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Hello, and
welcome to Mission 360°
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coming to you today
from Lagos, Nigeria.
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I'm Gary Krause.
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Lagos is a city that's
very difficult to understand.
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It's enigmatic in some ways.
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It's one of the
most Christianized areas
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in terms of everywhere
you go there churches,
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but it'll also has one
of the highest crime rates
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in the world.
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As we see, many places
are very densely populated
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then assigned to sprawl out
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and nobody really knows
how many people live in Lagos,
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but credible estimates say
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it's more than
21 million people.
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It has surpassed Cairo
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as the largest city
on the African continent.
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And the cities of
Africa are growing faster
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than anywhere in the world.
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And Lagos is no exception
as people by the thousands
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are flooding and
looking for opportunities.
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We see the normal contrast
between the poor and the rich,
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and it is a
tremendous mission challenge.
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What we're gonna
learn more about Lagos
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on today's
program, but first up,
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let's travel to India
and meet a young person
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who is volunteering and
working in the community
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to make a difference.
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Shahjahan is only a teenager,
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but that doesn't stop her
from holding a crucial role
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in her village
in northern India.
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Shahjahan is
accompanied by her friend
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and co-worker Zemat.
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They're visiting a mother
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who just gave
birth to a baby boy.
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Shahjahan's work is
much more than it seems.
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She's not just
pouring two glasses of water.
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She's saving a life.
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She pours a few more
ounces into both cups,
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representing the
first of three immunizations
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in a local vaccination plan.
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The plan immunizes
against diphtheria,
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whooping cough, tetanus,
hepatitis B, and influenza.
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Shahjahan and
other women like her
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are community
mobilization coordinators
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known as CMC's.
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They work with the
Government of India
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and with humanitarian agencies
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like Adventist Development
and Relief Agency or ADRA.
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Their goal is to
keep women and children
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protected against diseases
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common during
pregnancy and infancy.
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CMC's use
posters, demonstrations,
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one on one conversations,
and women-only group meetings
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to ensure that all mothers
have free and easy access
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to life saving
information and medical care.
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The water glass
demonstration, for example,
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conveys the importance
of vaccines to mothers
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who are skeptical,
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often because
they're afraid of the fever
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that commonly
accompanies vaccination.
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Such demonstrations are
almost always successful
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at convincing the mothers.
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This grassroots
approach to national health
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is the main reason
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India was declared
polio free in 2014.
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It was our CMCs
continuous effort.
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They mobilized the community,
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particularly they
talk to the mothers
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and they tell them
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the importance of
the polio immunization.
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And also, we
involved the whole community
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like we work closely
with the local influencers.
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In a country of more
than 1 billion people
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fighting a contagious
disease takes education,
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dedicated health workers,
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and concerned
citizens like Shahjahan
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and the men and women of ADRA.
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Your support of ADRA
helps women and children
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around the world live
healthier, happier lives.
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My guest is Dr. Paul Ananaba,
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who is a senior
advocate of Nigeria.
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So thank you for taking the time
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out of your busy
schedule to share with us.
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Thank you, Gary.
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Now, you are a
senior advocate of Nigeria,
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what does that mean?
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What do you do?
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Well, it's never get up Nigeria
is the highest status lawyer
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contained in the
Federal Republic of Nigeria.
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Now since the
inception of this country
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there are less than 500
in advocates dead or living.
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Okay, so if I get into trouble
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I'm coming to
you to help me out.
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Yeah, you've also want
to do other good things.
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Okay.
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Might be a better idea.
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You are a very
busy man, obviously,
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but you are
involved in urban mission.
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Why?
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How?
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Why, because as a
legal practitioner,
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I know that the last words
of a man dying was of a man.
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The last words of a man
involving so much in law,
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'cause God always gives that.
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Now the last words of Jesus
in Matthew 28 from 18 down,
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he says, "Now all
powers on heaven and earth
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given unto me.
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Go ye."
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It goes all the way down to say,
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"On as you go, I
am with you always."
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So that's the best you can get,
as far as I know, in the Bible,
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that the Master agree,
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He will be with you
ways to go to preserve.
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And that's why I
make it a priority.
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And what I do
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to serve the
Master through evangelism.
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How, I know that's no
time not to try to make out
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because at the
best of this profession,
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it will not give you salvation.
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Salvation is brought in God.
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When you seek
first the Kingdom of God
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if you're including
professional success
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will be added, of course,
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how did I become a
senior advocate of Nigeria
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if God was not there.
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Now so, at present
I have five offices
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in five regions in the country,
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but then there has to
be time for the Master
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who made those things possible.
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Wonderful.
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So tell me about
what sort of outreach
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you have been involved in?
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Well, from house to house
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to public evangelism,
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Revelation seminars,
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public teachings,
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and then ICT enabled evangelism.
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Every day,
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I send across
the world by vortex
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and in my ethnic
group, all over the world,
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we'll have platforms.
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Every Saturday morning,
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people look forward to
my post on Christianity.
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So that is ongoing, it's
been on for several years.
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It's looked up also.
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So then when
you get to my office
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the person that greets you
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is that you are
given Adventist belief,
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given Adventist's documents
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and then many times
into books, discussions,
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how many have
become Adventist to God.
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Okay.
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So before you take on a client,
they have to take the book...
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They get it, as
they come there's sitting
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my receptionist structured
in such a manner as you come.
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The receptionist is
a person welcome you
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and hand you that book.
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Okay.
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It makes the impact in
the lives of many people
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because they fear
that such level of success
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having attended any religion
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you have it should be looked at.
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And then in the country
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there's a lot of corruption
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and issues those of
us who are Christians
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including particularly what I do
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got to be known that,
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oh, this one is an
Adventist Christian
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so it's a bit different.
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So people often
come to my office
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just get to know my
religion, my God and all that.
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Wonderful.
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Now you were also
involved in planting a church
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not too far from here?
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Yes. Enugu.
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Why did you
decide to plant a church?
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It was necessary for a church
to be in that neighborhood
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and efforts were being
made and the pastor then
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who is seated here
now posted me to Enugu
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and I got there,
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and by God's grace we moved,
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and then the church
by God's grace started.
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And today we'll have
one of the modern churches
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in Lagos there.
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And how many members?
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Well, on average, we
have 150 persons attendance.
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Excellent. Excellent.
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Wonderful now a city
like Lagos is not easy.
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You face many challenges.
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What are some of the
major challenges you face?
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There're so many, Gary.
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There is multiplicity
of religions in Lagos
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ranging from whatever
religion you can think about.
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Lagos is said to be
center of excellence,
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both in religion and in evil.
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Okay.
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So those are the first
major challenges we face.
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And in church plants
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and people are
always in a hurry in Lagos.
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I don't know
whether that's any city
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in order like Lagos.
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So that's the challenge
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and the challenge
of even getting men
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to plant a church
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and then the
accessibility to the church
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and to the place and all that,
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and then because of crimes
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and all that people also
losing faith in religion.
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Yes. Exactly.
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Now you told me
earlier about somebody
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that you studied with.
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What happened to him now?
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Yes, he's now a pastor.
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I mean, one of my
Revelation seminars,
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I met a very stubborn young man.
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His name is Grillo,
he's now Pastor Grillo.
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And he was very stubborn
at the Revelation seminar.
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But the Spirit of God
made impression on him.
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He got baptized.
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The family rejected him.
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The church, the formed
fellowship came together,
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sent him to us while
he graduated as a pastor,
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and then not too long
after he became a pastor.
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He was now posted
to be my church pastor
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in Maryland here.
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That's beautiful.
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Well, Dr. Paul,
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thank you so much for
sharing with us today.
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And may God bless
you and your ministry.
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Thank you, Gary.
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And viewers at home,
please pray for Lagos.
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This is a huge mission for
more than 21 million people
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to spread out.
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And in human terms,
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we would say how
is this possible,
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but we know that with
you, all things are possible.
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Please, please pray for those
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who are involved in
church planting here.
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We'll be right
back after this break.
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