(bright inspirational music)
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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 here with me,
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as we share with you
part two of the story
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of our studio in Thailand.
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Welcome back, dear.
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- Hi, darling,
it's good to be here.
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- I am looking forward
to the rest of our story.
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- Yeah, it's exciting.
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- We had to cut the last one off
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before we got to
the most exciting part.
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(Jon laughing)
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But anyway, I'm
sure people understand
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and I'm sure people have
come back to see the rest-
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- Yes,
absolutely. - of the story.
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So, we are in Northern Thailand.
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What's our setting?
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For people that may not
have seen the first part.
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- Okay, well, God did the
(indistinct) tree miracle.
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- Right.
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- And to encourage us to
move forward with building
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a new office
for translation work
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and for a
foundation and for a studio.
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- Right.
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- So, after a year and a half
of not being able to travel,
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I was able to go
back to Thailand.
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- I spent 10 days in quarantine
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and then went up and spent
a week, a little over a week,
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just full-steam trying
to get the studio ready
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for our grand
opening for our dedication.
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- Right, so now we have a
video of the dedication itself.
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- [Jon] Yes.
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(soft music)
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- Today is a very happy day.
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After many years of
planning of thinking of dreaming
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of wondering if
it was even possible,
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by God's clear direction,
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by several very clear miracles,
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He made it very obvious
that we should go forward,
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and through His providence
and through the support
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and partnership of many people,
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that donated the resources
and then our local team
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that did a lot of groundwork,
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and our builder, who
is an Adventist also,
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just putting in extra effort.
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And today we got to
celebrate and cut the ribbon,
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and do a grand opening
dedication of this new office
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and TV studio
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(bright instrumental music)
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But they did a fantastic job.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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- It's amazing when I think
about how God gives us tools,
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you know we're out
in the harvest field
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and sometimes we're
working with our hands.
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Other times we have
like a sickle or something,
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and then sometimes God gives
us a harvester like a combine.
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And that's kind
of what I see here.
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We do translation work into
several different languages,
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to get literature and books
out there that they don't have
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in many of these languages.
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And we also are,
we've got a TV studio
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where we're gonna
be producing TV shows
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in several different languages
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that they have almost
no Christian resources and
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television or sermons at all.
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And so this is gonna be,
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this' gonna make a huge
impact in Thailand and beyond,
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in all these countries
surrounding us for the kingdom.
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And we don't have much time.
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This is our last chance to
grow the population of heaven.
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You know once we get to heaven,
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we'll never be able to go
to a sinner and tell them about
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the pardoning love of Jesus.
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This is the only chance we have.
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So this makes me really happy.
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(bright instrumental music)
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- I wished I was there.
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- Ooh.
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- And I was trying
to watch the live stream
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and there was no
audio at the beginning
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and you guys had to do a
bunch of stuff to fix it.
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And so I could even
be there at midnight,
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our time I stayed up till
late midnight to watch it.
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And then, anyway,
it's hard to not be there.
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- That was the
biggest disappointment for me,
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is because you should
have been there with us
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because your heart was in it.
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- Yeah, but to me
these kinds of places are,
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it's more than a
tool, it's a testament.
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It's like in the
Bible when it talks about,
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building an Ebeneezer or an
alter or raising up a standard,
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it's that kind of thing.
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It's so something
that God clearly did.
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- Yes.
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- I mean, if no one
else knows that we know it.
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- [Jon] Yes.
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- Because he clearly did this,
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there's no way we
could have done this.
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- Yes absolutely.
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- And he clearly did it.
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And so it's just a
testimony to what he can do.
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And it's a lighthouse,
it's gonna be a lighthouse,
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and from that, there's gonna
be written Word, printed Word,
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video Word going out,
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so that people will
learn to know the true God.
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- Right, and would you like
to take a tour of the studio?
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- Yeah, I would.
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(all Laughing)
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- Okay, so I took a
series of little videos
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where I went into the
studio, went to different rooms.
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- So I've got like
seven of these in a row.
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So this first one we
started cross the road,
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and we walk into the entryway.
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- Okay.
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- Left a trash bag
there, sorry about that.
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- [Natalie] Ops.
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(both laughing)
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- This is the last day
before I got on my plane
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and flew out.
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- Okay.
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- I had to pause
there to take off my shoes.
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- Right.
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- (laughing) So the
next shot is from there
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into the conference
room, which is on the right.
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This is the conference room.
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It's messy after a
weekend of production,
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back over here, we're gonna
be doing some book copying,
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that unique structure
that won't break the binding,
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coming back here, we've got
the translation room right here
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to set up the girls desks,
and in here is the focus room.
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So the focus room,
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they wanted a room where
they could go in and talk
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because what they do
is they'll translate it,
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and then they'll
read it out loud.
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And two other
people will listen and say,
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"Okay, that sounds okay, or
that sounds a little strange."
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And then like,
the final polishing
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to make sure it's readable.
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Because in 2011, I
was talking to somebody
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and I had a non nonbeliever
typers and read the Bible,
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different parts
of the Thai Bible.
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And he says, in some
parts, it flowed really nicely.
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Other parts he says,
"This sounds like half finished.
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Like it translated in a Thai,
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but they didn't
actually take it all the way
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to make it flow in Thai."
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And I don't
understand that, but-
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- That was his-
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- That was his take.
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So they're trying to make the
books as readable as possible.
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So that's the purpose
of the translation room.
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Now that- - And the focus room.
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- And the focus room.
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And now that blue plastic thing,
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there was a lot of books
translated like 50, 70 years
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ago, and they were published,
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but now they're
completely out of print.
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And so there's
very few copies of them,
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and we don't even have plates.
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And that was before computers
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so obviously we don't
have like the PDF (laughing).
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- Anything yeah.
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- So what we're doing
is we're taking pictures
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of every single
page of these old books,
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and we're putting
them up on the internet
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so people still
have access to them,
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and we don't
have to reprint them.
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A lot of them need
to be redone because
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they might've been hired out,
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by somebody that
didn't really understand
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what the books were saying,
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and translated it
wrong, stuff like that.
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But at least
they're available to people.
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- Right.
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- Okay now this next one,
as you go down the hallway,
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and we turned left
into this little hallway,
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and we go past a
couple of bathrooms,
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and we end up in
the electrical room.
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Yeah, now that has
its own air conditioner,
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which never is turned off,
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because we're
gonna put our server
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and our internet
networking stuff in there.
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- Okay. - Yeah.
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Now there's one detail that
I forgot when we're building
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and designing this studio,
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I forgot to put in storage.
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They've got no storage.
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- That's a very bad thing.
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(Jon laughing)
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- So we've got space up
back that I'm hoping and praying
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that we can build
some storage back there.
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- Wow. - Yeah.
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So the place is a little
messier than it should be
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because we got no
place to put our stuff.
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- Okay, so they need
some little cupboards.
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(all laughing)
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- Big cupboards.
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- Yeah.
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- Anyway, okay
so this next video,
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we just going to the
administration office.
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- Okay.
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- [Jon] You can see
all the missionaries,
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their files right there.
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- [Natalie] Each one
has their own drawer.
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- [Jon] Ahaa - [Natalie] Nice.
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(Jon laughing)
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- [Jon] And then on
the top of the cabinet,
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you see all the
different official documents
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that we have as a foundation.
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- Okay. - Okay.
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Now we're gonna
go into the studio.
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This is the
last day I was there.
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Now, what was amazing to me is,
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and I will talk
about this more later,
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but my team that I
just hired, I'm like,
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"Okay so we need to do a
show, we need to build a set."
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And so they're like,
"Okay, what if we do this,
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this and this and this?"
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I'm like, "That's a great idea."
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So they went down, and
they bought all the stuff,
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and they came
back and they built it.
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So in two days from
concept to finished product
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- [Natalie] Wow!
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- I mean, how
long does it take us
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to do something like that?
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Several months,
at least a month.
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They did it in two days.
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I was so impressed
by these young people.
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- All right, so
let's go on the tour.
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- Okay, we're set
up to do a live show.
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We did a live
stream of a Sabbath sermon.
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I brought these
cameras over from America.
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Now we're gonna go
into the control room,
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and you can see
what it's like in there.
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And you know, God's
making this so easy now
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because we can do high
quality with low cost equipment.
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See, there's a eight
input switcher right there.
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So this is set up to
switch a multi-camera live
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and broadcast live, we
can broadcast from here,
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and to record also,
as we can edit later,
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I mean, it's just,
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I can do everything here.
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- Yeah, it's set up nicely.
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- Yes.
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- And it's over
there and you're over here.
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Sorry. - Thanks.
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(both laughing)
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Rub it in.
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- And we don't have that here.
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- No.
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- Our studio here is
not set up like that.
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- Nope, so the next one
we're gonna go from here
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into the editing room.
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- Okay. - Okay.
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Let's go out the back
door into the hallway.
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I just came down, here
is our video editing room.
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Yup, so that's our studio.
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- Awesome.
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- And so the next
video is we're gonna go out
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through back door, and go into
the guest rooms and kitchen.
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- Okay.
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- I'm gonna cruise
into, to move the left.
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Let's see the
beautiful pastoral view.
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If we swing around to the right,
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we see the vehicle,
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we added this in, it
was not much extra cost,
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but it gives a
place for people to eat,
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and view and enjoy.
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Here's our kitchen.
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That's a washing
machine that's going up outside.
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And this is our,
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we have two guests bedrooms.
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So when people fly up
from Bangkok or someplace
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out of country, they
have a place to stay,
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to relax, and get
ready for their shoot.
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Spend the nights, we don't
have to book hotels and stuff.
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That's a water
heater, right there.
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Western style toilet.
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- Mmmh.
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(both laughing)
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- So if somebody wants to
come visit, they're welcome.
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- All right. (Jon laughing)
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- So now we're gonna go
up on the (speaking in Thai).
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And this is the last
worship that I had with my team
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before I flew back to America.
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- [Natalie] Okay.
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- And so this is the whole team,
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we're all up
there, having worship
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in such a beautiful
location, a beautiful view.
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And everybody just really
loving the Bible and hungry.
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- Mmmh.
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- It's a beautiful thing.
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- Awesome.
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- There's another
picture like that,
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but this is in
our conference room,
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because we have
staff meetings every day.
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- Okay. - Yeah.
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And here's another picture
like that in the editing room
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when the people
are at their desks.
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- [Natalie] Okay.
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- Yeah, so- - Nice.
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- We see all five of
them, they're editing.
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I'm very thankful
that most of them say that
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their favorite part about
video production is editing.
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It's really hard-
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- (laughing) That's
people's least favorite part.
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- Yeah, but these
guys, God's just good.
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- [Natalie] Yeah.
00:14:13.05\00:14:14.32
- And this is
our translation room.
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Now you see two
people in the back there,
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that's Harvey and Brenda Steck
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- Right.
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- And they have agreed
to come and join our team
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as leadership and also
to help with translation
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because translating from
English into the local language,
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especially Ellen White books,
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are very
different (audio cuts out)
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For people even
that are born and raised
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in the English
language. - All right.
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- Much less people that
English is a second language.
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And so they're coming to help.
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And we're really excited
about them joining the team.
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Harvey has had a lot
of experience in the past
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with production of books and
writing of books and proofing
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of books and things like that.
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And Brenda is gonna help a lot
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with a lot of different aspects.
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And this is our team,
all together on the last day,
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when we take a photo.
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It's not their last
day, it was my last day.
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(both laughing)
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- Right. - I'll make that clear.
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Okay, so this is their names.
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The guy on the left is
Jon, and Joseph, and Kong,
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Nop, Guy, Sitisak, Framme
his wife, Sa, Wanida and Cindy.
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This picture is almost complete
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because we're
missing two people,
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Baba, who does our
current translation.
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And she's on maternity leave.
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- Okay.
00:15:33.33\00:15:34.13
(both laughs)
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- Got to see her a little bit,
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but she's got to
take care of the baby.
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And Daniel, Daniel is
living about an hour away
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from the studio so he
comes up not very often.
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And those two people,
otherwise this is our full team.
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- Nice.
00:15:48.41\00:15:49.71
- Yeah, God is
good. Amen. - Yes, Amen.
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- So good.
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- So now we wanna introduce,
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some of the specific team
members and their stories.
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- Okay.
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So now I'd like to
introduce you to our team
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here at the Love for
Asia Office and Studio.
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Right over here is CN,
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CN, can you say
hi to the camera?
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CN is just recently joined us,
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last week was her first week.
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And she speaks very nit-noit
English, little bit of English,
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but a very creative, I'm
really happy to have her.
00:16:20.14\00:16:23.18
(speaking in Thai)
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Thank you.
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This is brother Nop.
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And he joined us
just over a week ago,
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and we're really
happy to have him.
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And you are Lahu.
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- Yes, I'm Lahu.
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- Yes, so you
speak Thai and Lahu and-
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- A little bit English.
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- And a little bit,
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(both laughing)
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do good English. - Thank you.
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Anyway, are you
excited about building the set?
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- Yes. - Yeah awesome.
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Thank you for helping.
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- Thank you.
00:16:46.50\00:16:47.90
- So this is Guy, and he
joined us just over a week ago.
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- Yes. - And what's this for?
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- They gonna
build some set, yeah.
00:16:53.14\00:16:56.44
- Okay, cool. - Yeah.
00:16:56.44\00:16:58.15
- All right thank
you. - You're welcome.
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- Brother Kong, how
long have you been here?
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- I think 10 months already.
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- 10 months? - Yes.
00:17:03.59\00:17:04.82
- And why did you come
here in the first place?
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- Yes I came here without
knowing what His plan for me,
00:17:06.96\00:17:10.66
but, why I'm excited to be here
is God is planning something
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that I didn't know,
especially I'm really happy
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and thankful that
God was bring me here.
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- Very good, well,
thanks for joining us.
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- Thank you sir.
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And last but not least,
we have Joseph McCutcheon.
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And you have been
interested in video production
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for awhile and-
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- I've been doing it freelance,
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but now I have the opportunity
now to do it professionally.
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- Praise the Lord
- I'm so thankful.
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(soft ambient music)
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- So that's really
neat to meet everybody,
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and get to know a
little more about them.
00:17:51.73\00:17:54.74
And I just am impressed
by their heart to serve,
00:17:54.74\00:17:58.67
and to help people to know God,
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I think that's very beautiful.
00:18:02.01\00:18:03.58
- Oh, it is, it is.
00:18:03.58\00:18:05.01
And I wanna tell you a
little bit more about Cindy,
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which I called CN in the-
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- In the video.
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- Yeah, but everybody called
her nickname instead of Cindy.
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So, I just call her CN.
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So Cindy and and Kong,
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Kong is a pastor.
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He's Lao, he's from Laos.
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And he was sent by the mission
00:18:20.46\00:18:22.20
to go to Mountain View
College in the Philippines
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to get his theology training.
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He came back and
fell in love with Wanida,
00:18:26.84\00:18:31.07
who's been with us
from the beginning.
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And so he came down from
Laos to get married with her.
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And then when this opportunity
came up, we built a studio,
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he's interested in media.
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And actually
he's very good at it.
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And of course she helps him
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because she's been
doing media for years.
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And so she helps him,
but he's a strong preacher,
00:18:53.80\00:18:57.53
really dedicated, and he
speaks the Hmong language.
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And so I'm really happy
to have him being there.
00:19:00.67\00:19:05.57
And then Cindy, it was so
cool because she has a degree
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in television and film.
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- Wow. - Okay?
00:19:11.11\00:19:12.61
And she had gotten her degree
from a secular institution.
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And after working with us
for a week, she told Framme,
00:19:17.12\00:19:21.82
she says, "You know
what? I grew up knowing God.
00:19:21.82\00:19:26.39
And I went away from
him, and now I'm back.
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And I feel like I've come home."
00:19:30.77\00:19:33.00
- Oh, Wow. (Jon laughing)
00:19:33.00\00:19:35.60
- And when I was talking to her,
00:19:35.60\00:19:37.57
she seemed very
quiet and shy and I'm like,
00:19:37.57\00:19:40.14
"I don't know how
well she's gonna do,"
00:19:40.14\00:19:41.84
but she's so creative.
00:19:41.84\00:19:44.68
She came up
with the set, I mean,
00:19:44.68\00:19:46.72
it takes me a long time
to come up with an idea,
00:19:46.72\00:19:49.45
and I have to pray about it.
00:19:49.45\00:19:50.69
She's like, "Oh, what
if we did this and this
00:19:50.69\00:19:52.25
and this?" And it's like,
00:19:52.25\00:19:53.19
all of her ideas are great.
00:19:53.19\00:19:54.62
She was the one
that designed that set.
00:19:54.62\00:19:57.29
And so it's like, God
has brought her full circle
00:19:57.29\00:20:01.43
not only for the work,
but also for their hearts,
00:20:02.83\00:20:07.54
for their conversion experience.
00:20:07.54\00:20:08.54
- For her, own walk with God.
00:20:08.54\00:20:11.37
- Exactly. - Alright.
00:20:11.37\00:20:12.67
- And so God has
just brought this together
00:20:12.67\00:20:14.61
in such a beautiful way,
I just see his fingerprints
00:20:14.61\00:20:17.38
all over it. - Wow.
00:20:17.38\00:20:18.85
- So we need to really
pray for these guys because,
00:20:18.85\00:20:21.52
Satan doesn't like his
territory being taken over.
00:20:21.52\00:20:24.82
And so we need to
pray that they stay strong,
00:20:24.82\00:20:27.72
they stay focused, they
stay connected with Him.
00:20:27.72\00:20:29.99
And if there is any
difficulty that they find ways
00:20:29.99\00:20:33.36
to resolve it-
- In Christ, yeah.
00:20:33.36\00:20:35.33
- And stay together as a team.
00:20:36.80\00:20:38.57
- Right, wow! - Yeah.
00:20:38.57\00:20:40.77
- All right, okay so
we've got one more video,
00:20:40.77\00:20:43.54
and let's play that now.
00:20:43.54\00:20:45.24
- Okay.
00:20:45.24\00:20:46.27
(bright instrumental music)
00:20:46.27\00:20:49.91
It's not super huge
as far as studios go,
00:20:56.72\00:20:59.02
but it's big enough to do
pretty much what we need to do.
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And we have multiple languages
00:21:02.36\00:21:04.59
that are gonna be represented.
00:21:04.59\00:21:06.13
We have Thai, Kerryn, Lahu,
and Hmong starting out with,
00:21:06.13\00:21:10.67
and some of those languages
have very few resources
00:21:10.67\00:21:14.30
in first Christianity.
00:21:14.30\00:21:16.37
And so for our Bible workers,
00:21:16.37\00:21:18.24
for our churches throughout
Thailand and other countries
00:21:18.24\00:21:22.01
surrounding Thailand,
00:21:22.01\00:21:23.48
where there's very
little Christian resources.
00:21:23.48\00:21:26.28
And the cool thing about video
production is that as opposed
00:21:26.28\00:21:30.25
to like translation
work into print material,
00:21:30.25\00:21:35.12
is that we can go very quickly.
00:21:35.12\00:21:37.49
You can sit down,
00:21:37.49\00:21:38.73
have somebody sit down
with a unique language,
00:21:38.73\00:21:41.56
and they can talk about Jesus.
00:21:41.56\00:21:43.80
And we get to
captured that recording.
00:21:43.80\00:21:46.10
And then maybe some editing
a few hours, you're done.
00:21:46.10\00:21:50.67
Whereas translation
work takes months and years.
00:21:50.67\00:21:54.08
We need translation work too,
00:21:55.24\00:21:57.11
because that last longer,
00:21:57.11\00:21:58.95
it can be distributed and
it sits on somebody's bookshelf
00:21:58.95\00:22:01.68
and they can grab it and read
it as the Holy Spirit leads.
00:22:01.68\00:22:04.39
So that's why we have
translation in the other part
00:22:04.39\00:22:06.96
of this office,
00:22:06.96\00:22:08.19
but this part is
our video production.
00:22:08.19\00:22:10.09
(instrumental music)
00:22:10.09\00:22:13.26
Thai people are the most
video heavy people in the world.
00:22:13.26\00:22:17.60
They watch like the most
television of any country
00:22:17.60\00:22:20.37
in the world, very visual,
very video heavy society.
00:22:20.37\00:22:25.24
And so producing Christian
content in video format
00:22:25.24\00:22:29.01
is like really important.
00:22:29.01\00:22:31.18
So we're just praying for
the ability to distribute this
00:22:31.18\00:22:34.68
widely as possible.
00:22:34.68\00:22:36.25
We're gonna try
a different series.
00:22:36.25\00:22:38.79
So like, an interview
series, a preaching series,
00:22:38.79\00:22:42.56
testimony series, and
then maybe a creative series.
00:22:43.99\00:22:47.30
We're also praying for things
00:22:47.30\00:22:49.20
that we haven't even thought of.
00:22:49.20\00:22:50.93
The local team
here is very creative,
00:22:50.93\00:22:54.17
and I know that they're
gonna come up with stuff that
00:22:54.17\00:22:56.71
I never would, and
they're gonna make it beautiful.
00:22:56.71\00:23:00.28
So God has
brought this together,
00:23:00.28\00:23:02.18
and I'm super excited
about what he's gonna do next.
00:23:02.18\00:23:05.98
(soft guitar music)
00:23:05.98\00:23:08.58
It is expensive until you
look at the economies of scale.
00:23:08.58\00:23:12.45
A Bible worker in a year
00:23:12.45\00:23:14.22
might be able to
reach a thousand people,
00:23:14.22\00:23:17.19
but television could
reach a hundred thousand people
00:23:17.19\00:23:21.60
in a month.
00:23:21.60\00:23:22.93
And so when you consider
how many people can be affected
00:23:24.40\00:23:28.14
by television
and divide that up,
00:23:28.14\00:23:30.37
this is one of the
cheapest ways to actually reach
00:23:30.37\00:23:33.64
a lot of people.
00:23:33.64\00:23:35.08
And expense aside, we are
called to reach the whole world.
00:23:35.08\00:23:39.08
And we just don't
have enough workers,
00:23:39.08\00:23:42.25
that are even
believers to be able to reach
00:23:42.25\00:23:44.52
an entire country,
60, 70 million people.
00:23:44.52\00:23:47.56
And so television is
the really powerful way
00:23:47.56\00:23:50.26
that we can break
through a lot of the barriers,
00:23:50.26\00:23:53.53
and reach a mass
audience very quickly
00:23:53.53\00:23:56.77
and relatively inexpensively.
00:23:56.77\00:23:59.20
(bright instrumental music)
00:23:59.20\00:24:02.84
- So it's a big vision.
00:24:07.58\00:24:08.94
- It is a big work.
00:24:08.94\00:24:10.68
- There's a lot of opportunity
00:24:10.68\00:24:12.21
- Yes.
00:24:12.21\00:24:13.15
- And there's a lot of need.
00:24:13.15\00:24:14.38
- Yeah, absolutely.
00:24:14.38\00:24:15.58
- And there's a
lot of cost. - Yeah.
00:24:15.58\00:24:16.89
- And the studio
unfortunately went over budget
00:24:16.89\00:24:19.92
to do all the final
things that had to be done,
00:24:19.92\00:24:24.93
to make the studio
itself usable as a studio,
00:24:26.29\00:24:27.96
to build the little
control room that we have there,
00:24:27.96\00:24:30.80
and having to purchase extra
computers and things like that-
00:24:30.80\00:24:34.10
- Yeah.
00:24:34.10\00:24:35.14
- And the furniture and stuff.
00:24:35.14\00:24:36.84
- Yeah.
00:24:36.84\00:24:38.31
- So it's not a water out
over budget, but a little bit.
00:24:38.31\00:24:40.74
- [Jon] Yeah.
00:24:40.74\00:24:42.01
- And then
there's the monthly cost.
00:24:42.01\00:24:43.55
We hired four new people.
00:24:43.55\00:24:44.98
- Yep.
00:24:44.98\00:24:46.25
- So that means we
had a smaller team before
00:24:46.25\00:24:47.92
and now it's
gonna be more expensive.
00:24:47.92\00:24:49.75
- Yeah.
00:24:49.75\00:24:50.95
- And what is the
cost for that monthly?
00:24:50.95\00:24:52.52
- Well, we're
pushing about $7,000 a month,
00:24:52.52\00:24:54.66
just to keep it running.
00:24:54.66\00:24:57.09
And that doesn't include
production costs, equipment
00:24:57.09\00:25:01.40
costs, and other incidentals
that come along with doing
00:25:02.80\00:25:07.30
production. -
And having an office.
00:25:07.30\00:25:08.27
- Right. - Yeah.
00:25:08.27\00:25:09.50
- And that includes
like driving to Chiang Mai
00:25:09.50\00:25:13.17
to do governmental kind of work.
00:25:13.17\00:25:15.38
- Paperwork. - Paperwork.
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And if we're gonna
start bringing people in,
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to preach in the different
languages that we have going,
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we're gonna need to
cover that expense as well.
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- Right. - And we wanna do that.
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That's just normal cost of
operating a television studio.
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- All right, so we know
what it costs every month
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to pay stipends
and salaries and stuff,
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but we don't know what
production costs every month
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yet. Of course,
because we've just started.
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- Yes.
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- So to build sets
and stuff like that,
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we wanna be able to
provide for that as well.
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- Correct.
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- So what would
your estimate maybe be,
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conservative estimate.
00:25:48.18\00:25:49.41
- Let's say if we're
gonna build a new set,
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we need to buy
furniture, maybe four or $500,
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not a lot of money.
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We're not gonna be
buying that kind of furniture
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all the time, we might build
and reuse it in the future,
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different things like that.
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We need another camera,
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so that's about
$1,200 for another camera.
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And then, you know,
these things add up,
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but a lot of them is
like one-time things-
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- Right . - It's
not like a monthly.
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- Right. I mean,
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you have to buy more hard
drives to keep storing things-
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- True.
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- And have access for
editing and stuff like that.
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- I still need to
install a network,
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Ethernet network, need to
install a server with hard
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drives and things like that.
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So there's still some
expenses that we need to expend.
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- To finish
setting it up properly.
00:26:33.72\00:26:35.02
- Yeah, right. - Okay.
00:26:35.02\00:26:36.62
- But we want
this to be functional.
00:26:36.62\00:26:38.59
You know, if we're
gonna spend that much money
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on a building,
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by the way, the cost of the
whole studio, both buildings,
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all the groundwork and
everything, it's about $120,000.
00:26:44.97\00:26:48.50
- Right.
00:26:48.50\00:26:49.70
- Which sounds
like a lot of money,
00:26:49.70\00:26:51.14
but there's no way we
could get anything like that
00:26:51.14\00:26:52.51
here in the
states for that price.
00:26:52.51\00:26:55.01
- No. - So it's a good deal.
00:26:55.01\00:26:57.25
But if we spend that
kinda money on the building,
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we really need to utilize
that building, to the max.
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And that that's a monthly cost.
00:27:04.45\00:27:06.62
You know, the
building wouldn't be any good
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if we didn't have
people that are using it.
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- That's true.
00:27:11.66\00:27:12.89
- (laughing) And so
we really want people
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using it for people.
00:27:14.20\00:27:15.76
- Right, to get the Word out.
00:27:15.76\00:27:18.00
- To get the Word out.
00:27:18.00\00:27:19.17
- Because the
Word is good. - Yes.
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- God is good. - God is so good.
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- So, I would like to
thank you for sharing the story
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from the trip
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and the
dedication. - My pleasure.
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- And I would like to invite
you to pray for this team,
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because they
need God's guidance,
00:27:32.85\00:27:34.52
they need God's direction,
00:27:34.52\00:27:35.78
and they need His
Spirit keeping them going,
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keeping them
working together as a team,
00:27:38.39\00:27:40.79
so that people can
be saved for eternity.
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If you would
like to be involved,
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you can contact
us at Jesus for Asia,
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PO Box 1221,
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Collegedale Tennessee, 37315.
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Call us at (423) 413-7321.
00:27:54.47\00:27:59.11
Or visit our
website at jesus4asia.org.
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May God richly bless you
until we see you next time,
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on "Jesus for Asia Now".
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(uplifting upbeat music)
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