On this program we will
be in the city of Chennai
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in the Southern part of India.
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All the years I've been to
India about 18-19 years now.
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I've see a lot of changes,
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you know, there's lot
of people walking around
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with real modern
looking cell phones
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and lot more nicer cars,
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the old taxes have gone
from little old yellow taxes
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to more modern cars.
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You know there's
just lot of changes
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that you see
here but at the same
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there is still a
lot of old Indian left.
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I mean, auto rickshaws
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with smoke
building up from behind,
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the vendors out on the streets,
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the noise and the pollution,
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people on the streets begging
and sleeping on the sidewalk.
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All those kind of
things have stayed with India.
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This is a Sunday morning
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and they are
cooking some breakfast
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and this is pretty
traditional in India,
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you go different
places even the major cities,
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they are cooking
different kinds of foods.
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And what are these?
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Vada, Vada.
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Vada? Vada.
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So different kind of vada,
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it's like a breakfast
kind of with chilies in it
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and we have these
kind of like pancakes.
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What are these called here?
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Dosa. Dosa.
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I know what dosa is.
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It's good, yeah.
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And then have some hot
oil here with they cook it?
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I personally never eat
at these kind of places
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because you never
know what could happen,
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you know, short term
and long term precautions.
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One thing here in India
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you can get a really
great assortment of fresh fruit.
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We're eating for
breakfast like pomegranates
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and oranges and
the papaya, bananas.
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I take some-- some bananas.
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Three. Three?
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Three?
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Yeah, three and
maybe four of these.
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Four? Four.
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Apple. No, no.
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Is it four, is it three?
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Three.
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How much?
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Three 10 rupees. Four 30 rupees.
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Okay.
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Three 10 rupees, 30 rupees.
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Certainly 30 rupees.
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Here you go.
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You always have to
bargain a little bit.
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On many of the coastal areas
of India men fish for a living.
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Many of them still do
it very similar to the way
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fishermen did it
back in Christ days.
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The men take
their nets on to the sea
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by the use of the simple boat.
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They make a giant
loop out in the bag
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bring the net
around full circle.
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Men on both ends of the net
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start to labor it
fast by pulling the net in.
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You see the one
man out in center,
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he is trying to scare
the fish into the net.
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This catch was
pretty disappointing
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yet there is another kind
of fishing being done in India.
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These fishermen reminded me
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of when Christ spoke to
His disciples telling them,
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"Follow me, and I will
make you fishers of men."
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In India, our fishing
for men has been blessed
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as we employed 24 Bible workers
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to go into the
streets of Chennai
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looking for people to pray with
and to open the Word of God too.
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They make friends
with a lot of people
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and often get
invited into educated
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and high caste Indian homes.
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Such was a case with
this gated community.
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They usually go two by two,
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but today there having a special
group Bible study at this home.
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Before we begin
any series of meetings,
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our Bible workers go
and do the ground work
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and even for the
television ministry
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this has been a great help.
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When they visit
homes they meet many people
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who watch our TV program
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and it is easy for them to
invite them for our meetings.
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Southern part of Chennai
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is a kind of high
class people live.
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So our ministry our Bible worker
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mostly focus on the
Southern part of Chennai.
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We do ground work and it is
not a one person giving baptism,
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it is a collective baptism.
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Our Bible study
through the Bible workers
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and the
supervisors of our pastors
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and then I will supervise,
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then Pastor Shadrach
will go and hold a meeting.
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Now Bible workers
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they do a lot of work
to follow our program.
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They go visit homes
and they do the follow up,
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encouraging them to
keep coming to the church.
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We had 17
meeting total, out of 17,
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five major evangelistic meeting
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in un-entered territory,
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never heard the name of Jesus.
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Out of 17 meetings
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we were able to plan
five new congregation.
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In Laymen Ministry we
won't give baptism like that,
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our Bible study
through the Bible workers
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and the
supervisors of our pastors,
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so it is not just
name sake baptism.
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How many Bible
workers right now?
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They are 22.
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Twenty two.
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Jeeva. Jeeva.
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Emily. Emily.
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This is Emily.
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This is his team.
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We need to be able
the have words of life.
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( speaking in foreign language )
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And that's what we're doing is,
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in this work that we do
is Bible workers as pastors.
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( speaking in foreign language )
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To bring a life to people.
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I want to hear some
experiences from last week.
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( speaking in foreign language )
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What's happening here is that,
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while they are talking in Tamil
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the Bible workers
are explaining about
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some of the
different experiences
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they've had like this past week.
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When I come to
countries like India,
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we have Bible workers.
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I like to understand
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what's actually
happening in their lives
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and what some of the
experiences are that they
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and the challenges
they face every day
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when I go out.
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And it's kind of a blessing,
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listening to some of the stories
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the just things that
happened this past week.
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Each one of the
Bible workers has full file
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where they keep
kind of like a folder
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with all their information.
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This is like a yearly report
and you can see like here,
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this one Bible
worker in January,
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she worked 28 days in January,
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she visited 290
homes and then signs that.
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Each one of the Bible
workers has a sheet like this
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so that we keep track of exactly
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what they are
doing in their work,
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how many homes they visit,
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how many baptisms they
actually have that month
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and how many new
churches were started
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and new church members,
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number of new church.
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What is this mean
number of new church here?
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Here church of planting.
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Church planted, that's
like a how many new church,
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one church is
planted in January there,
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and church planted that means
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like a new group of
people happen to study.
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New group of people, yeah.
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Okay.
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From 2001 our role
is a kind of in 95-2000
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we were publishing,
equipping lay people,
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kind of preparing a ground.
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In 2001 we started
a television program,
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then we are not
only preaching in the TV
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but mostly what we did is,
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we preached so the
seeding the TV through TV
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then Bible workers,
24 active Bible workers,
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not only Bible workers
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we have some pastors
supervising the Bible workers.
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So my point is here
the television evangelism,
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Bible worker, then
the evangelistic meeting,
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then-- after the evangelistic
meeting then follow of work
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and nurturing and
after the nurturing
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it's buying a property,
then building a church.
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It's a Laymen
Ministry evangelism,
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it's not the only a television
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but it is completely the
package of the evangelism.
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Since we have a center,
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previously we don't have
a place to store the book,
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some time we will
put it in the church
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some time we will put it
in the conference office,
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some time we will send
somewhere people come they take,
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you will ask the record,
we will not have a record
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but now we can
store as much as we print.
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Even if you print one
million we have a place now.
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So right now we
don't have Steps to Christ,
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people are asking.
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From France, Sri Lanka, Malaysia
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released Desire of
Ages, Great Controversy.
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There are few
books available now
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but we have to print
very urgently Steps to Christ,
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Great
Controversy, Desire of Ages
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and Bible study lesson.
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In Kerala in South India,
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there is what is
called backwaters.
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This is a popular place
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for newly weds to
go to for honeymoons.
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Yes there are hotels located
on the water in some places.
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These areas are teaming
with bird singing their songs.
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Along with shores of the water
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where we came up on an elephant
having his morning bath.
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The elephant seems to be
truly enjoying the scrub down.
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This morning we're gonna go
buy some things for the studio.
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We're gonna take
an auto rickshaw.
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They called an auto rickshaw
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because when they
started putting motors in them
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they started being
like automatic rickshaws
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because the old ones
were like peddle rickshaws,
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they got peddling
them or even the old ones
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were driven by a
guy with two sticks.
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This is definitely
one of the best ways
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to get around in India.
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These autos are really great
for getting in around traffic,
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but get next to these big
buses the dust comes rolling off
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of all the exhaust
fumes come inside of them.
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By the end of the day
you're not only exhausted
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but you just covered with
dirt and you take a shower
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and you can see the black
just rolling off the body.
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Hi, nice to meet you, sir.
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Here is Mr. Joseph.
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Hi. Nice to meet you, sir.
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And he is a one of--
he is born in Christian
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and but in India he is
producing unique studio lighting
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and he is a graduate
in the film industry.
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So he entered into the
lighting manufacturing place.
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Well, I'm in his showroom
with JAYA we are enquiring,
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what kind of light we can
have it in our new studio?
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We were happy
that this gentleman
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gave us a great
discount on studio lightening.
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Shopping in India
is a big different
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than shopping in the
lot of other countries
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around the world.
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For instance we
needed some computer monitors
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for one of our editing systems,
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we were able to
negotiate the price
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then they dug
around in a pile of boxes
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till they found
the monitors we bought.
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Think I need to go
get my lungs cleaned
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out after that but
I'm really glade that
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we built a studio out in country
and followed the council.
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We are in the fresh air
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and get away from all
the noises of the city.
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We're here in the
hotel room in Chennai.
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Right now we're actually
going to take the computer out
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and test it
everything here first.
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So this is a Mac Pro.
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It's a quad core with a
couple of graphic cards in it.
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It's actually our
old editing system
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that we've used here at the last
several missions videos with.
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So actually we
have a new system now
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as we brought this one over here
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for them to use
in the new TV studio.
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There are two new monitors.
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We didn't bring
these are from the States,
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we just brought these
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here to use with
the new editing system.
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Yeah, it will work fine.
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We're on a way to the dedication
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of our new television
studio and training centre.
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Here in India
dedication is really a big thing
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so it's gonna be interesting
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and see what's
gonna happen here.
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And sometime I'm
little uncomfortable
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with too much popping ceremony
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but the main thing I'm
more interested in this
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as this building will
be used to glorify God
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and just to show
appreciation for everybody
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that's been involved
with allowing this to happen.
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We arrived early for studio's
training centre dedication.
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This gave us sometime to
visit with some of the people
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who helping put
the event together.
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It is such a blessing that
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this facility can be
located out in country
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and as I said
in the car in India
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they make a pretty big deal
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out of a
dedication service like this.
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As the sun started to set
the dedication service began.
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In attendance was R. John's
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with Southern
Asian division president
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who drove some four hours
one way to attend the ceremony.
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There was also
the union secretary,
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conference president
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and many other
people from the church.
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Everything started
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with the
marching pathfinder band
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then the various ribbon
cutting ceremonies began.
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( speaking in foreign language )
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And I give short
blessing as they open this,
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the God let you bless the
leadership professor Johnson
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and the others who
are connected to this.
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May God bless us.
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I opened the old center of our.
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It's such a
privilege to belong to here.
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( singing in foreign language )
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R. John's the division president
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unveiled the dedication
plaque for the building.
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Thank you for all those
that are attending here today
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and we ask that you are
blessed each one of them
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in the special way.
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And Lord, we just want
to dedicate this building
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to Your glory and to
be used for Your work.
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In Christ name, amen.
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Amen.
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( speaking in foreign language )
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I'm a local
conference president.
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Nice to meet you. Yeah.
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You have been involved
with the lot of the work here
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in this area
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and we appreciate
your work very much.
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( speaking in foreign language )
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I could tell this was
going to be a long ceremony.
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Even though I'm not much
for these kinds of things,
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I do appreciate the fact
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that our ministry in
India is appreciated.
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( speaking in foreign language )
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You're pioneer you're in
supporting team ministry,
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the person three of,
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you go three the
great inspiration
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you are to all the
laymen of our church,
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the commitment member
like you we can't search.
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( speaking in foreign language )
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A few months later we
were back at the studio
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delivering some new
video production here.
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For our two studio
techs it was like Christmas
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as they open the
packages we brought.
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We had a new HD video switcher
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and some other gear to
make video shoots easier.
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It was real blessing to see
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how the studio went
from an empty concrete shell
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to a fully
functioning television studio.
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The workers here
are fully committed
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to producing quality programs
for television broadcast.
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I'm Christo Samuel
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working here as
a graphic designer
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and taking in
charge of this studio.
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I have been working
here for like five months
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from September till now.
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This is the list of programs
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that would be recorded
on the year 2013 and 2014.
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We could able to finish
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like 76
programs on the year 2013
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and till now on 2014
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we could able to
finish 28 programs.
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My name is George Washington
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and I'm involved in editing
of this Laymen Ministries studio
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and I'm taking
care of camera work too.
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This is actually
our inventory list.
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We have five rooms
totally in our studio.
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One is the main studio
and this is the control room
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and we have the editing studio
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and top we have the bookstore
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and the
reception and everything.
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So this is the total inventory
system of the full equipments
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that is available in the studio
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and this control
room and everything.
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We are in nine
different television network.
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We are in JAYA TV.
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JAYA TV its
going around the world,
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Alaska to Australia everywhere
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and the potential
audience is 95 million people.
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Then we are in Tamilan Network.
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In Tamilan Network the potential
audience is 12 million people.
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It mostly reaches in
major cities of Tamil Nadu
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and Middle East one country.
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The next day
Christo and Washington
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wanted to show
us a newly installed
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HD videos switcher in
our main control room.
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They were getting
ready to start recording
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more programs that next week.
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We're thankful that people
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like you have made
these purchases possible.
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We've come a long
way from way back in 2001
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when we first started
our television ministry.
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We often rented studios
using older antiquated equipment
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and we were always
at the mercy of those
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who own the studio.
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We praise God that in 2011
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we brought ground for,
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and started
building our own studio.
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Very quickly the
building took shape
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as well as the
church behind our center
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to be used for worship services
and for training seminars.
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Security walls went up
and a white sealer coat
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was applied to our building.
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Today by God's grace
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we have our own
television production facility.
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Pastor Johnson reflects on
how our TV ministry started.
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We were thinking
about starting a TV program
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because in
India TV program means
00:25:41.80\00:25:46.24
a Christian television
program, people like it.
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Every religion, people like it.
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So we wanted to start a
television program very badly.
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That day you came to one
of our church member home.
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So we all met
them and it was a day
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that we were sharing about you
00:26:08.06\00:26:09.96
that we want to have
start a television program.
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That was a first visit,
first I mean, lot of visit,
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it's as first meeting
point between you and me
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and they were two three
church members out there,
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they were
talking about me to you
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and you were convinced.
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I feel its kind of Holy Spirit.
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So that's a
point in 2001 January
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after Elder Mark
Finley at 2000 meeting
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it was a
historical day for the India,
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pioneering of
television program in India
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through Laymen Ministry.
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In the television ministry
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we have started it in
the whole land of India.
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This Laymen Ministry
that started and it is growing
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and we would
certainly want to thank
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all our donors for
their great sacrifice and help
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reaching out to
millions and millions of people
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in this great land of India.
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Laymen Ministries
had been working in India
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for over 20 years.
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We have seen our God
has touched the lives
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and hearts of
thousands across India.
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If you would like
to help this ministries
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contact us at this address.
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You can also
donate online at lmn.org.
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