Improving
children's nutrition in Africa,
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women in mission
around the world,
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and a powerful
story from Madagascar,
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all this and much
more coming up next.
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Hello, and
welcome to Mission 360.
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I'm Gary Krause.
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Today's program is coming to you
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from the heart
of the 10x40 Window.
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I'm in Jakarta, the
capital of Indonesia.
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And the greater
metropolitan area
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of this vast city has
some 23 million people.
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Many people are surprised
to learn that Indonesia,
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not some country
in the Middle East
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is the largest
Muslim nation in the world.
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And on today's program,
we're going to be looking at
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some of the sights and sounds
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and some of the story
of mission here in Jakarta,
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but first up, let's
travel to Mozambique.
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This kind of project
was actually created by
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the government
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because they need
to scale up nutrition,
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and there is a
need in Mozambique.
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Right now, the
chronic malnutrition
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rates are really soaring.
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They are above 40%.
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And this is
generally across the country.
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Although there
are certain places
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where it's higher,
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in Maputo also they
discovered that it's above 30%,
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which also includes
districts like Boane.
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So that's why we feel
like it's important that
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the students should
also get part of the meal
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because they might
not be getting enough.
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When we started,
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we had our school feeding funded
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by ADRA International.
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The other part of the
donation was through the food,
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that we are still receiving,
through Rise Against Hunger.
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Being part of this
project, they receive rice.
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The rice comes
in a packet with soy
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and dehydrated vegetables.
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And inside each packet
there is a multivitamin packet,
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within the food
that we distribute.
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So every time
they get a ration size
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which is almost
equivalent to 700 kilocalories.
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It's in supplement to
what they get from home.
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When we started the project,
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we did some anthropometry
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where we were
weighing the height
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and the weight of the
students, and we analyzed it.
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And then we discovered
that 50% of the students
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were really underweight.
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That was last year.
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And we are going to
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consequently weigh the students.
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Right now we designed a cohort
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that we would
follow up each month,
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so that we have
concrete results to see
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the changes are okay.
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What we have noted so far,
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there's been an increase
in the number of students.
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We started with 9,366.
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Right now we
have 13,453 students.
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And last year when we
ended, we had 11,656 students.
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My guest is Arlaine, who
is the Operations Manager
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for the Chinese
Ministry Center here in Jakarta.
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Arlaine, thanks
for joining us. Yes.
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Now describe for us
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what the Chinese
Ministry Center is?
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So the Chinese Ministry Center
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is actually a
supporting ministry
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in SDA church
that we want to focusly
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to reach out to
the Chinese community,
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but through this several years,
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we realized that
because of the Chinese people
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usually live in the cities.
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So what God actually leading
us is to the city of Adventism.
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Oh, wonderful.
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Now when did this start?
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It was started in 2003
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when the
Jakarta local conference
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gathered us together
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and give us the
vision to reach out
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to the Chinese
community in Jakarta
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because as you know,
Indonesia, besides the,
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as a biggest Muslim
countries in the world
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is also the biggest population
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of Chinese people outside China.
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Yes.
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And also,
Indonesia also have like,
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the national crisis on 1997-98.
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And in that time,
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most of the Chinese converted
from Buddhism to Christianity,
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but we don't have any one from
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that conversion
to Adventist Church.
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So we as the Adventist
Chinese in the church, you know,
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are calling to bring the message
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to the Chinese community.
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Wonderful.
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Now describe for me
where we're standing
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where in an urban
center of influence, right?
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Yeah. So tell me about it?
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So this is one of the place
of what we called Club Sehat.
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Club Sehat is a
healthy grocery store,
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but actually, this
Club Sehat is only our like
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on front liner to
mingle with people
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so they can buy stuffs.
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And also we have the restaurant,
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vegetarian restaurant upstairs
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so we can have the
chance to meet with new people,
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mingle with people,
and then after that,
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we ask them or offer them
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to attend our
other programs, you know,
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which is health
seminars and everything.
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So this store actually is a,
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we sell all the
healthy food stuff,
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which is sometimes
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it's kind of hard
to find like seeds
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or nuts in even in the
capital city of Jakarta
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in Indonesia.
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So we provide the
healthy food here.
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Wonderful.
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Now this was not your first,
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you started
another center elsewhere.
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Yeah.
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How many
centers do you have now?
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Now in Jakarta we
have eight centers.
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And outside in
Jakarta, we also have like,
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I forgot it's like in Bandung,
Semarang, Solo, Surabaya,
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and also Bali, Jambi,
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Medan, and
Pontianak, Makasar, Manado.
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Wonderful.
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Now on this program I
often talk a lot about
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centers of influence,
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why do you think
they are so important?
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For us center of influence
is actually a showroom,
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that in that
showroom, we can, I mean,
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everybody can come,
and then they can see
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who is Adventist, how
they lives, what they eat,
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how they get dress, you know,
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and from that showroom
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they were introduced to know
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what is the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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as the whole worldwide
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and also in the
center of influence
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it's the place
when we can practice
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the Christ methods,
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the five steps of
the Christ methods only,
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he mingle and so on.
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Show sympathy,
minister to needs,
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win confidence...
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Win confidence
and them to follow me.
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So we have the
opportunity to meet new people
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like through the health message,
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and then from the center
of influence they can come,
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you know, freely without any
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and they don't
have to be afraid that
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this is a church and
we want to convert them
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to one church,
it's not like that
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so they can easily come
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and make them their
like "second home" actually.
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Yes. Wonderful. Yeah.
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Now this food store of which
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there are many now
they are making a profit?
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Yes.
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What do you do
with the proceeds?
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The proceeds to? The profits.
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Oh, the profits. Okay.
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The profits actually...
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So from the start,
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we already have
our commitment that
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if we open this door,
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the profits will
not go to the investors.
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So when we
first start the store,
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there are some of
the church members
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they're willingly
to invest their money
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to open the Club Sehat,
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but start from 2008 until
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and now 2019.
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Actually, the
investor didn't don't get any,
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anything from the
profit of Club Sehat
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because they're already
commit that the profit will go
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to the
development of the Club Sehat
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so we can, the
Club Sehat can help CMC
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to build more center of
influence in other places.
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So that's actually our goal.
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So it's used as a seed
money to develop other?
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That's right. Fantastic.
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That's right. Yeah.
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So we have featured this
initiative some years ago,
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but it's just so
encouraging to see
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how it has grown and multiplies.
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Praise God for
that. Wonderful news.
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Yes, we also, we
can see, you know,
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how God really
intervened all the works here,
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you know, how that
really blessed the ministry
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and even brings
healings to, you know,
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customers and also our guests
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who come to the
center of influence.
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Wonderful.
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Arlaine, thank you so
much for sharing with us today.
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Thank you so much.
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And viewers at home,
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this is just an
incredible initiative.
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First an urban
center of influence
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was planted in
one area of the city,
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ministering to that community.
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It's now started as we've heard
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in various other
parts of Jakarta,
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and now it's spreading
into other parts of Indonesia,
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putting Christ
method into practice.
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Please pray for this initiative.
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We'll be right
back after this break.
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