carrying at least one.
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- Right.
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- So he's helping the family.
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- He's helping too.
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- As we were
coming into the village,
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we came across this man.
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The villagers say that
he's over 100 years old.
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I don't believe it.
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Because I can't imagine
anybody living that long
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in those conditions.
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- Right.
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- But he sitting
in front of his home.
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- That doesn't look like a home.
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- No.
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And this is him later, he
is sleeping inside his home.
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This is his home.
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- Wow, we have no idea. - No.
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I also made a friend there.
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- Okay.
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- And he was very kind.
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He's very
friendly, he show me around.
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He's talking to me
and I was talking to him.
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We're having this
whole conversation.
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I didn't
understand a word he said.
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But I understood his intent.
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- Right.
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- And he brought me a goat.
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- Okay.
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- And he brought
you several goats.
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And I love goats.
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I love animals.
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These goats were so young
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that they still had
their umbilical cord connected.
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Here's a couple other
people from the village
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that allowed me to
take a selfie with them.
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- Okay.
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- Here's a shepherd.
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- Sharon really
enjoyed the goats also.
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- Sharon works with us
here at Jesus for Asia.
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Some people may
not recognize her.
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But we did another show with her
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right after she
came back from this trip.
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And she shared some stories.
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And one of her stories
is from Amaravathi also.
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So you might wonna watch that.
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- This is the teacher
of our evening school.
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And he's from this village.
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And here's just
one of the little kids
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that is in our evening school.
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- Oh Precious.
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So we started the evening
school after the Bible worker
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was able to
connect with the people.
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We were able to start
the evening school there.
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So here's the teacher teaching
in the new evening school.
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(goats bleating)
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- The children
here in this community,
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they don't want to go to school.
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Moreover, the parents
are not allowing the children
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to go to school.
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So I'm
encouraging each and every one
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to study through
this evening school.
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I am not only teaching
them the worldly education,
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I teach them also from Bible.
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I teach them about Jesus.
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I have a concern
for these children.
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Because I want to see
them have a good bright future.
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I asked her after going
to the evening school hours
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the changes in her
grandson's character?.
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She says he has changed a lot.
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He's obedient now and that
school is really helping their
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character building.
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And in their everyday life,
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that school has become a
very great blessing, she says.
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My main aim is to reflect
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and show the love of Jesus
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to these children.
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Because that is most important.
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And that is why
even the children
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who come from Hindu background.
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I'm teaching them.
00:19:16.89\00:19:18.22
We have so many
oppositions but still,
00:19:18.22\00:19:20.69
I'm teaching them about Jesus
00:19:20.69\00:19:22.89
and also the worldly education
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so that they
will come up in life.
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She has a passion for cooking.
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So it is a blessing to
cook for these children.
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She's enjoying, she says.
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I asked her how much it
is useful for her grandson
00:19:39.54\00:19:43.91
the food what they are giving.
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And she says, the evening food
00:19:45.65\00:19:47.52
what they give
here is very good.
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Children are enjoying the food.
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It is a great blessing for them.
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When they eat and
then they come to me
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they tell me,
"brother, we enjoyed the food,
00:20:00.96\00:20:03.87
"thank you so much for the food.
00:20:03.87\00:20:05.50
"It was very tasty."
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That really
gives me so much joy.
00:20:07.07\00:20:10.14
I'm really happy
00:20:10.14\00:20:11.44
that you people are
helping out this project.
00:20:11.44\00:20:14.68
It's a great
blessing for the children.
00:20:14.68\00:20:17.01
The children,
they used to tell me
00:20:19.85\00:20:22.28
we are very
thankful for those people
00:20:22.28\00:20:24.92
who are made it possible so
that we can eat the food here.
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They used to say,
million trillion times,
00:20:28.92\00:20:32.73
praise the Lord, for
those people who are helping us
00:20:32.73\00:20:36.06
who are supporting us.
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They always tell me
that we need to pray for...
00:20:37.40\00:20:40.50
These little
children, they are telling me
00:20:40.50\00:20:43.17
we need to pray for them.
00:20:43.17\00:20:44.91
Who are helping
us to have this food.
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God has to
bless them abundantly.
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The children, when
they go tell their parents,
00:20:55.08\00:20:58.02
"we had a wonderful food.
00:20:58.02\00:21:00.19
"our stomach is full now."
00:21:00.19\00:21:01.99
The parents are
coming and asking me,
00:21:01.99\00:21:03.99
"who is helping like this?
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"We need to thank them.
00:21:05.93\00:21:07.13
"We are very thankful for that."
00:21:07.13\00:21:09.36
Through this, I am able
to tell about Jesus to them.
00:21:09.36\00:21:13.27
Because of Jesus, you
are getting this help.
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Jesus is helping you.
00:21:15.17\00:21:17.31
And it is opening the doors
00:21:17.31\00:21:19.27
so that they can
know about Jesus.
00:21:19.27\00:21:21.48
She says that,
thank you so much.
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That is all I can say.
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Thank you so much for
the help you're doing.
00:21:30.19\00:21:32.65
(soft orchestral music)
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- Aren't they precious children?
00:21:54.24\00:21:55.48
- Yeah, what a
beautiful opportunity it is
00:21:55.48\00:21:57.51
to help them.
00:21:57.51\00:21:58.35
- Oh my goodness, yes.
00:21:58.35\00:21:59.61
- And to see that
they're so grateful.
00:21:59.61\00:22:03.42
- Yes.
00:22:03.42\00:22:04.75
- We just really want to
thank the donors that help.
00:22:04.75\00:22:07.36
- Right.
00:22:07.36\00:22:08.66
- That give to help
these schools especially.
00:22:08.66\00:22:10.39
To give these beautiful children
00:22:10.39\00:22:12.26
this food that
they're so thankful for.
00:22:12.26\00:22:14.83
- And to see that these
kids are praying for the donors.
00:22:14.83\00:22:17.47
- Yes.
00:22:17.47\00:22:18.53
- You know,
they're praying for us.
00:22:18.53\00:22:19.53
- Right.
00:22:19.53\00:22:20.34
- God hears their prayers.
00:22:20.34\00:22:21.37
- Right. - Yeah.
00:22:21.37\00:22:22.47
Because they pray
out of a sincere heart.
00:22:22.47\00:22:24.54
- Right. - Yeah.
00:22:24.54\00:22:25.61
- And their
blessing upon the donors.
00:22:25.61\00:22:29.11
God has to
bless them abundantly.
00:22:29.11\00:22:31.38
I love that.
00:22:31.38\00:22:32.45
That's so precious.
00:22:32.45\00:22:33.92
- It is.
00:22:33.92\00:22:34.92
And what's
beautiful also is that
00:22:34.92\00:22:36.72
not only do they get the meal
for their physical well being,
00:22:36.72\00:22:41.52
but the character development.
00:22:41.52\00:22:43.02
Even the parents
are noticing that.
00:22:43.02\00:22:45.33
- Right, and the grandma.
00:22:45.33\00:22:46.53
- Yeah.
00:22:46.53\00:22:47.76
- So and it's
giving opportunities
00:22:47.76\00:22:49.70
for people to know about Jesus.
00:22:49.70\00:22:51.13
That's the best part.
00:22:51.13\00:22:52.40
- That's the
bottom line right there.
00:22:52.40\00:22:53.50
- Right. The best part.
00:22:53.50\00:22:54.40
- Yeah.
00:22:54.40\00:22:55.94
- So we're in this
village and we're looking around
00:22:55.94\00:22:57.54
and we're thinking, man,
00:22:57.54\00:22:59.11
we've got to do something
to help them while we're here.
00:22:59.11\00:23:01.91
And so we asked the head woman,
00:23:01.91\00:23:04.98
what does the
village really need?
00:23:04.98\00:23:07.35
- Right?
00:23:07.35\00:23:08.15
- And this is what happened.
00:23:08.15\00:23:09.82
- Okay.
00:23:09.82\00:23:11.05
(soft orchestral music)
00:23:11.05\00:23:14.46
- We're at this
village called Amaravathi
00:23:19.13\00:23:21.40
and it's a very poor village.
00:23:21.40\00:23:22.76
They make their living by
cutting firewood and stuff.
00:23:22.76\00:23:25.40
And selling that.
00:23:25.40\00:23:26.67
Well we have a
evening school here,
00:23:26.67\00:23:28.87
really excited about that.
00:23:28.87\00:23:30.21
Providing the
children with a free meal,
00:23:30.21\00:23:33.11
as well as a
couple hours of tutorials
00:23:33.11\00:23:35.01
and tutoring and stuff
like that in the evenings.
00:23:35.01\00:23:37.51
- They don't
have a good blanket.
00:23:42.02\00:23:43.75
There is no mat
for them to sleep on.
00:23:46.09\00:23:49.22
That's all the
real need for them.
00:23:52.13\00:23:54.73
Day to days need.
00:23:54.73\00:23:56.00
- Some kind people in
America have donated the funds,
00:24:03.07\00:24:06.88
we went and bought some mats
00:24:06.88\00:24:08.48
and some blankets and
we just gave them out.
00:24:08.48\00:24:11.11
And they were all
very happy to receive them.
00:24:11.11\00:24:13.88
In fact, we had a
little problem because
00:24:13.88\00:24:16.28
they received one and
then go change their name
00:24:16.28\00:24:18.52
and get in line again
and receive another one.
00:24:18.52\00:24:20.49
So we just hope
and pray that they are
00:24:20.49\00:24:22.92
able to use these
things to stay warm at night
00:24:22.92\00:24:25.16
and stay a little
bit more out of the dirt.
00:24:25.16\00:24:27.30
(crowd applause's)
00:24:27.30\00:24:30.30
That's a lot of fun
doing this kind of stuff.
00:24:36.44\00:24:38.34
And I hope that, you
know, we didn't do much.
00:24:38.34\00:24:40.98
We're not going
to make a huge impact
00:24:40.98\00:24:42.28
for the kingdom doing this.
00:24:42.28\00:24:43.65
But I'm hoping that this paves
the way for the Bible worker
00:24:43.65\00:24:47.62
that's here every single
day, every single evening,
00:24:47.62\00:24:50.52
providing the food
00:24:50.52\00:24:51.62
and the teacher that's
providing the training.
00:24:51.62\00:24:53.46
I hope it gives
them a little more clout
00:24:53.46\00:24:55.09
little more credibility
00:24:55.09\00:24:56.62
and allows the opportunity
for them to work more,
00:24:56.62\00:25:01.20
with the Holy Spirit in
breaking down prejudices
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and opening up ideas,
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opening up possibilities
in the villagers minds that,
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there maybe somebody
out there that cares.
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Can you guess what the
total cost of getting a blanket
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and a mat for
every single family
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in the entire village was?
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- No. - About $240.
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- Wow.
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Well praise the Lord that
we were able to help them.
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- And we had some leftover
that we were going to use
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in other poor areas also.
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- Okay.
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- So as we were
leaving the village,
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I saw these
girls sitting on a rock
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and I took a bunch of pictures
and stuck them together.
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So this is...
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You can just see
their little personalities.
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- Yeah.
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And to think about if
the school wasn't there,
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if their life
continues as it always has been
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for however many years that
they've lived in this village.
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These girls will be
married at the age of 13.
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- Yeah.
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- But with the
school there, hopefully,
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they can have
more opportunities.
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- Yes, this may
give them some hope
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of doing
something different life.
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- Right.
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- As we were leaving,
walking out of the village,
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this little girl
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came up and...
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Just the light in her
eyes. - She's so precious.
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- You know that light.
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And I've seen it
so many times before
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with these young kids, you know.
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You look into their eyes
and it's just black, just dark.
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They find out
that Jesus loves them
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that they have value.
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They get this hope and the
lights come on in their eyes.
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- Right.
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- And like this little
girl, I mean, she's just like,
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I can see in her face, she's
saying thank you for the food.
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Thank you for the education.
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Thank you for the hope
that I can now do something
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other than get married at the
age of 12 or 13 and a have...
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- It's such a privilege.
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- It is a huge
privilege. - To be a part of,
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offering this to these kids.
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- Yeah.
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And you know,
even Jesus, you know,
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he went to the cross for
the joy that was set before him.
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He didn't go to the
cross because he liked pain.
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- No.
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- But he saw the joy
and he gives us these little
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taste of that joy
that he was going after.
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- Right.
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- When he went to the cross.
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He didn't live on the cross.
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He's not on the cross anymore.
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And so the
suffering is temporary.
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But the joy is eternal.
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- Right.
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Well, what a blessing it's been
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to go to Amaravathi today
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and meet these dear people
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that Jesus has always known.
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- Yes.
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- I would like to invite you
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to be a part of giving
hope to these young children,
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and so many more like them.
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Please contact us
at Jesus for Asia.
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P O Box 1221.
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Collegedale, Tennessee 37315.
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Call us at 423-413-7321
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or visit our website
00:27:55.87\00:27:57.27
at Jesus4asia.org.
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And as those young
children pray for you,
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we pray also, that God
will bless you more abundantly.
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Until we see you next
time on Jesus for Asia now.
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(dramatic orchestral music)
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