On this mission trip,
we're going to take you
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to the city of
Chennai in South India.
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When people think of
India, they often think of food.
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There are all kinds of wonderful
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delicious dishes available,
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and because a lot of
the people are Hindu,
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there's a lot of
vegetarian meals to choose from.
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The assortment of
colors appeal to the eye
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and the variety of
flavors burst in your mouth
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albeit sometimes very hot.
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I'm getting hungry
just talking about it.
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Another reason why the
food in India tastes so good
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is due to much
of the ingredients
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coming from open
markets such as this one.
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Often the produce
is just a day away
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from the served meal,
so everything's fresh.
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When I walk
through a market like this,
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I'm so envious
as one does not find
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such healthy looking produce
in the supermarkets of America.
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The color of the
fresh fruit and vegetables
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is as bright as
this lady's clothing.
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And then there are chilies
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which are a main
staple here in India.
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Indians take great
pride in their cooking.
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Their cultural dishes
are seen around the world.
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Restaurants such as
this one in Kerala state
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has a large assortment
of South Indian dishes.
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Rice is always the
center of most of the meals.
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The owner of this restaurant
also doubles as a priest.
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This is something you
would never see in America.
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The owner burns incense
throughout the restaurant
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right before the
busy evening shift starts.
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He believes this will bring
prosperity and good business.
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Pastor Johnson and I
got into our auto rickshaw
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with our driver Ravi to
go see how the Bible workers
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sponsored by Laymen
ministries are doing.
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The rickshaw is
one of the fastest ways
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to get around in India
if you don't mind the noise,
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and the dirt, and the pollution.
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Our Bible workers
share spiritual food
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with those they meet.
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Today, we're going to go
look at a group Bible study
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that the Bible
workers are having here.
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And they've been meeting
here, do you know how long
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they've been
meeting at this place?
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Last one year.
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A year? Yeah.
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And so this is
just a small group of
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part of the Friendship Ministry
you were telling me about.
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Yes, that's right.
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It'll be interesting
to see what they're doing.
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Our Bible workers have
small group meetings like this
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in many places
throughout the city of Chennai.
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Prayer is a big part of
these workers' ministry.
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These groups are
formed by contacts
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made from going door to door.
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This is a small group.
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But in some places,
they have up to 20 people
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meeting in someone's home.
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Much of the work is
also just a one-on-one basis.
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These ladies take turns
sharing their testimonies
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on how they came to
Christ and what was currently
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happening in their lives.
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These ladies pray
together and support each other.
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The Bible workers
went and knocked the door
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and then prayed
earnestly for her job.
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Now she got a job.
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She is going for the job.
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Okay, so this is the area
which you were talking about
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where they'd like to
put a temporary church?
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Yes.
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And I think that
some of our viewers
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have probably
seen over the years
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on our television programs
where we've taken you to
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temporary churches is
what they call it, right,
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that are on top
of roofs like this
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and they put up
either a thatched roof
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or a metal roof and they have
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church service for maybe
25, 50 people at the most.
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Yes.
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And then what's the
next step in the process?
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After that, maybe, it depends
on our financial situation,
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we'll purchase a property
and we'll build a church.
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Yeah.
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And in this area here,
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how many churches
have we established,
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any at all or is this a
new one in unentered territory?
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Around this area, we
have so far entered into 15,
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one-five, 15,
unentered territories
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we have entered
around this area.
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In temporary churches in
those areas or established?
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We have
temporary churches, four,
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and we have built
eight in this area.
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Wow.
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And what is the cost to
build like a temporary church,
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just to put a roof
on a building like this?
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It is $1,000.
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About $1,000.
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And then they use that
for maybe a year or two years
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until they can
establish a full-grown church.
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Yes.
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It's one thing
about Pastor Johnson
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and the Bible workers,
he runs a really tight ship,
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you could say.
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He's really firm
with the Bible workers
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but very loving, and they
have correct accountability
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about what they do every week,
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how many hours they
put in, where they're at.
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Every Monday, they have kind of
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a staff meeting
where they come together.
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These Bible
workers with our group,
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we monitor
everything they do very closely,
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we know what they're
doing, we know where they're at,
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and we know that
they're working in.
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Besides that, they have a real
heart for the work, don't they?
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Yes.
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They do it because
they really want to do it.
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They have a passion.
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A passion for it, yeah.
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So where are we heading next?
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Next, we are going
to how our Bible workers
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entering into a new home
and giving the Bible study.
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Like going and
actually knocking on the doors
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and giving Bibles?
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Yeah. Okay.
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A lot of
mosquitoes in this area, huh?
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Yeah, a lot of mosquitoes
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and roads are
also very dangerous.
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The Bible workers are
working in this area right now?
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Our Bible workers go
door to door two by two.
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But this day, a group of
four were visiting a home
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where they recently made contact
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with a Christian couple
along with some neighbors
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all who wanted
to study the Bible.
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I had a chance
to meet the people
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who recently
started Bible studies,
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they shared
with me what happened
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when the Bible
workers first came
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to their door a
few weeks earlier.
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They opened the Word of
God like this in many homes.
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They never know what faith
the people might belong to.
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Sometimes they can be Hindu,
Christian, or even Muslim.
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A few days earlier,
this couple was reading
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a Bible verse
Revelation 3:20 that says,
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"Behold, I stand
at the door and knock.
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If anyone hears My
voice and opens the door,
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I will come in to him and
sup with him, and he with Me."
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Right then there was
a knock on their door
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and it was two of
our Bible workers.
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The first step in the process
of what the Bible workers do,
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they followed this verse
he was just sharing the Bible,
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knocking on the door and then
if the people open the door,
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they come in, and they
eat, and they sup with them,
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and they share the Word of God.
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So that's a first step of
what the Bible workers do.
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Then finally, they have
like a group Bible study,
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and then eventually,
they establish a church
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and people start
worshipping together.
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And also, she is attending
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where we went just now.
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That is a place,
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every Saturday
evening, they meet.
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So she's a regularly going.
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She's the grounds of us.
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That is the meaning.
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No, no, no.
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Still we have grandchildren.
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But I think we are old.
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Still we have,
no, still we got...
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A short distance from this home
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was another lady
we went to visit.
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She studied with
the Bible workers
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and was recently
baptized as a new Christian.
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She had a dream that confirmed
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she needed to study the
Bible with her Bible workers.
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After her husband's death,
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she got work in
the postal service,
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and after her retirement,
with a lot of huge challenges,
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she came to the city
of Chennai with her son.
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And she was kind of in
need of prayer in her home
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for the difficult situation.
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Her house maid told,
"Shall I bring a Bible worker
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who is coming to
my home regularly?"
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Then she said, "Okay, bring,
but except Jehovah Witness,
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you can bring anybody."
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Then the day came,
our Bible workers came
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and she was so happy,
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and they started
sharing the truth.
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And the pastor also came
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and shared a lot
of Biblical doctrine,
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state of the dead,
sanctuary, second coming,
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all of that,
and she was excited,
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and she took baptism.
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How long did she study the Bible
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with the Bible workers?
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Six months. Six months.
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And then she was
baptized right after that?
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Yes.
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So a six-month study
period before she was baptized
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because we're really careful
not having somebody baptized
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until they're really
grounded in the truth.
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We've shared on a number
of our television programs
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about the simple process
that we use here in India
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to be able to
establish churches.
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We sow seeds with
literature and television work.
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The television and
literature goes to places
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where no man can go.
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It goes into homes
and into people's hearts.
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And then when the Bible
workers go door to door,
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they often knock on the doors
and they introduce themselves
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as being connected
with the literature
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or the television programs
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that a lot of people
here are familiar with.
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And that often opens
the door for them to come in
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and to be able to share.
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So this next step is
basically personal visitation,
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going door to door,
and getting to know people.
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And eventually as
they work an area,
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they get us a core group
of people who come together
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and start studying
the Bible in a home,
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like we've seen
already on this program.
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And that leads to a
temporary church oftentimes
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on the roof of a
house or in somebody's home.
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And then as the
company continues to grow,
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they buy property,
they build a church,
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and a church is established.
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And even then, even though
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there's been a number
of churches established
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in Chennai by Laymen Ministries
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Bible workers, they do not
get neglected and forgotten.
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The Bible workers
continue, even years later,
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going back and
visiting these churches,
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keeping these churches strong,
making some of the people
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in those
churches become leaders,
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and then having a pastor
assigned to those churches
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to be able to
keep those churches
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functioning properly.
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So it's a really
simple process, you know,
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it's a proven
process, the Gospel process.
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Visiting people in their
homes, meeting their needs,
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opening the Word of
God, establishing a church,
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and then allowing
that church to get involved
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with sharing the
gospel to others.
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Every year when
we come to India,
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we have group meetings like this
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with our Bible
workers and overseers.
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But they also have
staff meetings like this
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every Monday morning to
outline their work for the week.
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These Bible workers
often travel great distances
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to work areas of the city.
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They have a heart for
the work and love to share
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the bread of life with
those that hunger and thirst.
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Many of them have worked
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with Laymen Ministries for years
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and are our friends
as well as our co-workers
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together with Christ.
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We met a man.
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This man is an alcoholic.
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I guess Ruby and Christy
are whipping up some idlis
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in Ruby's kitchen.
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So let's go in and check it out.
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This morning,
we're in Ruby's kitchen
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and we're going to make
what's called sambar and idly.
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And to begin with,
there are basically
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three ingredients
that are used in idlis.
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Idili is spelled
I-D-I-L-I, not like the country.
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We've got three items here.
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We have what is called dal.
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Basically, it's your black bean.
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It's been broken and
skins have been removed,
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and this is one
of the foundations
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for the idli mixed with the rice
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and the fenugreek.
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And what happened
with these three items
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is they were soaked,
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and they were soaked
for about four hours,
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and then they were ground.
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And after they were ground,
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we ended up with a product
that looks somewhat like this.
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It's kind of a milky substance.
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Also, what's been added to
that is a little bit of salt.
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And so we've got four
cups of rice, one cup of dal,
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about a tablespoon
of fenugreek, and about,
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I'd say, a teaspoon of salt,
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and that's the basic
ingredients for the idli.
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The idli ends up being a really
nice little round rice patty,
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and if you just
looked at the rice...
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At the idli, you would
think, "Oh, how simple?
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It's just a rice patty."
00:16:04.39\00:16:05.86
But it's really
more involved than that.
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The idli is often served
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with something
that's called sambar,
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and it's like a
delicious kind of soup
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and it has in it
the dal once again,
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and this is a
little bit different,
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this one is
actually like a gold lentil.
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It has tomato in
it, onion, and garlic.
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It has curry in it.
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And this is a point
I really want to make.
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This is the curry
that's used in India.
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It's the leaf curry.
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Many times in the States,
when people make Indian food,
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it's a ground curry, it really
has a different flavor to it.
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So this is a key element
00:16:47.04\00:16:48.90
to making authentic Indian food.
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And the other ingredient
that is the mustard seed.
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I had no idea that that was
00:16:57.81\00:16:59.75
what those little
black things were.
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All this time I thought
it was little black peppers,
00:17:01.62\00:17:04.25
peppercorns.
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But it is a mustard seed
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and it adds a
really nice unique flavor.
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Tomato is added to
that, and it just makes
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a really nice type of
gravy that goes over the idli.
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Okay, the next process
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in the making of
idlis is this boiler.
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And it's really interesting
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because it has about
this much water in it.
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And it has these
little trays on the top.
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I'll kind of lift
it up so you can see.
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Hot, hot.
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So we're going to
wait for the water to boil
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and then we're going
to dip the idli mixture
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into each one of these
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like little muffin pans,
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and it will steam the idli.
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So we'll make seven
idlis at a time with this dish.
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And now do we cover it?
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Yes.
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Okay.
00:18:13.05\00:18:14.92
Okay, we are going to
take out the idli now.
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You put a little water on there?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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I'll move that.
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Do you keep dipping the
spoon so that it doesn't stick?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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We're ready to eat our idli.
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And we've got it
here on the banana leaf
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which is a very traditional
way to eat the breakfast.
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Next, we want to take you
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to Laymen
Ministries' television studio
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and administrative building
outside the city of Chennai.
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We have our bookstore
here as well and a church.
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How many years ago did
we build this building?
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Four years.
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Four years ago? Yeah.
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So that's 2013...
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March 2nd. March 2nd.
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When did we have the dedication?
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On March 2, 2013.
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Oh, that was the
actual dedication,
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but we bought the property like
a year before the construction.
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A year before.
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I think almost we
can say five years,
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but the studio and everything
started to function since 2013.
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This place is really
kind of transformed a lot
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because I remember
when we first built it,
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it was just bare,
you know, it was like...
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We didn't even have the
cement or anything here yet.
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Yeah. And no plants.
00:19:55.09\00:19:56.42
Wow, everything is green
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and you've got
flowers around here.
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Yeah.
00:19:59.19\00:20:00.53
I want to see that
new addition where you put
00:20:00.60\00:20:01.90
all the books in
for the book store.
00:20:01.93\00:20:03.26
Yes.
00:20:03.30\00:20:04.63
And that's on the
top of the church, right?
00:20:04.67\00:20:06.00
You are right. Okay. Yeah.
00:20:06.03\00:20:07.60
Right now we're
heading up to the new addition
00:20:07.64\00:20:10.41
on top of the church
that we have for book storage.
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We moved the
bookstore out of this building.
00:20:12.84\00:20:15.78
So we have more, like,
00:20:15.81\00:20:17.15
living quarters up on the
upper storey of the studio,
00:20:17.21\00:20:19.61
and we moved all the stuff up
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to the upper
floor of the church.
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Nice room.
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It's a tradition in India.
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You have to take your shoes off
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whenever you go
inside of a room.
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It looks pretty nice.
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This room is a lot bigger than
the other storage room we had.
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Yes. More than double portion.
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Yeah. We really need the space.
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And what all do we have here?
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Got a lot of
boxes and stuff here.
00:20:46.11\00:20:48.11
We have morning devotions,
and these all storical lessons.
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These are the Amazing
Facts storical lesson.
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Amazing Facts storical lessons.
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And then the song
book church, song book.
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A song book. Church song book.
00:21:01.76\00:21:03.53
Then Steps to Christ.
00:21:03.56\00:21:05.69
Yeah, we did a new
print of Steps to Christ.
00:21:05.73\00:21:07.60
You are right.
00:21:07.66\00:21:08.96
Do you have any of the new
Great Controversy here yet?
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And that by...
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We printed everything,
new translation, and...
00:21:12.40\00:21:17.37
Do you have a copy
here? Everything...
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Any copies of it?
00:21:19.01\00:21:20.34
Copy will come
tomorrow. Oh, coming tomorrow.
00:21:20.38\00:21:22.71
They're just now
starting to come off the press.
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Yes, yeah.
00:21:24.15\00:21:25.48
Yeah, so we just
printed Great Controversy
00:21:25.51\00:21:26.85
and you were saying it's
done in two books, right?
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Two volumes.
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Part one and part two.
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And The Desire of Ages
is going to be the next one
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to come off the press.
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Next one, yeah.
00:21:35.42\00:21:36.79
And is that going to
be in several volumes,
00:21:36.83\00:21:38.16
one, two, three?
00:21:38.19\00:21:39.53
Yes.
00:21:39.56\00:21:40.90
Yeah, we are planning for three.
00:21:40.93\00:21:42.23
Three volumes for that one.
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And what's the reason
that we broke those books up
00:21:43.63\00:21:44.97
into separate volumes?
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I think it's very easy to read
because when you give a kind of
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800 page or 900
page book to a reader,
00:21:49.30\00:21:53.21
even if a person wants to read,
00:21:53.24\00:21:55.78
if he sees the
pages or the book size,
00:21:55.81\00:21:59.18
"Oh, this much, how can I read?"
00:21:59.21\00:22:01.02
Yeah, life is so busy now.
00:22:01.05\00:22:02.85
People don't want
to obligate themselves
00:22:02.88\00:22:04.62
to reading a thick book.
00:22:04.65\00:22:05.99
And it's
interesting here, all the years
00:22:06.02\00:22:07.36
that we've been involved
with translating literature,
00:22:07.39\00:22:09.29
which you can see we've worked
00:22:09.32\00:22:10.66
with a lot of
different types of publications,
00:22:10.73\00:22:12.16
that when you take a
Great Controversy book,
00:22:12.19\00:22:14.56
that's like about
this thick in English,
00:22:14.60\00:22:16.36
and translate it into Tamil,
00:22:16.40\00:22:18.23
it all of a sudden turns
into about that big of a book.
00:22:18.27\00:22:21.20
So to hand that book to somebody
00:22:21.24\00:22:22.74
is pretty intimidating unless
they're really committed to it.
00:22:22.77\00:22:25.51
And also, I would
like to thank the donors
00:22:25.54\00:22:28.78
and the support to
build this storage building
00:22:28.81\00:22:33.98
because the
reason is we are waiting
00:22:34.02\00:22:36.15
for another almost
10,000 to 15,000 books.
00:22:36.18\00:22:40.92
On the way
coming, more books coming?
00:22:40.96\00:22:42.29
On the way by
another three months
00:22:42.32\00:22:44.29
because we want
to store the books
00:22:44.33\00:22:46.26
as much as we are
all printing and...
00:22:46.29\00:22:47.93
This room is not going to be big
00:22:47.96\00:22:49.26
enough even to handle...
00:22:49.30\00:22:50.63
Big enough.
00:22:50.70\00:22:52.03
I mean, we're printing
large volumes of books here,
00:22:52.07\00:22:53.47
and then we're working with
some other organizations too
00:22:53.50\00:22:55.80
that sponsor the
printing of books
00:22:55.84\00:22:57.87
and they donate
books to our ministry
00:22:57.91\00:22:59.47
because they know that we have
a good system for distribution.
00:22:59.51\00:23:01.74
Yeah. So yeah, all storicals.
00:23:01.78\00:23:05.81
Why don't you tell us
about these a little bit?
00:23:05.85\00:23:08.45
Because this is very nice one.
00:23:08.48\00:23:10.89
The storical
lesson by Amazing Facts.
00:23:10.92\00:23:13.69
And we have
translated in multi-color,
00:23:13.76\00:23:16.86
and this is very nice,
it's attractive to the people,
00:23:16.93\00:23:21.20
very much, to the readers.
00:23:21.23\00:23:23.10
Yeah, these look just
like the ones in America
00:23:23.13\00:23:24.90
but they're in
the Tamil language.
00:23:24.93\00:23:26.74
And by the way, I was in contact
00:23:26.80\00:23:29.24
with Amazing Facts recently,
00:23:29.27\00:23:30.94
and I gave them the PDF
files for each one of these,
00:23:30.97\00:23:35.28
and these are now
available at Amazing Facts
00:23:35.31\00:23:37.98
on their website.
00:23:38.01\00:23:39.61
And also some of the other ones
00:23:39.65\00:23:41.42
that we've
translated in other languages,
00:23:41.45\00:23:43.18
you can get these to
share with your Tamil friends
00:23:43.22\00:23:45.65
or Lithuanian friends
00:23:45.69\00:23:47.02
or some other
countries like that
00:23:47.06\00:23:48.42
that have been
provided to Amazing Facts
00:23:48.46\00:23:51.09
from Laymen Ministers.
00:23:51.13\00:23:52.46
Yes. That's very nice.
00:23:52.49\00:23:53.86
Tell us how this is distributed.
00:23:53.90\00:23:55.20
And this one, the first one,
00:23:55.23\00:23:58.03
people who call from
our television program,
00:23:58.07\00:24:01.64
wherever we hold
evangelistic meeting,
00:24:01.67\00:24:04.34
people, they ask the books.
00:24:04.37\00:24:05.84
Then we send the
books, and also...
00:24:05.87\00:24:09.71
Is it just
mostly going to people
00:24:09.74\00:24:11.15
around the city of Chennai?
00:24:11.18\00:24:12.51
Around the city of
Chennai and the whole India,
00:24:12.55\00:24:14.38
not only Chennai.
00:24:14.42\00:24:16.45
Whole India, whole India.
00:24:16.48\00:24:18.19
Then, this is very interesting.
00:24:18.22\00:24:20.89
The Southeast India
Union of Seventh-day Adventist
00:24:20.96\00:24:25.06
in the southern India,
the Union has made a law,
00:24:25.09\00:24:29.00
they have to buy
all of these books
00:24:29.03\00:24:31.77
and sell in the school.
00:24:31.80\00:24:35.60
To the Adventist church schools?
00:24:35.64\00:24:36.97
You are right.
00:24:37.01\00:24:38.34
So they're saying,
all this literature now
00:24:38.37\00:24:39.71
is getting distributed
in Adventist church schools.
00:24:39.74\00:24:41.08
Yes.
00:24:41.11\00:24:42.44
Does any of this literature
go overseas to other countries?
00:24:42.48\00:24:43.81
Yes, the third thing is,
people who are in Far East
00:24:43.85\00:24:47.12
like Sri Lanka,
Singapore, Malaysia,
00:24:47.18\00:24:50.75
even France, even America,
00:24:50.79\00:24:53.62
people who come, "Oh, Johnson,
I heard you have this book,
00:24:53.66\00:24:56.49
this book, why can't you give?"
00:24:56.52\00:24:57.86
Because now a lot of IT people
are in America from India.
00:24:57.89\00:25:01.46
They are from Hindu background.
00:25:01.50\00:25:03.40
When they come to America,
slowly, through friends,
00:25:03.47\00:25:06.60
they are coming to the church,
then they would like to read,
00:25:06.63\00:25:09.47
"Okay, this is the
concept of the church,"
00:25:09.50\00:25:11.47
and this is truth.
00:25:11.51\00:25:13.78
So they start to read like that.
00:25:13.81\00:25:16.14
So, even throughout the
world, these books are going.
00:25:16.18\00:25:20.02
Yeah, praise God.
00:25:20.05\00:25:21.38
And before you call our ministry
00:25:21.42\00:25:22.75
and request a Tamil version
of the Great Controversy,
00:25:22.78\00:25:25.45
realize, we really don't store
00:25:25.49\00:25:27.16
any of these
books at our ministry,
00:25:27.19\00:25:29.29
we'd have to put you in contact
with our office here in India.
00:25:29.32\00:25:33.19
So these are the
guys from the studio.
00:25:33.23\00:25:35.33
Who are they?
00:25:35.36\00:25:37.33
Christo Samuel, he
is a studio manager
00:25:37.37\00:25:42.57
and coordinates all the
programs for television,
00:25:42.60\00:25:46.34
and YouTube, and
evangelistic meetings.
00:25:46.37\00:25:49.31
He is in charge of production.
00:25:49.34\00:25:51.15
Then he's Praveen.
00:25:51.18\00:25:53.88
Yeah, Praveen,
you're new here, aren't you?
00:25:53.92\00:25:55.25
Yeah.
00:25:55.28\00:25:56.62
How long have you been working?
00:25:56.65\00:25:57.99
I'm here working
for past six months.
00:25:58.02\00:25:59.79
Six months now. Yeah.
00:25:59.82\00:26:01.22
Okay, good, yeah.
00:26:01.26\00:26:02.59
And what is he doing?
00:26:02.62\00:26:03.96
He is a kind of marketing guy.
00:26:03.99\00:26:05.33
He can handle
all the situations.
00:26:05.36\00:26:07.73
He is smiling.
00:26:07.76\00:26:09.40
So if there is any challenge,
00:26:09.43\00:26:12.13
we can send him front
he will do everything.
00:26:12.17\00:26:13.87
And what kind of
technical stuff are you doing?
00:26:13.94\00:26:15.27
He is an editor.
00:26:15.30\00:26:16.64
Editor, huh? Editor.
00:26:16.67\00:26:18.01
And he is Sudhakar.
00:26:18.04\00:26:19.97
He does graphics.
00:26:20.01\00:26:22.08
He graduated
diploma in graphics,
00:26:22.11\00:26:24.75
and he's also an editor.
00:26:24.78\00:26:26.55
You've been with
us two years now?
00:26:26.58\00:26:28.15
Yeah, it's two
years. Two years, yeah.
00:26:28.18\00:26:29.52
More than...
00:26:29.55\00:26:30.89
Almost more than two years.
00:26:30.92\00:26:32.25
And he is kind of a
behind the scenes guy.
00:26:32.29\00:26:33.66
He does a lot of the camera work
00:26:33.69\00:26:35.02
and different
things like that too.
00:26:35.06\00:26:36.39
And also, he's the security...
00:26:36.42\00:26:39.23
You are the security guy?
00:26:39.26\00:26:40.60
And the storage
manager, bookstore manager.
00:26:40.63\00:26:42.96
So he is involved with
the shipping of the books
00:26:43.00\00:26:44.47
and things like that too?
00:26:44.50\00:26:45.83
Yes. Wow.
00:26:45.87\00:26:47.20
So he is involved in everything.
00:26:47.24\00:26:48.57
And we have an
evening community service
00:26:48.60\00:26:50.17
called tutoring.
00:26:50.21\00:26:53.01
They're all from villages
00:26:53.04\00:26:54.98
and they go to the
government schools.
00:26:55.01\00:26:57.51
So our team, the technical team,
00:26:57.55\00:27:00.58
after their work, five o'clock,
00:27:00.65\00:27:03.08
voluntarily they
involve in this evangelism.
00:27:03.12\00:27:07.02
So you're just kind
of helping the kids,
00:27:07.09\00:27:08.42
like in the areas
they might be weak,
00:27:08.46\00:27:10.16
in like math and other.
00:27:10.19\00:27:11.86
Yes, English. English.
00:27:11.89\00:27:14.63
Science, and also
for you information,
00:27:14.66\00:27:17.17
even the school teachers came
00:27:17.20\00:27:19.53
and they
appreciated our technical team.
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Wow. Wonderful.
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And they appreciated us.
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Are you guys
involved with the tutoring?
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Yeah, one of the
things that I've noticed
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in coming to the studio
over the last four years
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is that the presence that
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this studio has
with the workers here,
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the Bible workers,
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actually even
the studio tech guys,
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all the people in
this community love them.
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You know, this is a
predominate Hindu area,
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but the children come here,
they're getting the tutoring,
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and everybody's
well respected here.
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I'm eager to see
what's going on at church here
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and see how many
people are attending.
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Across India, Laymen Ministries
is sharing the bread of life.
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Just as we have a
need for physical food,
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there's a hunger
for spiritual food.
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Become a team member with
us by your prayers and support.
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