Right after the
countries of the west
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to finish
celebrating their Christmas
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and New Year
holidays with Christmas trees,
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bright lights, and
the other holiday fanfare,
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in South India
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they're preparing
to celebrate pongal.
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Like the holidays of the West,
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it is centered
around the winter solstice.
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Pongal is a three-day holiday
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celebrated especially
in the state of Tamil Nadu.
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It commences on
January 13 or 14th
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right after the sun has
reached its most southern point.
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On the first day of pongal,
houses and homes are cleaned
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and decorated
such as you see here.
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On the second day
people gather to cook rice
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and other special
foods in the early morning.
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It's offered to their
sun god during prayers
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and later served for lunch.
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This ritual seeks a blessing
for an abundant harvest.
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It's kind of like
Thanksgiving offering.
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You have to
remember this is South India,
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where they have
harvest in January.
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The third and
final day of pongal
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is dedicated to
worshiping the farm animals,
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particularly cows,
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and they are
decorated for the occasion.
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A carnival like
celebration takes place
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on the last day as well.
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As enticing as a celebration is,
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the Bible tells
us in 1 Corinthians,
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"For though there be
that are called gods,
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whether in heaven or in earth,
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as there be gods
many, and lords many,
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but to us there is but one God,
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the Father, of
whom are all things,
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and we in him,
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and one Lord Jesus Christ,
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by whom are all
things and we by him."
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Over the course of the 26 years,
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we've been in India
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Laymen Ministries has
helped establish many churches
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using the system
we have in place.
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Some churches have
property and nice buildings.
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Others are rented
spaces such as this church
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on top of a house.
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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
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where we've taken
to temporary churches
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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 or a metal roof
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and they have church service
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for maybe 25, 50
people at mostly.
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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 depends
upon our financial situation,
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we'll purchase a property
and we'll build a church.
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Yeah, and in this area here,
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how many churches that
we established any at all
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or is this kind of
new un-entered territory.
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Around this area we
have so far entered into 15,
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one five, 15
un-entered territories
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we have ended around this area.
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And temporary churches in
those areas are established.
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We have temporary churches four.
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And we have built
eight churches in this area.
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Wow, and what does it cost
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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 US. About a $1,000.
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And then they use that
for maybe a year, two years
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until they can establish
in before going to church.
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Oh, good.
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Well, it helps me to
understand to look at it.
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With just a thatched roof,
it provides a place to worship
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and to talk about the Bible.
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Those that attend come
from all walks of life,
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and some are just now
learning about the Bible
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for the very first time.
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Our system for
establishing churches
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has become a showcase in India.
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Pastor Johnson has been
asked to go to various places
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all over India to share
how Laymen Ministry works,
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so they too can
replicate our proven method.
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While we were there,
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I had a chance to take part
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in a dedication of a new church.
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This is just a sample
of the kind of churches
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where the Bible
workers have been working.
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This is small humble beginning
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that the church
starts out this way
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at the end it grows.
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There's a lot more members
actually than we have here
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because this afternoon
some of them aren't here,
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but as the church
gets bigger and bigger,
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they'll actually buy property
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and they'll establish a church.
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We've
established a lot of churches
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over the years here
in this part of India.
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In India, it's not
uncommon to meet people
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who used to worship
demons like this man.
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One of the issues back not
too long ago in our magazine,
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we had a story
about this gentleman,
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and he was a Hindu
that was worshipping idols
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and it was kind of
like almost a demonic thing
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and you are a priest, right?
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Yes.
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What convinced you
not to do that anymore?
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So these Bible
workers came to my home.
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They gave many explanations
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that these are not
the gods, true gods.
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Jesus is the true God.
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Jesus is the only God.
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They said, the Bible
workers, hear the Bible studies
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and make him to remove
all the idols from his house.
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And he was so
scared at the first time
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when they were...
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Actually, his
house was very dirty.
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Our Bible workers
all joined together
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and they clean all the houses,
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clean the houses,
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and not only they
took away the idols,
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but they clean all the houses
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and they washed
all of the house rooms
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and they made him to be happy
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and they prayed for him.
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And they sang songs and prayed
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and they gave him
sometimes some food also
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because he has only one son.
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He did not take
care of this man.
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So our Bible workers
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we gave him food
for the first time.
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Sister,
especially, Sister Pushpa.
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We gave him Bible studies
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and we took all the ropes
in his hand and in his neck
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that were enchantmenting ropes.
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He was like casting
spells something like that.
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So he had especially like
ropes around his neck and...
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Yeah, we removed everything.
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We told him to
remove everything.
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He removed everything
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all theses ropes in his...
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Like necklaces.
Yeah, neck and his hands.
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We took away everything
and then he became a Christian.
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And he wanted to take baptism,
and we gave him baptism.
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And now he's our church member.
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By the grace of God now
he has lost all the powers,
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enchanting powers because
he accepted Jesus Christ.
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He became a normal man like us.
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And previously he was having
the talks with the evil spirits
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and had a relationship
with the evil spirits
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because of his...
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Because he had a lot
of idols in his house.
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He used to talk with them.
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And now he left everything
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and gave his life to
the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Since the beginning of
our project in South India,
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Laymen Ministries has sponsored
a team of Bible workers.
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Currently we
employ 50 Bible workers,
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two of whom are pastors
which oversee the teams.
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These Bible
workers go to an area
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and work at until they
get a small group established.
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They hold Bible
studies and answer questions.
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These groups then
grow by word of mouth,
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and the Bible workers
make friends with these people
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pray for their families
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and help them in various ways.
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Eventually, they're
introduced to a pastor.
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A church company is formed,
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property is purchased
and a church is built.
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Even after that
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the Bible workers
still visit the new churches
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to check on them
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and to make sure that
people are not falling away.
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Going door-to-door our
Bible workers encounter
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people of all
types from the wealthy
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and educated to
the poor and suffering.
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They have even gone to a door
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just to find out that a woman
was trying to commit suicide
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or find someone
suffering in extreme depression.
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They had been threatened
by drug addicts and drunks,
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chased away by Hindus,
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and even had
stones thrown at them.
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Yet our Bible
workers still pray for
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and with people
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and see the
Lord changing hearts.
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Many of the
people who are hurting
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and the hardest to
reach later apologize
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and give their hearts to Jesus.
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The work of the
Bible worker is difficult,
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but it's worth it.
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Every time I visit South India,
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we hold a meeting in prayer time
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with our Bible workers.
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But even when I'm not there,
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this meeting takes
place every Monday morning.
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The Bible workers
come and pray together,
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make their plans for the week,
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talk about strategies
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and give a report
from the previous week.
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We run a tight
ship you might say,
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but we're still
like a big family.
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When I visit
with my wife Christy,
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we share with them
words of encouragement
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and talk with them
about their work and lives.
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Some of these Bible workers
have been with our ministry
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for many years.
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Some of our older Bible workers
are now on part-time pay,
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and they no longer
go out door-to-door.
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Instead they have a new ministry
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in answering our prayer hotline
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that is connected with
our television programs.
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Many of the people who
call in receive free books,
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tracts, and magazines.
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Names and addresses are taken
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and they're turned
over to our workers
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at the television studio,
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who then mail
these materials out.
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If the people
call back or write in,
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often a Bible worker
will go to their home
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and pay a visit.
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We make many contacts this way
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as our television programs
are known all across India.
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In 2003,
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we began our
television ministry in India,
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there was no Seventh-day
Adventist media studios
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at that time.
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We had to hire commercial
studios to record our programs,
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which was both costly
and full of many headaches.
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A decade later,
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we built our own studio
outside the city of Chennai
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in South India.
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Being located
out in the country,
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we have a peaceful
place to do our production
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free of the city noise.
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The small campus
consists of a production studio,
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bookstore,
apartments, and even a church.
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We're able to produce
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all kinds of television programs
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in three different languages,
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English, Tamil, and Telugu
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under the name Laymen
Ministries Saving Hands.
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This is Laymen Ministry,
India's production studio.
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I remember we bought
this property in 2011,
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we had a prayer of dedication
a group of us got together
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and we stood right in
this kind of open-field area.
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And we prayed that
this property could be used
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for God's glory for
building a production studio.
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We started building in 2012.
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And the process
was slow at first
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because they have
seasonal rains here.
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And we had to also
build up the property
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so it would prevent the property
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from being flooded.
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We hold in bricks, and
we started construction
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but by March of 2013,
we had the big dedication,
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where we had a lot
of people come here
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and we dedicated this
facility to the glory of God
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to produce television
programs and music videos.
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Since 2013, we've
produced literally
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hundreds of television programs.
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So these programs have
been used on cable networks
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and satellite networks.
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Some of them are
produced in Telugu language.
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Some of them are
produced in English language.
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And some of them are
produced in the Tamil language.
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And we're looking at expanding
into the Hindi language.
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But besides just
producing television programs
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that are being aired
on television with you,
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you know, your typical channels
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like satellite
and cable networks.
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We're expanding
a lot into YouTube
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and producing
television programs
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specifically for YouTube target.
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This building is
the two-story building.
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So the downstairs area
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is actually a production studio.
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But the upstairs
area is a living area
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and some of the studio
staff and Bible workers
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that actually
live on campus here,
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live up there.
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And then in the back,
we have a kitchen area
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where they can cook food.
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And we have a small
church in the back too
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which serves not only
for a training place for
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during the week
where we bring people in,
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lay people in, and train
them how to do Bible work,
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social work in these
local community areas.
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But we also use it
for Sabbath services.
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We have two Bible workers
here that have worked this area,
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and we now have quite a
number of church group started
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including the
one here on Sabbath.
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On the upper
story of the church,
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we have a large storage facility
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where we have
all our literature.
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We have people who actually
call into the TV programs
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if they're wanting
to get free literature
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and so we have
books, and magazines,
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and things like that in
various different languages.
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And the men that work here
at the studio are in charge
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of shipping this literature
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not only around the
area of the city of Chennai,
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but all across India
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and even to very
many foreign countries.
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Our faithful supporters have
helped with the weekly airtime
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cost of $1,320 to
keep Pastor Shadrack,
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Pastor Johnson
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and our other
programs on the air.
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That is just for airtime
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and it doesn't
include studio overhead
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or production costs.
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Our team in the studio produces
a wide range of programs,
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from short Bible
clips to music videos,
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and present truth presentations.
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They also produce a Sabbath
School discussion program
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that's very
popular with Adventist
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and non-Adventist alike.
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Each year we produce
104 half hour programs
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and 52 hour long programs.
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Each show begins
with a special song,
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which means producing
156 music videos each year
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just for our
television programs.
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As you may know, Chennai,
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India has been
suffering from a severe drought.
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Earlier this year,
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our well went dry at the studio.
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And this was a serious problem
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as we have people
coming to record at our studio.
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Right at the
height of dry season
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we had a well driller
come and we prayed for water.
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God blessed and now
we have a good borewell
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that provides enough
water for the whole campus.
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We wanna thank each one of you
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who helped us with this project.
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India has elephants.
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Ever since I was a young boy,
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I had a fascination
with these pachyderms.
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In South India, there's a place
that is an Elephant Sanctuary.
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When we arrived
some of the elephants
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were receiving
the morning baths.
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It was also feeding time.
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I would love to have
an elephant for a pet,
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but I don't think
they would do so well
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in the backwoods of North Idaho.
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Down in the south
eastern tip of India
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close to a city called Nazareth,
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Laymen Ministries
operates a boys' home
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for orphan and semi-orphan boys.
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Our facility is on a nice piece
of land located in the country.
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We are currently working to
build a girls dorm next door
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because the
government will not allow boys
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and girls in the same buildings.
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We currently have 15 orphan boys
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in our home right now.
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And the children are provided
a loving home type environment.
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Moses Samuel and his wife
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are the
directors of our orphanage.
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He was raised an orphan himself
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and has a business
degree in management.
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Moses and his wife
have a love and passion
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for helping orphaned children.
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While we were there
Moses showed Christy
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around the kitchen,
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as we recently
bought some new appliances.
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I wish I had
flowers on mine like that.
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So we have a bunch of
eggs here, they're marked.
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You can see
that they dated them.
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This one is better.
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It's been dated so
that they don't use the eggs
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that are too old.
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And there's lots of
vegetables in there.
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Because...
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We want to make
sure the children
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get fed a balanced diet.
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Such a...
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Ours is one of the
best menu in all India.
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And do the
children like the food?
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When they first
came, from government,
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they were
excited to see this one.
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And the children like it?
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Yeah, they like it.
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We have a small food committee.
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We call the
children and we ask them.
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If they don't like
any food, we avoid it.
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But if it's good for them,
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we ask them to eat.
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This is Lakshmi,
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she is here to
help cook in the kitchen
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for the children.
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And when you're
cooking for this many children,
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you definitely need
an extra pair of hands.
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She's busy preparing lunch today
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and we're real thankful for her.
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Want a turn?
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Say hello?
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This is dormitory one.
This is for little children.
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We have 12 boys, six small ones
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and six bigger ones.
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That's a change
from the last time
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I was here because last
time they were all in one room.
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Yeah.
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This is a very good idea.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Also, what we
do, what we have do,
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earlier the
children were falling down.
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So now we get them
to sleep like this.
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So they won't fall down.
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They say the children
sleep like a helicopter.
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Yeah.
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So they fall out. Yes.
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Okay.
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This is the
distribution notebook.
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Okay.
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We put it here.
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When the children need anything
they write on this page.
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This page has their name.
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Their name up there.
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And they'll put
their request here.
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Okay. And we'll look into that.
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So this box right here is called
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"The Suggestion Box"
or "The Complaint Box."
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And it has a lock on it.
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So every month
the government comes
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and they open it up
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and they see what the
children have written there.
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I was thinking,
some children back home
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might like to have one
of those in their home.
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This is a very unique idea,
and it protects the children.
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Yeah.
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I know that many
of you in the States
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have been very interested
in the orphanage here in India.
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And that many people know
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that we've only
been able to house boys.
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This ground that
we're standing on right now
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has been purchased sand,
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by our donors,
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in order to level this area out
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so we can build a
dormitory for the girls.
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And I just thought that
it would be nice for you
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to know that
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we are working towards that.
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And that this is beginning
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the foundation of
building that dormitory,
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so we can also
house some girls here.
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The boys attend an
Adventist school nearby.
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We have a small mini van
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that was donated
a couple years ago.
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So we use that to take
the boys back and forth
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from home to school.
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This school provides a
wonderful Christian education
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for these boys.
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The boys are taught to
keep their areas clean,
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their clothes washed and folded.
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Each has their own area
to neatly put things away.
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All have chores that
have to be performed,
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which is good
training for learning
00:23:20.23\00:23:21.66
how to be responsible.
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They're fed healthy meals.
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And once a week,
a gentleman comes
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and give some of the
students music lessons.
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The boys love playing
instruments and singing.
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Every evening
they say their prayers
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and do things
like brush their teeth.
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The government
inspectors tell us
00:23:38.68\00:23:40.35
that our facility is one
of the nicest in this region.
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On Sabbath people come
from the nearby community
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to worship God in
our little church,
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which is toward the
entrance of the property.
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The boys help lead
out in Sabbath school
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and in church service.
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They often have special
presentations and sing songs.
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For $100 per month per child,
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we can provide food, shelter,
00:24:01.70\00:24:04.11
and a loving home environment
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and an education
for these children.
00:24:05.97\00:24:07.91
As mentioned earlier,
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much of South East India
has suffered from a drought
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and we had
serious water problems
00:24:19.45\00:24:21.42
at our boys' home.
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One of the problems
we've continually dealt
00:24:24.19\00:24:25.89
with here at the
orphanage is the fact
00:24:25.93\00:24:27.63
that the ocean's
about a mile away
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over this direction
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and the salt
water from the oceans
00:24:30.60\00:24:32.10
coming into the water table here
00:24:32.13\00:24:33.47
and contaminates the soil.
00:24:33.50\00:24:35.10
And so the surface
water here is sailing.
00:24:35.14\00:24:38.11
It's made a problem
for some of the gardening
00:24:38.14\00:24:39.77
that we've done here,
00:24:39.81\00:24:41.14
we've had to
bring in sand and dirt
00:24:41.18\00:24:42.64
and raise the beds up
00:24:42.68\00:24:44.38
so that we can
actually grow food here.
00:24:44.41\00:24:45.98
We got actually a
really nice garden area now.
00:24:46.01\00:24:48.08
But the problem
is culinary water,
00:24:48.12\00:24:50.29
fresh water used
for cooking and drinking
00:24:50.32\00:24:52.12
and things like that.
00:24:52.15\00:24:53.49
So we drilled the borewell
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right over on the
side of the property here
00:24:54.89\00:24:56.22
which turned out
to be really good,
00:24:56.26\00:24:57.59
the water's clean.
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The only problem is that May,
June, July, the water goes dry.
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So during that
season, the boys and Moses,
00:25:02.56\00:25:06.70
the director of
the orphanage here
00:25:06.74\00:25:09.20
have to go to the nearby town
00:25:09.24\00:25:11.04
with these push carts,
00:25:11.07\00:25:12.41
and they have to hand pump water
00:25:12.44\00:25:13.78
into these kind of like cans
00:25:13.81\00:25:15.41
to bring over here
for the culinary purposes.
00:25:15.44\00:25:17.38
We recently just got an
offer from the government
00:26:03.99\00:26:06.70
to be able to tie into a
government waterline system,
00:26:06.73\00:26:09.43
it's only about
3000 feet over that way,
00:26:09.46\00:26:11.73
the cost will cost
about $3,000 to do that,
00:26:11.77\00:26:15.20
and we'll have
adequate fresh water here
00:26:15.24\00:26:17.44
for all the culinary purposes
00:26:17.47\00:26:19.57
of being able to
run the orphanage.
00:26:19.61\00:26:20.94
So we're really praying
that those funds will come in.
00:26:20.98\00:26:23.81
We also ran into some
other funding problems with...
00:26:23.85\00:26:26.68
We're trying to
build the girls' dormitory
00:26:26.72\00:26:28.25
because of the fact
that there's turns out
00:26:28.28\00:26:30.25
that there's a lot of zoning
00:26:30.29\00:26:31.62
and things like that
have that take place.
00:26:31.65\00:26:33.15
And so we had to
hire an architect.
00:26:33.19\00:26:34.99
The old days in India,
just going on the countryside
00:26:35.02\00:26:37.09
and building a
building are long gone,
00:26:37.13\00:26:38.69
you know, the western
idea of way things are done
00:26:38.73\00:26:41.70
is come into society.
00:26:41.73\00:26:43.10
And so now you have
to get proper permits,
00:26:43.13\00:26:45.17
especially if you're
dealing with something
00:26:45.20\00:26:46.60
like an orphanage,
00:26:46.63\00:26:47.97
you have to
have special permits,
00:26:48.00\00:26:49.34
you have to have
everything engineered,
00:26:49.37\00:26:50.77
you have to be in
the right kind of zoning
00:26:50.81\00:26:52.91
to be able to build
certain kinds of building
00:26:52.94\00:26:54.64
so that has set
us back a little bit.
00:26:54.68\00:26:56.88
We had one donor who
has given most of the money
00:26:56.91\00:26:59.28
for building
the girls' facility.
00:26:59.31\00:27:01.55
But now we're finding
out that's not quite enough
00:27:01.58\00:27:03.65
to really be able
to meet all the needs.
00:27:03.69\00:27:05.02
So we're praying for that too.
00:27:05.05\00:27:08.72
From Bible workers,
and building churches,
00:27:08.76\00:27:11.36
to television
production, and orphanages,
00:27:11.39\00:27:13.96
Laymen Ministries
has been working in India
00:27:14.00\00:27:16.03
for 26 years
00:27:16.06\00:27:17.53
to help bring the gospel message
00:27:17.57\00:27:19.23
to the people of
this exotic country.
00:27:19.27\00:27:21.60
And we wanna thank all of you
for your prayers and support.
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