I'm Jeff Reich and I'd
like you to come with me
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on a journey as I revisit
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just some of the
evidences of my faith
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especially regarding
Noah and the flood story.
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I mean, standing
here you could see like
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all different
kinds of small seashells,
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they're compressed together
and this is right at the top
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of the Mesa here
in the Goosenecks.
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Eruption in Mt. St.
Helens gave scientists
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the opportunity
to study what happens
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when a catastrophe
hits an area such as this.
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When the water
rushed over to these falls,
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it was ten times
the size of Niagara
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and what is known to be
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the largest
waterfall in existence.
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All the water that came flowing
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down through this area went down
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through the
Scablands of eastern Washington
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and right down to
that drainage system
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in the Columbia River
right after the Pacific Ocean.
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As Noah and his
family came off the ark,
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they stood in absolute horror
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as they looked around at
the devastation of the world.
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Sadly, they knew this
was the consequence of sin.
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And I believe right
here at the Grand Canyon
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is probably one of
the greatest testimonies
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that proves the flood story.
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The story of Noah and the flood
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is extremely
important for us today.
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It points backwards to a
time where God judged the world.
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And it points forwards to a time
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where God will
judge the world again.
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The evidences are all around
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and so much so that
all will be without excuse.
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We're outside the
city of Vilkaviskis.
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Now, we are in Lithuania.
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This time we're
gonna be watching
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what some of the Bible
workers are doing here,
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we'll be visiting
with the pastor Remus
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at this little
church with church group
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and we'll be traveling
around the country of Lithuania
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showing you what
Laymen Ministries
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is doing here in this country.
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Laymen Ministries has a
long history here in Lithuania.
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We actually came here in 1993,
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so we've been working here for--
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oh, going on 15 years now.
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A lot of people say,
well, how did you ever come
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to this country of Lithuania?
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How did Laymen
Ministries get involved?
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And it's kind of
an interesting story
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because I remember
back in the early 90s
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we were working in
Albania, Romania and Bulgaria,
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and I was studying
in one of my books--
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was sharing this idea
about expanding your horizons
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and I thinking,
Lord, how should I expand
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the horizons of
Laymen Ministries.
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And that night I went to
bed and I'm not into dreams
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and claiming to be
a prophet or anything
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but the weirdest thing happened.
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I was praying, it's okay,
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Lord, if you want us to expand
our horizons, we'll do that.
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In the middle of
the night, I woke up
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and I heard a voice in my
head say, go to Lithuania.
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I've never heard of
the country of Lithuania
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in my whole life.
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And so the next morning
when I got up, I was curious.
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I got out my
Atlas and sure enough
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I found up by
Belarus and Poland,
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up in the Baltic countries,
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this little
country called Lithuania.
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I go wow, there is a
country called Lithuania.
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And two days later after that
I got this phone call by a boy
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and he said, "Hello Jeff."
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He said, "Have you
ever thought about coming
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to my country of Lithuania?"
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He was a student
from Weimar College.
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I said, well, yeah,
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you know, I've
actually been thinking about
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going to Lithuania a lot.
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And this young man connected me
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with a man called
Remus Sir Binschus
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and in about six weeks later
we had our airplane tickets
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and we came to Lithuania.
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And that was the beginning
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of the whole Lithuanian project.
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First we saw the
need to publish literature
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as books and
tracks are amazing tools
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to reach people with the truth.
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We helped
establish the very first
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Adventist publishing
house with Remus Sir Binschus.
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Soon we were publishing
thousands of books and tracks,
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titles such as
the Desire of Ages,
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The Great Controversy,
Christ Object Lessons
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and more with over 130,000 books
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and tracks printed
over the last 15 years.
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We soon found we
had another dilemma,
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how to
distribute this literature.
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That's the start
of Laymen Ministrie's
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Youth and Missions Program.
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Working together with
Kevin and Kathy Paige,
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we organized an effective work
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that was
instrumental in church growth
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across the country.
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We sent over young
people like Jonathan Peebles,
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Joshua Miller, Shannon
Parker and Jeremy Caulkins
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who trained Lithuanian youth
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how to sell books door-to-door.
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The program
became a great success.
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They opened the
doors in a country
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that had been
closed by communism.
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These young people were
the pioneers of the church.
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Speaking in home
churches, sharing the truth
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and distributing
literature throughout Lithuania.
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Lithuania is
situated in Northern Europe
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in an area called the Baltics
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with Russia to the east
and Poland to the south.
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And it has a population
of about 3.5 million people.
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Lithuania has been
one of the most occupied
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countries in all of Europe,
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yet on the other hand
in the earlier centuries
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when Vytautas
the Great was king,
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it occupied the territories
of present day Belarus,
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Ukraine and parts
of Poland and Russia.
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By the end of the 14th century,
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Lithuania stretched across
a substantial part of Europe
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from the Baltic
to the Black Sea.
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It was also the only remaining
Pagan country of Europe
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until converted by
the sword to Catholicism.
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Today, while growing
more and more secular
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like much of
Europe, the catholic church
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is the state
recognized religion.
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Life in Lithuania is difficult
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especially with the
growing worldwide recession.
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Unemployment is
at all time highs.
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It has some of the
highest rates in all of Europe
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for alcoholism,
depression, and suicide.
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In the cities,
people are crowded
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into these small block of flats
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or what we call
apartment house complexes.
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Life in the
country is difficult.
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The people
survive by growing food
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and keeping it in
store for the long winters.
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On this particular
trip, we're going to show you
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what the Bible workers
that are being sponsored
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by Laymen
Ministries are doing working
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on a one-to-one with
people in their homes.
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Plus, we're gonna take you
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to one of the poorest
orphanages in Lithuania
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and share with you how
we are sharing clothing
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and books and things
like that with the children
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and also with the
administrative staff.
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On this trip, we
flew into Vilnius,
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the capital and drove straight
to the city of Kaunas to meet
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the Bible workers
and the church leaders
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to hold our
annual training session.
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Our Bible workers
and pastors are located
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in every region of this country,
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meetings like
these bring new ideas
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and
encouragement to the workers.
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The Bible workers cross
various cultural boundaries
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by also reaching Polish
and Russian speaking people.
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Pastor Arunus with his
wife Neringa helped coordinate
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Laymen Ministries
work across Lithuania.
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They live in the
small city of Vilkaviskis,
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besides being a fulltime pastor,
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Arunas holds training seminars
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for the Bible
workers and keeps in contact
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with them to provide
encouragement and counsel.
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They also organize
summer youth meetings
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and oversee the work
in many of the orphanages.
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Arunas also helped start
this small church in the city
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where there had been no
previous Adventist presence.
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We bought it several years ago
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and we're remodeling every year
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and last year we working again
outside the church building
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and we just painted it
and the roof has changed
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and the windows
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and this year we are
working inside the building.
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The work is difficult as
people are not very often
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open to new ideas,
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especially outside
of catholic tradition.
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After resting up, we drove
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all the way up by
the Lithuanian border
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to the small
village of Daunorai to meet
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with two of our Bible
workers named Julius and Roma.
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They live on a small farm
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which they use as their outpost
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to reach the nearby cities.
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They also use their farm
as a quiet country retreat,
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holding summer
and winter programs
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for some of the children
from the nearby orphanage.
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This is Julius and I
used to say, Lulius, right?
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Lulius in Lithuanian and Roma,
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they have been Bible workers
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for Laymen
Ministries for eight years.
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Roma has Bible studies
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with some of the
neighbors, such as this lady.
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They also hold group
Bible studies at their home
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as well as in the
nearby city of Birzai.
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Roma shares with her
neighbor friend every week
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in a personal
one-on-one Bible study.
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The test of time
has proven as to be
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one of the most effective ways
of leading a person to Christ
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and making solid church members.
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Our next stop is to
visit another Bible worker
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by the name of the Daiva.
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Just got to Silale,
we're at Daiva's house
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and Daiva's been a
Bible worker with us for--
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how many years now?
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(speaking in foreign language)
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Many years.
Many years, she says.
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We're gonna see
what she's doing here
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while we're in Silale
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and then we'll be going to
church here tomorrow morning.
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Bible studies like
these are happening
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with Laymen
Ministries Bible workers
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all across Lithuania.
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These Bible
studies have brought about
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hundreds of baptisms
over the last 15 years
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and have been one
of the most effective
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outreach
methods in this country.
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You know, they
are just finishing up
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their Bible study here and
this is what it's all about.
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It's the Bible workers
coming into people's homes
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and making friends with people
and sharing the word of God,
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they just got done--
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having a Bible study
about the meaning of life
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and the importance of
the Christian experience
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and having the
relationship with Christ
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and how it can give
you life and it's really--
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this is really
what it's all about,
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coming here and making friends
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and sharing the
Bible with people.
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Pastor Arunas,
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who is the Director
for Laymen Ministries
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here in Lithuania
had a unique experience
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with this brother
by the name Arunas,
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so both of their
names are Arunas.
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But Arunas, when
he was a young boy,
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this Arunas, when
he was a young boy,
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he was an altar boy
for the Catholic Church,
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when he grew up, like
many Lithuanian people,
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he fell away from his faith
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and stopped
practicing Catholicism.
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He became a building contractor
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and he became
married, he started traveling
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back and forth to
Norway working over there
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and he wasn't
happy with his life
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because they were drinking
and partying quite a bit
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and he finally decided, he
wanted to make some changes
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so he stopped drinking alcohol
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and his wife wasn't
very happy with that
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and so she started
living a party lifestyle
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and he started
going away from that
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and she finally left him
and they went through a divorce.
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He came back to
Lithuania, shattered,
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looking for work as
a building contractor.
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It turned out the
Lord led him to a situation
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where he was helping to remodel
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a Seventh-day
Adventist Church member's home
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and one day he heard them over
talking about religious things
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and he started asking questions
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and this led of course
to these church members
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giving him several books.
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One book they gave to him
was the book Great Controversy
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and he read this book and
he read several other books
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and he started having questions,
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so he called Pastor Arunas
on the telephone and very soon
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they started having
Bible studies just like this.
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Just last year in September
when water was freezing cold,
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he was baptized into
Christ and then after that,
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he started dedicating
himself to helping Pastor Arunas
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remodel the old
church here in Vilkaviskis.
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And this is what it's all about.
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People leading people to Christ,
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teaching to teach, so that
other people too will in turn,
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turn around and be able to share
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what they've learned
about Christ with somebody else.
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After we left Daunorai,
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we headed towards
the city of Siauliai.
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Along the way, we visited
the historic Hill of Crosses.
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The history behind the spot
dates back to the 18th century
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when people started
placing crosses here
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for those who were killed
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in the uprisings
against the Russians.
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This hill took
on more significance
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after World War II
when the occupying Russians
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tried to bulldoze the
hill at least three times,
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the defiant Lithuanians used it
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to demonstrate their allegiance
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to their original identity,
religion, and heritage.
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Today the number
of crosses is unknown
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but estimations
put it at over 50,000.
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Our ministry has a long history
00:14:54.22\00:14:55.82
with this church in
Siauliai as our workers,
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both national and from
America have had a big part
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in helping this
church become established.
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We're in the city of Siauliai
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and we're gonna go to
church here this morning.
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Siauliai church has had
this house that was renovated
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into a church for
quite a number of years now.
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This morning, the emphasis
is going to be on the harvest,
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yeah, because it's
cold and it's October
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and it's harvest time
and one thing you'll notice
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is that a lot of the
people here dress nearly warm,
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the church isn't
heated very well.
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Some of the places
are heated pretty good
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but there has been some places
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where we go to church
on Sabbath here where-
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it's, you can see your
breath inside the building
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but they have a really
active church here in Siauliai.
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I'm looking forward to speaking
to the people here today.
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At first, it was
in the living room
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of the church member's house.
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Later, the house
was purchased, remodeled
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and now is packed every Sabbath.
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So when Christ comes
for the great harvest,
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what is he
coming for? People? Yes.
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So, all the people
are gonna be harvesting.
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This particular Sabbath day,
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we're having a
harvest celebration.
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I spoke on the
last great harvest
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and how Christ
works in our hearts
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to have our
characters come to fruition.
00:16:05.37\00:16:07.60
In preparation for
that last great harvest,
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it was great to reconnect
with many old friends again.
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What they are doing here
is something very unusual,
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after the church service,
since this is the harvest time
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they are giving food
to all the church members.
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We have a nice arrangement here
with different kinds of breads
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and some soy
patties and tomatoes.
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It's kind of
different to be honest with you.
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It's been five years
since I was in Lithuania,
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I missed a lot
of things from here
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but one of the things
that I missed the most
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is the food and the drink.
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In all the countries
we always traveled to,
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we like to show you
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the different
types of cultural foods
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that they
prepare, and in Lithuania,
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one of the most
famous foods is the potato
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and in fact it's
very dear to my heart
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because I'm from the state
of Idaho in the good old USA
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and everybody knows
that-- lives to close to Idaho
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that Idaho is
famous for famous potatoes
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and in Lithuania, they cook
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zillion different
types of potato dishes
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but she's gonna be preparing
today a dish called cepelinai.
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Now, I think that it
really should called zeppelini.
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For years I
always pronounced it that
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because I thought
that the finished product
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kind of looked like a zeppelin,
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now you've probably seen
those big German balloons
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you know, they
were called zeppelins.
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Well, the finished
product is similar to that
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and it's quite a,
an elaborate process.
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One of the first
things that they do apparently
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is they peel potatoes and
she soaks them in some water.
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It's a unique
combination because she's gonna
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mix together raw
potatoes and boiled potatoes,
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they're like mashed
potatoes, you'll see there.
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Here you have some soft cheese.
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This cheese is a, yeah it's--
what they call fresh cheese?
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It's next step up
from cottage cheese.
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It's kind of a
firm, soft cheese,
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kind of like feta cheese
but with no seasoning in it.
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This is gonna go
inside the zeppelini.
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So you'll see
that she is doing this,
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she's gonna mix this
cooked mashed potatoes together
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with raw grated
potatoes and a potato puree--
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which she'll be using a
machine for it a little bit.
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So you can see
it's just raw potatoes
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that are just whizzed
up kind of almost like
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what we'd use in a
champion juicer in the States.
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Interesting.
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The next step
Neningya is using here
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as she's taking that,
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the raw potatoes
that was made into a puree
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and she's putting it to
like, piece of cheese cloth
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and straining all
the liquid out of it
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so she's ending up with
00:18:53.38\00:18:54.61
kind of like a
starchylooking material.
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It's just raw potato starch.
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So this is potato juices in here
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and I'm gonna have John
our cameraman demonstrate
00:19:02.73\00:19:07.78
drinking this
stuff. I'm not gonna do it.
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Okay, here it goes.
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This is raw potato juice.
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It's got to be at
least 37 different nutrients.
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What do you think? It's good.
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Are you serious?
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Might need a little salt
but other than that, it's good.
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It's good.
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Now after these things
are all rolled together
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with the stuffing inside,
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she carefully places
them in boiling water,
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so in a sense what they
are is a potato dumpling.
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But it's the most
unique potato dumpling
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I've ever seen in my life.
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She's mixing up a special sauce
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and has like some
butter and some salt,
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some different
things and uses sparingly
00:20:01.08\00:20:03.23
on top of your potato zeppelini
and put it on that plate.
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Some people like just
I've mentioned to you,
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they take oil and they
just dump a ton of oil on it.
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She's using a little bit of
butter sparingly with some salt
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and little bit of sour cream
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and that will make
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a nice flavored
sauce for the top of it.
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This is the finished
product. This is the zeppelini.
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Cepelinai, they call it.
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It's delicious. Really good.
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Now, I tell you what,
00:20:35.77\00:20:36.80
two of these will
stick to your ribs.
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Okay, we're gonna go over
00:20:42.06\00:20:43.74
and meet with the director
from one of the orphanages
00:20:43.77\00:20:46.10
where Lloyd Nipal
has stuff to take over
00:20:46.13\00:20:47.60
to the orphanages today
and when we meet the director,
00:20:47.63\00:20:50.66
we're gonna over
to that market place
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and buy some clothes and things.
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The next morning, we
headed south about 40 miles
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to the small city of Siminus
00:20:56.08\00:20:58.06
where we met with
some of the ladies
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who work at the local orphanage.
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In the larger cities,
the orphanages usually
00:21:03.62\00:21:05.40
receive some kind of help
from other European countries
00:21:05.43\00:21:08.71
while the smaller
orphanages out in the country
00:21:08.74\00:21:11.41
are in a desperate situation.
00:21:11.44\00:21:13.47
After meeting with the director
and the administrative staff,
00:21:17.01\00:21:19.65
it was decided these kids
needed warm winter clothing,
00:21:19.68\00:21:22.63
shoes, and other basic clothes.
00:21:22.66\00:21:24.64
Together, we went
with some of the workers
00:21:24.67\00:21:26.48
on a shopping spree
to get what they needed.
00:21:26.51\00:21:28.63
These ladies are
really into this orphanage,
00:21:46.25\00:21:48.40
if you watch the
expression on them
00:21:48.43\00:21:50.01
as they are purchasing things,
00:21:50.04\00:21:51.63
one girl is
going, oh, very good,
00:21:51.66\00:21:53.78
it's great, it's good, you know,
00:21:53.81\00:21:54.85
because she's actually able to
get some clothing for the kids,
00:21:54.88\00:21:57.68
they have been
having a real problem
00:21:57.71\00:21:59.52
with being able to
have quality clothing
00:21:59.55\00:22:01.31
and to be able
to have just socks
00:22:01.34\00:22:03.41
and underwear
and things like that,
00:22:03.44\00:22:04.96
so it's nice to see
that the administrative staff
00:22:04.99\00:22:09.13
are really into the children
00:22:09.16\00:22:11.26
and they are not
doing this just as a job
00:22:11.29\00:22:12.87
but they are doing
'cause their hearts are into it.
00:22:12.90\00:22:15.16
It's
interesting 'cause this lady
00:22:37.57\00:22:38.95
who is actually giving
us about five coats for free
00:22:38.98\00:22:42.27
and she's crying, I don't know
if you're noticing this or not,
00:22:42.30\00:22:44.77
but she's actually
got tears in her eyes
00:22:44.80\00:22:46.45
saying that she
wants to help out.
00:22:46.48\00:22:47.93
Apparently her son
was recently killed
00:22:53.19\00:22:54.96
with some kind of incident
00:22:54.99\00:22:56.25
and she's got
some problems at home
00:22:56.28\00:22:57.95
and apparently she
just got a real sensitive
00:22:57.98\00:22:59.91
and kinder heart and
she wants to help out
00:22:59.94\00:23:02.03
so she's donating
a lot of these coats
00:23:02.06\00:23:04.54
and then we're gonna
buy something or two.
00:23:04.57\00:23:06.02
Basically he's gonna come
back to visit this lady again
00:23:10.73\00:23:13.23
to give some literature to her.
00:23:13.26\00:23:15.85
Okay, what's next on the list?
00:23:15.88\00:23:17.96
You get this, we're not only
just buying clothes for orphans
00:23:28.00\00:23:30.57
but we're giving
them spiritual literature
00:23:30.60\00:23:32.36
and this is a real open door
00:23:32.39\00:23:34.69
for being able to share
Christ in the orphanages,
00:23:34.72\00:23:36.97
this is with the administrative
people and the kids there.
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In this particular orphanage,
00:23:41.01\00:23:42.11
they have children
who are all the way up
00:23:42.14\00:23:44.05
to the age of 21 years of age
00:23:44.08\00:23:45.30
between the full
ages of four, six,
00:23:45.33\00:23:47.42
all the way to 21 years of age.
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I'm happy. I'm happy. Good.
00:24:00.81\00:24:02.55
Back in 1995,
00:24:09.53\00:24:11.06
two missionaries who
worked with Laymen Ministries,
00:24:11.09\00:24:13.38
Joshua Miller
and Jonathan Peeble
00:24:13.41\00:24:15.19
saw how destitute things were
00:24:15.22\00:24:16.88
in the orphanage
by where they lived.
00:24:16.91\00:24:19.02
They soon started searching
out other poor orphanages
00:24:19.05\00:24:21.18
around the country.
00:24:21.21\00:24:22.30
Laymen Ministries made this
an extension of our project,
00:24:27.65\00:24:30.25
providing clothing,
shoes, and spiritual food
00:24:30.28\00:24:33.05
for their souls, as well.
00:24:33.08\00:24:34.20
To this day, we've
continued to be involved
00:24:37.73\00:24:39.44
with the ministry to
these poor orphanages.
00:24:39.47\00:24:42.13
Small orphanages
located in the more rural areas
00:24:47.43\00:24:49.76
such as this one struggle
just to keep the heat turned on.
00:24:49.79\00:24:54.09
The director told me they would
literally not turn the heat on
00:24:54.12\00:24:56.50
until the 1st of November.
00:24:56.53\00:24:58.50
While we were there in October,
00:24:58.53\00:24:59.56
the building was a
chilly 55 degrees inside.
00:24:59.59\00:25:05.65
The children lacked
basic warm clothing,
00:25:05.68\00:25:07.94
under garments, and
food was limited as well.
00:25:07.97\00:25:10.84
Children and staff also
received from us Bibles,
00:25:16.47\00:25:19.27
books, and
Bible study materials.
00:25:19.30\00:25:21.40
The kids at this orphanage
are the outcasts of society.
00:25:24.37\00:25:27.47
Most here are handicapped,
born with birth defects,
00:25:27.50\00:25:30.40
or have some
emotional issues from poor
00:25:30.43\00:25:32.67
and even abusive parenting.
00:25:32.70\00:25:35.20
Many orphans are here
because of their parents
00:25:35.23\00:25:37.35
who are alcoholic or
simply have abandoned them.
00:25:37.38\00:25:41.46
The director Mrs.
Elena Downiski showed us
00:25:43.98\00:25:47.13
the giving tree of
people who have donated before.
00:25:47.16\00:25:49.81
On the wall was
Joshua and Inga Miller's name
00:25:49.84\00:25:52.01
and Pastor Arunas as well,
all Laymen Ministries workers.
00:25:52.04\00:25:58.49
As we walked
around the facility,
00:25:58.52\00:26:00.02
I was impressed that
while they were poor,
00:26:00.05\00:26:02.22
the building was
kept clean and orderly.
00:26:02.25\00:26:04.74
They had classrooms
00:26:04.77\00:26:05.80
where they engaged in special
activities for the children.
00:26:05.83\00:26:10.44
All the children were
very happy that we came
00:26:10.47\00:26:13.11
and all showed a
great enthusiasm.
00:26:13.14\00:26:17.68
When it came time to
distribute some of the items,
00:26:17.71\00:26:19.75
the kids became very excited.
00:26:19.78\00:26:22.13
Other items were distributed
in a more discretionary manner.
00:26:22.16\00:26:25.12
Today, Laymen
Ministries continues
00:26:37.76\00:26:39.86
to support Bible
workers and Pastors,
00:26:39.89\00:26:42.33
publishing literature,
and orphanage outreach.
00:26:42.36\00:26:45.14
We have a vision of
expanding into radio
00:26:45.17\00:26:47.38
and television broadcast
00:26:47.41\00:26:48.92
as well as seminars
held across the country.
00:26:48.95\00:26:52.23
Please pray with us for this
little country of Lithuania.
00:26:52.26\00:26:55.37