I'm right now in
West Bengal, North India,
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just below our training school.
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Our training school
has outreach to Nepal
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and we also have
some students from Assam.
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On this mission trip that
we're gonna take you into Nepal
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and let you see
some of the results
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of Laymen Ministries' work.
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We'll show you a
church dedication
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of the new church that
we just recently built by
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a group of Korean Adventists,
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and how one of our workers
did the ground work there,
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and show you some
of the other areas
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in Nepal where we
are working right now.
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So join us now as we
take you on another adventure
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into the country of
Nepal and North India.
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I'd like to
welcome you to the Prerna
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Lifestyle education center
in Gorubathan, West Bengal.
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We are part of the
Laymen's Ministries'
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organization out of
Idaho, United States.
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We'd like to welcome you in.
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This is my mother's
and my room where we stay
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as well as often
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where we have our
different meetings.
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And care for many of
the interest of the center.
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And here we have one of
our young men's hostel rooms.
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Come in and see our place.
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This is where several
of our male students stay
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and this where they have
been for the last two years.
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This is our rest room
and where we take our baths.
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Sorry, I...man, the
water is freezing cold here.
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I'm sorry.
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This is where they take
their baths, by the way.
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That's what I was just doing.
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Welcome to our class
room and meet our teachers,
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my mother, Terri
Horner and Joseph Mugar
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who is
translating for our class,
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also one of our teachers here
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and meet all of
our students here
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from Nepal and Assam.
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Most of the time
when I'm in class,
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I'm teaching Bible
doctrines and when Mommy's here.
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Sometimes Mommy
is, my Mommy goes to US
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and so then I
have over her classes
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and then at that time
I teach Bible doctrines
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and when Mommy comes
back, I translate for her.
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Right now I'm just
translating classes for Mommy
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as she is teaching
Daniel and Revelation.
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Daniel is already finished
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but we have still
to finish Revelation
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and so it's been very
interesting to translate.
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I learn as well as I
can translate for her
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and for the students.
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Denis and I came here last year.
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We saw the in depth
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presentation of
these students had.
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I received a copy of
the notes from one of them
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and just all of the
classes are like that
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and they are learning
material that in America,
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we hear, we see in
evangelistic meetings.
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But it's
everyday being presented
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and then also translated.
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So it's in
their Nepali language,
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so they have
written down clearly.
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This is my first time in
this project in North India.
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And I've heard a
lot of things about it.
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So I was really anxious
to come and see for myself
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everything that's going on.
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And I am just so impressed.
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Sandra is an excellent teacher
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and she knows
the language so well
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and she's just really has a
passion for what she's doing.
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I'm just so impressed with it
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and it's really
nice to have her mother
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be here with her.
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The two work as a team.
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Each one of them meets
the need that needs to be met.
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They can-- a kind of
like a hand in a glove.
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The students, I am
really impressed with.
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They-- it's not the
same as in the Philippines.
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In the Philippines,
we're teaching basics like
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math and science and spelling
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and even though a lot of
them had to learn English
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when they came here,
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the Bible classes
that they are learning,
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it's so deep.
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Most of our young
people that come to our cente
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have come from
Hindu backgrounds.
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A few of them have
been to church services
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and had a little
bit of Bible knowledge.
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But most of them
don't have much at all.
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So we try to get them
involved in the Bible stories
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right from the beginning.
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We start with Genesis,
take them through the creation,
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have them read chapters
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in the evening in
their personal time
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and then we go through the books
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of the Conflict of the Ages set.
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God has blessed us
very much with a very
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good group of
students this year.
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They are very interested.
They have their goals focused.
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But, yeah, they come
from a very rough background.
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Most of them were Hindus before,
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if not most of them were
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and they come often
from very rough homes,
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broken homes, many
challenges, a lot of poverty
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and to see their growth
over these last two years
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has been just wonderful.
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We're hoping that they
can go out as Bible workers,
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work in communities
either in Nepal or India
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and raise up churches
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and if they aren't Bible workers
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that they can
at least be leaders
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in their own home churches.
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Besides solid Biblical training,
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the students also get taught
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how to use tools
they need for outreach.
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All of them learn
how to use computers
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and how to type, not
only in their language
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but in English.
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These computer skills help
them in their personal studies
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as well as for evangelism.
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By using a video projector,
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together with
point presentations
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on various topics,
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they can more
effectively share the truth.
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There's a tailoring
shop that I just loved
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because I love to sew.
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And I went up there
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and started
speaking with the teacher
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that was up there and
students were up there
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and they were sewing away.
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And he said, oh, these
shirts that they have on
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beautiful dress
shirts, they sewed themselves.
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Their dress pants,
they sewed themselves.
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You know, it
looks like something
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you buy out of the store.
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Probably better.
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But I'm sure they
are of better quality.
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I spent a day up
there with him today
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and I started just
momentarily showing them
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a little bit
about American quilting.
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And they were
just gathered around
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and started
looking at what I was doing
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and the tailor's wife in an hour
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made a pillow case out of
a beautiful quilt patterning
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that I just showed her.
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I was like, I said,
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"you are already
better than I am at it."
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And so wonderful people.
I could stay here longer.
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All the students and
staff help in the kitchen
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which gives the
students an opportunity
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to learn culinary skills.
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This is Isaac.
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He is the head cook and oversees
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the preparation
of most of the food.
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Today they are
making some dumplings.
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Food preparation
is a very social time.
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All the meals are
healthy and tasty as well.
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The students
mostly come from Nepal.
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But we also have
some from places like
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Assam and other
regions of India.
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A lot of the food is
grown by the students.
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So agriculture is a big
part of the training as well.
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We are waiting for
the rest of the people
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to come down from
the center of this hill.
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Everybody is
carrying their bags down
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this steep stones stair
way to load up on the jeep
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'cause we are heading
to Nepal this morning.
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Take this jeep over
to the Nepali border,
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get our Nepali visas
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and then we're
gonna walk into Nepal.
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Traveling in
this part of the world
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can be really
tough with long hours
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of being crowded
on to a jeep or bus.
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The roads are often
dangerous being in disrepair.
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On the way to Nepal, we
wind down some steep canyons
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till we come to
the Teesta River.
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Often traffic is backed
up in this area for miles
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due to land slides
that block the highway
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along the steep canyon walls.
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Monkeys infest this area
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and often steal from
parked cars and trucks.
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Finally you
come to Tiger Bridge.
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After several hours
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we made it to the border
town between India and Nepal.
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The streets are always
filled with festivities.
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Our last stop
before going into Nepal
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is the Indian
immigration office.
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This is where we
get our visa stamped.
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This time our jeep driver
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was allowed to
drive across long bridge
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that crosses the river
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that is the border
between India and Nepal.
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We then boarded a bus
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for the long
trip to Silas's home
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in central Nepal.
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These are my Nepali
friends, right here.
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Be my body guards.
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There you go...
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This is a little
bus stop here in Nepal.
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We finally made
it into the country
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and they have
plastic things for people.
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Hey, the bus is
leaving without us.
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We got to go.
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That was a killer bus ride.
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We were hours and hours
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and now it's
1:30 in the morning.
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We finally made
it to our destination
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here in Nepal.
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And we're ready to go to sleep.
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We woke in the morning.
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The ladies are making breakfast.
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This is the home of Silas,
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one of Laymen
Ministries' Bible workers.
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I'm making
chapattis this morning.
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I'm having fun rolling them out.
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I'm not very experienced.
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I have a hard
time making them round
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but I'm trying anyway.
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But it's better than the glass.
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This is chapatti.
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We had a short worship
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and then started
planning out our time together.
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Silas is an aggressive worker,
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often walking far
into the mountains
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to remote villages
to hold Bible studies.
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And he's also been
working this area where he lives
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and now he's
raised up two churches.
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Sandra, where are we
heading this morning?
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Today we are heading out to
-- there's a village near by.
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We are right in time.
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We are going
there to see the church
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where Silas is working.
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This morning we had to
wait for a taxi driver.
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So I always enjoy watching life
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as it is in different cultures.
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Soon we were on a way
to see the church plants
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that Silas has established.
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This church was being built
by a team of South Koreans.
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The same team has built
several churches across Nepal.
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Often Laymen
Ministries does the ground work
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and then teams like this
one will build the church.
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There was time
that we also build
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the churches as well.
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Silas, tell me a
little bit about this church.
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You've been
involved with this somehow.
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Actually I have been
praying since many months
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for nice church over here
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because we had many big
problem with the renting
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for the service,
church service...
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You mean like
renting houses or something.
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Yeah, many, many problems
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because almost
all are Hindus, no.
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And then they trouble us.
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And we have been
praying, praying, praying
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and then I talk with
the section president.
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And the he said, "Okay, okay,
okay, we'll see, we'll see."
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And then finally
some of the Korean came
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and then they
start to make a building,
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another part of...
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This been kind of like
team effort there in Nepal.
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Yes, sir, all team, a
bunch of same team they are
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and then God answers our prayer
and then He accept our request
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and then He start to work here.
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And all the things
they did themselves.
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How long have you been doing
like field work in this area?
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Around one year, sir, over here.
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But in this city around
four years, I'm working here.
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Four years, huh? Yes, sir.
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And this is the church,
it's getting dedicated tomorrow.
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Yes, sir. It is.
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And you are just finishing
putting the roof on right now.
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Next, we headed over to
see the other church plan.
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We have here a church
that has been recently built
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this last year.
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This church is built for
those who have been displaced
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from their mountain villages
by landslides and floods.
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And so this
church has come down here
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and Silas has
been working with them
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over thelast five to six years.
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The funding for this church
came from an American Pastor
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by the name of Charles Shultz,
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as a memorial to his
late wife, Elizabeth.
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Close by is his refugee camp
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made up for people displaced
by land slides and floods
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and more recently earth quakes.
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We're getting
over to the dedication
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of the church right now
this morning on Sabbath.
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Along the way there was
this group of blind people
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soliciting
donations, like playing a music.
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That turned out to be quite bit
a longer walk than we expected.
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I think we walked about
I'm thinking three miles
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something like that.
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Now we are waiting
for everybody to show up
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here for the
dedication this morning.
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They said there's gonna
be quite a few people coming.
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So it's gonna be a
small church big gathering.
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It's gonna be
interesting to see how everybody
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is gonna fit inside the church.
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Halleluiah.
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That our life is
been given to Christ.
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Listen, listen.
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Here's the church
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and there's the
seat, come inside and see.
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After Sabbath we took a
terribly crowded and bumpy
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all night bus to
visit another church plant.
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Around 4 a.m. we got
out along the high way.
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The air was cold
and the small shops
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were just
starting to come to life.
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A friend of Joseph picked
us up in a jeep at day break
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and took us to the
base of this large mountain.
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In the rural areas
of Nepal growing food
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is an essential
part of survival.
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You guys didn't get
cooked on the bus last night?
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I shed a few layers and
so then I was just perfect.
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All night long I
was like on the bus like
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I must have been
sitting on a heater
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or something because I was
like taking my sweaters off,
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my shirt off and I
was just in my t-shirt
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and then having to
put my coat back on.
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It was like crazy. But...
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So Joseph, this is a
place where you used to live
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or you used to work or
where are we going now?
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This is the road to my
home, home place and so...
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You mean your family is up here?
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Yes, yes. Oh, really?
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My family lives up there
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and so this is the
road for the vehicle
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and we have
another different trail
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that people can walk
if there is no vehicle.
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So this is the long way.
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If you walk it will
take four hours or something.
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How long is it by
road going this way?
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If you walk four hours.
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If you go by vehicle it
will only take like one hour
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and jumping up and
down in the vehicle
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and so it is very difficult.
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You've been up here
before, haven't you?
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I've been here the first
time when they had made it
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it was so bad I
decided not to go
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by vehicle, I walked.
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Why 'cause like... Yeah.
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It was so dangerous
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I looked like it
was kind of drop off
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and fall down off
the side of the mountain
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and so I walked up.
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For the first time I went to...
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I ridden a vehicle, by the
time I got in the mountain,
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I was, all my body
was... it was all sore.
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I decided I will not
ride in a vehicle because...
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You're getting beat
up by bouncing around.
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Yeah.
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And the other
thing is that I pay money
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and also I get body ache.
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So if I walk I get
exercise and I save money.
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That's why
you're going all around.
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What kind of work have
you been doing up here?
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And have you been
doing like evangelism up here
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or Bible studies? Yes, yes.
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I've been building a, I mean,
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I've been leading
in the construction
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of church building
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there and so we, once in a while
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we come for the
evangelism meeting
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and we encourage believers
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and there are
some gospel workers
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and we help with them.
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We had several groups
of students come up here
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at different
times and hold programs
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in the mountain.
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And all total baptized
members, about 20 or 25.
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So you've had
some baptisms up here?
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And it's from the ground
work that our students had done?
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Yeah, yes, yes. Well, that's...
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We had a program.
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The first program we had in
this Southern part of Nepal,
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included his family and
several others believers
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and that was
back in the year 2000.
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And so we've started
the work here since then.
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Have you had any of
the American missionaries
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worked up here with
you or has it been mostly
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Nepali students from the center?
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And also we had
the Judy and Denis
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and Skaduna also
come to help us up here.
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Good. Well, let's go up there.
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This is Joseph's friend's jeep.
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I nicknamed it,
the Mighty Merinda.
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This reminds me of
something that we would travel
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in North Idaho going
up into steep province.
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We got a super high elevation
but it's kind of foggy today.
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This is the foot hills
of the Himalaya mountains
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here in Nepal.
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We're still in kind of like
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the Eastern and
Central part of Nepal.
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One of the main sources of
income in this regional area
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is growing in
harvesting broom grass.
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And as the name indicates,
the grass is made for well,
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making brooms.
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This is my home
and we are in my home.
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There some people
had put the broom grass
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and this is the
balance they use to buy,
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weigh the broom
grass and ginger, others.
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That is, the crop that
they earned some from them.
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The businessmen
just asked permission
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to keep this balance here.
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So this is my home.
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These are the bee hives
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and we have two boxes
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but only, three
boxes and two has the bees
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and you just
put the smoke inside
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and then we can take the...
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what you call? Honeycomb.
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Honeycomb out.
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Laymen Ministries' workers
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that are
working with the people.
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Joseph was excited to
show us the new church
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that was being
built in his home area.
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Again the ground work was done
by Laymen Ministries' students
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under the direction
of Joseph and Sandra.
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On the fourth of November,
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the church leaders came together
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and had a ground
breaking ceremony.
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After the ground
breaking ceremony was done
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everyone got
together to see what to do
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for the layout of the church.
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And they are trying to find out
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who should be
the architect of it.
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And so after everyone discussed
many different options,
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then finalizes, while
if you give me a paper
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and pencil and a ruler,
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I'll see what I can do
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and so with all of
their advice and suggestions,
00:26:09.86\00:26:12.30
this has been my first church
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to draw the
blueprint for and so,
00:26:14.34\00:26:17.51
here's my first try.
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It's looking very nice.
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The photos from the
outside, it looks much bigger
00:26:26.75\00:26:29.15
now coming here
just looks the right size
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for the mountain church.
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Being here, how many
people been baptized here?
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About 20
people. About 20 people.
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This is really
special for Joseph
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because this is
actually his home area.
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So a lot of these guys
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that are working
on building the church
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are people he've known
since they were a little kids
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and it's a real
blessing that years later
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after he's gotten training
and we started coming back
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and visiting his home.
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Now his mother is a pillar
of the church here in this area
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and he's been a
major contributor
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having this church actually
come into existence here.
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So he's had the joy of seeing
a lot of his childhood friends
00:27:05.32\00:27:08.22
become Seventh-day
Adventist Christians
00:27:08.26\00:27:10.36
which is really a new thing.
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And because of Joseph's honesty
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this, only because of that
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has this church
been able to be built.
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Otherwise it would
take many more years
00:27:18.83\00:27:21.34
before it would be built.
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Only to find out later,
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we really didn't
understand what was going on.
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