I'm Jeff Reich and I'd like
you to come with me on a journey
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as I revisit just some of
the evidences of my faith,
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especially, regarding
Noah and the flood story.
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In swale layer
here you could see like
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all different
kinds of small seashells.
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They're compressed together
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and this is right
at the top of the Mesa
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here in the Goosenecks.
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Eruption in Mount St.
Helens gave scientists
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the opportunity
to study what happens
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when a catastrophe
hits an area such as this.
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When the water
rushed over these falls,
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it was ten times
the size of Niagara
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and what is known to be
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the largest
waterfall in existence.
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All the water that came
flowing down through this area
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went down through the
Scablands of Eastern Washington
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and right down to
that drainage system
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in the Columbia River
right out to the Pacific Ocean.
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As Noah and his
family came off the ark,
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they stood in absolute
horror as they looked around
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at the devastation of the world.
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Sadly, they knew this
was the consequence of sin.
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And I believe right
here at the Grand Canyon
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is probably one of
the greatest testimonies
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that prove the flood story.
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The story of Noah and the flood
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is extremely
important for us today.
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It points backwards to a
time where God judged the world.
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And it points forward to a time
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where God will
judge the world again.
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The evidences are all around us
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so much so that all
will be without excuse.
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We're outside the
city of Vilkaviskis.
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Now, we are in Lithuania.
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This time we're
gonna be watching
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what some of the Bible
workers are doing here,
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we'll be visiting
with Pastor Arunas
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at his little
church, a church group
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and we'll be traveling
around the country of Lithuania
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showing you what
Laymen Ministries
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is doing here in this country.
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Laymen Ministries has a
long history here in Lithuania.
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We actually came here in 1993,
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so we've been working here for--
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oh, going on 15 years now.
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A lot of people
say, well, how did you
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ever come to this
country of Lithuania?
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How did Laymen
Ministries get involved?
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And it's kind of
an interesting story
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because I remember
back in the early 90s
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we were working in
Albania, Romania and Bulgaria,
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and I was studying
in one of my books--
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Was sharing this idea
about expanding your horizons
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and I'm thinking,
Lord, how should I expand
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the horizons of
Laymen Ministries.
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And that night I walked to
bed and I'm not into dreams
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and claiming to be
a prophet or anything
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but the weirdest thing happened.
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I was praying, "It's okay, Lord,
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if you want us to expand
our horizons, we'll do that."
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In the middle of
the night, I woke up
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and I heard a voice in my
head say, go to Lithuania.
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I've never heard of
the country Lithuania
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in my whole life.
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And so the next morning
when I got up, I was curious.
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I got out my Atlas
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and sure enough I found
up by Belarus and Poland,
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up in the Baltic countries,
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this little
country called Lithuania.
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I go wow, there is a
country called Lithuania.
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And two days later after that
I got this phone call by a boy
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and he said, "Hello, Jeff."
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He said, "Have
you ever thought about
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coming to my country Lithuania?"
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He was a student
from Weimar College.
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I said, "Well, yeah, you know,
I've actually been thinking
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about going to Lithuania a lot."
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And this young man connected me
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with a man called
Remus Sir Binschus
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and in about six weeks later
we had our airplane tickets
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and we came to Lithuania.
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And that was the beginning
of the whole Lithuanian project
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First we saw the
need to publish literature
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as books and
tracks are amazing tools
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to reach people with the truth.
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We helped establish
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the very first
Adventist publishing house
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with Remus Sir Binschus.
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Soon we were publishing
thousands of books and tracks,
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titles such as
the Desire of Ages,
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The Great Controversy,
Christ Object Lessons
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and more with over
130,000 books and tracks
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printed over the last 15 years.
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We soon found we
had another dilemma,
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how to
distribute this literature.
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That's the start
of Laymen Ministries'
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Youth and Missions Program.
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Working together with
Kevin and Kathy Paige,
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we organized an effective work
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that was
instrumental in church growth
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across the country.
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We sent over young
people like Jonathan Peebles,
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Joshua Miller, Shannon
Parker and Jeremy Caulkins
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who trained Lithuanian youth
how to sell books door-to-door.
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The program
became a great success.
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They opened the
doors in a country
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that had been
closed by communism.
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These young people were
the pioneers of the church
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speaking in home
churches, sharing the truth
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and distributing
literature throughout Lithuania.
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Lithuania is
situated in Northern Europe
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in an area called the Baltics
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with Russia to the east
and Poland to the south.
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And it has a population
of about 3.5 million people.
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Lithuania has
been one of the most
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occupied
countries in all of Europe,
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yet on the other hand,
in the earlier centuries
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when Vytautas
the Great was king,
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it occupied the territories
of present day Belarus,
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Ukraine and parts
of Poland and Russia.
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By the end of the 14th century,
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Lithuania stretched across
a substantial part of Europe
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from the Baltic
to the Black Sea.
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It was also the only remaining
Pagan country of Europe
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until converted by
the sword to Catholicism.
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Today, while growing
more and more secular like
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much of Europe,
the Catholic Church
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is the state
recognized religion.
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Life in Lithuania is difficult
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especially with the
growing worldwide recession.
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Unemployment is
at all time highs.
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It has some of the highest rates
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in all of Europe for alcoholism,
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depression, and suicide.
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In the cities,
people are crowded
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into these small block of flats
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or what we call
apartment house complexes.
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Life in the
country is difficult.
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The people
survive by growing food
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and keeping it in
store for the long winters.
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On this particular
trip, we're going to show you
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what the Bible workers
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that are being
sponsored by Laymen Ministries
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are doing
working on a one-to-one
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with people in their homes.
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Plus, we're gonna take you
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to one of the poorest
orphanages in Lithuania
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and share with
you how we are sharing
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clothing and books and things
like that with the children
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and also with the
administrative staff.
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On this trip, we flew
into Vilnius, the capital
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and drove straight
to the city of Kaunas
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to meet the Bible
workers and the church leaders
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to hold our
annual training session.
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Our Bible workers and pastors
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are located in every
region of this country.
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Meetings like
these bring new ideas
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and
encouragement to the workers.
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The Bible workers cross
various cultural boundaries
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by also reaching Polish
and Russian speaking people.
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Pastor Arunas
with his wife Neringa
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helped coordinate
Laymen Ministries work
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across Lithuania.
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They live in the
small city of Vilkaviskis.
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Besides being a fulltime pastor,
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Arunas holds training
seminars for the Bible workers
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and keeps in contact with them
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to provide
encouragement and counsel.
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They also organize
summer youth meetings
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and oversee the work
in many of the orphanages.
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Arunas also helped start
this small church in the city
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where there had been no
previous Adventist presence.
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We bought it several years ago
and we're remodeling every year
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and last year we
were working again
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outside the church
building and we just painted it
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and the roof has
changed and the windows
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and this year we are
working inside the building.
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The work is difficult as people
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are not very
often open to new ideas,
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especially outside
of Catholic tradition.
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After resting up,
we drove all the way up
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by the Lithuanian border
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to the small village of Daunorai
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to meet with two
of our Bible workers
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named Julius and Roma.
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They live on a small farm
which they use as their outpost
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to reach the nearby cities.
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They also use their farm
as a quiet country retreat,
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holding summer
and winter programs
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for some of the children
from the nearby orphanage.
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This is Julius, he
would say Lulius, right?
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Lulius in Lithuanian and Roma,
they have been Bible workers
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for Laymen
Ministries for eight years.
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Roma has Bible studies
with some of the neighbors,
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such as this lady.
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They also hold group
Bible studies at their home,
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as well as in the
nearby city of Birzai.
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Roma shares with her
neighbor friend every week
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in a personal
one-on-one Bible study.
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The test of time
has proven this to be
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one of the most effective ways
of leading a person to Christ
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and making solid church members.
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Our next stop is to
visit another Bible worker
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by the name of Daiva.
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Just got to Silale,
we're at Daiva's house
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and Daiva's been a
Bible worker with us for--
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How many years now?
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Many years.
"Many years," she says.
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We're gonna see
what she's doing here
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while we're in Silale
and then we'll be going
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to church here tomorrow morning.
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Bible studies like
these are happening
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with Laymen
Ministries Bible workers
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all across Lithuania.
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These Bible
studies have brought about
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hundreds of baptisms
over the last 15 years
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and have been one
of the most effective
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outreach
methods in this country.
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You know, they
are just finishing
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up their Bible study here
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and this is what it's all about.
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It's the Bible workers
coming into people's homes
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and making friends with people
and sharing the word of God,
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they just got
done-- having a Bible study
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about the meaning of life
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and the importance of
the Christian experience
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and having
relationship with Christ
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and how it can give
you life and it's really--
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this is really
what it's all about,
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coming here and making friends
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and sharing the
Bible with people.
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Pastor Arunas,
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who is the Director
for Laymen Ministries
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here in Lithuania
had a unique experience
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with this brother
by the name Arunas,
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so both of their
names are Arunas.
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But Arunas, when
he was a young boy,
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this Arunas, when
he was a young boy,
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he was an altar boy
for the Catholic Church.
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When he grew up, like
many Lithuanian people,
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he fell away from his faith
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and stopped
practicing Catholicism.
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He became a building contractor
and he became married,
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he started traveling
back and forth to Norway
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working over there
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and he wasn't
happy with his life
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because they were drinking
and partying quite a bit
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and he finally decided, he
wanted to make some changes.
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So he stopped drinking alcohol
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and his wife wasn't
very happy with that
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and so she started
living a party lifestyle
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and he started
going away from that.
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And she finally left him
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and they went through a divorce.
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He came back to
Lithuania, shattered,
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looking for work as
a building contractor.
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It turned out the
Lord led him to a situation
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where he was helping to remodel
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a Seventh-day
Adventist Church member's home.
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And one day he heard
them over talking about
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religious things and he
started asking questions
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and this led, of
course, to these church members
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giving him several books.
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One book they gave to him
was the book Great Controversy
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and he read this book and
he read several other books
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and he started having questions.
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So he called Pastor
Arunas on the telephone
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and very soon they started
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having Bible
studies just like this.
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Just last year in September
when water was freezing cold,
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he was baptized into
Christ and then after that,
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he started dedicating
himself to helping Pastor Arunas
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remodel the old
church here in Vilkaviskis.
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And this is what it's all about.
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People leading people to
Christ, teaching to teach,
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so that other people too
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will in turn, turn
around and be able to share
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what they've learned
about Christ with somebody else.
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After we left Daunorai,
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we headed towards
the city of Siauliai.
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Along the way, we visited
the historic Hill of Crosses.
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The history behind the spot
dates back to the 18th century
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when people started
placing crosses here
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for those who were killed
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in the uprisings
against the Russians.
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This hill took
on more significance
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after World War II
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when the occupying Russians
tried to bulldoze the hill
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at least three times.
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The defiant Lithuanians
used it to demonstrate
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their allegiance to
their original identity,
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religion, and heritage.
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Today the number
of crosses is unknown
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but estimations
put it at over 50,000.
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Our ministry has a long history
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with this church in
Siauliai as our workers,
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both national and from
America have had a big part
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in helping this
church become established.
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We're in the city of Siauliai
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and we're gonna go to
church here this morning.
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Siauliai church
Chas had this house
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that was renovated into a church
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for quite a number of years now.
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This morning, the emphasis
is going to be on the harvest,
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yeah, because it's
cold and it's October
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and it's harvest time,
and one thing you'll notice
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is that a lot of the
people here dressed really warm,
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the church isn't
heated very well.
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Some of the places
are heated pretty good
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but there has been some places
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where we go to church
on Sabbath here where-it's,
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you can see your
breath inside the building.
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But they have a really
active church here in Siauliai.
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I'm looking forward to speaking
to the people here today.
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At first, it was
in the living room
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of the church member's house.
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Later, the house
was purchased, remodeled
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and now is packed every Sabbath.
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So when Christ comes
for the great harvest,
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what is He coming for? People?
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Yes.
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So, all the people
are gonna be harvesting.
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This particular Sabbath day,
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we're having a
harvest celebration.
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I spoke on the
last great harvest
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and how Christ
works in our hearts
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to have our
characters come to fruition.
00:16:05.66\00:16:07.76
In preparation for
that last great harvest,
00:16:07.83\00:16:10.77
it was great to reconnect
with many old friends again.
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What they are doing here
is something very unusual,
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after the church service,
since this is the harvest time
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they are giving food
to all the church members.
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We have a nice arrangement here
with different kinds of breads
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and some soy
patties and tomatoes.
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It's kind of
different to be honest with you.
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It's been five years
since I was in Lithuania,
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I missed a lot
of things from here
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but one of the things
that I missed the most
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is the food and the drink.
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In all the countries
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we always traveled
to, we like to show you
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the different types of cultural
foods that they prepare.
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In Lithuania, one of the
most famous foods is the potato
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and in fact, it's
very dear to my heart
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because I'm from
the state of Idaho
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in the good old USA
and everybody knows that--
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Lives to close to Idaho
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that Idaho is
famous for famous potatoes.
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And in Lithuania,
they cook a zillion
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different types of potato dishes
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but she's gonna
be preparing today
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a dish called cepelinai.
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Now, I think that it really
should be called zeppelini.
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For years I
always pronounced it that
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because I thought
that the finished product
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kind of looked like a zeppelin.
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Now you've probably seen
those big German balloons
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you know, they
were called zeppelins.
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Well, the finished
product is similar to that
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and it's quite a,
an elaborate process.
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One of the first
things that they do apparently
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is they peel potatoes
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and she soaks
them in some water.
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It's a unique combination
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because she's gonna mix together
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raw potatoes
and boiled potatoes,
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they're like mashed
potatoes, you'll see there.
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Here you have some soft cheese.
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This cheese is a, yeah it's--
what they call fresh cheese?
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It's next step up
from cottage cheese.
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It's kind of a
firm, soft cheese,
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kind of like feta cheese
but with no seasoning in it.
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This is gonna go
inside the zeppelini.
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So you'll see
that she is doing this,
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she's gonna mix this
cooked mashed potatoes
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together with
raw grated potatoes
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and a potato puree
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which she'll be using a
machine for it a little bit.
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So you can see
it's just raw potatoes
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that are just whizzed up
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kind of almost
like what we'd use
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in a Champion
juicer in the States.
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Interesting.
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The next step
Neringa is using here
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as she's taking
that, the raw potatoes
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that was made into a puree
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and she's putting it to
like, piece of cheese cloth
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and straining all
the liquid out of it
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so she's ending up with
00:18:53.60\00:18:54.93
kind of like a
starchy looking material here.
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It's just raw potato starch.
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So this is potato
juices, this looks like a bear
00:19:00.20\00:19:02.87
and I'm gonna have
Jon, our cameraman,
00:19:02.90\00:19:06.74
demonstrate drinking this stuff.
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I'm not gonna do it.
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Okay, here it goes.
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This is raw potato juice.
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It's got to be at
least 37 different nutrients.
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What do you think?
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It's good.
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Are you serious?
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Might need a little salt
but other than that, it's good.
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It's good.
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Now after these things
are all rolled together
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with the stuffing inside,
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she carefully places
them in boiling water,
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so in a sense what they
are is a potato dumpling.
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But it's the most
unique potato dumpling
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I've ever seen in my life.
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She's mixing up a special sauce
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and has eggs and
butter and some salt,
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and some
different things and uses
00:20:01.00\00:20:02.80
sparingly on top of
your potato zeppelini
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and put it o n that plate.
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Some people like just
I've mentioned to you,
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they take oil
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and they just dump
a ton of oil on it.
00:20:14.84\00:20:16.24
She's using a little
bit of butter sparingly
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with some salt and
little bit of sour cream
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and that will make
a nice flavored sauce
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for the top of it.
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This is the finished
product. This is the zeppelini.
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Cepelinai, they call it.
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It's delicious. Really good.
00:20:33.29\00:20:35.86
Now, I tell you what,
00:20:35.90\00:20:37.23
two of these will
stick to your ribs.
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Today, we're gonna go
over and meet with the director
00:20:42.14\00:20:44.91
from one of the orphanages.
00:20:44.94\00:20:46.27
We're loading up all the stuff
00:20:46.31\00:20:47.64
to take over to
the orphanages today
00:20:47.68\00:20:49.41
and when we meet the director,
00:20:49.44\00:20:50.78
we're gonna over
to that market place
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and buy some clothes and things.
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The next morning,
we headed south about
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40 miles to the
small city of Siminus
00:20:55.62\00:20:58.29
where we met with
some of the ladies
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who work at the local orphanage.
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In the larger cities, the
orphanages usually receive
00:21:03.83\00:21:06.23
some kind of help from
other European countries
00:21:06.26\00:21:09.10
while the smaller
orphanages out in the country
00:21:09.13\00:21:11.87
are in a desperate situation.
00:21:11.90\00:21:17.01
After meeting with the director
and the administrative staff,
00:21:17.07\00:21:20.04
it was decided these kids
needed warm winter clothing,
00:21:20.08\00:21:22.94
shoes, and other basic clothes.
00:21:22.98\00:21:25.08
Together, we went
with some of the workers
00:21:25.11\00:21:26.78
on a shopping spree
to get what they needed.
00:21:26.82\00:21:28.98
These ladies are
really into this orphanage,
00:21:46.40\00:21:48.57
if you watch the
expression on them
00:21:48.60\00:21:50.44
as they are purchasing
things, one girl is going,
00:21:50.47\00:21:52.94
oh, very good,
it's great, it's good,
00:21:52.97\00:21:54.84
you know, because
she's actually able
00:21:54.88\00:21:56.21
to get some
clothing for the kids.
00:21:56.24\00:21:57.71
They have been
having a real problem
00:21:57.75\00:21:59.75
with being able to
have quality clothing
00:21:59.78\00:22:01.32
and to be able to have
00:22:01.35\00:22:02.68
just socks and
underwear and things like that.
00:22:02.72\00:22:05.12
So it's nice to see
that the administrative staff
00:22:05.15\00:22:09.32
are really into the children
and they are not doing this
00:22:09.36\00:22:12.46
just as a job but they are doing
00:22:12.49\00:22:13.83
'cause their hearts are into it.
00:22:13.90\00:22:15.20
It's
interesting 'cause this lady
00:22:37.62\00:22:38.99
who is actually giving
us about five coats for free
00:22:39.02\00:22:42.49
and she's crying, I don't know
if you're noticing this or not,
00:22:42.52\00:22:44.73
but she's actually
got tears in her eyes
00:22:44.76\00:22:46.86
saying that she
wants to help out.
00:22:46.90\00:22:53.13
Apparently her son
was recently killed
00:22:53.17\00:22:55.20
with some kind of incident
00:22:55.24\00:22:56.57
and she's got
some problems at home
00:22:56.64\00:22:58.74
and apparently she
just got a real sensitive
00:22:58.77\00:23:00.28
and kinder heart and
she wants to help out
00:23:00.31\00:23:02.34
so she's donating
a lot of these coats
00:23:02.38\00:23:04.75
and then we're gonna
buy something from her too.
00:23:04.78\00:23:10.79
Basically he's gonna
come back to visit this lady
00:23:10.82\00:23:13.29
again to give
some literature to her.
00:23:13.36\00:23:16.16
Okay, what's next on the list?
00:23:16.19\00:23:17.86
You get this, we're not only
just buying clothes for orphans
00:23:28.24\00:23:30.87
but we're giving
them spiritual literature
00:23:30.91\00:23:32.61
and this is a real open door
for being able to share Christ
00:23:32.64\00:23:36.31
in the orphanages with
the administrative people
00:23:36.34\00:23:39.55
and the kids there.
00:23:39.58\00:23:41.25
In this particular
orphanage, they have children
00:23:41.28\00:23:43.35
who are all the way up to
the age of 21 years of age
00:23:43.39\00:23:45.45
between the full
ages of four, six,
00:23:45.49\00:23:47.62
all the way to 21 years of age.
00:23:47.66\00:23:49.22
Wow! Look at the stuff.
00:23:57.33\00:23:59.77
I'm happy. I'm happy. Good.
00:23:59.80\00:24:03.91
Back in 1995, two missionaries
00:24:09.68\00:24:12.18
who worked with
Laymen Ministries,
00:24:12.21\00:24:13.55
Joshua Miller
and Jonathan Peeble
00:24:13.62\00:24:15.52
saw how destitute
things were in the orphanage
00:24:15.55\00:24:18.02
by where they lived.
00:24:18.05\00:24:19.39
They soon started searching out
00:24:19.42\00:24:20.76
other poor
orphanages around the country.
00:24:20.79\00:24:26.16
Thank you.
00:24:26.19\00:24:27.73
Laymen Ministries made
00:24:27.76\00:24:29.06
this an
extension of our project,
00:24:29.10\00:24:30.53
providing clothing, shoes,
00:24:30.57\00:24:32.30
and spiritual food
for their souls, as well.
00:24:32.33\00:24:37.81
To this day, we've
continued to be involved
00:24:37.84\00:24:39.67
with the ministry to
these poor orphanages.
00:24:39.71\00:24:47.62
Small orphanages located
00:24:47.65\00:24:48.98
in the more rural areas
such as this one struggle
00:24:49.02\00:24:51.39
just to keep the heat turned on.
00:24:51.42\00:24:54.36
The director told
me they would literally
00:24:54.39\00:24:55.86
not turn the heat on
until the 1st of November.
00:24:55.89\00:24:58.83
While we were there in October,
00:24:58.86\00:25:00.26
the building was a
chilly 55 degrees inside.
00:25:00.33\00:25:05.90
The children lacked
basic warm clothing,
00:25:05.93\00:25:08.24
under garments, and
food was limited as well.
00:25:08.27\00:25:10.84
Children and staff also
received from us Bibles,
00:25:16.75\00:25:19.61
books, and
Bible study materials.
00:25:19.65\00:25:24.49
The kids at this orphanage
are the outcasts of society.
00:25:24.52\00:25:27.76
Most here are handicapped,
born with birth defects,
00:25:27.79\00:25:30.73
or have some
emotional issues from poor
00:25:30.76\00:25:33.03
and even abusive parenting.
00:25:33.06\00:25:35.50
Many orphans are here
because of their parents
00:25:35.53\00:25:37.47
who are alcoholic or
simply have abandoned them.
00:25:37.53\00:25:44.17
The director Mrs. Elena Downiski
00:25:44.21\00:25:46.64
showed us the
giving tree of people
00:25:46.68\00:25:48.34
who have donated before.
00:25:48.38\00:25:50.15
On the wall was
Joshua and Inga Miller's name
00:25:50.21\00:25:52.15
and Pastor Arunas as well,
all Laymen Ministries workers.
00:25:52.18\00:25:58.49
As we walked
around the facility,
00:25:58.52\00:26:00.32
I was impressed that
while they were poor,
00:26:00.39\00:26:02.62
the building was
kept clean and orderly.
00:26:02.66\00:26:05.09
They had
classrooms where they engaged
00:26:05.13\00:26:06.83
in special
activities for the children.
00:26:06.86\00:26:10.77
All the children were
very happy that we came
00:26:10.80\00:26:13.44
and all showed a
great enthusiasm.
00:26:13.47\00:26:17.87
When it came time to
distribute some of the items,
00:26:17.91\00:26:20.11
the kids became very excited.
00:26:20.18\00:26:22.48
Other items were distributed
in a more discretionary manner.
00:26:22.51\00:26:28.48
Today, Laymen
Ministries continues to support
00:26:37.99\00:26:40.70
Bible workers and
pastors, publishing literature,
00:26:40.73\00:26:43.83
and orphanage outreach.
00:26:43.87\00:26:45.57
We have a vision of
expanding into radio
00:26:45.60\00:26:47.50
and television
broadcast as well as seminars
00:26:47.54\00:26:50.37
held across the country.
00:26:50.41\00:26:52.37
Please pray with us
00:26:52.41\00:26:53.74
for this little
country of Lithuania.
00:26:53.78\00:26:57.41