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On this mission trip, we
flew into Chennai, South India.
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In South India, it's not
uncommon to see an elephant
walking down the road.
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I've always wanted to
have my own pet elephant.
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India is home to all
types of exotic animals.
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For instance, the
Assam is the home to the
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largest population of the
greater one-horned rhinoceros.
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But the one creature that for
me are the most frightening are
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snakes. India has currently 300
species of snakes and three of
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those are cobras. For ages in
India, there have been snake
charmers with their flutes and
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baskets, seemingly hypnotizing
cobras with their music.
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And we'll talk more about
snakes in just a little bit.
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Ministries built a
television production studio.
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We chose this site as it was
a nice quiet place out in the
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country. Let's meet with
Praveen, our studio director,
and find out what's happening
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here. This is Praveen
and he's our studio director.
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We're going to go inside
the studio and talk a little
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bit about some of the
things that are happening here.
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So tell me about what
you have going on in here.
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Elder, we here produce a
lot of programs for YouTube.
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Our normal
production is for television.
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Every Saturday morning,
7.30 am, we do all our programs.
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We edit and then we
send it to satellite TV.
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They will broadcast it.
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And then apart from that,
we make a lot of videos for
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YouTube, like kids' programs,
music videos, and then talk
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shows. I saw that you guys were
doing like a new cooking program
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of some sort. And one of the
cameramen was up on a ladder
shooting the food being
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prepared. What kind of food
are they making in the cooking
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program? Healthy cooking, like
salads, and then with fruits and
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what we can do, I
mean, healthy recipes.
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But is it still
Indian type food?
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Indian type of food.
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So is this the edit area here?
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This is the editing
room, kind of control room.
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In case of any productions, like
we'll be having live switching
here, live editing.
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And then we do
editing process also here.
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And then we have
editing B room also.
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There, another editor will be
sitting and he'll be doing his
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work there. So do you get
much response from the programs,
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like the ones that are aired
on television or even YouTube?
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Do you get a lot
of views on YouTube?
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In every videos, we will
be putting our number, the
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description box. So whoever
watches, they will call us and
they will text us directly.
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We need to learn
something more about this.
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And we, what we'll
do is we will get their
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address and then we
will send books to them,
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like Steps to Christ, like some
easily they can read it and they
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can... And they call
the prayer hotline too.
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So people know, we have like
retired elderly Bible workers
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that can't work in the
field anymore that just
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take care of the phone
calls that come in, right?
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So how many programs per
week generally are you making?
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We are releasing
seven videos per week.
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Seven videos per
week? That's pretty good.
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Like one day kids program will
get released and then another
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day Bible women, that is
specifically we are making for
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women. And then another video,
musical video, that is every
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Friday, that musical video will
get released, like that we have
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category. One day sermon,
talk show, like that, every
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day we will release
one one single videos.
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And I see that you do some audio
mixing here too, it looks like.
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Yes. This place is
for Jagann and he make a
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lot of music videos
and he's a music producer
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and he composes music.
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Every week we call
some talents and they will
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come and we'll take
voices, music, everything,
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we'll mix here and we'll
go to outdoors for shooting.
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Or make the music
video or something. Do you
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ever just create music
for ambient background?
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Like for video or
anything like that?
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We have a bluetooth speaker
we have. We'll play it in the
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outdoor. So that will pick up
the ambient sound. I mean
they'll do the lipping voice
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and then in the
post-production we'll disable
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that and we'll enable
the mixed final audio there.
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Well let's go show our viewers
the studio area that's in the
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other room. I don't know if you
know this or not but Johnson saw
the studio we have in America
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and he kind of copied the
same kind of design we have for
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building this one.
It's kind of interesting.
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Oh it's nice and air AC in here.
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So you like did like we did
in our studio. Every corner is a
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different set. Yes.
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Yeah.
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So what do you do at
this particular set here?
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This set is for talk show.
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Like a roundtable discussion
Bible subjects and things.
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Yes. Biblical
information. The show title is.
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And I'll be hosting and
another guest will be coming.
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And what we used to
do is we'll be discussing
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from Bible all about the
information about the Bible.
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Like how many
Hannah are there in Bible.
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Like what are the
characters are there.
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Like kind of shows we will be
doing in this particular area.
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What are you doing with
this one? This is like for the
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cooking program? Yeah. This is
for cooking program. And we make
a lot of healthy cooking shows
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here. Oh she's got some of
her dishes out here and things.
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Yeah. Cooking programs
are really really popular in
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America. I noticed a lot
of cooking videos on YouTube.
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So having like Indian
variety of it is a unique thing.
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The plan for this cooking show
is when we release the cooking
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show on YouTube all general
audience they will watch our
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programs. That time YouTube will
recommend some of our biblical
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videos to them. So they will get
a chance to watch our sermons or
talk shows or music videos.
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So that what we
thought was this cooking show
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will be the gateway for
them to watch our TV channel.
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What are you doing
with this set over here.
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The one with the little
houses in the background.
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This set is for sermon
for religion TV and all.
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We used to record, use this
backdrop for sermon recording.
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Very good. Yeah. You guys are
doing a really good job here.
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It's amazing. And then we are
also recording Telugu program
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also. We have entered
into new language for YouTube.
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Already we have a lot of sermons
in Telugu. Pastor Shadrach is
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doing. But for social media
we call some Telugu people.
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So it's not doing Telugu
translation. It's actually
Telugu speaking people.
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I was really surprised that
people watch Pastor Shadrach's
television programs
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because he's speaking in English
and it's being translated into
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Telugu. And he's a
Tamil speaking person but
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speaking in English
being translated into Telugu.
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And we still get a lot of
responses from those programs.
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I mean like in
America if we had a program
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like that I think a
lot of people go click.
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Because the process is so
long translating everything.
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But people here watch
that. I'm really amazed.
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Good. You guys are
doing a good job too.
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We have a lot of Laymen
Ministries in India. We just
wanted to thank donors.
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Thank you so
much for all the ...
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Good. Well I'm happy that the
Lord's blessed and that we were
able to help do that.
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Laymen Ministries
has been in the forefront
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of Adventist
television production in India.
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Starting in 2002.
That's 22 years ago.
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We're taking God's message of
hope right into the privacy of
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people's homes. We are
currently on three major global
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satellite networks and
six local cable networks.
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We broadcast in four languages.
Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and in
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English. Another interactive
outreach we have is with
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YouTube. We currently
have five YouTube channels.
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Laymen Ministries Tamil,
Laymen Ministries Gospel, Laymen
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Ministries Music, 365 Prayer
Live and then Laymen Ministries
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Telugu. We have thousands
of views on these channels.
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Our studio team also holds live
Bible study lessons on Zoom and
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YouTube Live. This has been
a great way to reach a younger
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audience. But our studio is more
than a production facility out
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in the country. It's a beacon of
light in the local community,
even reaching snake handlers.
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I remember when we were
looking at this property
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that we were going to buy
this to build a studio here.
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And this is Kumar and he's one
of the neighbors that lives in
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the area here. Yes. He's
actually from this village and
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he was here. And in those
days he was a snake hunter.
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I remember he was
taking a real big interest
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in what we were going
to be doing here and such.
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And you said he
was a snake handler.
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What is a snake handler?
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Actually he looks like this but
he can suppose if the snake...
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Like a cobra or
something like that?
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Yes, very dangerous. He can hold
it in the hand and remove the
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teeth. I remember when
we were buying the property
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he took a big
interest in what we were doing.
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And then when we finally built
the studio he was kind of like
our security guard.
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Yes, he was not a practicing
Christian when he first started.
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Because he was a heathen, then
he became a Protestant but he
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was not happy. Then one of our
church elders from the city of
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Chennai, every week they
come for a branch Sabbath school
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class. In that Mrs Kumar and Mr
Kumar gave their place for a
Sabbath school and all that.
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In their home?
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Then after that he was able
to understand this is a message.
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So he took a baptism
and then he came to church.
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I remember I was here one
time when we visited the church
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on Sabbath and he was helping
lead out in the church here.
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You were right.
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And Mrs Kumar is very active.
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Though she came
recently she can be able to
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teach a Sabbath school
lesson and machine report.
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She can do everything.
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So what
happened with Kumar then?
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He ended up becoming a
Seventh-day Adventist then after
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that? Yes, after that,
that elder, died because of the
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Covid. There was that other
fellow, what was his name? The
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elder? Shehren.
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And he was kind of
helping with the property.
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He was a kind of a main
instrument that we came to this
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village. I remember when you and
I talked about purchasing this
property for the studio,
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we were talking not only about
having a nice place to build a
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studio to record, but you said
this is going to be kind of, you
said this was like an unentered
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area. And that you
wanted to do something to be
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able to have one of
our Bible workers here
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and some of the other Bible
workers come here and start
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working this area. And then he
started taking an interest more
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and more. So what developed out
of all of this over the years?
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That is a blessing elder.
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Because we came to this village
actually to build a studio.
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Then I was approaching you, then
you told me I asked if we need a
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church. Church, how?
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Then you said,
"Johnson, go ahead."
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Then we built a church.
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As a result, Mr. Kumar
and Mrs. Kumar, their family,
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now his son Ajay and one
more son, his parents, every...
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They all became Adventists?
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All sister, the whole family
alone, more than 20 members are
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there. They became Adventists.
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And they became Adventists.
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So not only that, from
after this village, because
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in neighboring there
were more than 2,700 villages.
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That's as hard to even imagine.
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Imagine all unentered territory.
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And it is very easy.
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That's why
Layman Ministry not only
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producing the program,
kind of making friendship,
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entering into the
village and making disciple.
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That is an example
here Ajay, in one of our...
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Is he a pastor now?
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Yes.
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So he became a pastor.
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He became a pastor.
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Adventist, who became
a leader in this area.
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I was just curious on Sabbath,
the church which we use for a
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Training Center. Is there
very many people coming now?
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Yes.
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it, there was just maybe
eight or nine people coming.
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So what is it now?
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No, it is not enough place.
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Now, the children,
if you count children
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alone, there were more
than 40 people were coming.
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Then elders, almost 30.
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So now the church is
full and they have to build
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separate for children, then only
they have a place like that.
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So the studio is more
than just a place where
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we're doing recordings
for television programs.
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The studio is
actually like a light in the
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community here,
reaching out to this whole area.
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And how many Bible workers do we
have working here in this area?
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In this area,
right now there are...
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Is that her?
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Right now there were six and
in this town, they will go to
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nearby villages. And evening,
when they come from the work,
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after they finish all the
work, she and Kumar's mother,
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she's a Kumar's
mother also, Bible worker.
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She's helping in the village and
she's taking care of one church
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every Sabbath. She's
not attending this church.
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She's going to
nearby, that junction.
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Tamaray Pakam, she
has planted one church.
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So around this area, when
we enter, this is a new place.
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But around this area, more
than 12 congregations right now.
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In the future, we're looking
at trying to do something
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about that, trying to get
places to worship for them.
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Laymen Ministries
currently sponsors 52
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dedicated Bible
workers and several pastors.
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Here's a current picture of
33 of our team after a workers
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meeting. Because of the
popularity of our television
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programs, this often opens the
doors of the homes they visit.
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This is not an easy work,
as they often get doors shut
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in their face and sometimes
they even get threatened.
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But many times, as the
Bible workers identify with
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being with our television
programs, they're invited in.
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They then pray with
the homeowners, build
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relationships, and then
start holding Bible studies.
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This leads to having group
studies as they invite their
neighbors to attend.
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As the group grows, the next
step is buying property and then
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building a church. The Bible
workers visit the home of the
poor and the wealthy.
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They attend to the needs of the
people they visit, as friends.
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They're always handing
out free literature as well.
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While at the studio, Pastor
Johnson talked with me about our
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literature work. I know that
we've been printing a lot of
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literature. Is a lot of this
literature still being shipped
out, like, every week from the
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TV programs and stuff
and people calling in?
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The same method, only during
the COVID time, little we were
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stopped. But otherwise,
the same thing what we had.
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Actually, people ordering
books slowed down during COVID?
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Yeah, because we hear
the postal and everything.
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Oh, see, in America, our
bookstore just was booming when
COVID hit and people were
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at home bored and they
wanted something to do.
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But we're shipping
everything from up here.
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And do you have a pretty... What
kind of books are we working on
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right now? Right now, Ministry
of Healing, then Christ Object
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Lesson. And we print
A Desire of Ages, right?
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A Desire of Ages,
we printed it in a
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three-volume and a Great
Controversy in a two-volume.
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And that's going tremendously.
People were ordering, people
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were asking. Wow. So
what are all these books here?
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These are all books we recently
printed, The Desire of Ages.
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We made it in a three-volume and
also Great Controversy made it
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in two-volume. Are you getting
quite a few people calling in
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for the television
programs, ordering, literature?
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Yes, literature, not
only from India, even from
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the neighboring countries,
Sri Lanka, and also Nepal.
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People in Nepal
responding to the TV programs?
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Yes. They speak Nepali.
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Because we have now a lot of
other books also, like examples,
the Great Controversy
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in English, we are doing it,
and also Desire of Ages we have.
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And there are people who
can speak our language, they are
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there. And also from...
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When you say language,
you're talking about Tamil?
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Tamil. And also
Singapore, then France.
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I know from flying on airplanes
and having connecting flights.
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I don't know how many times I've
sat next to Tamil speaking,
Tamil people that are
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working abroad, either in Saudi
Arabia or in Singapore,
something like that.
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Who is taking care
of shipping all these?
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Shipping Sudhajir. He is
in charge for our bookstore.
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And he will pack everything
and send it to Kottambakkam.
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Then there, Ravi will pack
everything and hand over to the
courier or the poster.
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Are people actually ordering now
that we have the Desire of Ages
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and Great Controversy books
available? People ordering these
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books? Yes. They are very much
interested, particularly the
Storical Lessons, which we have.
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Amazing Facts Storicals.
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And that one is very nice.
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And so all the books, I think
whenever now, particularly
November and December.
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I was kind of curious because
so many people were kind of
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bent over looking at their
phones or on tablets and such.
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I was wondering if they were
ordering books as much as they
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used to. But you think it slowed
down a little bit or people
still ordering quite a bit?
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Still our print
media is powerful in India.
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So that's why we also... I was
talking to you and in our
magazine also we have
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published that our upcoming
project in publishing is Christ
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Object Lesson. Acts of
Apostle and Ministry of Healing.
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Yeah, those would
be wonderful books.
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All of these activities work
together to introduce people to
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Christ. The Bible workers
going door to door, praying
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with the people personally,
touching their lives.
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Our diversified television
programs and media presence,
taking Christ-centered
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messages into the privacy
of millions of people's homes.
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Sending Bibles and Bible-based
books and booklets around the
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world. All of these lead
to hundreds of baptisms every
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year with the establishment
of many new churches.
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We're now going to take
the train from Chennai all
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the way down to Nazareth
where our orphanage is located.
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Taking the trains is
not something new to us and
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overnight trips make one
pretty tired the next day.
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We've been doing the trains
in India for, man, 20, almost 30
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years. And a lot of the trains
really haven't changed that much
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over the 30 years. I think they
just kind of repair them and put
them back on the tracks.
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But tonight we're heading out to
the orphanage here from Hosur,
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which is a central southern part
of India, now onto the eastern
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tip of India. [Music]
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The sleeper cars have beds on
two levels. I always prefer the
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upper level. As we arrived,
we made our way out of the
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train station and
headed to the orphanage.
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While we were still at
the train station, the daily
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activities were just getting
started at our orphanage.
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The boys were getting dressed
and trying hard not to be late
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for breakfast. The rooms in
the orphanage have been recently
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remodeled and everything
is kept clean and organized.
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They all head down to the
cafeteria for breakfast. It
looks like this morning
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they're having Idlis
with vegetable gravy.
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Idlis are made from mung
bean flour steamed into patties.
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They gather all their school
books and backpacks and head to
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the bus. I just want to mention
that it's donors like you that
have helped buy the new bus
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and to provide for school
clothes and backpacks for these
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children. They say a prayer
before they leave to school.
Since we shot this video, we
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have finished some of the
building projects you see in the
background of our campus.
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This trip is a familiar
one for them. Every weekday is
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the same routine. They get
on the bus, they go to school.
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They get on the bus, they
come back home. They would never
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have this opportunity if it were
not for the Children's Home.
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After a day at school, the
bus heads back to "The Home".
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Young orphan children like
this have an opportunity for
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a better life rather than
that of living under a bridge.
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In 2016, Lehman Ministries
acquired this building and this
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property. Back several
years before 2016, there was a
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group of people who wanted
to do an outreach ministry
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in this particular area of
southern eastern Tamil Nadu
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state. And so they
basically built this building
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and called it the
James White Community Center.
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They bought some sewing machines
and they bought some computers.
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The whole idea was
they would teach the ladies
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from the villages in
this area how to do tailoring,
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maybe have some of the
young people come here and
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learn how to use
computers and get involved with
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like IT work. But
for some reason, the
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project just never
really got off the ground.
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So the facility just
sat here not being used.
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So in 2016, a committee
who had control of this
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property decided, "Why not
give it to Laymen Ministries?"
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Laymen Ministries
is an organization
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that gets things
done. And so we acquired the
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property and
immediately Pastor Johnson and I
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were thinking - an
orphanage. And because of the
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laws in India and such, we
couldn't mix boys and girls
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together. So we
started first with what was
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called a boy's home. And
this building was remodeled.
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We had the
government come in and inspect
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things and we set up an
orphanage basically for boys.
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And from that, everything
just kind of started to expand.
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Hey Moses. This is
Moses Daniel and he's the
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director for orphanages.
And I haven't been here
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for three and a half
years now because of COVID
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and everything. But I
see there's been a lot of
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changes since I was
here, like a new wall and
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new building. Yes sir.
I'll tell you about this new
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building. This is the
building which has been
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built, completed in
March. And we wanted this year.
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Yeah, March of this
year. We wanted to start a
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home for girls. We had
been running for boys only.
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So we wanted to
start a home for girls.
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So in order to start a
home, we need some space
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to accommodate a
kitchen, to accommodate
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an office, to
accommodate this healing room,
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sick room and sick
room for girls and to have
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the director's house.
Because in the old building,
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we had two spaces
for dormitories. So we
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used that old building
for girls' dormitories.
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And we have pulled
out the kitchen and the
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director's house and
we have accommodated here.
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Doesn't the government
have really strict rules
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about not mingling the
boys and girls together?
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So we had to keep
everything completely separate,
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right? Yeah, we have
to. That's why we have built
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this long compound
wall and we have separated
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the girls' dormitory
and their area separate
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by building a separate
compound. Yeah. And then
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your accommodations?
Yeah, this is my accommodation.
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Then this is the office
and that is the sick room
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for boys. And where's,
do you have a sick room for
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girls? Okay, it is
inside that compound. Oh,
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that's why the entrances
from that side, because that's
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a girl's side over
there. And I remember you
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telling me with a
problem here that sometimes
00:25:48.94\00:25:53.18
before we built
these toilets that were
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more secure, that you
had problems with snakes
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sometimes coming in
the old toilets. But now
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that's kind of been taken
care of because we have a,
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can you imagine like
during rainy season or
00:26:02.89\00:26:04.96
something, they'd
have cobras coming into the
00:26:04.99\00:26:07.10
toilets, but now we
have them built up in a more
00:26:07.13\00:26:10.40
secure area so the kids
don't have to worry about
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that. When we were
there shooting this video,
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our new cafeteria and
multipurpose room were under
00:26:16.04\00:26:18.64
construction, but
they're now finished. The
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facility has kept clean
providing a healthy environment
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for the children, as
well as teaching them to take
00:26:24.71\00:26:27.08
pride in what they
have. This building is a new
00:26:27.12\00:26:29.72
multipurpose room and
study hall. This gives the
00:26:29.78\00:26:32.52
children a place to
study and to have recreational
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time when the monsoon
rains come. The main thing
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is we now have room for
orphan girls. Some of the
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stories about where
these orphan girls come
00:26:41.80\00:26:44.10
from are heart-wrenching.
The room on the far
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side of this building
is for community services
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for the people in the
nearby villages. We provide
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classes about health,
tailoring, and computer
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technologies. Here are
our current orphan children
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who now have hope for
the future. I'd like to
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tell you about this
boy. His name is MARISWARAN.
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He's a bright and
helpful young man. He always
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dreamed about riding a
bike but never thought he
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could do it. You see,
his father died when he
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was an infant. Without a
father and being extremely
00:27:12.79\00:27:15.60
poor and a mother who
could not take care of him,
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his hopes for riding a
bike seemed out of his grasp.
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Moses, our orphanage
director, brought his bicycle
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to the children's home
so that MARISWARAN could
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learn to ride it. To
MARISWARAN's astonishment,
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he learned how to ride
the bike in just one day.
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He thanks God for
this wonderful opportunity.
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He also wants to
share with you, dear viewer,
00:27:35.85\00:27:38.29
that he has learned
a lot about Jesus and
00:27:38.72\00:27:40.59
his love while staying
at our home. He told us,
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"I surrendered my
life to him. I would
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like to follow him
and inherit eternal life."
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Something as simple as riding
a bike brings joy to these
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orphans. It's our goal to
have this children's home be a
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real home, a safe place
to be loved, encouraged,
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educated, and taught good
values. Throughout India, we're
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