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- Hello, and welcome
to Jesus for Asia Now.
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I'm Natalie Wood, and
today we have the privilege
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of learning more about
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a powerful TV
ministry in South India.
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Here in the studio
with me is my husband, John.
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Hello, love. - Hi,
darling, how are you?
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- I'm doing well.
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I'm really
excited about this show
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because I love
this ministry. - Amen.
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- It's such an amazing thing
when we get to hear the stories
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and we get to hear a couple
of stories of what God's doing.
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- Some
miracle-inspiring stories.
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- Right, so first of all,
tell us where this ministry is
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and what, just kind of
summarize what it's doing.
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- So this is a television
broadcasting ministry.
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- Does it go full-time?
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- No, it's got a half-hour
slot in primetime every morning.
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- Okay.
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- And which is strange that
primetime would be in morning,
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but most people are waking up
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and they wanna
get some inspiration,
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so they'll turn
on the television
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and that's when
this show comes on.
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- Okay, so it's a morning show.
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- Yes, and it's on a
national television channel
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which covers,
it's like an accepted,
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like what a main
channel in the Tamil language.
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- Okay.
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- And so it's very popular
and a lot of people watch it
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and a lot of people call in
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and a lot of people are
in church because of it.
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- Wow, that's a blessing.
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- Yes.
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- All right, well, I know
the first video that we have
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is kind of an
introduction to the TV ministry
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from our director in
India, Israel Prasad.
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- Yes.
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- Let's watch that now.
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- Okay. - Okay.
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Just recently, I
visited a church.
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After the sermon, I came out,
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there was this lady, she came
and hold my hands very tight
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and she said, "I was
been watching your TV program.
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"I've come today
because of the TV program.
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"The prayer warriors
guided me to the church
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"and I've come here."
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She had two sons.
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One son was, he met with
an accident, he passed away.
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The other son was imprisoned
because of the wrong deed.
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Someone else did
and it was on him
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and her husband is a drunkard.
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She would
always fear every night
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when her husband
comes after the work
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because sometimes he
even wanted to kill her.
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This was the time when she
saw this wonderful TV program
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and that message
was consoling her,
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saying that you don't worry,
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there is someone for
you who is Jesus Christ.
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If you believe
Him, if you pray to Him,
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He will answer your prayers.
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He's there with
you, never give up.
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So this lady, she
started calling to that number
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and these people
started praying with her,
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consoling her and
encouraging her also to pray.
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Her son was
released from the jail.
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She was so happy and she said,
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"Now my son is
going and working outside.
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"We have a peaceful life
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"and now my son is telling me,
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"you go to church,
never miss the church.
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"You go to God,
you pray for me more
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"because I need to change more."
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And moreover, her husband,
God touched her husband.
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He gave up on
his drinking habit.
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Now the family is complete.
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They are so
happy, she's so happy.
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When I heard that, oh
wow, I was so thrilled.
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This particular TV
program is a half an hour slot.
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It's a morning,
everyday program.
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This particular TV,
which is called Tamil TV,
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it's a national wide TV
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and it is also broadcasted
in many other parts of the world
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like Dubai, Sri Lanka and
some other countries in Asia.
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It was when I was invited
to preach in a TV program,
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I was just
waiting after my sermon,
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I was waiting in the studio.
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There was this
call from Sri Lanka.
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A lady called and
I answered the call
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because there was
no other worker there.
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And she started crying.
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I asked her,
"What is your problem?"
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She said, "I was been
watching this particular channel
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"and I was so
blessed to hear this message
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"saying that there is someone
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"who can really
take care of the problem.
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"That is why I rang up to
you this number for prayer.
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"Would you please pray for me?"
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That was when the
Holy Spirit spoke to me.
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There are so many
people who are there dying
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without knowing Jesus Christ.
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God has really put
together a beautiful,
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amazing prayer warrior team
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through which there are
so many people being blessed.
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In this team, we have got
two elderly people, old people.
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One is aging more than 70
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and other one is about to
go to the 70 years of age.
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And now, since there is
so many prayer requests,
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now we have
added one more person
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in our prayer warrior team.
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She's also aged more than 70,
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but when they
come, when they pray,
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when they talk to people,
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they are more
active than a young person.
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And they are busy the whole day
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because there are
so many phone calls,
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new phone calls coming in
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and they have
got the old members
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who have been added
in their prayer list.
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They keep praying
for them, answering them
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and teaching them
about Jesus Christ.
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And through this
wonderful prayer warrior team,
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there are so many
people who have been attending
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Seventh-day Adventist Church
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for the first
time in their life.
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And they have been
introduced to the local pastors.
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The pastors go,
meet them personally,
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encourage them
to come to church.
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And there have
been numbers of baptism
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accepted Jesus Christ
as their personal savior
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through this TV program.
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What more joy can we have
than these things in the world?
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People saying that
I have accepted Jesus
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through your TV program.
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That is the joyous thing I have.
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- Wow. - Isn't that awesome?
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- It is, I really love it.
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- Yeah.
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- The stories are amazing.
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You know, people's
lives totally changed.
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- And this is
what's so beautiful
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is that as we
travel around Tamil Nadu,
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we go to different churches
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and we find people
who have been baptized
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and people in there says,
yeah, we joined the church
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because we heard
about this on television.
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And we called and we
talked to the sweet old lady
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and she told us about the Bible
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and she told us about the truth.
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And now we're here today.
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- That's one thing I love about
this TV studio that we have
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is the prayer warriors.
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- Yes.
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- 'Cause these
ladies are so dedicated.
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It's amazing.
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- That is, yes.
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- They have up to like 80
studies going each sometimes.
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- Yes. - Each one of them.
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- Right, per week,
80 studies per week.
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- Yeah.
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And they're not young ladies.
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And many times
they do go to the studio
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and sit there and take calls,
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but they also take them at home.
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And in the middle of the
night, whenever the phone rings.
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And I know we've
talked about them before,
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but I just love these ladies.
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And Israel's mother, Israel,
our director was on there.
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His mother is one of the ladies,
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which we saw in the video.
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- Yes. - And she
just inspires me.
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They inspire me so much.
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And we're gonna meet
one of the other ones.
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She's one of the
original prayer warriors.
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Today, her name
is Sister Kamala.
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And so we've got a
couple of stories from her.
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- Yes.
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- Let's watch that video now.
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- Okay.
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(upbeat music)
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- I am here with Sister Kamala.
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This is her house.
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She has been
working with Jesus for Asia,
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especially with the TV ministry
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for the past five to six years.
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From the
beginning of this ministry,
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she has been a great support,
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giving Bible studies
to many hundreds of people
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who have not heard
about Jesus Christ.
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This is the notebook she uses
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and she has got all the details.
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And even what
Bible study she's giving,
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what is the prayer request
for what they have called.
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The whole notebook is
full of these contacts.
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This is the family whom
she gave Bible study recently
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and they took baptism.
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God blessed
this wonderful family
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and they accepted Jesus
Christ as their personal savior.
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(speaks in foreign language)
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- [Translator] This
TV ministry is reaching
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not only the
people in the cities,
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it is also reaching people
who are in very remote areas.
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I get calls even from
people who are not civilized,
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but when those people call
me, God gives me understanding.
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He teaches me how to
talk and how to pray for them
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and also reveals to me
what kind of pain they are in
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and what they are calling
about even before they call me.
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When I tell them,
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"I'm going to pray
for you for this purpose,"
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they're
surprised and they ask me,
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"How did you know about this?"
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And then I tell them,
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"It is Jesus
Christ, the living God,
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"that showed me how to
pray for you and your problems."
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There was one lady who had
a big problem with her leg.
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Her leg was twisted
and bent in seven places,
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but the doctors could
not diagnose the cause.
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This lady was a
Seventh-day Adventist,
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but she gave up on
God and cursed him.
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She said, "Why should I
be a Seventh-day Adventist
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"when God is not
answering my prayers?
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"He's always
leaving me in sickness.
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"Why should I follow this God?"
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That was when she called
to ask me to pray for her.
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She said, "This
is the last time.
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"I'm going to
let you pray for me,
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"but after this,
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"I'm not going to be a
Seventh-day Adventist anymore.
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"I am going to give
up all these prayers
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"and faith in everything,
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"but if you pray
for me this last time,
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"I will pray with you."
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So I prayed for her,
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and that night God sent a light
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and the light came
and touched her leg.
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God performed a miracle,
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and the seven bends
in her leg were released.
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She used to depend
completely on a walking stick,
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but now she can walk
and only uses the stick
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if she is about to fall.
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And because of
what God did that night,
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her faith in God
has also been restored.
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She told me, "I was
so stupid to curse God,
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"but see how God
answered your prayer for me.
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"Now we have
become prayer partners.
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"We pray for each other
and God is really blessing.
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"And today I
talked to the pastor
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"and asked the pastor
to go to that lady's house
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"and take her to
the church tomorrow.
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"She is going to go to the
church again after a long time."
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I get calls from
Sri Lanka, Dubai,
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Andaman, Mumbai, and Karnataka,
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and from other parts of
India and other countries.
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The majority of the
people who call are Hindus.
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They come from very
strong Hindu backgrounds.
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I am so delighted that
through this TV ministry,
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I can reach many people and
share the love of God with them.
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I can encourage them to pray,
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encourage them to look
to Jesus, the living God,
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not to idols or
any other beliefs,
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but to believe on Jesus Christ.
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- So the studio where
this is located is where?
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- It's in Chennai.
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- Okay.
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- Yeah, it's up
on top of a church.
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- On top of a church?
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- Yes.
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The way that it started is that
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this other TV show
that Israel was called
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to be a preacher
in for one episode,
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they decided to pull out.
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They decided to stop broadcast.
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And so the station,
the television channel,
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actually asked Israel,
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"Can you come and
take over their time slot?"
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- Wow.
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- So we didn't have a
studio, we didn't have cameras,
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and so the channel
actually loaned them space
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and loaned them
cameras at the beginning.
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And then we were able
to get a couple of cameras
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and they filmed
it in the church.
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So every day that
they would go to film,
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they'd pull the pews back
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and they'd put the
green screen up on the windows
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and they'd set up
the lights and the camera
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and they'd shoot their
shows and they'd put it all away
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and then they'd
have church that Sabbath.
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- We know what that's like,
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having to rearrange everything
in order to have church.
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- Yes. - Or to shoot.
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- Yeah, definitely.
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So then we started
looking for land for a studio.
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And land's so
expensive in the city.
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And then he talked with a
church that he's a member of
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and they offered him the roof.
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And so for just $20,000,
we built a whole TV studio,
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but not just a TV
studio, an English church also,
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because there's a number
of English speaking people
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in that city that
would love to meet.
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And so now there's
a church, a studio,
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a control and editing room,
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all on the top
floor of the church.
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- Right, and the Tamil
church still meets downstairs.
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- Yes, yeah.
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But the thing about it
is, you mentioned earlier
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that it was
expensive to run the TV channel
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and it is on a
single item basis.
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But if you look at the
cost of reaching people,
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it's actually one of the
cheapest methods per person
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of any method that there is.
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The channel can reach
millions of people every day.
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Whereas a Bible worker in a year
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might be able to
reach a couple thousand
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if they're very active.
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And so per person reached,
the television is much cheaper.
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- Yeah, so in that video,
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there was a shot looking
out over a tea plantation.
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That's in the city of Valparai,
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which is up in the mountains
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and it's
actually a tiger preserve.
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So some of the kids
that watch may remember,
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we have some stories
from there about leopards.
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- That's right.
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- But we also have stories
of conversion from up there.
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But there's another
channel that runs one hour a day
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programs and then the people
can call to those same numbers
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to get Prayer Warriors.
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So it's been a huge
blessing up there also.
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The church there has
expanded a huge amount
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from the TV programs.
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- Yeah, and that
is one hour a day,
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every day for an
entire month for only $120
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for the entire month.
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The problem that that creates
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is now they're
asking for a bigger church
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- Yeah.
00:14:54.29\00:14:55.46
- Because the church
is bursting at the seams.
00:14:55.46\00:14:57.49
- Yeah, so we
need to pray for that,
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for a bigger church for them.
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- Definitely.
00:15:00.16\00:15:01.23
- Because that
reach is not gonna stop
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as long as we
can keep funding it.
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- That's right.
00:15:04.70\00:15:05.50
- So in speaking of funding,
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before we get to our next story,
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which is an amazing
story from Mrs. Kamala herself.
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And that is the
total for all the airtime
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for both the Chennai airtime,
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the Tamilan TV airtime
and the Valparai airtime
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and all the
workers that work there
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and giving a small
stipend to the prayer warriors.
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The total is
about 3,600 a month.
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- Yeah.
00:15:29.69\00:15:30.79
- Which is really
nothing compared to
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what it could be
for broadcasting.
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- Right, or what it
would cost here in America.
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- Right, that's very true.
00:15:36.20\00:15:38.10
- Yeah.
00:15:38.10\00:15:39.27
- And we're just
amazed by what God is doing.
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- Yeah, and it's a
beautiful combination
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because we have the air force,
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the television that goes out
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and then people
get interested in it
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and then we can
send our Bible workers.
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- Right.
00:15:53.31\00:15:54.15
- Or they'll call in and pray
00:15:54.15\00:15:55.25
and they'll put
us, put them in touch
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with the local Bible
worker, the local church.
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And so you've got-
- The local pastor.
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- Local Bible workers that
are then going to warm calls.
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You know, they're
making calls on people
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that are already interested,
that are already warm,
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that already know the
message and the truth and stuff
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that's shared on
the television channel.
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- Yeah, and it's
such a huge blessing.
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- Yes.
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- Like you said at the
beginning, we've had people,
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you know, we go to
different churches,
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Israel goes to
different churches
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and people say, I
come to the church
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because of the TV program.
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- Yes, yes.
00:16:25.28\00:16:26.28
- And so even if
they never call in,
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they still are
finding the churches.
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- Yeah, one of my favorite
stories is when this young man
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was getting
ready to take his life.
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He was very
depressed, very suicidal
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and he turned on the television
00:16:39.66\00:16:41.96
to cover the noise of his act
00:16:41.96\00:16:45.67
and happened to turn
it on right about the time
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that this program was airing.
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And Israel was
saying, don't give up,
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God has a plan for your life.
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At that very moment, caught
the young man's attention,
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that young man
called in and said,
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hey, you know, I'm at
this place in my life,
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can you please pray with me?
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Can you give me hope?
00:17:05.89\00:17:07.36
And started Bible
studies with Israel's mom.
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And he says the worst time
of the day for him emotionally
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was 3:30 in the morning.
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And so Israel's mom would call
him up at 3.30 every morning,
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she'd wake up herself, call
him and give him a Bible study.
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- So we got a call in
the office asking us to pray
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for Mrs. Kamala
because she had cancer.
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And this is her
telling her side of the story.
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- Yes.
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(gentle music)
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(speaks in foreign language)
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- [Translator] I was
feeling normal and healthy
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and going to the church
every day to answer calls
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coming in from
the JFA TV program
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when suddenly I was
diagnosed with cancer.
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I had been having
some internal bleeding,
00:17:56.14\00:17:58.14
but I didn't have
pain or any other symptoms.
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When the doctors did a
scan and saw the results,
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they were very surprised.
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They said, how
are you still alive?
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How are you able to walk?
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You should be in bed
and hardly able to move.
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After that, when I
went for treatments,
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my daughters would go with me.
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I would walk and
climb the stairs quickly,
00:18:17.63\00:18:20.06
but my daughters would
climb the stairs so slowly
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that the doctor would
ask, who is the patient?
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You or your daughters?
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You look so healthy.
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They were surprised to
know that I was the patient
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and that I had
fourth stage cancer already.
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The other patients who
came in for radiation treatments
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were very scared.
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So I would
encourage them by saying,
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don't worry, don't worry.
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I am here because I
have left everything
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in the hands of the
living God, Jesus Christ.
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Then I would tell them
about the love of Jesus.
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Then while I was having
my radiation treatments,
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I would pray.
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I had 28 radiation treatments
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and five
chemotherapy treatments as well.
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When they gave me the
chemotherapy treatments,
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it felt like my
whole body was on fire.
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It was very, very painful.
00:19:08.68\00:19:11.68
I would pray, Lord,
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please don't even let my
enemies get this disease.
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It's so painful.
00:19:17.49\00:19:19.35
For 45 days, I
didn't eat anything.
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I only drank coconut
milk and pomegranate juice.
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Prayer is what
really sustained me
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through all the
pain and vomiting.
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Because of the chemo,
00:19:32.47\00:19:33.64
my skin started to
peel off like fish scales.
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I also lost some of my hair
00:19:36.84\00:19:39.21
but God kept me
from losing all of it.
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Then they had me
come for a treatment
00:19:42.14\00:19:43.68
that would last for 24 hours.
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While I was waiting,
00:19:46.28\00:19:47.55
the doctor told me
about the treatment
00:19:47.55\00:19:49.05
and said that it
would be very painful
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so I should
mentally prepare myself.
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Then I started
wrestling with the Lord
00:19:53.92\00:19:55.42
and I told the doctor that I
00:19:55.42\00:19:56.73
wasn't going to do the treatment
00:19:56.73\00:19:58.93
but the doctor said,
"This is the last treatment.
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"You won't be fully
cured unless you go through it.
00:20:02.60\00:20:05.23
"It's up to you though."
00:20:05.23\00:20:07.04
Then I prayed,
"Lord, if it is your will,
00:20:07.04\00:20:10.21
"please keep me alive
and help me to do your work.
00:20:10.21\00:20:13.61
"If not, you can take me.
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"I'm ready to die
00:20:15.68\00:20:17.31
"but I don't wanna go
through this terrible,
00:20:17.31\00:20:19.05
"painful treatment."
00:20:19.05\00:20:20.58
So I made up my mind
and I left the hospital.
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When I left the hospital,
00:20:23.59\00:20:25.09
I didn't have
permission from the doctor.
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The doctor had told me
00:20:27.86\00:20:28.99
that if I didn't
do the last treatment,
00:20:28.99\00:20:30.83
I couldn't go
back to that hospital.
00:20:30.83\00:20:33.23
So I just said,
"Lord, you take care of me.
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"I'm not going to
do this treatment."
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When I got back home,
00:20:38.87\00:20:40.40
I continued my work
of praying for people.
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Then early one morning,
00:20:43.34\00:20:45.01
I felt a sensation
go through my abdomen
00:20:45.01\00:20:47.11
where the cancer was.
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I felt it two times.
00:20:49.11\00:20:51.18
After that, I
started to feel stronger
00:20:51.18\00:20:53.65
and have more energy.
00:20:53.65\00:20:55.02
I had been
having trouble urinating
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because it felt like
something was blocking my urine
00:20:56.72\00:20:59.42
but that problem also went away
00:20:59.42\00:21:01.72
and my pain was gone.
00:21:01.72\00:21:03.29
I believe that God
completely cured me.
00:21:04.39\00:21:06.46
Now I only have pain in my spine
00:21:06.46\00:21:08.10
if I travel for a long time.
00:21:08.10\00:21:10.37
Other than that, I feel fine.
00:21:10.37\00:21:12.80
I can cook for
myself and my husband
00:21:12.80\00:21:14.70
and for my daughter and
her family who live downstairs.
00:21:14.70\00:21:18.51
But the other people who
took the chemo treatments,
00:21:18.51\00:21:21.24
even though they
were younger than me,
00:21:21.24\00:21:23.21
not one of them is alive today.
00:21:23.21\00:21:25.31
(phone ringing)
00:21:25.31\00:21:28.15
(speaks in foreign language)
00:21:33.52\00:21:36.02
After my radiation
and chemo treatments,
00:21:36.02\00:21:38.73
I used to lie on my
bed, unable to move.
00:21:38.73\00:21:42.20
I couldn't stand
because it was so painful
00:21:42.20\00:21:44.23
and I was very weak.
00:21:44.23\00:21:46.03
But even then, I would
get calls from the TV program
00:21:46.03\00:21:49.20
and I would still answer and
pray for the people who called.
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My daughters would
say, "You're about to die
00:21:52.64\00:21:55.21
"but you're still
holding onto that phone
00:21:55.21\00:21:57.05
"and holding onto your faith?
00:21:57.05\00:21:58.81
"You're still
giving Bible studies?
00:21:58.81\00:22:00.65
"No, put the phone
away, throw it away."
00:22:00.65\00:22:04.52
But I said, "If I die, I
will die doing God's work
00:22:04.52\00:22:08.46
"rather than die
doing what I want to do.
00:22:08.46\00:22:10.99
"If it is God's
will, let Him take my life
00:22:10.99\00:22:13.56
"but as long as I am
alive, I will do God's work."
00:22:13.56\00:22:18.27
The doctor who first diagnosed
me tested my urine again
00:22:18.27\00:22:21.80
and said, "Oh, you don't
have that problem anymore."
00:22:21.80\00:22:25.67
I said, "Do you know why?
00:22:25.67\00:22:27.88
"It's because I
am doing God's work."
00:22:27.88\00:22:30.85
That doctor is a
Hindu but she said,
00:22:30.85\00:22:33.92
"Yes, it is your
God that has saved you.
00:22:33.92\00:22:36.89
"I hope that someday I
can have another checkup
00:22:36.89\00:22:39.35
"so that the
other doctors can see
00:22:39.35\00:22:40.96
"that Jesus Christ
is the only true God."
00:22:40.96\00:22:44.13
(gentle music)
00:22:44.13\00:22:46.86
- So what are the next steps?
00:22:52.17\00:22:54.44
Are we going to try to
do TV programs like this
00:22:54.44\00:22:57.31
in other languages?
00:22:57.31\00:22:58.77
- Yes, we have an
offer for building
00:22:58.77\00:23:01.41
on the top of a
building in Punjab.
00:23:01.41\00:23:05.51
So that will be
Punjabi and Hindi language
00:23:05.51\00:23:08.65
and we have an offer for a room
00:23:08.65\00:23:10.72
in the offices
in downtown Mumbai.
00:23:10.72\00:23:14.02
So that'll be
Marathi and Hindi languages
00:23:14.02\00:23:16.79
very near the
center of Bollywood.
00:23:16.79\00:23:21.26
And so we're praying for
funds that we can go ahead
00:23:21.26\00:23:24.83
and build those two places.
00:23:24.83\00:23:27.47
And then of course,
there's lots of places
00:23:27.47\00:23:29.60
in different languages.
00:23:29.60\00:23:31.27
There's the Northeast,
there's a central part of India.
00:23:31.27\00:23:35.31
There's just a
lot of opportunities
00:23:35.31\00:23:36.75
and this is becoming
more and more important.
00:23:36.75\00:23:40.02
Now that India has
become the most populous country
00:23:40.02\00:23:43.35
in the world.
00:23:43.35\00:23:44.32
India has
finally surpassed China.
00:23:44.32\00:23:47.89
- Wow. - With
1.4 billion people.
00:23:47.89\00:23:50.59
1.4 billion.
00:23:51.36\00:23:52.66
- Wow.
00:23:52.66\00:23:53.83
- So one out of every
six people on the planet
00:23:53.83\00:23:57.00
lives in India.
00:23:57.00\00:23:57.93
- Wow.
00:23:57.93\00:23:58.73
That's intimidating.
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- That's a lot of people.
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- But it's not a lot for God.
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- No, but we need to use
these mass communication tools
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to reach the people.
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- Yeah, we've
seen in so many places,
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there's apartment
complexes, high-rises.
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You can't get into those places,
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but the TV goes there
and then they can call.
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- Yes. - And that's really,
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really important. - Yes.
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So we're praying
desperately that the Lord
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will bring the right
people to run the programs
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and the funding that'll
allow us to move forward
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with going into
these different languages.
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- Yeah, now funding's always
a challenge for broadcasting.
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At least for
broadcasting in other languages
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other than English.
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Because we can watch it,
but it doesn't mean anything.
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- Right.
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- Because we don't
understand what they're saying.
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- Right, so it
doesn't really bless us.
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- Right.
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It's like watching some
of the videos that we share
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without the subtitles
or without the voiceovers.
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- Right.
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- It would just be
somebody talking a language
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we couldn't understand.
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- Right.
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- And so it's not
gonna reach our hearts,
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but when we think about
the value that God has put
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upon the people
out there, it's just,
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we want this to keep going.
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- Yeah, this is an opportunity
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where you can give selflessly.
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- Yeah.
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- When you give to
the local church budget,
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which you should, you
know, that keeps the light on
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and it keeps it
comfortable for us.
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But when you give to, or
when you give to a ministry
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that speaks in English,
then that ministers to us,
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which you should do.
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But let's not forget
those that don't speak English.
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Those that
don't live in America.
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- Right.
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- Those that still
also are desperate to hear,
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is there a God out
there that loves me?
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- Right.
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- Is there somebody
out there that cares?
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- Right, and the sad
reality is there are so few,
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so far fewer resources
in these other languages.
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Some of them don't
have a very good translation
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of the Bible even.
00:25:55.28\00:25:56.32
- Right.
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- Or they don't have the
whole Bible in their language.
00:25:57.62\00:25:59.62
- That's right. - Some of them
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only have portions.
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Some of them don't have...
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they don't have
the Ellen White books
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that we find so much value in.
00:26:05.66\00:26:07.20
Even Steps to Christ,
which is a relatively small one.
00:26:07.20\00:26:10.50
- Right.
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- And they don't have television
programs in their language.
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They don't have
indexes and Bible commentaries
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and Bible concordances
and all of these things
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that we take for
granted, actually.
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And so it's such a
privilege to be able to provide
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a little something
for at least some of them
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and that's why we're
seeking the Lord to provide
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so we can have for more of them.
00:26:33.56\00:26:35.19
- Absolutely.
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And there's still so
many towns and villages
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that have never
heard the name of Jesus.
00:26:38.79\00:26:41.20
And, but you go to these,
00:26:41.20\00:26:43.40
you go to a little
grass hut or a rock stone hut
00:26:43.40\00:26:48.10
with a thatched roof and
there's a satellite dish.
00:26:48.10\00:26:51.81
(laughing)
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Or the television
inside. - Or if nothing else,
00:26:53.07\00:26:53.74
they've got a TV inside.
00:26:53.74\00:26:54.41
Yeah, they've got a TV.
00:26:54.41\00:26:55.74
It's like-
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- And so everybody's connected.
00:26:56.71\00:26:57.71
The government has really worked
00:26:57.71\00:26:59.11
to get everybody
connected into television.
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And so we have
to use these means
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to reach those that
we can't reach otherwise.
00:27:03.69\00:27:06.76
But what's so beautiful
is you've got the air force
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and you've got the ground force.
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So the television ministry
and the Bible worker ministry
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have both of those together.
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It's a win-win.
00:27:17.33\00:27:18.70
- And it feeds
into the local churches.
00:27:18.70\00:27:20.60
- Yes. - And
it's such a blessing.
00:27:20.60\00:27:22.14
- Definitely. -
And we are so grateful
00:27:22.14\00:27:24.11
to the Lord for the lives
00:27:24.11\00:27:25.67
that have been
eternally changed.
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- Praise God.
00:27:27.38\00:27:28.44
- Because of this
television program
00:27:28.44\00:27:29.44
and these
beautiful prayer warriors.
00:27:29.44\00:27:31.98
- Yes. - Like Sister Kamala.
00:27:31.98\00:27:33.82
- That inspire us.
00:27:33.82\00:27:35.08
- Yes, definitely.
00:27:35.08\00:27:36.82
And I would like
to invite you to pray
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for these television programs,
00:27:38.92\00:27:40.79
for the people
who call in for prayer
00:27:40.79\00:27:42.82
and for Bible studies.
00:27:42.82\00:27:44.23
And if you would
like to learn more
00:27:44.23\00:27:45.69
about our television programs,
00:27:45.69\00:27:47.03
please contact us
at Jesus for Asia,
00:27:47.03\00:27:50.23
P.O. Box 1221,
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Collegedale, Tennessee, 37315.
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Call us at 423-413-7321
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or visit our
website at jesusforasia.org.
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May God richly bless you
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until we see you next
time on Jesus for Asia Now.
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