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- Hello and welcome
to "Jesus for Asia Now."
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I'm Natalie Wood
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and my husband Jon
is joining me today.
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Hello, love.
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- Hi darling. How are you?
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- I'm doing well.
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I'm looking forward
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to the stories that
we have to share today.
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- Yeah they're very inspiring.
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- Right.
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And we get to go to India again.
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- And we'll get to see the fruit
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of the toils and efforts that
we've invested here on Earth.
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- And all our viewers
will get to see the fruit
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of their contributions.
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- [Jon] Yes.
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- And the prayers.
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- [Jon] Yes.
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- Their prayers
are so important.
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- Absolutely, the
beautiful thing about praying,
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along with our giving, is that
it not only blesses the field
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over there and
allows the gospel to go
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into places
that it wasn't before
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but it also puts us in touch,
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it tunes our ears
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to the frequency
that God is communicating
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and it helps us be in tune with
his heart for the unreached.
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- So these Bible workers
are sponsored in a unique way.
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But before we get
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to that, - Uh-huh.
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- let's meet the Bible worker
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whose story we're sharing today.
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- [Jon] Yes.
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- All right.
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(Man speaking Hindi)
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- [Translator] I
come from a family
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which is a very
strong Hindu family.
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And my father, he
used to every year go
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on pilgrimage to the temples
around here in Tamil Nadu.
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Continually he did
that for eight years.
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And I did that for five years.
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And I wanted to
become a Hindu priest.
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In order to become a
Hindu priest, you need to go
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on your foot as a
pilgrimage, nearly 48 miles
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you have to
walk on your barefoot
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and then go and then
return back barefoot.
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Then you become a Hindu priest.
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So I even did that walking.
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I went 48 miles
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and I was completely set
to become a Hindu priest.
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(Man speaking Hindi)
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But all of a sudden my
father became very sick.
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I went to many temples.
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I did which all
possible remedies to be done.
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I did all the rituals so
that my father will be cured
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but none of my
prayers were answered.
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I even went to a
Roman Catholic church
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and there the
priest gave me some water
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and I brought it and
gave it to my father.
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That did not help.
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My father passed away.
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My father was the
only one who was earning
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for the whole family.
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I have two
brothers and a sister.
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I have to take care of
everywhere, everything.
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And I was studying, I
couldn't continue my studies
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because my father passed away.
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I could not console my mother.
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She used to cry.
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I used to tell her, "Don't cry,"
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but at the same time
I'd also be crying with her.
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But during that
time, my uncle came
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and visited me and he
said, "You people need peace."
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He handed us a
Bible, the Holy Bible.
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Even though he gave it to me,
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I took the Bible
and put it in my box,
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and I didn't use it
for more than a year.
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It was just simply lying there.
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After a year, since the family
situation was getting worse,
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I was thinking to myself,
why don't I study this Bible
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which is there lying in my box?
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So especially during
the nighttime, in order
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to divert my mind, I used
to take the Bible and read it.
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And my mother, she
became very angry on me.
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She said, "Are you getting mad?
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What is that you're
reading all the time?
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You and your uncle,
you both are getting mad.
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Don't do that.
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Better you study your
lesson, you go, get a job
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and you need to
come up in your life."
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(inspirational music)
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If you see my Bible, you can see
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all the pages
will be marked there.
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There'll be
something written there.
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I used to fight with the Lord
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for answers and
God used to reveal me.
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I used to pray and
sometimes I lock my room
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and I'll be inside kneeling
and praying and reading Bible.
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So God was totally
revealing me the truth.
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One day, I was sleeping,
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and my mother was
sleeping on the bed.
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All of a sudden,
my mother was sitting
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and she woke me up in
the middle of the night.
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And when he got
up, he saw his mother.
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She was just
looking at him and she said,
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"My son, I am having
an unbearable headache.
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I don't know what to do.
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And I tried everything."
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He asked her, "Did
you take any medicine?"
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She said, "Yes,
I took medicine."
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"Did you have any hot
drink? Tea or something?"
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She said, "Yes, I tried that,
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but still this
headache is not leaving me.
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It's really troubling me.
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I'm not able to
sleep the whole night.
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I didn't sleep," she said.
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He immediately called his uncle
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who's a Christian,
Seventh-day Adventist.
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He said, "Uncle, you
need to pray for my mother.
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She's suffering
from this headache.
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Can you please pray for her?"
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And he said, "If you pray,
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even God will
answer your prayers.
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Faithfully, you ask him,
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we will as a family pray here
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you pray there for your mother."
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And he took his mother and
asked her to sleep on his lap.
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And he prayed,
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"Father, before I
finish this prayer
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before I would say Amen,
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my mother should sleep.
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I didn't ask for the
recovery from headache,
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but I asked God that you
should help her to sleep.
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Give her good rest."
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I was praying, by the
time when I said, "Amen."
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When I saw my
mother was already,
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she slept.
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(inspirational music)
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The mother who used
to scold me before that,
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after this incident,
she used to encourage him.
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"You continually pray,"
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because she tasted and
saw how powerful is prayer.
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And after that
incident in the year 2012,
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God led the whole family
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into this
Seventh-day Adventist truth.
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(inspirational music)
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- Isn't that cool how he prayed
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for his mother and God
let her sleep on his lap?
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- He found help in the word
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during a time where
sorrow just wouldn't go away.
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- [Jon] Right. -
And so he finally turned
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to the word and
started finding Christ there.
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- Amen.
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- And I just think
it's so neat how God wants
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to meet everyone where they are
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in whatever
they're going through.
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- [Jon] Uh-huh.
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- So he was going
through the sorrow
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after his father's passing,
but he had put the Bible away.
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- [Jon] Mm-hmm.
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- You know, and then he
decided he was gonna read it.
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- [Jon] Yeah.
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- And I just
think that's so neat.
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And his uncle was
right there telling him,
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"This is what you need."
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- [Jon] Yeah. -
Your answers are in here.
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- Yeah. - [Natalie] Yeah.
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- That's
beautiful. - [Natalie] Yeah.
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- Thank God he had an
uncle that was a believer.
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- Yes, yes.
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That's part of what drives us.
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- [Jon] Yes.
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- You know, to continue
sponsoring Bible workers.
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- [Jon] Yes.
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- Is the realization,
the very real realization
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that there are many
places where there's no access.
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- [Jon] Exactly.
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- Nobody's there
to represent God.
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- Exactly. But this
little drop of one uncle now,
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we're gonna see how that
spreads joy and peace farther
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and farther and farther
in ever widening circles.
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- So these Bible
workers are sponsored
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in a unique way,
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as we said. - [Jon] Uh-huh.
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- What is that?
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What are we talking about?
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- Okay, so
several years ago I was
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in India and I was
talking with the president
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of Southeast India
Union in Tamil Nadu.
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And he had a friend
that was the president
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of a small section
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in Tamil Nadu who was
requesting for 10 Bible workers.
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- [Natalie] Hmm.
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- And I had an idea because
I had been recently thinking
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about what if a church
could tithe their church budget?
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- [Natalie] Mm-hmm. - Okay.
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What if they tithe
their church budget?
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You know?
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'Cause it says, "Give me
a tenth of your increase."
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- Right.
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- What if we saw the church
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as a church family and the
church budget as an increase?
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- [Natalie] Hmm.
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- So you could tie the
church budget that would pretty
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much pay for
the 10 Bible workers
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for the year, the
yearly budget would pay.
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Anyway, so I thought
maybe that could work.
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And so I came back to
America, and I presented it
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to the board saying,
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"Hey, there's this one section
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in which there's no church in
10 villages and they're asking
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for 10 Bible workers to
open up work in those villages."
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Now you have to understand
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that the church at this
time, they were in transition.
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They were a church plant
and had been renting a church,
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actually two different churches.
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And then they had just
recently bought property
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in hopes of building a church.
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In the meantime,
while we were waiting
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to get the plans and
the preparation to build
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we were having church in a tent.
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- Mm-hmm.
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- [Jon] You remember that?
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- Yep. (laughs) - [Jon] Yeah.
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- For two years.
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- Two years, yeah.
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And they were looking
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at building a
new church facility.
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- Right.
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- And normally if
the church is planning
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on doing a big building project,
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you don't normally think
about taking on extra expenses.
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- Right.
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- They believed and understood
that this is God's work,
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and if you help God's work
in the foreign mission field,
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then he will bless in the local.
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- Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
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- (laughs) And so they
went ahead and decided, yeah
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we will sponsor 10 Bible workers
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in India that we've never seen.
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We've never met.
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Trusting that God
will take care of us.
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- Yeah.
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- Yeah.
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Now they couldn't
end up calling it tithe.
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They didn't end up tithing.
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But they made it another
item in the church budget.
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- Right.
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- And they presented
to the church and, well,
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we'll tell more of the story
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after we see some
more of the Bible workers.
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- [Natalie] Okay.
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(inspirational music)
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(Man speaking Hindi)
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- [Translator] This
place is filled with Hindus,
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and they have a team,
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his uncle, he,
and sister Muthazhagu,
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another sister Sasikala.
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They go to all
these villages as a team.
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When he came into this village
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he went and visited the
first house because that lady,
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her husband left her,
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and she had a daughter
who cannot speak or hear.
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So she invited them
to pray for her daughter.
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As they were praying
inside, they could see
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someone standing in a
white dress outside the door.
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And he thought someone
has come to see that lady.
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He said, "Sister, go see
someone standing outside."
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When she went and
saw those people said,
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"Is this the
group? Is this the group?"
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They were talking
to themselves outside.
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Few people were,
along with that man
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who was dressed in white dress.
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He's from a political party.
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And this guy, when he saw him
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and the other people
praying he called them,
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"Come out immediately,
how can you pray here?
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You are not supposed to do this.
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Wait, what I'm going
to do, wait and see."
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And he said,
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"No, we just came
because they invited us to pray.
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That is why."
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"No, I should not
see you anymore here."
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If not, he threatened
even that he would kill.
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And immediately
he took the phone
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and he called the SP,
Superintendent of Police.
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And he called them
and he made a big problem.
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And all the
villages got together,
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but they stood
firm and they said
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"They invited us, we prayed.
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You do whatever you
want, we will pray."
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And then that man said
to the other two JFA worker,
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"You two young
girls, you are young.
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If you come once again,
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we will make you
really feel ashamed."
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Then that that
guy called the SP.
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And he said, "You
have to take an action."
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Since brother Kanan knows
the Superintendent of Police,
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he called him.
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But by the time, there
were a bunch of police came
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to this village, and
these people were shouting,
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"You chase these people out,
and they should not stay here.
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They should not come back here."
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But before
those police, he said,
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"No, we will come here.
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We will teach
these people good thing.
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You do whatever you want.
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We have Jesus who's with us."
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But the police requested them,
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"Please go, if not
there will be a big problem."
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They went from there
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to another next village
preaching about Jesus Christ.
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(inspirational music)
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Before this incident,
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the only people
knew was in this village.
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But after this
incident, many other villages,
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they came to know
that there is a group
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of God's people who is from
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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They are preaching
about Jesus Christ.
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That opened many doors for us.
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(inspirational music)
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We went to this village again
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preaching about Jesus
Christ, teaching about him.
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The Hindu leader saw us.
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He called the police.
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And these police
and the group of people,
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they were just coming to
get us, but we didn't know.
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But as usual, the
whole day, we prayed,
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in the evening for the last
visiting, we went to one house.
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We were praying.
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That lady asked us, "Oh,
you are still doing this?
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You are still praying?
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The police didn't
come and catch you?
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Because I saw the police
were just searching for you.
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They were coming just
behind you to arrest you."
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We thank the Lord that
God hid us from their eyes,
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from the police and
from those political leaders.
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And another time,
myself and our team people,
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every week we have one day
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as fasting and praying.
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As I was praying in one
house, this Muthazhagu sister,
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she went to
another house to pray.
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But that time all
the villages got hold
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of her and they
were all surrounding her.
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And they said,
"Why are you here?
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Why did you come here?
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We have told you not to come.
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How come you are here?"
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We don't know how,
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but amazingly, God
brought sister Muthazhagu
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from that group.
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They were planning
to do something to her,
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but God delivered her
from the hands of these people.
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(inspirational music)
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He praise God because even
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though they visited
many other villages,
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this place is the
most difficult place.
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But amazingly,
even in other villages
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we could not start
a small prayer group.
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But here God helped us
to start a prayer group.
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(inspirational music)
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- So in the place that
was the most difficult,
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that gave him the most trouble,
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that's where they have
a prayer group started.
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- Right.
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(both laugh)
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God is amazing how
He turns persecution
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into blessings.
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- Yeah. Yeah.
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- And He brings
good out of evil,
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or what the
others intended for evil.
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- I love how they got
together as a team to go
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and uplift each other in
dealing with these places.
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- [Natalie] Yeah.
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- And the persecution
that they encountered.
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- Yeah.
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Well we have another video.
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- Okay.
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(inspirational music)
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(Woman speaking Hindi)
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- [Translator] She was a Hindu.
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She used to go on
pilgrimage. (brush scraping)
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She used to do all the needed
rituals for the Hindu gods.
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She did everything possible so
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that her family will
be kept safe and sound.
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She lost her husband when
her daughter was 11 years old.
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She has only one daughter.
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Her name is Ishwari.
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And now she has got three
children, one girl and two boys.
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(inspirational music)
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And one day when I was
about to cross the road
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with my
granddaughter in my hands,
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there was one man who
could not cross the road.
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So I was trying
to help that man.
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That is when
there were four people.
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They came to help me to
help that man to cross the road.
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They said, "Mother, please wait.
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We will help you.
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Let us all
together, we will help."
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So they all five got together
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and they went help
the man to cross the road.
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And they came back.
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When they came back, the four
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of the Bible workers asked her,
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"What is your problem?
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We see that you
have some problem."
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Then she asked them,
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"You are police people.
How can you help us, help me?"
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They said, "No, no, no.
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We are not police people.
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We are Bible workers.
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We have come here to pray
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for people who are
in need, who are sick.
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We want to pray for them."
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Then she said, "You know,
my granddaughter is very sick.
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She's having this kidney problem
and also uterus problem."
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When these four
people asked her,
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"Can we pray for
your granddaughter?"
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She said, "I don't
know what is prayer,
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but I want my
granddaughter to be saved.
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Please pray for her."
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(inspirational music)
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But since I was
knowing about Jesus
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little by little, there
was big problem raising.
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And her son-in-law,
he created a big problem.
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Then she started going again
to this Hinduism because few
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of her neighborhood people,
they started telling her,
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"You should go
back to the Hinduism
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and you should do these rituals,
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so that all these
problems will be rectified
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and you will be fine."
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She went to many temples,
but there was no answer.
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But Satan was
creating lot of problem.
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Her son-in-law left the house
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and her daughter was struggling
with those three children
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and she got these
dreadlocks on her head
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and people said, "See, the
Hindu gods has come on you.
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That is why you
got these dreadlocks."
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She didn't believe.
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Finally what she did,
she completely took all the
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deadlocks from her head.
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And then she collected
all the Hindu gods' photos
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which was hanging in the house.
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She gathered
it, put it in a bag,
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and then she
took it and threw it.
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And she said,
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"No more these Hindu gods
are going to come into my house.
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I'm going to
believe in Jesus Christ."
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And when these four
Bible workers started giving
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Bible study, and that
really touched my heart.
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And after that they asked me,
00:19:50.62\00:19:53.56
"Do you like to take baptism?
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Accept Jesus Christ
as your personal savior?
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She said, "Yes."
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(inspirational music)
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When she came back,
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that is when the
real problem was waiting
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for her. (bird squawking)
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The whole village
turned against her.
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Everyone started scolding her
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and they stopped talking to her.
00:20:14.68\00:20:16.71
And even they
stopped giving water.
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They said, "We don't
want to see your face."
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She fenced the whole house.
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That was a miracle did by God.
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He gave her the needed
funds to fence this house.
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And she was praying,
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"Lord, I don't have water
to drink or for my daily use."
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God answered the prayer
and he gave the needed finance
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and they gave the pipeline,
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from the government pipeline,
they gave water for her.
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(inspirational music)
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- Isn't that
beautiful how an act
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of kindness opened the door?
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- And you know it's
interesting 'cause she talked
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about going on pilgrimages,
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and what a
faithful Hindu she was.
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- [Jon] Yes.
00:21:02.62\00:21:03.83
- And he Bible
worker that we met first,
00:21:03.83\00:21:05.39
- [Jon] Uh-huh.
00:21:05.39\00:21:06.33
- he also went on pilgrimages,
00:21:06.33\00:21:07.66
and I mean, he
walked 48 miles barefoot
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or something like that,
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I think he said. -
[Jon] Yeah, both ways.
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So in this next
video, we get to meet,
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first the daughter,
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and then the daughter's daughter
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which is the
lady's granddaughter.
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(people singing in
Hindi and clapping)
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(Woman speaking Hindi)
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- [Translator] She
never believes on Jesus Christ
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or she never goes to church.
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But when this
situation was with her daughter
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that was when the four Bible
workers visited her mother.
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They used to frequently
visit her mother's house
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and the Bible
workers started talking
00:21:52.67\00:21:56.14
to her and encouraged her that
if you ask, God will answer,
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and deliver your
daughter from this sickness.
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She didn't have that
faith in the beginning.
00:22:05.95\00:22:08.09
But gradually, they
started talking to her.
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And then they said, "You
come to the church, tell God.
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You talk to God.
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You pour your burdens to God.
00:22:16.56\00:22:19.50
God will
definitely give you a answer."
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And that is when,
for the first time,
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she went to the church,
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she went in the front
and she witnessed, she said,
00:22:28.64\00:22:33.72
"These are the problems
00:22:34.38\00:22:35.35
I have, (bird squawking)
00:22:35.35\00:22:36.58
and I've come
here to the church so
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that you can all pray for
me and I'm also going to pray."
00:22:38.85\00:22:42.96
And I started going to church
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and praying and
asking God to deliver.
00:22:44.69\00:22:48.50
(inspirational music)
00:22:48.50\00:22:52.37
In this situation
00:22:52.37\00:22:53.90
when these four JFA
Bible workers started praying
00:22:53.90\00:22:56.14
for the daughter, she says
that before she will not go out,
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she cannot walk, she cannot
play with the other children.
00:23:00.21\00:23:03.04
She will eat a little bit,
00:23:03.04\00:23:04.88
and then (birds squawking)
00:23:04.88\00:23:05.98
she'll go back to sleep.
00:23:05.98\00:23:06.98
But after they came,
00:23:06.98\00:23:08.62
started praying for the
daughter, God answered the
00:23:08.62\00:23:12.95
prayers. My
daughter started walking,
00:23:12.95\00:23:14.92
my daughter started
playing with the other children.
00:23:14.92\00:23:18.16
That really touched my heart.
00:23:18.16\00:23:20.16
I started to think, we
went to so many temples
00:23:20.16\00:23:23.57
but none of those
temples, the gods answered.
00:23:23.57\00:23:27.80
But when I prayed to the
Lord, living God, Jesus Christ,
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he answered, and my daughter
is able to move around now.
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But still my husband, he's
not accepted Jesus Christ yet.
00:23:36.85\00:23:41.35
But the JFA Bible
workers, they started talking
00:23:41.35\00:23:44.89
to my husband and now he
comes and stands for prayer.
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(inspirational music)
00:23:49.19\00:23:52.43
And when she went to the
doctor for the final result
00:23:52.43\00:23:55.20
of her daughter, she was
praying to the living God.
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Her concentration
was not on anything else.
00:23:59.50\00:24:02.74
Finally when the result
they wanted to announce,
00:24:02.74\00:24:06.24
the doctor said,
"Why are you so worried?
00:24:06.24\00:24:09.88
Your daughter is normal.
00:24:09.88\00:24:11.55
The reproductive organs for
a female, she has everything.
00:24:11.55\00:24:15.62
There is no
problem in her uterus.
00:24:15.62\00:24:17.99
Only thing is she's
having more salt in her body.
00:24:17.99\00:24:21.29
You need to take
treatment for that.
00:24:21.29\00:24:24.13
She's a normal girl
00:24:24.13\00:24:26.23
and she will be a good
woman and a mother in future."
00:24:26.23\00:24:30.93
When the doctor said
that, she started crying.
00:24:30.93\00:24:33.67
She was so thankful.
00:24:33.67\00:24:36.10
She said,
"Lord, thank you, Lord.
00:24:36.10\00:24:38.07
Thank you Lord. Thank you.
00:24:38.07\00:24:39.51
Praise God. Praise God."
00:24:39.51\00:24:40.88
(inspirational music)
00:24:40.88\00:24:44.28
And she has a prayer
request that please pray
00:24:44.28\00:24:47.52
for her daughter that God
will touch that little girl.
00:24:47.52\00:24:52.59
She's four
years old now and pray
00:24:53.46\00:24:55.72
that God will heal her
completely so that the salt
00:24:55.72\00:24:59.19
in her body will be balanced
and she will be a normal girl.
00:24:59.19\00:25:04.10
She says that, "I'm
waiting, I'm praying.
00:25:04.10\00:25:06.43
I wanted to come
to Christ as a family
00:25:06.43\00:25:09.10
because I don't
want to be a Christian
00:25:09.10\00:25:10.71
and my husband in the
Hindu belief, that is not good.
00:25:10.71\00:25:14.51
I'm praying that
we will be together
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accept God and come
to God as a family."
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(inspirational music)
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She says when she was a
Hindu, even though she went
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to many temples, she didn't
have the peace in her heart.
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There was something
lacking in her life,
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but that she understood only
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after she accepted Jesus Christ.
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Now she has the
peace in her heart.
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God has given her the peace,
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and she says God
wakes her every night
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at 11:30 or 12 in the
midnight, he wakes her up.
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It's like someone
tapping her and waking her up,
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and she would wake up
and go kneel and pray to God.
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And every day she
starts the day with prayer.
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She would also end
the day with prayer.
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This kind of peace I
didn't have when I was in Hindu.
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But now I have that peace.
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(inspirational music)
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Me and my team,
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JFA Bible
workers, we thank the Lord
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for the way he's doing
these miraculous things
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in this village, and we pray
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that you'd also join us
and pray for this village.
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So that God will open many doors
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and His name will be glorified.
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(inspirational music)
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- Amen.
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- [Jon] Amen.
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- There are so many reasons
that God is getting glory
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from this video.
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- Yes. Just the
peace that they have now.
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And you notice
how it's transitioned,
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I don't know about
for you, but for me,
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it transitions from the
statistics of the unreached
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- Mm.
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- to that lady.
- [Natalie] Mm-hmm.
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- The daughter,
the granddaughter.
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- Yeah.
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- What a cute little girl.
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- [Natalie] Yeah. - I mean,
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the sparkle in her eyes. - Cute.
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- The hope that she has
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for eternity now, and
even for a healthy life.
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- [Natalie] Yeah.
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- It's like, this
is what Jesus brings.
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- Yeah.
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- They're real people's stories.
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And to know that
there's billions more out there.
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- [Natalie] Yeah.
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- That still need to have access
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to the gospel, like
this wonderful family.
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- Yes, and I would
like to invite you to pray
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for these people and
others in the same area
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that haven't had a chance to
know Jesus yet, but they will,
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because God is sending his
Bible workers out to tell them.
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If you would
like more information,
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(inspirational
music) you can contact us
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at Jesus for Asia, PO Box 1221,
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Collegedale, Tennessee 37315.
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Call us at (423) 413-7321,
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or visit our
website at Jesus4asia.org.
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May God richly bless you
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until we see you next time
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on "Jesus for Asia Now."
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(inspirational music)
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