Laymen Ministries has been
working in India for going on
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18, 19 years now, so we really
understand the culture here, we
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understand the people and
the problems that we face.
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And working with people
like Pastor Shadrach Samuel and
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Pastor Johnson, being nationals,
we've developed a system that is
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very effective in
being able to reach people.
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We believe it's a
kind of sowing the seed.
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Various churches we go, and we
help people to prepare for these
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end times.
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In 2000 we hardly had
like 15 to 30 churches.
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But today, around 150 churches.
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We need a spiritual revival, and
by God's grace through the help
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of Laymen Ministries, this
is what we are trying to do.
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Being the director of Laymen
Ministries, I personally come
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and check on all
the different projects.
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Pretty much every year I come to
India. I go to North India and I
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look at what's happening with
our training school up there.
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I go to the Philippines and I
check with what's happening with
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our schools there.
Making sure that money is being
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used in a proper way, the work
is being done effectively and
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efficiently, and also to
build a spirit of camaraderie.
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Because of the fact that we're
working with mostly in South
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India with Nationals.
They are able to speak the
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language, they understand the
challenges they face, they can
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do evangelism. They
know when they go into a
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home, like the Bible workers for
instance, go into a home, they
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know what to say to be able
to touch the lives and hearts of
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those people because they
can identify with them because
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they're their own people group.
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And so Laymen Ministries
over the years here has really
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developed a very good system.
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We'll go door by door.
The first one is forming group
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Bible study. It's a
kind of friendship, then
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forming group Bible study.
Then the third one is kind of
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evangelistic meeting. The
fourth one is the follow up
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work and planting churches.
What we are doing is, sowing the
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seed through TV and then
we have our Bible workers.
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They will follow the addresses
and phone the people who call.
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And then we'll hold a meeting
in a particular place, and after
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the meeting
we'll plant a church.
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We'll hire a place and put
a temporary church roof, then
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we'll appoint a
layman to hold a church.
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Then after that, try to buy
land, then construct a church,
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it's a long process.
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One of our many challenges
is, we do not have a different
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program to reach those
who are non-Christians.
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In India, Christian population
is very small, less than 7%.
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Less than 7%. So you
can understand, 80% of our
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population is un-reached.
So our greatest challenge is to
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reach people who have
never heard of the gospel.
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Laymen Ministries from the
beginning to not just with the
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baptism, we have an ongoing
program, training them for
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bringing more souls in
soul winning and nurturing the
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churches after, even after
baptism, providing lay people
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with the
literature, with the resources.
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Pastor Johnson took a few
minutes to share with me about
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some of the literature
they use in evangelism.
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Many of these books which Laymen
Ministries helped print, include
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such titles as "The Great
Controversy," "Prophets and
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Kings," "Education," "Mount
of Blessings," "Life Sketches of
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the Apostle Paul," devotional
books and Bible study lessons.
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Laymen Ministries is not just
another type evangelism, just
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people coming here preaching,
conducting meeting and going
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away. No.
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This has been an ongoing
program, a steady permanent work
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beginning from 1994
and it has steadily grown.
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So we're here to stay we're here
to really keep training keeping
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this program going, and that's
probably one of the unique
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things about Laymen Ministries
is that we just haven't come in
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did some kind of
project and left.
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We've been here for a
long time and continue
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to plan to stay here.
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When we first started coming
to India I would stand in a city
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like Chennai and I think it's
the sixth largest city in the
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world or the sixth largest city
in India. I cant remember but
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it's just teaming with people
and I would look and I would say
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"how in the world
is the Lord going reach
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all these people?"
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And it just seemed
almost impossible and then as we
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started developing the TV
ministry here I realized that we
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can take the truth right into
the privacy of a home and be
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able to share the
truth with the person.
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A person can be having problems
in their life and going through
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different things and they can
turn on the TV set and there we
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are face to face with that
person in the privacy of their
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home sharing the gospel.
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I really believe that in the end
times that somehow God is going
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to take the reigns into His own
hands and He's going to somehow
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finish this work in a way that's
just going to amaze all of us.
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but meanwhile we have the
opportunity to be able to share
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the gospel with millions of
people through the privacy of
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their own homes in a television
set and I can see now a little
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bit, a glimpse of how we
can really touch the lives and
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hearts of a lot
of different people.
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There are few homes that which
we visited. All came to a church
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through the
result of TV evangelism.
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Over the course of several days
we had the opportunity to visit
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many homes of people whose
lives were transformed by Laymen
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Ministries TV programs and DVDs.
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One couple we visited was
particularly on fire for God and
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the Sabbath Truth this was the
home of Clayton and Jennifer.
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Clayton is a very
interesting person.
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He was a boxer. He
lived a wild life, drinking,
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all kinds of bad habits.
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And it's amazing how this
man has completely changed.
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He was also a catholic.
Once he was one of those who
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received our free CD players.
And being an Anglo-Indian, he
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could watch all
our programs and DVDs.
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And this man was amazed.
He went to his priest asking
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them questions. Why
is the catholic church
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teaching like this?
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Clayton was born and raised
a Catholic while his wife was a
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protestant Christian.
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Once being introduced
to the truth about God, His
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commandments and the Sabbath;
Clayton was convinced and
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convicted.
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He doesn't just have a
mere knowledge of the truth his
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diligent search for truth
accompanied by his discoveries
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made a profound
impact on his life.
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As a result his passion to share
these truths with others should
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be an example to us all.
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Our duty is to teach everyone
and tell them the Truth.
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they must come to
know, to know the Truth.
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Come to repentance.
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Come to maturity in Grace.
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Bibles is in every house.
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Its up to you to study it.
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[that's true]
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So you don't study it,
you're left without an excuse.
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There's no excuse for you.
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You have it in your
use and you don't open it.
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And if someone
shows you the light,
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you want to turn your face.
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You don't want to hear.
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But if God is speaking, you have
to listen, you have to hear,
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because it's the Truth you see.
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Today we have a choice.
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Jesus said "if you love
me, keep my commandments."
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I said, there's a
condition in that.
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The whole world is praying for
the Holy Spirit, but can't hear
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the Holy Spirit. Why?
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The condition. "If you
love me, keep my commandments."
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I'll pray to the Father
and He'll send you another
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comforter, "even the Spirit
of Truth who the world cannot
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receive.
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But who will be with
you and in you forever."
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So God's Truth will come
to a person who wants it.
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"Those who hunger and thirst
after righteousness shall be
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filled" He says.
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So unless you hunger and thirst
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only God can fill
you with His Words.
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Then you can go, and
you can share with people.
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Another very
interesting thing about
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this man; he found the Seventh
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day Sabbath on his own
reading the Word of God.
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And when he found the Adventist
Church he was so happy, now this
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man is on fire. His
wife did not first accept
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the truth, and this
man did not force her.
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It is nearly 4 or 5 years now,
just recently two months ago the
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wife on her own decided to take
baptism and both husband and
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wife were baptized.
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At first Jennifer wasn't really
too convinced about the Sabbath
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or it's importance. When she
finally investigated deeper she
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became restless and approached
other Christians about the
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Sabbath including her pastor.
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Since pastor said this is done
away at the cross and then God
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has given us grace and all this.
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We thought ok, that's
it. That's the way it is.
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[and that's good enough]
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Whenever I ask anyone about the
Sabbath day they'd say it's a
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cult, and they're making one
person very prominent and all
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these things. And
also you better be careful.
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This is what they
always used to tell me.
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And I used to ask him and he
says no, this is what the Bible
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says. You don't
have to see anyone, I
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am looking at the Word of God
and telling you that it is it.
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And that's all. He'd
play the CD. And I'd be
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doing my work and I'd be
listening, but like I'd never
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open myself to it, you know?
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Then recently now,
one of his parents.
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I think pastor gave him the CD.
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Actually he brought
a set of Mark Woodman.
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He started
talking and I listened.
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I only just listened to one CD.
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It's was like
something was troubling me.
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And again I listened.
And it was bringing me back.
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Come listen and I
listened. I think 15 no?
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15 CDs.
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The full thing I
listened to and that's it.
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I became so... I was sick.
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I didn't know
what was wrong with me.
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I couldn't
sleep. I couldn't eat.
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I've had that happened to
many friends their like "no
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this can't be true!
This can't be true!"
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Then you listen some more.
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"No! this cant be true!"
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And then he said what.... we
said no I listened to this Mark
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Woodman. And he's a
layman but, it's such
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a nice thing. I said
he explained everything.
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And he's gone
through all the details.
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I mean, he's a layman.
What gives him the trouble of
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doing all this?
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That pastor, ok, he's
a pastor he has to do it.
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He's taken the job.
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But not a layman. [laughing]
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Not a layman, I said
why should he do it I said?
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Is something
really...and after seeing it
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I'm so etcetera, etcetera.
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Something's wrong with
me. I can't explain it.
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I cannot even
eat for three days.
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I can't sleep. I
just can't enjoy anything
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[laughing].
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And this is one those couples
who are on fire for the Lord.
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I gave them hundreds of DVDs and
they go on distributing to other
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catholics and Anglo-Indians.
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And wherever I go,
If I'm in a tea shop,
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I will talk about Christ.
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Anywhere, if I go to the
market and see someone...
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I'm not ashamed of the gospel.
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Wherever I go,
wherever I go. I'm not ashamed.
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So I go to houses. I
speak to people in the house.
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Wherever I go, wherever I go,
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I give the Sabbath Truth.
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Our DVD ministry has been
greatly blessed, it has been
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very effective. We
have distributed thousands
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and thousands of DVDs.
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With our TV viewers, when they
write to us and when we know
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they can follow English, they
can understand, we send them our
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English sermons,
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or of our various other speakers
like Pastor Mark Finley, Pastor
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Doug Batchelor. And our
local language sermons also.
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Many people have expressed
appreciation and some people
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have been baptized only through
this DVD ministry, this is a
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very great thing.
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It's been really amazing you
know, there has been cases like
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one family that was a Hindu
family and the wife was going
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through some deep
turmoil in her life.
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She watched one of our TV
programs and it really touched
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her heart.
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She started calling
in on a regular basis.
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Finally she was interested
in having the Bible workers come
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but was afraid of what her
husband would think because he
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was a high caste Hindu man.
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And what ended up happening
is they arranged a meeting away
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from her home. And
they ended up starting Bible
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studies with her.
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One day she said my "husband's
gone" so, they invited the
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Bible workers to come over
to the house and to have a Bible
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study there.
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And in the middle of the Bible
study her husband came home, and
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you could imagine he was really
disappointed, he's a high caste
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Hindu. Seeing his
wife studying with
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these Christian
people and he became furious.
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But at the same time he
knew that his wife had been
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struggling with a lot of sever
depression and he had seen the
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changes that had happened to her
over the last several months.
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And he started to understand
that this came about from her
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studying the Bible and
her new found faith in Christ.
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And so he generally accepted
her desire to want to become a
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Christian.
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So he even started taking her
to church on Sabbath morning.
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Dropping her off and then
driving away and doing different
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things and then coming
picking her up at church.
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And one Sabbath morning
he pulled up to the church.
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He got there early and
the sermon was going on and
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sometimes outside the churches
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they have these
loud speakers there.
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And he listened to the sermon
and he was touched by the sermon
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and so he actually after that
started every once in a while
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coming and parking his car and
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just listening to
the sermon outside.
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And then
eventually he got to where
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he started
coming in the building.
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And praise God that family was
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baptized into the
church and it all started
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through this TV ministry.
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It shows how it can go into a
home, can touch a person's life
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and it can draw
people into the truth.
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This shows how our program
works, from sowing the seed
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through TV and then evangelistic
meeting then giving books, Bible
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study and planting churches and
then not only planting churches
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nurturing the people.
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Nurturing the people is exactly
what we were doing one afternoon
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at an Adventist
Church in Chennai.
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The church where I'm standing
is started through the fruits of
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Laymen Ministry
India Bible workers.
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Since 2005 the
church is existing.
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Today more then 50 believers are
attending every Sabbath service,
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and this church is one of
the best examples how Laymen
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Ministry, it's not one thats
sowing the seed but focusing
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planting churches in
various parts of India.
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So this is the little church
that was raised up in 2001? Is
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that what year it
was? Yeah? Ok, good.
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We'd come to hear some of the
testimonies of the Bible workers
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and to pray with some of
the women who were asking for
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special prayer.
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Her name is Shandra Kumari and
her husband is to take a lot of
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hard cleaning alcohol.
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He's drinking a lot.
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Shandra Kumari's
husband suffered from alcoholic
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poisoning, providentially Laymen
Ministry's Bible worker, Joseph,
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had just visited
the house at that time.
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And upon learning of her
husband's condition suggested
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that he try taking charcoal.
As a result her husband
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recovered and
they both have been
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receiving Bible studies and
now attend the local Seventh day
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Adventist church every Sabbath.
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And their story is a very
interesting story, her husband
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is working in the
electrical department.
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Stella's husband is a telephone
line man, which means he has to
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climb up the telephone
poles to repair the lines.
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While working one
day he fell and was taken
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to near by Hospital.
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The Bible workers were
providentially visiting that
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Hospital and took time
to visit with her husband.
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After his recovery
Bible studies started with
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the couple at their home.
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Both of them were excited
about the message and today they
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attend the Adventist church and
watch our television programs
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regularly.
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This again is another example
how Laymen Ministries outreach
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with Bible workers, works
in tandem with the television
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ministry and the local churches.
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These are just a couple examples
of many more stories, every
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Sabbath at this tiny church
40 members along with their
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children attend
church every Sabbath.
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After I met with these women I
shared a brief message about the
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importance of Lay
workers in the church
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and then prayed with them.
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We prayed specifically for a
couple of women and then a third
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stranger came
forward for prayer.
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And then the
unexpected happened.
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She became demon possessed!
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[screaming:
"Don't pray! Don't pray!
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Don't pray for me!"]
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[Pastor Shadrach praying]
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We were finishing praying for
this one lady and there was this
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one lady there that we didn't
know where she had came from.
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Turned out that she was a
catholic lady and she came there
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because she was seeking help.
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But as soon as
we started to pray,
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She was telling us not to
pray she said "don't pray, don't
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pray, don't pray
for me!" she said.
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And she fell on the floor and
she was gnashing her teeth and
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it was quite
evident demon activity.
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And Pastor Shadrach immediately
put his hands on her forehead
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and started praying
for her and commanding
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the demon to come out. You know,
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calling on the name of Christ.
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And when we prayed
finally she became quiet.
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Then she immediately....
and this is the way I think that
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should happen, that I believe
should happen because Christ is
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more powerful then demons,
then immediately she fell to the
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floor and immediately
a calm came over her.
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These people who are possessed
after we pray they fall down and
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they lay unconsciously, after
some time they get up and they
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are normal.
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One of the things that they were
saying is that he was telling me
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when he is coming across this
kind of demon activity, that its
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like talking to the devil.
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They'll say who they are,
where they came from and such
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This case is like classic case
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of how it really
should be dealt with.
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He immediately put his hands
on her, prayed for her and then
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she became unconscious and
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then when she woke
up she was much better.
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But she was actually from what
they were telling me looking for
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a place to go to find
deliverance from this demon
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harassment that
she'd been having.
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So that was quite the
interesting experience for sure.
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When we saw that lady suddenly
acting different, it is amazing
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and we still don't...I do not
know how she has been talking
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like a spirit of a dead person.
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And often this
happens like that.
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They would say "I am from so and
so and I'm such and such a place
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and I have
possessed this woman!"
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But what we do is we will pray
earnestly and our Bible workers
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will take fast and they will...
whole day they will sit in the
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church and we'll invite them
in the church and we'll pray.
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Sometimes when it is repeated
we fast and pray for such people
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and they have permanent relief.
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They have to have a willingness
inside to really release that
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demon and to stop the
things that are causing those
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demon...demonic
influences in their life too.
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They have to stop that kind of
association if they really want
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to be free from that
kind of demon activity.
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Why do you think it is so common
in India that you see so many
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people that have like
this kind of demonic activity?
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We see this lady, there is
nothing they can do, she is a
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Catholic lady.
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oh.
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The Catholicism is
almost like Hinduism here.
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I have observed that this
is seen mostly among ignorant
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people, unlearned people.
that's one thing, if at all if
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you see this among
learning people it's very rare.
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Maybe it's because of the fear
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and their belief in
this Hindu or heathen gods.
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And what we witnessed on
Wednesday, that woman happens to
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be a catholic believer and
this is another observation,
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catholicism and Hinduism we see
not very much difference there.
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For example you see a
procession there with the Hindu
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deity they're carrying our
catholic virgin Mary statue.
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You will not know the difference
whether it is Hindu or
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Christian. So even
though that woman was a
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Catholic lady I am sure she
has this Hindu Philosophy mind,
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worshipping idols and trying
to appease God and having fear.
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I think these are
some of the reasons.
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With the practices and lifelong
traditions of false worship in
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India, demonic
activity is not uncommon
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as the vast majority of India's
population have heard nothing of
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the gospel. As Pastor
Shadrach stated 80% of
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India is completely
un-reached for Christ.
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For this reason Laymen
Ministries is in a very unique
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and profound position to reach
the multitudes with the Truth.
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Why?
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Because our Christian
TV programs are airing on a
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mainstream Hindu network Jaya
Television, as a result these
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programs are bearing a lot
of fruit and a positive result.
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We are receiving
a lot of letters.
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Not very many baptisms but one
thing I have observed, people
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come to know Adventists as
Christians for the first time.
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Many people have the idea
that Seventh-day Adventists
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they are a cult.
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Now after our TV presentation
they come to me they are
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surprised "You believe
in the Bible you believe in
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Jesus Christ?"
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It is a surprise to them, so our
TV ministry in Telegu language
00:23:04.93\00:23:09.93
is a great
blessing. People come to know
00:23:09.93\00:23:12.96
who Seventh-day Adventists are.
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As far as I know in our
whole division, southern Asia
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division. Laymen
Ministries is the first to
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start the TV ministry.
This has been, beginning
00:23:22.60\00:23:27.70
from 2000 or so we have
continued nearly for ten years.
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One of the problems we face we
go use secular studios to record
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our programs, Pastor Johnson
and Paster Shadrach are under an
00:23:36.10\00:23:39.60
immense amount of pressure
00:23:39.60\00:23:41.06
because they go in there,
they're watching the time,
00:23:41.06\00:23:42.36
they know if they go
over time their gonna
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get charged
extra amount of rupees.
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If we have our own studio we
can do things in a more casual
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manner, we can plan things, we
can develop programs that will
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even be more
effective then the ones we have.
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Soon we are planning to start a
Hindi television program because
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in India the potential audience
of Hindu speaking is 750 million
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people, and also apart from that
those who are in Pakistan those
00:24:04.00\00:24:09.43
who are in the middle
east can understand Hindi.
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So the potential audience will
be more then 750 million people.
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We have been looking for land
to build a studio on for a few
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years. One
afternoon I was out with
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Pastor Johnson and Paster
Shadrach, we looked at a few
00:24:23.70\00:24:26.80
different potential properties.
00:24:26.80\00:24:28.76
This is one of the places
that we're looking at a piece of
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property to buy for a Laymen
Ministries office and studio,
00:24:31.46\00:24:34.13
and it's the end of rainy season
right now so there's a lot of
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floating water in this area so
what we would normally have to
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do most of the places in this
part of India anyhow is you have
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to build up the property with
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some kind of pit
run and rock fill.
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But anyhow we're looking at
a piece right back in there and
00:24:45.83\00:24:49.26
possibly this area where this
little house is at and this is
00:24:49.26\00:24:52.76
the silicon valley of south
India, this area so real-estate
00:24:52.76\00:24:56.20
here has been
skyrocketing the last 10 years.
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Yeah this is an incredible
housing development here.
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Where are we at right now?
00:25:07.70\00:25:09.73
Just for one house?
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We have been carefully pursuing
plans to build a studio in
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Chennai now for several years.
Either the price wasn't right or
00:25:18.00\00:25:21.56
there were
complications with the location.
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So we continued to pray
and only a few days later
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God answered our prayers!
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Just this morning while we were
here in India we were offered 5
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cents of land. Thats
roughly maybe a quarter of
00:25:31.73\00:25:34.23
an acre or a little bit
less of property here by Paster
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Shadrach's
brother Meshach Samuel
00:25:37.16\00:25:39.43
who is a doctor in America.
00:25:39.43\00:25:40.50
And I told him that
we are looking for land.
00:25:40.50\00:25:43.70
And I suggested to him why not
we give at least 3 cents of our
00:25:43.70\00:25:48.23
land to be registered
in Laymen Ministries name.
00:25:48.23\00:25:51.70
And I'm glad he
told me "why 3 cents
00:25:51.70\00:25:54.70
lets give 5 cents" he said.
Apart from that 5 cents another
00:25:54.70\00:25:58.63
10 cents is available of
our land which my brother
00:25:58.63\00:26:03.13
wants to give to Laymen
Ministries for the use of
00:26:03.13\00:26:06.76
evangelism in the
memory of our parents.
00:26:06.76\00:26:09.26
And that's really an answer
to prayer because we've been
00:26:09.26\00:26:11.13
spending the
last year and a half
00:26:11.13\00:26:12.53
looking for a piece of property.
00:26:12.53\00:26:13.73
We can start building on this
immediately, we need to buy some
00:26:13.73\00:26:16.86
cameras, the studio we need to
build, all together probably for
00:26:16.86\00:26:20.03
around $60,000 dollars we could
equip this studio to be able
00:26:20.03\00:26:23.06
to do our own
in-house production.
00:26:23.06\00:26:24.96
And not have to be wasting money
going off to secular studios and
00:26:24.96\00:26:28.50
having programming done. So
thats a really God-send that
00:26:28.50\00:26:31.46
happened just today.
00:26:31.46\00:26:33.90
Now we have secured land to
help this television ministry
00:26:33.90\00:26:36.96
grow. We are also
seeking to increase
00:26:36.96\00:26:39.26
the number of Bible workers who
will go out and reap the seeds
00:26:39.26\00:26:42.20
from our TV broadcasts.
Our Bible workers will go door
00:26:42.20\00:26:45.40
to door to hand out
literature, DVDs and to offer
00:26:45.40\00:26:48.80
to do Bible studies.
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In the last two years has it
gotten more difficult to find
00:26:53.36\00:26:56.23
people interested in
having Bible studies?
00:26:56.23\00:26:58.36
They said "no!"
00:26:58.36\00:27:00.10
Amazing that they're saying
that it's not more difficult.
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Explain to me why it's not
difficult to find Bible studies.
00:27:02.86\00:27:05.63
She says they have a lot
of experience how to reach
00:27:05.63\00:27:13.73
the un-reached, how
to give the Bible study,
00:27:13.73\00:27:16.40
they know the strategy now.
00:27:16.40\00:27:18.96
I asked for Bible workers about
their strategy for studying the
00:27:18.96\00:27:22.53
Bible and generally they said
they'll start by sharing about
00:27:22.53\00:27:25.96
creation and a
single God who created it.
00:27:25.96\00:27:28.26
Then they discuss sin and the
need of redemption followed by
00:27:28.26\00:27:31.66
the prophesies and verses
that prove Jesus is the Messiah.
00:27:31.66\00:27:35.20
Once a person has an
understanding of the gospel
00:27:35.20\00:27:37.80
message, from there we'll branch
off into other types of studies
00:27:37.80\00:27:41.23
like on the state
of the dead or hell.
00:27:41.23\00:27:43.26
And end time Bible prophesies.
00:27:43.26\00:27:45.03
Due to the success of the Bible
worker program we're planning to
00:27:45.03\00:27:48.56
double the
number of Bible workers
00:27:48.56\00:27:50.53
so we can have two teams.
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So many people in South India
are still in spiritual bondage,
00:27:51.96\00:27:56.46
slaves of ignorance, false Gods
and even demonic possession.
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80% of the country is still
Non-Christian which makes our
00:28:01.03\00:28:04.46
work in South India
a very important one.
00:28:04.46\00:28:06.96
We are doing our best to try
to maximize the potential for a
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successful strategy of outreach
combining our Bible workers,
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Evangelism and the TV ministry.
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If you'd like to get involved
with Laymen Ministries please
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contact us at 414
ZAPADA RD. ST.MARIES, ID 83861
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Or you can contact
us at 1-800-245-1844.
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