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- Hello and welcome
to Jesus for Asia Now.
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I'm Natalie Wood and my
husband Jon is with me today
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as we bring you a praise report
on a very powerful ministry.
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Hello love.
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- Hi darling, how are you?
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- I'm doing fine.
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- Awesome.
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- I'm excited about this show
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because it's the
answer to a lot of prayers.
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- Yes, definitely.
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- Yes so where
are we going today?
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- We are going to
India, South India
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in the state of Tamil Nadu.
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And this answer to prayer
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as you had said,
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is a beginning...
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Well, it's like another step
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in this long story
that has been happening
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for a number of years.
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And that is the development
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of our television
ministry in the Tamil language.
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- Wow
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- Yeah.
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- Alright.
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So we have a
television ministry there.
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- Yes.
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- What's the plan
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or what's the deal with
the television ministry?
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Do we have our own network or?
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- Okay so doing
television there's a lot
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of ways that you can
try to reach the households.
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You can buy your own
channel and number one,
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it's extremely expensive.
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It's difficult to get
the licensure for that.
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And once you get it,
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what's to bring
people to your channel?
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- Right?
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- And so what our director
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in India has chosen to do,
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is purchase time on
a very popular channel
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that's already established
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and throughout all of India
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and throughout all of
the parts of the world,
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over the internet
where people speak Tamil.
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It's a very popular channel.
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And originally we started out
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with purchasing one
half hour slot per week.
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And that
doesn't sound like much,
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but from that one half
hour time slot per week,
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we had developed over a
hundred concurrent Bible studies
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and people were getting saved
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and miracles are
happening in people's homes.
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And churches were
actually being planted
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in places where there
was no Adventist pastor,
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no Adventist
congregation and no presence.
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- And that's from once a week?
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- That's from the once a week.
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- Wow.
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- Yeah
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- So what happened after that?
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- Well, our
director has been asking us.
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He'd actually been
asking us for a couple
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of years 'cause he
had had one time slot
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where he had been asked
to do like a presentation
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to fill in for
somebody on their time slot.
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And they got so much response.
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He's like, we got to do this.
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And so we finally
gave him the permission
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because it's
still kind of expensive.
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So he started asking
for a second time slot.
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And of course being the
penny pitcher that I am,
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I'm like I held off
finally after several months,
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I says okay, we'll go ahead
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and take that step
and take that plunge.
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But it was like six
o'clock in the morning,
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on a Sunday morning.
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And I'm thinking
who's gonna watch TV
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at six o'clock in the morning?
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Now in Tamil Nadu
there's only one time zone.
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So like here in America,
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if you have a
show at six o'clock
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in the morning
on the West coast,
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that's you know, nine o'clock
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in the morning
on the East coast.
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That's not so bad.
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But there is six
o'clock in the morning
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and who's gonna get
up and watch television.
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But I says, "okay
we'll just try it."
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The very first weekend
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that they ran that show at
six o'clock in the morning,
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they got a phone call
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and Israel called
me and he was crying
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and he said, "you're not
gonna believe this story."
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And you know the story
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'cause you were
there when we got that.
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- Yeah, wow somebody
was gonna commit suicide.
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- Yeah the young man.
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- Yeah and he turned
the TV on to mask the sound
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for his neighbors'
sake and he heard Israel.
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And what was Israel saying?
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- Israel was saying, "God
has a plan for your life."
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- Huh?
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- So he called in, talked
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to a Bible worker,
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talked to Israel's
mom actually as well.
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His mom is so
into this ministry.
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She'll go all all
day doing Bible studies
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on the phone and she loves it.
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She says, I'm getting old.
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I'm just really praising God
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that I can do a ministry
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where I don't have to
go out and meet people.
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- Right, I've been with her.
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She is an amazing lady.
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I'm sure I've
shared this story before
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but we were on the train.
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I was there with her and
with Israel's sister Priya.
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And it's like we
were on the train
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for seconds
sitting next to this lady
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and she started
telling the lady about Jesus.
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- Wow.
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- And it's like that's her life.
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She loves to tell
people about Jesus.
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And it just jesus'
love just radiates from her.
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And I just love her.
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She's an awesome lady.
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And so I'm
thankful that she's there.
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She's one of the
ladies answering the phone
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and praying with people
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- Giving Bible
studies day in and day out.
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And that young man that
was gonna commit suicide,
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she would wake up at
three o'clock in the morning
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and call him and
talk to him because
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for him that
hour of the night was
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the most
difficult to get through.
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So until he was more
firmly established in the hope
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that we have in Christ,
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she would call him at
three o'clock in the morning.
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Then she'd go back to bed
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and sleep for a couple of hours,
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(laughing)
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go back to Bible studies.
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- So we were doing
two times slots a week
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but that didn't last very long.
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Pretty soon Israel
was asking for more.
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- Yes, for some
reasons wants more--
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- More people saved.
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I don't know
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- Yeah, I don't
understand that but,
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- Yes you do and
you appreciate it,
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but it does challenge our faith.
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- Yeah it does.
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But a very well known Christian
evangelist passed away.
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And the television
channel that we were airing on,
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contacted us first and said,
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"look, he had a daily show.
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Your show is very popular.
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Would you like his time slot?"
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Which was, I think six
o'clock in the morning.
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Every single morning.
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And Israel's like, "Hello
Wood please get me do this."
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And I'm like, "how
much does it cost?"
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He says, "it's
less than 2000 a month."
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And I'm thinking 2000 a
month for a daily half hour show
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on a Statewide
popular television channel.
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You know, this channel
reaches over 60 million people.
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You know, it's like,
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okay well let's
step out in faith
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and trusting
that God will provide.
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And so he said, "yes go for it."
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- And God has been providing.
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- He has been providing.
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- Son we praise
His name for that.
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- Absolutely.
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- And so a lot more people
are contacting the channel.
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- So they have over 200
concurrent Bible studies
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going on right now.
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- Wow.
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- So people,
when they do the show,
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they put the phone number
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at the bottom and
people can call in for prayer,
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and we have a
Bible worker standing by,
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answering the phones,
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praying with people,
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taking down their
number and the information
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and passing them
onto our Bible workers
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and then or Israel's mom.
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- Right, well and then also
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if there's a Bible
worker that lives near
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where they live especially
they'll pass that one to them.
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- Right.
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- So they can be more in
person with someone close.
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- Right and they
can go and meet them
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have Bible studies in the home,
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introduce them to a
local church if there is one.
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And it's really cool because now
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when we traveled
through South India,
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we go to
churches and people say,
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the pastor will say,
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"oh, this person came in through
your television ministry."
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And they'll stand up.
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Or, "this family came in through
your television ministry."
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It's very powerful.
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You know normally
our Bible workers go out
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and they knock on doors.
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It's called cold calling.
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Just out of the blue
they'll knock on the door.
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Are you interested
in learning about Jesus?
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Do you have any needs
so that we can pray for?
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Most people will
accept that prayer
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but what's television,
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you're reaching a
huge, a lot of people.
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And then the
people that respond,
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we call those warm connections
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you know, they've
already got that interest.
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- Right, and it's
a lot more valuable.
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- Yeah absolutely.
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- So the whole time
they're doing this show,
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they've been using the
church and we've done a video
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about that before
people might remember seeing
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that particular show,
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but so they would set up
and shoot and then take down
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and put everything away and
they had to do this every time
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they needed to record anything.
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- Yeah, so they'd have to
move the pews out of the way,
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hanging up the green screen
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on the background,
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pull the lights out
and pull the cameras out,
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set them all up and put
them away when they were done.
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And then they would have
church service on that surface
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In that same space.
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And so Israel has been asking,
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"can we please have a studio?"
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And in my mind you say studio,
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you're already
talking a million dollars,
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$2 million, $4 million.
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- Yeah, especially in India
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where land is
extremely expensive.
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- Especially in the city.
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- Yeah, we found some land
near the city not in the city.
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And we're thinking,
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"oh, this is
nice land $120,000."
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- Yeah, that's what
we were told It was.
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- They use
different terms for different.
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So we have a hundred
thousand and then million,
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well they use lakhs and crores.
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Lakh is a hundred thousand.
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And crore I
thought was a million,
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but it's actually 10 million.
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So that $120,000 that I thought
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this land cost is 1.2 million.
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You know, so that
it's expensive there.
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- Right.
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- And the local church
that Israel had been doing
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this television
ministry and just came
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on board and they said,
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"we love what you're doing,
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we wanna donate the roof of
our church as a studio space."
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- Okay, instead
of buying more land
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and building a
whole new building,
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we're just going to build up.
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- Yes.
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(both laughing)
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And so the cost
went from you know,
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several million
down to less than $20,000
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to build the studio.
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But originally it was more like
$12,000 to build the studio,
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but we're gonna...
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We've got a video that
shows how that kind of grew
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from just a portion of the roof
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and just the studio
to a little bit more.
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- But before we
go to that video,
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which I'm looking forward to,
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one of our workers
here, Hannah got to be a part
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of raising awareness and
trying to let people know
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that there was a
need for the studio.
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And so she was
excited to be a part of that.
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And then--
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- Well, in January of 2020,
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we did an evangelistic series
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in India and she got to
go and be a part of that.
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And since we
were already in India,
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they set the date
for the grand opening
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to the last week that
we were gonna be in India.
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So she got to be
there at the grand opening.
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- That's awesome.
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(John laughing)
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Yeah, I'm so glad for her.
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That was so exciting.
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I was so sad I wasn't there,
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but I'm so glad that
you guys could be there.
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- I know.
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- Sometimes things have to
wait for their grand opening
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if they're waiting for us
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to be able to travel there.
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- Right yeah.
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- Alright, well
let's watch that video now.
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- Okay.
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(bright upbeat music)
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(singing in foreign language)
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- We have a TV show
every day morning 5:30 to 6:00,
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we have half an hour slot
the program by Jesus ministries.
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And through these programs,
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there have been so many calls
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and a lot of Bible
studies are going on,
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and this is how we were being
going with this TV program.
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And we were recording the
TV program in the Tamil church.
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And every week we
used to convert it
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into a studio and
record the messages there.
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(bright upbeat music)
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- Seeing all the
work that they had to do
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to set up and
rearrange the church every time
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they wanted to shoot.
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We've been praying
for this TV studio.
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And it started out as a studio
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and editing room,
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but it grew because
there is also a need.
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There is a number of
English speaking believers
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in this area and
so they were looking
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for a place to worship,
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and so we decided to shrink
the studio part a little bit,
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and put a whole nother room on
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which doubles as a
church and a larger studio
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if we wanna shoot
groups like singing groups
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or even an evangelistic series
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or something like that.
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We can do that
in the church space.
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(bright upbeat music)
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(clapping)
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(bright upbeat music)
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(crowd clapping)
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(bright upbeat music)
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- Jesus for Asia's organization
has been a great help
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to our work here in
South-east India Union.
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God's work in
South-east India Union.
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- it's absolutely a
hundred percent God for me
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that happened but He
allowed me to be a part
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of it and He
allowed me to come see it.
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And that's just the
most incredible blessing
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and it just reminds me of
just how much God loves us
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'cause He lets us be a part
of the work that He is doing
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so that we can see for ourselves
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and we can be excited
about what God is doing.
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It's just, it's
an incredible feeling
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and I feel beyond blessed
to have been a part of it.
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(bright upbeat music)
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- What makes this new studio
even more valuable is the fact
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that just last month we were
given this amazing opportunity
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and we okayed a daily broadcast.
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And this time slot was owned
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by a very popular
preacher and he passed away
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and the station said,
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"you guys have a lot of viewers.
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Would you like this time slot?"
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It's like broadcasting seeds,
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the seed of the gospel
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wherever there are Tamil
speakers throughout the world.
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And you never know
what's gonna happen
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but you know, you're I mean,
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you get a
little bit of response,
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but you know it's
like 10 or 20 times more
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is your actual effect.
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(bright upbeat music)
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- Wow. that's so awesome.
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- I know.
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- I love it.
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- Yeah, so you saw that church,
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it's just gotten taller
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and here's a picture of the
church before that was built
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and here it is now
a little drone shot.
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It just went up.
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And what's cool
is that that event
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that grand opening was a
major event and it was visited
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by the president
of the church there
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in Chennai as
well as the president
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of the South-east India Union.
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I gave the address.
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And what's interesting was
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that when he had
originally been invited,
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he said, "no,
I'm busy that day."
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And this was held on a Sunday.
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The day before on
the Sabbath afternoon,
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he was looking at
his calendar and he says,
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"why did I say no to that one?
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I've got extra time."
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So he had already given
his driver off for the weekend.
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He called it
messages driver that night
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and says, "hey,
are you free tomorrow?
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Will you come and drive me?"
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And the guy says, "yeah sure."
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So he came there,
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he stayed there,
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he gave an address,
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we really connected,
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had a really good conversation
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and some other good
things have come out of that.
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He talked about a
small brand new region
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in Tamil Nadu that
had just newly been formed
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and they were very poor
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but they wanted to
reach the communities,
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the cities in their area.
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And so he asked me,
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"would you be willing
to sponsor 10 Bible workers
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into this area?"
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And I had been
looking the entire time
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because the
church that we're a part
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of here in Chattanooga,
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they've been looking
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for to sponsor 10 Bible workers.
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And so when he says we've got...
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"Can I have 10 Bible workers
for this brand new poor place?"
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I'm like, "I'm gonna
connect my church with them."
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So the church really got excited
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and got on board with this,
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and now they are sponsoring
through the general conference
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and the division to sponsor
10 Bible workers in that region.
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And so that all
happened at that grand opening.
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- That's awesome.
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- And you notice that there
is two ribbon cuttings, right?
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- Right.
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- The second one was
into the actual studio.
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The first one was into,
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when we started building this,
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they realized that
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there's a rather large
English speaking community
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in Chennai and they and a lot
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of the English
speaking believers were asking
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for their own church
instead of speaking in Tamil.
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And so this second
floor became a second church.
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So now one church has
become two plus a studio.
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- Wow, that's really awesome.
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- Oh yeah I'm excited.
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- And to see how God says,
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okay, now you have
to grow a little bit
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and then a little bit
more and then a little bit more
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but your vision is
still too small you know,
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and it's just
really, really neat.
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And I know Hannah still
just really enjoys the memory
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of being able to be there
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because she was part
of raising those funds.
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There were a couple people here
that just really took a hold
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of that project and
really did what needed
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to be done to get the word out
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so people could know
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that there was this
need and this opportunity
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and then people gave
very quickly actually.
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And so I know that
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was such a blessing
for her, privilege for her.
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- Yeah and
what's cool in working
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for God in this
way is that you know,
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He doesn't need our money.
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But that's the
path that he chooses
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because he likes to
share the joy that he has
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with his
children that get involved
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in partner with him in his work.
00:19:51.52\00:19:53.69
- Right, and
sometimes we're not able
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to be the ones
who give the money
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but we still get
the joy you know,
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and seeing the
result of our little bit
00:19:59.83\00:20:01.83
of work, you know,
00:20:01.83\00:20:03.06
the little part we can do.
00:20:03.06\00:20:04.77
- And there's
lots of work out there.
00:20:04.77\00:20:06.27
We all have a place and
have a part and there's plenty
00:20:06.27\00:20:10.54
of work and plenty of
opportunity for everybody.
00:20:10.54\00:20:13.41
- Right, and you know sometimes,
00:20:13.41\00:20:15.11
I mean, I've heard this recently
00:20:15.11\00:20:16.34
from a couple
different missionaries.
00:20:16.34\00:20:18.31
They feel like they're
ineffective where they are.
00:20:18.31\00:20:20.82
Like they could
be doing something,
00:20:20.82\00:20:22.52
some greater work
or something like that.
00:20:22.52\00:20:25.09
But it's just shows
that where God has you,
00:20:25.09\00:20:29.36
however small it feels
00:20:29.36\00:20:31.66
or however large
overwhelming it seems,
00:20:31.66\00:20:35.13
it's what he needs us to do.
00:20:35.13\00:20:37.27
And our part is important.
00:20:37.27\00:20:39.00
I mean, there's an Ellen
White quote where she says,
00:20:39.00\00:20:41.80
"specifically our
part is immeasurably small
00:20:41.80\00:20:44.91
and yet it is just
the part that's needed."
00:20:44.91\00:20:47.84
So never ever should we feel
like our work is ineffective
00:20:47.84\00:20:51.91
or unimportant or we would
be more useful somewhere else.
00:20:51.91\00:20:55.65
If we are aware
God has led us to,
00:20:55.65\00:20:58.59
then we just do our part and
he takes care of the results.
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- That's right.
00:21:03.09\00:21:04.06
That's right.
00:21:04.06\00:21:05.29
We've always said,
00:21:05.29\00:21:06.83
as long as we're doing
what God wants us to do now,
00:21:06.83\00:21:09.33
He'll take care of the rest.
00:21:09.33\00:21:10.77
- Right, and you you've
shared many times in our story,
00:21:10.77\00:21:14.27
how one place we moved to,
00:21:14.27\00:21:16.67
you weren't a
hundred percent sure this
00:21:16.67\00:21:18.21
was where God wanted us to be.
00:21:18.21\00:21:20.04
And you always felt
like there was some part
00:21:20.04\00:21:23.01
that wasn't able
to be content there.
00:21:23.01\00:21:26.08
And that's why it's so important
00:21:26.08\00:21:27.68
for us to connect with
God and to have the confidence
00:21:27.68\00:21:30.55
that we are where
he wants us to be.
00:21:30.55\00:21:32.75
And then we can
look at our work and say,
00:21:32.75\00:21:35.22
I'm not doing anything,
00:21:35.22\00:21:36.89
you know, I'm
just parenting my kids,
00:21:36.89\00:21:39.96
I'm just learning the language,
00:21:39.96\00:21:42.03
I'm just whatever it might be,
00:21:42.03\00:21:44.90
but God knows
that he took us there
00:21:44.90\00:21:47.90
and we can find contentment
in him and joy in him.
00:21:47.90\00:21:51.01
Knowing that we're
exactly where he wants us to be.
00:21:51.01\00:21:53.41
- But that doesn't
give us license to be lazy.
00:21:53.41\00:21:56.85
- Oh no.
00:21:56.85\00:21:57.95
Oh no, not at all.
00:21:57.95\00:21:59.38
- But to diligently move forward
00:21:59.38\00:22:01.15
and keep saying,
00:22:01.15\00:22:02.42
"God, is this
what you want me to do?
00:22:02.42\00:22:04.52
Is there something else?"
00:22:04.52\00:22:05.75
Because sometimes
at least in my mind,
00:22:05.75\00:22:07.52
I can get doggedly focused
00:22:07.52\00:22:09.32
on one thing and miss what He--
00:22:09.32\00:22:11.36
- And the details.
00:22:11.36\00:22:12.83
- Yeah and miss what He
wants me to do instead of this.
00:22:12.83\00:22:16.33
I think, "oh this is
what God wants me to do."
00:22:16.33\00:22:18.90
So I just like
focus, focus, focus,
00:22:18.90\00:22:21.20
not knowing that He
wanted me to do that
00:22:21.20\00:22:22.64
for a little bit
and then go do this.
00:22:22.64\00:22:25.01
So it's like, it's that
continual connection with Him.
00:22:25.01\00:22:28.24
It's a relationship saying,
00:22:28.24\00:22:29.64
"Lord today what
is your will for me?
00:22:29.64\00:22:33.21
This moment, what
is your will for me?"
00:22:33.21\00:22:35.32
I give you my life and see
what He wants to do with it.
00:22:35.32\00:22:39.49
- Right, well,
let's go back to India,
00:22:39.49\00:22:41.46
'cause there's a little bit more
00:22:41.46\00:22:42.69
to the story that
we wanna share today.
00:22:42.69\00:22:44.83
We have another video that
talks about why TV is effective
00:22:44.83\00:22:48.20
- Right, yeah let's play that.
00:22:48.20\00:22:49.66
(bright upbeat music)
00:22:51.60\00:22:54.74
- So Jesus for Asia is mainly
00:22:56.50\00:22:57.87
about sponsoring Bible workers
00:22:57.87\00:22:59.61
and they go and knock on doors
00:22:59.61\00:23:02.48
and they're a
very cost effective way
00:23:02.48\00:23:04.58
to take the gospel
to people individually.
00:23:04.58\00:23:07.48
But I've done a
lot of comparison
00:23:07.48\00:23:09.12
and thinking in my
mind about the cost,
00:23:09.12\00:23:11.39
if we wanted to actually reach,
00:23:11.39\00:23:14.09
let's say a city of a million,
00:23:14.09\00:23:15.69
how much would it cost to send
00:23:15.69\00:23:17.73
and how many Bible
workers would it take
00:23:17.73\00:23:19.19
and how many years would it take
00:23:19.19\00:23:21.56
for them to just knock on a
million doors versus sending
00:23:21.56\00:23:26.53
the gospel out via television?
00:23:26.53\00:23:29.60
The studio is more
expensive than a Bible worker
00:23:29.60\00:23:32.81
or 10 Bible workers.
00:23:32.81\00:23:34.21
And the
broadcast is more expensive
00:23:34.21\00:23:36.24
but you're hitting
a potential audience
00:23:36.24\00:23:38.48
of 60 million people versus
a Bible worker could never
00:23:38.48\00:23:43.49
in their entire lifetime compose
00:23:44.35\00:23:47.29
even army of Bible workers.
00:23:47.29\00:23:49.82
Couldn't come close to
reaching 60 million people
00:23:49.82\00:23:53.09
in their lifetime.
00:23:53.09\00:23:54.30
So this is
really an effective way
00:23:54.30\00:23:57.23
and it goes into
their living rooms.
00:23:57.23\00:23:59.90
So it's not just
like somebody coming,
00:23:59.90\00:24:01.57
you know when somebody
comes and knocks on your door,
00:24:01.57\00:24:03.41
you've already
got your guard up.
00:24:03.41\00:24:05.51
(indistinct) what are
they trying to sell me?
00:24:05.51\00:24:08.21
But if I'm switching on the TV,
00:24:08.21\00:24:10.25
looking through
the channels, you know,
00:24:10.25\00:24:11.95
my guard's not up as high.
00:24:11.95\00:24:14.88
And if I start
listening to the speaker,
00:24:14.88\00:24:17.99
it's like even
though it's mass media,
00:24:17.99\00:24:20.52
it's very intimate,
00:24:20.52\00:24:21.52
very personal.
00:24:21.52\00:24:22.76
And so you can really
get behind closed doors.
00:24:22.76\00:24:26.59
Even with, let's say
you're in a community
00:24:26.59\00:24:28.93
that's very religious and
anti Christian or Adventist,
00:24:28.93\00:24:33.10
you can still get
into those closed doors.
00:24:33.10\00:24:34.70
People can, can
watch it surreptitiously
00:24:34.70\00:24:38.41
and then what happens is
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this beautiful
symbiotic relationship between
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the television
and the Bible workers.
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So now the television
viewers are calling in
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and saying I want Bible studies.
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I wanna learn more.
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And then we can
send our Bible workers
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to them and continue
with the Bible studies.
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And so it's a beautiful
combination between the air
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force and the
ground force combining
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to bring a lot of people into
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the connection with
Christ and a knowledge
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of Jesus Christ and
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the three Angels'
messages in these last days.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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God has allowed
the world or inspired
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the world to develop this
technology for this purpose.
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Let's take the
gospel into the communities
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that we couldn't otherwise go.
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(bright upbeat music)
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- So you can see
the effectiveness
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and power of television
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and then the cost
effectiveness as well.
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- Yeah, yeah.
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- It just scales,
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you know, per person.
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It just makes a lot of sense.
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- Right, you know,
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many times and other ministries
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that do broadcasting have shared
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with us also that
it's very difficult.
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People don't see the results
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when they give for broadcasting.
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So there are a few people
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that really grab a hold
of broadcasting and give like
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crazy. But a lot
of people wanna see
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the children's lives
changed or they wanna see
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the Bible workers
working those things.
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And those are very important
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but the broadcasting is like,
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you're throwing out the seed
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and you may never,
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before eternity see the results.
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- Right.
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- But how important is that?
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We're seeing that
firsthand from this video
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because hand in hand,
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the seeds are being thrown out,
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people are calling
and then they're getting
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the personal connection
from the Bible worker.
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- So if we didn't
have the Bible workers,
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it wouldn't be effective.
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And if we didn't
have the broadcasting
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it wouldn't be effective.
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And it's just
such a powerful lesson
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that God needs all parts
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of His work to be going forward.
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All the tools need to be
used because time is so short.
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- Yes absolutely.
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And what's cool about this
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is that we can do
this in other languages.
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In India, there are
26 official languages.
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This is just one language.
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If we start moving
into other languages,
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who knows what
God's going to do?
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- Right, so there's
a lot of opportunity.
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- There is a huge amount of
opportunity and we need a lot
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of prayer for God to do
his will in the world today.
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- Right.
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I would like to
invite you to be a part
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of this ministry
by praying for them,
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pray for the viewers,
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pray for the presentation team,
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pray for the recordings,
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the technology,
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you know, even
for this recording.
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We are seeing the
devil trying all sorts
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of technological challenges.
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And so we just
recognize the need to pray
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for these types of ministry.
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And if the Lord
is impressing you
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to be financially involved,
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you can contact us
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at Jesus for Asia PO Box 1221
Collegedale Tennessee 37315.
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Call us at (423) 413-7321
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or visit our
website @Jesus4asia.org.
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May God richly bless you
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until we see you next
time on Jesus for Asia Now.
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(bright upbeat music)
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