tour of some of our mission
projects around the world.
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Back in 1986 when my wife and
I founded Laymen Ministries, we
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never dreamed it would grow to
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the size of the
organization it is today.
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As I look back there's so
many amazing experiences that
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could've only come about by
the leading of the Holy Spirit.
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Even still today God is
doing some amazing things
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through this ministry.
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Looking back into the past
and especially the collapse of
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eastern Europe. Door after door
opened that we never dreamed of.
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Like, in the spring of 1990.
It was during that time that
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eastern Europe was in serious
turmoil as country after country
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declared it's independence.
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In fact, one country, the
country of Poland was one of the
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first countries to declare
it's independence under the
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solidarity movement.
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It was about that same time I
remember a friend called me from
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new york and he was telling me
and he was talking about eastern
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European countries.
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He said Jeff you need to
bring students over from eastern
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Europe and train them in desktop
publishing and printing so that
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they would have the literature
necessary for being able to the
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spread the Three Angels Messages
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around in these formerly closed
communist countries. I was
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thinking yeah sure what are the
chances of us getting students
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from eastern Europe?
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I prayed togetwith this
gentlemen on the phone and
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within two weeks a young
man from Poland flew all the way
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from Poland to New York city got
on a greyhound bus and came to
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Laymen Ministries
in St. Maries Idaho.
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And this was the beginning of
our first exposure from people
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from these oppressed communist
country... these oppressed
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communist
countries of Eastern Europe.
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Shortly after that we had a
young men come from Romania by
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the name of Christian Dan
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and the Polish man
was named Wictor Kuczek.
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And they were telling us they
said Jeff as we were being you
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know conversing with them and
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teaching and
training them, they said
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"Jeff, if you want to be able to
start a ministry in our country
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you need to come to our
countries and you need to become
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acquainted with our culture and
our people and you need to see
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what the situation is."
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And I was like what are the
chances of these guys and this
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little backyard ministry in
northern Idaho going to Eastern
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Europe and getting involved with
trying to do all this. It just
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seemed almost impossible to me.
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But you know with God the things
that are impossible with men are
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possible with God. And we
prayed, 600 dollars in our
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pocket, airplane tickets, Arnet
Mathers who was working with us
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at the time and I.
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Flew over to Romania and we met
with these two young men and we
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traveled to countries to like
Poland and Romania. and Czech
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Republic was
Czech Slovakia then.
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And we started looking at the
needs and you know over a period
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of time we ended up having
projects set up in Poland and
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Romania, Bulgaria, Albania.
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And then a few years later we
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started working in countries
like Lithuania and Ukraine and
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Russia. It was really quite
amazing lets take for instance
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the country of Albania.
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It was the very first country
that, actually we were one of
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the very first organizations
I should say that went into this
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country right after the
collapse of communism in 1991.
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The country was in total chaos
and it was the most oppressed
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communist country I think of all
of eastern Europe. and amazingly
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enough through the
guidance of the Holy Spirit,
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we became friends with
Megin Shehu who was an Albanian
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Diplomat and she was also
a linguistics major from the
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University there. She introduced
us to another man who was a
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University teacher at
one time in linguistics.
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Who was called Edmond Seferi
and he was chief of staff to the
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then president of Albania Sali
Berisha in the sense he was like
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amazingly enough
the Vice President
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of the country of Albania.
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Together with those two and a
couple of other people we set up
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a team of translators and we
sent over 3.2 million pieces of
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literature to
that little country.
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The amazing thing is at that
time there was only about 3.1
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million people in the whole
country. So that was enough
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literature for one piece
of literature for every single
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person in that whole country.
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Part of that first shipment
was the very first Bible lessons
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that were ever published in
the history of that nation. Even
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before the Old Testament
was translated into their native
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tongue there.
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Trips to eastern Europe was
frequent as three or four times
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a year as project after project
started opening up. We hoped for
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instance in the country of
Poland we set up a printing
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ministry.
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And then in Bulgaria we ended
up translating and sending over
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three million tracks and bible
lessons. Then came the country
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of Romania where we ended up
becoming friends with General
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Ion Chis, he was the head of
the Ministry of Justice for the
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government.
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And together with the Ministry
of Justice and the United Prison
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Ministries and Romanian SDA
Union. We printed some 500,000
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books for the prisoners.
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Books like The Desire of Ages,
The Great Controversy, Ministry
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of Healing, Bible
Readings for the Home.
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Christ Object Lessons.
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It was so amazing.
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Today in Romania Laymen
Ministries still supports the
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work of HPS which is the Prison
Ministry we help organize over
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there called the Humanitarian
Prison Services "H.P.S."
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And it still has nearly today
around a thousand volunteers who
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are working in these prisons
all around the country in 44
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different prisons. They visit
inmates, they hold Bible studies
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and they perform church
services across the country.
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The idea of having
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The Desire of
Ages printed and then
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distributed in the former
communist prisons of Romania
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with the help of the government,
seemed like an impossibility.
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Our HPS workers together with
prison guards went from cell to
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cell in the entire maximum,
medium and minimum security
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prisons all across the country.
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While at the Juvenile Facility
in Craiova, General Chis while
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both on national Romanian
television and CNN boldly stated
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to the inmates and
prison administration,
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"We used to put people in prison
for books like these now we are
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putting these books in prison."
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We will never forget the looks
on the faces of some these young
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men. And in their hands was a
book that could forever change
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their lives.
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The entire faculty in every
prison received a free copy of
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the book Desire of
Ages as well as the lifers
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in the maximum
security prison in Craiova.
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In Focsani the commander
received us with open arms for
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distributing the book The Great
Controversy this orthodox priest
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shows off all the books
distributed in his prison while
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holding the Great
Controversy in his arms.
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Today Laymen Ministries
continues to support the work of
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HPS. They now have around 1000
volunteers working in all the 44
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Prisons of Romania.
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All the way of on the other
side of the planet in the South
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Pacific is the country of the
Philippines. We started to work
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there in the summer of 1996. My
heart went out as we visited the
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primitive indigenous Katutubo
people called the Arian tribe.
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Right now I would like to share
with you some of our before and
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after video footage of the
Katutubo people and how Laymen
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Ministries is
making a big difference
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in the jungles
of the Philippines.
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Laymen Ministries has
been working with the remote
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indigenous people called
Katutubo. This is the Katutubo.
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These crude dwellings provide
temporary housing as they move
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from one place to another.
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The nomadic, superstitious,
animist people, often laden in
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filth and infested with disease.
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It is been said that this is
one of the most primitive people
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groups of the world.
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This site of these un-reached
families still haunts us, and
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drives our ministry
to educate these people
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in a better way of life.
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And thats just what is happening
today. We have schools full of
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Katutubo students who are
reading and writing in both
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Tagalog and English and
are maintaining a high grading
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score.
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They are clean and are
learning to have confidence and
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self-respect.
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They're overcoming
their fears of the spirits
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and the people in general.
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Our goal is to have these
students be missionaries to
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their own villages
among their own people.
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Laymen Ministries is now pushing
for excellence in education,
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spiritually,
physically and mentally.
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Here in the Philippines
specifically in Occidental
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Mindoro we've been working for
about twelve years now. With a
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native tribe Katutubo they're
called here meaning "native,"
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and these people are among
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the most primitive
people in the world.
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We are very blessed to have four
operating accredited elementary
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schools and as these students
come along, we cannot send them
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to the public
school because of prejudice
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and low quality education.
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Laymen Ministries has found that
we need to have our own high
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school academy here and it has
to be a working academy. And we
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find that that
follows the council
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that we've been given also.
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Because our ultimate goal
here is to improve the life of
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people, educate them, bring them
to a knowledge of Jesus Christ
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and then these students that
we're working with through high
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school and later through
college, will go back and become
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missionaries for
their own people.
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This morning we've hiked up
to the top of the high school
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property. The school owns
this ridge line which is about
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75 acres. Owning property
and a free clear title in the
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Philippines is
extremely difficult.
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And many people said it's
impossible you cannot do it.
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Well God kept opening doors and
we are now standing on about 75
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acres that Laymen
Ministries owns free and clear.
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We want our students to have
a peaceful calm environment in
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order to study. Initially we're
going to put up a duplex here so
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we can live here and have
an office here but of course we
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have to think of administration
and school rooms and then
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dormitories for the students.
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The main octagon shaped building
will have class rooms on the
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outside wall, a circular hallway
inside and then in the center
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cluster will be an area
for offices, a librarian, maybe
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computer rooms and
that kind of thing.
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Also talking about the South
Pacific another interesting
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story emerges. Several years ago
while I was at ASI National I
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was approached by a delightful
gentlemen with an accent.
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I remember he walked up to me
he said something like "Hi mate!
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are you Jeff Reich? I think i've
seen you on 3ABN" and I realized
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this was Dr Mark Turnbull.
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He was from the country of
Australia. He suggested this
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idea about starting a
project in the South Pacific
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with Laymen Ministries.
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Over a course of time and much
prayer and discussion we did
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decide that we would start
working together and the Lord
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lead Dr. Turnbull and his family
to the country of Vanuatu.
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Soon after they were located in
the jungles of the far northern
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region called Gaua and the
Island of Gaua actually is a
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volcanic Island there in
the Northern part of Vanuatu.
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After several months of being
there Mark realized that because
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of the difficulty in trying
to travel around from all these
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different Islands surrounding
Vanuatu, that what they really
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needed was an airplane,
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And that way he could also reach
these really remote Islands in
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the far north. We prayed and we
made the need known and the Lord
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through a whole series of
amazing things caused the plane
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to be donated to
Laymen Ministries.
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We received an almost brand new
Maule M7 aircraft and we shipped
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it over and had it assembled at
the main airport. It was owned
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by Air Vanuatu in
the capitol Port Villa.
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A gentlemen named Jeremy
Ainsworth he's originally from
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the UK and was a bush pilot
in Alaska for over 30 years and
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he's also known by the people in
the Maulel Aircraft business as
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the Mr. Maule I think is one of
the things they call it and some
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people joke saying
he is the Maule guru.
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But he's assembled airplanes
in something like 20 different
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countries around the world, and
he just came on board and the
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Lord impressed him to volunteer
and help us to assemble this
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airplane for us.
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And I'll never forget, when the
airplane was first assembled and
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we flew it up to the Island of
Gaua. The people were so excited
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and they were just cheering and
clapping because the airplane
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was actually landing
for the very first time
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on this Island of Gaua.
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Where Mark had his headquarters
there. Today so many amazing
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things have happened a new
hangar has been built to not
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only to house the airplane
but to provide a home for Dr.
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Turnbull and his family.
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Back in February of 2010 we
broadcast a video showing an
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Australian volunteer by the name
of Scotty, who was helping lay
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the foundation for the hangar.
By Spring the framework was in
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place and in the fall the
hanger was finally finished.
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This hanger is a tremendous
blessing to the Turnbull family
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and their mission work in
Vanuatu. The added living space
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and storage space will help
them to be more organized and
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efficient in their work.
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The hanger will also provide
more space for storage for
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medical supplies,
general storage, tools, aviation
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equipment, not to mention it
will serve as protection for the
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airplane.
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We also bought property a while
back when we built the church
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school and today there is
a school full of eager young
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people who are learning about
the gospel, the Three Angels
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Messages and the basic
elementary things that you learn
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in the primary education.
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One of the reasons that we
started working in Vanuatu was
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to target these remote northern
area of the country, an area
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that has been
reached by Adventists before.
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It's what is called the Banks
and Torres Island groups right
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now airstrips are being
literally carved out by hand in
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several of these Islands.
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In fact just recently Laymen
Ministries made front page news
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in the newspapers in the capitol
of Vanuatu, as two such air
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strips were recently completed
and historic landings were made
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on these
extremely remote Islands.
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For more then a year the
local Islanders had been working
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vigorously to clear the jungles
for airplane landing strips.
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They remove large stones and
trees using such things as bush
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knives and raw man power.
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And in some cases they were even
using coconut shells to scrape
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away the soil. When we
found that out we provided wheel
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barrels and shovels
and later even chain-saws.
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When I was up there in 2009 on
one Island they had most of this
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one area cleared for a landing
strip but it just wasn't quite
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finished yet or safe
enough to land an airplane on.
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But in April of 2010, Dr. Mark
and thats what the villagers
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there call him, landed the Maule
airplane on one of the most
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northern Islands of Vanuatu not
only was this history being made
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for this country but it was a
milestone for Laymen Ministries.
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Another airstrip was recently
completed on the Island Mere
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Lava. Last year I flew over
this Island with Dr. Mark and we
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dropped off a box of supplies to
the workers clearing the runway.
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Now the airstrip is finally
done both Dr. Mark and Jeremy
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Ainsworth made their
first landing on this Island on
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August 17th of 2010.
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Lima Mike seven, is
on the ground. Mere Lava.
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Lima Mike seven.
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And there was more celebrations
and singing that mark this
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historic occasion. The people
were really happy at this first
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landing not only because it
marked the combination of a lot
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of hard work,
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but it means that they now have
hope. They can now weep what
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they've sowed. You see this
airplane brings hope to these
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Islands, hope for relief
from pain, for assistance during
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emergencies that
lives may be saved
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for the ones that they love.
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Not only for this world
physically, but also spiritually
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as they accept the good news of
the everlasting gospel for the
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world to come.
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This airplane brings with it the
truth about the character of God
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and the most solemn message
and warnings given to mankind.
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In our last program on Vanuatu
we pointed out how Jesus said
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this gospel of the kingdom shall
be preached to all the world for
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a witness and to all nations
and then shall the end come.
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And again what you're witnessing
here is a fulfillment of that
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prophecy. You are seeing the
three angels messages landing in
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the jungles of one of the
most remote areas of the world.
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Areas that were once closed
to the three angels messages now
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have their arms open towards
the message. God's blessings
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have been more than we
could ever ask or think.
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In the Northern part of India
is an area called West Bengal.
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Sandra and Terri Horner,
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our mother and
daughter team have been working
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with running a health education
training center there in
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connection with
Laymen Ministries.
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Now this center is in a very
unique place because it's about
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30 miles away from the Nepali
border about 25-30 miles away
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from an area called Sikkim.
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And what they've been doing
is having students come out of
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Nepal and they work with these
students to lead them into a
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solid relationship with Jesus
Christ and they train them in
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health education
and Biblical theology.
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I came to Nepal in 1997 to visit
and to hold a short course, and
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then with the Lords help and
the Laymen Ministries I came for
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full time work starting in
January of 1999. This is about
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11 years that we've been working
together with Laymen Ministries
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here in Nepal and India.
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The major objective of our
lifestyle education center is to
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work for the Nepali speaking
population and helping to train
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workers for the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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These young people they go back
to Nepal and they work as health
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educators in the villages where
they came from and they help
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establish churches.
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Now this program has had a
tremendous success and we've
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actually built a number of
churches in various parts of
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Nepal because of these young
people and the dedication they
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have and going back and
preaching the three angels
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messages in these
areas where they're from.
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One story that recently happened
thats just really totally
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amazing was the conversion of
a third generation witch doctor
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her name is Molly and she was
looking for peace in her life.
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Even though she was a witch
doctor there was not a lot of
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contentment there was a
lot of stress in her family.
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But she noticed these Adventist
people every Sabbath walking to
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church and they were carrying
a book with them which was the
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Bible and they always had smiles
on their faces and they were
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singing songs.
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So one Sabbath morning
she followed this group of
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Adventists to their church. As
she listened to the words of the
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Bible, week after week coming to
the church of every Sabbath, and
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listening to
God's Word being shared,
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conviction came home to
her heart and she eventually
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accepted Jesus Christ. Then she
publicly burned all of her tools
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and her idols, the tools that
she used for her craft and her
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idols and everything that was
involved with you know being a
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witch doctor and Hinduism.
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And she was Baptized, now this
is really quite amazing because
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first of all those tools of her
craft are worth a lot of money,
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but the second thing is for her
to make a public admission in
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front of the whole village there
and burn these things was quite
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a testimony.
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On our most recent trip to
India and Nepal Sandra and Terri
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Horner's hard work is bearing
fruit. On this trip 19 Nepali
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villagers gave their life
to Christ and were baptized.
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Our students from the Lifestyle
Education Center also traveled
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to Sikkim and did an
Evangelistic series in
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collaboration with the
Adventist church in that area.
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In Southern India Pastor Johnson
and Pastor Shadrach Samuel took
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us around Chennai where we heard
some unique and interesting
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testimonies of many who
have been impacted by Laymen
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Ministries' television
programs broadcast in India.
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In an effort to expand upon this
work we have acquired some land
00:24:19.70\00:24:23.13
to build a television studio.
Be sure to keep an eye out for a
00:24:23.13\00:24:26.46
new program coming up on
our recent work in India.
00:24:26.46\00:24:29.23
Today you know we have workers
that we've sponsored all across
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Nepal and people are being won
to Christ. Churches are being
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built it's really been an
amazing program by this mother
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and daughter team
working up there in West Bengal.
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We have also been translating a
lot of books and tracts into the
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Nepali language there to
strengthen people and use as a
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means of outreach material.
It's also through your ongoing
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support that projects
like these are very successful.
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In the Country of Lithuania,
Laymen Ministries supports 12
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Bible workers, publishes books
and helps needy orphanages.
00:25:04.30\00:25:09.23
The ministry also supports
projects in Russia, the Ukraine,
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China and other
places around the globe.
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In an addition to our projects
overseas Laymen Ministries
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prints a magazine here in
the USA containing theological
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articles and stories
from our missionaries
00:25:21.13\00:25:23.56
from around the world.
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We also produce TV programs in
various languages for satellite
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broadcast as well as for the
internet. Laymen Ministries Book
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Store carries a variety of
resources to equip lay people
00:25:32.83\00:25:36.43
with Biblical truths.
00:25:36.43\00:25:38.00
We carry Bibles, hundreds of
books by various authors, audio
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books, music, CDs, DVDs,
teaching and training tools.
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Even an inexpensive New
Testament MP3 player for those
00:25:45.96\00:25:49.70
who may have reading challenges.
00:25:49.70\00:25:52.13
There are many other helpful
resources in our free catalog.
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You can order these same
materials online through our
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secure website at www.lmn.org
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This bookstore has actually been
a significant blessing for our
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mission work overseas, as the
proceeds from the bookstore help
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cover many of the basic
00:26:09.66\00:26:11.13
operating
expenses for the ministry.
00:26:11.13\00:26:12.93
This means one hundred percent
of your donations for mission
00:26:12.93\00:26:16.83
work goes directly to the
mission field. There is much
00:26:16.83\00:26:20.33
work to be done and the time
is short. The harvest is truly
00:26:20.33\00:26:24.16
great but the laborers are few.
00:26:24.16\00:26:26.36
There are still billions of
souls out there unprepared to
00:26:26.36\00:26:30.13
meet their
Maker. As you are able
00:26:30.13\00:26:32.30
by your prayers and offerings
00:26:32.30\00:26:34.26
please support and labor with
us as we endeavor to prepare the
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fields for harvest.
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We are in our eleventh year
now of being here in Occidental
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Mindoro. I have had students
come up to me and say "Titto Jim
00:26:55.83\00:27:00.23
can I talk with you?" I have had
a student say "Titto Jim I have
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decided to accept Jesus
Christ as my personal savour!"
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What a reward. Makes
all the effort worthwhile.
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To come to India to me has been
like going to graduate school.
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Meeting with so many challenges
here, much corruption, demon
00:27:19.00\00:27:23.83
possession, love of money, the
thirst for power. God's grace is
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sufficient. Many times I have
felt like I came to the end of
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my rope.
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But the Lord's promise in First
Corinthians is "My grace is
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sufficient for you, my strength
is made perfect in weakness" and
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He has never failed.
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I am not sorry for one
day that I have spent here,
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it has been a true reward.
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If you would like to get
involved with us in any of these
00:27:56.03\00:27:58.46
projects please contact us at
1-800-245-1844, or write us at
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Laymen Ministries, 414 Zapada
Rd., Saint Maries, Idaho 83861.
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You can find us on Facebook
and on the world wide web at
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www.lmn.org
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