I'm Jeff Reich and I'd like you
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to come with me on a journey
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as I revisit just
some of the evidences
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of my faith
especially regarding Noah
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and the flood story.
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I mean, standing
here you could see
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like all different
kinds of small seashells,
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they're compressed together
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and this is right
at the top of the Mesa
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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 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 down
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through this area went
down through the Scablands
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of eastern
Washington and right down
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to that drainage
system in the Columbia River
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right out to 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 as they looked around
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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 prove 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 us so much
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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 Pastor Arunas
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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,
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well, how did you ever come
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'm 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, Lord,
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if you want us to
expand our horizons,
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we'll do that.
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In the middle of the night,
I woke up and I heard a voice
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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
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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
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coming to my
country of Lithuania?"
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He was a student
from Weimar College.
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I said, well, yeah, you know,
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I've actually been thinking
about going to Lithuania a lot.
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And this young man
connected me with a man
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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
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the very first
Adventist publishing house
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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 and tracks
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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 that was instrumental
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in church growth
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
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occupied
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, Ukraine
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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 especially
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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
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in all of Europe for alcoholism,
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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,
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we're going to show
you what the Bible workers
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that are being
sponsored by Laymen Ministries
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are doing
working on a one-to-one
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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
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how we are sharing
clothing and books and things
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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
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to meet 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
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are located 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 Arunas 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 for the Bible workers
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and keeps in contact with them
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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 were working
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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 and this year
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we are working
inside the building.
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The work is difficult as people
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are not very
often open to new ideas,
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especially outside
of catholic tradition.
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After resting up,
we drove all the way up
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by the Lithuanian border
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to the small village of Daunorai
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to meet 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
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, he
would 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
with some of the neighbors,
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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
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every week in a
personal one-on-one Bible study.
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The test of time has proven
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as to be one of
the most effective ways
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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 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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Many years.
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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
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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-- having a Bible study
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about the meaning of life
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and the importance of
the Christian experience
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and having
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,
who is the Director
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for Laymen
Ministries here in Lithuania
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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
and he became married,
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he started
traveling back and forth
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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
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quite a bit and
he finally decided,
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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
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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
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about religious things 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
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and very soon they started
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having Bible
studies just like this.
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Just last year in September
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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,
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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 in the uprisings
00:14:06.36\00:14:08.01
against the Russians.
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This hill took on more
significance after World War II
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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
to their original identity,
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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
00:14:54.19\00:14:55.81
with this church in
Siauliai as our workers,
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both national and from America
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have had a big part 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
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that was renovated into a church
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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 really 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
00:15:27.99\00:15:29.03
where we go to church
on Sabbath here where-it's,
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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,
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remodeled 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?
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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.
00:16:05.23\00:16:07.34
In preparation for
that last great harvest,
00:16:07.37\00:16:10.39
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
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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
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the most 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 the different types
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of cultural foods
that they prepare.
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In Lithuania, one of
the most famous foods
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is the potato and in fact
it's very dear to my heart
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because I'm from
the state of Idaho
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in the good old USA
and everybody knows that--
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lives to close to Idaho
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that Idaho is
famous for famous potatoes.
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And in Lithuania,
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they cook a zillion
different types of potato dishes
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but she's gonna
be preparing today
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a dish called cepelinai.
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Now, I think that it really
should be 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
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and she soaks
them in some water.
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It's a unique combination
00:17:54.15\00:17:56.03
because she's gonna mix together
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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--
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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 Neringa is
using here 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 kind of like a starchy
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looking material here.
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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,
00:19:02.51\00:19:06.24
demonstrate drinking this stuff.
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I'm not gonna do it.
00:19:09.53\00:19:10.90
Okay, here it goes.
00:19:10.93\00:19:12.48
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?
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It's good.
00:19:32.71\00:19:33.74
Are you serious?
00:19:33.77\00:19:35.43
Might need a little salt
00:19:35.46\00:19:36.52
but other than that, it's good.
00:19:36.55\00:19:39.00
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
00:19:56.00\00:19:58.42
and has like some
butter and some salt,
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some different things and uses
00:20:00.83\00:20:02.42
sparingly on top of
your potato zeppelini
00:20:02.45\00:20:05.85
and put it on that plate.
00:20:05.88\00:20:08.08
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
00:20:16.04\00:20:18.16
with some salt and
little bit of sour cream
00:20:18.19\00:20:20.89
and that will make
a nice flavored sauce
00:20:20.92\00:20:23.53
for the top of it.
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This is the finished product.
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This is the zeppelini.
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Cepelinai, they call it.
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It's delicious.
00:20:32.84\00:20:34.48
Really good.
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Now, I tell you what,
00:20:35.61\00:20:36.65
two of these will
stick to your ribs.
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Today, we're gonna go over
00:20:41.78\00:20:43.78
and meet with the director
from one of the orphanages.
00:20:43.81\00:20:45.94
We're loading up all the stuff
00:20:45.97\00:20:47.09
to take over to
the orphanages today
00:20:47.12\00:20:48.96
and when we meet the director,
00:20:48.99\00:20:50.61
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
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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
00:21:03.41\00:21:05.32
receive some kind of help
from other European countries
00:21:05.35\00:21:08.70
while the smaller
orphanages out in the country
00:21:08.73\00:21:11.41
are in a desperate situation.
00:21:11.44\00:21:13.84
After meeting with the director
and the administrative staff,
00:21:16.71\00:21:19.64
it was decided these kids
needed warm winter clothing,
00:21:19.67\00:21:22.41
shoes, and other basic clothes.
00:21:22.44\00:21:24.67
Together, we went
with some of the workers
00:21:24.70\00:21:26.43
on a shopping spree
to get what they needed.
00:21:26.46\00:21:29.12
These ladies are
really into this orphanage,
00:21:46.07\00:21:48.27
if you watch the
expression on them
00:21:48.30\00:21:49.93
as they are purchasing things,
00:21:49.96\00:21:51.51
one girl is
going, oh, very good,
00:21:51.54\00:21:53.75
it's great, it's good, you know,
00:21:53.78\00:21:54.83
because she's actually able to
get some clothing for the kids.
00:21:54.86\00:21:57.46
They have been
having a real problem
00:21:57.49\00:21:59.38
with being able to
have quality clothing
00:21:59.41\00:22:01.12
and to be able
to have just socks
00:22:01.15\00:22:03.42
and underwear
and things like that,
00:22:03.45\00:22:04.65
so it's nice to see
that the administrative staff
00:22:04.68\00:22:08.97
are really into the children
00:22:09.00\00:22:11.01
and they are not
doing this just as a job
00:22:11.04\00:22:12.87
but they are doing
'cause their hearts are into it.
00:22:12.90\00:22:15.15
It's
interesting 'cause this lady
00:22:37.20\00:22:38.80
who is actually giving
us about five coats for free
00:22:38.83\00:22:42.17
and she's crying, I don't know
00:22:42.20\00:22:43.36
if you're noticing this or not,
00:22:43.39\00:22:44.46
but she's actually
got tears in her eyes
00:22:44.49\00:22:46.39
saying that she
wants to help out.
00:22:46.42\00:22:48.37
Apparently her son was recently
00:22:52.91\00:22:54.54
killed with
some kind of incident
00:22:54.57\00:22:56.11
and she's got
some problems at home
00:22:56.14\00:22:57.78
and apparently she
just got a real sensitive
00:22:57.81\00:22:59.96
and kinder heart and
she wants to help out
00:22:59.99\00:23:01.95
so she's donating
a lot of these coats
00:23:01.98\00:23:04.41
and then we're gonna
buy something or two.
00:23:04.44\00:23:06.49
Basically he's gonna come
back to visit this lady again
00:23:10.53\00:23:13.23
to give some literature to her.
00:23:13.26\00:23:15.63
Okay, what's next on the list?
00:23:15.66\00:23:17.85
You get this,
00:23:27.45\00:23:28.70
we're not only just
buying clothes for orphans
00:23:28.73\00:23:30.48
but we're giving
them spiritual literature
00:23:30.51\00:23:32.17
and this is a real open door
00:23:32.20\00:23:34.62
for being able to share
Christ in the orphanages
00:23:34.65\00:23:36.97
with the administrative
people and the kids there.
00:23:37.00\00:23:40.83
In this particular orphanage,
00:23:40.86\00:23:41.89
they have children
who are all the way up
00:23:41.92\00:23:43.69
to the age of 21 years of age
00:23:43.72\00:23:45.09
between the full
ages of four, six,
00:23:45.12\00:23:47.31
all the way to 21 years of age.
00:23:47.34\00:23:49.40
Wow!
00:23:56.87\00:23:58.04
Look at the stuff.
00:23:58.07\00:24:00.33
I'm happy. I'm happy.
00:24:00.36\00:24:02.05
Good.
00:24:02.08\00:24:03.23
Back in 1995, two missionaries
00:24:09.21\00:24:11.88
who worked with
Laymen Ministries,
00:24:11.91\00:24:13.25
Joshua Miller
and Jonathan Peeble
00:24:13.28\00:24:15.09
saw how destitute things
00:24:15.12\00:24:16.40
were in the
orphanage by where they lived.
00:24:16.43\00:24:18.92
They soon started searching out
00:24:18.95\00:24:20.18
other poor
orphanages around the country.
00:24:20.21\00:24:22.39
Laymen Ministries made this
an extension of our project,
00:24:27.47\00:24:30.17
providing clothing, shoes,
00:24:30.20\00:24:31.95
and spiritual food
for their souls, as well.
00:24:31.98\00:24:34.69
To this day, we've
continued to be involved
00:24:37.47\00:24:39.39
with the ministry to
these poor orphanages.
00:24:39.42\00:24:42.65
Small orphanages
located in the more rural areas
00:24:47.14\00:24:49.57
such as this one struggle
00:24:49.60\00:24:51.05
just to keep the heat turned on.
00:24:51.08\00:24:53.71
The director told me they would
literally not turn the heat on
00:24:53.74\00:24:56.52
until the 1st of November.
00:24:56.55\00:24:58.45
While we were there in October,
00:24:58.48\00:24:59.51
the building was a
chilly 55 degrees inside.
00:24:59.54\00:25:03.21
The children lacked
basic warm clothing,
00:25:05.46\00:25:07.74
under garments, and
food was limited as well.
00:25:07.77\00:25:10.97
Children and staff also
received from us Bibles, books,
00:25:16.13\00:25:19.82
and Bible study materials.
00:25:19.85\00:25:21.76
The kids at this orphanage
are the outcasts of society.
00:25:24.13\00:25:27.26
Most here are handicapped,
born with birth defects,
00:25:27.29\00:25:30.33
or have some
emotional issues from poor
00:25:30.36\00:25:32.61
and even abusive parenting.
00:25:32.64\00:25:35.09
Many orphans are here
because of their parents
00:25:35.12\00:25:37.18
who are alcoholic or
simply have abandoned them.
00:25:37.21\00:25:40.60
The director Mrs. Elena Downiski
00:25:43.80\00:25:46.20
showed us the giving tree
00:25:46.23\00:25:47.58
of people who
have donated before.
00:25:47.61\00:25:49.58
On the wall was
Joshua and Inga Miller's name
00:25:49.61\00:25:51.86
and Pastor Arunas as well,
all Laymen Ministries workers.
00:25:51.89\00:25:55.49
As we walked
around the facility,
00:25:58.19\00:25:59.95
I was impressed that
while they were poor,
00:25:59.98\00:26:02.03
the building was
kept clean and orderly.
00:26:02.06\00:26:04.57
They had
classrooms where they engaged
00:26:04.60\00:26:06.40
in special
activities for the children.
00:26:06.43\00:26:10.47
All the children were
very happy that we came
00:26:10.50\00:26:12.90
and all showed a
great enthusiasm.
00:26:12.93\00:26:15.35
When it came time to
distribute some of the items,
00:26:17.48\00:26:19.70
the kids became very excited.
00:26:19.73\00:26:22.00
Other items were distributed
in a more discretionary manner.
00:26:22.03\00:26:25.53
Today, Laymen
Ministries continues
00:26:37.54\00:26:39.69
to support Bible
workers and pastors,
00:26:39.72\00:26:42.16
publishing literature,
and orphanage outreach.
00:26:42.19\00:26:45.18
We have a vision of expanding
00:26:45.21\00:26:46.52
into radio and
television broadcast
00:26:46.55\00:26:48.70
as well as seminars
held across the country.
00:26:48.73\00:26:52.09
Please pray with us for this
little country of Lithuania.
00:26:52.12\00:26:55.72