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- Hi, love.
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- Hi, darling. How are you?
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- Good. good.
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I'm excited about
the story we have.
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It seems like
it's a miracle story.
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It started with a
miracle and it just keeps on,
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God keeps doing
more and more miracles.
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- Yeah, absolutely.
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- It's just, it's awesome.
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- Yeah.
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And I love it because it's like,
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it really touches
where my heart is, you know,
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I've always been into video
and cameras and stuff like that
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and the Lord
started us in this ministry
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with Bible workers
and evening schools
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which is a good thing
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because those are really joyful
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and really, I love
what our Bible workers do
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in the mission field
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and how powerful they are
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and the stories
we get back from them
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and so inspiring in faith.
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But this story is
about television studios.
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- So, where are
we starting today?
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- We're gonna start with
a story of a little fruit.
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- A little fruit.
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- Yes.
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(laughs)
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Here's a picture
of it in my hotel room
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and they serve me
this lamyai fruit.
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My kids call it
the eyeball fruit.
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- Yeah. You can see why.
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- Yeah.
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(Jon and Natalie laughs)
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But we had been praying
about setting up a TV studio
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because, you know, in Thailand,
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they don't have 3ABN
in the local language.
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- Right. - And they deserve it.
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- Right.
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- And so, we've been
praying for many years,
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but always really hesitant
because they're not super cheap.
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- Media is always expensive.
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- And so, finally a couple
donated some property to us.
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So they asked us, can we
wait until harvest comes in
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so they can get the
cash from the fruit.
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But what the miracle was
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is that when the fruit came in,
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when the harvest came in,
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what happened?
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- God drew a line
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at the property boundary.
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- [Jon] Yeah.
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- There was fruit on their side,
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but on the property
that they had donated,
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there was no fruit.
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Even where there's a
branch that hangs over,
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only part of that tree
had fruit on that branch.
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- Yeah.
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- The other
side, no fruit at all.
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- And this was
such a miracle to me
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and also the donor.
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Every time he mentions
it, he just breaks down.
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He's like, wow,
God really stepped in
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and made it clear
that this is his land.
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And so, when we
saw that miracle,
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we knew God was in it.
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- Right.
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- Our team over there
led by Gop and Daniel Bayer,
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they started building
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and by the time I got there,
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this is what I saw.
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- Right.
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It was almost done.
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Our viewers may
recognize this story
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because we did share
this when you came back.
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- Yes.
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- But there's additional story
that came out of the story.
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- Yes.
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- After that, the fruit miracle
started a series of miracles
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that God has done.
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- Yeah.
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And the other
miracle that I remember was
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when I was in quarantine,
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I was praying, Lord,
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we don't have
anybody that can film stuff.
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And you know,
that's not easy to find
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in a church with so few members.
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- Right.
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- Not very many people
are interested in video
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and have those skills.
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- Right.
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- And while I was in quarantine,
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I got an email from
our Thai director, Gop,
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who said, "Hey, we have
four candidates to interview
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for the job."
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- Right.
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- And I'm going,
"Are you kidding me?"
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- Wow! Four.
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- Wow! And so, I thought,
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okay, well, maybe we'll get
one good one out of the four.
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And we interviewed on a Friday
morning these four workers
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and I was blown away by
the quality of these people
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and the motivation, their heart.
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They really wanted to serve God.
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- Oh, that's awesome.
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- And so, after
interviewing four of them,
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I hired, guess how many.
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- You hired all four.
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- Yes. - But I know the story.
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(Jon and Natalie laughs)
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- Exactly.
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And so, I would
ask them, you know,
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why do you wanna work here?
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And they're like,
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I wanna serve God.
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- [Natalie] Yeah.
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- I wanna serve God.
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- That's awesome.
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- In fact, one young lady had
graduated from the university
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with a degree in
television production.
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- Right.
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- And so, she came and joined us
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and after a week and a half
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she says, I feel
like I've come home.
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- Wow!
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- We've got a little
bit more of her story also.
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- In a little bit.
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- So, then a few months
later, after it was finished,
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I went back to
see how it was going
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and to do some more
training with my team.
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And I just was amazed at
the beauty of the location
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of that studio.
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- [Natalie] Yeah.
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- [Jon] It's such a
beautiful, quiet, natural spot.
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- Right.
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- We're already talking
about expanding it though.
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(Jon and Natalie laughs)
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Because that we got
a little more property.
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There's some
property behind the studio
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that we're praying
will come up for sale,
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so we can build an
audio recording studio,
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so we can record
Christian godly music
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for the church in the country.
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As I met with a team
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to figure out what kind
of training we're gonna do,
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I was impressed with how
much they're doing already.
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They're so creative
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and they're so passionate
about what they're doing.
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It's like, "Wow,
this is amazing."
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And while I was there,
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we went out shopping
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because one of the things
that is a challenge to them
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is we don't really
have a budget for production
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as far as buying set
material and things like that,
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so they just make do
with whatever they can find.
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- Right.
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- So, we went
shopping and we bought lights
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and we bought a
little bit of furniture
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and we bought some
plants and stuff like that
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and designed a show that's
gonna be a continuing series.
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And we set up the show
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and you can see we
brought in the local pastor.
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He's gonna do like a pre
baptismal bible study series
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and stuff.
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But I loved their
creativity and everything.
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And the crew has actually grown.
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One of the crew that was
one of the original hires
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moved down to Bangkok
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because he had a
girlfriend down there.
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- Okay.
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- And so, Cindy, her boyfriend,
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had been helping
out in the studio
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and so we offered a job to him.
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- Now, Cindy was the
one that was a Christian
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but not an Adventist.
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- Correct.
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- And had graduated
with television broadcasting
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- Exactly. - from a university.
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- Right. - Okay.
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- So, her boyfriend had
been helping out in the studio.
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He was Adventist,
doesn't speak a word of English.
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Maybe he knows Hello.
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- Okay.
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(laughs)
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- But really nice
guy, very musical.
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His big dream was to get
hired on in a big music company
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because he's a
guitar singer, musician.
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Really, you know,
top quality musician.
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And so, at the same time
that we offered him the job,
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he got his dream job offer
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from a big music
production company
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with a huge sign on
bonus and everything.
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And he prayed about
it and thought about it
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and decided, you know
what, I wanna work for God.
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So, he gave up the big
income to work in our studio.
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- Wow! Praise the Lord.
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- Big time. - That's awesome.
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- Yeah.
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And while I was there, I
got to watch Cindy get baptized.
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- Wow.
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- And then two weeks later,
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I got to watch her and
her boyfriend get married.
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- Wow.
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(laughs)
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- So, even if the
studio was built just for her,
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it'd been worth it.
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- Yeah.
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- But it's doing so
much more than that.
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- Yeah.
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- And now, our team has
grown even more since then.
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- Okay.
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- So, here's our current team.
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It's changed a bit and grown,
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but these people work full
time at our studio every day.
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And they're turning out material
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that's affecting
thousands of people's lives.
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In fact, our
construction contractor,
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he became more
settled and really dedicated
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because of the sermons that
had been recorded and shared
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and the bible studies that
had been recorded and shared.
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He'd watched them on his phone
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and that had really
settled him into the faith.
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- Wow!
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- Where he was
an Adventist before,
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but just not so
sure about it, you know?
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And so, now he's just like
really on board and great guy.
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- [Natalie] Wow!
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- So, we see the
fruit all the time.
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- [Natalie] Yeah, yeah.
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- [Jon] You know,
this is Cindy's baptism.
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Such a high day, you
know, such a beautiful thing.
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This doesn't happen very often
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- [Natalie] Yeah.
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- [Jon] in Thailand.
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So, we're just
really pleased for her.
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After we finished the studio,
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we came home and we
showed the show on 3ABN
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and one of our donors emailed us
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and said, "How much
did that studio cost?"
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How much was the truck?
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How much are the,
everything included?
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And so, we told
them what the amount was
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and they said,
"We've been praying..."
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This is the wife saying,
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"I've been praying
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that the Lord would
develop some kind of income
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that was not our normal flow,
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not the normal way that
we could use for God's work.
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And it looks like
he is providing that.
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- Wow.
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- And so, we have funds.
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We would like to
sponsor another studio."
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- Wow.
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(Jon laughs)
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- But they says,
"We're not sure we have it.
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We think we have it.
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Looks like it's gonna work.
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But we will let you
know as soon as we're sure."
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And so, I went back to Thailand.
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While I was stuck in
quarantine for 10 days,
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we got the message
that it was coming.
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- That funds were coming.
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- [Jon] Yes. - Yeah.
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- And so, I've been praying,
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Lord, where do you
want this second studio?
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And my dream had always been
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to have four or
five studios in Thailand.
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And people might wonder,
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why do you have so
many studios in one country?
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Well, how many
studios does Satan have?
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- Yeah. That's true.
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- You know, tons.
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- Well, and how many
languages are there in Thailand?
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- Actually,
there's about 73 languages
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represented in Thailand.
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73. So, I think
there's room for many studios.
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- Yeah.
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- And a studio can only pour
out so much content at once.
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So, if you have
multiple studios,
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you get different flavors,
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you get different shows,
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you get different content.
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And we have to build up
a certain amount of library
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before people
start taking notice
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that, oh, this
stuff is out there
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and oh, this is interesting,
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oh, and I can listen to
this and this is helpful.
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- Right. And I can share it
with my friends and my family.
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- Exactly. All right.
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And so, I started thinking about
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I'd like another
studio in Thailand,
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but where would we put it?
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Because, you have to have
somebody that oversees it,
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they can drive it,
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they can keep it running
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because I don't have
time to be there full time,
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although, I would love to.
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(Jon laughs)
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So, I thought of Travis Sharon.
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He's the youngest son
of Leroy and Lisa Sharon
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who've been living
there for over 12 years.
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- Yeah.
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- Travis knows the Karen
language very well, fluently.
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He's married. He just
has a brand new baby boy.
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And he and his wife
are living up on the border
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near Mae Sot.
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- [Natalie] Okay.
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- And so, I thought, maybe we
should set this up in Mae Sot.
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And so, I talked
to Travis about it.
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He says, you know,
it's a really good idea.
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We need to do this.
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We can build a studio, but
that takes six months to a year.
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We gotta find the property,
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we gotta find
another contractor like Jack.
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- Yeah. In that
area of the country.
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- So, what if we
just buy a house?
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But the big problem is
that all the houses in Thailand
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are built on the four meter
or the 12 foot square template.
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So, even if you
have a huge house,
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all the rooms in
there are like 12 feet wide.
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- Or multiples of 12
with columns in them.
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- Exactly. - 12 Feet.
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- That's just annoying
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because it's
not quite big enough
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to set up cameras.
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- Right.
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Because you don't
get the right angle.
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- [Jon] Yeah.
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- There's always gonna be a
column in one of your angles.
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- Exactly.
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So Lord, please help us
find a house that's big enough
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that we can start
production in right away.
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But how's a piece of land
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that we can then build
a regular size studio room
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when we need to,
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but we wanna start
producing right away.
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And so, Travis started
looking with his family
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all over the place.
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So, I finally get out
of quarantine on a Monday,
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drive up there,
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we see one house Monday evening.
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Tuesday morning, we
see four other houses.
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And then, we look at this house.
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Okay.
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And we toured that house
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and one wing of that
house on the far side
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is actually five meters wide.
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So, 15 feet wide.
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And it had a
room just big enough
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that we could actually
start production right away.
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- [Natalie] Wow.
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- And so, we bought it
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- Wow.
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- that afternoon,
we signed the papers.
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- Wow.
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- And then, that's like,
okay, we have another studio,
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who's gonna run it?
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It can't be just
Travis by himself.
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- Right.
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- You know, his son
is a little too young.
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Six months.
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- Yeah. He can't run camera yet.
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- Not yet.
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Give him a couple of years.
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- Yeah.
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- And his wife's busy with...
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So, it's like, where
are we gonna find a team
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to run the studio?
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But we just
move forward by faith
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knowing that if God was
leading, he would provide.
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- Right.
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- So, then GOP calls his friend
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who is running a prayer
ministry virtually, online,
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and she gives us a list
of names and contacts them
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and says, hey, we're all gonna
meet here at this one place
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at this one time.
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And so, I drive down
there and I sit there
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and I meet these people.
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They were fantastic.
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- [Natalie] Wow.
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- [Jon] Some of
them we couldn't hire
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because of their
immigration status.
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- [Natalie] Right.
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- But some of them we could.
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And so, we hired a team.
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- Wow.
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- And so we have a team.
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It's like some of these
people are just so excited
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and I'm so excited, I'm like,
Lord, you're really leading.
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Okay. So, now we need cameras.
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We need computers.
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There's some cameras
at the original studio.
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I had brought cameras for them.
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And so, we got the old cameras
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and brought them to this studio,
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and we need computers.
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And so, I looked and sure enough
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there's an Apple
store in Bangkok.
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So, I hop in the car
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and I drive all
the way down to Bangkok
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and I go into this store
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and I was a very popular man
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(Natalie laughs)
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when I bought five iMacs.
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(Jon and Natalie laughs)
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- Yeah.
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- And I hauled it
back up to Mae Sot
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and we scheduled
a training session
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and we did a
full week of training.
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Basically, three
college courses in four days.
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Taught them
lighting, taught them camera,
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how to run the
camera, how to do exposure,
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how to do color balance,
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and then how to
edit, how to do graphics,
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how to design a show,
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audio, all that
stuff in one week.
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And you can see the
team just working feverishly,
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trying to figure out
now was much more difficult
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because we have three languages.
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- [Natalie] Right.
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- I would speak in English
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and then Travis
would translate into Karen
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and then somebody else
would translate into Thai
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and then somebody else
would translate into Burmese
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from the Thai.
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- Wow.
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(Jon laughs)
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- One statement
would take three iterations
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to get through,
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and still, they
stuck with it all week long
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and they didn't give up
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and they just
really pursued this.
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And I just got the sense
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that they really
wanted to serve God
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but they didn't know how.
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- Right.
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- They didn't
have the right skills
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or they didn't
know the right people
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to get hired to
serve God full time.
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And this job gave
them that opportunity.
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- Wow.
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- And it just
really fed their souls.
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Their favorite time of
every single day was worship.
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And so, I would get in there
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and we'd start at eight o'clock
in the morning with worship
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and I would say, Okay,
we're gonna go 20 minutes.
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Around nine o'clock,
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(Jon and Natalie laughs)
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we'd start wrapping up
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because they were so into it.
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You know, it's
like we take for granted
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so much of the gospel,
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so much knowledge of the Bible.
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But you go to
these other places,
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they don't have
those kinds of insights
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that have been developed
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over the course of, you know,
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centuries of living
in a Christian country,
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Christian worldview.
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You go into some of
the basics about the gospel
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and who God is
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and how he sees us
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and what's his plan for us.
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Just eating it up.
It just feeds our soul.
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- That's awesome.
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- At the end of three weeks,
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we did our first filming.
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This was a Friday
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and our first
filming was done in Thai.
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- Okay.
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- [Jon] Our first
filming was done in Karen.
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- [Natalie] Okay.
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- [Jon] And then, our first
filming was done in Burmese.
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- [Natalie] Wow.
00:16:05.89\00:16:07.13
- So, we went from
nothing, from no...
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- No facility.
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- No studio,
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no team,
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no equipment
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except, you
know, the used stuff,
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to a studio,
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a team,
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doing their own production,
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filming in three weeks.
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Three weeks from
zero to production.
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- That is insane.
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That is totally a God thing.
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That's why we said
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this is miracle after
miracle after miracle.
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- Yes.
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- Because it was a miracle
that you found that house
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- Yes.
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- that it was wide enough.
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- Yes.
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- It was a miracle
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that he helped you
to get the equipment.
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It was a miracle that
he provided the workers.
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- Yes.
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- Their heart to
serve him is a miracle.
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- Yes.
00:16:47.37\00:16:48.44
- Yeah. (Jon laughs)
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So many beautiful miracles.
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- One miracle after another.
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- Yeah. (Jon and Natalie laughs)
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- And so, this is our team.
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On the left is
Travis and his wife, Becky,
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and their brand
new baby boy, Judson.
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He's such a sweetheart.
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- Cutie.
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- And next to them is Tiku.
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He speaks Burmese.
00:17:04.42\00:17:06.19
And then, there is
in the front, Pado,
00:17:06.19\00:17:09.19
and her husband
in the back, is Jay.
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He speaks Thai.
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And then, to his left, in
the front row, is Jasmine.
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She speaks Karen.
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Behind her is Tutu,
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and the girl in
the front is Momo
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and the one behind her is Week.
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And the young man on the
far right is named Ocean.
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- Okay. - Okay.
00:17:29.44\00:17:30.38
So, he speaks excellent Thai.
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He's fully Thai as well as Jay.
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He and Jay are full Thai,
00:17:34.15\00:17:35.75
which is very unusual.
00:17:35.75\00:17:37.39
- Right.
00:17:37.39\00:17:38.32
- Still, their daily routine is
00:17:38.32\00:17:40.69
first thing in the morning,
00:17:40.69\00:17:41.79
they dig into the word.
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This feeds the whole program.
00:17:43.39\00:17:46.66
- Right.
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It keeps it on track.
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- [Jon] Yes. -
It encourages them.
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- [Jon] Yeah.
00:17:50.57\00:17:51.80
- It gives them
the spirit connection
00:17:51.80\00:17:52.83
that they need to listen to God
00:17:52.83\00:17:54.84
to do the shows
the the way he wants.
00:17:54.84\00:17:56.97
- Absolutely. Absolutely.
00:17:56.97\00:17:58.87
And same with our
team in the first studio.
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- [Natalie] Right.
00:18:01.58\00:18:02.81
- They do a daily
morning devotional.
00:18:02.81\00:18:04.45
- Yeah. (Jon laughs)
00:18:04.45\00:18:05.28
That's awesome.
00:18:05.28\00:18:06.28
- So, now we have a little video
00:18:06.28\00:18:07.52
that was shot while I was there
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to show you a little bit
more about what's happening
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and what it looks like.
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- Okay.
00:18:12.89\00:18:13.72
(dramatic music)
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- We are here in
Mae Sot, Thailand,
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and the Lord
has just provided us
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a brand new to us house
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in which we can start
doing video production.
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This particular
city is a unique city.
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It's a border town.
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And so, it can
potentially reach into Myanmar
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through Karen
and Burmese languages
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and we have people here
00:18:41.15\00:18:42.98
that we're hiring
that speak those languages
00:18:42.98\00:18:46.45
and we're looking
into satellite distribution
00:18:46.45\00:18:50.53
so that we can get
up onto the satellite
00:18:50.53\00:18:52.79
and a lot of places
00:18:52.79\00:18:54.30
that don't really have
good access to the internet
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and stuff,
00:18:57.93\00:18:59.17
they have dishes,
they can start watching.
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(dramatic music)
00:19:00.74\00:19:03.47
Our target audience
is Thai, Burmese, Karen.
00:19:03.47\00:19:06.94
There's two kinds of Karen,
S'gaw Karen and Pwo Karen.
00:19:06.94\00:19:10.58
So, that's what
we're gonna be working on.
00:19:10.58\00:19:12.75
And the Lord's brought a
really interesting mixture
00:19:12.75\00:19:15.25
of people here
00:19:15.25\00:19:16.65
with each of those
language abilities.
00:19:16.65\00:19:18.59
We hired a young
man and his wife.
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He's from central Thailand.
00:19:25.23\00:19:26.76
There's very few Adventists
from central Thailand.
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Most of the congregation in
the Adventist church in Thailand
00:19:32.67\00:19:35.37
is the minority.
00:19:35.37\00:19:36.64
The hill tribes on the
border up in the north,
00:19:36.64\00:19:40.21
very, very few
actual central Thai.
00:19:40.21\00:19:43.65
What that means is
majority people group.
00:19:43.65\00:19:46.28
Very few of them
are actually believers.
00:19:46.28\00:19:48.88
And I was talking to him
00:19:48.88\00:19:50.39
as we were going out
00:19:50.39\00:19:51.62
purchasing equipment
for the studio yesterday.
00:19:51.62\00:19:54.29
He is so excited
00:19:54.29\00:19:55.89
to be able to
serve God with his life.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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(dramatic music)
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- That is so amazing
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to have somebody like that
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to be able to
reach the central Thai,
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which is our major target group,
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really, because there's so
little work that's being done
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and has been done.
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It's not very successful.
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The central Thai
are very satisfied
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with the religion that they have
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and the life that they have.
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They're not
looking for anything else.
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And so, to have somebody
that understands who Jesus is
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and is excited about him,
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this whole project,
just for that one person,
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it's really worth it.
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And I'm excited to see
what God's gonna do through him
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to reach more Thai
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that are unaware
of their deep need
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and love of their father.
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- That's Jay.
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I mean, when I
was talking to him...
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He doesn't speak
any English at all
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and I don't speak any Thai,
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so it was a
Google translate talk.
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(Jon and Natalie laughs)
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And he was saying
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that his heart was
beating out of his chest,
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just going like this.
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- He was so
excited. - So excited.
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He couldn't sleep all night.
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- [Natalie] Wow.
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- And he
couldn't eat food all day
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just because he was so
excited to be serving God.
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Now, he had a good
regular, steady job
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at a big cable installation,
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fiber optic cable is
what he was installing.
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You know, real stable job.
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And he was very
happy to give that all up.
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- Wow.
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You know, when these guys,
when we first interviewed them
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and you know, things
were just coming together,
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I was like,
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well, are you guys
interested in doing this job?
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This is how much
we're gonna pay you.
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It's not a lot.
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But they're all
like, yeah, let's do it.
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I was thinking
we'd hire two or three,
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we had a budget for four,
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so I thought we'd
hire four maximum,
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and here we go, hiring seven.
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But they're all, even
from the beginning until now,
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they're all there
working and we added one more.
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- Wow.
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- And Leroy Sharon,
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who's been there for,
you know, over 12 years,
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he says, "Man, I've been trying
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for the last
three and a half years
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to hire just one
or two good workers
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and I've really
struggled finding them.
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And you come in and you hire
six or seven right off the bat.
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How do you do it?"
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(laughs)
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- [Natalie] Only
by the grace of God.
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- By the grace
of God. He knows...
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- [Natalie] A lot of prayer.
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- Yes. - God provides.
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- Yes.
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And they see the
vision, you know.
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- Right. - The vision.
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And they see God moving.
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We just praise God
for what he's done.
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- Yeah.
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- The team is still working
as we speak day after day,
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just plugging away,
putting programs out there.
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Their Facebook
and YouTube following
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is just growing
by leaps and bounds.
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There are over 5,000.
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I mean, it's just
amazing what they're doing.
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- Yeah.
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- [Jon] And they've just begun.
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- Wow.
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- We're still
looking for a satellite.
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The laws there are
rather restrictive.
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And the first bid we
got was like 15,000 a month.
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And so, we're still
looking for other options.
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- Well, at least right now,
they can have things on YouTube.
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- [Jon] Yeah.
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- You know, that's still open.
00:24:07.98\00:24:08.81
- Yeah.
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- So, they're putting
their programs on YouTube
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all the time.
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- Yeah, yeah.
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I met somebody
from the Arakan tribe.
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Her and her families,
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like the only Adventist
in the hood entire tribe.
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- Wow.
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- So, record her
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and let's get this out
there in their language.
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And so this is the potential
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of this medium.
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It's just so powerful.
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- Right.
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- And then, guess what happened?
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- I don't know. You
know, maybe another miracle.
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- Yep.
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(Jon and Natalie laughs)
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- When we came home,
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that same donor says,
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"The Lord has blessed us,
we wanna do another studio."
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- Wow.
00:24:43.04\00:24:44.55
- So, now we're praying and
can't wait to get back to Asia
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to plant another studio.
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- Wow.
00:24:49.95\00:24:50.85
(Jon laughs)
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Yeah. That's really opposite
of what normally happens to us.
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- Yeah.
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- Normally, God gives an idea
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and then we
have to pray and pray
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and plan and plan
and pray and pray.
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And the funds come in over time.
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Well, sometimes we
stress, sometimes we don't.
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We just have to pray a lot.
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Like, Lord, you
gave us this idea,
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is this really your will?
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- Right.
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- Because
there's no funds for it,
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but then the
funds slowly come in.
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But this time, it was opposite
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that you had the funds first
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and then you were like,
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I gotta be a good
steward with these,
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you know, we
can't take for granted
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that we have enough money
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because everything's gonna
cost more than we think it will.
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- Right, Right.
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So, it was a
different kind of stress.
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- Right.
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- I don't wanna
blow it, you know.
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- Right. Right.
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- But the Lord just led so
clearly every step of the way.
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It felt like it
was taking forever,
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but when it was all
done and they were filming
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and they were on their own,
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I'm looking back thinking, that
all happened in three weeks.
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- Right.
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- From nothing to
studio in three weeks.
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- Right.
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And in reality, from
receiving the donation here
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until studio or
production was about a month.
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- Yeah.
00:25:55.75\00:25:56.69
- So, it wasn't very long.
00:25:56.69\00:25:58.22
We got the money just before
we had to pay for the house.
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- And usually, that's
the amount of time it takes
00:26:02.36\00:26:04.73
for the previous owner
to move out of the house.
00:26:04.73\00:26:07.40
- Right. They also
moved out really fast.
00:26:07.40\00:26:09.16
- [Jon] Yeah. In about a week.
00:26:09.16\00:26:10.57
- Yeah. Which is highly unusual.
00:26:10.57\00:26:12.97
- So, it was just a
miracle all the way around
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and just the way
things came together.
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I just love that area,
00:26:18.37\00:26:21.64
love Mae Sat,
00:26:21.64\00:26:22.88
love Travis and
we're so thankful for him.
00:26:22.88\00:26:25.78
The value of long term
missionary, it was so clear.
00:26:25.78\00:26:29.98
I'm not worried about him
wanting to come back to the
00:26:31.55\00:26:34.26
states or him getting tired.
00:26:34.26\00:26:35.46
- Or you mean the
project in the middle.
00:26:35.46\00:26:36.93
- Or getting caught up
with, you know, culture shock.
00:26:36.93\00:26:40.66
He's been there long enough,
he's got no culture shock.
00:26:42.06\00:26:44.37
He's not planning
on leaving the country
00:26:44.37\00:26:47.14
to return back to the states.
00:26:47.14\00:26:48.80
He's, you know, solid and
we've known him for so long.
00:26:48.80\00:26:53.68
- Yeah. - It's just a fantastic,
00:26:53.68\00:26:55.18
just the way God put
this all together is perfect.
00:26:55.18\00:26:58.18
- Yeah. Just miracle
upon miracle upon miracle.
00:26:58.18\00:27:01.32
- Yep. - Wow.
00:27:01.32\00:27:02.25
- For the sake of his kingdom.
00:27:02.25\00:27:03.49
- Yeah.
00:27:03.49\00:27:04.69
Well, it has been an
encouraging show to me.
00:27:04.69\00:27:08.06
I always love hearing the
stories of what God is doing.
00:27:08.06\00:27:10.56
And when he does story
upon story upon story like that,
00:27:10.56\00:27:13.90
miracle upon miracle,
00:27:13.90\00:27:14.93
it's just so awe-inspiring
00:27:14.93\00:27:17.30
and it makes you
wonder what more God would do
00:27:17.30\00:27:20.17
if we said yes every time.
00:27:20.17\00:27:21.84
- That's fantastic.
00:27:21.84\00:27:23.00
- [Natalie] Yeah. (Jon laughs)
00:27:23.00\00:27:23.81
- Well, God is good.
00:27:23.81\00:27:24.81
- Amen. All the time.
00:27:24.81\00:27:26.04
(Jon and Natalie laughs)
00:27:26.04\00:27:27.28
- Well, I would
like to invite you
00:27:27.28\00:27:28.68
to pray for these teams there,
00:27:28.68\00:27:30.75
that the materials they produce
00:27:30.75\00:27:33.08
will lead people to Christ,
00:27:33.08\00:27:35.65
to the one who loves them
and gave his life for them,
00:27:35.65\00:27:38.65
and that they will
be saved for eternity
00:27:38.65\00:27:40.59
and we will get
to meet them there.
00:27:40.59\00:27:42.52
If you would also like to be
a part of providing financially
00:27:42.52\00:27:46.16
for any of this television work,
00:27:46.16\00:27:47.66
please contact us at
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00:27:47.66\00:27:52.60
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00:27:52.60\00:27:54.64
Call us at (423)413-7321
00:27:56.10\00:28:00.84
or visit our website
at www.jesus4asia.org.
00:28:00.84\00:28:04.48
May God richly bless you
00:28:04.48\00:28:06.08
until we see you next time
00:28:06.08\00:28:07.85
on Jesus for Asia Now.
00:28:07.85\00:28:10.09
(dramatic music)
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