I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello, and
welcome to 3ABN Today.
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My name is CA Murray.
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And thank you
once again for sharing
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just a little of
your day with us.
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We thank you as always
for your love, your prayers,
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your support of Three
Angels Broadcasting Network,
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as together we seek
to lift up the mighty
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and matchless name of Jesus.
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Got a fun program today,
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and I'm really
excited to get into it.
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First of all, I'm
happy because of the subject.
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And I pray that
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if you're watching this program,
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you've already eaten
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because we don't
want your mouth watering
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for the next hour
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as we talk about
some of the things
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that we're gonna discuss today.
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We have Heidi
Tompkins and Ivan Raj,
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you've seen them before,
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they're both of Heidi's Kitchen.
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And I don't know if you
guys have a title or not.
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You're just as Heidi's Kitchen
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but somebody does something
and somebody does something.
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And you've been
together so long,
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we kind of think of
you in the same breath
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but Heidi's
Kitchen is operating in
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and around New York City.
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Yes, Heidi's Health
Kitchen. Heidi's Health Kitchen.
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The health
message is in there. Yes.
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Heidi's Health Kitchen,
and let's get that right.
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I'm so... I'm excited
about the food and desserts.
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I even have my own
little sample of stuff here.
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This is gonna be a
great show, we're gonna eat,
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we're gonna talk,
we're gonna laugh,
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really, really a good time.
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These are really neat people.
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Heidi is from Connecticut
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and Ivan is from a
little bit further away.
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But first I need to find
out how you guys got together,
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and then I want to
walk through this ministry
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and go right to the
video because it says so much.
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So, Heidi,
Connecticut girl? Sure.
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Adventist home? Yes.
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Yup, Adventist
family, Adventist parents,
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grew up in an Adventist home.
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Well, did you
always want to get involved
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in cooking and health?
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Is that always a
kind of a thing for you?
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I did, I did from
a small child even,
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you know, eight years old.
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If you ask me,
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"What do you want to
do when you grow up?"
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My answer was, I wanted to
have vegetarian restaurant.
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Is that so? Yes.
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You had that vision
that early on in life.
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And so when you went to school,
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did you pursue those
kinds of things in school or...
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I didn't. I didn't.
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I mostly just cooked at home,
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which I think
my mom was grateful
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that I helped her with
those responsibilities.
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And really just
developed a love for it then
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and continued to
cook throughout my life.
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So you're kind of
going and learning as you go.
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So it's just... Yeah,
evolving kind of thing, yeah.
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Yes. We're learning
in the kitchen of Christ.
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Well, well said.
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Ivan, from India
obviously. From India, yes.
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What part? From a
city called Chennai.
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I was born and
raised in Chennai.
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Walk us quickly
through your journey
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from India to the United States.
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Sure.
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I was born and raised
in a Christian family,
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a non-Adventist family.
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We were looking for the truth,
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many churches,
many denominations,
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and then we,
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our God lead us
into the Adventist Church
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in 1992 or 1993, on that time.
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And since then
we've been Adventists
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and God actually
called me to come to New York
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about five and half
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or six years ago, approximately.
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And since then
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God has been
leading me in many ways
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and one thing was
to start a business
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and a ministry hybrid model.
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So how did you
two come together?
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So we met in 2013
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when the whole New
York 13 thing was going on.
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I was a full time Bible worker
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and Ivan was a
member of the church
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where the
Revelation of Hope took place.
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And he joined a
class that I took...
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that I offered later
to train church members
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to become Lay Bible workers
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and so Ivan became
a Lay Bible worker.
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And after New York 13 was over,
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we were still
continuing to do Bible work.
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And, you know,
we're praying about a way
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that God's work
would be supported
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because in this
period of prophesy
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it says that in
the large cities,
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this is how the
work will finish up,
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through Bible work and
medical missionary work.
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And so we prayed and asked God
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"how does this
work gets supported?"
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And God impressed us to
start a health food ministry
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and He even gave the
name Heidi's Health Kitchen.
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You say impressed us.
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So by then you had
already have the idea,
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you're gonna be
working together.
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Yes. Yeah.
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We were... Right.
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'Cause we were
doing the same things
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and so we were just asking God,
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you know, how does
this work get supported?
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And so we were
both praying, asking God
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and we felt impressed together
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to start this
Health Food Ministry.
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Wow! Bless your heart.
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And so you
started in 2013-14? Yes.
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So you're still
relatively new. Yes.
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Yeah, yeah, but you
come a long way kind of fast.
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Yes. Praise
God. Praise the Lord.
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If someone were to ask
you, what is you're goal?
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What is you're
the end game for you?
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What are you working towards?
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How would you
answer that question?
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I would say that our goal
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is to reach as many
people in large cities
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as possible
through the restaurant work
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and the health
food ministry work.
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We, you know, we hope,
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we operate a
pop-up restaurant now
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which we'll talk about later.
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But, you know,
we hope to have...
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Well, I'll give you
the vision at the end.
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But we hope to have our
own place, one location,
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where we can do the
manufacturing of carubies,
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where we can have a
small café(C) or restaurant
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and where we can
do the food production
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for some food trucks
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and other
things around the city.
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Bless your heart.
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Now you just threw out a word
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and if, unless
you're familiar with it,
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we have to come
back to it carubies,
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we need to come back to that.
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Let's hold that for now.
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But it's in the air,
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it's the elephant
in the room carubies.
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Because carubies underscores
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a lot of other
things that would...
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Yes. Yeah.
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And then there's another term
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we want to come
back to a little bit,
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pop-up restaurant.
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Because, for a lot of people
I know that's an alien term.
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I want to go to this video now
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because it kind of
gives you a context
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for what they're doing
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and how the Lord is
blessing this ministry,
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then we'll come back
and we'll talk about,
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sort of un package
a lot of this stuff.
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But look at this video.
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This is a very informative
and very inspirational.
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In June of 2014,
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right here in this upper room
is where God impressed upon me
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with name, the logo,
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and the business
and ministry model
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for Heidi's Health Kitchen.
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Heidi's Health
Kitchen was started in 2014
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with one objective,
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to reach souls of Christ
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through delicious
foods for the wise.
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We give cooking classes,
health lectures, Bible studies
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and operate a
restaurant on a pop-up basis.
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And to support all of
this, God has given us carubies.
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Carob truffles,
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that we manufacture in
eight different flavors,
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they're gluten free,
dairy free and delicious.
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You have to try them.
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Every purchase of carubies
supports Heidi's Health Kitchen
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and all of the work
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that we're doing
here in New York city.
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We're having catering
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and also have been
operating as a pop-up restaurant
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since last year right
here in New York City.
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Thank you so much, I thoroughly,
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I was thoroughly surprised
and thoroughly enjoyed it.
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The pop-up
restaurant was very good.
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The ambiance is very nice
and the food was excellent,
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you know, full,
full to the brim.
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And everything was
absolutely delicious.
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We had such a
wonderful experience.
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Heidi's Health Kitchen.
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And it was
absolutely fresh and delicious
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and we would
totally come here again.
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Hi, my name is Sooji,
living in South Korea.
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I'm doing Bible study
with Heidi once a week
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and I'm getting to know God.
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Thanks to her.
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We've been married
together for like ten years now.
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We've, as a couple
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we've been trying to
get a lot of answers.
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I think he had over
about a 100-200 questions.
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Thank you for
explaining each one of them
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and logically explaining
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and appealing to
his logical senses.
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Hello, hi, I am
Sai Kiran Krishna
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from Bangalore, India.
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I was tired of life,
the way things were going,
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there was no change in my life.
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And I even started
Bible studies with me.
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I want to praise
God and thank God
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that He and Heidi
did not give up on me
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even though I
avoided them initially.
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And I was introduced to
Sister Ellen White books.
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I want to say that
I am head over heels
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and love with
Sister Ellen White books.
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I invited Christ into
my life many years ago,
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but He was not alive.
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I used to always
hit a road block,
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I used to always hit a
wall, I used to wonder, why?
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I was doing everything right.
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But why is it not fruitful?
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A friend of mine
introduced me to Ivan.
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Ivan has been counseling
me to the ways of life
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through the Bible,
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I'm also being doing
Bible studies with him.
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Now and I love God to
take control of my life.
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He's leading me
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to a totally
different dimension of life.
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I have been doing Bible
study and counseling with Ivan
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and I must say he
is such a blessing.
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And he came at like
the worst point in my life
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and his
testimony, his Bible study,
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just the conversations we have,
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really have changed my life.
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I met Ivan at the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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at 11th street in New York
and I also met Heidi there.
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She approached me
to do Bible studies
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and we began Bible studies,
I subsequently got baptized.
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I've had a burden for
souls for a very long time.
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I just don't know how to
reach people effectively.
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Then I watched a
sermon with my Pastor Alden Ho
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on livestream and he
was talking about a man
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that was reaching
people across the globe.
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I connected with this man.
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He was Ivan Raj from
Heidi's Health Kitchen.
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Ivan helped and supported me.
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And as a matter of fact
he jumpstarted my ministry
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and together with my horses
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we are reaching
people for Christ.
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Hi, I became an SDA in
2007 and I left the church
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and God led me
back and I'm blessed
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with Bible
studies with Mr. Ivan.
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I'll always be
grateful to 3ABN and 3ABN Radio
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for the blessing
that they have been to me.
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Angela Lomacang
interviewing brother Ivan Raj
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and it's been such a
blessing to be in touch
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with Heidi's Health Kitchen.
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We ask you to pray for
Heidi's Health Kitchen.
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Ask God how He would
have you to support us
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and to be a
part of this mission.
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We appreciate your
prayers and your support.
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May God bless you.
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Amen and amen.
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We got a lot to talk about
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because you got this
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whole other aspect of
this international Bible school
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that you guys are running,
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along with your basic
Heidi's Health Kitchen.
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Okay, so let's start with
Heidi's Health Kitchen first.
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Okay.
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A term we heard
there, pop-up kitchen.
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What is a pop-up kitchen?
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Sure, so pop-up restaurant.
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So Ivan actually had it
researched this whole concept
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before he even
shared it with me.
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And if he probably
told me in the beginning,
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I would have
thought, oh, my goodness,
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"how are we gonna do that?"
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But he really, he found
the place and everything.
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So why don't
you talk about that?
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Definitely.
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The pop-up restaurant,
of course I should mention.
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I did a lot of research.
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I believe God showed it to me
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when I was
searching for something else,
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because I'm always
looking at innovative ways
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to reach people.
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And we actually contacted
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a couple who owned a restaurant,
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who're renting it
on a pop-up basis,
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which is to
operate as a restaurant
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once a month or once a week
or of a different restaurant
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when they are closed.
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That's a... It's an idea.
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So we don't have to
buy any equipment, nothing,
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just pay the rent, of course
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and then spend few
hours in the restaurant
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and operate as a restaurant,
as Heidi's Health Kitchen.
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And this couple
initially were excited
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but they said...
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They came to one of
our pop-up restaurants
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just to see what we
are doing in Manhattan
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because we already have
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started our pop-up
restaurant in Manhattan by then
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and this couple
were from Long Island.
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But they rejected.
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For some reason they said,
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"No I don't think you
guys are good fit for us."
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I was very
disappointed, very discouraged.
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Like, I was asking
God, "what did I do wrong?
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Why this happened?
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Because we really
wanted to have something
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going on in Long
Island as a pop-up restaurant.
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And God spoke to me
in my dream and said,
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"Go and speak to
such and such a owner
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and tell them about
your pop-up restaurant."
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And that venue, it's...
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We over out of place called
a Jack Jack's coffee House,
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it's in Babylon, Long Island.
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And that's our
Long Island location.
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Long Island location.
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So I just went and said,
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"Hey, we are
Seventh-day Adventists,
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we promote
health messages. "Oh!"
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And then the
couple got very excited.
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This is another couple.
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They got very excited
and they owned that café(C)
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or the coffee
house and they said
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"We love what
you guys are doing.
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As long as you
don't have stand up comedy
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with filthy language
and no liquor, you're good."
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We said, "Absolutely."
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That's easy
stuff. Yeah, that's easy.
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And I ask my
question, Ivan and Heidi.
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A pop-up restaurant,
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okay, one day you go
and the restaurant's open.
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How does your clientele
know, when, where, how,
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how do you get people?
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Most of that is
done on social media
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and Ivan handles all that.
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We do advertising
through Google and Facebook
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and other social media,
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you know, opportunities
and it's on our website.
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People actually
book their seating
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in advance on our website.
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So they see all the
dates, so they see the choices,
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they choose their menu
and they book their seating
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on our website.
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And so for us it's
really, it really helps us
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to manage our
time, our resources,
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our limited space
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and our
ingredients and all of that.
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It's really a blessing.
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Yeah, and cool, I just...
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The idea of a pop-up restaurant
totally blows my mind.
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I just, who
thought, who would think?
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Of course it's a testament
to the power of social media.
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But the fact...
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and also a
testament to the fact that
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if you make a
product that people like,
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people will
follow you to go get it,
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you know, that kind of thing.
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So a pop-up
restaurant, then who knew?
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You know that?
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So they close as their
entity and we, you know,
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change the
environment a little bit
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and we open up for dinner
as Heidi's Health Kitchen.
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We actually have a
picture of our pop-up restaurant
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with all the people
seated and, you know, picture...
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Oh, that's one
of... So that's it?
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Yup, that's it,
that's our Babylon location.
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That's a
fairly... I mean, it's full.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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That is outrageous.
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And so one of
the things that we do
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to bring people
into God's presence,
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you know, who are living in
a world of sin and darkness,
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we play, either
instrumental music,
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we've played
Jill's piano CD before.
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We've played "Moments of Peace"
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and so people are
hearing heavenly music.
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There are health
tracks on the table.
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There's
information and literature
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available for them.
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We encourage them
to take it with them.
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We give them the
amazing health facts...
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Amazing Facts Health
magazine, when they leave
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and we just love them
as much as we possibly can.
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So your clientele is already...
You know who's coming.
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You know when they are coming.
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All that's done
by the time you open.
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You know what you got. Yes.
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We generally try to
accommodate up to ten walk-in's
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because of course
we want to do that
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and we feed our staff.
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And so we know exactly
how much we have to prepare,
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what we have to bring
and it works very smoothly.
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Now do you come back to
the same place periodically
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or do you really
pop around a little bit?
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Well, we've got that
one location in Long Island.
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We have a location that
we're using in Manhattan.
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We're looking for a
Brooklyn and a Queen's,
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pop-up
locations, so that we'll be
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in all five burrows.
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Now how often do
you pop-up in Babylon?
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Both locations is once a month.
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Once a month? Currently.
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And, you know, if we,
if we were just doing that,
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of course we could do
it more than once a month.
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But we're both Bible
workers and, you know,
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we have food production,
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we've so many things going on
as we mentioned to talk about.
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That, currently
it's once a month.
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Now I must admit,
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I did not know
about this concept at all.
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This is something that possibly
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can be
replicated in other areas.
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The idea of a pop-up
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and the fact that you can pre...
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I don't know what
to say preordained
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but predestined your clientele.
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You know who's coming,
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because they have
already signed up.
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You know what you've got.
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So when you go in and set up,
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you know what you're
gonna get that night.
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Correct. That's
really, really cool.
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So it's not left
to chance. Correct.
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And if extra people
come, well praise the Lord.
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Yes. Yeah.
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Yeah, that's, that's fabulous.
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In addition to that
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social media and all
those advertisements,
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we also sample our
foods outside the venue.
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Correct.
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A couple of
times, so people see us,
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people try our foods as well.
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So we put a lot of hard work
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in promoting
what we have to offer.
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And that Babylon location
has been such a blessing.
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I just have to say,
it was really a blessing
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when God closed the door
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for the other
Long Island location,
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because it was
all the way out east,
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an hour and a half
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from where we rent
a commercial kitchen,
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you know, near Babylon.
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And of course we're
already going an hour and a half
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into the city
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and then to be
going an hour and a half
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the other direction
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and God gave us
place right in Babylon.
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It was really an
answer to a prayer.
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It's actually a two
minutes drive from our house.
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Praise the Lord.
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So some people are coming out
of Babylon and God sent you...
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God sent you into
Babylon. Praise the Lord.
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And Babylon as I know
South Shore of Long Island,
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it's not a big,
big town. It's not.
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Yeah, it's a sea side of
town. It's a quaint town.
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It's a quaint
type of little village.
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There's a whole bunch of them
along the South Shore there.
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But people like good
food and they look for it.
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And when they know
where to go to get it...
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Particular in New
York, they will go,
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they will travel to get it.
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Exactly,
exactly. Yeah. Excellent.
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We've got a church in Babylon.
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Yes, we do. Now
you're, so you're...
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The place where you
do your cooking is in
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that Suffolk County?
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Yes.
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Yes, we rent a
commercial kitchen in Amityville
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for all our food production
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and then we mentioned that
we do cooking classes as well.
00:20:47.51\00:20:52.38
So right now we've got a few
different locations going on.
00:20:52.41\00:20:56.32
We've got the
commercial commit kitchen
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that we rent in Amityville
for our food production.
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We also once a month
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on the second
Sunday of the month
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give a free
cooking demonstration
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at the Crossroads
Adventist church in Manhattan,
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on West 45th
street in Times Square.
00:21:07.70\00:21:09.46
Oh, yes.
00:21:09.50\00:21:10.83
And then two blocks away
from that on 47th street,
00:21:10.87\00:21:14.44
we rent a Gourmet
commercial kitchen
00:21:14.47\00:21:16.47
for our
hands-on cooking program,
00:21:16.50\00:21:19.17
which is a three hour class,
it's called "Cook with US."
00:21:19.21\00:21:22.24
So if you know anybody
who lives in Manhattan,
00:21:22.28\00:21:24.35
who would like
to learn how to cook
00:21:24.38\00:21:26.35
and join a
hands-on cooking class,
00:21:26.38\00:21:28.85
we cook an
entire five course meal
00:21:28.88\00:21:31.22
with our students
00:21:31.25\00:21:32.59
and they get to home
everything they make.
00:21:32.62\00:21:34.59
It's called "Cook with US."
00:21:34.62\00:21:36.42
We have all the
equipment for them.
00:21:36.46\00:21:37.79
We give them
Heidi's Health Kitchen apron
00:21:37.83\00:21:39.89
and they cook an entire meal.
00:21:39.93\00:21:42.93
Unreal. You guys
are all over the place.
00:21:42.96\00:21:45.50
And you're
fulltime Bible workers.
00:21:45.53\00:21:46.87
Yes.
00:21:46.90\00:21:48.24
And that's why we are
looking for that one location
00:21:48.27\00:21:50.64
that we'd be able to
do everything out of,
00:21:50.67\00:21:52.94
because right now we are...
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Popping up.
00:21:54.34\00:21:55.68
You know, we're
trying to do the best we can
00:21:55.71\00:21:57.05
with what God has given us
00:21:57.08\00:21:58.51
but it's, it's right now
in many different locations.
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Yeah.
00:22:01.02\00:22:02.35
And a one hour a day
that you do get some sleep,
00:22:02.38\00:22:03.72
I hope you sleep well. Yes.
00:22:03.75\00:22:06.25
Because and then
you're carrying a full load
00:22:06.29\00:22:07.96
as Bible
instructors for the conference.
00:22:07.99\00:22:11.46
Let's talk about
your signature recipe
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and the thing that sort
of undergoes all of that.
00:22:15.66\00:22:17.20
Sure. Yes. It's carubies.
00:22:17.23\00:22:18.80
That's made in your,
your Long Island kitchen?
00:22:18.83\00:22:20.94
In the commercial
kitchen in Long Island.
00:22:20.97\00:22:22.30
In Long Island. Yes.
00:22:22.34\00:22:23.67
Okay, I passed in the
Amityville, so I know,
00:22:23.71\00:22:25.04
I know that town pretty well.
00:22:25.07\00:22:27.28
Another seaside
community, ocean side community,
00:22:27.31\00:22:30.61
really, yeah, yeah.
00:22:30.65\00:22:33.15
What is Carubies?
What are Carubies?
00:22:33.18\00:22:35.45
What is a Carubie?
How did it get started?
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And I know they come in eight.
00:22:37.85\00:22:40.02
And these are
Carubies here? Yes.
00:22:40.06\00:22:41.86
Yes and you got to try some.
00:22:41.89\00:22:43.22
Okay, so I'm gonna,
I'm gonna hold the Carubie
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close to me as we talk about,
as we talk about Carubies.
00:22:44.63\00:22:47.43
So Carubies are Carob truffles
00:22:47.46\00:22:49.56
and we make them in
eight different flavors
00:22:49.60\00:22:51.97
and they are all
different and unique.
00:22:52.00\00:22:53.77
Each flavor is different
shape and God gave us Carubies
00:22:53.80\00:22:57.51
in the very
beginning when we started
00:22:57.54\00:22:59.24
Heidi's Health Kitchen
as a health food ministry.
00:22:59.27\00:23:01.98
And really from the beginning,
we were entirely supported
00:23:02.01\00:23:05.61
on the sale of Carubies.
00:23:05.65\00:23:07.22
We actually are not
employed by the conference
00:23:07.25\00:23:09.18
since New York 13.
00:23:09.22\00:23:11.29
At the end of New York
13, the conference said,
00:23:11.32\00:23:13.32
"You know, we
appreciate all your help
00:23:13.36\00:23:14.92
but we no longer have a
budget for Bible workers."
00:23:14.96\00:23:17.39
And so, so that's
why we were asking God,
00:23:17.43\00:23:19.73
how does this
work get supported?
00:23:19.76\00:23:21.66
And so God gave us Carubies.
00:23:21.70\00:23:23.37
It started with one flavor
00:23:23.40\00:23:25.77
that was inspired
by a friend of mine.
00:23:25.80\00:23:29.50
And so I prayed and I asked
God to give me more recipes
00:23:29.54\00:23:36.41
and He did.
00:23:36.44\00:23:37.78
I'd wake up in
the morning and say,
00:23:37.81\00:23:39.41
"Okay, this is our next flavor,
this is our next flavor."
00:23:39.45\00:23:42.45
And by God's grace
it's really a miracle.
00:23:42.48\00:23:45.35
Every single time,
it just took one try,
00:23:45.39\00:23:48.52
there was no experimenting.
00:23:48.56\00:23:49.89
So you kind of the right brain
00:23:49.92\00:23:51.39
and Ivan is kind
of the left brain.
00:23:51.43\00:23:53.23
Exactly. Now the situation...
00:23:53.26\00:23:57.07
You're the artist
and he is the kind of...
00:23:57.10\00:24:00.97
He's the visionary and,
and managing the business side
00:24:01.00\00:24:04.67
and that advertising
and marketing and all that.
00:24:04.71\00:24:06.04
Why you need that?
00:24:06.07\00:24:07.41
Because as a rule, most,
00:24:07.44\00:24:08.78
most artist
people aren't really down
00:24:08.81\00:24:10.31
with the whole business
crunching number kind of thing.
00:24:10.35\00:24:13.05
I'm creating, you take
care of the other kind of stuff.
00:24:13.08\00:24:15.82
Having said that,
all this Bible work
00:24:15.85\00:24:18.99
that you're doing is on
your dime, that's not...
00:24:19.02\00:24:21.02
Yeah. Well, praise the Lord.
00:24:21.06\00:24:23.36
Walk me through how this
international thing got started
00:24:23.39\00:24:26.59
because you got Bible students
all over creation, you know,
00:24:26.63\00:24:29.93
that's a really a
great, great thing
00:24:29.96\00:24:31.83
and I'm trying to hold
off here and I will for...
00:24:31.87\00:24:35.24
I'll put this down for
a while and I'll be good.
00:24:35.27\00:24:36.97
Tell me about...
00:24:37.01\00:24:38.97
Tell me about the
International Bible School
00:24:39.01\00:24:41.04
that you've started.
00:24:41.08\00:24:42.41
Well, Ivan
share more about that,
00:24:42.44\00:24:43.78
but it really started...
00:24:43.81\00:24:45.15
I noticed that
he was communicating
00:24:45.18\00:24:46.68
with these people
all around the world.
00:24:46.72\00:24:48.12
Now it's like "how are
you finding these people?"
00:24:48.15\00:24:50.29
And so on Facebook
00:24:50.32\00:24:51.65
and some other
social media platforms,
00:24:51.69\00:24:53.32
he goes into these chat
rooms and he looks for people
00:24:53.36\00:24:56.19
who are, may be mentioning
something about Christ
00:24:56.22\00:24:58.66
or Christianity, who...
00:24:58.69\00:25:00.66
because he's from that culture
and that part of the world,
00:25:00.70\00:25:03.26
he can tell by their name,
kind of where there're from,
00:25:03.30\00:25:06.17
may be if they are
from a Hindu background
00:25:06.20\00:25:08.20
or a Muslim background
00:25:08.24\00:25:10.07
and he looks for ways
to connect with people,
00:25:10.11\00:25:11.84
it's really amazing.
00:25:11.87\00:25:13.21
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, so the first...
00:25:13.24\00:25:16.91
This is how it all began.
00:25:16.95\00:25:19.38
I was very upset when
I watched a YouTube video
00:25:19.41\00:25:22.32
where a Christian lady
went to a Muslim lecture
00:25:22.35\00:25:27.82
and she rejected Christ divinity
00:25:27.86\00:25:31.19
and she embraced Islam.
00:25:31.23\00:25:33.06
Islam, yeah.
00:25:33.09\00:25:34.43
I was very hurt,
I cried on that day.
00:25:34.46\00:25:36.23
How can you do this?
00:25:36.26\00:25:37.60
How can you
reject Christ divinity?
00:25:37.63\00:25:40.37
So I asked God,
00:25:40.40\00:25:41.74
I want ways to reach out people.
00:25:41.77\00:25:43.41
Train me, so I can teach
people to prove to the world
00:25:43.44\00:25:48.64
that you are indeed
God, from the word of God.
00:25:48.68\00:25:51.55
So God actually
pointed me to different people,
00:25:51.58\00:25:54.12
different resources, so
I started putting together
00:25:54.15\00:25:56.32
some Bible studies.
00:25:56.35\00:25:58.39
And then I came
across this young girl named
00:25:58.42\00:26:02.46
Sai Kiran Krishna
on a Facebook page
00:26:02.49\00:26:06.06
where she posted Praise the Lord
00:26:06.09\00:26:07.76
with a Hindu name.
00:26:07.80\00:26:09.13
So I contacted her.
00:26:09.16\00:26:10.50
I asked her, "Are you
Hindu or a Christian?"
00:26:10.53\00:26:11.87
She said, "I am a Christian."
00:26:11.90\00:26:13.27
I was so excited because
00:26:13.30\00:26:15.44
that's great to see a
Hindu person praising Jesus.
00:26:15.47\00:26:19.14
So I contacted her and
then we connected after...
00:26:19.17\00:26:21.84
But she initially
avoided because by the time
00:26:21.88\00:26:23.61
she was attending some
church and the pastors told her
00:26:23.65\00:26:27.75
that Adventists are
cult, they worship Ellen,
00:26:27.78\00:26:30.12
and all those things.
00:26:30.15\00:26:31.49
So she actually avoided me.
00:26:31.52\00:26:33.86
I also introduced her to
Heidi, she avoided Heidi also.
00:26:33.89\00:26:36.42
But she had a lot of questions
00:26:36.46\00:26:38.39
and then I introduced her
00:26:38.43\00:26:39.76
to pastor Doug
Batchelor sermons,
00:26:39.79\00:26:41.46
pastor Ivor Myers sermons,
00:26:41.50\00:26:42.86
she learnt a lot, she
was seeking the truth.
00:26:42.90\00:26:46.94
When she found answers
through the Adventist pastors
00:26:46.97\00:26:50.31
and their sermons,
she began to open up to us
00:26:50.34\00:26:54.74
and she agreed
to do Bible studies.
00:26:54.78\00:26:57.11
Now she comes from a
very devout Hindu family.
00:26:57.15\00:27:00.05
I have two pictures of her.
00:27:00.08\00:27:03.55
She was actually
raised in a school.
00:27:03.59\00:27:06.86
This is a God man.
00:27:06.89\00:27:08.36
People still
worship him in India.
00:27:08.39\00:27:10.49
This one in the front.
Yeah, with orange shirt.
00:27:10.53\00:27:13.60
So this is from a school
and the girl is highlighted,
00:27:13.63\00:27:16.93
so she used to admire him.
00:27:16.97\00:27:18.60
Oh, that's her to the
right... To the right, yes.
00:27:18.63\00:27:21.37
She and her entire
family, they admire him.
00:27:21.40\00:27:23.10
They worship him.
So he is their God.
00:27:23.14\00:27:25.27
Okay. Okay.
00:27:25.31\00:27:27.14
She comes from that background.
00:27:27.18\00:27:28.51
There's also one
more picture of her,
00:27:28.54\00:27:30.91
you know, just smiling.
00:27:30.95\00:27:34.18
And in fact this God man
named her after his own name.
00:27:34.22\00:27:40.02
He named her personally.
Your name is Sai Kiran Krishna.
00:27:40.06\00:27:44.93
His name is Sai Baba.
00:27:44.96\00:27:46.56
So that, that kind of devotion
00:27:46.59\00:27:48.93
she and her family
showed once upon a time.
00:27:48.96\00:27:51.83
But she and her family
did not have peace of mind.
00:27:51.87\00:27:55.27
She was the very
aggressive, rude girl.
00:27:55.30\00:27:59.37
Now when she
became a Christian...
00:27:59.41\00:28:01.58
That type of personality.
This is getting good.
00:28:01.61\00:28:03.65
Yeah, when she
became a Christian,
00:28:03.68\00:28:06.48
she was taught
that you get baptized,
00:28:06.51\00:28:09.38
you're saved, that's it.
00:28:09.42\00:28:11.65
So that's it.
00:28:11.69\00:28:13.02
So she got baptized
00:28:13.05\00:28:14.39
and after then she got baptized,
00:28:14.42\00:28:15.79
she started
drinking, clubbing, partying,
00:28:15.82\00:28:18.93
staying out late at nights.
00:28:18.96\00:28:20.63
And the parents said,
00:28:20.66\00:28:22.56
"What kind of a
God is your Jesus?
00:28:22.60\00:28:25.73
Look how you've become.
00:28:25.77\00:28:27.10
Look what kind of a
character you're displaying."
00:28:27.14\00:28:29.27
And that's sort of the doctrine
leads to, because I'm in,
00:28:29.30\00:28:31.57
so I can do anything I want.
00:28:31.61\00:28:32.94
That once saved
is precise saved.
00:28:32.97\00:28:34.31
And the people in
their Sunday church
00:28:34.34\00:28:35.68
were doing all these
things and she thought
00:28:35.71\00:28:37.05
well, I could just do
it right along with them
00:28:37.08\00:28:39.21
and it just brought
such turmoil to the home.
00:28:39.25\00:28:41.38
Yeah.
00:28:41.42\00:28:42.75
I mean the
parents got so frustrated
00:28:42.78\00:28:44.32
that her mom said,
00:28:44.35\00:28:45.89
"It is good that
Jesus got crucified.
00:28:45.92\00:28:48.79
He deserves to be crucified."
00:28:48.82\00:28:50.33
Wow. Wow.
00:28:50.36\00:28:51.86
So they were very angry
00:28:51.89\00:28:53.83
and there was a lot
of issues in the family,
00:28:53.86\00:28:56.06
a lot of issues
with their friend.
00:28:56.10\00:28:57.87
And that's when God
connected us with her
00:28:57.90\00:29:00.84
and I to be honest with you,
00:29:00.87\00:29:03.07
I wanted to give
up on her many times.
00:29:03.10\00:29:05.44
I said I can't do this,
00:29:05.47\00:29:06.81
I can't deal with
such a rude person,
00:29:06.84\00:29:09.44
I can't deal,
but God said, "No."
00:29:09.48\00:29:12.21
God impressed me, of course.
00:29:12.25\00:29:13.58
No, press, press
forward, press forward.
00:29:13.62\00:29:15.25
This is a long
distance kind of communication.
00:29:15.28\00:29:17.82
We've never met her till
now. We've never met her.
00:29:17.85\00:29:19.35
We've never met her till now.
00:29:19.39\00:29:20.72
So because God
impressed I had to,
00:29:20.76\00:29:23.79
as we say die do
self and do it for God
00:29:23.83\00:29:27.23
and her life transformed.
00:29:27.26\00:29:30.33
She called up every
single friend whom she hurt
00:29:30.37\00:29:32.63
and said "I'm
sorry, I apologize."
00:29:32.67\00:29:34.77
So when her character
changed into a soft person,
00:29:34.80\00:29:38.47
forgiving and
cheerful and happy person.
00:29:38.51\00:29:41.01
Her friends started asking
her, "How did you become this?
00:29:41.04\00:29:44.21
What happened?"
00:29:44.25\00:29:45.58
And she said,
"No, I'm going through
00:29:45.61\00:29:46.95
Bible studies over the phone."
00:29:46.98\00:29:48.32
So they said, "Oh, we also
want to have a better life,
00:29:48.35\00:29:50.59
we also want to be happy."
00:29:50.62\00:29:52.05
So she connected us
with more than 50 individuals
00:29:52.09\00:29:54.69
for Bible
studies, from one girl.
00:29:54.72\00:29:56.06
How cool is that? Praise God.
00:29:56.09\00:29:57.43
So we call Kiran
our Evangelist in India.
00:29:57.46\00:30:00.96
See actually...
It's an amazing story.
00:30:01.00\00:30:02.56
We won't take too much time.
00:30:02.60\00:30:03.93
But she actually...
00:30:03.97\00:30:05.30
She was a banker
and she left the bank.
00:30:05.33\00:30:07.67
She left... She was, I
think a branch manager.
00:30:07.70\00:30:10.04
She left the banking industry
00:30:10.07\00:30:12.97
to work fulltime for
the Lord, for the Sabbath.
00:30:13.01\00:30:15.04
What? Praise the Lord.
00:30:15.08\00:30:16.78
And so she's very artistic,
00:30:16.81\00:30:18.41
she makes greeting
cards and she uses quotes
00:30:18.45\00:30:21.15
from The Spirit of
Prophesy and from the Bible.
00:30:21.18\00:30:23.28
She stands on the street, CA,
00:30:23.32\00:30:24.89
and she sells these cards
00:30:24.92\00:30:27.06
and she leads people to Christ.
00:30:27.09\00:30:29.29
My soul. That is
amazing. That is amazing.
00:30:29.32\00:30:33.93
She introduces us to
all kinds of people who are,
00:30:33.96\00:30:36.80
you know, wanting prayer
00:30:36.83\00:30:38.17
or who are
willing to have prayer
00:30:38.20\00:30:40.74
and wanting Bible studies.
00:30:40.77\00:30:42.10
Now this is not the one,
the lady we saw on the video.
00:30:42.14\00:30:44.01
Same lady. Is that the same one?
00:30:44.04\00:30:45.87
Well, she doesn't seem
mean or aggressive at all.
00:30:45.91\00:30:47.84
At all, right? Yeah.
00:30:47.88\00:30:49.21
So what a total
transformation? Yeah.
00:30:49.24\00:30:51.21
And that must make
you feel so feel good.
00:30:51.25\00:30:53.52
Because two things happen,
when you work for others,
00:30:53.55\00:30:55.18
you're also
working for yourself.
00:30:55.22\00:30:56.65
And as others grow, it
does something for you.
00:30:56.69\00:30:59.75
So to have this
00:30:59.79\00:31:01.69
and I'll use this
term advisory trophy
00:31:01.72\00:31:04.36
so early in your ministry,
must really have spurred
00:31:04.39\00:31:07.66
your believe that
God is in this thing
00:31:07.70\00:31:09.50
and let's go on with it.
00:31:09.53\00:31:10.87
And you brings out that, yeah.
00:31:10.90\00:31:12.23
It's still a blessing because
we have now a whole small group
00:31:12.27\00:31:13.94
going in Bangalore, in India.
00:31:13.97\00:31:16.14
And there, it's going to be
00:31:16.17\00:31:17.51
starting a new
church, pretty much.
00:31:17.54\00:31:18.87
Wow! Praise the Lord.
00:31:18.91\00:31:20.24
So we have connected her
00:31:20.28\00:31:21.61
with the local
Adventist pastor in Bangalore.
00:31:21.64\00:31:23.95
And of course
she's now a baptized
00:31:23.98\00:31:25.38
Seventh-day Adventist Christian.
00:31:25.41\00:31:27.28
She introduced us to
many people as I mentioned.
00:31:27.32\00:31:30.69
I just want to share
two testimonies more.
00:31:30.72\00:31:33.42
One was, she
introduced us to a Muslim girl
00:31:33.46\00:31:37.09
from the Middle East
but she lives in India.
00:31:37.13\00:31:40.90
And she was looking for Christ
00:31:40.93\00:31:43.26
because Christ came in her dream
00:31:43.30\00:31:45.70
and she was
looking for the truth
00:31:45.73\00:31:47.37
to learn more about Him.
00:31:47.40\00:31:49.07
So we started offering her
Bible studies over the phone
00:31:49.10\00:31:52.24
and she had a problem
before she got baptized.
00:31:52.27\00:31:55.14
The problem was,
00:31:55.18\00:31:57.21
"I left Islam
00:31:57.25\00:31:59.01
because I didn't like
the teachings of the prophet,
00:31:59.05\00:32:02.05
it's the prophet.
00:32:02.08\00:32:03.42
You are saying,
you have a prophet too
00:32:03.45\00:32:05.49
and that too a woman.
00:32:05.52\00:32:07.26
I never heard of a
woman prophet before."
00:32:07.29\00:32:09.76
Woman prophet. Yes, yes.
00:32:09.79\00:32:11.29
So she asked me,
00:32:11.33\00:32:12.69
"How can you differentiate
00:32:12.73\00:32:14.06
between the Islamic
Prophet and Ellen White?"
00:32:14.10\00:32:17.53
So I did a
study on that research
00:32:17.57\00:32:19.67
and differentiated and showed,
00:32:19.70\00:32:21.07
this is what the
Islam Prophet says,
00:32:21.10\00:32:22.64
Prophet of Islam says,
00:32:22.67\00:32:24.01
this is what God's
last day Prophet says.
00:32:24.04\00:32:26.91
And one thing she liked was,
00:32:26.94\00:32:30.28
we don't follow Ellen
White, we follow Christ.
00:32:30.31\00:32:32.11
Precisely.
00:32:32.15\00:32:33.48
But, and Ellen
White has never claimed
00:32:33.52\00:32:35.32
to be the perfect woman or
the perfect example at all.
00:32:35.35\00:32:38.55
But, and the Prophet
of Islam has claimed that.
00:32:38.59\00:32:41.46
So that she liked
00:32:41.49\00:32:42.82
and then she also
did her own research
00:32:42.86\00:32:44.69
and then she is now a
baptized Seventh-day Adventist.
00:32:44.73\00:32:47.53
Amen. Amen. How exciting.
00:32:47.56\00:32:50.37
So you've got this
International Bible School
00:32:50.40\00:32:52.93
that's going on.
00:32:52.97\00:32:55.04
Ballpark, how many
students in how many countries?
00:32:55.07\00:32:57.54
Oh, probably about
eight countries approximately,
00:32:57.57\00:33:01.48
eight countries.
00:33:01.51\00:33:02.98
And how many students?
00:33:03.01\00:33:04.35
Probably about,
00:33:04.38\00:33:05.71
right now we have
about 12 to 13 people,
00:33:05.75\00:33:07.48
we talk over the phone.
00:33:07.52\00:33:09.38
In fact, right now we
have a new Bible student.
00:33:09.42\00:33:12.99
She is not allowed to...
00:33:13.02\00:33:14.36
Her husband does not allow
her to do any Bible studies
00:33:14.39\00:33:16.12
because he's a Hindu,
she's a very new Christian,
00:33:16.16\00:33:18.19
like just one
year old Christian.
00:33:18.23\00:33:19.89
And I speak to her on the phone
and she doesn't respond to me,
00:33:19.93\00:33:24.10
she just types her response.
00:33:24.13\00:33:25.97
So it's that secretive but
she is doing Bible studies.
00:33:26.00\00:33:28.84
Okay, wow.
00:33:28.87\00:33:30.21
How do you now
allocate your time,
00:33:30.24\00:33:33.41
you've got active
Bible studies in the States,
00:33:33.44\00:33:36.01
you've got Bible
studies international,
00:33:36.04\00:33:37.65
you've got pop-up kitchens,
00:33:37.68\00:33:39.81
you've got two kitchens
that you are cooking stuff in.
00:33:39.85\00:33:43.08
Yeah.
00:33:43.12\00:33:44.55
You're at 3ABN now
00:33:44.59\00:33:46.49
and doing 3ABN
camp meeting in 2017
00:33:46.52\00:33:50.89
as far as cooking,
00:33:50.93\00:33:52.29
you're kind of strung
out all over the place.
00:33:52.33\00:33:54.53
How has God given
you the word of thought
00:33:54.56\00:33:56.56
to do all this things
and obviously do them.
00:33:56.60\00:33:58.47
Well, there's joy and
you're also having fun
00:33:58.50\00:34:00.70
doing the work of the Lord.
00:34:00.74\00:34:02.07
But walk me through how you,
00:34:02.10\00:34:03.44
how are you
organizing all this stuff?
00:34:03.47\00:34:04.94
So our kitchen time
is early in the mornings,
00:34:04.97\00:34:07.08
6 am to 10 am,
00:34:07.11\00:34:08.54
is our commercial kitchen time,
00:34:08.58\00:34:09.98
where we manufacture
our Carubies and our foods.
00:34:10.01\00:34:13.48
And because of
the time difference,
00:34:13.52\00:34:15.85
you know, in some of
these international countries,
00:34:15.88\00:34:18.22
Ivan's often on the
phone in the evening,
00:34:18.25\00:34:21.46
sometimes if we don't
have kitchen work that day,
00:34:21.49\00:34:24.66
we'll wake up
early in the morning.
00:34:24.69\00:34:26.23
So we kind of have to work
00:34:26.26\00:34:27.60
with the time
differences as well.
00:34:27.63\00:34:29.20
And, and then office
work is kind of done,
00:34:29.23\00:34:32.87
like in the middle of the day.
00:34:32.90\00:34:35.27
Unusually probably to business,
00:34:35.30\00:34:36.87
we generally take Monday's off
00:34:36.91\00:34:38.61
because we have events
every Sunday, we're booked.
00:34:38.64\00:34:40.84
I'm sure, yeah.
00:34:40.88\00:34:42.21
Every Sunday for
quite a distance out.
00:34:42.24\00:34:45.41
And so by God's grace
we're able to manage it.
00:34:45.45\00:34:50.79
You...
00:34:50.82\00:34:52.32
How are your, your Carubies,
00:34:52.35\00:34:54.26
how are these sold, online?
00:34:54.29\00:34:56.66
Obviously. Yes.
00:34:56.69\00:34:58.09
Is there any other way
that they are marketed?
00:34:58.13\00:34:59.83
So we sell them
online on our website.
00:34:59.86\00:35:02.16
They are sold
also on the website
00:35:02.20\00:35:04.47
for Amazing Health
and Amazing Discoveries.
00:35:04.50\00:35:07.14
And so they're available
in the US and Canada there.
00:35:07.17\00:35:09.57
And we also have
some local vendors
00:35:09.60\00:35:12.77
who sell them by the piece.
00:35:12.81\00:35:15.28
Some little cafes and
bakeries and restaurants,
00:35:15.31\00:35:18.15
they sell them by the piece.
00:35:18.18\00:35:20.22
We had a...
00:35:20.25\00:35:21.75
There's a pizza place in
Little Italy and Manhattan.
00:35:21.78\00:35:25.49
And we also make
vegan ice creams.
00:35:25.52\00:35:27.96
So for example,
00:35:27.99\00:35:29.32
we make a pistachio carubie
and a pistachio ice cream.
00:35:29.36\00:35:32.96
So they would plate
the pistachio ice cream
00:35:32.99\00:35:35.10
with the
pistachio carubies around it
00:35:35.13\00:35:36.60
and serve that as one
of the dessert options
00:35:36.63\00:35:38.77
in their restaurant.
00:35:38.80\00:35:40.14
Excellent, excellent, excellent.
00:35:40.17\00:35:41.50
And so, we're
actually working with a company
00:35:41.54\00:35:43.64
that does a lot
of the food packaging
00:35:43.67\00:35:45.27
for a lot of Adventist foods
00:35:45.31\00:35:47.08
to actually repackage Carubies,
00:35:47.11\00:35:49.24
so that they
will be more friendly
00:35:49.28\00:35:52.61
for wholesaling to retailers.
00:35:52.65\00:35:55.02
And once we have
all the funds together
00:35:55.05\00:35:57.69
to get that taken care of,
00:35:57.72\00:35:59.35
then we'll be in stores as well.
00:35:59.39\00:36:01.12
Have you ever
thought of pitching
00:36:01.16\00:36:02.49
like to a whole
foods or a, or a...
00:36:02.52\00:36:04.26
Yeah. We have, we have.
00:36:04.29\00:36:06.06
We really need the
upgrade of the packaging
00:36:06.09\00:36:08.60
first to be able to do so,
00:36:08.63\00:36:10.20
because, you know,
everyone loves the boxes.
00:36:10.23\00:36:12.53
It's pretty,
it's gifty, it's nice
00:36:12.57\00:36:13.94
but if you don't
know what a carubie is,
00:36:13.97\00:36:15.97
you don't know what's inside.
00:36:16.00\00:36:17.44
And it also says, carob truffle
00:36:17.47\00:36:19.84
but some people don't
even know what carob is.
00:36:19.87\00:36:21.41
See, now that's
where I'm going with this.
00:36:21.44\00:36:23.78
Walk me through the advantages
of carob over chocolate.
00:36:23.81\00:36:28.45
Sure.
00:36:28.48\00:36:29.82
So the dangers of
chocolate are that they contain
00:36:29.85\00:36:32.05
caffeine and theobromine,
00:36:32.09\00:36:34.09
which both are highly irritative
00:36:34.12\00:36:38.59
to our digestive system
00:36:38.63\00:36:39.96
as well as to our nervous system
00:36:40.00\00:36:41.66
and our brain.
00:36:41.70\00:36:43.03
And you might not think
that chocolate is affecting you
00:36:43.06\00:36:46.50
but you might have headaches
some times and wonder why.
00:36:46.53\00:36:49.57
You might have digestive
disturbances and wonder why.
00:36:49.60\00:36:52.84
Chocolate can be the
source of those things.
00:36:52.87\00:36:55.31
Were as, on the
other hand, oppositely,
00:36:55.34\00:36:57.71
Carob is
excellent for digestion,
00:36:57.75\00:37:00.22
it's been proven in studies,
it's excellent for digestion.
00:37:00.25\00:37:03.39
It actually helps to
balance blood sugar as well.
00:37:03.42\00:37:06.49
So our products
are safe for diabetics.
00:37:06.52\00:37:08.29
I did not know that.
00:37:08.32\00:37:09.66
Yeah and so there's such
a host of health benefits
00:37:09.69\00:37:12.46
that come with carob.
00:37:12.49\00:37:14.00
Of course people say, well,
chocolate has anti oxidants
00:37:14.03\00:37:16.67
but carob has a whole host
load of minerals and vitamins
00:37:16.70\00:37:20.94
that our bodies
need just as well.
00:37:20.97\00:37:25.21
The classic rub
against carob has always been,
00:37:25.24\00:37:28.94
it has this bitter taste
that you can not get rid of.
00:37:28.98\00:37:31.21
Yeah. Yeah.
00:37:31.25\00:37:32.58
You have overcome that.
00:37:32.61\00:37:33.95
And I am not, we are not
diverging trade secrets here.
00:37:33.98\00:37:37.39
But you've been
able to overcome that,
00:37:37.42\00:37:39.65
so that is very edible.
00:37:39.69\00:37:41.89
In fact, it is so edible
that I'm tired of resisting.
00:37:41.92\00:37:45.43
Go right ahead.
00:37:45.46\00:37:46.80
I have got three
different kinds here,
00:37:46.83\00:37:48.16
if they can kind of
bring the camera in.
00:37:48.20\00:37:49.53
You got this heart shaped
little deal in the middle.
00:37:49.56\00:37:51.40
That's our black
forest, it's our top seller,
00:37:51.43\00:37:53.67
we flavor with sweet almond oil
and there's an organic cherry,
00:37:53.70\00:37:57.41
dried cherry in the center.
00:37:57.44\00:37:58.77
There's a cherry in there. Yes.
00:37:58.81\00:38:01.48
I wonder were that cherry is.
00:38:01.51\00:38:03.58
It's inside. It's inside.
00:38:03.61\00:38:05.25
You've got to take a bite.
00:38:05.28\00:38:06.61
To get to that
cherry, I've got to...
00:38:06.65\00:38:08.72
Wow. Okay.
00:38:08.75\00:38:10.85
I don't know...
We're not supposed to...
00:38:10.89\00:38:12.22
This is my first
time eating on 3ABN turf.
00:38:12.25\00:38:13.59
Really?
00:38:13.62\00:38:16.32
I found the cherry.
00:38:16.36\00:38:17.69
We call it as
"John the Baptist Food."
00:38:17.73\00:38:20.93
John the Baptist?
00:38:20.96\00:38:22.30
Yeah, it's there in the Bible.
00:38:22.33\00:38:24.03
Locust is Carob.
00:38:24.07\00:38:25.83
Locust bean and he had
honey. The Locust tree.
00:38:25.87\00:38:28.50
So it has locust bean and honey
00:38:28.54\00:38:30.41
and of course
that's the base recipe.
00:38:30.44\00:38:32.97
Some people think that
00:38:33.01\00:38:34.34
if it was like a
survivor show, right?
00:38:34.38\00:38:35.71
That he was eating
insects, locust and honey,
00:38:35.74\00:38:38.51
but he wasn't, he was
eating carob and honey.
00:38:38.55\00:38:41.82
Now these two little
mound ones here are what?
00:38:41.85\00:38:44.15
That's our original
and that's our base recipe,
00:38:44.19\00:38:48.42
no nuts, no flavoring.
00:38:48.46\00:38:51.56
This is, this is
actually very, very good.
00:38:51.59\00:38:53.29
A lot of people
think the original tastes
00:38:53.33\00:38:54.76
like a peanut butter cup.
00:38:54.80\00:38:56.36
It has a
totally different taste.
00:38:56.40\00:38:57.73
You want to try that one too.
00:38:57.77\00:38:59.90
Well, you're nuts of temptation.
00:38:59.93\00:39:02.20
Yeah, it does.
00:39:06.98\00:39:08.71
This is very good.
This is really good.
00:39:08.74\00:39:12.25
So there's 16
truffles in the box,
00:39:12.28\00:39:14.45
for about a
tablespoon in size each
00:39:14.48\00:39:16.48
and they are a wonderful gift,
00:39:16.52\00:39:18.15
healthy snack for
your family, Sabbath treat.
00:39:18.19\00:39:23.93
And it tastes very good.
00:39:23.96\00:39:25.29
Yes. It really, really does.
00:39:25.33\00:39:26.66
Really well done. Thank you.
00:39:26.70\00:39:28.60
So you do your...
00:39:28.63\00:39:31.60
Forgive me.
00:39:31.63\00:39:35.80
Sorry about that. You
do... That was really bad.
00:39:35.84\00:39:40.78
I'm gonna have to...
I'm gonna need a napkin.
00:39:40.81\00:39:44.05
Oh, boy, this is really good.
00:39:44.08\00:39:46.11
This is a great show.
00:39:46.15\00:39:50.59
So you do your...
00:39:50.62\00:39:52.09
Thank you so much, Jeremy.
00:39:52.12\00:39:56.26
Really, that is
generally good. Thank you.
00:39:56.29\00:40:00.36
So these are
selling well I suspect.
00:40:00.40\00:40:02.00
Yes, they're really,
00:40:02.03\00:40:03.37
they are really
more of gourmet product.
00:40:03.40\00:40:04.73
Lot of people don't know
that they're not chocolate.
00:40:04.77\00:40:07.04
If they don't know what carob is
00:40:07.07\00:40:08.60
or if they are not told.
00:40:08.64\00:40:12.27
It's really a blessing from God.
00:40:12.31\00:40:13.88
Yeah, and you can get
these, get these online and,
00:40:13.91\00:40:17.91
at Heidi's Health Kitchen.
00:40:17.95\00:40:19.41
I want to go back more
back to for just a second,
00:40:19.45\00:40:22.92
this idea of a pop-up kitchen.
00:40:22.95\00:40:25.72
Do you have any connections
from your pop-up kitchen
00:40:25.75\00:40:29.19
to Bible studies or to
entrances in the church,
00:40:29.22\00:40:32.03
is that, is there a track
00:40:32.06\00:40:33.46
that leads from
that pop-up kitchen
00:40:33.50\00:40:35.46
to some one coming to the Lord.
00:40:35.50\00:40:37.73
Yes, so we have
tracks on each table,
00:40:37.77\00:40:41.97
pretty much we have
just followed the blue print
00:40:42.00\00:40:45.14
that we inspired of prophesy,
00:40:45.17\00:40:47.14
every single aspect of it.
00:40:47.18\00:40:49.24
So we have
tracks and on the back,
00:40:49.28\00:40:51.08
we have the address to contact,
00:40:51.11\00:40:53.35
if they are
interested in Bible studies.
00:40:53.38\00:40:55.52
So that way we connect with them
00:40:55.55\00:40:58.35
and also through
our cooking classes
00:40:58.39\00:41:00.19
and cooking demonstrations,
00:41:00.22\00:41:02.49
we hand them a survey,
00:41:02.52\00:41:05.03
the attendees will get a survey,
00:41:05.06\00:41:06.80
where we ask them,
"Are you... stop smoking
00:41:06.83\00:41:09.36
and alcohol
addiction to be out of it."
00:41:09.40\00:41:11.97
And then towards the end,
00:41:12.00\00:41:13.50
"Are you interested in
Bible studies, yes or no?"
00:41:13.54\00:41:15.94
"If yes, can we contact?"
00:41:15.97\00:41:17.31
So anything we do,
00:41:17.34\00:41:18.67
we make sure that we
introduce Bible studies.
00:41:18.71\00:41:21.78
So we have gotten Bible
study interest and contacts
00:41:21.81\00:41:24.38
from our cooking demonstrations,
00:41:24.41\00:41:26.38
the free cooking
demonstration at Crossroads,
00:41:26.41\00:41:28.62
the hands-on cooking
class in, in Midtown,
00:41:28.65\00:41:32.82
and from our pop-up restaurant.
00:41:32.85\00:41:34.36
And what we've seen...
00:41:34.39\00:41:35.72
What, what just
really thrills me is,
00:41:35.76\00:41:37.93
we've seen God bringing
people to our pop-up restaurant
00:41:37.96\00:41:41.66
who have left
Adventism many, many years ago,
00:41:41.70\00:41:44.50
with one woman come.
00:41:44.53\00:41:46.07
She was...
00:41:46.10\00:41:47.44
We've had such
an amazing support
00:41:47.47\00:41:48.80
from church
members and Bible students.
00:41:48.84\00:41:50.71
They'll bring guests,
they'll bring their friends.
00:41:50.74\00:41:53.31
And so we had a woman that came
00:41:53.34\00:41:55.21
and she was a friend of a friend
00:41:55.24\00:41:58.88
who was brought
by our Bible student.
00:41:58.91\00:42:00.28
So our Bible student
came and brought a friend,
00:42:00.32\00:42:02.25
that friend fell
in love with our food
00:42:02.28\00:42:03.69
and continued to come
and brought another friend
00:42:03.72\00:42:06.59
and that friend was so impressed
00:42:06.62\00:42:09.02
with the food and she said...
00:42:09.06\00:42:11.03
Ivan was talking to her
and she made a statement,
00:42:11.06\00:42:14.06
"I haven't had such good
vegetarian and vegan food
00:42:14.10\00:42:18.10
since I was in
the Adventist Church
00:42:18.13\00:42:19.50
many years ago."
00:42:19.53\00:42:20.94
It turns out she left
the church in her teens,
00:42:20.97\00:42:23.47
she herself choose an
alternative lifestyle,
00:42:23.51\00:42:27.18
but it was that brief moment,
00:42:27.21\00:42:30.58
you know, an hour,
when she was dining with us,
00:42:30.61\00:42:32.95
we're able to be
with in contact with her
00:42:32.98\00:42:35.02
and by the end of that time,
00:42:35.05\00:42:36.65
we were able to pray with
her, by the end of that time,
00:42:36.69\00:42:39.65
"She said I'm so glad
00:42:39.69\00:42:41.02
that Adventists are
finally doing this work."
00:42:41.06\00:42:42.86
Praise the Lord.
00:42:42.89\00:42:44.23
That's why I had to
ask the question as I did.
00:42:44.26\00:42:45.89
When you bring a
person to a cooking school
00:42:45.93\00:42:47.60
or cooking class,
you have more time
00:42:47.63\00:42:48.96
to sort of
massage the situation.
00:42:49.00\00:42:50.80
You would almost
expect to get contacts.
00:42:50.83\00:42:53.20
But a restaurant is more of
00:42:53.23\00:42:55.20
a business client kind of thing.
00:42:55.24\00:42:57.51
I came to eat, I
didn't come to be evangelized,
00:42:57.54\00:43:00.34
I didn't come to...
00:43:00.38\00:43:01.71
I came because I like this food,
00:43:01.74\00:43:03.08
I like this cuisine.
00:43:03.11\00:43:04.45
So it's a little tougher
to add the God content there.
00:43:04.48\00:43:09.22
So if your pop-up
situation is doing that,
00:43:09.25\00:43:11.99
then it is truly
blessed by the Lord,
00:43:12.02\00:43:13.46
because that's not
the primary goal of that.
00:43:13.49\00:43:16.42
The primary goal
is just to expose them
00:43:16.46\00:43:17.79
to healthy eating and
it's an eating experience.
00:43:17.83\00:43:20.70
But if you're getting
people come into the Lord,
00:43:20.73\00:43:22.46
well, then praise God. Amen.
00:43:22.50\00:43:23.83
Yeah, that's a,
that's a God thing.
00:43:23.87\00:43:25.67
That is really, really great.
00:43:25.70\00:43:28.00
There is so much to talk about.
00:43:28.04\00:43:31.57
One of the things I want to do,
00:43:31.61\00:43:34.41
fairly early on
is get ready to do
00:43:34.44\00:43:37.75
some contact
information for you.
00:43:37.78\00:43:39.18
Sure. Because
what I see is this.
00:43:39.21\00:43:41.55
Your, your...
00:43:41.58\00:43:42.92
The carubies are
funding everything
00:43:42.95\00:43:44.69
but you're, you're
spending online time,
00:43:44.72\00:43:47.02
you're spending internet time,
00:43:47.06\00:43:48.39
you're making phone
calls, none of that is free.
00:43:48.42\00:43:51.59
So there are other kinds
of upkeep kinds of things
00:43:51.63\00:43:54.40
that out go, you know,
00:43:54.43\00:43:56.16
and all of this is
being funded by this.
00:43:56.20\00:43:58.20
This is one of those ministries.
00:43:58.23\00:43:59.57
First of all, it's
new, it's cutting edge,
00:43:59.60\00:44:02.00
it's exciting,
it's getting results,
00:44:02.04\00:44:04.74
and it's a kind of thing that,
00:44:04.77\00:44:07.24
that you can put into
the heart of a big city
00:44:07.28\00:44:10.95
and do something
really concrete for the Lord.
00:44:10.98\00:44:14.28
If like big cities, small
town, you can do this anywhere
00:44:14.32\00:44:16.52
as long as you've got a
location to do some stuff.
00:44:16.55\00:44:18.75
So I want to go now to
the contact information,
00:44:18.79\00:44:21.52
then we'll come back, and then
I'm gonna actually hit it again
00:44:21.56\00:44:23.63
because I really feel
that, that Ivan and Heidi
00:44:23.66\00:44:27.90
need your prayers and,
00:44:27.93\00:44:29.30
and can certainly use
your financial support.
00:44:29.33\00:44:32.33
We talked about at
the very beginning,
00:44:32.37\00:44:34.34
the end game which is to have a,
00:44:34.37\00:44:36.77
you want a full
sit on restaurant
00:44:36.81\00:44:38.57
which can be your center,
00:44:38.61\00:44:39.94
you need a pretty
decent sized building.
00:44:39.97\00:44:41.31
Because you want to,
00:44:41.34\00:44:42.68
you want to
multipurpose and multitask,
00:44:42.71\00:44:44.05
a lot of stuff
coming out of that building.
00:44:44.08\00:44:45.41
And, you know, in New York City,
00:44:45.45\00:44:46.82
you know, Brooklyn and Queens
00:44:46.85\00:44:48.18
often the
kitchen's are so small,
00:44:48.22\00:44:49.98
it's hard to do more out of it.
00:44:50.02\00:44:51.59
So we're really asking God
for the place that we need,
00:44:51.62\00:44:56.19
because we need a
kitchen that's large enough
00:44:56.22\00:44:58.59
to handle the
current manufacturing
00:44:58.63\00:45:00.26
that's being done
in another kitchen.
00:45:00.30\00:45:02.00
It needs to be
large enough to handle
00:45:02.03\00:45:03.73
the output of that location,
00:45:03.77\00:45:05.33
whether it will be a
café or a small restaurant.
00:45:05.37\00:45:07.90
And then of
course as I mentioned,
00:45:07.94\00:45:10.21
our dream is also to
have a few food trucks
00:45:10.24\00:45:13.04
around the city as well.
00:45:13.07\00:45:14.44
They would kind of service
00:45:14.48\00:45:15.81
just small little
satellite locations
00:45:15.84\00:45:17.55
on a day to day basis
00:45:17.58\00:45:18.91
where we can reach people
in other areas of the city
00:45:18.95\00:45:21.12
and all of that production
would have to happen there.
00:45:21.15\00:45:24.15
And so we're
asking the Lord for that.
00:45:24.19\00:45:27.09
We absolutely need His blessing
00:45:27.12\00:45:30.69
and financial
support for that to happen.
00:45:30.73\00:45:32.93
We know at the
right time and right place
00:45:32.96\00:45:34.30
He will open that up for us.
00:45:34.33\00:45:36.30
But it is expensive
00:45:36.33\00:45:38.10
but God owns all
the money in the world,
00:45:38.13\00:45:39.90
so we don't have to
really too worry about it.
00:45:39.93\00:45:41.80
But anyway that,
any of the viewers
00:45:41.84\00:45:44.44
wanted to be a part of
this mission and this ministry
00:45:44.47\00:45:47.34
we would absolutely be grateful.
00:45:47.38\00:45:50.01
And as you
mentioned food trucks,
00:45:50.05\00:45:51.38
I go all the way
back to Willie Cushman,
00:45:51.41\00:45:53.18
and the New York van ministry.
00:45:53.21\00:45:55.05
So there's a history
of this being successful
00:45:55.08\00:45:57.25
and making contacts
in a big city like that.
00:45:57.29\00:45:59.42
The fact that
you have one location
00:45:59.45\00:46:00.79
but you have these,
00:46:00.82\00:46:02.16
these tentacles going
out of around the city,
00:46:02.19\00:46:03.63
that is a great thing.
00:46:03.66\00:46:05.59
So if you, if you get
in a same bus that I am,
00:46:05.63\00:46:08.70
if you're excited
about this because,
00:46:08.73\00:46:10.67
first of all
it's a new ministry,
00:46:10.70\00:46:12.03
it's a cutting edge ministry,
it's one that uses internet
00:46:12.07\00:46:14.57
and uses brick and
mortar along with internet,
00:46:14.60\00:46:18.41
with Bible study.
00:46:18.44\00:46:21.54
There's so many aspects.
00:46:21.58\00:46:23.01
I don't know how you get
the time to do all the stuff...
00:46:23.04\00:46:25.25
You guys really
look good for the,
00:46:25.28\00:46:26.68
for the little bit of
sleep that you're getting.
00:46:26.72\00:46:30.25
I want to go to
that contact information.
00:46:30.29\00:46:32.12
Would you like to
support this ministry,
00:46:32.15\00:46:33.56
you can contact them,
you can speak with them,
00:46:33.59\00:46:36.56
you can ask them for information
00:46:36.59\00:46:38.23
so that you can replicate
this is in your own town,
00:46:38.26\00:46:40.73
but most
importantly you can give them
00:46:40.76\00:46:42.36
the kind of financial
support they are gonna need.
00:46:42.40\00:46:44.53
We're praying for a big building
00:46:44.57\00:46:47.30
and out here in
Thompsonville, West Frankford,
00:46:47.34\00:46:52.31
you can get a big building.
00:46:52.34\00:46:53.81
In New York City, you
can get a big building
00:46:53.84\00:46:55.51
but you got to dig deep
in your pocket to get it.
00:46:55.54\00:46:58.61
Whether be in Long
Island, whether be in Queens,
00:46:58.65\00:47:00.65
whether be in
Brooklyn, heaven forbid,
00:47:00.68\00:47:03.39
heaven praise Manhattan,
00:47:03.42\00:47:06.89
you know, where,
00:47:06.92\00:47:08.26
where small condos gonna
cost you a million dollars.
00:47:08.29\00:47:11.26
So they're gonna need
some financial support,
00:47:11.29\00:47:13.09
but God is able through
you and to your support.
00:47:13.13\00:47:15.43
Should you like to
support Heidi's Health Kitchen
00:47:15.46\00:47:18.23
financially with your prayers,
00:47:18.27\00:47:20.50
here's the information
that you're gonna need.
00:47:20.54\00:47:24.47
To find out more
about Heidi's Health Kitchen
00:47:24.51\00:47:27.08
or where there
next pop-up restaurant,
00:47:27.11\00:47:29.28
cooking class, or
seminar will be held,
00:47:29.31\00:47:31.81
be sure to visit their website.
00:47:31.85\00:47:33.58
HeidisHealthKitchen.com.
00:47:33.62\00:47:35.88
There you will find information
on all their services
00:47:35.92\00:47:38.59
including
catering and other products
00:47:38.62\00:47:40.72
that are healthy, delicious,
plant based, and gluten free.
00:47:40.76\00:47:44.96
There website again is
HeidisHealthKitchen.com.
00:47:44.99\00:47:48.16
If you'd like to contact them,
their number is 631-663-3128.
00:47:48.20\00:47:54.17
And their address is
Heidi's Health Kitchen,
00:47:54.20\00:47:56.87
Post Office Box 232,
00:47:56.91\00:47:59.31
Babylon, New York, 11702.
00:47:59.34\00:48:03.21
You guys are
involved in so much stuff.
00:48:08.98\00:48:11.45
Yes. Yeah, praise God.
00:48:11.49\00:48:12.89
And all of it lifts
up the name of Jesus
00:48:12.92\00:48:15.82
and this is why
Jesus is gonna bless you
00:48:15.86\00:48:18.09
and this is why
00:48:18.13\00:48:19.46
God's gonna give
you that building.
00:48:19.49\00:48:20.83
I don't know how.
00:48:20.86\00:48:22.20
I just feel to say
somehow you're gonna get
00:48:22.23\00:48:23.67
and it's got to be
a good sized building,
00:48:23.70\00:48:25.37
may be an old warehouse or
something as you meant to do
00:48:25.40\00:48:27.97
like we did in Russia,
00:48:28.00\00:48:29.34
start from
scratch and build it, but,
00:48:29.37\00:48:30.91
but I think the Lord wants
us to build and it flourish.
00:48:30.94\00:48:32.97
I really, really do.
00:48:33.01\00:48:34.34
Now I need to ask just
a couple of more things.
00:48:34.38\00:48:35.71
One, you've
been working together
00:48:35.74\00:48:38.65
how long, how many years?
00:48:38.68\00:48:40.02
Almost three and a half
years. Three and a half years.
00:48:40.05\00:48:41.38
Okay, this is a
business partnership.
00:48:41.42\00:48:42.75
There's nothing I
need to know about, okay.
00:48:42.78\00:48:44.85
Okay, just get the
elephant out of the room.
00:48:44.89\00:48:46.55
Okay, this is the business...
00:48:46.59\00:48:47.96
Yes, we're business
and ministry partners.
00:48:47.99\00:48:50.16
Okay, praise the Lord. I mean...
00:48:50.19\00:48:52.83
And not that be
anything of there was,
00:48:52.86\00:48:54.20
I just need to deal with that.
00:48:54.23\00:48:55.56
Sure. Okay, praise the Lord.
00:48:55.60\00:48:56.93
Because every time I
see you, I see you both.
00:48:56.97\00:48:58.70
But, because you
are ministry together.
00:48:58.73\00:49:00.47
Let's just praise the Lord.
00:49:00.50\00:49:01.84
Okay, so we got that,
we got that out of the way.
00:49:01.87\00:49:05.57
Your, your home church is what?
00:49:05.61\00:49:08.68
Well, my membership is
at Babylon in Long Island.
00:49:08.71\00:49:11.75
And Ivan's is at
Crossroads. Crossroads.
00:49:11.78\00:49:13.45
At Crossroads
and next to the city.
00:49:13.48\00:49:15.05
At Milton,
Manhattan. Yup, Times Square.
00:49:15.08\00:49:16.42
Okay, bless your heart.
00:49:16.45\00:49:17.79
But you live
fairly close together?
00:49:17.82\00:49:19.72
Yes. Yes, 15
minutes away actually.
00:49:19.75\00:49:22.26
And given the
kind of stuff you do,
00:49:22.29\00:49:23.69
you have to
because your day starts
00:49:23.73\00:49:25.46
fairly early and, and goes on.
00:49:25.49\00:49:29.46
As you look back
at the 2013 experience
00:49:29.50\00:49:32.27
and that's really what,
00:49:32.30\00:49:33.64
what sort of gave you your short
00:49:33.67\00:49:35.40
and I'm gonna get started.
00:49:35.44\00:49:39.01
You know, let me do this.
00:49:39.04\00:49:41.18
Let me hold on that question.
00:49:41.21\00:49:42.54
What I want to do,
let me go to my newsbreak,
00:49:42.58\00:49:44.58
we'll do that newsbreak,
00:49:44.61\00:49:45.95
we'll come back and
then we'll wrap this up
00:49:45.98\00:49:47.32
and I wanted to sort of go
into this question real quick.
00:49:47.35\00:49:49.65
Let's go on our newsbreak
now, then we'll come back
00:49:49.68\00:49:51.65
and we'll put a bow on
this and we'll tie this up.
00:49:51.69\00:49:53.99