Right behind me
is one of the oldest
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monasteries or the oldest,
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I'm told, in all of
Russian and Ukraine.
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I'm told that the
monks in the very beginning
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dug holes in the earth,
created caves and caverns,
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and that's where
most of them lived.
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After time many of them died,
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but because of the
climatic conditions of the cave,
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their bodies were preserved.
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As people found them, they said,
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"Ah! They must be Holy men
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because their
bodies are preserved."
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And today, we can
find their mummified
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remains right on those spots.
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We just arrived here today.
Well, where did we arrive?
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We arrived in Kyiv, the
people in this area call it,
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but I call it
Kiev. It's a huge city.
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Three million
official population,
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but I'm told there's
about six million that live here
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because most of
those are illegal,
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but it is a great city
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and we're going to
check more of it out.
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The introduction of Christianity
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to Kiev came in 988
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with the conversion
of Vladimir, the First.
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Christianity existed in
Kiev before his conversion.
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However, Vladimir was a pagan
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with seven wives
and is said to have
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participated in human sacrifice.
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But in 987, in exchange
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for the hand of
Anna in marriage,
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the sister of Basil the Second,
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Vladimir agreed to
become a Christian.
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And in 988, he ordered the
Christian conversion of Kiev
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and the idols were
cast into the Dnieper River.
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She is absolutely colossal
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and she towers overall the city.
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Ninety-six meters
high or over 300 feet,
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she's phenomenal,
she was built by Brezhnev
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to commemorate
the war, World War II.
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The Bell Tower
behind me is 96 meters high,
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that's the same
height as the World War II
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memorial that Brezhnev built
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that overlooks
all of the harbor.
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They were told,
they could not build it
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any higher than that,
or the Orthodox Church
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would get very, very upset.
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So it remained the
identical height of the tower.
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On the banks of the river
in Kiev and Mount Berestov,
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where we find the
monastery of Pechersk Lavra,
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the center of Eastern Orthodoxy.
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Saint Anthony, who had
settled in the old cave
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on the side of Mount Berestov,
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found that this
monastery in 1071.
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The word Pechera means Cave,
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the word Lavra is used
to describe high ranking
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monasteries for monks of
the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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This monastery in Kiev
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is where the
Ukrainian Orthodox Church
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was founded and is
its current headquarters.
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The ground here
is all limestone.
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It's the perfect
place to carve out caves.
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The cave dwellers were actually
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the first monks here.
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They lived in the caves
for maybe hundreds of years,
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but then they get
tired of living there
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and so they began
building this monastery.
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It's a spectacular place.
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This is one of the
main entrances to it.
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Many people called this
the Mecca of the Ukraine,
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others called it
the New Jerusalem.
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Some, even the Vatican.
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He was a
professional photographer
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who fell in love with his work,
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but when he fell in
love with Jesus Christ,
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something changed.
We'll be right back.
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Vladimir, thank you for coming
to the gorgeous location today.
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I gladly did
this because I've been
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waiting to talk about
how I became an Adventist.
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I'm very happy
that I'm an Adventist.
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I understand that
this is where you worked
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for many years
as a photographer?
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Yes-- Yes, I did work here
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as a photographer
for about 10 years.
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It's an absolutely
spectacular location.
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Tell me more, what, what
were some of the privileges
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and the beauty
that you photographed.
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foreign language
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I took pictures of
church services, statues,
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and I took pictures of people
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who graduated
from our Bible school.
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This was my job.
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So you were the, virtually,
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it sounds like the
number one professional
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photographer for this location.
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I'm not sure about
being the number one,
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but I do love my job and
I try to do my best in it.
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Tell me, what was one of
your most memorable occasions,
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some of your most
memorable photographs?
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foreign language
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I had a lot of interesting jobs,
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but I think the most memorable
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one was the full album
of Metropolis Vladimir.
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It took a lot of time
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and it was the most
challenging one yet.
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One location, but a
1000-year-old monastery,
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you spend 10 years here.
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Did you ever run out of work?
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Did you ever run out
of things to photograph?
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foreign language
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Yes, because there is
a lot of different jobs.
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We took a lot of
pictures in caves
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and made a lot of albums
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that were
challenging and took time.
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So, yes, there was always work.
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So you've done the photography
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for the mummies, I don't know,
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how you refer to them,
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but the mummies in the caves?
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foreign language
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Yes, different pictures,
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documentary pictures of mummies.
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Lots of different
pictures like that,
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describing the life here.
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How does it feel to,
well, I haven't been there.
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How does it feel to
go down in these caves
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and see all the
different mummies
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and then photograph
them in just the right light,
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I'm just interested in that?
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foreign language
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This was a
totally different life.
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I tried to work on
these pictures with passion,
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even though it
was hard to understand
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the life of these mummies.
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I tried my best to
have good quality pictures
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for those who are
going to be looking at them.
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I just had to take
these pictures with passion.
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Would you show me
around some of the areas
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that you used to photograph?
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foreign language Let's do it.
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In the ninth century,
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Greek missionaries
from Byzantium introduce
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Christianity through
the East Slavic State.
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Saint Anthony of Kiev
began his life as a monk
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on Mount Athos in Greece.
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In 1051, the abbot gave
Anthony the job of expanding
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monasticism in his native Kiev.
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When Saint
Anthony returned to Kiev,
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he found a small cave,
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where he lived
the life of a monk,
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eating only rye bread
and drinking only water.
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He soon developed a following
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and soon after a full
monastery was founded.
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As the monastery
grew space became an issue
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and they requested the land
on the hill above the caves.
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Here in 1073,
Saint Anthony blessed
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the foundation
of the new church,
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but did not live
to see it completed.
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He died later in the same year.
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It was
requested that his remains
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be hidden away forever,
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and is said to be
buried in the cave
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beneath the church.
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However, no relics
have ever been found.
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Today in the caves
beneath the monastery,
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there are 79 burials
whose remains are mummified.
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Among those buried is
Nestor the Chronicler,
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who is well-known in Kiev
and was canonized as a saint
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by the Russian Orthodox Church.
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It was here that Nestor helped
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compile the early surviving
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chronicle of the
East Slavic State.
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Now, before you
were a photographer,
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what did you do? I
was an athletic coach.
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But photography
has been my hobby
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since I was 15 years of age.
Sports, what kind of sports?
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I was a runner. I
was an 800 meter runner.
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Were you good?
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I was a runner who
represented the country.
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I was on the National
Youth Team of Ukraine.
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foreign language
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What would it have
been, may if I can grasp,
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what was your religion
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during those years? No. Nothing.
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foreign language
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At heart I was a believer,
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I believed that there was a God.
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I was always looking for God.
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I always too
shy to talk about it
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to my friends and co-workers.
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That's interesting.
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So you didn't show it
outward at all, but you,
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in your heart, you
knew there was a God.
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foreign language
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Yes, I was always a believer.
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I don't ever remember
being in doubt about it.
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Did you ever go to church?
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I started
attending the Orthodox Church
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when I became a
photographer here.
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This was in 1991,
that I was attending
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the Orthodox Church here
in the territory of Lavra.
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So you did both,
you photographed here
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and you worshiped
here then? Yes, yes.
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I can see that
it would draw you,
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when I went inside
to look at the beauty
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and the artwork, it
just, it's exciting.
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foreign language
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Yes, that's the way it was.
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I did enjoy it, but when
I started reading the Bible,
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and started
listening to the voice of hope
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I started realizing that there
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were things
wrong with this church.
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So I started looking
for a different church.
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You said, one of the things is,
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you noticed they didn't
live like the Bible says.
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What do you mean?
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foreign language
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When I was reading
the Gospel of John,
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I read that there needs
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to be true love between people.
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And I noticed more
of a ritual ceremony
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far from the more
loving spiritual life.
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So then I started
looking for a new church.
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During this time,
you were searching then,
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and it sounds like at some point
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you found the AWR Program.
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Talk to me about the moment,
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in that searching that you
actually found the program.
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foreign language
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It was on Sunday,
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when I was
listening to our radio station
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and I was
wondering what kind of church
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I heard over the station.
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foreign language
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Later, I heard that it was
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an Adventist
Church of the Seventh-day.
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foreign language
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And that's how I
heard about church
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and I became very
interested in the church
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because the
church was very direct,
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and brought up
questions and answers
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that I've never heard of.
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foreign language
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Many streets are
Kabul stone streets.
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These are Kabul bolder streets.
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They're huge,
they look very ancient.
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Behind me is a
tremendous old iron gate,
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flying buttress construction.
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Everywhere you
turn, there's history.
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History, history, history.
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This pathway actually leads
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to the Church of the Ascension.
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I'm told that
this is one of the most
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sacred places in all
of Orthodox Christendom.
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Pilgrims come from as far away
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as Siberia to come here.
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Siberia is, what is
it, 12 time zones away,
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can you imagine
walking, they don't drive,
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they didn't fly, they
walked 12 time zones to come
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and bow down here in
this sacred location.
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The Cathedral of the Ascension,
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part of the
monastery complex is built
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with the
traditional architecture
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of the Orthodox Church.
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One of the earliest
examples of the church
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architecture is the
Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.
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It has a centralized dome
surrounded by four cupules.
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In Eastern Orthodox Churches,
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these are topped
by onion-shaped domes.
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The evolution of the
domes from the original shape,
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as it is seen in
the Hagia Sophia,
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it is said was
because of the need to keep
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snow from
piling up on the domes.
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The onion shape allows the snow
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to slide off
without causing damage.
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I'm told that the communist tore
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this whole place
down sometime ago,
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but about three years ago
they rebuilt this portion.
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It is absolutely beautiful.
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You can see the gold leaf,
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you can see the
frescos, the icons,
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it is truly something to behold.
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Jesus came to the River Jordan
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to be baptized by John,
not because he needed it
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but for an example
for you and for me.
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In this fresco on the
side of the church, how,
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but we see John
sprinkling Jesus,
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not the way because
the Bible said that Jesus
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came up out of the
water signifying the manner
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in which He was baptized.
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Still it's a beautiful painting
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on the side of a
beautiful church.
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It is truly a beautiful church,
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but this is about
the only piece left,
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I understand some of
this is over 900 years old.
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The architecture
of the Orthodox Church
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is an important part of worship.
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Orthodox Churches are designed
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in imitation of heaven.
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The internal lay out
consist of three main parts,
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the Narthex, Nave, and Altar.
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Similar to the
tabernacle with Outer Coat,
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Holy Place, and Most Holy Place.
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Only the clergy are
allowed in the altar room.
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Here is another story of
hope from Adventist World Radio.
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Kalu Ram was a poor field
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laborer near Gujarat in India.
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Finding his work tedious,
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Kalu purchased a small
radio to relieve the boredom.
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One day, he came across a
program talking about Jesus
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it was from
Adventist World Radio.
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After listening for a few days,
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Kalu looked for a pastor
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who could tell
him more about Christ.
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Soon convinced of
the Christian truth,
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Kalu was baptized
and became an outreach
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leader in his hometown
and the surrounding area.
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Witnessing in predominantly
Hindu towns is not always
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safe and Kalu was once attacked
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when approaching
a town to preach.
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However, through
the efforts of Kalu
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and the
volunteers he has trained,
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nearly 1,000 people
have accepted Christ.
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Adventist World Radio
shares the Hope of Christ
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with millions
of people everyday.
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For more
information visit awr.org.
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Through the radio waves of AWR,
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God is reaching
people around the world.
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We'd like you to offer you
an edition of making waves.
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It's four of our episodes
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brought to you
from around the world.
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God speaking to hearts,
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the hearts of the listeners
of AWR, exciting stories.
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We hope that you'll share those
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with friends and
neighbors, acquaintances,
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anyone you come in contact with.
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Join us, to make
waves. It's completely free.
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Right now the
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For your free,
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write to Adventist
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Old Columbia Pike Silver Spring,
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Maryland 20904 or
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Be sure to
request offer number 10.
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That number again
is 1-866-503-3531.
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I'm always
interested in that moment
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that that you're
searching and searching
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and all of a sudden,
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somehow as you hear God's word,
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how you say, that's it.
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How in that moment
did you say it, that's it,
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that's what I've
been searching for?
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foreign language
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Earlier in my life,
when I was reading the Bible,
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I read about
Saturday and I asked myself,
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why are we celebrating Sunday?
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And this question
started to bug me.
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God wrote in the
Bible, talking about Saturday,
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and I wanted to know,
why the Orthodox Church
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was celebrating Sunday.
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This was another reason
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why I started
looking for a new church,
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where they might be talking
about celebrating Saturday.
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foreign language
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I had another
important question.
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I was working with photography,
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I noticed that I
was dealing with idols
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and I know that the
Bible talks about staying away.
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So I felt like I was
doing something wrong.
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So all of a
sudden you find yourself
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in a problem, you're doing this,
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but you're
saying, this is not right,
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what did you do?
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People say Plato is my friend,
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but faith is by
far more valuable.
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I chose faith.
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So, did you quit your job then?
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I left my job
and I left my church.
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So, God was more important
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to you than your job? Yes.
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And what did God do for you
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because you sacrificed
your job, your income.
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Tell me what God
has done for you?
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Because I know God has
done something for you.
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foreign language
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I'm very thankful to God
because everything I left,
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God gave back in return.
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Everything that I
have and own today
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is because of God.
I'm very thankful to God.
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foreign language
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So now you've
become one of those people
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that you read about
in the Gospel of John.
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foreign language
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Yes, I'm a very happy person
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because I have a lot
of brothers and sisters
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who I loved and
who love me in return.
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I can't see my
life without my church.
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This is my home.
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I'm very
comfortable where I am today.
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It's very
realistic and it's my life.
00:24:06.36\00:24:09.90
foreign language
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What would have happened
had you never found AWR?
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foreign language
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I had this period in my life
00:24:19.90\00:24:21.46
where I was
looking for a church.
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And when I realized
that I found a church
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I didn't believe in.
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I told myself that if I
don't find the right one,
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I won't go at all.
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Unless, I find
a church that does
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what the word of God says.
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foreign language
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I'm very thankful to God
00:24:41.33\00:24:42.83
for giving us this invitation
00:24:42.83\00:24:44.86
to this church
through the radio.
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For those that
are listening to us,
00:24:51.70\00:24:53.53
I want you to
open your hearts to God
00:24:53.53\00:24:55.90
and to live the way
He wants us to live.
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To live like Jesus did,
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to follow His commandments
from the first to the last.
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God will bless you and
will make you very happy.
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I'm very thankful.
00:25:09.66\00:25:10.83
foreign language
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The Radio waves watched over
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your heart and
changed your life.
00:25:21.50\00:25:24.00
Do you share Jesus
Christ now with others?
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foreign language
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Of course, this is
the goal of my life.
00:25:30.10\00:25:32.53
I record a lot of preaching
00:25:32.53\00:25:34.10
and I give CDs to my
co-workers as a gift.
00:25:34.10\00:25:37.40
They accept these CDs
and I hand out calendars
00:25:37.40\00:25:40.13
that have the radio station
schedule written on them.
00:25:40.13\00:25:43.23
They accept that as
well. It's amazing to see.
00:25:43.23\00:25:45.86
foreign language
00:25:45.86\00:25:47.90
I'm very thankful to God
00:25:58.83\00:26:00.13
that we have this radio station
00:26:00.13\00:26:02.03
and it's amazing
to see how interesting
00:26:02.03\00:26:03.90
it is while putting
out the word of God.
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Thank God for this.
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Have there been others
that you've been directly
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influential in their baptism?
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foreign language
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Yes, I have a friend
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who attended university with me.
00:26:20.60\00:26:23.33
We were both studying in
the radio physics department.
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We were very close at school.
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I always gave him
literature to read.
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And he ended up getting baptized
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and is now an Adventist.
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So the radio
waves continue on out
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through hearts of other people?
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Of course, that's a must.
00:26:43.73\00:26:45.60
One prolific
writer has said that,
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"the greatest want of
the world is the want of men.
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Men who'll be true and honest,
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men who'll stand for the right,
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though the heavens fall."
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That's the kind of
people we need to be.
00:27:15.03\00:27:17.73
Won't you make it
your determination
00:27:17.73\00:27:19.60
to be that kind of person?
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To make sure that your actions
00:27:21.70\00:27:23.50
and your belief are together.
00:27:23.50\00:27:26.06
You've seen the
results of the work
00:27:26.06\00:27:27.83
of Adventist World
Radio in the life of Vladimir.
00:27:27.83\00:27:31.06
Won't you make it
your goal also to support
00:27:31.06\00:27:34.33
this work of radio ministry?
00:27:34.33\00:27:37.00
You have seen God
is touching hearts
00:27:37.00\00:27:39.16
and lives everywhere in
the world for Jesus Christ.
00:27:39.16\00:27:42.40
If you'd like to partner
with this incredible ministry,
00:27:42.40\00:27:45.03
give us a call, 1-866-503-3531,
00:27:45.03\00:27:50.40
or you can write us at 12501,
00:27:50.40\00:27:52.70
Old Columbia
Pike, Silver Spring,
00:27:52.70\00:27:54.93
Maryland 20904.
00:27:54.93\00:27:57.96
Or you can log on to www.awr.org
00:27:57.96\00:28:03.53
And thank you for watching.
00:28:03.53\00:28:04.73
Please, join us
again for another
00:28:04.73\00:28:06.50
exciting gospel adventure,
00:28:06.50\00:28:07.80
because around the the
world, AWR is making waves.
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